 Jennifer, are we waiting on any staff people? Chair Galvin, no, I believe we have everyone here. All right, well, it's a little after 1.30, so I'll go ahead and call the meeting of the Board of Public Utilities for the City of Santa Rosa to order. If we may have a roll call, please. Yes, Chair Galvin. Here. Vice Chair Anoni. Here. Board Member Badanford. Here. Board Member Grable. Here. Board Member Walsh. Here. Board Member Watts. Here. Board Member Wright. Here. Great, good afternoon, everyone. Nice rainy Thursday afternoon, which is what we need. So we'll move through the agenda. Any statements of abstention by board members? We're none. We have no study session. We have minutes from March the 4th, 2021. So we'll 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 Aitha, do we have anyone? We have no public comments. All right, then the minutes will be approved and entered. We have three staff briefings. So Director Burke, you wanna introduce the first one? Thank you, Chair Galvin and members of the board. The first staff briefing for today will be a local operations division update and our Deputy Director of Water and Sewer Operations, Joe Chavone, will be making the presentation. Thank you. Chair Galvin, members of the board, good afternoon. I have the pleasure of giving you a brief update on our water and sewer operations division today. I would like to mention that some of the photos you will see today were taken before the onset of COVID-19. And that's the only reason that they appear to not be following the current COVID-19 protocols. Next slide, please. This division is most commonly referred to as local operations. The water and sewer department was created in 1985 when they separated from public works. And local operations was one of the original teams to be part of the water department, previously referred to as utilities. In 1999, water and sewer operations teams combined and one division was created from the two. This change was not easy at first but the benefits were quickly realized. And a division-wide rotation was created. This rotation allowed skilled operators to train others from the newly combined divisions and helped create a diverse, multi-talented and award-winning workforce. Next slide, please. The staff are really what make up the heart of this division. Their dedication is demonstrated year after year as they continue to respond to the complex tasks they are assigned as well as the recent emergency activations of our department operations center. To meet statewide requirements and industry standards, our USOs were required to become certified distribution operators and sewer collection system operators. Our complex water distribution system requires a D5 operator to be designated as the chief operator of the system. We also treat water from our farmer's lane wells so we are required to have a T1 treatment operator at that facility. All of our USOs are required to have dual-suit certification and are trained to work on our water distribution and sewer collection system. As I brief the board on some of the duties performed by each of our crews, I recognize that it would just take too much time to cover all the tasks that each crew has assigned. But I would like to mention that we have assigned tasks to crews that have both a water and wastewater component. We do this because the certification required for our operators can only be obtained by completing field tasks for both systems. Next slide, please. In local operations, safety and customer service are our top priorities. We provide 24-7 coverage. We are staffed seven days a week to ensure we provide the highest level of customer service to our ratepayers. We receive approximately 1,000 calls for service each year and about 400 of those are after hours and on weekends. Our after hours calls are handled by our standby operators and all after hours calls come through our yard attendance that dispatch calls to the corresponding department. Next slide, please. Local operations maintain several facilities throughout the city. Two of our larger facilities include the UFO campus and what we refer to as station four. The UFO was finished in 2010 and includes the main office building, the training rooms, the corporation yard that stores our fleet of vehicles and equipment and the shops that are used by our various teams to fabricate and repair the equipment that we use to operate our water distribution and sewer collection systems. Station four is located at Sonoma and Farmers. This location is also where you'll find our Farmers Lane Wells and the water treatment plant. Not only do we operate the pump station, the water treatment plant and wells from this location but we also use this station as a satellite operation center during emergency activations and PSPS events. Since the onset of the pandemic, we also dispatch our distribution team out of this facility. Next slide, please. This slide shows some of the larger assets that we maintain and operate. I'm sure many of you have seen this before but we also maintain thousands of smaller assets like hydrants, valves, meters and manholes, all of which are inspected, repaired and replaced at the most efficient rate possible. Next slide, please. Santa Rosa water has roughly 53,000 meters connected to our water distribution system. We test most of our meters in-house to ensure they're reading properly and we replace approximately 5,000 meters each year. The recent switch to AMI required our system operators to learn how to operate new equipment and to program the meters for proper reads to the AMI antennas. Our USOs also installed thousands of these AMI meters