 board member right did you want to do a brief mic check board member right did you want to do a brief mic check yeah I'm here thank you board member Walsh can you hear me okay yes thank you are just doing a brief audio check before we start the meeting thank you great thank you well I'd like to call this October 6th meeting of the Board of Public Utilities to order and as Secretary Manus to do a roll call thank you Vice Chair Noni board member right here board member Watts here board member Walsh here board member Grable here board member Batenfort vice chair Noni here and let the record show that chair Galvin is on a scheduled absence thank you I'd like to remind the board members to mute their phones microphones when they are not speaking and also now's the time for statements of abstention are there any statements of abstentions from any of the board members seeing none move to the next item which is study sessions that we have no study sessions next we will consider the minutes before accepting the minutes we're now taking public comment on 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 9 to raise your hand is there anybody first in the council chamber who wishes to make a statement so let us know not seeing anyone secretary Manus we have anyone online there are no public hands or public comments from zoom thank you thank you next we will have item 5.1 so director Burke could you please introduce that item thank you vice chair Anani and members of the board our first staff briefing will be our water supply update and call in close our senior water resources planner will be making the presentation excellent thank you so much director Burke for that introduction so I will be giving you an update on the storage levels in three lakes like Pillsbury Lake Mendocino and Lake Sonoma some information about how conservation is going region-wide and update on our conservation campaign our public information campaign to our public about the drought and then some information about two upcoming community workshops next slide please here we're looking at the graph for Lake Pillsbury it's a little bit difficult to see but on the very far left edge you'll see that arrow pointing to the October lake level for Lake Pillsbury it's about 81% of the target storage curve and PG&E has continued to maintain its FERC mandated flows through the Potter Valley project so it's a small amount of water being diverted from the eel to the east fork of the Russian River about five cubic feet per second it's very very low and that is per their variance request for revised operations that they requested from FERC and it was approved a few months ago despite that very low amount of diversion the lake volume continues to decline because they are also required to reduce blocks of water back to the eel river for fisheries purposes. PG&E is continuing to meet twice monthly with the established drought working group that was established back in I think 2014 or 15 and then reinstituted during this drought that group includes state and local water resource agencies including Sonoma water and national and state fishing wildlife agencies and local Native American tribes and community groups and they meet twice a month and they discuss operations of the Lake Pillsbury project and how it is complying with the minimum objectives set by FERC and those set by the fisheries agencies. The seven day change in storage was 1,123 acre feet so again as you can see that five cubic feet per second is not what is causing the decline in the lake. The current storage is 34,826 acre feet. We'll go ahead and take a look at the next slide please. We're looking at Lake Mendocino and again we're looking at the very far left edge of this graph where the arrow shows that Lake Mendocino's storage is currently about 64% of the target water supply curve so if you look to the bottom of that graph you'll see the line from last year at this time was much lower so we are currently at 26,000 acre feet higher than it was this time last year so that's good news. It's still relatively low compared to the target but it is in much better condition than it was last year. Sonoma water has also reported that they're seeing demands for water being pulled out of the Russian River through existing water rights to have diminished. That's very typical with the end of the agricultural irrigation season in September and October so that in fact has allowed them to reduce releases from Lake Mendocino because in-stream flows are staying a bit higher than they would have been during irrigation season so they've reduced their releases from 85 or 90 cubic feet per second down to 60 cubic feet per second so that's good news for the lake in terms of being able to hold a little bit more water back in the lake for water supply. The seven-day change in acre feet is a decline of 776 acre feet and the storage is about 40,654 acre feet right now. Let's go ahead and take a look at the next slide please. This is Lake Sonoma and as you know this is a major source of drinking water supply for Santa Rosa and other cities in our area. Again looking at the far left edge of this graph you can see the black dot and we're about 44.9% of the water supply capacity. We're just about 1200 acre feet above where it was last year so we're tracking very close to what we had last year and last year was the lowest on record so we're certainly in need of some good winter storms as soon as possible. The current storage is about 110,000 acre feet and the seven-day change in storage is about 1344 acre feet decline per week and releases are about 95 cubic feet per second but we will say that that fluctuates because Sonoma Waters crew is very very closely monitoring the flows and as whenever it is possible they are adjusting their releases