 I can see you guys you can't yep okay well it's um four minutes after six so we're gonna start up here and I guess we have to do a roll call sorry about that vice president Jaffe present director Lather present director lehu I am here and president Christiansen here okay we don't have a present public hearing and so this is the time to remove items from the consent agenda if any board members wish to I just I'll make a comment on one of them when the time is appropriate but okay don't have anything to remove you want to make the comment right now oh do we have some public comment is are you are there any public comments on the consent agenda I'll move approval I'll second and thank Dr. Lee he wanted to make a comment well I can just make it when you take the vote that's fine and also since we have someone calling in we'll have to do a roll call vote for each item so vice president Jaffe yes director lehu yes and my only thing I wanted to pass along was just we discussed at the you know water resource and infrastructure committee meeting something that I just noticed again on the management report is just that at some point on with water smart or some other entity whether it's always water smart or not it'd be really nice to have an app so that people could have an easy-to-use app rather than having to go online and I think people would use it more but anyway that's all I second and I'll vote yes on consent director Lather yes and president Christensen yes okay oral and written communications and we have are there any public members who wish to make an oral comment that isn't on the agenda any anyone else board members no well we'll move on then to reports district he's back in the picture I'm back on zoom yeah it was nice to see everyone in person at the last meeting no I'm just really briefly President Christensen just reminder to the board you legislative process is still moving forward a couple weeks ago was the deadline for bills to make it out of their originating house so now everything that made it out of the assembly is with the Senate anything that made out of the Senate it's over in the assembly so we have an idea of what is what what may move forward this year still too early for us to start going into details on specific bills but just wanted to provide us an update and as a reminder as we kind of move through the summer we'll get a much better idea as to what's gonna move forward and we'll start bringing some of the highlights forward just to the boards at where thank you thank you okay administrative business now I guess this is a 7.1 will serves we don't have any time 7.2 approve various scopes of work for continued professional consulting services related to the pure water soquel program good evening I'm gonna be presenting on this item tonight which is to approve various scopes of work that we have and have been supporting the pure water soquel program so I would like to just note that we are asking for the board to review and approve these scopes and I'd like to give just a quick background and then of course open up for some discussion still getting the technical support and the presentation together as you know we have been working on the pure water soquel program since 2014 when the board identified recycled water as the water new supplemental water supply to address the critical overdraft and see water intrusion that is occurring in the Santa Cruz mid-county ground water basin since that time the board set us on a pretty aggressive timeline of a evaluating designing constructing receiving and pursuing funding and all of the permit associated with bringing the project online with the goal of 2022 we are close construction has began in 2020 and over the last three years we've been working very diligently on the construction activities however we are seeing that the project is still ongoing in terms of the construction activities and as such the anticipated date for the project to be online and operational has moved out to 2024 with that extension we are needing some additional assistance with our existing professional services contracts to help us get the project through the finish line so before the board tonight our six contracts that are we are requesting some additional budget support as well as a time extension specifically Brown and Caldwell who has been providing the program management construction management and project management activities data instincts who has been performing the education and outreach both for pure water soquel as well as the community water plan ESA which is providing environmental services support and permitting and sin Bridget for their legal assistance on the design build contracts Pacific crest which is providing quality assurance and field inspection services and Silvera consulting who has been providing us assistance with labor compliance all of these consultants have been under contract over the last several years we have ongoing contracts with them so this before you there's detailed in the attachments one through six the scopes of work associated with continuing that well same level of support through the end of the project period which is the contract completion of we're anticipating 2024 it should be noted that we also did want to address that the budget amounts here included within the attachments are for work on a time and material basis so again that is typically how our professional contracts are if they are working on the project it is for not to exceed it doesn't necessarily mean that this is the lump sum cost so Taj myself as well as our staff manages these contracts if additional funds are needed we would need to come back to the board for a subsequent approval I think one thing to address in terms of the fiscal impact as well is that before the board at the last board meeting when you approved the budget for fiscal year 23 24 and then it also includes a projection for the fiscal year following that these contracts and the budget amounts were included in the budget and so that means that the amounts here and