and continue to replace the old lids with new lids that help these meters communicate with the antennas. This team also works closely with the city's development team installing all the new meters for the development projects throughout the city. Next slide, please. Our INI team operates our CCTV cameras. This team is able to inspect our entire collection system every seven years and all components of the collection system that lie within 200 feet of a waterway every five years. The utility system supervisor and the senior USO on this team obtain their pipeline assessment certification or PACP certification that qualifies them to rank the condition of the pipe that they're inspecting. This pipe ranking is giving to our asset management team and is used to help develop our annual CIP list. Next slide, please. We also use this information to target our maintenance activities. Our goal is to eliminate as much INI as we possibly can as well as identify any obstructions that could cause sanitary sewer overflow, which you'll hear us often refer to as an SSO. This team works closely with our general construction and cleaning crew to repair assets that are in the worst condition. Our INI crew is also in charge of all the necessary water shutdowns that happen to our distribution system. Every time a developer or contractor needs to shut down a portion of our system, this team analyzes the impacted customers and arranges for temporary water supply if needed. They also ensure our system is shut down in a way that doesn't cause any damage to our infrastructure. Next slide, please. Our cleaning crew is able to clean our collection system every five years by utilizing our zone cleaning method of maintenance. We also create packets through our work order management system that target areas of known issues, such as siphons or neighborhoods that are prone to grease buildup. Staying ahead of the issues and cleaning on a routine basis is what helps us maintain such an impressively low SSO rate, and our rate is less than 5% of the state average. Because of our proactive approach and the hard work of our dedicated operators, I'm happy to announce that we haven't had an SSO in over 12 months now. This is the second time we have gone over a year without an SSO in the past five years. Next slide, please. Our construction crew handles the larger water main brakes and necessary sewer main repairs. They replace valves, repair manholes, and small portions of failing water and sewer main. Our construction crew also completes our trenchless pipe patching. They're able to repair portions of pipe efficiently without opening a hole in the street and without interruption to service. They also work closely with the local contractor as the general construction crew perform all the hot taps and assist with tie-ins to our water distribution system. Next slide, please. Our link repair crew is also tasked with a wide range of duties. This crew helps leak detect about 100 miles of water line each year. They perform maintenance on our hydrants and calculate flow rates. They replace leaky water service lines, excuse me, leaking water service lines, and they're often the team that our customers see first. This team operates our service truck during normal business hours and responds to all the calls that we receive through our call center. Next slide, please. As our water distribution also has a wide range of duties, distribution handles the movement of water through our system. They maintain our water pump stations, adjust our tank levels and monitor and operate our SCADA system. And the distribution team is where our water system tax are assigned. Next slide, please. They maintain our 17 sewer lift stations. These stations are equipped with SCADA alarm systems that notify operators if there's an issue such as a higher than normal level in one of our wet wells or a pump that isn't functioning properly. Couple of good photos here. Doing an entry in to clean our West college facility. You'll see as they go in on the left and then really the work that they're doing there on the right hand side, it's a pretty good photo. Next slide, please. Local operations is responsible for operating the farmer's lane groundwater wells and water treatment plant near Montgomery Village. These groundwater wells are utilized to supplement our water supply when water demands peak during the summer months. It can also be used for an emergency event as well. The recently completed well improvement project lowered the pumps and the wells to help increase the amount of water that we are able to draw from them each year. And we do anticipate that this completed project will increase our annual production. Next slide, please. Our weekend operations team provides additional coverage and availability, excuse me, additional coverage and valuable training to our newer operators. This team responds to a high volume of customer service calls on Saturday and Sunday. They also help our elite crew complete the required underground service alert markouts within the required timeframe. And as of 2011, they are responsible for maintaining the urban recycled water system within the city. This team has the opportunity to demonstrate their diverse skill set while handling a wide variety of maintenance tasks on both the water and sewer systems. Next slide. I wanted to recognize those local operations team that I don't think has been highlighted in a briefing to the board in the past, our yard attendance. This team receives the after hours calls for all departments in the city. This job can be extremely challenging at times, especially during emergency