so that they do meet the minimum flow requirements but they take advantage of any opportunities that they have when natural flows are a little higher to dial back releases a little bit again trying to maintain as much water as possible in Lake Sonoma. Next slide please. As you know part of the temporary change order was that in order to be allowed to have those lower in-stream flows Sonoma Water also had to reduce its diversions from the lake and from the Russian River system so to meet that temporary change order Sonoma Water works very closely with all of the contractors including Santa Rosa and we've been as you know undergoing quite a bit of work with our customers to help reduce demands on the system and as a result you can see that the cumulative reduction in diversions has been 30 percent compared to 2020 so that's very well in compliance with what was required for that temporary change order. If there were to be some significant storms there's a possibility this could be the requirement for the 20 percent reduction in diversions could be lifted before the end of the month but dry weather is predicted so it's not expected that that will occur and this the term of this requirement goes from July through the end of October. The temporary change order expires December 13th so Sonoma Water is already working hard on submitting another temporary urgency change order petition in the next few weeks and that's an anticipation in case it is a dry winter they want to be able to have some relief from the mandated minimum in-stream flows beyond the October date or excuse me the December 13th date. The long-range forecast again is still calling for dry conditions but we're all very hopeful that we will see some storms. Next slide please. So the summer has ended and we are shifting into our fall messaging so as we move into fall the days are cooler and the sunlight is up for fewer hours and so plants are starting to prepare for winter and they do not need as much water so we're reaching out to our customers to let them know that it's time to prepare to turn off the irrigation systems to start dialing them down reducing their irrigation. It's also time to be rain ready so we're encouraging them to make sure that they're ready to clean leaves and debris out of the way we don't want those things flooding into the gutters and then into our storms storm drains and into our creeks. We want them to turn off irrigation when it rains and we encourage them to install a rainwater harvesting system and there's some support that we are providing for that of course we have a rebate but we also have a workshop coming up. If we go to the next slide please I can talk about that workshop. So this workshop we're using the rain. We are partnering with daily acts. They're a local nonprofit that has a tremendous amount of expertise in working with the public around water use, water use efficiency, landscaping, rainwater systems and this sort of thing. So we've partnered with them many times before with great success. So they'll be providing that workshop two times. The first will be in English on Tuesday November 1st and the second will be in Spanish a week later on November 8th and those will be in the evening starting at 5.30 and folks can use the registration link that is shown there on the screen srcity.org slash workshops. They'll see all the workshops that we have either currently available or coming up soon and they can register it's free to attend. Folks who do register and attend will be entered into a content or a drawing to see if they might win a free rainwater harvesting system. They have to be a Santa Rosa water customer to get that but that includes some barrels and other equipment that's needed for a starter kit for getting your first rainwater system in place. Next slide please. The other workshop we wanted to mention has to do with the Our Water Future project that you're well aware of has just gotten started. So we are inviting our customers and our community to join us online and learn more about what we're doing to prepare for increasing our water supply resiliency and reliability over the long term. So we'll be having four online workshops for the public specifically. Those will be on Wednesday nights. The first is Wednesday October 26th from five to seven. The next will be in January. So we'll be coming back to you to remind you about that and making sure the public is aware of that second one as well. So we're embarking on this way the study to identify opportunities to reduce our vulnerability to shortages and we think that the public might be interested in learning more about what we're doing and how we're doing it and why we're doing it. We invite their questions and their suggestions. The first half of the meeting will be very much focused on providing them with the information and the second half will be open so that they have a chance to ask us questions and provide their input. There will be simultaneous Spanish translation. So as the speakers are presenting their slides and speaking, there will be simultaneous live interpretation with two interpreters there very similar to what they do when they have city council meetings. And then if Spanish speakers have questions, those questions will be taken live, translated into English and then back and forth as that conversation goes on with those interpreters supporting that effort. For more information and to find the registration link, folks can go to srcity.org slash our water future. And this QR code actually works as well. So if someone points their phone at that with their camera up, that'll take them to a link to go ahead and get to that our water future page. The link for registering for this workshop is down just a little ways on the page in the upcoming meeting