 All right, I think we have everybody who is expected today. So with that, I will call the meeting of the Board of Public Utilities for the City of Santa Rosa to order. We may have a roll call please. Chair Galvin. Here. Vice Chair Arnone. Board Member Baden Ford. Yes. Board Member Grable. Here. Board Member Walsh. Here. Board Member Watts. Here. Board Member Wright. Thank you. Good afternoon to everyone. Item two on the agenda, any statements of abstention by Board Members? Very none. We have no study session. The minutes for July 1st, 2021 were sent out. So at this time we will take public comments on the minutes approval. If you wish to make a comment via Zoom, please raise your hand. If you're dialing in via telephone, please dial star nine to raise your hand. Secretary, do we have anyone? We have no public comments. Thank you. We'll now move to the staff briefings. Item 5.1, Director Burke. Thank you, Chair Galvin and Members of the Board. Our first staff briefing is a water and recycle water supply update. And Deputy Director of Water Resources, Peter Martin, and Deputy Director of Water Reuse Operations, Emma Walton will be making the presentation. Thanks for that introduction. Good afternoon, Chair Galvin and Members of the Board. I'm very pleased to be before you today, providing you with a water recycle water supply update. Lots going on, obviously. And we're continuing to do our best to manage the drought response over the next few months. Next slide. So Lake Minasino storage continues to be very much critically low. As of today, storage in Lake Minasino is about 28,200 acre feet. Which is, you know, obviously still continuing to trend well below any of the historical levels for that operations of that reservoir. Notably, I just wanted to point out that flows this week below Van Arsdale from the Potter Valley project have been hovering around 10 to 15 cubic feet per second under PG&E's modified flow requirements for which they requested a variance. So Lake Pillsbury is sitting around 31,000 acre feet allowing them to continue that. So not much water inflow is coming in from the Potter Valley project. And then, you know, outflow from Lake Minasino continues to hover around 80 CFS in order for them to continue to meet their 25 cubic feet per second upper Russian River watershed requirements under the temporary change order by the State Water Resources Control Board. And I'll talk a little bit more about some of the projections in the next slide here for Lake Minasino that we learned about at the TAC meeting on Monday. So next slide. So as you can see, it's very tight right now with these lines here as far as their projections and where water supply actually is. So the observed water supply on this graphic is the black line and Lake, excuse me, snow waters projections are on that orange line. On July 1st snow water, according to this kind of graphic you can see here was projecting that they would be about 1200 acre feet above that target. And then by Monday of this week that targeted kind of shrunk between those two lines to about 600 acre feet. So, you know, obviously they're running the system very tightly. And there remains concerns sort of that this can drop below that threshold that's established by the State Water Resources Control Board and could trigger additional curtailments, you know, obviously with the exception of health and safety beginning next month if they can't continue to keep that gap between, you know, those minimums in the reservoir. Right now, we heard from some water on Monday that they're on track to be below 16,000 acre feet of water in Lake Mendocino by October 1st, which is obviously continues to be very concerning news as far as the management of the upper watershed. Next slide. So with regard to Lake Sonoma and Santa Rosa water and the contractors water supply, as of today, storage in Lake Sonoma is 126,000 acre feet or excuse me, 126,600 acre feet or about 51.5% of their target storage capacity for this time of year. Some water obviously is very hopeful that contractors have already started to have an impact by reducing their demand so that they can continue to manage and ratchet down their releases to the remainder of the summer and get us into next year. We did learn that some water is really working really hard to keep their minimum flows really tight, which, you know, sort of obviously requires quite a bit of coordination amongst the different points of compliance with their storage releases. Sort of as a reminder that temporary or to change order is sort of on a five day average, so they do their best to try to balance that out and manage their releases accordingly. Next slide. So just, you know, as far as our point of compliance for Santa Rosa water, you know, we're continuing to see some response from customers. Hopefully that's going to continue to ramp up as we're working through the stages of notifying customers. We entered our voluntary stages in May. So you saw that that was kind of resulted in a small decrease in water supply over 2020. And we're starting to see that trend head in the right direction as far as overall system demands being reduced their last two months, May and June. July is going to be the first month that will be subject to those target reductions for all the contractors. What you're seeing is overall system demands have been reduced by 98% May and 90 in June. And that also resulted in our deliveries to buy some water being reduced by 92% in, excuse me. I've got this backwards, I apologize. 