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170 Chair Cihacek asked based upon the data, is the City doing a cost analysis to see <br />171 how much it would cost to start resolving some of the I&I increases or is the City <br />172 just taking a double-digit increase. He stated if the City is going to get hit with an <br />173 eight to ten percent increase each year and a solution that reduces that flow <br />174 dramatically is cheaper than an increase, which may or may not be, is there a <br />175 reason why the City would not start making those changes now to help hedge the <br />176 cost. <br />177 <br />178 Mr. Freihammer stated the City wants to do that. He thought in previous years <br />179 the increases have been a lot different. He thought last year the City may have <br />180 gone done and this may just be an anomaly that other cities went down, or <br />181 Roseville had more rain compared to other cities that year. He noted the City has <br />182 been doing significant work on this. <br />183 <br />184 Mr. Sandstrom stated there is not just an increase in flow there is also the increase <br />185 in rate charges from the Met Council. <br />186 <br />187 Mr. Freihammer stated if the Met Council's increase went up then that increase <br />188 gets passed onto everyone. If the City increases more than the average in flow the <br />189 increase is higher than other cities which is why the City is at a higher charge. <br />190 <br />191 Member Joyce wondered if the City applied for the grant that was discussed. <br />192 <br />193 Mr. Freihammer stated staff did apply for the grant and it does not look like the <br />194 City will be getting it. <br />195 <br />196 Member Wozniak asked if that meant that the work staff thought about doing on <br />197 the grant will not occur. <br />198 <br />199 Mr. Sandstrom indicated at this point doing private sewer lining on privately <br />200 owned services is not on the plan. <br />201 <br />202 Member Wozniak asked in terms of trying to further determine the nature and <br />203 extent of inflow and infiltration that was part of that grant will the City still be <br />204 working on that. <br />205 <br />206 Mr. Freihammer stated the City still has a flow monitor lined up and will still be <br />207 doing flow monitoring with the ten meters the City owns and based on that data <br />208 staff will target the sewer lining program for those areas. <br />209 <br />210 Mr. Freihammer reviewed the City Storm Drainage Operations with the <br />211 Commission. <br />212 <br />213 Member Trainor asked why the first table reviewed in the staff report did not <br />214 show the net available capital. <br />215 <br />Page 5 of 15 <br />