have been approved by the board for this coming to school year again I think this is a limited term project so we aren't seeing that we would need to try to look at other ways to offset these project costs we have a very small staff again primarily it's the three of us that are working on pure water so-called and then we have two additional staff members and then our engineering staff so it's a burden in terms of needing outside assistance but we don't see that once the project is completed that we would need to do something that would I think minimize the impacts and maybe try to do some of the work in-house we don't want to we don't want to create that kind of long-term burden and we feel that this is better use of our rate payer funds and to assist us just temporarily with some consultant services I'm available for questions if you have any or maybe Ron or Taj if there's questions as well from them I will open it up to the public any questions quick question and that does this schedule the schedule into 2024 is that include the certification to or is that apart from the construction we are hoping to do startup commissioning of the project so that it is our our scope right now and our target goal date is to have the project operational by third quarter of 2024 is that what you mean by certification the question yeah I was just wondering how yeah well the commission I thought that the there's a state certification process yes that will be part of the startup and commissioning the state will come out and they will do some testing and we'll have to have the the system certified they would then approve that and that gives us kind of the green light for the lot the purified water to be ready to be injected into the groundwater sea water intrusion wells yeah that's that's what I wanted exactly what I wanted so I've got a couple of questions it appears that since these are not to exceed contracts that they're fairly broad in what in what what they're saying they're gonna do so what what's the process with the with the staff on determining what's necessary and what isn't necessary definitely is flexible in terms of adaptation so that we can meet maybe some of the external factors that may address or come into play with the project so for example ESA and we can talk about any of you have anything in specific Dr. Jaffe but in terms of ESA a lot of it is related to addressing the mitigation and monitoring efforts of the construction activities so they will for for instance is like that if there's some construction activity that has different areas of work being done at the same time then they may send out a field inspector to oversee that and then at times the construction activities may be reduced then ESA will flex that so they don't necessarily always have you know a set number of people evaluating the the job sites they'll ebb and flow based upon the construction work activities and similar with data instincts it is a little bit broad they have some of their activities will be to just generally support the outreach activities related to construction they'll also maybe peak when we have like our ribbon-cutting event when we may be talking a little bit more of an outreach or event that is scheduled we may have some additional support again we kind of try to do it based upon the the schedule of work and we also are always trying to be mindful of the of the cost okay so the process would be for instance with ESA we have a certain construction activity going on they would come to you and go we need to do a B and C related to this being compliance yeah very very much so I'll take a shot at it so actually the process has already started right we work a lot especially Melanie and Taj with the consultants to go what's the horizon look like what do we think we need to do and so that's laid out in front of you but as we move through that then these are basically basically the conductors of the orchestra so to speak saying okay it looks like this is coming up sometimes it comes from the consultant hey we need to tackle this and then they kind of release that so to speak that effort to go for so it's very much controlled but the dialogue dialogue is two ways sometimes coming from us directing them to do that you know under the contract or maybe a consultant says we feel there's a need for X Y and then there's a discussion around and you've been working with these consultants for a number of years so there's trust that's been built up absolutely okay and as you probably know I get shocked by outreach costs and I just I understand the necessity but I that's one area that I think that we should be aware of the you know that the costs involved with it and I know that you are already but I just wanted to point that out so I have nothing that's all I wanted to ask about I have a question you guys hear me yes believe it or not it's about an acronym just on Pacific Crest engineering they started talking about observation of HMA placement and spot testing of HMA compaction and I just didn't know what that was that's hot makes out it's fall okay can they remind them all to define their acronyms came okay that's an engineering term it's gonna be clear okay but I mean you know we're trying to read these and understand them I have no idea I'm just making light of no absolutely we tried it we met never to spell out every acronym we take it seriously yeah names just funny that's why I say that I do think it's funny and I do want to know that we can see you both on screen just in case you're wondering how that's working great hi well ready for emotion yes I'll make the motion the motion sorry there's there's six of them is it six I mean make reread them to make sure that did you check for a public comment already I believe you did we did at the beginning I think so it'd be one through six it's correct and not seven it just take no action I'll make that motion so I was gonna second I also had one left had one last question and that is these are still covering that these are still within the con the grants and loans