 I'm here. Okay, well, I guess we can start the meeting then. Yep, start with the Pledge of Allegiance. All right, I pledge allegiance to the flag. So much for technology start our meeting here seeing I have the agenda in front of me. We need a motion to approve the minutes. From our last meeting. I make the motion. I so move. Approved minutes. All in favor say aye. Aye. Aye. Chair votes aye. All right. Financial reports Joe. Well, you should have come gut suckers report for the month of July and things were starting to improve in July in terms of our water sales. We in terms of our residential sales were. Pretty close to last year. Then $2,100, which is not bad. Sheboygan falls and Kohler falls was actually up from last year and Kohler was a little bit down. But overall July came in looking more like a normal July than our prior months. However, year to date, we're still suffering from earlier changes in water consumption. We're down about half a million dollars from 2019 revenues at this point in the year. And I don't think we're going to recover that. I think we're just going to hold our own at that level, which, you know, isn't bad. There's nothing we can do about it. Could be a lot worse. See the return of rate basis dwindling. We're down to 1.26%. Otherwise the financials look strong and and normal. We do have a high cash balance again due to borrowing for the upcoming project in part. And also delaying some expenditures, capital projects for this year due to COVID. Pretty much my summary of July financials. Any questions of Joel on the financial reports? Oh, none for me. Not me either. For Joe, a superintendent's report. Well, an operations from a bill over in the plant. You can see for July kind of tied into the revenue. We're only down above 4% from last year in terms of water pumped pumped out of the plant. And that's not bad. Really can't complain about that. Our year to date. Average. So far it's 11.1 million gallons a day. In 2018 we're at 13.2 million gallons a day. So we've dropped off a fair bit. In that figure, but again, that's going to be reflected a lot by March, April and May in particular of this year. On July 22nd, we did pump 15 and a half million gallons. That's been our high. To date. You know, 10, 15 years ago, we would see figures more like 21 or 22 million. Things have changed. Otherwise than the plant, but it seemed like we had pretty cold water this year. Figure it's here somewhere, but the water temperature. I guess it was not all that different. 52 degrees on average for July last year was 46. I guess it's actually a little warmer than last year. Otherwise than the plant, you'll see a range of maintenance. You know, occasionally we, we have to do checks on the, on the ultraviolet system on the sensors. That work has become pretty routine for the maintenance texts over there. We did some, just a variety of. Operations in the plant as usual. I don't see anything really jumping out at me. One thing I thought was interesting, Joe was the electricity consumption for the office building. Yeah. What did you see there, Mark? Down quite a bit for electricity consumption for the office building. I assume that's credit to our solar system. That is. Yeah. In terms of the kilowatt hours, it's down a lot. You know, dollars saved is, it's not humongous, but the thing I like to keep in mind is that that's going to add up every month. Not always the same amount, but every month for the next. 20 years, the lifetime of that system, we're going to see that figure. More like a thousand dollars or less instead of something more like $2,000. So it is adding up and that's nice to see. Yeah, you're right about that. My understanding is when the solar system reaches the end of its life, it's not like it shuts off. It just decreases in effectiveness off. It'll be producing electricity for a long time. Yeah. I mean, it's all things that's now up and running. We forget about it. It's just there doing its thing. We don't have any electric vehicles yet to charge on that system, but we did that at your. Suggestion at that charging station, which we now have, and hopefully use that in the future. You have to get that. Yeah, I converted over to electric. Yeah. A Tesla, you know, those are out there too. That we just put a sign out on on the on the street saying we have a charging station, whatever they're charging at festival. We could charge and have another in revenue stream. We could. Or maybe get a utility vehicle. One of the new Mustang Machis. There you go. Well, they are making electric trucks and our guys did even point those out to me. So who knows, maybe one year we'll have a truck. Yep. But it's pretty much. Extent of operations and distribution. We had a very busy month with contractors and our own crew. A lot of activity on Gilea Avenue with the Dorner. Company installing a replacing main there. And getting ready to replace a bunch of lead service lines. Our newer engineer tech has been mostly inspecting that project. So that's good that he can be out and independent now. Down by a rock line. We've