2026 Budget for the City of Shakopee

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2026 Annual Budget

Fund: Surface Water

Description of Services: The Public Works Department operates and maintains the surface water system for the City of Shakopee which includes 157 miles of storm sewer and 203 public constructed ponds. Services also include implementing the city’s Surface Water Management Plan, managing the City's MS4 program, responding to Gopher State One Call locates and implementing stormwater and erosion control projects.

Employees:

2023

2024

2025

2026

Foreperson (PW)

0.5

0.5

0.5

0.5

Maintenance Operator Environmental Engineer Water Resource Technician

2

2

2

2

0.8

0.6 0.2 3.3

0.6 0.2 3.3

0.6 0.2 3.3

0

Total

3.3

Accomplishments:  The city has a permit which expires in 2025 through MPCA’s National Pollution Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) called the MS4 permit. This permit allows us to discharge stormwater from the city into downstream water bodies (e.g., the Minnesota River). We are actively working with the MPCA to update our permit, and it should be completed in 2026. We will need to apply for a new permit and update official controls to meet any new requirements regarding the permit.  The permit requires the city to establish a comprehensive stormwater management program that includes education and outreach, public participation and involvement, illicit discharge detection and elimination, construction site runoff control, post-construction management, and pollution prevention/good housekeeping. Many unfunded mandates of the Clean Water and Wetland Conservation Acts and the many overlapping jurisdictional authorities from three different watershed districts within the city, Minnesota Board of Water and Soil Resources, Army Corps of Engineers, Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA), Scott County, and the Minnesota Department of Transportation  The number of ponds and wetlands continue to increase as the city develops, and more area is annexed into the city. Goals/Challenges: 

Performance Measures:

Actual 2023

Actual 2024

Projected 2025 $172,500

Projected 2026 $165,000

Sweeping Annual Cost Catch Basins Repaired

$156,847

$155,036

34 84

20 93

40 62

40 85

Ponds Inspected

Number of Ponds (Public & Private)

415

442

445

450

Acres of Wetlands

2228

2228

2228

2228