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For the past year,
MSD has undergone a restructuring and reorganization that will
better focus on its three core business services:
- Sanitary
sewer service;
- Stormwater
drainage improvements; and
- Flood
protection
Over the past
decade MSD has managed a very aggressive capital expansion program,
spending over $100 million each year to:
- Build or
expand six regional wastewater treatment plants;
- Eliminate
over 40,000 septic tanks;
- Eliminate
over 200 small package wastewater treatment plants;
- Build, on
average, 90 miles of new sewer each year; and
- Construct
several regional flood storage basins.
During the next
decade, MSD’s annual capital budget is projected to average about
$50 million, half that of the average over the past decade. Future
services will focus primarily on:
- Moderate
growth in service area;
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Elimination/mitigation of combined and sanitary sewer overflows;
- Preventive
maintenance and repair of existing sewer/drainage systems; and,
- Continued
metro-wide storm drainage improvements.
As the final
step in reorganization at MSD, a total of 48 positions have been
eliminated today:
- 19 by
full-time personnel layoff
- 29 vacant
positions not filled.
In addition,
all temporary employees have been laid off and MSD will eliminate 3
percent annual cost of living increases for the next two years to
reduce the need for additional personnel layoffs.
The layoffs and
eliminated vacancies do not affect frontline or field service
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