 503 p.m. I'd like to convene the April 19th meeting of the San Lorenzo Valley Water District Board of Directors Can we have a roll call? Here I Will do so at 504 p.m. The Open session portion before closed session of the April 19th meeting of the San Lorenzo Valley Water District Board of Directors is adjourned until open session At 6 30 p.m. I'm going to connect like I said I mean when we first started thinking about this we're not employees and that's the big thing but obviously this board wants to interpret this law because as it did for the area as an employee and You know what as a director? I think this communication to the public is in our scope or actually if you think about it Of course allegedly illegal. I mean confidential, but it's alleged confidential information So but I think it's actually part of our scope actually to communicate to you. What else are we going to do actually? To communicate to the newspaper who distributes That information so I would arguably say that it is And you're going to tell me that selling real estate is a real estate agent violating one of the most basic ethics law on the books This part of it is part of the scope so You know, and like I said, there was no time limit on this you know, I researched it and You know, I'm going through it and you know, I got to the point of you know getting threats and say hey You got to sign this thing and you know, I'm not going to sign it just You know right off the bat. I'm just not going to do that And it's just the it's just it's just Can we all get along? This is I mean, this is just really a ridiculous thing that we're going through here and You know, you've been called a leaker. Some people say oh, you're a leaker You leaped and you cost all this damage to the water district. Well, please tell me what the damage is Please tell me what the real damages is we're focused on this We're not focused on putting pipes in the ground. That's the real damage. Okay any other comment like I don't know I Think the real damage is a deeper one Yeah, we're spending a lot of firmness time on this bill because there's a breach of trust and a breach of the law and This is a new sort of principle with me. It's not about the Terry beer case It's not about whatever happened in that particular closed session. It was the Incredibly half-spirited nature of your attitude that whatever was said in that confidential space in that private space Could be easily telegraphed to a member of the media when you didn't happen to agree With the advice of a lawyer or with the word of your colleagues or with the words of staff If you don't happen to agree on something else What's the next thing you're going to run to your friends and to your social media site and to the media Can't we trust you to find your tongue as we do? Oh When we are closed session, we don't always agree and we keep our peace and we keep our confidentiality Will you ever be able to do that before we move on? I want to ask you just one basic question. Are you? No, I don't okay I Am frustrated by the process I'm disappointed that You told us two months ago that you would go down a direction and I've heard a lot of you saying that you Aren't I don't know that you said that exactly and I don't really want to ask you that in this meeting Because I don't want to I don't want to put you into the position that you need to make a commitment one way or the other But I do I am disappointed that we spent two months Working with you and trying to get well trying to get you to work with us to come to something that you agree that you would do so at this point there's no action that needs to be taken on this and I think it's just time to close out this Item for the evening and move on So let's move on to unfinished business. I don't can a engineering design service So I was going to hold this until staff updates But I think this is an appropriate time in this hour given the comments of the last item from public specifically this is a snapshot of Something that we're working on for the budget this year and anyone's is interested. I've only got a few left I will pass them out. We will have to share them This is a list of capital facilities projects replacement projects that the district has scheduled to have In some form or another Process for the next two years at the end of two years from tonight again a two years from the budget approval for next year All these projects are going to be in some form or situation of creation Many of them are going to be completed many of them are going to be in pre-design Many of them are going to be in design and some of them are even going to be in bidding process 15 million dollars 15 million dollars in a two-year time period This district is going to move to do pipes pumps and tanks I'm happy for the applause out there the recognition that this board The majority of this board has actually moved and done what they promised to do the focus on pipes pumps and tanks I'm thankful for that recognition. I want to thank this board majority for doing that You guys have gone through a hell of a lot of the last three years And that's what you're finding out. You're at this point 15 million dollars in two years time period We're going to be moving forward on that's a great thing for you to do. I'm very proud of you for that now We're moving forward on the USDA projects which are on this list approximately five million dollars worth And we went through an RFQ process Received a number of qualification packages from the number of