12/16/2024 - City Council - Work Session - Agendas
CITY OF SPRING PARK
WORK SESSION AGENDA
DECEMBER 16, 2024 – 5:30 PM
SPRING PARK CITY HALL
(Work Session discussion times are approximate)
1. 5:30: Utility Upgrades
2. 5:55: Miscellaneous
3. 6:00: Adjourn
City of Spring Park
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Staff Memo: AMI Antenna Water Utility Upgrade
To: Spring Park – Mayor and Council
From: Mike Anderson, Administrator
Subject: AMI Antenna Water Utility Upgrade
City Staff would like to propose the installation of the AMI Antenna for utilities. This antenna would allow for
instant utility readings from the office for quarterly utility bills and final readings. With up to 45 days of 1-hour
real time data of utility usage, staff will have the data to provide residents with their usage for discrepancies and
help find leaks.
This system does not track the lift station gallons pumped. However, we could gather this information
simultaneously in order to help track I&I and determine investigative areas in the City.
Currently, the City relies on Orono Public Works to read the meters quarterly. Once meters are read, staff will
then go through the readings and create work orders for meters that did not give a reading due to faulty radio
readers or recheck readings that are lower or higher than normal usage. This process of creating work orders
and having public works go back out and manually read meters can take up to a week or more depending on the
number of work orders the City has. Due to Orono reading its city’s meters at the end of the month too, if their
city has utility work orders to complete for their billing cycle, this can also cause a delay for our City as well.
With the antenna, staff will be alerted if a radio reader is not working properly so they can proactively get the
radio readers fixed before utility reads without having to wait until after meters are read and also eliminate work
orders for low and high recheck readings because of the real time monitoring.
Staff would like Council discussion and if they are comfortable moving forward, authorizing the City
Administrator to proceed with Core and Main with this update.
Budget Impact from Water Utility (General Fund Levy will not be paying for this upgrade)
Year #1 would be roughly $55,000 payment for software upgrade and antenna installation.
Estimated Annual fees for years 2-5 are between $4,945 - $5,395