Primary responsibility for right-of-way acquisition is being sought by the City of Scottsdale as it relates to a Rawhide Wash Flood Hazard Mitigation Project.
In January 2019, the City of Phoenix, …
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Primary responsibility for right-of-way acquisition is being sought by the City of Scottsdale as it relates to a Rawhide Wash Flood Hazard Mitigation Project.
In January 2019, the City of Phoenix, the Flood Control District of Maricopa County and Scottsdale entered into an intergovernmental agreement for final design, rights-of-way acquisition and utility relocations for the Rawhide Wash Flood project.
As all project rights-of-way are within the Scottsdale municipality, the project partners believe it is advantageous for Scottsdale to assume primary responsibility for the rights-of-way acquisition.
Scottsdale City Council approved this agreement amendment on consent during its Jan. 21 meeting, making way for Scottsdale’s cost of the acquisitions to count toward its 10% share of the total project.
The cost-share structure for the flood hazard mitigation project is: 50% by Flood Control District of Maricopa County; 40% by Phoenix; and 10% by Scottsdale.
Scottsdale city staff say $2 million of funding is available in the project’s Capital Improvement Program account. In addition, it is anticipated that the project will result in a net increase in the city’s street operations department maintenance budget of $15,000 per year.
While Scottsdale is only paying 10% of the capital improvement project costs under the terms of this IGA, it is proposed that the city pay 100% of future operations and maintenance costs for the project upon completion, without cost recovery.
“A benefit/cost analysis performed by the engineering consultant working on a previous scope of work and it was determined that the project’s tangible benefits of flood damage avoided, flood insurance premiums saved, and reduced future development costs far exceed the project cost, including future operations and maintenance over the design life of the project,” Drainage and Flood Control Program Manager and Floodplain Administrator C. Ashley Couch stated in the city staff report.
Melissa Rosequist Managing Editor | East Valley @mrosequist_
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