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5.2 Ongoing Issues • O &M • 2011 Flooding • Water quality impairments • Education and outreach 6.0 Implementation Program and Funding The Implementation Plan intended to provide guidance in carrying out the Plan goals and objectives. The implementation program and funding section summarizes capital improvement projects, studies and ongoing maintenance, inspection, monitoring and other management activities. This Plan is intended to serve the City for at least the next ten years and many of the program activities will continue at least out to the year 2030. Except for the activities that are taken from the City NPDES S WPPP, the Implementation Plan is not a hard and fast commitment to complete each and every activity in the time frame suggested. Rather, it is a suggested course of action that will accomplish the major goal of this plan. Table 14 (at the end of this section) summarizes the activities and efforts of the overall implementation program. Information in the table is not the entire body of work the City conducts or will do in the area of storm water management. Rather, the table provides a summary of the some of the key efforts needed to help achieve the goals of this Plan. Estimated planning -level costs of recommended actions are provided with a cautionary note that they are not intended to set unrealistic expectations of the actual costs of projects and/or activities. The costs provided are intended to serve as an order -of- magnitude look at what the activity may require. Paying for water management projects and administrative activities has become more complex in recent years. In addition, public improvement and private development projects are seeing a higher percentage of their planning and construction budget being needed for water resources and environmental protection efforts. In the past, special assessments against benefited properties financed most of the necessary improvements. However, the financial options have broadened considerably. The question is which method or methods best suit the needs of the City. The major categories of funding sources are: Ad Valorem Taxes; Special Assessments; Storm Water Utility; and Grants as summarized below. • Ad Valorem Tax. General taxation is the most common revenue source used to finance governrnent services, including minor maintenance measures for drainage and water quality facilities. Using property tax has the effect of spreading the cost over the entire tax base of a community. A special tax district can also be used to raise revenue. The special tax district is similar to the administrative structure under general taxation except that all or part of the community may be placed in the tax district. The principle is to better correlate improvement costs to benefited or contributing properties. • Special Assessments. Municipalities are familiar with the use of special assessments to finance special services from maintenance to construction of capital improvements. The assessments are levied against properties benefiting from the special services. The philosophy of this method is that the benefited properties pay in relation to benefits received. The benefit is the increase in the market value of the properties. Comprehensive Surface Water Management Plan ROSEV120222 City of Roseville Page 19