 I'll give you a better update sooner. We'll reconvene the Board of Public Utilities meeting. We have approval of two sets of minutes that will go into the record. We have two staff briefings. The first one is on the Freeway Well Planning Project. Director Burke. So we have Colin Close, our senior water resources planner who's going to give an update on our grant funded Freeway Well Planning Project. Thank you, Director Burke. Good afternoon, Chairman Galvin and members of the Board. So we, as you probably recall, are doing an investigation of the Freeway Well site, so I'm going to go through some things you probably know already, so I appreciate your patience. What we're doing today is updating you, but also fulfilling one of our grant requirements, which is to have a publicly noticed meeting for the public to get information about this project. And I'll also tell you about other ways that the public has been provided information and can continue to get information about this project. So I have an agenda here because, again, this is sort of a public meeting, so for the public's sake I'll be providing information about project staff, a little bit of background about this project, an overview, the scope of work and the timeline, our progress to date, our next steps, how folks can continue to stay informed, and then if the public has questions or comments, we welcome those as well. So as you know, I'm Colin Close. I'm a senior water resources planner for Santa Rosa Water, and I am from the city side, the lead on this project. Director Burke is officially the project director overall, providing quality assurance, quality control, and the signatory for any documentation that we submit to the state for reimbursement or reporting purposes, but on the day-to-day process I'm the person that the public would want to contact and discuss the project with should they have questions or comments, I'm running the day-to-day operations of this project. We also have hired West Yoast to work with us to provide expertise and consultancy, and we have Jim Cannell as their lead person, but today we have Pete Delavalli, and he is here to answer any technical questions that might exceed my expertise. So we have him here representing West Yoast. So again, for the public's sake, Santa Rosa Water has a portfolio of water supplies, so we certainly purchase water from Sonoma Water on an average year. It's about 93% of our water supply. That water comes from the Russian River. We also have groundwater wells, our farmers' lane wells, and on average they provide about 7% of our water supply, and we use those in the peak months, typically May to October, when folks are irrigating landscapes. And so they sort of take off the peak demand from the water agency's system. We also use recycled water in an urban setting, and that represents about 1% of our overall demand for potable water is met by using recycled water in landscapes. And then of course we have our very effective water use efficiency programs that have been in place for more than 25 years, helping our constituents to find ways to reduce their water use, and we have calculated that our water demand has been reduced by about 1.5 gallons per year, billion gallons per year because of those programs on a sustainable basis. So now a little background about the Freeway Well site and project itself. So Freeway Well was installed at 1304 Cleveland Avenue, and it was built in 1957, about 800 feet deep, and was a very productive well. About a million gallons per day could be produced sustainably from this well. And we used it for almost 30 years, and then through our normal water quality testing processes, we discovered that there were volatile organic compounds in the water that we had extracted from the groundwater there at that site. And that was from contamination from nearby sites. This area was light industrial for many, many years, and so there are a number of sites that have some responsibility for the contamination of that groundwater. So of course production was halted, and that well was disconnected from the city system entirely, and it's been sitting out as a kind of, in a way, almost an orphaned asset, if you will. We've been wondering what can we do with it? What should we do with that asset? What are our next steps? We haven't had the means to do a full, thorough investigation of what could be feasible at the site, and then in conversations with the state, we were able to obtain some grant money to explore what might be possible at this site. So as you can see here, this map is showing some of the documented releases near Freeway Well, and so there are a number of responsible parties. One of them is doing some active cleanup work, but the other sites do not have active cleanup underway. In 2013, we did take water quality samples from the Freeway Well. Again, it's disconnected, but we purged and took samples and discovered, yes, we still have volatile organic compounds in that groundwater, so it's still an issue. So despite the fact that it had been sitting for over 20 years, almost 30 years, we still had an issue there that needed to be addressed. And so even though there is one responsible party doing some active cleanup, it's certainly not cleaning up the groundwater to the extent that one would hope. So the state and staff spoke repeatedly over a period of a couple of years, ultimately, about whether or not this particular grant could offer an opportunity for us to explore what opportunities we might have to address the issues at Freeway Well site. This was a competitive process, and projects had to be focused on either preventing or cleaning up contamination of groundwater that have served or currently serving as a source of drinking water. It also required a 50% match. Now on that match, some of our match is in kind, so staff time is being matched