FY 2025 Proposed Budget – Public Utilities Department
Category FY 2022
Actuals
FY 2023
Actuals
FY 2024
Amended
FY 2025
Proposed
Personnel $ 50,323,569 $ 50,944,446 $ 61,806,900 $ 65,736,400 Non-Personnel 66,935,021 76,488,875 119,985,200 106,273,200 Interdepartmental 41,333,191 41,892,065 48,746,100 42,322,000 Debt Service 24,140,912 26,553,443 26,758,800 32,433,600 Capital 56,591,461 36,091,691 150,502,600 132,948,400
Total $ 239,324,154 $ 231,970,521 $ 407,799,600 $ 379,713,600 Department of Public Utilities
FY 2025 Total Budget
Notes
1. DPU FY 2025 Proposed Budget total is $379,713,600
• Operations & Maintenance Total: $214,331,600
• Capital Improvement: $132,948,400
• Debt Service: $32,433,600
2 Division FY 2022
Actuals
FY 2023
Actuals
FY 2024
Amended
FY 2025
Proposed
DPU Administration $ 5,823,766 $ 6,718,044 $ 5,217,400 $ 6,336,600 Water Division 133,060,507 137,352,693 141,330,700 139,608,900 Solid Waste Management 31,628,971 32,085,485 48,049,400 46,300,700 Wastewater Management 92,431,131 96,807,147 95,852,600 90,471,400 Total $ 262,944,376 $ 272,961,732 $ 290,450,100 $ 282,717,600 Department of Public Utilities
FY 2025 Total Revenue by Division
Notes
1. Includes User Charges, Grants, Special Revenue, and Transfer amounts to cover debt service State Revolving Fund (SRF) reserve requirements
2. The Solid Waste Division initiated a Proposition 218 notice, protest, and hearing process for proposed updates to the schedule of rates for residential solid waste services FY 2024. It is currently anticipated that proposed rates will go into effect August 2024
3 Department of Public Utilities
FY 2025 Total Budget – Administration/UP&E
Notes
1. DPU Administration/Utility Planning and Engineering Division’s FY 2024 Proposed Budget total is $7,487,200
• Includes $1,663,200 for DPU Operations and Maintenance Facility O&M Expenditure Category FY 2022
Actuals
FY 2023
Actuals
FY 2024
Amended
FY 2025
Proposed
Personnel $ 2,862,423 $ 3,039,578 $ 3,931,600 $ 3,931,600 Non-Personnel 915,163 1,296,967 1,190,800 1,703,300
Interdepartmental 977,283 821,094 1,064,900 1,852,300
Total $ 4,754,869 $ 5,157,639 $ 6,187,300 $ 7,487,200
4 Category FY 2022
Actuals
FY 2023
Actuals
FY 2024
Amended
FY 2025
Proposed
Personnel $ 18,320,271 $ 18,275,994 $ 27,424,900 $ 27,706,000 Non-Personnel 78,520,836 73,395,814 145,983,400 141,526,900 Interdepartmental 14,473,354 19,643,283 16,706,600 17,295,900 Total $ 111,314,461 $ 111,315,091 $ 190,114,900 $ 186,528,800 Department of Public Utilities
FY 2025 Total Budget – Water Division
Notes
1. Water Division's expenditures include O&M, Capital, and Debt Service:
FY 2025 Propose Budget Total = $186,528,800
• FY 2025 O&M = $91,915,100
• FY 2025 CIP = $67,161,800
• FY 2025 Debt Service = $27,451,900
5 Category FY 2022
Actuals
FY 2023
Actuals
FY 2024
Amended
FY 2025
Proposed
Personnel $ 14,977,113 $ 15,195,228 $ 19,068,600 $ 20,491,800 Non-Personnel 12,107,565 11,879,491 19,820,300 21,159,700 Interdepartmental 16,822,905 12,437,450 22,960,900 13,155,400 Total $ 43,907,583 $ 39,512,169 $ 61,849,800 $ 54,806,900 Department of Public Utilities
FY 2025 Total Budget – Solid Waste Management
Notes
1. Solid Waste Management Division’s expenditures include O&M and Capital:
FY 2025 Proposed Budget Total = $54,806,900
• FY 2025 O&M = $50,417,400
• FY 2025 CIP = $ 4,389,500
2. FY 2025 Proposed Budget utilizes leases for equipment purchases rather than purchasing outright which smooths out expenditures over a longer time-period 6 Category FY 2022
Actuals
FY 2023
Actuals
FY 2024
Amended
FY 2025
Proposed
