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County set to get busy on drainage jobs
$3 million accumulation of funds now slated for use on projects
Thu, 06/24/2010 - 00:01
By Shar Porier /Herald/Review
BISBEE - Thanks to a $3 million carry-forward in the county Flood Control District, a number of important drainage projects have made the work plan for the 2010-2011 fiscal year.
The district is funded through secondary property tax that brings in $911,518 every year to fund capital improvements, repairs and maintenance for the drainage systems. With the carry-forward, it gives the department nearly $4 million to work with.
County Administrator Mike Ortega explained during a recent budget meeting with the Cochise County Board of Supervisors that the accumulation of funds over the past few years was done with capital improvement projects in mind. Also, reduced staff made moving the projects from paper to street take a bit longer. Some work is scheduled on projects that needed to be finished. "Now, with our professional staff in place we can move these projects forward to fruition."
Benny Young, director of the Highway and Floodplain Department, and staff plan to continue an ambitious work schedule to deal with sheet flow problems coming off the Huachuca Mountains in Palominas to alleviate flooding issues along Highway 92 and Palominas Road. The cost for the culverts and drainage channel total about $475,000.
Another long-term project under way is the Moson Road drainage system. The county has been acquiring right of way in order to build appropriate drainage ways to shuttle rainwater from the roadway to a retention/
recharge basin at Moson and Valley Drive. The basin is in the survey and design phase and county staff are working on right-of-way acquisition. This year, about $186,000 will be spent to move this forward.
In the same area, Ramsey Road is slated for drainage culverts, as well, at a cost of $559,000 for survey and design and construction.
Staff is also scoping out another detention/recharge basin in the Sierra Vista area that could carry a $45,000 price tag just for the design.
In the Benson area, two mitigation projects, one at Willow Lakes and one at the Benson Airport, are also included in the plan at a cost of $230,000.
Pirtleville residents will be happy to hear their community is also on the list with a master drainage plan to help with drainage issues. The survey, topographical work and design work will cost about $262,000.
A few bridges in the county will see some needed work to the tune of $460,640.
The roadwork plan includes a total of chip-sealing 154.28 lane miles at a cost of $1.7 million. In District 3, Cascabel Road was last chip-sealed in 1995 and 24 lane miles are scheduled for repair next year at a cost of $264,000. Twenty miles of Pueblo del Sol, in District 1, is slated for repair at a cost of $212,000. In District 2, 15 miles of Kings Highway will be refurbished with chip-seal for $169,000.
As for dirt roads, 46 miles on nine roads are slated for reshaping a cost of $282,500. Those include: Ocotillo Road, Geronimo Trail, Apache Pass Road, Barataria Boulevard, Kuykendall Cutoff Road, Hamilton Road, Curly Bill Drive, Sybil Road and Cascabel Road.
In the Planning and Zoning Department, staff vacancies have helped hold costs down as the number of permits issued continues to decline. In the general fund summary, about $474,500 is anticipated from fees, services and fines. Salaries, benefits and contract services total $1,769,728. For the building inspector's budget, staff estimates $415,000 in fees for services with $550,640 in expenses.
FUNDING
Floodplain District, secondary tax
Revenues: $911,518
Expenses: $2,890,890
Carry-forward to the 2011-2012 fiscal year: $1,061,093
Highways (Highways Users Revenue Fund, half-cent sales tax)
Revenues, $15,094,366
Expenses, $15,094,366
Planning and zoning (all sources)
Revenues, $949,000
Expenses, $3,539,465
Thu, 06/24/2010 - 00:01
By Shar Porier /Herald/Review
BISBEE - Thanks to a $3 million carry-forward in the county Flood Control District, a number of important drainage projects have made the work plan for the 2010-2011 fiscal year.
The district is funded through secondary property tax that brings in $911,518 every year to fund capital improvements, repairs and maintenance for the drainage systems. With the carry-forward, it gives the department nearly $4 million to work with.
County Administrator Mike Ortega explained during a recent budget meeting with the Cochise County Board of Supervisors that the accumulation of funds over the past few years was done with capital improvement projects in mind. Also, reduced staff made moving the projects from paper to street take a bit longer. Some work is scheduled on projects that needed to be finished. "Now, with our professional staff in place we can move these projects forward to fruition."
Benny Young, director of the Highway and Floodplain Department, and staff plan to continue an ambitious work schedule to deal with sheet flow problems coming off the Huachuca Mountains in Palominas to alleviate flooding issues along Highway 92 and Palominas Road. The cost for the culverts and drainage channel total about $475,000.
Another long-term project under way is the Moson Road drainage system. The county has been acquiring right of way in order to build appropriate drainage ways to shuttle rainwater from the roadway to a retention/
recharge basin at Moson and Valley Drive. The basin is in the survey and design phase and county staff are working on right-of-way acquisition. This year, about $186,000 will be spent to move this forward.
In the same area, Ramsey Road is slated for drainage culverts, as well, at a cost of $559,000 for survey and design and construction.
Staff is also scoping out another detention/recharge basin in the Sierra Vista area that could carry a $45,000 price tag just for the design.
In the Benson area, two mitigation projects, one at Willow Lakes and one at the Benson Airport, are also included in the plan at a cost of $230,000.
Pirtleville residents will be happy to hear their community is also on the list with a master drainage plan to help with drainage issues. The survey, topographical work and design work will cost about $262,000.
A few bridges in the county will see some needed work to the tune of $460,640.
The roadwork plan includes a total of chip-sealing 154.28 lane miles at a cost of $1.7 million. In District 3, Cascabel Road was last chip-sealed in 1995 and 24 lane miles are scheduled for repair next year at a cost of $264,000. Twenty miles of Pueblo del Sol, in District 1, is slated for repair at a cost of $212,000. In District 2, 15 miles of Kings Highway will be refurbished with chip-seal for $169,000.
As for dirt roads, 46 miles on nine roads are slated for reshaping a cost of $282,500. Those include: Ocotillo Road, Geronimo Trail, Apache Pass Road, Barataria Boulevard, Kuykendall Cutoff Road, Hamilton Road, Curly Bill Drive, Sybil Road and Cascabel Road.
In the Planning and Zoning Department, staff vacancies have helped hold costs down as the number of permits issued continues to decline. In the general fund summary, about $474,500 is anticipated from fees, services and fines. Salaries, benefits and contract services total $1,769,728. For the building inspector's budget, staff estimates $415,000 in fees for services with $550,640 in expenses.
FUNDING
Floodplain District, secondary tax
Revenues: $911,518
Expenses: $2,890,890
Carry-forward to the 2011-2012 fiscal year: $1,061,093
Highways (Highways Users Revenue Fund, half-cent sales tax)
Revenues, $15,094,366
Expenses, $15,094,366
Planning and zoning (all sources)
Revenues, $949,000
Expenses, $3,539,465
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