as in kind, but we also have hard costs. So we have been providing cash towards this project, as well as part of our regular budget process. It was all part of our normal process for our groundwater program in terms of providing that local match. The project goals are pretty straightforward. This is an opportunity for us to establish a highly focused initiative with the state, the state regional board and the regional water, I'm sorry, state water board and the regional water quality control board. It's also an opportunity to more fully characterize what's happening on our site. What is the lithology? What's the hydrology? Has the contamination reached all the different levels of aquifer that we can access at that site? So it's a chance for us to better understand it and then determine the feasibility of alternatives. So to look at whether would it be possible and feasible to do groundwater cleanup or to at least protect groundwater at that site in some way. So for the grant, our scope of work is pretty comprehensive. It includes doing thorough records review and data gathering of all existing information that could be available through agencies and through databases that are available for us to access. And then drilling a test boring and installing a nested monitoring well. So one test boring to have three discrete monitoring wells in it at different locations, so different aquifer levels, roughly 100 to 150 feet, maybe 300 to 400 feet, and then perhaps six to 600 feet somewhere. And each of those zones to have a monitoring well installed. And then to pump freeway well quite aggressively and look at the impacts of pumping not only on our monitoring wells, but some other private wells in the area that have agreed to let us observe groundwater levels during those pumping tests. So we have four private sites that have allowed us to have access to their wells to monitor that. And then to conduct the feasibility study with all of the data and information that's been gathered and analyzed, tabulated, modeled. What now are our options? So that will be the last piece of this. So when we look at how this works out over time, you can see that we're almost through the first year of this project. So through our expertise and assistance with West Yoast, they have done an extensive amount of research to compile and review all of the available records and data. And they're in the process of have helped us to go into the process of selecting a drilling contractor. We should be able to let you know who that is in the relatively near future. We're in the final stages of that process. In the second year, we anticipate installing the test boring and those monitoring wells within that boring and conducting the aquifer testing. So we hope to get that work underway and break ground this calendar year and finish up some of the aquifer testing and that sort of thing probably late this calendar year or early next. And then in the final six months of this, we are expecting to complete the feasibility study and the report. So it's an aggressive timeline, but we're working very closely with the granting agency and letting them know when we face challenges that might set us back from our schedule. And so we think we're gonna be fine and on track, but if for some reason we were to face challenges with this very tight timeline, we're already in conversations with the state about what we might need to do if we needed to ask for an additional timeline on that. Completed to date, we have the grant agreement with the state. We've met all the CEQA compliance requirements. We have our contract with West Yoast as our expert. We have developed a technical advisory group. This was a requirement of the grant. And so that involves state water board and regional water board staff, as well as city staff and West Yoast. We also created a stakeholder advisory group and that was through outreach to folks who have property within the area, also responsible parties within the area, and folks who are on the advisory committee to the local groundwater sustainability agency. We invited them to participate as well. And I believe we had about 15 folks attend that stakeholder advisory meeting. It was very productive. We've developed a project webpage and the public meeting is being held today. In addition, West Yoast has collected and reviewed records. They developed the remedial investigation work plan, the quality assurance plan, and the modern training plan. Those were some big lifts. We involved the technical advisory committee in that. Got a lot of comments. It was an iterative process to get those finalized. We've identified four observation well sites, private wells that will allow us to have access to monitor groundwater during our pumping tests. And the technical specifications for the monitoring wells were completed and the bid was advertised. And as I said, we're in the process of finalizing our decision for moving forward with a drilling contractor. Next steps will be negotiating with a driller for that contract and then collecting data and analyzing it as they drill. We'll be very carefully monitoring what the hydrology or excuse me, what the lithology is as they go through that drilling process. We'll be developing that monitoring well installation, doing water quality sampling on our own site, the aquifer pump testing. We will have technical advisory committee members visiting the site during construction and we will hold additional technical advisory committee meetings and then complete the remedial investigation report once all of the field work is done and then work on the feasibility study and complete that report. So those are the next steps over the next year and a half. If the public is interested, we invite them to take a look at our project webpage. It's srcity.org forward slash freeway well. And on that