 With that, I'll call the January 25th, 2021 Water Board meeting to order. The first item is the roll call. Can you please do that, Heather? Sure. Todd Williams. Here. Allison Gould. Here. Kathy Peterson. Here. Roger Lang. Here. Scott Holwick is not here yet. We'll see if he'll be able to join us in a few minutes. For city staff, we have Ken Houston. Here. Nelson Tipton. Here. Wes Lowry. Here. Heather McIntyre is here. Francie Jaffe. Here. And Price Hadley. Here. And Council Member Martin. Here. All right. Chair Yavakwaram. Great. Thank you. Scott had a mediation today and said he may be joining us a little late. So Scott Holwick may be joining us here at some point during the meeting. The next item is the approval of the previous month's minutes. Has everybody had a chance to review the December 21st, 2020 meeting minutes? And if so, is there a motion to approve those? So moved. OK. Roger made a motion. Is there a second? Kathy, second to that. Any further discussion? Seeing none, all those in favor, say aye. Aye. Aye. Those opposed? OK, it carries four to nothing. The next item is the Water Status Report. Wes, are you doing that? OK, Nelson, go ahead. Yeah, I'll go ahead, Todd. So the flow of the Safe Rain Creek as Lions gauge at noon today was eight CFS. And the 24 year historic average is 14 CFS. So a little bit down from the from the average. All in St. Brand Creek is Highland Lake and the admin number is 8,917 with a priority date of May 31st, 1874. Call in the main stem of the South Flat River is North Sterling Canal, admin number twenty six thousand three oh two point two three nine five three with a priority date of one five nineteen twenty two. Um, Ralph Price Reservoir Button Rock Preserve is all but full. Due to scheduled outlet repairs. And Union Reservoir is at twenty point two feet, full twenty eight feet. So it's down approximately five thousand feet. Or five thousand acre feet. That wasn't clear. And Snowpack for South Flat Basin is seventy seven percent of normal. And the snowpack for the upper Colorado Basin is seventy percent of normal. That's all I have. Is there any questions? It's it's dry, very, very dry. So we need to get some snow. So everybody put your your snow dance and snow hat or whatever you you do. I'll do it all. Oh, but we are is dry. Any questions or comments? I know West is pregnant in the water supply update will be getting into the snow pack a little more detail, but you will questions on on current flows, that sort of thing. OK, I don't see any. So we'll keep moving along here. All right, thanks. Item item five is public invited to be heard in special presentations. Heather, is there anything on that? We do not have any community members who wanted to make public comment. And I don't believe we have any special presentations this time either. OK, all right. Thank you. Any, you know, Ken, this is yours. Any agenda agenda revisions or submission of documents? I have none. OK. OK, we'll keep on moving. Item seven is development activity, which it does not look like there's any. Is that correct, Wes? That is correct. OK, so on the eight a, which is the designation of posting place for board meeting notices. Wes. So each year, Water Board may recall one of our annual requirements is to notice the general public of our official Water Board agenda posting place. So what we've included in your packet is information about that, including a an attached email from the city clerk's office with the city attorney's recommendation. That being that your official notice posting place will be at the city's website. And then we will additionally posted at the service center there at 1100 South Sherman as a secondary posting place. So this is an action that the board needs to take to designate those as your official posting places. And then lastly, included in the packet was some information on the Colorado Sunshine Law, just speaking to the requirement of noticing any meeting where there's meeting of the board. Thank you, Wes. Is there any questions? Go ahead, Kathy. I just have a question. I read through the opinion of the from the city clerk's office and legal opinion, and I'm certainly ready to make a motion to designate the city website as the official posting site. But then I thought in summer, it said that the Civic Center was was the physical posting place, not the service center. It doesn't matter to me, but not very many people come to the. Yeah, so the so. The email was the email that came from the city attorney's office went to all the board liaisons and some of those board liaisons don't have a location such as ours. So each board is free to choose where their designated spot will be for consistency. The recommendation was to keep it on the city's website. But then additionally, having a hard location, which is quite frankly easiest for us to use