of vice president Jaffee yes director lehu yes and I wanted to just thank staff because I really do trust staff to be careful about spending money and also trying to get it done as you know efficiently as as possible so thank you director Lather and president Christensen yes ask unanimously moving to 7.3 RFQ for on-call engineering design and surveying services I'll take that so the board might remember in the budget that was approved last meeting that the district has a couple larger projects coming besides pure water so Cal and one of the main ones is the hexavalent chromium project and recently we've seen some more activity at the state level and there they've released a draft MCL and it's the same as it was previously it's 10 parts per billion and what's what's not known is when it will become effective based on you know it's a little late in the year to be potentially getting it effective on the 1st of January 2024 I think the latest it would become effective would be January 2025 but regardless we don't anticipate this taking a drastic turn and so we want to resume efforts on that front and so this year's budget includes funds to begin the design on that or resume the design I should say and the other project is the Cunison well and that is a well that has been on the district's radar for almost 10 years now it's part of the well masterplan EIR and it will need an iron and manganese treatment plant and that's what we will be seeking services for the design of the well is already underway with Montgomery associates and of course the environmental review was completed with the EIR so if there's any questions what we will do is bring back a specific scope for each one of those those are the main ones there's potentially some smaller projects that we may reach out to these consultants once once selected but I see those as being the primary scopes that you would see as a board for approval probably I would assume in September at the September board meeting you would see the scopes for those but at this stage it's it's just a a release of requests for qualifications and then also a decision of whether anyone on the board would like to participate in the selection committee and the two motions are on the there's some questions but public comments invited now it is thank you thank you back is time for an hour I did see that the cunnison well project is included in the mid-county groundwater agencies annual report to the state for 2022 that it will happen this year so I hope that it does and hope that you do keep the MGA administrators of which you are part but mr. Carson does a great job doing those those reports so thank you just was I guess the question is open to the board and if you went wanting to your natural it's not mandatory but if you wish you're more than welcome to so if you want we'll send you the proposals when we receive them okay get that the other comments on the board so ready for a motion yes I'll make the motions with Rochelle authorizing Rochelle to be it just spinning you said you were interested to or no well just said two people no if you want to thank Carla his board members participating vice president Jaffee I'm loud enough I didn't have to have I directly you yes director Lather yes and president Christensen yes point for this is the item to for direction regarding board of directors a vacancy in case anyone isn't aware dr. Bruce Daniels resigned for the board effective June 19th and president Christensen Tracy our HR manager and I got double team this I'm just gonna give a little opening I think it's deserving then Tracy's gonna kind of get more through the logistics part so I yes dr. Bruce Daniels submitted his resignation to me and and to the board members and it was a beautiful letter very eloquent and that while he says he'll be cheering us on from the sidelines he needs to move on to the next phase of his life he's gonna focus on computer modeling I think actually for textbooks that is so students can actually use his models to run what's there to ret theoretically describing the really civic it is his first task is a climatology book and since he's a climatologist he's used some of the formulas but I know for my own work you didn't have a program that you could just look into right right this would be in the textbook that show them so they could actually work with the models in the text yes very exciting for him and his wife to be able to travel some and then and he also said he you know really enjoyed his time on the regional board nine and then also one of his proud of achievements as he stated was bringing on pure water so kill so just wanted to make that known and you know we're just so thankful for his time I know you know he's given us a lot of me personally a lot of direction and to work with somebody who's that experienced and that background you know feel very very fortunate so with that I'll hand it over to Tracy to take it from here thank you okay something to I just I just sure I just I just wanted to just say a quick little thing is just that you know whether I always agreed with Bruce or not on the way to do things I think we always you know had similar goals as far as you know trying to make a difference and and for that for our community and for our water supply so I feel like he always went out every day trying to make a positive difference and so I think he's gonna keep doing that so we'll miss his scientific expertise but I know he'll be doing good stuff absolutely and we're getting back up here one more time I mean we're just it's too quick yeah yeah we'll give him a proper good yeah this is take care of business for now and since Tom said something I'll say something as well it just tremendously dedicated person and had a lot to offer with his expertise and very critical thinker and I'm gonna miss him and the district is gonna miss him as well because he offered a lot as a board member yeah I would chime in on that he's knowledge of the aquifer underscored all of the underpinning for our efforts on pure water so Cal really