Just mostly normal district business at this short meeting. No mention of any improvements to River Rd., No mention of traffic light (round-about) at IW/GP entrance on US 41. No mention of the Atlanta Braves spring training facility.
Supervisors voted to approve the District Engineer (Santec) to perform a preliminary design for a new 2 million gallon per day (MGD) waste water treatment plant to be located on land just South of the cell phone tower on the south side of US 41 near River Rd. Plant is anticipated to be needed by 2020 to safely accommodate the amount of waste water to be generated by homes in the district. The plant is to be designed as expandable to 4 MGD at some future point in time as the number of new homes and businesses in the district increases. The cost for design and land acquisition is included in the current capital budet and existing bond debt money will be used for this expense. However, the cost of building the plant will most likely be part of some new, future bond issue. I would estimate $35 to $50 million in initial construction cost.The City of North Port will take over and operate the plant once it has been built. The cost of day to day operations should be included in resident's normal water and sewer billing.
The district engineer was instructed to investigate a possible extension of an existing reclaimed waste water pipeline on US 41 near Sarasota National. A one mile extension of this line would make this Sarasota County reclaimed water available for use in GP and IW. Cost sharing with Sarasota County, SWFMD, and other interested entities might make the cost of this expansion affordable by the district. There has been a long term, historic shortage of reclaimed water from the Englewood wastewater suppliers that has resulted in past watering restrictions. With the growth of GP and the new Mattemy homes development taking place farther south on US 41 at the West Villages Parkway intersection, the availability of more reclaimed water could be extremely beneficial.
District staff was also instructed to investigate the possibility and terms of a possible bond debt refinance for units of development 1 and 3. It seems that interest rates are low now and this would be a good time to look into the possibility. Supervisors are also looking for the possibility or raising additional capital from a refinancing of the debt (read cash back mortgage).
A new landscape maintenance contractor was chosen to replace Brightview Landscaping (formerly Valley Crest). The Brightview contract expires on September 30th and competitive bids were solicited over the summer for landscape maintenance work along US 41 and West Villages Parkway. Yellowstone Landscape of Bunnell, FL was selected as the lowest responsive bidder to begin work on October 1, 2016. Yellowstone is a commercial landscape company doing work in Florida and Georgia with a proven track record of public right of way maintenance.
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