Personnel $ 16,041,208 $ 16,392,149 $ 24,933,700 $ 23,839,400 Non-Personnel 52,184,659 49,110,534 113,013,400 93,743,900 Interdepartmental 10,056,563 10,336,202 11,700,500 13,307,400 Total $ 78,282,431 $ 75,838,884 $ 149,647,600 $ 130,890,700 Department of Public Utilities
FY 2025 Total Budget – Wastewater Management Division
Notes
1. Wastewater Management Division’s expenditures include O&M and Capital:
FY 2025 Proposed Budget Total = $130,890,700
• FY 2025 O&M = $64,511,900
• FY 2025 CIP = $ 61,397,100
• FY 2025 Debt Service = $4,981,700
7 Category FY 2023
Adopted
FY 2024
Adopted
FY 2024
Amended
FY 2025
Changes
FY 2025
Proposed
Administration (1) 48.55 52.80 32.80 3.50 36.30
Water Division (2) 192.00 194.00 194.00 7.00 201.00
Solid Waste Management
Division (SWMD) (3)
194.00 200.00 200.00 2.00 202.00
Wastewater Management
Division (WMD) (4)
174.00 174.25 174.25 6.75 181.00
Total 608.55 621.05 601.05 19.25 620.30
Department of Public Utilities
FY 2025 Budgeted Positions
Notes
1. The Administration Division’s FY 2025 changes of 3.50 FTE equate to six (6) new positions added at 0.75 FTE each and one FTE position transferred to Information Services Department. NOTE: The FY 2024 changes are due to 20 FTE transferred to Capital Projects Department.
2. The Water Operations Division’s FY 2025 changes of 7.0 FTE equate to five (5) new positions added in FY 2025 at 1.0 FTE each and two (2) FTEs transferred from Information Services Department.
3. The SWMD’s FY 2025 changes of 2.0 FTE equate to the addition of eight (8) new positions added in FY 2024 at 0.75 FTE each and now made whole at 1.0 FTE each for the expansion of proactive litter control services – Beautify Fresno.
4. The WMD’s FY 2025 changes of 6.75 FTE equate to four (4) new positions added in FY 2025 at 0.75 FTE each, three (3) new positions added in FY 2024 at 0.75 FTE each and now made whole 1.0 FTE each, and three (3) FTEs transferred from Information Services Department.8
Description FY 2025
Proposed
Utilities $ 15,374,500
Water Purchases $ 13,315,200
Specialty Chemicals and
Gases $ 9,567,100
Specialized Services/Tech $ 2,626,700
Miscellaneous Expenditures $ 4,016,400
Department of Public Utilities - Water
FY 2025 Budget - Operational Impacts
Notes
1. Utilities budget includes PG&E rate hikes projected of 17% for wells and 12.2% for SWTF effective 1/1/24. Increase of
$854,400, includes an offset with projected solar savings.
2. Water Purchases budget includes CVP water deliveries based on a full allocation of 60,000 AF, an 11% hike in assessments from FID, and FWA costs for conveyance, pumping and CIP's.
Increase of $338,900
3. Specialty Chemicals and Gases budget includes projections for increased surface water production which is more chemical dependent and vendor price. Increase of $2,129,100.
4. The Specialized Services/Tech includes increases in the annual service charge for the Badger Beacon meter contract.
The Badger Beacon SaaS product and services is required to continue providing water utility billing services to the city's approximate 141,500 accounts. Increase of $384,600.
5. Miscellaneous Expenditures include an increase of $572,200.
Major increases are for Hydrologist Professional Services ($60,000), Prop 218 implementation ($115,000), direct payment of janitorial services ($165,800), and equipment rentals ($85,000).
9 Description FY 2025
Proposed
Landfill Tipping Fees $ 10,624,300
Fleet Service Charges $ 6,298,000
Fleet Fuel Charges $ 1,854,000
SB1383 Organic Green Waste $ 2,021,100
Fresno Sanitary Landfill
Capital Regrading $ 3,300,000
Collection Containers $ 1,051,500
Department of Public Utilities - SWMD
FY 2025 Budget - Operational Impacts – Prop 218
Notes
1. Landfill Tipping Fees – 11% increase from FY 2024; increases are related to new organics tipping fees and annual CPI increases.