operations. They may not be seen by many of the members of the water department, but they provide a valuable service and they also demonstrate our commitment to excellent customer service. Next slide, please. We're fortunate in local operations to have operators that have been maintaining the water and sewer systems for decades. This experience makes them a valuable resource to our asset management and capital engineering teams. They're always willing to share their expertise and work with other teams to make improvements to our system. These are just a few of the areas that our operators continue to work closely with the engineers from both and techs from both departments and divisions. Next slide, please. The local operations team is very proud of the work that they do and we enjoy sharing information with our community. The local team regularly attends or before the pandemic, of course, community events like the downtown market or public works week. We also share our safety training with other departments in the city. Every year we demonstrate the safety requirements for working in trenches to help firefighters better understand what to expect if they're called for assistance from a failed trench from a contractor within the city limits. Next slide, please. In the past, our department operation center was something that we trained for but rarely opened, but since 2017, we have activated our DLC every year and sometimes multiple times per year. This activation has presented some challenges but it has also given us the opportunity to improve our operations and communication. We've always worked closely with fire in the past but some of the tools that have been implemented since the 2017 Tubbs Fire have really helped the two departments help each other. The most recent glass fire was a good example of the two departments working efficiently as a team. Much of this efficiency comes from increased communication and training on each other's protocol. Fire's done an excellent job of connecting with us early and share information with us as soon as the emergency starts. This helps us provide the support they need really to do what they do best. Next slide, please. And with that, I would be happy to answer any questions that you may have. Thank you, Deputy Director Savoni. Board member questions, comments. We know you guys in your department do a great job. The fact that we aren't having any sewer overflows is a huge testament to the work that's being done so keep up the good work. With that, we'll open it up for any 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 Aitha, do we have anyone? We have no public comments. All right, thanks to you again, Deputy Director Savoni. We'll now move to item 5.2, our 2020 compliance update. Director Burke. Thank you, Chair Galvin and members of the board. And doing the presentation today will be Heather Johnson, our Environmental Services Officer. Thank you. I have to do the check that everyone can hear me okay. Thumbs up. Okay. I know we're probably all sick of hearing that. So good afternoon, Chair Galvin and members of the board. And thank you, Director Burke, for that introduction. I am happy to be here today to present Senator the Waters compliance update for 2020. Next slide please. So over the next few slides, I'll discuss our regulations and I will talk about our non-compliant events from the past year. But before I dive into that, I think it's important to start by discussing the steps we take towards compliance. Because one of the problems with putting together a presentation like this is it starts to feel like you're highlighting where things went astray and not focusing on the fact that we're getting things right 99% or 99.9% of the time. And part of achieving that excellence is measuring and then documenting those results. And in a given year, the treatment plan process has thousands or hundreds of thousands of data points that we use to measure not only our compliance, but the efficiency of our operations. And the vast majority of the operations is compliant, but we are continuously refining by identifying any errors that may occur. And then we report our compliant and non-compliant data via self-monitoring reports to our regulators. So I will also point out that none of the violations that occurred or that I'm gonna discuss today led to an impact on air or water quality. Next slide, please. So as I alluded to in the last slide, this presentation will cover the following regulatory obligations, which are our wastewater treatment and recycled water, our air quality emissions, and bio-sub-land application. And then I'll discuss any non-compliant events that we had in 2020. And then lastly, I'll speak a little bit to emerging regulatory issues and opportunities that may impact our compliance programs. So next slide, please. So in 2020, we were issued a new MPDS permit and the MPDS permit that we had previously covered discharges to receiving waters, and this one does as well, and also the treatment of recycled water. But what's new this year is, or in 2020, is that the distribution and the use of our recycled water was removed from our MPDS permit. And it's now covered under a statewide general order for recycled water, and we were issued a notice of applicability or an NOA along with additional monitoring and reporting requirements for that use. Next slide, please. So the majority of our non-compliant events for those two permits in 2020 were for mist monitoring for various parameters, and the mist monitoring in 2020 had causes ranging from equipment malfunctions to staff errors. And then in our recycled water system, we have what are