engineering firms and those projects qualification packages were reviewed and ranked the top three firms I'm recommending tonight that you authorize me or allow me to go negotiate pricing terms for a Time of material not to exceed contract, which I will bring back to you a later date for all three firms Those firms are MME formerly Missy Miller engineering shop and biller and freighters and freighters They were ranked by the senior staff members of this district and they were ranked by the chair of board and the rankings came back Pretty similar pretty happy about that Rankings are included work back. So tonight I'm hoping the board can offer as you negotiate time of material not to exceed contracts So we can start moving on what the board majority has been working on for the past three years Facilities replaced because with the rate increase that went through last fall Because of all your hard effort. We now actually have the fund available to start doing these projects And this is the next step in that process Okay As usual Any more comment or two before I go to the public I Okay Okay We have a motion of okay a second. Okay. Let's take public comment. We'll have discussion after return Any public comment on that Mr. Faisal's Hey you guys, this is really great. I know you can't hear the applause but My mind is just screaming the light All these years and all this work is finally starting to come together and I Would just encourage and I don't grind you Let's keep this So that in two years when this is done, there's two more years I know that that's over here for Really appreciate this. This is this is really gonna make a big difference in our valley for your 50 years Thanks Thank you Other public comment No No, these are Determining engineering costs No, this is not this is not a budget and finance committee, okay appropriate It's being transmitted this evening these are items that have been in the capital improvements Okay, go ahead with your question I'd rather not I'd rather take all public input and then let it come back to staff Thank you any other public Businesses to do the work to be checking their performance spawns and all their other items like that We'll be able to do the job Besides so that they can there's something fails that they'll be covered the expenses That's exciting because why do you wait for doing any of these projects and where it gets expensive? So that's Other public input, I don't see any hands up. Let me come back to Board and go to staff so a couple of responses to the public comments all of these projects with with exception These projects have been discussed at various committee levels for board meetings along Pico projects have been discussed The USDA projects have been discussed FEMA projects have been discussed the planning projects We've discussed the Pico projects. We've discussed most of them Some of them the staff has been withholding until we actually get to a point where we have enough information to bring to you But the majority of Pico project we've also discussed as well All of these projects should not come as a shock to anybody who has been paying attention. That's important regarding financing We're not going to do all these pay as you go. That's not going to happen and we are going to have to borrow money To do most of these projects in the two-year time period or three-year time period We're proposing two years to get them going three years to hopefully complete them all The rate of this gives us the mechanism to borrow money Using the rate increases leverage to guarantee that we can pay these projects which will allow us to borrow the money to move these projects I think I said at least in one prior occasion. We're trying to kick-start the CIP program So we're going to borrow money to kick-start this program That's what this represents For those of you who have questions regarding construction Contracts in particular. I would recommend that you go to our website and download our vignet document and take a look at it It is a very comprehensive It is very detailed performance and labor bonds and things along that major are all laid out in there If you have a mind of that nature, you'll love if you don't you'll fall asleep in three minutes So it's all laid out in there You'll get to see exactly what this district how this district is proposing it completes its contracts The probation hand contract is actually out there right now, which by the way We're opening bids on Okay, I Can't 11 projects here in the board packet or maybe they're double Okay 13 So This is a much larger list of projects than okay is in the board packet This is a huge ramp up in How the district Has gone in the past we have much they have a revenue source that we didn't have before Some this is a wonderful thing to be looking at I get a little bit nervous in the ramp up rate and I Just want to think through these things in a kind of calm manner One of the things that I'm interested in is having perhaps a broad support from senior staff on this matter and I'm trying to want to get to that in some manner that is Does not take a great deal of time and But is a place that I can get comfortable with a Very dramatic, you know a step function in our activities so before I go to Staff to see if they're during the comments What we've been working at all this time to get to For the same and for especially the operations team Is there Is there and Part question is there an envisioned Staff augmentation to help address this and I know we have a headcount