site, there is contact information if they'd like to reach me. They're welcome to reach out to me. I'm happy to talk with the public about that. There are a number of documents, the monitoring plan, the quality assurance plan, all of those plans are on there, as I mentioned before, also progress reports are posted there as they're completed. And then we have a timeline on that webpage as well, kind of table that outlines for the public where we're at and what our next steps are. After this meeting, we'll be uploading this information as well. So we'll have this PowerPoint added to the webpage as well. So that again, so the public has as much information as possible about where we're at and where we're headed. So with that, I'd be delighted to take any questions or comments that the board has. And then if it's amenable to the board, we'd be delighted to hear any questions or comments from the public as well. Thank you, Mr. Close. Maybe I missed it, but is there a timeframe we have to use that grant funds money? What is it? There is. We have until March, 2021. So when we look at our timeline, we are right up against it, as I said. So that March, 2021 date, that's pretty much it unless we were to request an extension. Which is an option. And you've already brought that up to their attention that that might be necessary. Yes, yes, absolutely. Thank you. You bet. Questions, comments, direction? Or Mr. Baster? I guess it's a water quality control board issue, but you sort of indicated there where the problems could have come from. And do we know whether those are current problems continuing to taint the water or is that a historical remnant? They are historical remnants, but I don't know if Mr. Della Valley wants to add anything about that. And just for the record, I'll go ahead and repeat that so it's on the recording. So the regional water board has identified one responsible party who does in fact have the resources to do some cleanup efforts. They are doing that on an ongoing basis. And then other than that, there are no other responsible parties who either can be identified or who have the resources to take any further steps. So these are old problems. They're not new spills. They're old problems. And it doesn't appear that there's a really clear road forward to remedy them. So this feasibility study will address what exactly with regard to the source of the problem? It's a great question. So what we've done is we have let the state know that we have the resources to look at what we could do on site. We don't have the authority or the resources to do cleanup off of our own parcel. So what we'll be looking at is if this well is returned to use as an emergency standby well, what are the potential options that we could have in terms of well-head treatment? What would that take? What would it cost? What would it be like to operate it? And is it even feasible to do that with a well that would only be exercised once a month? And so what would that be like? What would it cost? What are the potential opportunities there? And if that's not feasible, what other options might be feasible to at least protect groundwater and to do whatever it is we can. We will also be using the data that we gain from the monitoring well boring to look at whether or not there is a clean aquifer that we could independently with our own funds potentially drill a new well using modern drilling technology so that we may potentially find a clean aquifer maybe down six or 700 feet. If that's so, we might pursue putting in an emergency groundwater well that wouldn't require well-head treatment but we need to better understand how those aquifers are interlaced and whether they are gonna affect each other if we do try to pump from very deep with that in any way cause an issue with migration of contaminants. So the Regional Board understands that's part of what we're doing but of course that's not actually what's being funded. It's really what's really being funded is what could we do at the site if we were to try to use that water as potable water in the existing well. Thank you for that explanation, it's helpful. Great. Do you know how close to the well site the property is that's being, it's at the in remediation now? Let's see, it's kind of hard to see. Do you see where it says Bradley and under that it says UPPR Union Pacific Railroad? That's- The purple? Below the purple, I believe, is that right? Or is it the purple that's being, it is the purple? Okay, so it's that purple site, yeah. And how ongoing has that remediation been there? Is there any reason to believe that a remediation of that property would alleviate some of the concerns or the problems that we're having with the well? My understanding, and again, Mr. Delavalli might be able to answer this more directly but my understanding is the pumping rate is relatively low. It's to simply keep it from migrating further. So they are extracting water 24 hours a day at a very low rate and treating it but that it's not enough to really completely reverse the issue but perhaps you can add more clarification. Oh, okay. Thank you. Any other board member questions, comments? I have one. Board member Dowd? It may be too variable for you to express an opinion on this but it seems to me that the freeway well was at one time a very high productive well and depending on which aquifer we may find that we could use it may be a different outcome but measure it against the wells that farmers laying. What are we talking about here? So historically, freeway well was able to produce a million gallons per day and I think with the two farmers laying wells trying to remember now, do you three million gallons a day with those two wells online? Thank you. Any other comments? Thank you for your presentation. Oh, go ahead. Is there any public comment or question if that's allowable? You