section. So we again, we invite our community to attend that meeting. It will be taped and we will place it on our website, a link to it so that if they aren't able to attend, but they do want to learn more, that same information is going to be available to them. And again, over the next year, we will have four of these workshops. This one will be talking about this initial effort that we have to set some goals and to identify potential water supplies to study and that sort of thing. So this is a really important workshop and we really hope that our community will attend and learn more. We'll also be doing some social media outreach. We have sent out water bill inserts and we'll be having a city news connection small article on October 20th reminding our customers and our interested parties that this is coming up on October 26. Again, we hope everyone can join us. Next slide, please. So that's what I have for your water supply update and I'm happy to take questions. Thank you very much, Mr. Close. Are there any questions by members of the board for Mr. Close being none? We will open it for public comment. We're not taking public comments on item 5.1. If you wish to make a comment on zoom, please raise your hand. If you're dialing in via telephone, please dial star 9 to raise your hand. And first we'll start if anybody in the chamber would like to make a comment, please come forward. Seeing nobody rise, Secretary Manus, do we have anybody online? There are no hands being raised via zoom. Thank you. So next, Director Burke, could you introduce item 5.2? Thank you, Vice Chair Arnone and members of the board. We're very excited to have item 5.2 in front of you today as this is Water Professionals Appreciation Week and Elise Miller, our communications coordinator will be making the presentation. Vice Chair Arnone and members, I'd like to start with wishing you all a very happy Water Professionals Appreciation Week. As part of my presentation today, I would like to share a little bit about Water Professionals Week and how we are celebrating with Santa Rosa Water. At the end of this presentation, I would also like to request that a photo be taken with the board and some of our water event water ambassadors that are here with us today that include Jason Lee from Water Operations, John Koslowski from the wastewater treatment plant, Kimberly Zunino from Administration, Heather Abilis from the Water Use Efficiency Team, and Walter Naroski from the Laguna Environmental Laboratory. And then we also have Janine Saragosa from the Asset Management Team. Next slide please. So as a little bit of background, Water Professionals Week was established in 2017 by the California legislature to celebrate the estimated 60,000 people that work in California's water industry. Now it's my honor to be here today representing Santa Rosa Water Team. This is a team of highly trained operators, engineers, technicians, biologists, and many other specialties that are working together to protect our community's water resources. These individuals are responsible for delivering a safe, reliable drinking water supply, wastewater collection, wastewater, water recycling and beneficial reuse and watershed protection. This is truly an impressive group of talented professionals. And the image you see on the screen now and the following graphics are being shared this week to highlight these amazing employees and tell their story. Next slide please. We are using images like this to remind the community that Santa Rosa Water delivers more than just water. We deliver high quality drinking water that is tested over 200 times before it ever reaches the tap. That we serve 53,000 homes, businesses, hospitals, schools and more with an estimated population of 175,000. Next slide please. To deliver this water, staff work around the clock. Monitoring, repairing and maintaining over 1200 miles of water and sewer pipe and other critical water infrastructure. Like 6,000 fire hydrants, 19 water pump stations, 22 water tanks, 17 sewer pump stations, water operations, asset management, engineering staff, and many more are needed to ensure the safety and reliability of our community's water systems. Next slide please. Operators, technicians, mechanics, scientists, and more work at the Laguna wastewater treatment plant and the regional water reuse system. That recycles and beneficially reuses nearly 7 billion gallons of water and 33,000 tons of bio solids each year. Next slide please. Our stormwater and creeks team is tasked with protecting over 100 miles of our creeks that run through our city, working to restore our waterways and to improve flood protection. Next slide please. All of this is accomplished by the 276 employees representing over 80 job classifications. As you can see, Santa Rosa water is a dynamic and talented team with a proven record of accomplishment. Next slide please. In celebration of this team and all the work they do, this year for California Water Professionals Appreciation Week, Santa Rosa water was honored and accepted a proclamation from the city council on September 27th. And I'm happy to read that proclamation. Do that. So it says, whereas water is essential and without safe and reliable water and wastewater treatment, no community and no sector of the economy can thrive or expand. And whereas now more than ever, we are proud of this important role the Santa Rosa water team plays in making sure our community has safe and reliable drinking water, effective wastewater collection and reuse, stormwater protection and clean and healthy creeks. And whereas thanks to the technological advances by highly skilled and trained water experts and the dedication of Santa Rosa waters professionals, our community's drinking water and treated wastewater meets the