What is your team plan for Addressing what is looking to me like I think a very very staffed Grand Gantt chart that's got lots and lots of moving pieces and only a few of you who are already spread really thin to work on this I Love to know How are we going to eat this elephant? In so he bites it just that that's my one caution is that yes, we're gonna do this. Yes I'm enthusiastic and I don't want to Do have plans we did a staffing study part of the process service study the staffing study recognized the need for a project manager Position we are going to be requesting that project manager position Upcoming budget discussion That person will be able to manage the contracts that we will be letting for design services With the engineers and also contractors as the contracts are awarded for instruction that individual will be able to take a land share of the Coordination shall we say we are still going to require environmental work for permits We are still going to require operations work for identifying facilities That's value for money. We're going to have financial burdens. Obviously We manage all these contracts through We're going to be hiring I think close to Two million dollars worth of consultants To get these projects going but absent the consultants absent the product manager absent Committing the dollars to get this to happen. It's not gonna happen. So Staff is nervous. I've had frank conversations with all senior staff. I think if they were going to be honest, they would be Very hesitant to give the full enthusiastic support community forward with this because this district I don't believe has ever done such an aggressive program But we have FEMA projects we have to repair we have payable projects that are A cause of the conditions well repairs and well constructions due to failing wells We have the barricade wastewater system. We have to come up with a solution for that. So that's built in here The usda projects primarily pipeline projects from an environmental standpoint knock on wood low lift Linear projects and streets. We should be able to get that taken care of and then we have the long table projects We have a commitment to get those projects done within 10 years So No, yeah, sure. Sure. I would just suggest from uh Hey, you should go process and human resources That there be a way to do a regular check in to make sure that there's You know, all we have to be bang on all four cylinders or six cylinders Are there any senior staff you've got and if there's somebody who's being tired overburden becomes a bottleneck because of other responsibilities or Let's get a point in the years but that That there be a clear channel both between senior staff and from youtube board To make sure that we are acting in our capacity to ensure that you have resources and support to succeed And I hope you to have continue to have frank conversations with senior staff regarding that. Um, they've been hopefully I suspected Um any senior staff input No pressure, okay Listen, I don't want to set this up fail. I think we're fighting on our needs here I told Brian that there's too much work here We have a system around An old system around It's an incredible lift And a lot of this is going to take historical knowledge of the system That goes on me And I'm not going to be here that much longer I'm on I'm on And I don't want to see us Enter into a contract with consultants and I'm able to hold a bar and I'm Paying out money because we can't get the work done paying Consultants to stand around and try to get work done and don't have the senior staff All of this is going to take incredible senior staff. All right. It's very enthusiastic I just don't think we can deal with it. We can get a lot of them done and I don't want to pull back But I don't want to overcommit it What would you want to find? How would you modify it? What would you do this for? I mean, we haven't talked about Prior to, you know, really prior to times, you know, it's been one meaning the list get it all done And we haven't sat as senior staff as a group The district manager and had that conversation We've had that, I mean, the rest of you, but We prioritize the USDA priorities That what that list is based on priorities Long people projects are also priority The payable projects Are a priority, most of them Some of them you can scale back on And then the design of the FEMA project Priority Again, I kind of, I agree fully with Rick's The priorities You know, this is our priority list Ten of them are my priorities So Money is going to become an issue We're going to do our thing, we're going to have the proper project manager He's going to be talking to the manager and the gentleman, most likely, that he's never worked a day in the San Jose Valley Well, yeah, so I mean, all of these projects that we're facing, our existing system Which has a ripple effect That the existing system has to have analysis Of the impact of these projects We're going to clean up a lot of our low pressure messes And the existing system And that's what's going to take time And integrate and make sure that we do this We do it once and we do it right We clean up these projects as we go through these zones and areas And do the improvements that we need Don't just go on, but we, Bear Creek Road is a great example They went out for the whole brandy pipeline Bear Creek Road Thirty, forty years ago came to itself They didn't do any change over existing So we were operating two systems The old system started making And we had to go back