called incidental runoff events, and those are small, minor volumes of water that leave the user's property and are usually due to leaking valves or small pipeline breaks or over irrigation of an area. And this past year, we had one UV excursion that occurred for three minutes and 38 seconds, and it was due to an electronic connection, malfunction, just not seeing properly. And those were it. Next slide, please. So for our air emissions we have, we're regulated by an EPA Title V major facility permit, and I would say it's the equivalent of our NPDS permit, but for air emissions, and then we also have to comply with portable equipment requirements, and that's through the California Air Resources Control Board and the Bay Area Air Quality Management District has additional rules and regulations that extend beyond our Title V permit, and those are issued in annual permit to operate. Just to give a little context to these pictures, I would say that our combined heat and power, our CHP is like the bread and butter of our air quality emissions, and so Ron Milton, who is in our mechanical section, he is on one of the CHP engines here, and then the other picture is our exhaust packs, and I think it's a neat picture because it showed the first two exhaust packs that you can see there in the foreground are ones that don't have SCRs on them, and then the ones in the background have SCRs, and the SCRs are like catalytic converters for your car, and they just refine our emissions, and so much of our regulatory requirements revolve around these items. Next slide, please. In 2020, we had two permit limit exceedances from our CHP, engine number four, and those were for our engine firing rate limit. We suspect that this occurred because we had reduced production of digester gas in 2020, and so we had to blend more natural gas, and natural gas has a higher heat value, and that may have caused the firing rate exceedance. Next slide, please. So similar to our recycled water governing mechanism, our biosolids are also covered under a statewide general order. That general order is for land application of biosolids. We have a notice of applicability issued by the regional board. So our city farms, Alpha, Brown, and Stone have an existing notice of applicability issued by the North Coast Regional Board, and then our Southern Sonoma County sites will be enrolling under that same statewide general order in 2021. I do not have a second slide for biosolids because we did not have any non-compliant events in 2020. So next slide, please. All right, so lastly, we have some emerging regulatory items. The first one would be the Laguna De Santa Rosa TNBL for nutrients. It's making progress within the regional board and I suspect we will see some further details on that in 2021. Additionally, the city and the regional board staff have recently been in discussion regarding our regional salt and nutrient monitoring plan. This would be groundwater monitoring to look for any recycled water impacts to salt and nutrient loads within the Santa Rosa Plain groundwater basin. The engineering evaluation. So our new permit has a requirement to conduct an engineering evaluation of our receiving water discharge outfalls. We submitted a work plan in February and then we will do an RFP for these efforts once we get our written approval from the board. One other requirement in our new NPS permit is to develop a plan for pathogen monitoring in our storage ponds. This plan will address the levels and potential sources of pathogens within the storage ponds. And then lastly, beginning in the last quarter of 2020 and then it'll run through the third quarter of 2021. The city has been conducting PFOS monitoring of our treatment plant, Influent Epoen and Bio-Folids. And then we have to do one-time groundwater monitoring of PFOS as well. So the picture that you see here is our environmental compliance inspector, Patrick Polis. And he is displaying a cup that our maintenance section fabricated to monitor biosolids from the belt press for PFOS. PFOS has some, I guess you could say extreme potential for contamination. And so our monitoring equipment that we use has to be specifically purchased or designed to ensure that no cross contamination is occurring. So we were pretty proud of that test. Overall, 2020 was a busy and memorable year. And I look forward to what 2021 has in store. Next slide. So I am happy to answer any questions that you may have. Thank you. Thank you, Ms. Johnston. Johnson, board member questions or comments? Vice Chair Arnone? Just a comment. Given the 24-7 nature of what's going on and the different regulatory schemes that you have to comply with, the small number of compliance issues that you had to report is really astounding. I mean, I think it's incredibly commendable that there's such success rate in compliance with these various regulatory requirements. So just my thanks and compliments to the entire staff for achieving that kind of result. Thank you. I agree. I think you got thumbs up from all of us on that. Any other board member comments or questions? If not, we'll open it up for a public comment 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 nine to raise your hand. Secretary Aitha, do we have anyone? We have no public comments. Okay, thank you again, Ms. Johnson. Appreciate your presentation. We'll now move to our third staff briefing, item 5.3, Director Burke. Thank you, Chair Galvan and members of the board. Our third staff briefing will be our water and recycled water supply update and deputy director of water resources, Peter Martin, and deputy director of regional water reuse operations, Emma