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REQUEST FOR COUNCIL ACTION Date: October 7, 2019 Item No.: 9.d Department ApprovalCity Manager Approval Item Description: Approve Metropolitan Council Environmental Services Municipal Inflow and Infiltration Grant Agreement 1 B ACKGROUND 2 Metro Cities (Association of Metropolitan Municipalities) championed the inclusion of a grant 3 program in the 2017 bonding bill for the purpose of providing grants to municipalities for capital 4 improvements to public infrastructure to reduce the amount of inflow and infiltration (I/I) to the 5 Metropolitan Council Environmental Service’s (MCES) metropolitan sanitary sewer disposal 6 system. Their efforts were successful and $8.7 million was approved in the bonding bill. This 7 follows successful $2 million and $4 million programs that were included in the 2014 and 2012 8 bonding bills. 9 To be eligible for a grant, a city must be identified by the Metropolitan Council as a contributor of 10 excessive inflow and infiltration. Roseville is among these cities and is eligible for this grant. 11 Grants from this appropriation are a guaranteed $25,000 for each City, with the rest of the funding 12 distribution based on the percentage of work completed by each individual City compared to the 13 total amount of work from all applicants. Projects must be completed between May 31, 2017 and 14 November 1, 2019. The council must award grants based on applications from eligible cities that 15 identify eligible capital costs and include a timeline for inflow and infiltration mitigation 16 construction, pursuant to guidelines established by the council. 17 The following is a schedule of the grant process: 18 Council approval of “guidelines” August 23, 2017 19 Notice of final grant program guidelines to cities, requesting applications August 24, 2017 20 Grant applications due from cities September 22, 2017 21 MCES notifies cities of their assigned PMA October 13, 2017 22 Cities submit pay claims for completed projects November 1, 2019 23 FRA determination, grant agreement distributed November 15, 2019 24 MCES processes reimbursement upon receipt of signed agreement 25 One of the required documents is a resolution approving a grant agreement between the 26 Metropolitan Council and the City of Roseville for grant eligible work. This resolution would 27 allow the City of Roseville and the Metropolitan Council to enter into an agreementand authorizes 28 the Public Works Director to execute the Grant agreement, subject to minor modifications and 29 final review by the City Attorney. 30 P OLICY O BJECTIVE 31 It is City policyto keep utility infrastructure in good operating condition, reducing inflow and 32 infiltration to the maximum extent practicable. Page 1 of 2