 Okay. I have 530. So let's go ahead and convene this meeting of the Board of Directors of the San Lorenzo Valley Water District on January 20th, 2022. Holly, would you call the roll? Yes, President Mayhood. Here. Vice President Henry. Lois, you're muted. Brian to unmute me. Here. Thank you. Director Ackman. Here. Director Fault. Here. And Director Smalley. Here. Okay. Are there any additions and deletions to the closed session agenda? The staff has none, Chair. Okay. This is the time for oral communications regarding items in close session on the agenda from members of the public. And I don't see any members of the public among the attendees list. And are there any phone people phoning in? I don't see any. So hearing none, seeing none, we will now adjourn to closed session. So we'll convene now our open session. And I'll report out actions taken in closed session. The board voted unanimously 5-0 to accept the district manager's goals and objectives for December 21 through November 22. And these will be posted to the district website shortly so that all members of the public can view them. Holly, would you call the roll please? President Mayhood. Here. Not hearing anyone, so I'll try again. President Mayhood. Here, maybe I spoke too quietly. Holly, did you hear the chair respond? Are you hearing anything? Can you hear me, Holly? Can you hear me? Yeah, now I can hear you. Okay, Chair answered President. I'm here. I can't. Okay, well, maybe I'll try calling in. Rolls by, right, can you see people raise their hands so that you do it that way? I don't have, Mark is not showing and that's all, but yes, I could, if you could. The full board is present. Okay, I can see everyone is there except I do not see Mark Smalley, but I see his name. Can you hear me? Yes. We hear you loud and clear. I think she has one way media going. That's good. It's only solved by dropping the reconnect. Good to be true. Okay, well, I think we'll go ahead and just say that we're all here, Holly, and why don't you, as Bob suggests, disconnect, try again and see if it comes back better. Just make sure before you leave that we are definitely recording so that we have the tape. They are. CTV is recording and we've recorded that all board members are present. Okay, great. Let's go ahead and continue on. Additions and deletions to the agenda. Staff has none. Sure. Okay. This is the time where we have oral presentations from the public on any topic that is within the jurisdiction of the district but is not on tonight's agenda. And I see we do have seven attendees. Would anybody like to address the board right now? I don't think we have any phone ends, so I guess we'll, oh, sorry, go ahead, Brian, Brian fan. Yeah. Brian, I think am I the only one that it's kind of garbled? No, he's verbal to me too. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, could you hear me now? Yeah, that's better. Hello. Okay. I'm going to address the board to see if you folks would talk about the merge for San Lorenzo water district as well as the big basin water. If you're asking, I think Brian, you've you contacted me by email and I said that you should address our district manager, Rick Rogers for the latest information on that. I'm not really on, you know, something that we can talk about in great detail right now tonight, but Rick, if you just want to give him a quick update. I have an email from Brian that he needs to talk with someone from the district no later than this Friday. He is on my list to call tomorrow. I have his contact number. He's both left me an email and district secretary. So I will be contacting him tomorrow. Brian, we do not plan to talk about the merger tonight as it's not on the agenda. Jamie, did you have something you wanted to just wanted to offer that as an explanation to Brian that, you know, if he's, he may not have attended these meetings in the past and unfortunately we can only speak to things that have been previously agendized. He can talk to us about whatever he'd like to, but we would need to have the staff put it on the next agenda to come back with any kind of a response. I do believe Brian is a journalist that is working on a story. And he has a deadline tomorrow. What my emails said and I plan to contact him before noon tomorrow. Did you hear that right? We'll have contact before noon tomorrow. Okay. Yes. Yes. Thank you so much for that. I appreciate that. Okay. Any other communications? All right. Seeing none hearing men will go ahead to the next item, which is president's report. I don't have much to report. I just want to say that the admin committee and the budget finance committees have met. Jamie Ackman will be the chair of the admin committee this coming year and I'll be the chair of budget and finance. Thank you. I also just wanted to provide by way of explanation of what, what, why we had to cancel the meeting. Last time. And that was that 15 of our staff have been working at home. Due to COVID, including our district manager. He's still under quarantine and is joining us from. And he's, he's got a limited voice. So we, we don't want to tax it too much because it makes him start to cough. If he talks too much. But I just want to emphasize that, you know, we've been there. It's kind of distributed across different groups. And so clearly most of this is a matter of, you know, community transmission. It's not so much what happened within the district. And it is nearly 50% of our staff. So