most stringent water quality standards in the nation. And whereas our community's drinking water is filtered, cleaned, tested and distributed in a process carefully managed by trained water operators who also make certain our water distribution system is operated to ensure reliable water system pressures for residents, businesses and firefighting. And whereas Santa Rosa is a leader in water recycling, reusing nearly 100% of the city's recycled water for urban and agricultural irrigation, as well as recharging the geyser fields to produce clean and renewable energy for 100,000 homes in the North Bay. And whereas our storm drain system and creeks are maintained to ensure a healthy natural environment for all. And whereas these water professionals work 24-7 to plan for the future, maintain and upgrade systems and improve the safety and resiliency of local water supplies for our community. And whereas Santa Rosa water invests more than 135 million each year on water related programs and projects that protect public health and the environment, improve local water supply reliability, replenish and clean up groundwater basins, provide water for fire protection and protect against floods. And whereas the 276 essential water, wastewater, recycled water and storm water industry professionals at Santa Rosa water have dedicated their careers to keeping drinking water, recycle water, treated wastewater and our local creeks safe and reliable for our community, as well as neighboring communities. Now therefore be it resolved, this is what the mayor said. The I, Chris Rogers, Mayor of the City of Santa Rosa on behalf of the entire City Council do hereby proclaim the week of October 1st through 9th 2022 as Water Professionals Appreciation Week. Thank you for that reading that into the record. I think it's great words. Can I go back one side? So in honor of this week, as well as going to receiving this proclamation from Council, Director Burke along with our Board Chair and Vice Chair and Assistant City Manager Nutt and the City Manager, all were busy this week recognizing staff which I know I really appreciated and they appreciated as well. We had a lot of great feedback. So thank you to everyone who participated in those events and then Santa Rosa Water is also sharing a series of posts on the City's outreach channels that highlight our employees, their hard work, their dedication and you can find these on the City's Facebook page as well as Instagram, srcity.org and in this week's City Connections e-newsletter that will be distributed later today. Next slide please. So in closing I'd like to say thank you to the Santa Rosa Water Team and the Board of Public Utilities for your dedication and all that you do to protect our water resources, our infrastructure and the environment. And with that I'm happy to take any questions, comments. Thank you for that excellent presentation Ms. Miller. I was fortunate enough to join in some of those thank you sessions, one of them at 6.30 this morning which was a little early but it was a very packed house and a very lively crowd which really reinforced in my mind that this is a 24-7, 365 operation and there were a lot of people to thank so it's a privilege to do so. Let me invite any board members who wish to ask a question or make any comments about the presentation to raise their hand or yes Director Wright. Yeah well I would like to express my appreciation to the I can't remember exactly the 280 plus employees in the water department. All important all all of those employees are professionals from the the entire spectrum. So this is not just about the people in the office this is about all operators, clerical, administrative people whatever it might be and in addition to the also the finance and all that kind of advancement task. Well one thing about water and wastewater and it is it is it it never stops I mean I guess in an earthquake we might have a problem or in the fires we did but in general it's not like your internet or your telephone or your TV or any other utility in your power that just you know goes on and off. Generally speaking our water runs all the time and regardless of the power outage or a windstorm or whatever the problem is it works. I think the only time at my house my water's ever gone off is when my surface main broke and they had to come and replace it so very dependable assistance I have here. So once again my congratulations to all water professionals. Thank you. Thank you Board Member Wright and your your career as a water professional makes your comments extra meaningful so thank you any other comments by the board members uh so if not then we will take public comment on this item we're now taking public comment on items 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 first of all anybody in the council chambers wish to make a comment if so please step forward and seeing no one step forward let me ask Secretary Mendez if we have anybody online we have no hands being raised via zoom okay thank you so after this I think we're going to take a short break and we're going to do a picture opportunity and I was hoping we would have a large number of board members here but it looks like we're going to be mainly water staff so that's better so so hopefully they'll be on the camera and the screen up there so if we could take a break now and just please somebody take control of this artistic endeavor I'm sorry if the board members could turn their cameras on we will include them in the picture so they can be there um there you go virtually and we will get you into the picture and all everybody else please come on down and we will right copies of that pictures will be available no never mind um nobody will want to buy that let us move to the next item on the agenda um that