also got work taking place with vinten. Getting rid of some really old water main. And valve and hydrants. We did have a main break on Taylor drive. Stretch of. Area just seems to have corrosive soil. That main is not that old, but we've had a number of breaks in that 16 inch pipe. One was repaired. By the crew. And I should say. Just to remind the board a couple of months ago, the board authorized to purchase up an electronic leak correlator. A way to find leaks with. Instead of a manual way that we used to use. And the crew members are very happy with it now. And they've been able to basically pinpoint leaks. Oh, just using the device. And that just seems to be a good thing. And, you know, they're on labor putting these probes in and trying to listen. And, and. Not having to dig up pavement. Making a mistake. So that device has been well received by the crew. Excellent. It's a dividing rod, right? It does usually. Custom relations and fiscal. We had a. Act of July, as always. Many fewer people coming into the window. You know, 374 instead of 820 last year. More Dropbox famous and making up for that. Your calls coming in. You know, a little bit less customer contacts. Of course, we're not disconnecting. So that tends to be a good thing. We did have two cross connection inspections and commercial settings in the month. We did start to replace some meters. Kind of more on an urgent basis than routine basis. 2700 visitors to our website. We got a lot of interest in our. Drone photos of the plant and of the solar system. Solar panel system. And we are using that $500 drone. Quite a bit. For those. Those pictures from our drone. They were from our drone. Yes. Nice. We did start to replace some meters. Kind of more on an urgent basis than routine basis. 2700 visitors to our website. We got a lot of interest in our. Drone photos of the plant and of the solar system. Solar panel system. And we are using that $500 drone. Quite a bit. We've got an ace pilot, Andy, well, man that we send out on the toughest missions. And he's always come back. We are using it a little bit for gold deterrents. Also, that may not be legal, but we. Don't like the drone either. I saw a. An article about a bald eagle that interacted with a Michigan DNR. The drone did not fare well. It's still staff, but we are still staggering to people per day. On the support specialists. And otherwise, that's the extent of the superintendent's report. All right. I have a motion to approve the superintendent's report. So moved. I second it. They ever say aye. Aye. Aye. All right. Chair votes aye. Aye. items previously held over for discussion, the raw water improvement intake project, we had another 3D, virtual walk through and made some additional comments on the project. You know, these are things like, they've got a pipe in a vault and we're trying to get them to extend the, an area where it's graded You know, access issues that we're working through. We do have some site issues that are challenging. We're trying to reroute to this golf hole there. And we're also trying to provide security for the new area. So, we're looking at a few options of fences and where these disc holes should go. I'm hopeful we'll come up with a good plan on that. You know, one of the biggest challenges, if you're familiar with that site, there's a big hill there. And then it comes down pretty steep slope to the lake. And we're partly in that hill with the building. So, there will be, you know, a retaining wall and part of the building will be, I don't want to say underground, but partly the soil will come up a pretty high stretch of one of the walls. So, we're just kind of reviewing some of the structural issues with that. The alternative is to put it closer to the lake. And we've kind of preferred to protect it from the lake and deal more with the hillside. So, we're still working a little bit on that, but the project is coming together. I expect we're having another detailed review meeting next week. And then I'd like to sit down with some of our city colleagues and get any of their concerns about impact on the park. And we do have impact on a large storm sewer down there as well. And then my hope is next month we'll be able to give the board a little more of an update. One thing we do have to proceed with in 2004, when we first, I think it was before, many years ago, when we first envisioned this project, we went to the parks committee and the city granted the utility and easement to construct and operate a water treat and water intake facility. At that site in a particular area, as we've come to design the actual facility and lay it out, we've diverted a little bit from the easement area gone beyond it, so to speak. So, we really need to modify the easement that was agreed to those years ago. And that would take a formal request from the board to the city. It's not a huge modification. I think we would take more of the flat shoreland out of the easement and put more of that hillside into it. So, I think it's kind of for the public betterment overall. But we would need approval