AGENDA REQUEST

Sponsor:

Board of Supervisors Meeting Date: 

Raymond E. Graham, Cedar Run District Supervisor

March 12, 2009

Staff Lead:

Department: 

Paul S. McCulla, County Administrator

County Administration

Topic: 

A Resolution Authorizing the County Administrator to Enter into a Funding Agreement with the Fauquier County Water and Sanitation Authority for the Purpose of Constructing the Expansion of the Vint Hill Sewage Treatment Plant

Topic Description:

The Vint Hill Sewage Treatment Plant, which services the New Baltimore Service District and Vint Hill, currently has a permitted capacity of 600,000 gallons per day.  The current permit includes authorization to expand the plant to 950,000 gallons per day.  The Comprehensive Plan for the New Baltimore Service District assumes that the plant will be expanded to 950,000 gallons per day capacity.  According to new Department of Environmental Quality regulations, a plant expansion must receive a Certificate to Operate by December 31, 2010.  On February 24, 2009, the Board adopted a resolution guaranteeing payment of up to $6,062,130 to the Fauquier County Water and Sanitation Authority to fund the cost to expand the Vint Hill Sewage Treatment Plant to the 950,000 gallons per day capacity.  The attached resolution authorizes the County Administrator to enter into a Funding Agreement related to construction of the Vint Hill Sewage Treatment Plant expansion.

Requested Action of the Board of Supervisors: 

Consider adoption of the attached resolution.

Financial Impacts Analysis: 

$6,062,130.00

Identify any other Departments, Organizations or Individuals that would be affected by this request:

Fauquier County Water and Sanitation Authority
Vint Hill Economic Development Authority

Attachment:

Vint Hill Funding Agreement