would be item 5.3 a presentation by Robert Wilson will you uh please reduce that matter yes thank you vice chair annone members of the board item 5.3 is our laboratory update for 2022 and robert wilson our laboratory supervisor will be presenting good afternoon vice chair annone and members of the board my name is robert wilson i'm the laboratory supervisor out at the laguna treatment plant next slide please so our um the laguna environmental lab lel was established early on as a function of the laguna treatment plant to provide chemical measurements of physical and chemical measurements of wastewater most environmental labs at wastewater treatment plants were established as um in-house labs to provide data to operators about the operation of the facility as you'll see that really hasn't changed too much but um that's how many wastewater treatment plant labs started we expanded in started an expansion in 2000 actually opening up in 2003 to add a broader scope of analytical testing changes in permit requirements and addition of other sources like doing drinking water analysis um changed how the laguna environmental laboratory looked at analytical testing and the types of tests that we needed to do so we had a major expansion in 2000 starting in 2000 ending in 2003 currently our staffing includes sample receiving and preparation laboratory analysts which includes our principal analysts we do have um a programmer that we're bringing on we're actually in recruitment process for that right now but they serve as our information technology person and then management for a total of 13 people and in uh last fiscal year we processed 19,000 samples just over 19,000 samples by the laboratory team next slide please so you can see here that uh majority of our uh our client samples come from operations that uh blue large blue section of the PyGROC could actually be divided into um there are permit required samples for operations and process samples that we analyze our next largest customer is our water section followed by environmental compliance bio solids storm water quality assurance which we're going to go into a lot in this presentation and then engineering services and then other like police and fire that type of thing so still the majority of the samples that we do are really water and wastewater um it's what uh we're mainly certified for and it's the largest chunk of our pie next slide please so we do provide a lot of customer service for our clients we upload data for both the drinking water program and the wastewater program this requires staff to make sure that our data is actually accurate with the quality control parameters that we analyze and then verifying and double checking to make sure it goes through peer review before being submitted to the state we also have a quality assurance coordinator that works in coordination with our group they report to the environmental services deputy director but um they help us in providing sample training for legally defensible data we also work with our clients to provide sample assistance and bottle kits making sure that they have all the information that they need to collect the samples and then the bottles that they're going to need with the right preservatives to get those samples into lab so we have good data it's one thing to think about is that you could have the best laboratory but poor sampling um in the field and you're going to have poor data because you can't do anything once you have a sample and that has been collected poorly so a lot of effort goes into making sure that the samples that we get in the lab are collected properly and in the proper bottles so we can analyze them for the team we do provide some consulting services for police and fire we run samples as I mentioned for them but there are often times like where they'll bring in samples for or want to bring in samples for compressed gas cylinders it's something that we don't do in house so we go the extra mile to make sure that we find a lab for police and fire set up coordination with that lab and sometimes even financing with that lab to make sure that they get the defensible data that they need for the cases that they're trying to make and then we also provide a support with a contaminants of emerging concern so p-boss has been a big one that we've worked on recently making sure that it's a forever chemical that's in many items that surround all of us and so making sure that those samples are collected without contamination was a big effort of our group in supporting our compliance with the order that came down from the state board next slide please so in order to maintain our accreditation we work through the state board and elac which is environmental laboratory accreditation program they actually credit all environmental labs in california that's private labs that take samples from anybody and public labs like the laguna treatment plant lab they adopted the nilac institute t and i is how reference it for the rest of slides but it's a standard for laboratories that and all the all the laboratories in california need to adopt the changes by t and i by january 2024 so the deadline is coming for that one this does require updates to our program but it's really focused on the quality assurance program and not actually a lot at the bench next slide so the question is what is nilac it is t and i is an acronym within an acronym nilac is the national environmental laboratory accreditation conference and so in order for us to comply with this we actually need to make 855 changes to our quality assurance program and like i said this doesn't involve actually changing how analysts are performing the test at the bench but it really changes the type of data that we collect about these so you have to collect when what