knowledge that he he produced for his PhD thesis was really the core of our impetus and drive to get the water so cal supported and some really appreciate that heavy lifting I the only one that was gonna wait until it was our turn to talk after the staff presentation I'm like okay I'll wait until after your presentation when the directors can speak okay you guys get the fun stuff I get the I get the nitty-gritty business stuff so I'm presenting this item to you tonight to discuss the board's wishes in terms of how to proceed in order to deal with the vacancy that was created by Dr. Daniels as the memo notes the district is required to notify the Santa Cruz County election department within 15 days at the date of the board of directors is notified of the vacancy or the effective data the vacancy whichever is later and we have notified the board of elections we did send them notice last week we've been trying to communicate with the board of elections they're not the easiest group to get a hold of so we were working on some of additional details to gather from them in our process but some things we wanted you to consider tonight were some of the options available to you so basically within 60 days of the date on which the board is notified of the vacancy or the effective date of the vacancy which is ever later so we're gonna be using for purposes of that that target of June 19th the effective data the resignation that kind of is a trigger point for us district board members must fill the vacancy by one of two means you can choose appointment or you can call an election and if the board does not act within that period of time then the County Board of Supervisors the authority rolls to the County Board of Supervisors and they may appoint a board member or order the district to call an election the final day of the 60-day period for the board to act within the statutory timeline beginning yesterday June 19th is August 18th 2023 and if the board does appoint someone the appointee will serve the remainder of director Daniels term which will be the the term that started 2020 and goes to December 2024 so I wanted to talk about the options with board appointment and or calling an election does the board have an interest in me spending more time on one of these options or another would you like me to to kind of go through all options of appointment or election personally I'm not in favor of an election so I had the bulk of the time or even all the time I think would be on the appointment process for me and I don't know if the other kids feel the same way I agree okay I thought there might be a preference there so I thought we'd ask thank you so if the board decides to fill the vacancy by appointment it must we must post a vacancy notice and I've attached a draft sample of a vacancy announcement we have to do so by the term set forth in government code section 1780 and these rules are also governed by or these processes are also governed by election code sections 1000 through 1003 those those sections are included in your packet tonight the the district must post that vacancy announcement for at least 15 days before the appointment is made and we must do so in at least three consecutive spots within the district and additionally the board may choose to direct staff to push that notice out that they can see notice out to other areas as suggested in the memo which would include potentially our website our newsletter newspapers direct emails whether to our customers or to maybe selected individuals who have volunteered to work as our standing committee members who have already expressed interest in being a part of district process and in function so that's that's what our next step is we want to make sure that the board understands that we've got some meetings where we might want to identify our process so looking at our timeline and the work that we need to do within those timelines we need to make sure that the process takes place on or prior to August 18 2023 if we post a vacancy notice you know with this this week it allows for the 15-day posting time we do it tomorrow the board be able to hold the interviews beginning July 6th so that kind of gives us that that timeline of that 15-day posting period and then we can act moving forward on that and I wanted to make sure that the board was aware again that we have only two board meetings scheduled in July and August we only have one eat on during each of the months so only one in July one August so with that the board may identify that they may choose to hold a special board meeting or potentially two special board meetings we have some experience with this unfortunately back in 2016 we did have a board member as you may recall who passed away during the term of his seat and so we do have some guidelines and some experience in going through that process and we did hold an appointment last time and posted that vacancy it actually required us to have two days worth of interviews we interviewed each of the candidates the eligible candidates who had submitted an application and we did that in two different dates so if the that's something for the board to consider tonight to potentially request or to appoint a special meeting potentially to with the opportunity to cancel one if it's not needed and I put some timelines in the board memo so that you know what we I kind of targeted Tuesday since those might be freer days for us and for the board for you to kind of identify what dates might work best for you in in appointing dates to hold a special meeting and then make that appointment at a subsequent regular board meeting I'll just add that thank you Tracy awesome you can also make the appointment at the special meeting if you like but we're trying to give you some options and just make sure we don't go through the timeline and I didn't remember how you did it I know I did it right and it and it's not remember it being a board meeting it's an open meeting it is a board meeting it's a public is is allowed 10 generally we if there are people you know trying