out there and just to stop And literally change over all the services, all the ladders All the side streets, because it wasn't that complicated the first time They put a new man in it, it was great, it worked great But the old system was still in operation And that's, we've got to take these step-by-step and do modeling in the system The system hasn't ever been modeled So, yeah, you can use Rick Rogers saying, that would be made in Spain That's just more fuel in my operation But let's run it engineering-wise And get some data that says we need to manage it There's a lot of work to be done in the existing system To bring in the new stuff I don't want to miss an opportunity Yeah, I think one of the big problems, too, is what I've seen is Is the design's faulty, if there's issues there And then if you don't have some guy Who can spot those and make sure that All of the very issues that are taken care of And that are monitored Would just be overlooked with this size With a number of projects It's a package We want to work with consultants And tell them our problems And I feel we should consult them So we engineer these problems out And I do construction again We clean up a lot of assets I believe there's a replacement like this Quick recommendation I don't know if this is something that needs to be officially motioned In a second, but I don't want to suggest That we set up an ad-hoc committee That's a member of the board President Bachmann and one other I would volunteer just because I have a spring loaded arm And I'm not a project managing stuff Together with senior staff To ensure that Those kinds of constraints and limitations Are integrated into this aggressive plan So if we've identified Where are the constraints and limitations are And how we can address whatever Financial limitations there might be Technical, operational, and logistic Problems there might be So that we speed the way to success So that we speed the way to success So that we speed the way to success So that we speed the way to success So that we speed the way to success I want to make sure that there are The appropriate Channels of communication To the ad-hoc committee And between and among senior staff And then the board Through an ad-hoc committee Is given ample opportunity to ensure That we are aware of what resources are necessary I want all of that to happen I just don't want to Compromise our system I don't want to compromise our relationships With our regulatory agencies Nor do I want to end this In a financial model When a little bit of Okay, so what's the time being Conversations could have Prevented those things I'm inclined to go a little bit Slower on this I love the idea of moving on this It's been a long time coming And I'm eager to Please that we have funding mechanisms To do Something of this size But I want to have everybody on board Including me Okay, and I'm not a civil engineer And I feel like For me to Get fully on board with this I need to know more about it So I'd like to have some time with Everybody, all senior Okay, district manager And all senior staff if possible I like your idea Of an ad hoc committee And Hopefully in a It doesn't need to be in existence Terribly long Yeah, a couple meetings maybe a month Okay, for induration That would give me the confidence That this is Duable, or at least there's a path To getting to doable with this And hear any alternative Opinions or thoughts on this matter So I would With that as a motion It doesn't need to be necessary Okay I would like to look at An ad hoc committee That Addresses the questions About staff Resource advocacy Financial advocacy Integration of all The senior staff Responsibilities with This aggressive Project schedule To Ensure that work with The selected consultants goes Soon that operations are not Disruptive, their finance is not Disruptive, and communications With the board are Done soon The motion should include With different bodies, the ad hoc committee I don't know if it's fine For any For any Two board members Two board members and senior staff For a period of At maximum two months At maximum two months That would be agreeable to me And then We haven't formally I haven't been on the board at the time About committees with established We need to establish The membership The director I'm thinking seniors I think as board president I'm not civil engineer Mathematical unknown And I'm the board president I think that's appropriate I'd like I would suggest that you be on this You brought this motion They feel Some enthusiasm for it Right, and I think it would be good To have a non-techy person Perhaps on there They do recommend Techy I think There's a possibility That we Might want to Agendize the special meeting To deal with some things That would be good I don't think There's a possibility That we Might want to Agendize the special meeting To deal with some things That would be good Very difficult to get to In the past I think it might be A couple of weeks possible To do that Could we Work together to get A time to bring that And then we probably Have a fuller participation By the directors of that Okay Okay And with some Other items Anyway, but that can be determined Okay We'll have a special meeting That includes this By the full agenda of the special meeting This time it can be suggested By any person Or issue By the board president In the Or do we need Should we leave it Should we have a special meeting For this topic Since we're sitting At a time for that In the context of this agenda I don't