Fiscal Year 2005 Proposed Budget

Section N - Enterprise, Special Revenue and Internal Services Funds
Utilities Fund
Department of Public Works

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ENGINEERING DIVISION
WATER/SEWER ENGINEERING PROGRAM

PROGRAM MISSION: To preserve the integrity of Arlington's water and sewer infrastructure.

The Water/Sewer Engineering Program facilitates the continuing integrity of Arlington's water distribution and sewer collection system infrastructure by maintaining up to date and accurate records, reviewing all construction drawings that potentially affect the systems and providing information to the public, County construction crews and other government offices to help ensure that proposed work doesn't compromise the condition or access to the County's infrastructure. As part of the maintenance and updating of records, this program is tasked with completing the automation of tens of thousands of water/sewer records and converting paper records to on-line records, so that the information can be displayed in conjunction with GIS. The review of construction drawings includes hydraulic modeling of the water and sewer systems. Plans are certified to be in compliance with the Water Works and Sewer Works Regulations set forth by the Virginia Department of Health. Additional review and administrative duties of the program include reviewing building and utility permits, computing hook-up and service connection fees, administering the fire hydrant permit program and reviewing preliminary plats and easement plats. Staff in this program works closely with the Water, Sewer and Streets Division in the planning and design of the water and sewer system Capital Improvement Programs.

Water/Sewer Engineering Program
FY 2003 FY 2004 FY 2005 % Change:
Actual Adopted Proposed '04 to '05
Personnel $527,670 $593,458 $666,837 12%
Non-Personnel 231,107 345,828 346,628 -
Intra-County Charges - - - -
Total Expenditures $758,777 $939,286 $1,013,465 3%
Authorized FTEs 10.3 10.3 11.3
Funded FTEs 10.3 10.3 11.3

Significant BUDGET Highlights:

  • An Engineering Technician position (1.0 FTE, $60,133) was added to this unit to support the ongoing automation of the water utility database.

PERFORMANCE MEASURES:

FY 2001 FY 2002 FY 2003 FY 2004 FY 2005 FY 2005
Actual Actual Actual Estimate Estimate Goal
Mission Outcome Measures
Percent of utility permits approved at first submission N/A N/A 95% 90% 90% 90%
Number of fee refunds 12 13 11 10 10 10
Percent of plan reviews completed within established time frame N/A N/A 95% 95% 95% 95%
Customer Measures
Number of requests for Fire Flow Tests processed and completed within established time frame N/A N/A N/A 90% 90% 90%
Workload Measures
Building plans reviewed 3,617 4,457 4,656 4,500 4,500 4,500
Utility permits reviewed 660 721 389 500 500 500
Hook-up fees $3.89M $4.27M $4.7M $4.0M $4.0M $4.0M
  • Customer measure is new and will start tracking in FY 2004.

FUTURE BUDGET CONSIDERATIONS:

  • A study of the hook-up fee is underway, which may make changes in the structure of how the fee is collected, what it can fund, how much the fee should be, and how much annual collections may be.
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