to modify the easement in a way. And at that point as well, the city did not want to sell land to the parkland to the utility at all. And I don't think there's been any change with that. They would rather retain ownership and provide an easement for this purpose. Would you be required to put fencing up on the top of that hill? Well, the building kind of nests into the southern part of the hill. And we would have some fencing coming up the hill to meet a corner of the building. Yes. Okay. I mean, because, you know, I can just see someone trying to shimmy down that or slide down that hill or whatever and end up on the roof of the building. Yeah, and that's what we're trying to avoid. You know, we also don't want a real ugly fence and a nice park. Well, that's a little bit of a challenge. Right. Questions on the details of the project that I'd be happy to provide? I'm not right. I'm good. Yeah, I guess I wait a little bit longer until we can maybe see something with a little bit more detail. I think here and things like that, just how it's going to fit into that area. Yep. Down in that area all the time when I was a kid, when the lion was still there and the zoo was still there before the frisbee golf course. So, anyway, all right. We're pretty much on schedule and I think it's been going well. Okay. Good. Good. All right. On to item number 51. Approval to transmit the utility's budget and our capital improvements programs for actually there's six years here rather than five, but that's okay. I'm sure the city would like to see five, but we're giving them six. Yeah, we might have had a type while there, Jerry. That's all right. I mean, they've got the numbers, right, or they will get the numbers. Yeah. It's pretty much the budget that we looked at the last meeting, right? There's not much in the way of change. Yeah. The only changes were typographic changes. No, no significant monetary changes. But you have any other questions? Any questions on the budget after we talked about it last month? No, sir. Thank you. Not for me. A motion to approve sending the RO to the council? Yes. I'll make that motion. I'll second it. I'll second it. Okay. Okay. So it's up to you. Who's seconded? Yeah. All right. All in favor say aye. Aye. Aye. Chair votes aye. Onto number five two, hydrants stripping and painting proposal. What was that motion also approving the five-year capital plan? Yes. Okay. Yes. Okay. Okay. Hydrant stripping and painting proposal, Joe? Yeah. So each year we try to make progress keeping up with our fire hydrants. I did ask Dave McMillan to trim this item due to COVID budget impact. So instead of 400 hydrants, we're looking to paint 200. And we really only got one quote this year, but it was cheaper than the price for last year. Same stack. Same white primer? Yes. The ghost hydrants. Yep. Are there people on the phones to take the phone calls on that? Yes. We're not taking hydrants whites for permanent. One of the things last year, right? We got several phone calls. Definitely. Yeah. Okay. People notice. All right. I'm going to attempt to prove the quote from Great Lakes. I take that back from Ferguson Water Works. Yes. Ferguson Water Works. So moved. I'll second it. Favors, A.I. A.I. And shareable size. Thank you. 5.3. Reviews of lead copper sampling results. So every three years, the utility is required to test for lead and copper due by DNR and EPA. And this year we had 30 test sites. And again, the lake water has undetectable lead and copper levels in it. And the water leaving the plant also has undetectable lead and copper levels in it. But because private service lines and in-home plumbing is made out of lead and copper and lead solder, we test for these elements within homes that kitchen faucets. So you have there a list of the 30 sites that we tested this year. We provide the sample kits and actually the homeowners take the samples for us. The results to the right are shown in order, 30 being the highest lead results and one being the lowest result that came in. And we're regulated at the 90th percentile level, which is shown in, I think that's yellow. Color balance, yellow or orange. And you'll see our 90th percentile this year was 4.00 parts per billion. And the action level is the 90th percentile of 15 parts per billion. So we're well below the action level in lead and copper. Last year or three years ago, our lead result was more like 8.5. And that was due to one sample that was not collected properly. Someone had not been using the water, allowed it to sit in the lateral. It was a vacant apartment. Came and took a sample and that resulted in an unusually high sample, but we're not allowed to throw out samples. So we included that one and that skewed our results last time a bit higher. But this result is more in keeping with prior years. Just by example, Madison, Lauderdale, even though they've removed all lead service lines, they still end up with a 90th percentile result that's typically two, three or four parts per billion due to interior plumbing that may not have been changed out, solder, things like that. We did have, why should say these are 30 full length lead laterals. We had seven new locations. Sometimes people move and the subsequent owner doesn't want to cooperate or participate. So we did have seven new sites. That kind of helps our statistics. 