despite this, we're, you know, people are still working. We're still providing water. Everything's still ongoing, but I hope people will be a little bit patient. Both us as members of the board and members of the public that we're working under kind of, you know, with one arm behind our back right, right now. Okay. Let's go ahead to the unfinished business. The first is the board policy manual. And should I turn that over to Gina? Please. Okay. Thanks. Chair Mayhood. And Rick. This item, of course, is coming back to the board after our discussion or the board's prior discussion at the December 7th meeting. At that meeting. The board was presented with a memo listing some proceeds, some conceptual changes to the board. Policy manual. And we also talked about making a change to clarify the terms of the committee members. So what you have in front of you tonight at that, the board at that time sort of. Provided some input on those conceptual changes. And I have brought back a resolution and a red line. Version of the policy manual on a final version. That the board could review. And then a red line version of the policy manual on a final version. That the board could adopt tonight that would implement the changes that were previously discussed. In addition to that, there is a process that we kicked off at that December 7th meeting that unfortunately I was not able to conclude over the holidays of obtaining input from. Board members as to any additional conceptual changes that we may need to handle in sort of a second round. Within the next, you know, in the near term, I did receive some input by the deadline and I also got some comments after the deadline of December 17th and I apologize for not sort of moving the ball forward to get that all wrapped up. But what I would like to do, and in particular one comment that I got after the deadline that was a good one was that the, it probably doesn't make sense to just kind of shove the descriptions of the environmental and the engineering committee, the old descriptions together. It needs to be kind of rewritten to reflect a single committee. And I think that makes a lot of sense. But what I'd like to do in order to make sure that all of that input gets considered by the full board is I'd like to move the ball forward to the deadline for board members to provide me your requested conceptual changes to Monday, which is January 4th. And of course, any that have already been provided to me will be included. And then once I have those, I will package them up and send them back out to the board along with a list so that we can take kind of a poll as like we did before via email. And then all of that input is going to go into a future discussion. So I think that's a good idea. I think that's a good idea. I think that's a good idea for consideration by the whole board and approval of any additional changes that the board agrees with. But for tonight, what you have in front of you is simply a resolution and a changed policy manual. And to reflect those, those items that were previously discussed. So I think that's a good idea. And I think that's a good idea. And I'll go ahead and make a comment first to see if there's anybody that wants to make a comment on this. The changes are minor. Are there any comments from the board? I don't have any comments. Okay. Let me go out. So go ahead, Lois. If you want to make a motion, and then I will go out to the public for comments. Okay. So the motion is to adopt the attached resolution adopting and approving districts board policy manual for 20, but it's. Down in the. In the bottom there. Where does it say it at the top? Shall I restate that? I think maybe I was speaking over Lois. Let me just rephrase that. But it's moved that the board adopt the attached resolution. Adopting and approving the district's board policy manual for 2022. Is there a second? Second. Thank you. Okay. And let me just go out to members of the board. If anybody would like to comment on this before we take a vote. I don't see any hands up. So unless any board members want to say anything, let's let. Let's see is Holly. Holly, there you are. Holly, can you hear us? Yes, I can. Okay. So would you take a roll call? Please. Yes. President Mayhood. Hi. Vice president Henry. Yes. Director Ackman. Yes. Director Falls. Yes. And director Smalley. Yes. Okay. The. Motion passes unanimously. The next item is related in this sort of an automatic fall out from the adoption. And I'll let Gina walk about this one. Thank you. I don't have much more to say about it. Because the board policy manual revisions that were just adopted. Included combining the environmental and the engineering committee that that has now done that that was done as part of the changes to the board policy manual. But the membership has not been updated. And so this item, the purpose of this item is to. Identify who will be the members of the newly constituted environmental combined engineering committee. And to establish the number of seats on the committee. For purposes of determining whether there's a quorum. Okay. So what I'd like to do is just propose a motion that essentially combines the memberships of the two previous committees as we discussed at the last meeting. So what I am moving is that we appoint Mark Smalley and Bob Fultz as the board members on the engineering and environmental committee. And that we also appoint Ken Landy, Elena Lang, Michael Murphy as the public