wanna use the microphone up above you, can sir? If you'd give your name, please and who you represent. My name is Thomas Ells and I just, it's my own question, I represent myself. It wasn't clear to me what the contaminants are so then it doesn't lend itself to understanding exactly what the remediation would be. If you could. They are volatile organic compounds but what I'd like to do is just come to this next slide and I know it's a little difficult to read but maybe you would be willing to, no? Okay, so essentially I know it's very difficult and if you are interested, you are welcome to connect with me after this meeting and I can send you more information but they're basically solvents that, yeah, great, okay. And thank you for that. Any other members of the public wish to speak? Very good, thank you for your presentation. Really appreciate the time, thank you. Next item is 5.2, Sanitary Sewer System Smoke Testing Report. Director Burke. So we have Dave Ward who's one of our utility system supervisors who's gonna do a presentation, giving a little bit of overview of some of the preventive maintenance that we do to protect our sewer system and specifically talking about our upcoming smoke testing for this year. So I'm gonna turn it over to Dave. Thank you and welcome, Mr. Ward. Thank you, thank you, Director Burke. Thank you, Chairman Gavin and the rest of the board members, thank you. First, I'm gonna give you a little bit of an overview. So this is the City of Santa Rosa in total. All the red lines there you see are the sewer trunks so you can kind of see the way that the sewer flows. You know, a lot about the smoke testing is there's a tremendous amount of outreach and speaking to people. And it's always interesting to tell people that water flows, someone uses a sink in Oakmont and somehow it gravities all the way to the treatment plant. There are at least most of it does so. Anyway, so it's just interesting to see how everything flows the way that it does. This second picture here, the second slide is all of our basins. There's 33 collection basins. And again, you can see the trunk lines in there and the way that everything collects in those different zones and then finds its way to the treatment plant. So we have about 590 miles of sewer main ranging from six to 36 inch. 19 miles of that is from the South Park Sanitation District. There's over 12,000 manholes, 17 sewer pump stations and 33 siphons in our system. And then you can see the different types of work that we do preventative maintenance is the vast majority of it of which I'm in control of is the CCTV work and the smoke testing. And then a lot of the other stuff comes from those two operations. So the way that we manage to do all of our preventative maintenance because it's obviously very daunting the system as a whole is that we have the system broken down into map grids. The entire city is broken into map grids. There's 260 map grids. And each one of those map grids can either be displayed as a water PDF or wastewater PDF, and we also have stormwater PDFs. This is what the PDFs look like by themselves of map pages as we call them. This is a sewer one. Again, there's a water and we also have stormwater. Now the nice thing about GIS is that we can layer those all together and see how they are all in relationship with each other. But this is how we do all of our preventative maintenance. We just go map grid by map grid by map grid. There's 12,000 manholes and there's nearly 7,000 hydrants. So that's kind of the way that a lot of our maintenance happens is that it happens through these map grids. So a group project is created and we just kind of work our through each map grid and then we move on to the next one. You can see a zoomed in picture of that map grid. It'll have all the information we need on there. Pipe type, pipe diameter, when it was installed, addresses, all that stuff that we need on there is there. So inflow and infiltration, which is my section, the section that I supervise, inflow is basically surface water getting into the sewer system. So it's usually caused from a rain event but it will come in through downspouts or yard drains. Manholes will get inundated but it's something that we have some control over but part of what SmokeTest is doing is trying to find those. Infiltration is water that's getting into the system through the ground. So it typically happens and the peak of the rainy season also when the water table's up and hydraulic pressure starts pushing water into our pipes and through defects and through joints. And obviously what I'm tasked with is to try to keep as much rainwater from going to the plant because that all has to be processed as well. So we're trying to just process what people put down the drain. Now through CCTV, which is something that we have in our section, these are some of the things we're looking for. The upper right is some pretty cracked up pipe. We don't see that a whole lot in our system. That's a VCP. We have a lot of VCP pipe in our system but most of it doesn't look like that. The upper right is some roots. We do have some issues with the roots in the city. So those are things that we're looking for eradicating. The lower left is a grease buildup inside the sewer drain. And what happens with that is it starts building up and building up until finally it breaks loose and then it gets stuck somewhere and then it can cause a blockage. That the lower right is that is infiltration. So that's a joint in some VCP pipe. So the groundwater table is very high. This is probably during the winter time and water is being pushed into that joint right there. So those are some of the things that Smokteson will find. And those are a lot of the things that we identify in our CCTV. Our CCTV currently we have two vans right now. We have a goal of going through the system in