right there at the center. Yeah, that's true. OK. And then also one note of clarification, even though we would designate that as the service center as our secondary place, I also send up an agenda to the Civic Center and that does get posted on that board as well. Any further discussion? I don't see any. So it looks like we need a motion to make the city's website as the primary post or primary place for posting. The notice for the meetings and then the service center is the secondary. Someone want to make that motion? So move. Kathy. All right, Kathy made the motions. There a second. Thank you. All right, Roger had the second. Any further discussion? Hearing none, all those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed. OK, that motion carries four to nothing. OK, so under Ronda, gender item nine and nine is the annual button rock preserve and forest stewardship update price. Great, looks like the screen share is working. So good afternoon, everybody. I'll let you all know that it is snowing up here at Button Rock. So if we get a couple of billion more of these snowflakes, we'll be doing a little bit better going into the water year. But I'm here to do an annual update on Button Rock Preserve and our forest stewardship efforts up here. I'll also give you a little bit of an intro to myself and the other full-time ranger up here if you want to go to the next slide, Heather. So unsurprisingly, when we look at the year, the big standout was COVID-19 and its impacts on our operations up here at Button Rock. As you may have heard, we've also had quite a fire season and that had its own impact here on the preserve, both big and small fires. And I'll also talk about several ongoing and completed projects at Button Rock. Next slide. Before I get into that, I want to give a quick intro to some new or nearly new faces. Some of you may have had the opportunity to meet Miles. There's a picture of him. If you want to go back one, that's an area. So Miles Churchill, he's been hired as the full-time watershed ranger. He was a seasonal ranger with us at Button Rock since 2019. He knows the place, like the back of his hand comes from a ranching background, has a lot of good apical experience to work stewarding the preserve out here. And he has the title of being the lone ranger at Button Rock during 2020 and the summer of COVID and all of the challenges that he had to overcome. Click on the presentation there. And that's Miles, if you run into him up here. He's working under me and has a fair amount of... He's got quite the work cut out for him. Click again. Who's the human? Yeah, Miles is on the right. Kelly, oh, actually, Kelly's the dog on the right. She's kind of our mascot of Button Rock. And then Miles is there on the left. So again, my name's Price Hadley. I'm the senior watershed ranger. I work hand-in-hand with Miles and service his supervisor. This is my seventh year as a park ranger. I'm very excited to be starting work with City of Longmont. I got hired in October. Prior to that, I was the ranger supervisor for Pickham County Open Space and Trails. Before that, I was living in this area. I lived in Lyons, worked for City of Boulder, open space and mountain parks and different natural resource capacities and APA masters of environmental management from Western State and Gondesons. So very excited to get to apply that knowledge. And that's what I look like without a face mask on. Next slide. So as I alluded to COVID-19 impacted Button Rock, just like it impacted the entire globe, it interrupted a number of our projects that preceded my time with the city. Our Boulder County Youth Corps season was unfortunately suspended. Our volunteer efforts at the preserve were limited to one project, a weed poll. The management plan for the Button Rock Preserve was extended into 2021 due to the impacts of COVID-19 on our ability to do the public process and the meetings and whatnot. So that's going to be extended into I believe July. And along with COVID came a number of management challenges, if you wanna go to the next slide. So the biggest, most obvious impact was increased visitation. We have the privilege in Colorado of having accessible public lands and even in a pandemic, that's an outlet for us. I'm definitely thankful for it, but that use had impacts on the preserve. We hosted 71,510 visitors in 2020, which was a 39% increase in hiking, a 55% increase in vehicle use. The impacts from that increased visitation included crowding, impacts on the natural resource and kind of the recreational experience at Button Rock and quite a lot of demand on the Lone Ranger miles that was out here, typically of a staffing level of three in summer seasons and Miles was here by himself, but I'll get a little bit more into how we dealt with that. But we saw a lot of use of our overflow parking lot and