Walton will be making the presentation. Thank you, Director Burke. And good afternoon, Chair Galvan, members of the board. Happy to be here today. Once again, giving you a brief water supply update and discuss some of the activities that we're working on regards to the dry weather situation. I'll just kind of wait briefly for the presentation to come up. We can go ahead and advance to the second slide. So this is kind of a slick graphic that Snow Water has started releasing with some regularity. It's kind of, we're going to start utilizing this too for our own messaging as well. But as you can see, rainfall continues to fall well behind our 30 year averages for this time of year and also storage is also well below sort of the target curves. Not much has changed since the last time I've been with you. We are getting some rain events, but it isn't necessarily contributing to large amounts of storage gains. Next slide, please. So as of today, storage in Lake Mendocino is about 34,900 acre-feet, which of course remains below storage levels for this time of year in the recent drought 2014 water year, which is denoted as that green line. Reservoir outflows are at about 25 CFS, excuse me, cubic feet per second in compliance with the temporary change order that was issued in February. That's allowed them to actually start to gain some storage again, as you can see, based on where that line starts to trend upward again. So next slide. As of today, reservoir storage in Lake Sonoma is 155,233 acre-feet, but has remained relatively flat over the past few weeks. Reservoir outflows are at about 75 cubic feet per second in compliance and consistent with Sonoma's waters, water rights terms under decision 1610. Next slide, please. Some exciting news to share. It's National Fix of Leak Week. Quite a bit of activities going on surrounding that. We're encouraging customers to request a WaterSmart home checkup kit. We're also doing quite a bit of prep work for folks that are potentially going to be turning on the irrigation on the next few months, a lot of outreach surrounding our WaterSmart yard webpage and other activities associated with that. And then additionally, we're going to be sending out, well, we already started sending out, excuse me, 850 letters going out to multifamily, hotel, motel customers, sort of sending the correspondence and pairing them with resources available to find and fix leaks. So this is part of our targeted outreach this week, but we'll continue to promote this throughout the remainder of the week. We're actually seeing an uptick in customer response too. So it's been positive so far. Next slide. So we did quite a bit of work on the srcity.org, WaterSmart checkup, slash WaterSmart checkup page. Customers can go directly there and sign up for a free outdoor only in-person social distance checkup for their outdoor irrigation systems. And they also can request a free DIY WaterSmart in-home checkup kit either online or by phone as well. So you can see the webpage there where folks can go srcity.org or slash WaterSmart checkup or call 707-543-3985. And I think I have one more slide here. For this. We're also doing this kind of fun WaterSmart plant spotlight that shows some of our warning efficiency team and talks about some of their favorite drought tolerant plants. It's been kind of a fun little project and also get some public spotlight on some of the things that we're doing as far as promoting drought efficient landscapes as well. So we'll also be posting some fire-wise workshops coming up in the future. So just kind of setting the table for folks that might be thinking about setting up their yard in the next few months with perhaps more water-efficient plants. Next slide. Actually, I think take that back. That concludes my portion of the presentation. I'll hand it over to Deputy Director Walton at this point. All right, good afternoon and thank you for being here. Update on our recycle water supply and update or recycle water supply. Next slide, please. So unfortunately with the rain, the little rain we have received, we still are in a pretty similar situation that I've been updating you all on for the past few months. We've had a little dip in our production in March so far compared to February with this little additional rain that might come back up but still nowhere near really where we need to be. Next slide, please. Our recycle water storage is actually approaching, if not has already reached the lowest it has ever been since 2004 for this time of year. So very, very low storage volumes coupled with the low production, we're just gonna continue to see a very hard year for the amount of water we're able to supply to our recycle water users. Next slide, please. As I've mentioned previously, we have established an ad hoc to identify how we are planning to allocate the very limited recycle water that we will have available this season. We've met once, we'll be meeting again to kind of finalize those plans and hope to get that information out to our recycle water users as soon as we possibly can so they can plan accordingly. We have notified and have been notifying our recycle water customers that we will not be providing frost protection this year. We've been sending this message since about the middle of December. We really are doing absolutely everything we can to just make sure that we maximize the availability of water for irrigation. We do continue to receive questions about frost protection and our message has been consistently that we are not providing frost protection water. As I mentioned, we are developing our allocation model now. They will be severely