seven years. Anything within 200 feet of a water main, waterway has to be done within five years. And the CCTV will identify all the roots, defective pipes. And again, that's mostly preventative maintenance. We work our way through the system. We're also end up doing customer service calls and dealing with the customers with that as well. And also assisting with CIP projects. So smoke testing, this is a picture here of our newer Smokteson equipment right now. We use a non-toxic liquid smoke. The Smokteson device you see there is an engine. And what happens is there's a coil at the exhaust of that engine and that coil heats up. I think that says 950 degrees on it in the literature. And then with the sprayer there, we hook that to that where that coil is and we spray that substance goes right onto that coil. It instantly atomizes into a vapor cloud and then is pushed down into the manhole. This is sitting on a manhole and there's a large fan blade and it basically blows that smoke right into that manhole. It's pretty interesting watching that smoke travel because that smoke will travel throughout the main. It'll travel up every sewer lateral. It'll travel into each houses plumbing and it will come out through the vents, which is what it's supposed to do. Those vents are for venting sewer gases. But it's interesting to go out there and see that working to see how far that smoke will travel and to see what a little show. And again, there's a tremendous amount of outreach, talking to people about what we're doing and how we're doing it. And people will often come out and watch and they're pretty amazed by what they see. So we're looking for, we can find sources of infiltration. We can find sources of inflow. We can find abandoned sewer mains. We'll find all types of defects on the property side or on our own system itself. It'll show quite a bit. Here's an example of where it will show up. So as we pump smoke into the sewer, we typically will blow the smoke into one manhole and there'll be maybe four or five manholes in each direction that'll be affected by that smoke. So smoke will start coming out of the pick holes or around the rim of the manhole. Smoke will come out of, again, any defects on its way to houses and then smoke will start appearing out of the roofs of the houses. And then, again, we'll show up sometimes in the yard, maybe someone has a clean out cap that's missing or there's some sort of a defect. And what we do is one person is at the smoke test machine and then there's typically two people who are walking down the street and they're just making observations. So they're marking down which houses they're smoking out of their vents because we know those houses are connected to the city sewer system. They're making note of a house is not smoking because there's either something wrong there or they are not connected. It's a source to make sure people are being built correctly. If we find a house that's off by itself and the house smokes and we go back and we look and that they're not getting billed for their sewer service, well, then we'll contact Billing and have them correct that. There's other areas where smoke will come out and very rare circumstances, smoke will come inside of a residence. This almost 99% of the time where I would say more than 99% of the time is coming from some sort of a fixture in a bathroom, like a bathtub that's not used, maybe a back bathroom that has a sink that's not used and that p-trap does not have water in it because it's dried up. So and in some of the literature we pass out and I'll go over that in a second, we explain to people before we go out there, if you have a bathroom or a fixture like this to make sure you run some water in there to fill that p-trap because we will put smoke in your bathroom or wherever it's at. So it's a bit of surprise for people too and it's another good thing for the public to know also because if smoke is able to get into their house from our testing, then sewer gases are gonna be allowed to get into the house as well. So it's not good for them. Here's an example of a smoke test where this is a sewer lateral in front of a residence. Now either this has a defect or maybe the clean out cap is missing or maybe they didn't even know they even had a sewer lateral clean out cap right there and it's under the grass. Either way, if smoke can get out then rainwater or surface water can get into that and we don't want that. We estimate that 60% of I&I comes from private laterals. Most people don't even think about their sewer lateral in front of their house. Here's another example of a drain in front of a residence. You can see the downspouts right there. So it was designed to rainwater to come out and come out of that downspout and go right in that drain. And instead of being hooked to come out to the street it was tied into a sewer lateral. If it's rain, we want it to go out to the street and go to the storm drain. So yard drains, parking lots, things like that where there's a large amount of water collections, those we really focus on those to make sure that's a large amount of water that could be getting into the collection system. This is another example that we'll look at when we watch each house is, we'll see smoke coming out of the roof fence which is what's supposed to happen but we'll also from time to time see smoke coming out of the gutters. So this is a house that's been hard plumbed into the ground and instead of going to a storm drain or out to the street or to a French drain or however they're gonna drain their property it's been tied to a sewer lateral. So again, this is a sign that as the crews walk up and down the street and look, they'll find these from time to time. This is the start of our outreach. Well, the start of our outreach is actually on the website, srcity.org. We have a smoke testing