2% reduction in May and 10% reduction in June overall system demand and 8% production in May and 15% reduction in deliveries from Sonoma water on the far right column. You can see that that's being kind of held up by additional water production from the farmers wells this year. So we are kind of relying a little more heavily on that groundwater and we're getting more out of that. So I'm just going to give you an update on that. The target is going to be to try to meet those deliveries in that orange column. And as you've heard already, farmers wells are starting to just be a concern as far as their ability to continue to run at a larger capacity throughout the remainder of the year. Next slide. So I'll just give you an update on programmatically some of the things that we're working on to help reduce system demands for water conservation subcommittee will be making some changes to our green exchange program, which is obviously a program that allows customers to swap out turf with low water use landscapes. The program will be increasing that rebate from 75 cents to $1.50 per square foot. This change will be supported by existing program funds for the next year. Next slide. And then some additional programmatic changes that are going to be proposed. Obviously we want to encourage customers to participate in the program even during drought. So we're allowing folks that already have a brown lawn. We don't want to turn their water back on just to get a green lawn so they can get credit and get turf removed. So we can look back at some of their past history and look at some of the changes that are going to be made. And then we'll focus on our evaluation so we can evaluate it in person or virtually to determine their eligibility. And then we'll be providing additional times from the project pre-approval for them to complete the project. The idea here is that they can just kind of let their lawn go and then focus on putting plantings in later in the year when it does happen to rain so they can reduce the burden on new plantings and putting the water use associated with that. So we'll allow customers to extend their timeline for implementing their projects into the fall and where hopefully when we'll see some rain. So next slide. So we've got quite a few activities going on this month. A direct mailing went out to all 53,000 plus customers. A letter from Director Burke talking about all the new prohibitions and giving customers all the tools they need to save water this summer. We'll continue to push out bill inserts. Right now some inserts are going out with prohibitions and some other information about programs. We have a saving water challenge this month throughout the month of July where folks throughout the region can take some pledges to save water and do some daily activities and sign up to win some prizes, some good prizes in there as well. And that's being hosted by the SNOMREN saving water partnership. We continue to push out various social media, digital and print ads, including some radio spots. There's a radio spot out right now that's mostly focused on the prohibitions that were enacted at the end of last month. And then we'll move on to additional messaging later on in the month. And then we're continuing to push out very specific outreach to certain customer classes this month. That includes we're going to target obviously restaurants, hotels that might be affected by the prohibitions who already reached out to other industries that have some practices that might be impacted. And then focusing our efforts, maybe we had some discussions about pushing out some messaging to HOAs and others as well, making sure that they're aware of the prohibitions and that there are resources for them. We've got a lot of new banners and signage popping up. I'm really liking the signs in the back of the city buses. This is the crate. And then they're kind of, this is another banner that you can see on one of the city garages here. And then we're continuing to promote sort of our web-based waterways forms. You know, folks are out there watching. And it's been really helpful. We're continuing to follow up on quite a few waterways cases. And especially now that there are new prohibitions on irrigation during the day, focusing on folks irrigating between the hours of 8 p.m. and 6 a.m. Next slide. And then we've got quite a few ongoing job activities and work products. We've been very active with some of our business community partnerships, you know, including various folks downtown and other business interests. We're providing folks with waterpond request cards for restaurants that look like those right there. We'll be pushing out some cards that hotels and various other lodging folks can put out, notifying their customers that, you know, Lennon's can only be watched upon request if they like. And then, you know, focusing on community newsletters and trying to do as many community presentations as we can. We're doing quite a few virtually, but we're hopeful that over the next few months we can start to do some of those in person. So definitely something we're looking to get the, get out and talk to the community as much as possible. Next slide. We have some further activities coming up, but we've already done two very successful drought, drop by type events. The next one will be on