the original temperature was on the thermometer before you do the corrected temperature so there's little things like that that are all throughout the program that need changes so it's a huge change in quality assurance t and i is actually based on iso and it uses language consistent with iso if you were in an environmental lab anywhere else outside the united states you just comply with iso the united states has moved towards nilac as our way of complying with iso and a way to think about this is if you go into a starbucks in santa rosa or a starbucks in chicago you're going to get similar copy at those two locations and that's really what this standardization does it it takes it that if you turn a sample into laguna environmental lab and we analyze it for you it should have the same quality control that that sample would receive if you said to a third party laboratory next slide so this is our timeline for compliance with t and i there are tests that we have to do called proficiency testing those are a single blind test that we order from an outside source that is the analysts take those tests analyze them and they have to get the correct number with the some error bars we do very well on these typically performing in the 98 percent on the first time and 100 percent on by the second run of running these tests we also have to get external auditing done so we need to get quotes we're currently getting quotes from third party auditors the state requires that we have since due to the complexity of our our lab they want us to have a third party audit we'll have to schedule that third party audit we have to do additional proficiency testing in 2023 and then we are planning to have the external third party audit to the t and i standard in june of 2023 why this is important is i mentioned that that all labs have to be compliant with the state standard by january of 2024 because we have because the timeline of when we need to submit our our application we actually need to be in compliance by june of 2023 when that external third party audit comes in so through the third party auditing process there's a chance that they'll have it's often that there'll be some things that we need to correct we will then submit our corrective action plan to fix those things and then submit our renewal application to the state for accreditation and receive our application expires in february of 2024 and we'll receive our new accreditation certificate from elab on march of 2024 just one click for me please through this entire process we will be updating our our quality assurance manual standard operating procedure documentation bench sheets to make sure we're compliant with it and doing laboratory training it's really the quality assurance coordinator and my job to maintain this timeline we have brought on we're bringing on a new supervising analyst to help us with this process and we're receiving support from a consulting firm kimbao they're actually doing an internal audit right now while i'm doing this presentation and they are excellent helping us make sure that we're maintaining this timeline next slide please the other big thing that's happened in the last year couple years is i mentioned that we opened our lab in 2003 many of the pieces of equipment were purchased at the same time when we opened that lab so we have performed basic maintenance on it and we have contracted with people to perform more advanced maintenance and we've kept these instruments operating for well beyond their service life which is a credit to the staff who take care of these this equipment but much of them are they're past their the support by the manufacturer and they're using software that is on windows 7 machines that are outdated and it requires more work to transfer files from windows 7 machines to more modern equipment so we've been doing making many purchases to replace the aging equipment that was purchased in 2003 next slide please on the left there you can see a picture of the new lab that what we call the new lab the lab that was opened in 2003 and you see all the crates as a line the hallway there and then on the right you can see a list of the instrumentation that we've actually replaced through this process it isn't small but the good news is it's almost done we have one major instrument left to replace the an ICP that we need to replace for upper higher level metals analysis for drinking water but we've really pushed hard to do what we can to replace the older equipment and bring in the best equipment that we can find for the analysis that we're performing next slide please so for future projects as I mentioned we do are working for different contaminants of emerging concern including PFOS and microplastics the ELAP has issued that they are going to be certifying microplastics as an analysis so potentially looking at doing microplastics in-house PFOS the equipment needed is instrumentation needed for that is beyond what we would do in the analysis that we would do so we will likely continue to to contract that out to third party laboratories but staying up to date with the sampling requirements as it is such a challenging compound to make sure you don't have contamination with as I've presented in the past we are continuing our wastewater epidemiological studies in addition to COVID-19 that we've been doing in our influent wastewater we've started doing monkeypox as analysis on our influent wastewater for monkeypox it is detected the analysis that we get from COVID and monkeypox is an indication in our population but doesn't say what percentage of your population has this but it's helpful for our public health sector to have that data and there is some discussion as new problems new epidemiological issues like smallpox and polio come up that the