think it's too important For this item I am involved In establishing that possibility To the subsequent special meeting Of the agenda and that To be determined The date and time We don't have to discuss On what staff are Okay We can retention back to the Motion that directors Wallman made Okay Could you restate that Motion then? Well, would you I mean we're talking about having an ad hoc committee We're not talking about having an ad hoc committee We're talking about The services contract Oh, multi Okay Okay Okay Okay Well, okay Yes Do the two Does the mover of that And the seconder of that Still Want to approve Those firms Okay, I prefer that The ad hoc committee Consider Any of this process should be Okay, this is the process We're doing that I disagree, this process The process of ranking and responding To the RFQ Is a separate issue from that We're going to be undertaking These projects How are we going to Accomplish that In the most effective Most efficient manner These are the resources that staff has identified As being appropriate to the task They scored the highest in the review Of their submittals And these are the resources That staff is recommending To help them accomplish this set of tasks We have a separate Yeah, I think the ad hoc committee can tweak Or, you know The changes Might seem a bit Like which Which company has to do the sort Of The purpose of it Is to ensure that senior staff And Are equipped And are addressing Those water lengths in Operations, finance Regulatory compliance And otherwise That would impede the progress Of Business Okay I don't think I'm ready for this yet So I'd like I want a full Discussion with senior staff Before The structure Perhaps The ad hoc committee could deal with this Okay, as one of them With whether we Whether it's three firms Whether it's On time the materials are negotiated However Okay And I want to be able to Have this I want to feel confident That all voices in this process Especially senior staff Have been heard thoroughly And that I understand What other people think about this Before I am comfortable So I welcome any staff comment At any point in this But I think it would be better to To have this At the ad hoc committee We'll Address that in a Really short time frame, I hope Are there any I'm going to have this one, staff Can I ask for questions? Sure, absolutely Do you receive responses to the RFQs? Did those responses to RFQs Have any time limitation About the Russian state Of their proposal? In other words If we are Going to take a few weeks To chew this Over a little bit And all this Is that going to impact the nature In any way of The responses that we've received? No, but It's going to impact our ability To give the USDA a loan For our year To apply for that Is there a deadline That we need to be aware of? Not necessarily a deadline to apply But they award Certain times of year October 1st is the beginning of the year So if we were working with you As the USDA, we want to make sure The application package is submitted Late summer Delay this process and delay the application package Let's get this thing I'm waiting to address this There's three directors We need to work with At least Director Radcliffe Who should be here But I think her Availability Is probably generally good I'm not ready So I could call for a vote And With any Do you want to call for a vote? Sure Okay Chelsea Director Bruce Bye Director Smallman I guess You made the motion But it's okay If you want to table it I'm kind of confused What's the definition? I mean I'm going to vote The way I think I'm comfortable to say I'm going to vote I No I didn't want to squash your campaign Okay I hope we can get Resolved in a Quick manner I think you can Make any Make any Okay Let's move on to the next Board of Bid for District Why two-way radio system Any staff We received two bid For the two-way radio system One of the bids was not responsive It did not include Taxes delivery That even though it was a low bid It did not include All of the responses up front The staff is recommending A ward for Golden State communication For $60,801 For replacement For two-way radio system Is that what they're going to do? Yes I think I'll take a second Public input Item 10B I don't see any input Is that public Mark Where is the Radio station to be located And to What contract routes are being Abedded It's just briefly In the location Of any question It's a Peter system One repeater is located At a high tank elevation In the second repeater Is located On a high tank location Two repeaters The vehicle radio The repeater And then via the internet The signal to the repeater That's the closest And also that's if the internet is down And that's part of the repeater Any other public comment? Now I don't see any I'll close that out Pardon? Not yet There was a motion in a second Any other discussion? Yes Yes Okay Let's move on to Hopefully a wake Public memory To an item that Can still address this So it's a word of bid For conductive use Gen 1 Gen 1 For a fish consultant To look at our Conjunctive Use Plan that we're developing With the Conjunctive Use grant We received two Proposals And The I was one of the people That voted for the proposal As well as the county staff That is partnering with us on The Conjunctive Use Plan Program And we have Selected Mike Poplick To To be awarded The Contract Or don't have it on me Is it 47? 42 940 42 940 So this is all part of that The Conjunctive Use Correct We will be helping us To negotiate If Any possible Water rights Changes Permits that may Come up with a CQA With pipeline changes And other kinds of things That have to do with fish With simple impacts to fish For Conjunctive Use Public on this Public on this Public on this I don't see a comment from the public Other than Any thoughts on Okay Pardon? No? Not on this? I'm sure to answer Any question to think about So I'll make an option to approve 42 So this is your Public Second Okay Would you call over? Sorry We have director Bruce Yes Yes Okay And the Conjunctive Use Submarine Amendment Again Okay You again Okay There was a contract Between the San Jose Valley Water District County For the administration Of the Conjunctive Use program And initially we were going to have the county As the lead Running the contracts with the consultants That will be doing the analysis Of the biological analysis And the fish analysis And we have decided That it would be more streamlined And more efficient to have Those contracts run through the district So the funds will still come From the state To the county and the county will Then reverse the district For the funds that are spent On those contracts So that's what they are It's just a little bit different The method of administering Okay Okay Pardon I think I did Okay any public comment All right I'm sure we I'm not sure yet We have a community project Between the consultant and the county Is this certainly A general study Or is it related to Their inner time Specifically It's a Sorry Analysis For all of the different systems Okay Does it include also The county There is an aspect of it Where we will be doing a preliminary Study to look at the feasibility Of sharing the funds Okay Okay So We are We are We are Okay Second Okay Yes Yes Okay And finally Tim Ease Approval on Highway 9 And I think we need materials We do have Some handouts Provide WSU's contractual designers For this project a number of months ago They were working Dilligently For the design solution That would facilitate this pipeline In Certain position on What the Caltrans Last week Caltrans Contacted the district and said Oh, we changed our money We're going in a different direction So the district has scrambled And I will please up here If anybody wants a copy of it The district in WSU Scrambled to come up with A solution that would be Appropriate for Caltrans Design And Essentially where we are right now Is we can move with Installing a pipeline In a currently open trench That trench is scheduled to be slurry In the next few weeks So it's critical that we get Offerizations nice to actually do this project So we can get our pipeline in The estimated construction cost Is about $66,000 There's a Estimate gap Of between $60,000 And $80,000 So I'm going to ask for tonight On the construction site of things Is the board authorizing The executed change order with the contractor That's currently out there Up to $80,000 So that we can get this project in I do not expect it to be that much But I want to make sure we have the authorization To move fast so that we don't get a Caltrans That is A little $30,000 Construction cost that we were proposing So this is, in effect, a good thing This is a good change For the project Because we're actually going to cost us less Because originally we were going to hang the pipeline Underneath And now we actually need to put it in a trench Thank you, Caltrans Just the way it works In addition, I'm asking the board to authorize To issue a change order for WSE For professional services in the tune of $15,000 You'll see the proposed Engineering cost of $36,390 That is The original design cost Plus an additional $15,000 To do modifications and changes And construction oversight While the project is being constructed Over the next few weeks So tonight I've got two motions in front of you You could probably do it in a single motion If you're so inclined or you can do it in two motions But this is a high priority item That was added to the board in the last minute Because Caltrans notified us At the last minute that they've changed their design parameters It simplifies the project It'll get the project in sooner It'll open up highway nine sooner Which is the main reason why Caltrans moved In this direction So it's actually a good deal all around But we just had a week of scramble To get this all taken care of So tonight I'm hoping the board will authorize me To execute a change order contract Up to $8,000 And a change in the $15,000 Any other comments? Got a Pretty clear to me Bill, thank you So the overall cost Was The pipe was going to be on the On some hangers or something The size of it So the Approximate cost Added for the project was going to be $15,000 Plus $460 Because now you know How to do this The actual construction cost Is actually going down by probably $100,000 Plus because we don't have to hang the pipe anymore We can actually install it in the existing The trend is already done Caltrans is going to slurry it Anyway, so they're just going to slurry it By using a pole that we're going to put in there This is moving off Making motions Approved $80,000 For the construction Contract Added Not to exceed $80,000 And not to exceed $15,000 For the Consulting Services All second? Any public comment? Mr. Hayes Brian, I was curious Is this the project At the bottom of the CFP list Is the highway line workday Yes, it's actually The highway line and west The highway line and the road Is a smaller slip that occurred earlier In the storm season Which had $470,000 That had $420,000 as an asset