August 21st. We'll be putting out a lot of messaging about that. That's again, going to be a region wide event, but we will have two sites in Santa Rosa, hosting that event. So, and then of course we're going to target another one in October 9th. So we have the saving water challenge that I mentioned. And that's on being hosted by the snowman, random saving water partnership. We're going to push out some trusted messenger videos, which we're very excited about. Saw some of the previews of that today. We already have folks from SR Santa Rosa junior college on board and some other businesses in Santa Rosa that will be represented on those videos. And then we have obviously a workshop series coming up. We think we just had our last of this trip, irrigation basics. Webinar series very well attended. I understand there was over a hundred folks that jumped in on that webinar. So we're excited about continuing that throughout the remainder of the summer and fall. And so that will conclude my portion of the presentation. I'll hand off to deputy director Walton to finish the remaining slides. Thank you, deputy Martin. Good afternoon chair Galvin and members of the board. I'm here again today to provide an update on the recycled water supply, as well as take the opportunity to provide some information about some of the work that we were able to accomplish during our most recent geysers shut down. Next slide, please. So we'll start with our recycled water production as a reminder, the gray line along the top shows our monthly average recycle water production over the last 35 years or so. The blue line is what we produced each month on average last year, which was our previous historic low. And then the black line along the bottom shows what we have in our currently producing this year so far, which is now our historic low. So for example, thus far in July, we have been producing on average a little under 13 million gallons a day, which is actually a new record for us as we have never seen a monthly average go below 13 and a half million gallons. The water year to date, so October 2020 through today, we have produced a little over 4 billion gallons total. Typically by this time we would have produced more like five and a half billion gallons. So we're about one and a half billion gallons less than average production so far this year. Next slide, please. Despite our extremely low production, our storage is actually doing quite well. We currently have 613 million gallons of recycled water and storage, which is less than our average, but it's not the lowest that we've ever been. Our users have been very responsive to the allocations that we put in place. And we've been able to manage our storage without implementing further restrictions on irrigation, which we're very happy about and our users are also very happy about. As you can see over the last month, we have been gaining in storage. This is because the geysers system has been offline. We are now pumping again to the geysers. So this line will head in the reverse direction here soon. But given our current position with respect to storage and production, we still are anticipating that we will meet all of our obligations to our ag users and the geysers and our urban users. Next slide, please. So I mentioned that I wanted to talk a little bit about the geysers shut down through a mutual agreement with Calpine. We shut down the geysers pipeline every year to perform preventative maintenance. Calpine also uses this time to perform maintenance on their side of the system. We typically shut down for about a two week period in late summer usually. This year we shut down earlier and we were about, we were down for about 30 days to facilitate the expansion joint replacement project, which I'll get into in a little bit. We stopped pumping to the geysers on June 15th and just started pumping again this week on Monday, July 12th. Next slide, please. While we were shut down, our maintenance staff was quite busy. We rebuilt or in some cases replaced eight air release spells along high flat or along the pipeline, excuse me. We performed a thorough condition assessment of the terminal reservoir, which is looking like it's in very good shape. We coordinated the cleaning of the Bear Canyon pump station sump, which is no small task. It's a half a million gallon tank that can over time accumulate debris and needs to get pumped out and cleaned routinely. So we undertake that work every year. Lastly, I wanted to give a shout out to our electricians. They were very busy this year. They inspected all of our pump stations. They did a particular focus on the Bear Canyon pump station and did additional preventative maintenance there, which included inspecting, cleaning and verifying all the torques and the connections of the electrical equipment. We had a team of three electricians pretty much dedicated to working on these pump stations for the entire length of the shutdown. They did a lot of work and they were able to accomplish a lot. And I just can't speak highly enough about them. They're just amazing employees. Next slide, please. Another major task that our maintenance staff undertook during the shutdown was supporting the expansion joint replacement project. The replacement itself was done by an outside contractor, but our staff was responsible for getting the system in a state that was safe to work on. So this included or required two lockout