out their candidacy or coming to you a lot of times they'll wait in the lobby just out of respect and then they come in one time but it's it's it's not it's their option right that's voluntary but last time we did it at the district and two days two special board meeting days think back to back Tracy yeah and they were like 20 candidates I believe you interviewed them all and I think we made it the board made a selection at a subsequent meeting I can't remember that part no I believe they made the appointment at the there was time second yeah the second meeting somebody might remember that was on it yeah selfishly and maybe giving them more time for applications I like the later dates you selected but still within that window oh like I guess 18th and 15th that's 25th they said and my fifth or first or eighth right around there that the regularly scheduled board meeting is the August 15th regular board meeting and there are three Tuesdays that we might you might consider as special meeting dates prior to that August 15th board meeting actually there's more if you want to use January but to speak to your interest like Director LeHue more time to provide application to give applicants more time to apply you've got three Tuesdays in which to to work with July 25th Tuesday August 1st or Tuesday August 8th those all fall before the August 15th regularly scheduled board meeting are we gonna do this in the evening or during the day that's that's a good question that would be a decision that you that you were able to make we did them in the evening when you it's a blur remember the nights though I do remember the evening so I think one of the things that's important and it's an emotion in here is an ad hoc committee to work with Tracy among me because there'll be questions like are you going to interview people virtually or you know who knows or we get a dome in the nighttime or daytime so that would be very helpful the idea is to get the dates down now because that's critical and then get us some advisors if you will to board members like us let's see with with the four member board we're still allowed to have two on this committee right Josh is that correct yes as long as we don't have a majority I'd be willing to help with that but I'm fine if somebody else other two people want to do it too I have a particularly busy July and August so I will not be able to help I will look at all the applications so I'm sure I'll be firmly planted here between you too yeah I guess it's us again well Tom and is Tom gonna be Tom says he wants wants to I mean I I'm happy to help if you guys would review really feel strong you want to do it that's fine too no I don't feel that strongly I just want to make sure I know that you wanted to do it I thought you said you were busy I thought you were tied up I will be out of town during parts of part of July but it doesn't mean I can't discuss logistics I can't meet in person until later in July yeah we can certainly hold virtual ad hoc meetings we have the ability to do that right Josh that's correct there's no restrictions on when the ad hoc meets oh they're never mind I don't Tom's it appears Tom wants to do it so one of one of this one of you two want to do it as well or so do we do Rochambeau no if you want to do it and I'll just remind the board president I don't believe we've taken public comment on this I don't believe we've taken public comment on this item okay we haven't maybe we should stop right there and take that comment before we get too far along thank you Becky Steinbrunner I actually think it would be better if you held an election and here's why you have a better chance of getting maybe a different mindset fresher ideas on your board I think that that would be the best way to go and correct me if if I'm wrong but I I think that there is an election coming up in November could it be combined with a November election we got no information about that but I think that's that's a better way to go a fair way to go and would benefit the the board rather than just having someone you point that you know you're gonna get along with and is gonna agree with you to put it bluntly I understand if you don't want to do that I remember when director Meyer passed away and I attended both of the board meetings where in the applicants were interviewed and I thought it was very interesting process but I don't know if any of the applicants really knew or had a clear list of the criteria that would be used to evaluate them that should certainly be something that the ad hoc committee should do so that everybody has a level playing field I felt like people interviewed in a different way and really didn't know what you were looking for so I I would like to see an election and I think you could put out a survey to your ratepayers you have time and ask what they want make them aware of this vacancy put out a survey to your ratepayers and see what they think and maybe you'll get someone from them may have one additional minute just to say some kind words about director Daniels thank you nice thank you I I am surprised that he has resigned that I wish him the best I think he and I did not agree on many things and we had words but I always admired and respected his firm dedication and resolution to act to conserve the water groundwater levels as he understood the information and he was not afraid of voting against the unanimous board for things and I really respected him for that I I remember when he tried to get a moratorium on hookups and that was a very brave thing to do and he did it out of his conviction and I really respect him a lot for doing that and other kinds of actions so I wish him well and look forward to seeing who comes to sit on your board thank you thank you okay yeah I wasn't really trying to make a decision on that we were just yeah I just want to remind you didn't have to pause there yeah I'll just add yeah those words of president Daniels are really appreciated and that you know again has helped with pure water soquel and the water demand offset