36-inch culinary water transmission main
Large-diameter culinary water transmission line built in segments, funded mainly by the 2020 Water Revenue Bond with debt service paid from impact fees. Segments 1 and 2 were complete by early 2022; Segment 3 was awarded to Condie Construction Company for $5,291,772 in January 2022.
- Where it stands
- Under construction
- Type
- Public project
- Location
- From the north end of the city (including 300 North to 700 North) toward 200 South and south of I-15
- Applicant
- American Fork City
Every hearing and vote
February 27, 2020 · City Council work session
Capital project status and requests
Discussed
Art Dye Park improvements, due mid-May, were about $600,000 over budget, mainly for the scorekeeper's tower, with change orders still to come. Requests total about $67 million, including Fire Station 52 and land for Station 53, a police shooting range, trail expansion to Rotary Park, 200 South improvements with phase 1 of the water line, the 36-inch water line in five phases, and PI meters with a $1.5 million matching grant.
March 3, 2020 · City Council work session
Impact fee update
Discussed
Bunker explained impact fees under Utah Code 11-36a and court cases including Banbury v. South Jordan and Homebuilders Association v. American Fork, and said fees can pay only for growth's share (for example the upsizing share of a 600 East water line to serve the TOD). Zions is updating fees last revised in 2017, using water, sewer, roads and storm drain master plans; developers are vested at rates in effect when they apply. Shelton cited the new 36-inch water line as an example of a need not foreseen three years earlier.
March 10, 2020 · City Council
2020 Culinary Water Master Plan and IFFP
Approved with conditions · 4-0
Resolution 2020-03-05R, with language clarifying the transmission line and a renewed cost-benefit look at the 36-inch water line.
April 21, 2020 · City Council work session
FY2021 water, sewer, perpetual care, capital, broadband and IT budgets
Discussed
Culinary water: an $18.34 million water line, 85% funded by a state loan applied for with the rest from water impact fees; 20% of debt service ($161,000) from the water fund; a city engineer added; 3% raises; no CDBG grant expected. Secondary water: a $1.5 million Bureau of Reclamation grant for PI meters with a $1.6 million city match (phase one $3.1 million, covering 25-30% of meters); culinary water subsidizes secondary water by $870,000, which Shelton said should be treated as a loan. Reserves after targets: culinary $13.3 million, secondary $7.8 million. Capital: $8.4 million public safety (bonds closing May 6 at about 1.8%; $6.4 million for a fire station and shooting range plus $2 million for land), $4.8 million parks (200 South bike/pedestrian path, MAG-funded), $4.22 million public works including $1.96 million pavement management (of $2.2 million requested) and $1.098 million for the 700 North connection; the Art Dye roundabout budget was cut $150,000 because estimates came in under $500,000. Shelton wanted the $500,000 he recalled from the 2007 property tax increase for roads; staff calculated $252,000.
June 2, 2020 · City Council work session
FY2021 city budget review
Discussed
Total budget $102 million; General Fund just over $23 million (revenue $22.7 million, with a $2 million transfer back from capital projects to cover COVID-19 shortfalls); all-fund revenue $85.45 million; capital projects over $55 million. Highlights: culinary water line about $28-29.5 million (state loan), fire station $8.4 million (bonds), road plan $2.093 million (Class B/C, $500,000 property tax and transportation sales tax), 700 North connection $1.923 million (MAG grant), 200 South bike/pedestrian path $4.1 million (MAG grant), pressurized irrigation meters $3 million with a $1.5 million matching grant, and a $2 million placeholder for a PI pump and land to recapture TSSD water pending a study (water rights legal work $30,000-$50,000; study a couple hundred thousand dollars). New positions: three firefighters, a battalion chief, a police officer, a sergeant, two part-time records clerks and a civil engineer. Shelton objected to cutting water line repairs from $300,000 to $100,000 (staff had recommended $500,000) with about $13 million in the water fund, and said the city was not following its published road plan; Carroll wanted every possible dollar on roads.
July 21, 2020 · City Council work session
Water infrastructure bond presentation
Discussed
Montoya presented a $25.8 million project combining a large culinary water transmission line (including 700 North and 600 East, Main Street and 200 South) and a new well south of the freeway, needed to lift the building moratorium there. The Board of Water Resources recommended financing 85%; the city would pay 15% from reserves and also pay off its 2013 water revenue bonds. Total out-of-pocket about $4.7 million and financing about $22 million, within the $29.5 million bond parameters. Estimates were by Horrocks Engineering (with PEPG on one segment); Horrocks recommended bidding segments separately and staff expected three or four bids. Bunker said about 90% of the work is impact-fee eligible, but the 600 East/Main Street pipe replacement is not. Staff said no rate increase is needed and the debt is repaid from culinary water revenues, not property taxes. Barnes and Carroll worried development could outpace the line when the moratorium is lifted; Barnes asked to discuss the bids when received.
- Project estimate: $25.8 million (transmission line and well)
- Financed about $22 million; out-of-pocket about $4.7 million from reserves and impact fees
- Board of Water Resources charges about 1%
- Estimates by Horrocks Engineering, with PEPG on one segment; well siting study by Bowen Collins
- Five active wells; well on the south side would feed the system directly, no storage tank
- Impact fee adoption set for an Aug. 18 work session
July 28, 2020 · City Council
Public hearing on up to $29.5 million Water Revenue Bonds, Series 2020
Discussed
Hearing on issuing up to $29,500,000 in water revenue bonds and their economic impact. City Administrator David Bunker said the projects, discussed at the July 21 work session, are expected to be repaid through impact and development fees. Comments go to the state Division of Water Resources. No action was required.
- Maximum principal: $29,500,000
- Water Revenue Bonds, Series 2020
October 13, 2020 · City Council
36-inch water main construction contract
Approved · 5-0
The council accepted Condie Construction Company's low bid of $10,356,813.70 for the 36-inch water main improvements project, slightly above the $10,051,493.60 engineer's estimate. City Administrator David Bunker said all storm drain and road work is in the base bid; Barnes predicted change orders. Staff said work between 300 North and 700 North would likely disrupt the school despite coordination. Water work is paid from the water capital budget tied to the state Division of Water Resources bond; storm drain, sewer and paving come from those capital budgets.
- Bidding: invitation for bids on Utah Public Procurement Place; low acceptable bid
- Engineer's estimate: $10,051,493.60
- Other bidders per packet: Silver Spur Construction, VanCon Inc., Beck Construction & Excavation, COP Construction (amounts not reliably legible in packet extraction)
January 25, 2022 · City Council
36-inch culinary water line Segment 3 construction contract
Approved · 4-0
Awarded Condie Construction Company $5,291,772 for Segment 3 of the 36-inch culinary water line; bids came in slightly under the engineer's estimate. The section in front of Greenwood Elementary must be done by August 15.