different labs can actually look at that data and find out the epidemiological information for that information and then lastly we are looking at microbial source tracking for pathogens one question is especially with our recycle water system is if there is bacteria in our ponds what is the source of this bacteria being that they make excellent habitat for goose populations and avian populations that there might be sources of pathogens in those wastewater that are not human in source so microbial source tracking is another future project that we're working on as we're going through looking at things to come next slide and with that I just wanted to say thank you for giving me this time and I'm happy to take any questions you may have thank you for that presentation Mr. Wilson it's a good day to recognize just the sheer diversity of things that are done by water professionals in in Santa Rosa water so thank you for reminding us of how technical that can be also are there any questions or comments from members of the board yes or member right still can't hear you sorry I gotta unmute it so you can hear me thank you did you say I think I heard you say that ELAP is a national standard is that correct ELAP yeah the TNI is a national standard ELAP is California's specific I see so obviously I mean I'm looking I mean it's in the news constantly other states having all these water issues and obviously it's a I mean that's a complicated problem but anyway that's one question and the second comment was do we what's our regional cooperation like the Petaluma or with Windsor or something they have their own labs I think but we must work with them and how's that all pan out yeah we do work with them we don't analyze samples for each other but we do information exchange so our there's a redwood empire laboratory committee that we all attend and we discuss how we're complying with the TNI standard and you know pitfalls that we're finding as we're going through this process together we are fortunate enough to have the quality assurance coordinator within our team so smaller labs struggle that the TNI standard requires that they somebody else outside of the lab director which is the role that I serve it does your quality assurance and so they have looked at doing some exchange programs within between themselves like I said we're lucky to actually have that position within the Santa Rosa water team so but we do information exchanges with them we help support each other especially if it's a a supply need that type of thing so okay thank you yeah any other questions by board members seeing none we'll now take public comments on item 5.3 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 is there anyone in the council chamber who would like to make a comment seeing nobody rise secretary manus do we have anybody online there are no hands being raised via zoom thank you all right that takes us to the consent items we have three consent items on the agenda today and do I have a motion to approve the consent calendar I'll move the consent calendar thank you board member right is there a second second I will second I think we have a three-way tie for a second and I think I heard Chris Grable's voice first so I will have Chris be the second on this one now let's now that we have a motion we'll open it for public comment taking comment on the consent agenda 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 um is there anyone in the council chamber who wishes to make a comment seeing nobody is there anyone online there are no hands being raised via zoom chair okay so secretary manus could you please do a roll call vote on the consent calendar thank you board member right aye board member watts aye board member walsh board member grable aye board member battenfort vice chair arnone aye let the record show that motion passes with five unanimous or five affirmative votes very good that takes us to item seven there are no report items so we'll move on to public comments on non-agenda matters if anyone would like to make a comment on item eight please make a comment via zoom by raising your hand and if you're dialing in via phone please dial star nine to raise your hand anybody in the council chamber wish to make a public comment see nobody rise secretary manus there are no hands being raised via zoom thank you so that takes us to section nine there are no referrals I see no no written communications there is a subcommittee report because there was a subcommittee meeting of the city council and vpu liaison committee that I was fortunate to attend and we met on the 27th of september to review one item that item was an update on the request from the Jackson family winds to use excess delivery capacity in the geyser pipeline to transmit or wheel recycled water from the town of Windsor's reclamation facilities to their property which is within Windsor's recycled water service area staff presented information on the amount of capacity in the pipeline potential risks associated mitigations and provided an overview of potential agreement terms the subcommittee reviewed the information asked questions about additional recycled water supply availability from Windsor direct staff to continue moving forward with negotiations based on the broad terms outlined in the presentation and to return to the subcommittee with a more detailed set of terms for a potential agreement so unless anybody has any questions about that are there any other subcommittee reports I don't believe any other subcommittees met any comments by board members on the subcommittee report I see none we will now open it for public comment on the subcommittee report and if you wish to make a comment via zoom please raise your hand if you are dialing in via telephone please dial star none to