At its meeting at the IBEW Hall on Tuesday, June 20, the Tricity Regional Sanitary District (TRSD) Board of Directors resolved to approve the district budget for fiscal year 2023/2024, which will be released to Hillary on July 6, 2023. It will be submitted to the county.

The 2023/2024 TRSD budget includes approximately $32.3 million in total available resources and an equal amount in total spending. The project’s Phase I capital improvement fund income and capital improvement expenditure also matched at approximately $24.97 million. Total costs consisted of capital improvement expenditure ($31.65 million), cash expenditure ($419,147), and administrative expenditure ($223,000) for all three stages.

The district will also reduce the tax rate by $0.0192 to $1.5047 per $100 of limited property value in fiscal year 2022/23, down from $1.5239 in fiscal year 2023/2024. This will reduce the tax liability from $231,000 in 2022/2023 to $223,000 in 2023/2024.

Budgetary expenses include $50,000 for TRSD management. “We will learn the system and eventually hire someone to take over. [TRSD wastewater treatment] said Board Chairman Robert Jack. At the budget hearing, Jack pointed out that the $50,000 was TRSD’s contribution, not the entire salary for the position. The budget also includes his $6,300 for an administrative assistant who handles TRSD records.

Jack, who presented TRSD’s financial report, said the district had $425,060.35 in its county accounts as of the end of May 2023.

The board continues to search for a replacement for Commissioner Duane Buzan, who resigned earlier this month.

Jack said TRSD paid PACE Engineering about $3.5 million, in response to questions posed at a public call at its board meeting on May 19. Residential connections are free, but businesses must pay. And once the location of the sewage treatment plant is revealed, TRSD plans to return to the Miami City Council for an updated letter of support, he said. Jack said the district is bound by a non-disclosure agreement with the property owner and cannot yet specify the location of the site, but a special meeting will be called to announce it when it is possible. rice field.

Jack said the district plans to put together two separate contracts and two construction bid packages. One for the collection system and another he for the wastewater reclamation facility itself. He said TRSD plans to develop a collection system tender package by the end of this year and start construction in the first quarter of 2024. He said construction of the facility would take place after that “at the appropriate time.” Jack said the district hopes to have both projects completed around the same time, with the treatment facility completed shortly before the recovery system.