reduced from last year and hopefully forthcoming and very soon in the next few weeks, we hope to get that information out to our customers. We have been notifying them along the way that the allocations will be necessary and they will be less than last year but we haven't come to a final number yet. We are continuing to cooperate with our regional partners when they're continues to send more water to geysers than their contract requires and we are sending less than we normally would have for this time of year to capitalize on some of the storage we can gain coming into the irrigation season. And we are, as I mentioned, having ongoing communications with our customers through emails, written letters, website updates, newsletters, phone calls, field communication, really trying to get the word out as much as we possibly can that we are entering a very unique irrigation season with a very, very limited recycle water available. So unfortunately, not much has changed for us but I'd be happy to answer any questions. Thank you to both deputy directors. We'll open it up now for board member questions or comments for either deputy director Martin or deputy director Walton. Chair Galvin, if I can jump in really quick. Certainly. Sorry, I'm camera free today. Thank you both for great presentations through a difficult time. On a quick question on the recycled water, as we roll out really strong regular messaging around conservation and the shortage this year, do we find in previous years or do we anticipate a noticeable amount of savings that might actually be identified with our uninterruptible customers? How is that communication a little bit different? Do we find some good collaboration that happens there? Thanks. So I will defer that question to either director Burke or deputy director Martin. Our uninterruptible customers from an irrigation use are urban customers and the interaction is more on that side. So I won't speak to that. And then our other uninterruptible obligation is obviously the geysers. And we have to meet that contract really despite the weather conditions. So I'll hand it off. My apologies, I should have been more clear. The non geysers uninterruptible customers. Thanks. And board member Baden Ford, thank you for your question. We do constantly communicate with our urban recycle water users. We have about roughly 30, 35 users on our urban system. So it's a very small amount. We inspect them regularly. So we are out at least once, if not twice a week inspecting those properties, ensuring that they're using the water efficiently and that there's no incidental runoff. So we provide constant communication. We provide weekly emails with watering recommendations and they are very, very efficient with their water use because they're so highly regulated, much more so than frankly any of our other customer base. So they are very efficient without water use. Fantastic. Just again, repeatedly thank you for helping the city navigate through what has become a tremendously difficult and scarce year. I know that you spend countless hours trying to make sure that we're able to meet our contracts and appreciate all you do. Thank you. Thank you, board member Baden Ford. Any other board member questions or comments? Yes, board member Walsh. Yes, thank you, Chair Galvin. Deputy Director Martin, I missed the reference on where to find the water smart plant spotlight. Is that at the water smart checkup? Yeah, so we've been running those plant spotlight on our typical social media channels, but we also have a water smart yard page that we direct folks to for a lot of different things. Including obviously watering recommendations. We're starting to look at some more targeted pieces to support a lot of feedback we've been getting from customers asking about how much they should be watering. So we'll be previewing quite a bit of stuff over the next couple of months here. But I believe that page is srcity.org slash water smart yard. So we actually have a specialized page for that too and that's been recently refreshed. Great, thank you very much. Thank you, other board member questions or comments? All right, seeing none, we'll open it up for public comments on item 5.3. 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 Etha, do we have anyone? We have no public comments. Thank you, that will conclude item 5.3. We'll now move to the consent calendar. We have three items on the consent calendar. If there are no questions, I'll entertain a motion to approve the consent calendar. I'll move to approve the consent calendar. Second. We have a motion by board member Wright, seconded by vice chair Arnone to approve the consent calendar. We'll now open it up for public comments on item 6. 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 Etha. No public comments. Thank you, may we have a roll call vote please? Yes, chair Galvin. Aye. Vice chair Arnone. Aye. Board member Badden-Fordt. Aye. Board member Grable. Aye. Board member Walsh. Aye. Board member Watts. Board member Wright. Aye. Board member Watts, have you returned yet? Board member Watts had to step away for an urgent phone call, so I don't think she's back at the meeting yet. Very good. That will take care of the consent calendar. We have no report items. We'll next move to public comments. We are now taking public comments on non-agenda matters. 