 It's, it's a lot more men are colorblind than they realize until they get into some sort of situation like that, or it bites them. Yeah, that's what your problem is. I see that it's 530. So I need to convene this meeting of the Senator of the Valley Water District for May 4th, 2023. How long would you take room, please? Mr. President Smalley. Here. Vice President Hill. Here. Director Fultz. Here. Director Ackman. Here. Director Mayhood. Here. Any additions or deletions to the closed sessions? The staff has no none. OK. For communications regarding items in the closed session for the public to comment on any items in the closed session. I don't see any members of the public in attendance. So I think we can adjourn. And it is 532. Husband is down the street at Scopazes at a wild game dinner. Oh. They're surveying various selections. They do that periodically. Yes. They used to have that at the Tivoli Garden or whatever it is. Oh, yeah. The German place. Yeah. The first time I went there, I drove by went, wild games. I love wild games. We got to go there. So I'd like to convene this meeting for the San Lorenzo Valley Water District for May 4th, 2023. Holly, would you take a role again, please? President Smalley. Here. Vice President Hill. Here. Director Fultz. Here. Director Ackman. Here. Director Maygood. Here. We took action on one item during the closed session. And I'd like our outside council to report on that. Gina. Thank you. Mark from closed session is that the board voted unanimously in favour of the district entering into a stipulation for judgment in the Vaughan case, Santa Cruz County case number 22CV02734. Thank you. Moving on then. Any additions or deletions to the agenda? Yes, Chair. Our staff would like to remove item 12A, the Board of Directors minutes 4, 6, 23. We'll plan to bring those back to the next meeting, the second meeting in May. Okay. Any objections to that deletion? Seeing none. And I was concerned. Moving on then. Oral communications. This is for members of the public that want to comment on any subject within the district that is not on the agenda this evening. I see two members of the public in attendance here and one online. So I'd like to open that up then. Would anybody like to comment about that? Here in attendance. Seeing none. Online, we have one. Any comments? Not seeing any. We will move on then. The President is reporting. I would like to note in our written communications this evening, we do have an email stating that the Santa Marta Rita Groundwater Agency has received approval from the State Department of Water Resources in April on the Groundwater Sustainability Plan. This sustainability plan has been something that Santa Marta Rita Groundwater Agency, of which our district has been a member of, and the agency has been working since 2017 on putting this plan together. It was submitted in January 2022 to the State and has now been approved. So a milestone accomplishment and I want to say thanks to staff and to all of the board members current and present that have served on that agency. It's been a somewhat of an arduous slog to get to this point. So good job. Can I just add one statement to that? Just to provide context is that we're one of only 24 of these GSPs that have been approved by the state so far. And they've rejected 49 of them as either being inadequate or incomplete and they have another 54 that are still in review. So we came out of this very well and the good news is that the comments that were in the letter commenting on our GSP did not really have anything substantive that we have to take care of right away. So one of the things that we have to take care of by the time the five-year review is up, which is good news for us because we had, as we were putting the budget together, we thought that we would have to pay for consultants to deal with the things that were wrong and there aren't any. OK. Moving on then to I see no unfinished business. We can move on to new business. The first item is a ratification of the emergency service for Quell Hall and Road. Yes. Thank you, Chair. Before I ask the district engineer to report on this, I would ask the board to limit the discussion on this item as it could be potential litigation. And we can always bring this item back to closed session. OK. Anything that you want to move on? I'll let the district engineer report on what this is. OK. Thank you very much. The contracting question is for emergency work with Anderson Pacific to repair trench failure, road subsidence, issues on Quell Hall or Road at the intersection of Quell Hall or Circle subsequent to storms and pavement failure. Really not much more to say about it. OK. All right. Questions then. Yeah. OK. No, I don't have any questions. Jamie? No, thank you. OK. Bob? No, thanks. No comment. OK. All right. I have a couple. Gina, if these are problematic questions, let me know and I will withdraw those. Ken, it's my understanding from you that the repair so far is temporary, correct? Is Anderson Pacific in a position to be able to come back and complete that then? We have not discussed the permanent repair to date. OK. OK. All right. That's given that. I don't have any further questions then. OK. Then I'd like to make the motion. That the Board ratified the Provided Emergence Services Contract for Anderson Pacific for the... Trench failure. For the repair of the trench failure. Can I offer one? Sure. Not to exceed $108,000. OK. Thank you. Seconded. Any comments from members of the public? Receive one. Hi. I'm Bruce Holman. I'm a peer in the Boulder Creek. And I've been a district customer for more than 40 years. So, I guess the way that this was introduced, there's anticipated litigation. Has that been on an agenda already? So, somehow, you've all heard from the District Council that there's anticipated litigation, but you haven't discussed this among yourselves. We heard from the District Council this evening. Yes. What item is that? Just now. You heard what we heard. Right. She commented two, three minutes ago at the beginning of the... OK. We heard from the District Manager also. So, it's new to you as it was like a few minutes ago. Yes. OK. So, I guess the question that I was going to ask is what was wrong with the work last year? I guess the... What I had heard is that the county agrees that the last one that touched it before it went out of balance is responsible