members. And that we set the committee membership to five. Okay. I'll second that. Thank you. Any discussion among the board members. No, any discussion among the public. Comments by the public. All right. Holly, would you take a roll call vote please. Director, excuse me, president Mayhood. Hi. Vice president Henry. Yes. Director Ackman. Yes. Director Falls. Yes. Director Smalley. Yes. Okay. The next item is the, what is becoming routine. The meeting authorization. And so the motion would be. To. Readopt ratify and re-adopt the attached resolution. That. Authorizes continuation of remote meetings. Three 61. So moved. Second. Second. Okay. Yes. We probably need to discuss it. I don't think so. I'm going to really take a big leap here and ask. Do you want to just ask the public? I'm not sure. Yeah, we should ask. All right. I don't see any hands up. But if you, if you just died to talk about this, please. All right. I will, I will be where we vote. Just make the comment that. Reconfort me that we're. The staff is making some progress on preparing the Johnson building. For hybrid meetings in the future, the progress is a little bit slow because we've been short-handed because of COVID, but we are making progress on that. So please do not look at this. All right. Fortunately, they're live survey. Okay. President May hood. Hi. Vice president Henry. Yes. Director Ackman. Yes. Director falls. Yes. And director Smalley. Yes. And I'd like to ask that I can appreciate. I don't know why I'm laughing. Mark, you're killing me. On to new business. The first item is Glen arbor bridge mainline pipe replacement. Award of construction did. Yes, and I will ask the district engineer to present this item to the board. Josh. Thank you, Rick. This item is a request that the board. I would like to present the award by motion. A construction contract to. MPE moderate Peninsula engineering for construction of a new water pipeline. Running across the bridge at Glen arbor road and highway nine. The new pipeline is intended to replace a. An existing pipeline, which leaks. And has been. The new water pipeline. We went out for bid. A couple of months ago and. Four bids. And I was pretty happy with that. It actually was more than I expected for this particular project. MPE's bid was low. At 320,500. The next low was Anderson Pacific. Roughly $26,000 higher. Both were responsive. I'm happy to answer any questions. Okay. Let's start with any comments, Mark. Use and share the chair. Have been chair of the engineering committee. I agree with Josh. There were no exceptions in MPs bid. I found it to be satisfactory and concur with staff's recommendation that we would award this contract to them. And I'm happy to answer any questions. I'm also. Like the fact that we received four bids. I'm seeing. This now is a trend in a lot of the. Particularly the construction contracts that we're getting multiple bids. That's great. So good job, Josh. Thank you. Any. Questions from other members of the board. Jamie. Thank you. Thank you. I'm just wanting to understand actually. So. In, in working alongside the county to schedule and plan this. You know, you mentioned that you think that there are cost savings associated with that, which I agree. Of course there always are when you get some, you know. You know, order of magnitude skeet savings, but I'm just curious, like, when you look at these projects, like, is there, is there a way to quantify what we're, you know, saving in those inefficiencies? I'm sorry. You've lost me. So. We, we worked with the county, right? To try and permit this project so that we were doing it alongside other work that they were doing. Correct. Oh, no, this project is not one that that is. It's not one that we're doing. It's not one that we're doing. The case for, we are doing that with the 2020 pipeline. Projects, both the FEMA project and the CIP project. We did that with the California drive. The 2020 pipeline projects. And we were able to. Let me back up a second. We're also doing that on quail hollow, which we have been recently awarded. And it's probably top of mind right now. So I'm guessing that's where the connection was made. Yeah. So. To answer your question. Regarding the other projects as opposed to on this one. The places where we are gaining. Financial benefit. Are the repaving and resurfacing requirements that the county puts on us. Under ordinary circumstances. If the county was not doing any kind of road resurfacing in those areas, it would have been much more difficult for the county to be able to be able to. To be able to trench and restore the pavement surface, but also to put down what they call a type two slurry seal. For the entire width of the lane. For the entire length of our project, which can add up to quite a number. In areas like quail hollow, where the county is already using measure D funds to resurface the roads. Using what they're calling a cave seal, which is kind of the next step up from the type two slurry. And so we're going to be able to do that. And so we're going to be able to do that. And so with the county's agreement with them where. Rather than us having to completely resurface the road and then them come in and resurface behind us. We are able to limit the amount of work that we do in backfilling the trench. We don't need to do what they call the tea cut when I required to put AC. Outboard of the actual excavation. Under ordinary circumstances. We would be able to use