tagouts. One for the high voltage electrical that feed all the pump stations and one for the pipeline itself to depressurize and ensure that the hydraulic energy was isolated and that no, there was no potential for water to inadvertently drain back to where folks were working. These are huge lockout tagouts that need to be undertaken. The electrical lockout required 19 control points and the hydraulic lockout required over 44 control points. And then we have the expansion joint replacement. It's a very important work and it's done in very close coordination with both Calpine and the contractor doing the expansion joint replacements. It's impacts all staff who are doing work on the pipeline during the shutdown. Next slide, please. So now I'm going to talk a little bit about the replacement project, the expansion joint replacement project. So we have three joint replacements in the upper stretch of the pipeline that allow for the ground to move and shift slightly without damaging the pipeline. During previous shutdowns, we found that three of the joints were leaking and needed to be replaced. While we developed plans for the permanent replacements of the joints, we made temporary repairs back in 2018-19 to 2020, and you can see in the photo along the bottom that shows the repair work being completed. So we put the permanent replacement out to bid last June and awarded the contract in July. We had originally planned to begin construction in fall of 2020, but due to impacts of COVID, the joint manufacturer could not meet the contract terms and couldn't meet the time frames. So we had to push the contract out. Next slide, please. So we rescheduled the work for this spring through Mutual Agreement with the contractor, and after a lot of hurdles, this project was very hard to get off the ground. I'm happy to report that all five expansion joints have been installed and have been pressure tested and are working. The contractor completed all five joint replacements in a three-week period, which was a week sooner than the contract allowed and a week sooner than we expected, which is quite a feat given the amount of work involved in replacing these joints. Each joint is over 15 feet long and weighs over 4,000 pounds and has to be installed 15 feet in the ground. So you can imagine removing the old joints and installing the new ones was quite difficult and quite tedious. Also, to add to the length of time due to equipment availability and traffic control constraints, the joints had to be installed in series. So the contractor had to install them one at a time. They couldn't have multiple teams working at multiple locations. So as I mentioned, as of this week, we are now pumping again to the geysers. The joints are looking great. The contractor is just finishing up some other final work and everything went off without a hitch. So with that, I'd be happy to answer any questions and we can move to the final slide. Thank you both for your presentation. We'll open it up now for any board member questions or comments. Seeing none. We'll now take public comments on item 5.1. If you wish to make a comment via Zoom, please raise your hand. If you're dialing in via telephone, please dial star nine to raise your hand. Secretary Aether. We have no public comments. Okay. Thank you. Thank you both for your presentation. We'll look forward to when one in a couple more weeks and hope that we can see some improvement, but then afraid we're probably in for the long haul. So thank you for your presentations. We'll now move to item 5.2. Director Burke. Thank you, chair Galvin and members of the board. Item 5.2 is our second staff briefing, preparing for public safety power shutoff or PSPS. And making the presentation today, we have Ron Marin check and Jason Tibbles, both of our utility system superintendents. Thank you, director Burke, chair Galvin, members of the board. Good afternoon. As the director stated, my name is Ron Marin check. I'm superintendent for local operations. My counterpart superintendent Jason Tibbles and I will be making a brief, but I'll be a timely refresher of the water department's role during a public safety power shutoff. Next slide, please. I think everyone is aware at this point, but for public safety PG and E continues to rely, okay, next slide. Thank you. PG and E continues to rely on proactively turning off electricity when gusty winds and dry conditions combined with a heightened fire risk are forecasted as a way to minimize potential fire risk caused by their infrastructure. This action is commonly referred to as a public safety power shutoff or PSPS. Next slide, please. So the PSPS events will essentially happen when we are in a red flag fire condition and forecast also calls for high wind speeds. This is only magnified by low humidity and a supply of dry fuel, which unfortunately we currently have in great abundance. Next slide, please. The water department along with other departments have been meeting with PG and E to gather as much information as possible on the anticipated impacts of any future outage, the potential duration of these outages, and the operational details on how power will be restored. PG and E has informed us that we could go, that we could be without power for five days or more depending on how long the weather event is and how long it takes them to inspect their lines after the power has been shut off. PG and E is required to inspect all