30 sites out of however many homes in the city is a small number, but this is the regulatory specification. But seven of these sites were new, so that helps widen the statistics a bit. So we were happy with these results. We did have one location that had a lead level that was above the action limit, just a single point. In a case like that, whenever we become aware of a site like that, we're now going to put them into our lead service line replacement program because that's a site that needs to be replaced. So we've been in communication with that property owner and we will enforce the 18 months time frame to have that replaced, offer them a grant of up to $2,500 and a no interest loan to remove that lead service line permanently. But overall, the results were reassuring that our orthophosphate treatment is keeping lead levels down below standards and we have no further, the results of this testing leads to no further compliance issues with the DNR or the EPA. Everything is in conformance. Further questions on that? I'm good. Do you have any feel for why this one home is a little bit higher? You know, it's a site specific mark. It could be a little bit longer lateral. You know, she might not have flushed water through there in the same way as others. There's a lot of variables. So I know I can't really say why. So that's quite dramatically higher than any of the other samples? Yeah, I can say the last go around three years ago, that site had a high sample as well, but it was half of that result. Okay. If they replace that lateral, will they remain in the testing program? No, then we have to kick them off. So once they no longer have lead, we have to remove them. On to the Seaman Avenue water main project. Need approval for the materials? Yes, you should have a quote. The apologies, we didn't break out all the items, but it's a number of fittings and a small amount of water main pipe for Seaman Avenue. One block voting to accept Ferguson waterworks according with the recommendation and the fact that they were the lowest bid. Yes. All right, so we'll move. I will second that. Questions? Can I take your choice on that, Joel? One question. Now, is it a 16 inch line that we're talking about earlier? Yes. Okay, good. There's a motion and a second. All in favor say aye. Aye. Aye. And chair votes aye. All right, short line protection. I wanted to report back. Last month, we presented a quote from Wagner excavating for installation and materials to rehab our damaged shoreline protection area. And after further review, I determined that we understate bidding law did need to bid that out and treat that as a construction project. And I think we decided due to timing that we would prefer to purchase the materials and make the installation ourselves with the crew. Then we're simply purchasing materials. It's not a construction project. We're providing the labor ourselves. So Wagner then requested to quote the materials that were quote from Kiehl, Sand and Gravel. And at my last reading, the Kiehl, Sand and Gravel quote was less than the other quote. So we're expecting to go forward with that in the very near future. And we do have Collins engineering out of Milwaukee is kind of a shoreline expert. We're going to have someone from their firm up to give us, lend a little expertise in the placement of the materials. The way you place the stuff is critical to ensuring some longevity. Because we know we've got two ton boulders there that have just been relocated by the wave action. So we want to be sure we're doing this in the best way possible. So I'm expecting that to move forward in the next month. Is the ones that are in the water be reclaimed at all or not? They can and they will be that's part of the plan. So we don't need repair or a motion to approve or not? No, there was a motion last month. I just wanted to report back on that. All right. So we don't need a motion for that now. So with the current plans, Joe, would that be considered O&M work versus capital work? I would consider that O&M work, Mark. I'm not an accountant, but I would call it O&M. Yeah, okay. We've got the approval of the cross connection inspection contract. Yeah. So under the state, either the utility or the municipality must implement cross connection control program. And the municipality was not interested in doing that when we began, I don't know, eight years ago, six years ago. So the program is implemented by the water utility and cross connections are plumbing arrangements that could potentially allow foreign materials to come back into the potable water system. You know, like the prime example is always a slop sink in a basement that's full of dirty water and somebody has a hose extension in the water to the tap outlet. And under the right conditions of the distribution system, some of that