2. Fleet Service and Fuel Cost – $8,152,000 combined cost accounts for a large percentage of SWMD budget.
3. SB1383 Organic Green Waste – $2,021,100 ($1,415,100 grant funded)
4. Landfill (FSL) Regrading – $3,300,000
5. Collection Containers - $ 1,051,500 increase related to increase in number of new home request.
Q: What if Prop 218 does not pass?
A: We must start cutting services.
• Eliminate free shred events
• Eliminate free dump days (Cedar Avenue)
• Eliminate recycling outreach
• Operation Clean Up (OCU) cut back or eliminate
• Decrease frequency of green waste and recycle from weekly to bi-weekly 10 Description FY 2025
Proposed
Specialized Services /Tech $ 7,882,000
Specialty Chemicals and Gases $ 6,011,100
Materials & Parts--Equipment $ 1,797,000
Miscellaneous Expenditures $ 697,200
Department of Public Utilities - WMD
FY 2025 Budget - Operational Impacts
Notes
1. Specialized Services includes an increase of $1,065,500 for Biosolids hauling. A new contract effective May 2024 will be exclusively with one sole hauler when previously the RWRF had a contract with two separate haulers.
2. Specialty Chemicals and Gases includes an increase of $903,800 for Polymer and Ferric Chloride chemicals used in the wastewater treatment process.
3. Materials & Parts Equipment includes an increase of
$306,000 due to a new recurring expense for replacementUV lamps in Recycled Water UV trains at NFRWF and replacement of wear components which are coming to the end of their useful life for Secondary sedimentation basins/final clarifiers.
4. Miscellaneous Expenditures includes an increase of $149,800 due to cost increase for SWRCB Mandated Wastewater
Discharge Permit and ongoing regulatory reportingrequirement for SJVAPCD AB2588 Air toxic fee that is gearing up in FY 2025 and will be the first phase of the two-step process.
11 Grant Type FY 2025
Proposed
Federal:
WaterSMART Water and Energy
Efficiency Grant $ 379,390
Increasing Drought Resiliency
in a Disadvantaged Community
with a Wellhead Treatment
System
$ 734,452
State:
Leaky Acres
Groundwater Recharge
Improvement Project
$ 5,240,428
Expanded Lawn to Garden
Rebate Program $ 5,142,780
Three Palms Mobile Home Park
Drinking Water
Connection Project
$ 392,461
Department of Public Utilities - Water
FY 2025 Budget – Federal / State Grants
Notes
1. WaterSMART Water and Energy Efficiency Grant seeks to increase the efficient use of water for residential irrigation by purchasing, installing, and programming 1,500 EPAWaterSense® labeled Smart Irrigation Timers for the City of Fresno – Department of Public Utilities’ residential customers. Local Match of$464,261.
2. The proposed Project will install a chemical oxidation system and a manganese dioxide filtration system at the wellhead to remove both hydrogen sulfide and manganese from groundwater produced at Well 345-1 and bolster the City’s available groundwater supplies for greater drought resiliency. Local Matchof $734,452.
3. Leaky Acre improvements will substantially increase recharge basin percolation rates and provide greater operational efficiency. This grant was awarded in FY 2024 and $416,200 carryover to FY 2025.
Local Match of $20,000.
4. Expanded Lawn to Garden Rebate Program to increase
conservation of potable water used for residential and commercial irrigation. This grant was awarded in FY 2024 and $1,000,000 carry over to FY 2025.
5. To connect Three Palms Mobile Home Park, a disadvantaged community with 1,2,3-trichloropropane contamination in its water source, to the City water system and physically disconnect and destroy three existing onsite wells.
12 Grant Type FY 2025
Proposed
State:
SB 1383 Organic Green
Waste $ 1,415,100
Beverage Container
Payment Program $ 135,300
Used Motor Oil Program $ 75,000
Household Hazardous
Waste
$ 50,000
Department of Public Utilities - SWMD
FY 2025 Budget – Federal / State Grants
Notes
1. Four (4) State grants total $1,625,400 for the
SWMD – Recycling section.