raise your hand star nine to raise your hand is anybody wish to comment to the council nobody secretary mannes no public comments from zoom all right that brings us to item 12 are there any board member reports that anyone would like to make on the board seeing none we will move to the director's report director Burke thank you vice chair anonia members of the board I have a couple items to let the board know about today first I wanted to let the board know that we had a very successful creek week that occurred in September and we had 259 participants we removed 2082 pounds of trash from our creeks we also had stormwater and creeks team led a public cleanup of the prince memorial greenway and provided five different tours to citizens within santa rosa we had a nature walk on santa rosa creek we had two tours of the downtown underground culverts that run under city hall and two tours of the laguna treatment plant we had significant interest in all of these events as my staff said it was off the charts this year our registration filled up fast and each event had a waiting list and then we also had 47 city staff throughout the entire city participate in our first annual dash for trash cleanup event and we removed almost 900 pounds of trash from santa rosa creek and the laguna to santa rosa so great job and great creek week that was put on by our stormwater and creeks team this year also wanted to provide the board some updates on some legislation that we had been following and providing various updates to on the board over the past year now that september 30th has passed which was the deadline for the governor to sign state legislation there are a few bills that i just wanted to let the board know about the first is ab2142 which was authored by assembly member gabriel and this was signed by the governor and it exempts turf rebates from california taxable income doesn't really affect santa rosa because we have always treated rebates as refunds and not income but this is helpful throughout the state to know that that protection is there also there was a senate bill 222 which was authored by senator dodd and this was vetoed by governor newson this was a bill that santa rosa as well as other water entities had taken an oppose unless amended position so we were glad to see that it was vetoed by the governor the bill would have established a statewide water rate assistance program to provide water affordability assistance to eligible residential water customers and while we're definitely supportive of those programs the problem with the bill was that there was no identified funding source and a lot of concerns that that would go back to water agencies to provide the funding to the state senate bill 1157 authored by senator herzberg was also a bill that a coalition of water agencies took an oppose unless appended position including santa rosa but this bill was signed into law and this is going to further reduce the indoor residential water use standard so in 2025 will be required to have a 47 gallon per person per day indoor residential standard or required to meet that and then in 2030 it will drop further to 42 gallons per capita per day the biggest concern with this bill is just the feasibility and operational impacts and so we'll be continuing to follow this as it progresses through and is worked on by the department of water resources to put into effect and assembly bill 2247 authored by assembly member bloom was vetoed by governor newson this was a bill that would have required manufacturers products containing PFOS and PFOA to disclose the presence in a publicly accessible database and although this one was vetoed the governor did sign into law ab 1817 authored by assembly member ting which will prohibit the manufacturing distributing selling or offering to sell new textile articles containing PFOA or PFOS beginning in january of 2025 which is good news and something that we had supported in the city and then last I just wanted to let the board know about a new law related to the brown act which may have some impact to the board starting next year the governor signed ab 2449 and it's will take effect in january january 1st of next year and it does include new rules for remote participation and requires at least at this point a quorum of members of a legislative body to participate in person and limits the ability of board members to teleconference they must have just cause reasons and also limits the even if even with just cause reasons the number of meetings that board members can teleconference so the city clerk's office and city attorney's office is working on this and we'll be developing the protocols for city council and once we have that information we will share that with the board later this year but just wanted to make sure that board members were aware because this is going to likely reduce ability to teleconference into board meetings starting next year and that is my report and I'm happy to answer any questions the board may have thank you director burt are there any questions from board members seeing none we are now taking public comment on item 13 if you wish to make a comment via zoom please raise your hand if you are dialing in the phone please dial star nine to raise your hand first of all is everybody in the council chamber that wishes to make a statement very menace there are no public comments from zoom well thank you all very much for the information and for your attendance and again thanks to all the water professionals during this water professional appreciation week your work is very much appreciated so with that I will adjourn the meeting in your honor Vice chair or no any yes thank you just want to say thanks oh you bet see you next time see you next time it'd be nice to see some people in person