program or paramount I want to I do want to point out to the board you know as in the past there been several elections where nobody's ever run against the board and if we have to have an election that usually costs us around $60,000 so something to be mindful for our ratepayers if you chose to go that route the other thing is you know I'll just put a shutout for people who not just show interest at the time of the availability but also who have you know put in time at the district like through various committees and that that sort of thing have shown interest along the way I think is important so stop there interest in in knowledge that's that doesn't come out on the off off-year election I and it's just as expensive to run the election is now you know when no one's even thinking about voting or in the regular election period so that's why we've tended away from elections don't I think we learn more about the candidates for that by interviewing them personally and it's really just being personally for my first election it was really a lot of sudden work to suddenly run for an election and I think you have better preparation if you know what the board is doing with the whole purpose of the district and involved in the degree so I think it's I think it works just really back to some committee so you and Tom want to do it I think I might be over committed for those months I don't mind doing it I as I said I'd hear I'd be here I'm not on vacation okay then in terms of when do we have the special board meeting or meetings yes that's what we're deciding we have what he said the first the eighth still do we first have a motion for whether to do an appointment or call an election before we decide on those things oh on okay I think we should wait until we have go to the second point second point assuming the first point right well I guess we yeah we have you're correct but I'll make the motion that we fill the vacant director position by appointment all second vice president Jaffee yes director lehu yes director Lather yes and president Christensen yes okay so with that motion made that the board will be selecting by appointment we will be looking at motion too we and I believe that part of that motion will include the the election of ad hoc committee members which you have just discussed I wanted to seek input from the board on the vacancy announcement which you will see as attachment number two if there was any comment I did some research to see other advertisements posted on this type of vacancy and this is pretty similar to what I've seen you know in the last week or so since we've been working on this and if there's any input or comment I'm happy to take that so we can get the vacancy announcement just as soon as possible out to the public it doesn't have to be in the announcement but I do agree that it would be good to give some idea of two candidates who apply of what would be our priorities or like what would be in a positive or people applying you know whether that's interest in yeah what the board's been doing already demonstrated or whether that's you know an area of scientific understanding I don't know but you know at some point I think the announcement looks fine for getting it out there I was gonna make a similar suggestion that we include in the announcement perhaps our planning documents that spells you know a link to that so that they can easily see what what exactly what Tom talked about what are where we're going yeah maybe I could suggest because we want to get this out as early as possible that we make a note in there that you know visit the website the priorities or whatever listed at that site just because it can take a little bit to figure that out and then we get that up as quickly as possible yeah well I one of our existing pages community plan yeah I mean a water plan comes to my yeah I see right it should we try to tweak that or should we I just came up with three that I've been thinking about one was the knowledge and interest in what the district is doing previous experience contributions to water you know water supplies and or something like that and the ability to make a time commitment you know for evening meetings I mean those are that's the basic thing and we didn't we didn't really go with any preconceptions in the last time we went through this process we didn't make any any prior judgments on what kind of a candidate we were looking for it wasn't merely a compatibility thing it was really more what their insights and what their contributions they're interested in making we have in our application our experience our knowledge what we believe I I remember doing a lot of work there were questions in the application but that yeah you're gonna use the same kind of yeah yeah the ad hoc committee will be looking at the last recruitment documents that we've used and so we'll be able to tweak those to what we we don't have to do that right now no we do not have to do that right now and that's why the ad hoc committee is so helpful and important I think that I think that I think that I remember that was the gist of all that it was a really detailed time on it so that the applications so we're getting this announcement out as soon as possible but don't we have to have an application it's actually somewhere yes yes so we would probably call the ad hoc committee together as quickly as possible as well and we can do that virtually again to try and get some feedback on the the documents that we'll be using that's a good starting place would be okay application from the last time we had to do this yeah and we may tweak this thing a little bit what in front of you to say something like appearing on the website soon or something like that more information or a date by which it is just so we can get this out and layer it as we go get to get input from two committee or you could put a dummy website I mean just on the dummy website but it oh yeah I mean soon yeah that's a good idea so have a link that doesn't change mm-hmm I like that better then have that information on that saying this will be updated by such and such today so now I'm really confused because I'm the only one that didn't say anything nice about dr. Daniels I thought we were gonna do this at the end and now I realize there is no place for us to say anything I don't think he's even here yeah all right yeah I want to make sure we get to the motions but okay do your do your please are we gonna do one where he's actually gonna be here that's the that's the goal yes we just haven't had time to travel so back to the motions motion one we already did to motion to is so I think the only thing outstanding right now is identifying dates and those would be interview dates for the board to call a special meeting and or utilize regular the regularly scheduled meeting in August since you've identified that as your target well we actually could appoint someone before August I think that should be the fallback in case that's correct so maybe as we should get started as soon as we can it's almost and that's pushing close to the 60-day deadline again the 60-day deadline is August 18th and the board meeting is August 15th so so I guess I would shoot at least for August 1st 8th August 1st and August 8th is what I'm hearing it's fine yeah you can disagree I think a lot of work can be done by the committee so I don't I'm trying to remember whether or not it was only the committee that met with the applicants last time it was every everybody board meeting the entire board would have to commit but what about the idea of setting on one of those days and then having a one two like August 1st and 2nd rather than I could do that I was gonna I was gonna mention that and we were just trying to stick with two states but if we think if you think you're gonna have you know or the potential to have you know two days worth of candidates probably is better to put them right next to each other you don't forget not yeah that keeps fresh in your mind as you're discussing your candidate so so do we want to do first second or eighth ninth I'd like the first and second I'm not gonna be here for a second but I could probably eight nine I could I could I could zoom in are you here the eighth and ninth if I am yeah let's just do it then do it then I'm not I'm yeah that's okay is that pushing it is that coming too close I don't think so no the next board meeting is the 15th so you have another week you have a fallback yeah so we could either point on the eighth or the ninth and surely a point by the 15th that's correct and then would they be an evening then or what we were gonna decide on time yeah evenings are best for me I think since the board meetings are in the evenings right it makes sense to have the I agree in the evenings to I just wanted to have us keep that in the motion too that's all would you like to make a motion I can make a motion that we have the meeting these special meetings for selection of a board member on August 8th and 9th starting at 6 p.m. we can always cancel the night if we don't need it but I think we should just kind of schedule that so that I don't know if I need to include anything else in that Carla and I would be on the subcommittee and the I guess we already gave some input on the big no changes to the vacancy announcement just except for adding that there's gonna be a website to follow right I'll second that I'll second that okay Vice President Jaffee yes Director Leahyou yes Director Lather yes and President Christensen yes put it on my schedule thank you I'd like to also point out to the board that thanks to our legal general counsel Josh he was very instrumental in working with Tracy and myself to make sure all the technical aspects of the memo were correct so thank you Josh and Josh and location we're adjourning the public meeting now can I ask one question about that just keep us I didn't know what the location of those meetings would be I guess your work on that right yeah we have some ideas but okay we can discuss that are we going to close session moving to close session so anyone who wishes to adjourn the meeting until after you would you're out of it but we have comments public comments on the closed session right now may I thank you public comment on closed session thank you thank you steinbrunner um I just want to say that what I have did the legal challenges I have taken we're not what I wanted to do but I felt there was no other choice and the more I learned and the more I continue to learn the more I understand that it is necessary most recently a public records act request from California Department of Fish and Wildlife revealed that that agency did not comment on your EIR as you know in 2018 it is required by law that they do so to develop enforceable and effective mitigations for when the project is not only under construction but also when it's operational and that bothers me a lot it did at the beginning and it bothers me even more as I see that the project has been modified to attach pipes on both sides of a Laurel Street bridge there was no consultation with California Department of Fish and Wildlife for that either it did not even know and it was only through the good action of Ms. Jane Meo that construction stopped last summer while the swallows that migrate here from Argentina every year to raise their young under that bridge she was able to get it stopped by talking with a biologist that she knows Fish and Wildlife didn't know about them and now that the swallows are back we're supposed to be back the work has continued on the bridge regardless of that and there are no swallows at the bridge so I want you to think about that thank you President Christensen I'll just say we don't comment on pending litigation but in light of all the lawsuits it's a litigant has brought against the district and are basically our customers because that's who pays for it the judges and the appeal courts have ruled in our favor on all the cases and in favor of the Coastal Commission and we feel very comfortable that we have followed all applicable laws are we going to close session now