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, do we have anyone? No public comments, chair. Thank you. That'll take care of item number eight. Item number nine, we has referrals. We have none. Item 10, we have no written communications. Item 11, subcommittee reports. I believe that the board member Watts was going to have a couple of reports on the budget review and the water conservation subcommittee. If she stepped away, perhaps director Burke, can you fill in? Yes, I can. Thank you. So just a couple of report outs on the subcommittees. The budget subcommittee met on March 8th and staff presented the first look at the proposed fiscal year 2021-22 budget. Staff presented an overview of the operations and maintenance and CIP budgets for the water, wastewater and regional funds. In addition, we also presented detailed information on how the regional fund budget and debt service is allocated to each of the five partner agencies of the regional water reuse system. The next subcommittee meeting is scheduled to occur on March 22nd. And we plan to present final budget numbers as well as highlights of the proposed year one CIP plan. And then for the water conservation subcommittee, the water conservation subcommittee met on March 9th. Staff presented an overview of the new requirements for the 2020 urban water management plan and the water shortage contingency plan. We received feedback from the committee and the committee will meet again the first week of April to continue reviewing these planning efforts. Both plans will come before the BPU in April and then in May for recommendation. And then we'll go to the city council in May and then in June for consideration of adoption. In addition, staff also provided updates on the existing dry year campaign activities and an overview of the water shortage triggers and actions. And that is the report for both budget subcommittee and water conservation subcommittee. Thank you, I appreciate that. I don't know if board member Watts is back with us or she had anything to supplement, apparently not. All right, any board member questions or comments with regards to the subcommittee reports? Very well, we'll now take public comments on item number 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 Aitha, do we have anyone? There are no public comments. Thank you. Item number 12 is the board member reports. Do we have any board member reports? Seeing no one on mute, that will take care of item 12. Item 13 is the director's report, Director Burke. Thank you, Chair Galvin and members of the board. I had a couple of things I wanted to update the board on. First, in continued recognition of the dry year and the potential for possible drought declarations at some time this year. The technical advisory committee to the water advisory committee is reviewing and updating the water shortage allocation methodology. This is a methodology that is required per our agreement, our restructured agreement for water supply with Sonoma water. And this is the methodology that will be used should the water agency determine that they have a water shortage and need to allocate water at some point this year or in future years. The methodology was last revised and approved in 2014 for use throughout the most recent historical drought which ended in 2016. The efforts to date, the model and methodology is being updated to reflect current conditions as well as various operations throughout the water agency contractors. And then an overview of the update will be presented to the water advisory committee and the technical advisory committee at the April special WAC meeting. And then the WAC will consider a recommendation on the methodology at their meeting in May. And then it will go to the Sonoma Water Board of Directors for adoption in May. So wanted to let the board know that work is happening on this and we'll continue to keep the board updated as this work progresses. And then second, I wanted to share some exciting news, something we've been looking to do for quite some time. We have started filming at the Laguna Treatment Plant this week. We're very excited to be producing a series of three short videos that highlight the people and infrastructure necessary to treat and beneficially reuse water from homes and businesses. Some of the best feedback we've received from folks is that really going out and visiting the treatment plant provides them with so much understanding and knowledge of what we do. And since we haven't been able to offer tours during the pandemic and we don't know when we'll be able to re-engage with tours, we really wanted to find another way that we could share all the work that we do out at the treatment plant. So these engaging and educational videos are meant to enhance our ongoing education program by providing a behind-the-scenes view of water reuse operations and environmental services. We will use them for virtual tours. We'll also share them through our various platforms including social media and we will incorporate them into presentations as well as once we're able to resume our normal onsite tours. We will use these to help highlight some of the behind-the-scenes action. So once we have those videos complete, we will be bringing them forward to the board at a future meeting. So we can highlight maybe one or two of these new videos. And that is my report and I'm happy to answer any questions. Thank you, Director Burke. Any board member questions or comments? All right, we'll now open it up for public comments on item 13. If you wish to make a comment via Zoom, please raise your hand. If you are dialing in via telephone, please dial star nine to raise your hand. Secretary Aitha. We have no public comments. Very good, that concludes our agenda. So we'll adjourn the meeting, hopefully with more rain in sight. So we'll see you in a couple of weeks and wish you all a good afternoon. We are adjourned. Thank you, Jeremy Galvin.