site there where people can look and get some information that probably not a real popular site but if they want to, they can look at it. But for us, the outreach starts with this letter. This letter will go out to every residence within a given area that we've chosen as kind of our next target area for smoke testing. This will be mailed out a week to 10 days before we get there. It's got information as to what we're doing, information on how to protect their house from getting smoke in it, why we're doing it and then there's also contact information to contact us. And we do get quite a bit of phone calls to our call center regarding what's gonna happen. In addition to this letter, I will usually go out to the nearest fire station that's in that area and I will take the same literature out and I will go knock on the fire station door and I will talk to any firefighters that are in there and I'll explain to them what we're gonna be doing. You know, a rough estimate as to when we're gonna be doing it and you know, because they, we have had from time to time, fire engines roll up on when we're out there doing smoke testing. Obviously right now people are very sensitive to saying smoke. So it's important that we inform as many people as we can what's going on. Also the call center has given all the, our call center has given all the information as well, the literature, you know, we meet with them firsthand and make sure that they can field any calls. And they do a very good job and they do get several calls. But then in the end, they can always call me the call center can forward those calls to me. And also when the crew is out there, the crew does an awful lot of outreach as well and we'll speak to people when we're doing our smoke testing. This is a bit more of our outreach. The day we're gonna actually smoke test, the crew will actually walk around the neighborhood, the affected area and we'll knock on every door and we'll speak to every resident and again, explain what's going on. If they're not home or no one answers, the door tags are left, you know, with phone numbers on where they can ask questions that they need to. Many times if homeowners are home, they'll come outside, they'll watch. They're very interested in the process and what it will show. It is interesting, I mean, it's a little wacky to sit there in a neighborhood and watch, I mean, one by one, every house just start puffing smoke out of its vent, you know. It's, and the smoke is very short lasting. It goes up in the air, it'll go maybe 10, 12 feet above that and then it will start to dissipate and it'll be gone. You know, and again, talking to the people, the smoke is non-toxic, non-staining, you know, it dissipates very quickly. You know, you get some residents who it makes them very nervous or they've got health issues and they're worried about things like that. You know, we'll have crew members stand with them while we do it. You know, it's, people are very sensitive about it so when we do everything we can to make sure that people are at ease with it. Our area to be smoke tested this year and I've mentioned too, we did not smoke test last year. We typically smoke tests in that, and you know, like August, late summer, early fall, we like to do that when the water table was at its lowest level so that the smoke has the opportunity to leave and you know, the pipes and doesn't get bogged down by groundwater. Last year we did not smoke test just because of the fires and stuff and it was a little bit sensitive stuff. So this year we're gonna be back at it. We're planning on starting our smoke testing in August, August 19th is my target date. It'll probably go to go for four to six weeks. And the length of time that it goes and the actual time when we do it can vary depending on staff levels. And also something that's come up with us too in the last several years is the spare the air days. We typically do not like to smoke test on spare the air days. That the smoke really has nothing, has no, no, there's no consequences to the smoke but the perception to the public, you know, when it's a spare the air day and they're being asked not to, you know, do certain things. We try to shy away from doing smoke testing on those days. So it can be a little bit of an issue especially if we get three or four in a row, you know, and we've sent these letters out saying that in seven to 10 days we're gonna be doing this. So, you know, we do have to do a little bit of explaining too when we do our outreach when we're just about to do the smoke testing. So it's an important tool to stop inflow infiltration. The city center of it has a very good job with that already. I know we're like at about half of what the national average is for infiltration and inflow into our system. So this is just another tool that we use. And it's interesting to be out there with the public and see their reaction to it. So that's it for me. If you have any other questions or comments or, and also, you know, I would encourage anyone who wants to come out and witness it. Like I said, it can be a bit of a spectacle. So. Thank you, Mr. Ward. Any board member questions or comments? Very informative. And obviously you're doing a good outreach to the neighborhood so that you're not having any negative feedback. So we appreciate all your hard work. All right, great. Thank you very much. Thank you. Okay, we have no consent items, no report items. Any public comments on non-agenda matters? Seeing no one rise. We have no referrals or written communications, subcommittee reports. Board member Baden-Fort. Thank you. Earlier this week, the contract review subcommittee met on two items. One, to consider an amendment to an existing contract with Corolo engineers for design and engineering services for our new UV disinfection system at the treatment plant. We've sought ways to