Updated: July 12, 2011
Fiscal Year 2011-2012 Operating and Capital Budget
- Download FY 2011-12 budget sections at right.
Highlights of the district’s FY 2011-12 budget include:
- The $312.6 million FY 2011-12 budget marks a reduction of $2.5 million from FY 2010-11
- Scheduled construction of 12 capital projects is expected to generate an estimated 900 –1,700 local jobs
- External funding of $31.5 million, includes $11.6 million in federal American Recovery and Reimbursement Act stimulus funding
- Reductions in Water Utlility Enterprise operations costs by 1.7 percent; increase in Watersheds operations costs by 8.9 percent
Key deliverables:
- Replace or refurbish old or aging equipment, including pumps and control equipment at the District’s largest pump station
- Complete seismic stability evaluations for the Almaden, Calero, Guadalupe, Lenihan and Stevens Creek dams, and initiate similar studies for Uvas and Chesbro dams
- Inspect 279 miles of streams throughout the county; repair eroding creek banks; maintain creek conveyance capacity and manage 3,667 acres of vegetation
- Continue long-term planning efforts for the future, which include the Flood Protection and Stream Stewardship Master Plan and the Water Supply and Infrastructure Master Plan
- Expand high-quality recycled water supply by partnering with City of San José
- Secure imported water supplies, which account for 55 percent of the county’s water
- Maintain 153 miles of raw and treated-water pipelines
Summary documents are downloadable in the column at right.
The detailed budget sections are here: