MOTION FOR THE BOARD MEETING OF DECEMBER 16, 2010
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MOTION, with respect to Agenda Item #59, File ID #10-1597, to adopt Legislative Initiative #8
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I move to amend Section 9.6a of the District’s Act to include administrative office buildings to the list of projects permitted to be financed by the Capital Improvement Bond Fund.
Section 9.6a of the District Act reads: “Bonds for sewage treatment and water quality improvements. The corporate authorities of a Sanitary District, in order to provide funds required for the replacing, remodeling, completing, altering, constructing and enlarging of sewage treatment works, water quality improvement projects, or flood control facilities, and additions therefore, pumping stations, tunnels, conduits, intercepting sewers and outlet sewers, together with the equipment, including air pollution equipment, and appurtenances thereto, to acquire property, real, personal or mixed, necessary for said purposes, for costs and expenses for the acquisition of the sites and rights-of-way necessary thereto, and for engineering expenses for designing and supervising the construction of such works…”
This listing of items includes all of the capital type projects of the District where construction is financed by bonds, since their useful lives will exceed 20 years or more. Not explicit in this listing is an administrative building which, while not on site of a treatment facility, houses staff which perform the engineering design and support services to those treatment works. Given the over 800 square miles of service area the District covers, it is often more efficient and effective to locate these facilities in more central locations.
Date: December 16, 2010
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Commissioner