of their power lines before they re-energize the system. Next slide, please. PG and E is continually monitoring several weather stations that they own and has agreed to notify us as much as 48 hours in advance. We will remain in contact with them until the outage occurs through the outage and until power is restored. Designated members of Waters team will participate in conference calls leading up to the event to make sure we are all well informed and as ready as possible before the power is shut off. PG and E is using calls, text, emails, social media, local news and radio to spread information about the PSPS. They have also added a PSPS dashboard to their webpage. Several water managers have already attended webinars on how to navigate through this new feature. The city has provided PG and E with 24-hour contact information for essential staff, so we will be informed of appending PSPS event. I think it's important to acknowledge at this time PG and E's improvements in not only their notification, but the size and duration of the PSPS. They've gotten a lot better at providing as critical current information, as well as shortening the duration of the events and the size of the area that's shut off. Next slide, please. So we know these events will impact our regional operations, local operations, and some of the private systems that are connected to our infrastructure. To be better prepared for these events, we are reviewing and drafting new standard procedures to ensure that they match the needs of an extended power outage. These procedures include continuing to refine and improve our operations and procedures for the Water Department Operations Center, or DOC, clarifying trigger points for activation of the Emergency Operations Center, or EOC, identifying resources and the availability of additional resources, knowing that others will be needing similar resources at the same time, preparing staff for the potential activation of the EOC and DOC, and we have also developed several fueling plans to ensure our backup generators can be supplied with the necessary fuel needed to last the entire PSPS event. Next slide, please. Outside of local operations, but looking at the entire department, regional operations is by far the highest user of electrical power for the Water Department. Fortunately, they also have a robust backup generator power supply. Next slide, please. As you can see by this slide, Laguna Treatment Plant is supported with several backup generators. The treatment facility has two two megawatt generators that is supplied by a 15,000 gallon fuel tank and also four 1.1 megawatt combined heat and power generators. Next slide, please. These events will also impact our geysers and reclamation systems. However, since this is not a critical service for health and safety, these systems will essentially be shut down. We will still be able to move water into our reclamation system so we can direct flows to different storage funds, but we will not be able to supply water to our ag users because the pump stations at the farms and ranches do not have backup generator power. Ag users will be notified by email as well as our outreach team and regional staff. Next slide, please. We also anticipate impacts to our local operations, water distribution and sewer collection systems and facilities. Next slide, please. In more detail, I will turn the presentation over to Superintendent Jason Tivols. Thank you, Superintendent Morinczak. Good afternoon, Chair Galvin and board members. We are going to discuss a little bit about what we are doing to minimize some of these impacts and what communications we are in to make sure that we are able to meet these challenges, head on and deliver good water to our customers. Next slide, please. We have a standing monthly meeting with the operations staff and some of their engineers. As I will know, Director Burke is also in communications with them. We are discussing what they have planned for their PSPS emergency situations and they tell us that they are well supported. They have backup generation and they are in good shape. Right now currently our farmers Lane Wells as Deputy Martin mentioned is producing well and we have backup power for them in case of PSPS or emergency that affects that well center. Next slide, please. As you see, that is a map of the system of Santa Rosa. The light blue, the large area. We refer to that as our aqueduct zone or central city zone. It is a vast majority of the city. We don't anticipate any service interruptions in that area. They will be powered all the time, and they will be powered from the aqueduct. The other zone areas that are in different colors, those are different zones for different elevations throughout our system. They are fed by our reservoirs and they rely on our pumping stations to fill the reservoirs and pressurize the zone. We currently have all these stations have generators and backup systems that are in good shape in good working order. Next slide, please. Our reservoirs need a little bit of power to operate the SCADA system, the chlorinator to make sure everything is operating smoothly. It just needs minimal power. They have backup batteries within the cabinets as you can see in the lower right there. We have a system where for some reason we have that continual feed of information from SCADA. Many of the reservoirs are powered by backup generators from the pump station next door or