a two foot wide trench, which is fairly typical for us. We would then be required to also grind out. Two feet to either side of that trench. And then resurface that entire six foot wide area with new asphalt. And then seal over the top of everything. Because we're working with them. Through this measure D funding. Excuse me. We are able to not perform the tea cut in these areas. So we're going to be able to resurface the two foot wide area that we cut out for our trench. Reducing the amount of asphalt that we're putting down by two thirds. And then the amount that we would have spent. Putting down the type two slurry. We contribute to the county towards their Cape seal. So the savings is in the asphalt. But it can be. Pretty significant in the case of oil hollow. We're looking at. Over a mile. We're looking at four feet wide. So. Let's call it 25,000 or so square feet of asphalt. Four inches thick, which adds up to quite a pretty penny. Thank you for that explanation. I apologize for my misunderstanding. I thought this was being timed because it was one of the projects that we were trying to time. It's another work being done by the county. So. My misunderstanding, but thank you. That was really helpful. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. No worries. Glad I could help. Any other. Bob, did you have anything? Question. I just wanted to echo what Mark was saying about getting multiple bids in. Great trends. You know, keep, keep it up. And Josh, I'm, I'm going to. Give you the benefit of the fact that you've been out soliciting people. I think the results of that are showing in spades. Thank you. Lois, did you have anything you wanted to comment on? No, I, I agree with. This plan, our bridge. Main. Line pipe replacement awarded. All right. Just a kind of a question here. I, I. About the motion, the recommendation for the motion. I was a little bit confused by it. And I wanted to make sure that I get it right is, is it says that we're directing the district manager to enter into negotiations. And is that really what we're doing? Or are we not. As directing him to enter into a contract. And shouldn't we be putting the amount of money that the bid is in, in the motion. To answer. I have three questions. In regards what we're actually asking the district manager to do, or what I'm suggesting. Is that the board instruct. Rick and staff. To negotiate specific terms, things like schedules, insurance requirements. Construction management issues. And the board's recommendation for request for information for submittals review process. All of kind of the minutia of how the project is going to work. Because those. Many of those things need to be spelled out in the contract. What follows then is that we would enter into the contract. And I agree that you are correct that the dollar value should be in the motion. And I apologize for leaving that out. I mean, I can add that, but I guess I'm just saying that as the board, our job is to. Eventually we're going to have to actually approve. You know, spending the money. So. That's what I want to make sure we do right, Gina. Yeah, I would like to just offer kind of a streamlined motion here. Thank you. Motion. To authorize and. Authorize and direct the district manager to enter into a contract with moderate peninsula. Engineering for the Glen Arbor Bridge pipeline construction project in an amount not to exceed. Thank you. That is the motion. I will go ahead and make that motion. Okay. Let's go out and ask if the members, anybody in the public would like to comment or ask a question. I don't see any hands up. Any other final comments by members of the board before we go ahead and vote on the motion. Seeing none. Go ahead, Holly. Thank you. Vice president Henry. Yes. Director Ackman. Yes. Director Falls. Yes. Director Smalley. Yes. Next we have. Basically the same project, but now the construction management aspect of it. Josh. Yes. Moderately embarrassing after the previous accolades regarding numbers of bids. This one only got two. However. This item is construction management related to construction of the replacement pipeline across Glen Arbor Bridge. It was complicated by the fact that this is project is going to be entirely night work. So that leads to the lower number of bids. And the other two companies mentioned that had it been day work, they would have been proposing. That said, I'm. We did receive two bids, the low bid from San Diego civil engineers at 61,850. The second bid. A firm called for leaf incorporated with which we have not previously done business, but who I have some research on. Has a fairly good reputation in the engineering world. Came in at 82,548. As a result, staff is recommending that award be made to Sandus. Both bids were. Complete. No exceptions to them. And I will cheerfully take questions. Again, going to Mark first. I did review. In particular, Sanis has been. Sanis put together a complete proposal for us. They did. Took an extra effort to review drawings and provide comments on the drawings. Asking questions, making suggestions for the engineering drawings that are part of this package. So in my mind, they went above and beyond. What construction manager would typically put into a proposal. So good for them in doing that. Josh, I think the messages that you've delivered to them. From some of their previous submittals. They've received that information and taken it to heart. So good. Yes, you only received