• SB1383 Organic Green Waste awarded in FY
2024 carry over to FY2025
• Household Hazardous Waste grant
awarded in FY 2024 carryover to FY 2025
13 Program Type FY 2025
Proposed
SB1383 Organics Outreach $ 326,800
By Appointment Bulk Pick-up Service* $ 610,700
Department of Public Utilities
FY 2025 Budget – New and/or Expanded Programs
Notes
1. SB1383 Organics Green Waste Expanded
Outreach – increased $326,800 from FY
2024, state grant funding. State mandate
to reduce organic waste disposal and
increase edible food recovery.
2. New once per year by appointment bulk
pick-up service for Solid Waste.
*Assuming passing of Prop 218 process
14 Division Project Name FY 2025
Proposed
Water Division Leaky Acres Improvements $ 6,422,000
Water Division Water Main Replacement Clinton/University/West/Teilman $ 5,772,000 Water Division Well Rehabilitations $ 4,842,500
Water Division Badger Beacon Cellular Endpoint $ 3,700,000 Water Division Polyethylene Replacement $ 3,000,000
Water Division Wellhead Treatment at Pump Station 101A $ 1,976,000 Water Division Water Main Replacement on Fruit and Martin Luther King $ 1,953,000 Solid Waste Management Division Landfill Regrading Project - Phase I $ 3,300,000 Solid Waste Management Division Garbage Cart Acquisition $ 1,056,600 Wastewater Management Division Southwest Recycle Water Tank and Booster Pump $13,412,000 Wastewater Management Division Renewable Gas Diversion $ 9,679,000 Wastewater Management Division North Trunk Rehabilitation on North and Maple $ 9,255,000 Wastewater Management Division Sewer Trunk Design $ 4,405,000 Wastewater Management Division Digester Cleaning $ 2,548,000 Wastewater Management Division Headworks Structural Rehabilitation Phase 2 $ 2,208,000 Department of Public Utilities
FY 2025 Budget – Major Capital Improvement Projects
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Community Outreach - Water Division
Water Conservation Program
The City of Fresno is committed to water conservation, the protection of our water supply, and customer education regarding water use. Water conservation restrictions and enforcement procedures are in place to ensure our community is in compliance with statewide conservation regulations, to reduce costs for producing water and processing wastewater, and to protect this precious resource, ensuring its availability for generations to come.
Water Conservation Program goals include:
• Meet the Urban Water Management Plan (UWMP) 2020 conservation goal • Comply with all local and state laws and regulations related to water use • Deliver professional, courteous customer service and water conservation education to the public by offering Leak Surveys, Timer Tutorials, Landscape Consultations, and multiple rebates. 16 Department of Public Utilities
Community Outreach - SWMD
Beautify Fresno
Beautify Fresno is the Mayor’s vision to create a sustainable, citywide effort to clean Fresno’s neighborhoods by empowering residents to help make Fresno a cleaner, greener, more beautiful place to live.
We connect with the community through:
• Promoting events on social media platforms
• Engaging residents at community meetings
• Providing Hispanic, Hmong and Punjabi centric events
• Building relationships with local businesses, organizations, non- profits, churches, service clubs, and schools
• Presenting an anti-litter campaign through local media 17 Department of Public Utilities
Community Outreach - SWMD
Recycling Program
The City of Fresno Recycling Program is a constant presence in the community, guiding residents through the process of how to recycle correctly at home and the importance of recycling. Our main goal is education through community interaction.
Recycling education and outreach programs include:
• School education presentations and outreach events
• Used Motor Oil Program – Collection of used motor oil and used motor oil filters for recycling • SB1383 Organics program
• A messaging focus on natural resources, the importance of recycling, recycling correctly, how to use the three carts (Green, Gray, Blue), household hazardous waste resources, used motor oil and filter recycling, bottles and cans recycling, and information about upcoming programs and legislation
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Community Outreach - WMD
Fats, Oils, and Grease (FOG) Program
The purpose of the FOG Program is to reduce Sanitary Sewer Overflows (SSOs) and blockages, and to protect public health and the environment by minimizing public exposure to unsanitary conditions. By controlling the discharge of FOG to the collection system, excessive buildup in sewer lines can be lessened, thereby increasing the system’s operating efficiency and reducing the number of sewer line blockages and overflows.
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