increase capacity for several years and I believe it will be next meeting and it will come before BPU. And also, staff is kind of looking at single product specification for capital improvement projects. The public contract code requires that when a contract calls for equipment by a specific brand name that it must also allow for or equal options. And staff is kind of considering how this requirement affects the bidding environment and kind of our process. So you'll see both of those on our next agenda. Am I correct? There'll be a piece of the second one on our next agenda and then we'll bring it at a future meeting for the rest. Thank you. Any other subcommittee reports? Any board member reports? Director's report. Thank you. A couple things I just wanted to share with the board. Wanted to give a quick update on the repair work on the levees at a recycle water pond C&D and it's progressing very well and the contractor is ahead of schedule. They're currently, the repairs are well underway on C pond, the liner's been installed and protective riprap is in progress. And we're expecting to complete all the repairs this season as planned, so that's good news. Also, earlier today you may have seen a press release in relation to our Streets to Creeks campaign that officially launched today. We had brought some information to the board on that previously when we gave an outreach update and we're really excited about that campaign. Really focusing on different ways that folks can pay attention to how they wash their cars, are proactive about picking up pet waste, looking at how they take care of their yard as well as picking up trash and all those impacts, those things have to our Creeks. Also wanted to let the board know that we are continuing to follow very closely the Russian River Pathogen Total Maximum Daily Load or TMDL development. The Regional Water Quality Control Board has just completed the latest draft of the Russian River Watershed Pathogen TMDL. And it includes a report and action plan that will specify specific actions that the Regional Board will take to protect the Russian River and its tributaries. And if approved, we do have a few concerns that would impact the operations of the City's Recycle Water Program as well as our ability to, or our MPDS permit over the treatment plan and our storm water program. And so we are following this closely. We did submit a comment letter and we anticipate that the upcoming hearing, well, at this point the upcoming hearing is scheduled for August 14th and 15th at the Regional Board Office. We will be attending and providing oral comments. We also wanted to let the board know, pretty fun, each year in the summer, the Santa Rosa Metro Chamber puts together what's called the Mike Houser STEM Academy and the program is focused on English language learning students who are entering the ninth grade. It's a three-week summer program that focuses on the science, technology, energy, and engineering, sorry, and math. There are 40 local businesses and organizations that participated this year and City of Santa Rosa was one of those. The water department in particular hosted 18 students over three sessions and the students were given tours of our regional plant laboratory local operations and also heard presentations from staff on how they use these various disciplines in their jobs. So it was really a great experience. The students had quite a fun time. I think it was very valuable and fun for staff to be able to interact with the kids and let them know about how they could possibly become part of water department career in the future. And then last, I think Gina may be passing out or Roberta may be passing out some flyers. We're excited to let you know that the fair has started and our sewer man and wastewater woman have teamed up to fight clogs in the public sewer system. And so the sewer squad is making their appearance at the fair between August 1st and 11th to educate residents about avoiding sewer backups and outreach will include a life-size selfie board near the water smart home display and signage highlighting the duo throughout the fair with fun and educational messages about keeping grease and wipes out of the sewer system. And that's all I have. Any questions for Director Burke, Board Member Batenfort, are you gonna wish yourself a happy birthday? No, at this age you just kind of pretend like they're not happening, but thank you. I guess a quick question. Is there a specific area that we'll be able to find our dynamic duo? So they won't actually be there. They'll be at cutouts and of them. So it would be super fun if they were walking through, right? Dressed up. I don't think anyone was willing. But the board members can dress up if they want, right? If we have a board member that would like to do either one of our caped crusaders, we are more than happy to help you make that happen. I nominate Board Member Watts. And just quickly on the regional water board meeting on the Russian River TMDL, are we able to get a copy of the comments that we submitted? Yes, absolutely. We can provide that to the board. There's kind of two main areas that we're concerned about. One is sort of how they define the beneficial use during the wet season, during our discharge. It kind of holds it to a higher standard that we think is reasonable, requiring potentially greater impacts on our ability to discharge. And the other is how they're looking at the storage of our recycled water and the impacts from waste, mostly from wild animals. We want to make sure that it's correctly looked at. But yes, we can share that with the board. And then we will also be at the board, the regional board meeting as well. Great, thank you. All right, well, rumor has it it's your birthday. So on behalf of the rest of the board and staff, happy birthday. And we are now adjourned.