water could get sucked into the housing, house plumbing and be a cross connection. So the company that we use to assist us with the commercial and industrial plumbing arrangements, which are very complicated is has been Hydro Corporation. We do the residential inspection. It's a very limited inspection, but we do that part of the program ourselves. But Hydro Corp does everything with the companies and industries. And you'll see we've got a proposed two year contract under which they would conduct 960 inspections. The frequency is all dictated by the state. So they're not coming up with their own cycle dictated by the state. And they've got a figure here, which is about a little over $100 and an inspection. And that includes all the communication, getting it set up so they can't just appear and say we're here to help you. They have to lay the groundwork to get in. And we would certainly recommend continuing to work with them. They've been an outstanding partner in this effort. And they basically provide the backflow preventers. They do not. They advise the companies what should be done, and then the companies have to engage a plumbing contractor to do the actual work. Are these the same guys that have come into my office the past couple of years just to check the one sink in the basement? Yes. I'm good. We've got backflow preventers. Don't have to worry. I think a lot of the heavy lifting has been done in earlier years because the first time they come through, they catch a lot of problems and companies then over time address those issues. So the next go around usually there's fewer issues. Any PSC coaching? Well, I guess we need approval. So we need a motion to approve that. Yes. Want to go Tom? Okay. I'll make a motion that we approve. Okay. I'll second. All in favor say aye. Aye. Chair votes aye. We're going to get Tom's name in the minutes, right? Yep. Any PSC code changes, Joe? No. Okay. And I will move to approve the vouchers. I'll second that. Any discussion on the vouchers? Paying an awful lot of money to aligned energy. Yeah. Those buggers. Those retirement benefits. Yeah. Well, I didn't get hired. I'm getting my retirement from Wisconsin Electric. Oh, okay. Well, thank you, Jerry. All right. So we've got a motion and a second to approve the vouchers. All in favor say aye. Aye. Aye. Chair votes aye. All right. Plans for COVID-19 risk reduction. I don't have any new information there. We're still running our plan. You know, I think everybody's aware the issue is still there. And in fact, at some level, the county is kind of increasing their activities and such. And I think we at the facility very early had a strong plan in place. And we're getting a lot of work done. We have had two or maybe three individuals in contact with a positive case. And we did put those individuals on 14 day of COVID leave. And it turned out they did not have the virus, which was good. But one of the challenges I think we're all aware of, even if you get a test, first of all, there's limited testing. And second of all, that test is just at one point in time. So we still are keeping people out of the workplace if they've had a positive contact. And I would say even in the case of family members that had a direct contact with a positive case, as an employer, we've not been contacted by the county for any kind of tracing. So we're kind of having to rely on individuals reporting, which, you know, they are. But other than that aspect, we are maintaining our plan and we're maintaining our plan and we're providing full service. And I think we're in a good position to whether what ever happens this fall. And hopefully not a lot. Right. Exactly. All right. Next on the agenda is just to schedule our next meeting, which according to my calendar would be September 21. If I were to voice the preference, I do prefer the 330 time to 3 o'clock time. And again, it's finance committee is that what it was? What was it protection and safety that's meeting after this? Yeah, normally Monday council is meeting and it's not uncommon to have a meeting, you know, shortly ahead of council. Okay. I would just assume 330 as well if we can do it. And I mean, we can get an hour and a half for our meetings for the most part, especially the fact that we're getting a lot of the information ahead of time. And we can kind of limit some discussion and things like that at a meeting such as this. Yeah, 330 works for me. So we set it at 330 on the 21st of September. And the first, the third Monday, whoever that works ought to be. That would be the 21st of September. All right. With that, there's only one more motion to make. I'll go ahead, Tom, you can second it. I'll second it. All in favor, say aye. And thank you for putting up with my technical disabilities. You're making strides. 21st, maybe I'll have this figured out. Maybe it's just my hardware too. Who knows? I would bet at the setting. Again, I didn't get a chance to check the audio settings at all. Just kind of got the camera up on the monitor here in the way we went. All right. Very good. Thank you gentlemen.