 I'd like to call the meeting of the contract review subcommittee for the Board of Public Utilities to order. You may have a roll call, please. Board Member Grable. Here. Board Member Baden-Fort and Chair Galvin. Here. Let the record reflect that all Board members are present with the exception of Board Member Baden-Fort. Just a reminder, I don't think it'll be an issue today, but we can only have three microphones on at the same time. So please mute your microphone when you're not speaking. We'll move to item two on the agenda, which is public comments. So we'll now take public comments on item two. If you're in the room, please move to the microphone and wait for the timer to appear on the screen. Nobody rising, that'll take care of item number two. We'll now move to our main item number three, Director Burke. Thank you, Chair Galvin and members of the subcommittee. Our contract item for today is a proposed professional services agreement with integrated project solutions for engineering design services for the Delta Pond standby generator and Laguna treatment plant annex boiler replacements project. And Chris Balaneze, our associate civil engineer with our capital projects team will be making the presentation. Welcome, Chris. Thank you. So, hello, Chair Galvin and Board Member Grable. My name is Chris Balaneze, associate civil engineer with capital projects engineering. So today I am presenting a more detailed look into the proposed professional services agreement for engineering design services pertaining to the Delta Pond standby generator and Laguna treatment plant annex boiler replacements project. So the project is split up into two locations. The first project location is at the Delta Pond. So the Delta Pond is a recycled water storage pond in the reuse system that delivers water to the recycled water mainline. The facility is fed 12 kilovolt power by PG&E overhead lines. During winter storms, the facility experiences power outages and inaccessibility due to flooding along the access road. The loss of power creates operational issues for critical pump, valve and control infrastructure. The second project location is at the Laguna treatment plant. The Laguna treatment plant annex building contains two gas-fired plant boilers previously installed in the 90s. The boilers serve as a secondary heat source for the plant's anaerobic digesters. When demands are high or the combined heat and power engines are not running. The boilers have reached the end of their service life. One boiler is emissions non-compliant and not running. The other has been plagued by operational issues throughout use. The project will provide standby power and controls to operate the Delta Pond pump station during power outages and replace two outdated boilers at the Laguna treatment plant along with any necessary controls and piping infrastructure. Pursuant to the project goals, we engaged in solicitation procedures to acquire a consultant for engineering design services. Our request for proposals was prepared and posted to Planet Bids October 23rd, 2023 for approximately 21 working days. The posting was visible to the general public with no restrictions, 556 vendors were notified. One proposal was received from Integrated Project Solutions or IPS from Walnut Creek on November 20th, 2023. The proposal was evaluated by a review panel of myself, my supervisor and Equality Control Associate. We followed solicitation and evaluation procedures consistent with council policy 600-01. The proposal was evaluated for consistency with the request for proposals and design terms framework, all of which are standardized templates. Three of the four references were checked with a consistent questionnaire and logged. The proposal was discussed amongst the review panel with a consensus to move forward due to the quality of the proposal, experience, reference feedback and competitive billable rates. It is recommended by our office that the Board of Public Utilities by motion approve a professional services agreement with Integrated Project Solutions of Walnut Creek to provide a professional engineering design services for the Delta Pond Standby Generator and Laguna Treatment Plant, Annex Boiler Replacements Project in an amount not to exceed $392,282. Questions? Thank you, Mr. Bollin-Hasey. The only question I think I have is did we have any kind of in-house engineer's estimate of what we thought the project would maybe come in at as far as getting multiple proposals? Yes, so the project is extremely specialized and the equipment itself is fairly easy to come up with an estimate just on the equipment alone, but because a lot of it is jumping into unknown electrical and exhaust plumbing and then as well as the liquid plumbing for the boilers, there's a lot of unknowns associated with it. So we did not have a straightforward engineer's estimate from our asset management team. So what we ended up doing to review competitiveness in terms of pricing was looking at other projects of similar manpower scope with a comparison of total cost as well as hourly rates. The hourly rates were exceptionally competitive and the pricing itself was also exceptionally competitive, if not in the median range. Chris, any questions? No, it's always interesting to see with the unique aspects of our system how we navigate some of these little but very important issues, I just had a strange question. Who's Eastman or who's authority is the road in, because you were mentioning the difficulty of the accident, it's always flooding that road off of Williside to Delta Pond, is that our road or do we have an Eastman? From my, from resources that we have on hand says it's a water agency access road. Sonoma water, that's okay. Want to make a motion? Yeah, I'd move to approve the recommendation. I'll second that. We'll now open up for public comment on item 3.1. If you wish to make a comment, please move to the microphone. See none, we'll have a roll call vote, please. Board member Grable. Aye. Board member Baden-Fort is absent and chair Galvin. Aye. Okay, and that passes with board member Baden-Fort absent. Very good, thanks for the presentation. Good luck with the project. Thank you. And that's the extent of our agenda for today, so we're adjourned.