two bids. But this is night work. We do have two bids that are competitive. One is from Sandus. Who we've done work with in the past. So I feel comfortable. Recommending that we make this award to them. Second, I will come on on for leave since. I have worked with them in the past on the. New Apple project. They had a significant presence on that. And yes, they are a very reputable company. If they had been a little bit, I would have had no qualms on. Making the award to them also. That's good to know. We'll start comments with Bob. Did you have anything you want to add? Just a, just a couple of things. You know, Josh, don't, don't sell yourself short. The fact that you've got a new supplier, because I didn't recognize name either. Into this process to me is significant. It's not only the quantity, but also expanding the breadth of companies that we can get to bid on and support our construction needs. So I consider this a huge win for getting that. And. The only thing I would say is, you know, please encourage them to apply again and provide them some guidance on, you know, maybe how they can. You know, help them to do better the next time. And hopefully they will get the next time. Lois, did you want to say anything? Well, I think Santas is a good firm. They have the lower bid. By like $20,000. So I, I think Santas is the right ones. To give this contract to. Jamie. The latter will experience no, no Zara. District. Okay. Are there any comments from the public. The questions. All right. I'm gonna modify the recommendation that was made because there was a. An error in referring to what project this was. So let me. I'm trying to state it here, that the motion is to direct the district manager to enter into a contract with Santa's civil engineers for construction management activities related to the Glen Arbor Rich Pipeline replacement project in an amount not to exceed $61,850. Second. Holly, would you take the, I'll call those please? President Mayhood? Aye. Vice President Henry? Yes. Director Ackman? Yes. Director Fultz? Yes. And Director Smalley? Yes. Motion passes unanimously. Next, we come to a contract for the Brookdale Viaduct Pipeline construction project. Josh? Thank you, Chair. This, this next item is one that was a little bit interesting in that Caltrans is expanding a Viaduct south of Brookdale in Highway nine and is requiring us to re-route some of our pipeline in order to make room for retaining walls and ears for their Viaduct. They notified us of this in March, I believe, might have been February of last year, and we prepared a plan set. The intention discussed with Caltrans at that time was that once they had awarded their work, they would pass along contact info for their contractor and we would negotiate with that contractor for them to do our work, realign our pipeline at the same time. Thus, economizing on things like traffic control and mobilization. I received a phone call early in December from Caltrans telling us that they'd awarded the project a while back and that their contractor was Gordon Endball. I reached out to Gordon Ball, went back and forth for a couple of weeks, ended up with a bid that seemed very high, just shy of $300,000, roughly $1,300 per linear 4-6 inch pipe. Way too much. So, I talked to Rick about how to go about essentially a very short notice RFP. I reached out to about a dozen construction firms, ended up getting two additional bids in addition to Gordon Balls. And during the same time period, I was in discussion with Caltrans to find ways to reduce the scope of the work that they were requiring of us to simplify the project essentially. As I said and done, we received three bids as outlined in the memo, Gordon Balls came down to $221,512. The low bid was from Reaver Construction at $166,000, much more palatable and granted construction also bid on the project and came in at $215,000. This point staff is recommending that Reaver be awarded the project. They are prepared to begin work on Monday. We have discussed with Caltrans what is to be done, how best to do it, and how to find ways to shorten the duration of the project without sacrificing quality or safety. In that vein, I am recommending that the board instruct the district manager to enter into a contract with Reaver Construction for the amount of $166,000 to complete this project, and I'm happy to take questions. Mark, any comments from you? Yes, just to some further clarifications. Again, from an email exchange that I've had with Josh, it is forwarded to the rest of the board members, that Reaver is acceptable to Caltrans, and that the exclusions that they have spelled out in their contract, we are okay with. So based on that, we don't anticipate or that there's likely change orders from them based on their exclusions. The work as proposed by Reaver is being done during daylight work hours. With Caltrans proposal, which is more expensive, Granite was proposing to do at night so that they could be more efficient with it. More efficient, but their costs are higher. So, with all of the input that I was able to get from Josh, I feel better about Reaver's proposal and concur that we should move ahead with issuing them a contract. Can I ask whether we've worked with these folks before? Yes, we have. And with a happy result? Yes, Reaver is a local contractor that has done a huge amount of work up and down the valley. Lois, did you have anything you want to add? Not really. Okay. Jamie. I