Correct So this one is substantially less Which is great Yes, it's also feeding 75% of people More than one I forgot to call them up Great, this is awesome Yes Okay If there's no more More discussion, then I'll call the load Director Bruce Yes Yes Okay Let's move on to the consent agenda And I would like to pull the minutes From this because there's Single integer Error as I interpreted To be So Otherwise Any other Okay Yourself Okay Any public comment on the consent agenda I don't see any So bring that back I'd like Any further Discussion on 10B Which remains on Consent agenda Okay I'd like to move Approval of item 11B On the consent agenda California Special Districts Association Credit card Issued by our bank Okay And just to be sure Any public comment on that Okay, I don't see any I'd like to call the load then Director Salomon Yes Yes Yes And then On the consent agenda Item there are the minutes Okay There's a mention of a vote That Was mentioned as 3 to 0 when 4 voted in favor With 1 and 2 And then for a Potential lawsuit for junction And it was 4 voted 3-0 Is that what you're talking about? No I know it's on the red room Is that what you're talking about? Yes And my interpretation That is that there were 4 yes votes With 1 absent That doesn't make any sense Because if Okay, yes Okay, sir So if all These 4 voted yes That should be yes So This is the only thing I find Wrong with the minutes Can we make A motion to approve that with that Change or should it come back to the Yes, you can make that motion I don't recommend it anymore Sure, okay I'll make the motion Okay, that we approve this with that 1 Change from yes it was 3 Yes it was 4 Second I don't see any public comment on this So I'll bring it back to the board Any further discussion Can I take a vote on it? Yes Yes Okay We've dealt with Items on the consent agenda So what remains on our Agenda 3 items But district reports are first I'd like to take public comment On district reports at this time Would anybody like to comment? There's a bill there for Regiment targets today But it's only what that's for I can tell you what I think it's for Can you tell what page that is on? No I think it was $863 So Would you like to comment on What you think is Yeah I'm going to tell you what I think I think that The law firm doesn't work on Anything for this issue except The Charlie and Dever case That's my belief And over the years The district has paid this law firm $100,000 The Dever case was sold For $40,000 So I think there's something wrong With a law firm That would take $150,000 For Cases that have been settled for $40,000 I think there's something wrong With a law firm like that And I would recommend that the district Never do business with this law firm Again now Anybody can talk about my arm That there's some other equipment For continuing to pay money to Rutland I just like to hear it There's another bill on there For Now I spent most of my life In Silicon Valley And there's a phenomenon that I've seen a few times Over there where somebody has to work And More than a year goes by And then you can objectively I mean even if you don't know this person You can objectively say This person did nothing Did nothing for our company And Whenever I've seen this in Silicon Valley There's always a reason And the reason is always the same That person is there Because there's somebody's friend That's why they're there They don't do any work Or whatever work they do Or it's just not a fact So that's Michael Cohn's moment You know you can try to do a trial For appeals Try to introduce new evidence I think we can objectively say He has failed Across the board at everything And the district is paid About eight to the million dollars He's Brian Lee's friend When he was the district engineer For Rainbow Water District down in San Diego County Michael Cohn's one of us The counsel for Laffville down there Brian was the representative of Laffville So he's a friend that Brian needs That's why Brian Cohn Is here For professional service And no bid for professional services Contract awarded to Brian Lee's Friend And you could have done A mile of pipeline for that And I'm telling you objectively You can say nothing And Brian Cohn is here So remember the day that you met him And who brought him here I would encourage the board to Remember the day you met him And who brought him here Mr. Lee Again We're wasting a lot of money For dedication This is not the purpose of our water district I'm paying water fees To get projects out of it So my question is Why are we continuing To pay this firm Of the contract valley Let's capitalize on that Let's wrap up this terminating contract It's not wasting I mean it Thank you Any other public comments On the district reports? Any public comment on District reports? Okay Written communications I'll note that there's two letters in here One from Sean Wharton Any other staff comment On the nature of the communications And there's five items So any Public comment on the written communication items In here I don't see any In the board So I'll quote out Item 13 on the written communication Just giving acknowledgement Okay and then there's also Informational material on here Five items Any public comment on the informational items That are in the agenda I don't see any Any board comment on it Any staff comment on the informational items I don't see any So we'll quote out item Number 14 And item 15 is adjournment So we are adjourned At line 23 p.m. Thanks for all the folks For checking out this long