down the street, but there are some that require that backup battery power, and we do have some that are solar powered as well. Next slide, please. All of our pump stations, as mentioned earlier, have generators. If the power goes out, the generators will automatically come on. They can extend a period of time, and they're supported by either propane and natural gas or diesel fuel. We have a system that we know how long each generator will run under load and without a load, so we're able to refuel these in plenty of time without any incidents. We can also operate these pumping stations with portable pumpers just in case there's a catastrophic failure of a generator, which will have redundancies at all these stations to provide water. Our pumping stations are plumbed in a way that allows us to hook up these pumpers quickly and not lose any operations. Next slide, please. Now we'll switch to our local sewer collection system. Our local sewer lift stations are 17 of them. All but three of these stations have generators on site because the three that do not have generators, the reason is they're small in size. We don't have the real estate to be able to put a generator on site, and they're very small, so I'm only serving two to three houses. Two of these smaller lift station areas are plumbed for a pumper, and one is wired for a generator that can be quickly hooked up. In the case of a real catastrophic event, we're servicing with our vector trucks to be able to suck down the wet wells and be able to handle any situation for a long-term power outage. All of our sewer lift stations, including the three without the generators have battery backup systems for the PLCs or the programmable logic controllers that allows us to be able to monitor them through SCADA and to be able to see what the wet well levels are doing and how the system is working. Next slide, please. Our UFO facilities, as you see in the background, there's the city's Emergency Operations Center, as well as water, local operations, departmental operations center in case of emergency. This facility, if it is a part of a PSPS or a power outage, it has a backup generator so people can work normally and have complete power. That includes the Emergency Operations Center on the next slide, please. Many are concerned with their private systems. We have in the past during PSPS gotten calls from customers that have asked questions about their private pumps, their water booster pumps, their sewer grinder pumps. Some even have private lift stations for small communities. We have recognized the need to communicate with them what they need to do and what they're responsible for. So last year we had a mailer and this year we also have a mailer. We realized that we want to let them know that these systems that are on private property will not operate during a PSPS unless they have some form of generation. Next slide, please. This also can affect private wells that are operated by small community systems and by individual residents. We realize that it's important to let them know they want to be prepared to have backup for these systems. Next slide, please. So to help in this we've done a lot of outreach. Again, last year we sent out mailers. This year we're planning to send out mailers. We want to spread the word about the Sonoma County Alerts. The best way to receive alerts stay informed also through PG&E and their website. That's Superintendent Marinschek mentioned it's being updated and we want to let our customers and we're working hard to let our customers know that they have these sources of outreach to rely on. The city more and more as we understand what PG&E is doing and inform us when they're going to shut off how long it will be we can anticipate how long it will be without power and helps us be prepared better and we try to share that information with our customers. Next slide, please. That'll end the presentation. If you have any questions, Superintendent Marinschek and myself would be happy to answer any questions you might have. Thank you Superintendent Marinschek and Superintendent Tibbles. I'll open it up for any board member questions or comments. We appreciate the presentation. We know it's going to be challenged for the department if we have any of these PSPS events but it looks like you guys are well aware of that. We'll deal with it if we have to. Thank you again. Thank you. At this point I will open it up for public comments on item 5.2. If you wish to make a comment via Zoom please raise your hand. If you're dialing in via telephone please dial star 9 to raise your hand. Secretary Aitha. We have no public comments on this item. Thank you. That'll take care of it. I'll move the consent calendar. I'll move the consent calendar item 6.1, 6.2, and 6.3. I'll second that. We have a motion by Board Member Watts seconded by Board Member Grable. At this time I'll open it up for public comments. We're now taking public comments on item 6.1, 6.2, and 6.3. If you wish to make a comment via Zoom please raise your hand. If you're dialing in via telephone please dial star 9 to raise your hand. Secretary Aitha. There are no public comments. Thank you. May we have a roll call vote please? Yes. Chair Galvan. Board Member Grable. Board Member Walsh. Board Member Watts. Very good. That'll take care of approval of the consent calendar. We have no report items. We'll now move to item 8 of public comments. So we're now