Item 10 - Appropriation Adjustment and an Amendment to the Fiscal Year

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Public Works Agency www.santa-ana.org/public-works Item # 10 City of Santa Ana 20 Civic Center Plaza, Santa Ana, CA 92701 Staff Report March 19, 2024 TOPIC: Automated Metering Infrastructure Project AGENDA TITLE Approve an Appropriation Adjustment and an Amendment to the Fiscal Year 2023-2024 Capital Improvement Program to Add Funds to the Automated Metering Infrastructure Project (Project No. 16-6460) (Non-General Fund) RECOMMENDED ACTION 1. Approve an appropriation adjustment to transfer $1,300,000 from Water Utility Production & Supply, Miscellaneous Operating Expenses account and $1,550,000 in Water Meter Services, Contract Services – Professional account, to the Acquisition & Construction, Water Utility Capital Projects, Water Capital Project expenditure account. (Requires five affirmative votes) 2. Approve an amendment to the Fiscal Year 2023-2024 Capital Improvement Program to include $4,500,000 in construction funds for the Automated Metering Infrastructure Project. (Project No. 16-6460) GOVERNMENT CODE §84308 APPLIES: No DISCUSSION The Public Works Agency’s Water Resources Division (Division) oversees and maintains the daily operations of the City’s water and sanitary sewer systems. The water system is comprised of approximately 480 miles of water main, 21 groundwater wells, seven pump stations, ten reservoirs with a storage capacity of 49 million gallons, four pressure regulating stations, and seven connection points to the Metropolitan Water District. The system has an average daily demand of 30 million gallons from its roughly 45,150 metered service connections. On November 17, 2020, the City Council approved a $30,386,503 expenditure plan for the delivery of the Automated Metering Infrastructure (AMI) Project. The AMI Project, which is currently underway, will replace or retrofit all of the existing, manually-read water meters with smart meters capable of communicating water consumption and