just wanted to clarify, I heard you saying that you had a sort of foreshortened bidding process, it sounds like, because we weren't happy with the estimate that we got from Gordon and Ball. Is there any reason that that would, that they would have a reason to challenge that? No, they were given every opportunity. Certainly they were asked to provide a price before anyone else even knew there was a project. So, if anything, Granite would be the one who could complain that Gordon Ball got some advance notice. And I was very clear in my discussions with Brandon and with all three of what the situation was and why the foreshortened bidding period existed. Thank you. Certainly. Just a quick question on when you say local, Josh, because I love local, I wish we could do more with local contractors by local. Do you mean San Lorenzo Valley? Yes. San Lorenzo Valley local. This is this is another huge win in my mind. Okay, I hope we can get more local contractors to work with us on construction projects, particularly as we move from the main lines to the distribution and laterals in the future. So, I'm going to kind of, I'll place a motion because this is a little the recommendations a little. We'll direct the district manager to enter into a contract with Reaver construction company for the Brookdale viaduct pipeline construction project in an amount not to exceed $166,000. Oh, second. Are there any comments from members of the public. I don't see any comments. So, Holly, you want to go ahead and roll call vote. President Mayhood. Vice President Henry. Yes. Director Ackman. Yes. Director Falls. Yes. Director Smalling. Yes. Motion passes unanimously. And the next item of business is the Cal fire fire prevention grant resolution representative. Yes, and I will ask the districts environmental programs manager to present this on the board, Carly. Great, thank you. So this year we are going after Cal fires fire prevention grants. We're hoping to go. We're going to be using pump stations and harden those from burnable materials to fire resistant materials as well as complete fuel reduction on about 20 infrastructure sites, and then also potentially remove hazard trees from the p bind section of the five mile pipeline. So it would be approximately $1.5 million that would be the requesting to continue with the grant application we do need a resolution from the board appointing a signatory from staff. We've chosen the district manager to be that person and then the environmental programs manager myself as the point of contact. And then the board review the memo approve the memo and appoint the district manager as the signatory. This seems pretty straightforward does anybody have any comments on it. I'm just happy we're getting grants. Okay. Yes. All right. How about any comments from members of the public. All right, so let me. Let me take the motion here, which is that we. The board approves the attached resolution appointing the district manager as the district representative to be the signatory and point of contact for the Cal fire fire prevention grant. I'll second that. All right. Holly you want to take a little color. May hood. Vice president Henry. Yes. Director Ackman. Yes. Director Falls. Yes. Director Smalley. Yes. Motion passes unanimously. Final item of new business is the standard specifications and details. This looks like it's Josh presenting district engineer will present this item. Thank you. Historically, the district has operated without a board adopted set of standard specifications or standard details. As background, these documents provide engineers contractors and homeowners, the information they need to ensure that new construction and or remodeling projects within the district are built. In conformance with current industry best practices and current codes to utilizing materials consistent with district policies and engineering or operational decisions. And three in ways consistent across projects enabling operations maintenance and repair or rehabilitation of those facilities by the district regardless of the builder. During the CCU fire recovery effort FEMA has repeatedly asked for documentation of the standards used to construct facilities, which were lost in the fires. The lack of previously adopted standards has led to many hours of searching through historic plan sets to figure out how such things were built. The proposed standards when adopted will alleviate this issue in any future disaster by providing that standard documentation for all projects. The staff have worked to produce a comprehensive set of standard specifications to include standard details and recommend adoption by resolution of these standards. In addition, these standard specifications and details have been reviewed and discussed by the engineering committee. Director Smalley has led that committee to concur with staff's recommendation previously. And I'm happy to take any questions. I guess I would just like to start out by saying congratulations because I think you finally brought something to completion that this engineers have tried to move along but you've actually moved it to completion and so we really appreciate that. Thank you. Congratulations on that. So, Mark, anything you want to add. Yes, I've worked on similar documents during my career. This is a very laborious process that needs detail review in order to get things complete so I commend Josh and the rest of the engineering staff and being