taking public comments on item 8. If you wish to make a comment via Zoom please raise your hand. If you're dialing in via telephone please dial star 9 to raise your hand. Secretary Aitha. We have no public comments. That'll take care of item number 8. We have no referrals. We have no written communications. I believe we have one subcommittee report. Board Member Watts. Thank you. So the water conservation subcommittee we met July 12th. And staff provided an overview of Santa Rosa water's green exchange program. We seem to have lost Board Member Watts. She may have lost her connection. We'll keep an eye to see if she comes back in. Thank you. There she comes. You're muted but welcome back. Now everyone can hear me. I apologize. I just switched to my phone. So I'm not sure where I left off. But basically on the 12th the water conservation subcommittee met we went over the green exchange program and talked about the rebate for replacement earth which was increased from 75 cents per square foot to $1.50 per square foot which the subcommittee approved. And staff provided also a comprehensive update on existing and future drought demand reduction response planning water use efficiency program implementation and community outreach to the drought. We provided feedback and direction to the staff on future program implementation and it was a very thorough presentation and staff is just they're working diligently during all of this. So I really appreciate it and that's my report. Thank you. We have no public comment. Thank you. Any other comments regarding the report from the water conservation subcommittee? All right. We'll now take public comments on item 11. If you wish to make a comment via zoom please raise your hand if you're dialing in via telephone. Please dial star nine to raise your hand. Secretary Aether? We have no public comment. Okay. And I believe we have no other subcommittee reports. Any board member reports? I expected to report out on the groundwater ad hoc or because it's an ad hoc, does that not require a report out? A board member, well, that is correct. There's no need to report out on the ad hoc. Just wanted to make sure. Okay, any other board member reports? Even though he really didn't have a report, we'll go ahead and open up for public comments on item 12. If you wish to make a comment via Zoom, please raise your hand. If you're dialing in via telephone, please dial star nine. Secretary Aitha. We have no public comments. Very good. We'll now move to item number 13, which is our director's report. Thank you, Chair Galvin and members of the board. I have a very short director's report today. As the board may be aware, on June 8th, the city council started moving to a in-person hybrid meeting format. So they are allowing council members to be in the chamber as well as members to be participating in the council meeting via Zoom. And we have received direction and requests to start moving in that direction with the other boards and commissions. So we have started looking at the logistics and what is needed to move this body to a hybrid format. And we are currently aiming to do that at your second meeting in August, which is August 19th. So we'll have more details and more information from the board, but we'll have the ability for board members to be back in the council chambers, the public to be at the meeting and participate. And likely by that time, staff will also be able to be participating in-person, but we're still going through all of the changes and requirements, and we will have more information for the board as we get closer to that August 19th date. And that is my report, and I'm happy to answer any questions that the board may have. Perhaps you could give us just a brief update on the new portal that opened up. Sure, I am happy to do that. So I think as the board is aware, we did launch our WaterSmart portal a couple of weeks ago now, it was in June, and we have continued to see great response to the signups. And as of this afternoon, we have 2,394 folks, and 94 folks accounts registered with the portal. It continues to be a really great tool that folks can use to really understand their water use and make determinations if there's any errant water use leaks or other information. So we are really happy with the turnout. The postcards are continuing to go out to our customers to let them know about it, and we're continuing to emphasize it in all of our outreach materials. Thank you. If you have not done so, I would certainly encourage my fellow board members to register for the portal. It's very simple, even I managed to get on it, but it provides an awful lot of information. You can set reminders, you can do all sorts of things to help monitor your water use and help you improve on your water conservation. So again, encourage the fellow board members to do that and the public to consider registering for the portal. Any questions from the board for the director? Okay, if not, we will take public comments on item 13. If you wish to make a comment via Zoom, please raise your hand. If you're dialing in via telephone, please dial star nine to raise your hand. Secretary Aitha. There are no public comments on this item. Thank you very much. Okay, that concludes our agenda for today. So I wish you all a good afternoon. We are adjourned and we'll see you for our first meeting in August. Thanks. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.