for it. But I guess I was specifically trying to understand what was wrong with the work last year because apparently that led to the failure. And I guess this is going to be a subject of litigation is what I'm hearing. But the reason I was asking was how do we avoid these problems in the future? Mark, if I could just come in here. I think the question from Mr. Holloway is appreciated, but I would advise not putting that question to staff for a response at this time. OK. Well, based on the device council, Mr. Holloway, we'll refrain from addressing your question at this point. I expect it will come up at a future meeting once we see more on this issue. So, thank you for raising it. OK. Any other members of the public? I don't see any at this point. So, we have a motion in front of us on the table. Can you take a vote on that, please? President Smalley. Yes. Vice President Hill. Yes. Director Fultz. Yes. Director Ackerman. Yes. Director Mayhood. Yes. This is unanimously given on then to the next item, Rick. Yes. Thank you. I'll ask the district engineer to present this item on an emergency contract or main location, main relocation on Highway 9 in Park Park. Thank you, Rick. This contract is related to work performed on an emergency basis by Preston Pipelines for the district in order to clear our main out-of-the-way for Caltrans work in engineering slip-out. Generally known as the J's slip-out or J's slide at the corner of California 9 in Park Drive in Bend Lone. We had a small, a 2-inch main that had become exposed when the road base had slipped out into the ravine, leaving our pipe hanging in the air. And we were able to get Preston in to revise our alignment. We put in a new 6-inch pipe running from our 6-inch main in Highway 9 into the Shadow Brook neighbourhood, allowing us to eliminate the piece of pipe that was threatened by the slide. I will take questions. OK. All right. Questions on this side? Jeff? Nope. When they put the 6-inch main in, was it put closer to the hillside as opposed to the road base? It was effectively rotating 90 degrees. Rather than 90 degrees. The existing pipe was a 2-inch main running along the eastern edge of the northbound lane, closest to the river. OK. Connecting the street name to the north of there, but connecting to another small inch and a half main that serves a residential area to eliminate the portion of 2-inch pipe between the last house north of the slip-out and the Shadow Brook neighbourhood and added a 6-inch connection into the 6-inch main in Highway 9 running perpendicular to Highway 9, tying into the existing distribution network within the Shadow Brook neighbourhood, allowing us to eliminate that connection. About how many feet was it? 3-inch pipe. 3-5 feet. OK. Jeannie? I was just going to say I'm really glad to hear that that's what you did, because if you're just going to move it a little bit this way or that way, I think that slide is going to slide for years. We'd just be back doing it again. If they fix it right, hopefully they won't. The Count Transplan involves a new soldier pilot and I think possibly some additional work they haven't established what they're doing yet. It's going to be like what they did further north on Highway 9. I'm just glad that you did a solution that gets us out of there because whatever they do, even if they fix it, it's going to take a long time. So that's good thinking. That's all I'm saying. Keep in mind this is the slide that I'm not at the holiday order. This is one of the lightest hour, the 1-1-way signal is correct. This is a little different. There's two slides. Is this portion of the six-inch line, is this permanent? Correct. It is permanent. Yes, good. So quick question here. Just for clarification, it's my understanding now that by doing the way of Caltrans and they can do what they need to do with the road and we don't have to go back in afterwards and realign pipe again. So that's my mind, that's goodness. We solved our problem and got out of their way. Frank, that was the very direct intention was to make sure that we did not have to go back. Thank you. And is there any other work once Caltrans is done? We need to do it. So we are aiding. There's nothing else. We're done. We are complete. And we're under the... And came in under budget. Great. $1,000 a foot. But it was an emergency. It's an emergency work. They came in, they didn't go in. Exactly. The board ratified the provided emergency services contract for the relocation of the existing main for the not to exceed value of $82,522 for Preston Pipelines to do that work. Could I suggest a small amendment in the amount of $49,000 in the amount of $87,000? A friendly amendment. Thank you. I second that. All right. Now that we have a motion out, any members of the public wish to comment or question on this? Mr. Holloway. So this sounds like a much more favorable circumstance than the previous one. Here the employer had nothing to do with the district. The district jumped on it. And we kept that neighbourhood in business. So that's all very favourable. And I guess I just wanted to ask about the financing. So is this the usual, the reimbursement? This is the usual deal where FEMA pays 50% in the state. It's 25% in the remainder as being a battle in the long term. And the insurance that the district has doesn't cover this at all because it's covered by these emergency agencies. Isn't there, go ahead. The district main lines are not insured. The underground are not insured. But even if we were under catastrophic family disaster, we would have had to go to the $500,000, so most likely we would have made it adaptable. Any members of the public that are attending online? So you know further questions? Ali, would you take a roll call please? Thank you, Brian. President Smalley. Yes. Vice President Hill. Yes. Motion passes. That concludes the new business consent agenda. We have one item on there minutes from the last meeting. Any objections to that? Seeing none. That's approved. District reports, district managers report. I have nothing to report. OK. The only thing is the two room communications that we have left. I see no other items that we have in front of us now. So given that, I think we can adjourn. It's almost like an August meeting. Take it when we can get it. Yep. All right. Thank you. Now you can go to your wild gangs. I'm not going. You can. Good day to get tricky nurses.