able to complete this work. I don't know what boring task but completely necessary. In addition to everything that Josh spelled out, I think it also better informs contractors what the district wants as far as standard materials, components, parts, supplies and everything else on project. So, good work. Any other comments from the board. Bob. Yes, thanks. Excuse me. Sorry about that. Josh, I guess say this is your night apparently for free things I'm just incredibly impressed here. I mean, this is like the second really major accomplishment that has been outstanding for a long time the inventory was the first one, and this I think really brings home a lot of work that as Gail said has been outstanding for a while. You're to be commended just to the moon for having done this and having worked on the inventory, presumably a lot at the same time. So thank you for doing that. One question I had will this be posted on the website. Yes, the drafts are posted. Once we have. Once the board has adopted the standards and specs and details. They will replace the drafts that are currently available. Thank you. Gina. I just wanted to add Josh and other members of the staff, I'd suggest posting the resolution with it since it, you know, elevates it to the level of a policy decision that I think that would be useful. Will do. Jamie, did I see your hand come up. Yeah, I was just going to, you know, I congratulate you as well on this. I think, you know, obviously, I, you know, I'm sure this took a huge amount of work and was something that has been in the. Pipeline for a long time, but there are a lot of homeowners trying to rebuild who are going to really appreciate having access to this. So thank you for getting it done. Any other comments from the board. How about from members of the I wanted. Sorry, I'm sorry. Go ahead. I just wanted to say, this is so thorough. I'm just bursting with information. Thank you, Josh, and the committee. All right, any comments from members of the public. I don't see any. So what we have is that we. Motion is to approve the attached resolution adopting the standard specifications for construction of water facilities within the district. Second. Second. Okay. Thank you. Holly, would you. Think about your Mayhood? Did I miss public comment on this item? Yes. Yes, or you did it? Yeah. Resident Mayhood. Aye. Vice president Henry. Yes. Director Ackman. Yes. Director falls. Yes. Director Smalling. Yes. Motion passes unanimously. on the agenda is the consent agenda involving meeting minutes. Does anybody want to remove something from the consent agenda? Next we move to district reports. Are there any questions from the board concerning district reports? Bob? I have a number of them. Do we want to go through each report one at a time or just ask all my questions? Well, let's go ahead and just go ahead and start. If other people have questions on the same report, raise your hand and we'll pop in. Otherwise, go ahead. On the environmental report, this would probably be for Carly. There was a note here about grant tracking table. My apologies if I missed it, but I didn't see it. And I'm very interested in this because I'm thinking the ROI we're doing here is pretty high and I'd just like to confirm that belief. Unfortunately, it looks like it was left out of the agenda packet, so the next round I'll make sure it's in there and updated for the board. But we are getting a really good ROI. Right. Yes. Yeah, we've done pretty good in the last year. Hopefully to continue that. Yes, that is great. And keep it coming. It's great stuff. On the finance report, I had a question on page 358, 3 of 33. There was an operating revenue line and I just wanted to confirm that operating revenue included the CZU surcharge revenue as well. Let's see. Hold on one moment while I open my report up again. Take your time. You want to say the page number again? Was it 358? Yeah, 358, 3 of 33. Okay. Bob, yes, that does include the surcharge. Fabulous. Okay. On the past due, I just wanted to come in. It looks like all but one category went down. So this is really good news and that is I'm excluding balances under 30 because those are current. Yep. And I included, I added an extra line in there that sum all the balance of the counts all 30 days plus past due. I think I'd requested that at a prior meeting. That's great. Thank you for doing that. Now this, I hope this can continue and that people can recover. Yeah, it's really good. Kendra, does this include the funds we see from the state, I mean, should we make a comment on that? Yes. So we received funding from the state water resources roll board for a program they had for water arrearages for customers that had past due bills accrued from March 4th, 2020 to 2021. We received the funding for that in January. So on the December finance status report, we'll see those past due balances decrease even further. I think the total amount received was, or that we applied to customer accounts was around 140,000. But you'll definitely, in September report, you'll see past due balances drop even further. That's absolutely fantastic. Yep. Good. Let me just, Jamie, did you have a follow up question on this one? I'm sorry, I do. I work for community bridges, which is a nonprofit. We do a lot of case management, particularly around economic relief related to the pandemic. And so I hear what you're saying that we're going to be applying those arrears to those past due water bills. But I know in my professional world, we have people calling us asking like, what do I do? I've got these late bills. How do I get access to funding? So what are we, is the water district going to be doing to communicate to people who may be in arrears that there is relief for them? So anyone, any customer that we applied that those payments to their account, give a letter from us stating the amount that was credited to their accounts and any remaining, because it didn't cover their total account balance, we stated that any remaining balance they're able to call us and set up a payment arrangement. And that was one of the guidelines. We already offer that anyways, but that was one of the guidelines that the state had in their program that we needed to extend payment plans to any remaining balances. So we are we've always offered payment plans. So any customer can call in and any remaining balance and set up installments for them to pay that off. We are there was money left over in the budget that just allocated, which was about $905 million and I think only $350 million was actually applied for. So we're waiting to hear if there's going to be another round of funding for that. But that's, I think that's still in the works. Great. And there is one follow up. I'm sorry, Rick, I was going to go ahead. There's information that you can share with like the local, you know, nonprofits who are who are in contact with these low income communities who are looking for these this kind of relief. It would be really helpful just so that they can be giving correct information to people who are calling them, you know, asking these questions. Thank you. I was just going to say that there is an item in the budget and finance committee this month on that program and it's on the agenda hurts on the other website. I'm sorry, if you want to get more information on that program and the amounts we receive and credit just to clarify, we apply for it, not we apply for it. That's correct. We apply for it. And then we announce to these individuals that, you know, a fairy godmother has come down and take part of their balance. So they don't actually have to do anything. Okay. So let's go back to you, Bob. No worries. On the engineering report, just a comment that Josh is obviously keeping himself just a little busy. So keep the pedal to the metal. And I also want to just make sure I understood the note about the Felton Heights tank project, which is a project that's been outstanding for a while. Do I understand that we now have all the easements for that, that we can now proceed? We do not at this time. The ball is in the property owner's court. District council, myself has put together memos and sent to him. And we're trying to get him to agree now. He's been slow to respond. But we hope that you we are very close, but we're not there yet. Okay, we just may want to update the status report just to make that clear. Okay. And then the last question is in operations, but you know, I don't want to stress your voice, Rick. Let's see what we can do. All right. So the north system looks like it's back online. Surface water. Okay, we have we have Foreman Creek is online. And that was put in as an emergency pipeline installation right after by the ground was still smoking on CZU. I understand that, but we're now taking water. What I meant is we're taking water out of that now. That is correct. Perfect. And then I noticed the water went both ways on the Felton intertide. How did that happen? Well, these first rains have been problematic to district sources being with sampling for VOCs. The first rains were still sampling Fall Creek for VOCs and Foreman Creek. Fall Creek had a lot of gravel and high turbidity that wouldn't clear. Again, we contribute that to CZU. So Fall Creek was offline and we moved water from the north into Felton. Okay. And we can do that under the fact that we're still in an emergency situation under emergency right now 98% of our water system is on surface water. Yeah, that's great. Actually, I mean, fantastic. And I just wanted to mention that it looks like we met all of our big trees flow requirements except for three days. So that's actually pretty darn good because I know October, November tends to be a tough months for us. Right. And this year, obviously, we will have a wet, wet flow requirements. It won't be a dry season. It will be a wet season. Before Creek is producing, you know, very strongly and so is Foreman Creek and we are under the emergency until we get additional sources on in the north system. Right. Sorry about that with your voice record. I'm going to have to cough. Okay. Anything else, Pop? That is it. Thank you. Okay. Any other comments by members of the board? Let me go out to the dwindling public out there, the three diehards, if they have any comments on any of the department status reports or committee reports. Okay. Seeing none, we've, Larry Ford, go ahead. Hi, this is Larry Ford Felton. I just wanted to thank you all for a very efficient productive meeting. I think the meeting was well run and I'm glad that people were well enough that we could get back into an actual meeting. Thank you. Okay. Thank you for those encouraging words, Larry. Okay. All right. Anything else? I get it. We're at the end of our agenda. So if I don't hear any objections, I will go ahead and adjourn us for this evening. Thanks. Okay. Hi. Hi, everyone. Hi. Melissa, I have 732 as our sign off time.