Miles issued over 140 warnings for illegal parking at the trailhead. Next slide. So in addition to COVID, we dealt with a pretty severe fire season. I was hired right before the Calwood fire. So I was here for that period of time. But during the summer season, we had three small fires. They're all suspected to be caused by lightning. Obviously, whenever we hear fire, we think of impacts to our watershed with sediment loss and water quality issues. We had one fire on the South Shore and two along the main county and city road on the way into the preserve that Rangers responded to or a Ranger responded to, Miles responded to. We had the Calwood fire that burned 10,106 acres. Luckily not a single acre of Button Rock, however, did burn within 1.3 miles of our preserve. And Miles and I were paged out and were up here and watched the fire burn right past us on the other side of Coppin' Top Mountain. We evacuated the visitors and closed the preserve from the 17th day of the fire ignited to November 4th when it was deemed safe again to allow visitors back into the preserve. And unfortunately, we're looking at another dangerous fire season in 2021. Next slide. There's a couple of quick photos from the small fires. We have a lightning cause fire there on the South Shore on the left photo and on the right is a photo from a horse service crew that came out to do a helicopter mop up. Next slide. So the Calwood fire, as I said, we watched it burn right past us. If you look on the right there, that's the pyro-cumulus cloud from the fire. Right on the other side of Highway 7, probably within four miles of where I'm standing in that photo, when I took that photo, we've got the smoke burning again there down to the south of us. The photo on the left is from Button Rock Dam. So impacts to Button Rock itself. Luckily, we didn't have any burns. However, if you go to the next slide, there were some severe burn areas and impacts to the South St. Vrain watershed. This is a photo from Central Gulch on Forest Service and maybe some Boulder County property. We did do a site visit in Central Gulch. We hiked up it from South St. Vrain. Ken Houston and I represented from the Forest Service in Boulder County and a couple other agencies. And Ken might have some more updates about that. But luckily, in terms of the North St. Vrain watershed, we were spared, but the South St. Vrain could see some sediment loading from that fire. And we're working with our partners to mitigate that to the best of our ability. Next slide. So COVID didn't stop everything. In fact, we are probably outnumbering visitors four to one right now with contractors. The winter is our time to get projects done. Overall, we got some work done on forest reminigation and we have a lot more planned. We've got multiple capital projects in the works as well as some small improvements aimed at visitor safety. Next slide. So in terms of forestry, this year, 2020, we signed an MOU with Boulder County and the US Forest Service focused on cross boundary, forest restoration and wildfire risk mitigation efforts. We continue to coordinate with the St. Vrain Healthy Forest Partnership on those initiatives as well as on the Calwood fire recovery and left hand fire recovery efforts. We awarded a bid for a cut on the west side of Butler Rock. It's 40 acres, it's being funded by an SFA grant in 2017. There's more financial information pertaining to the forestry operations in the handout that's in your board packet. We've got a proposed cut, another 40 acres. We applied for a four room grant with Colorado State Forest Service and we're hoping to get that funding. We'll know, I think in February, whether we have won that grant. And that was 40 acres of complement and an additional 73 acres that are being cut on neighboring Boulder County open space hall ranch. So kind of maybe not so much a landscape effort at wildfire risk reduction, but at least a watershed level risk reduction. So we're definitely hoping that that goes forward. Next slide. So you see here in the, these are our forest management units at Butler Rock and there's a unit there that's circled in red, kind of red box on the center left of your screen. And that's the unit that's going to be treated is starting in March, 2021. The three units that are highlighted in yellow on the right side of your screen are the three that we've proposed to do a cut with furworm grant funding if we're able to secure those funds. Next slide. So we've got a lot of capital projects and works a lot of contractors busy out here. The biggest project being repairs to the Button Rock Dam outlet, our regulatory gate was in need of repairs due to some leaking. We also did our annual outlet inspection when we depressurized the pipe to physically pull that gate out and have it machined and repaired. During that time, we've been diverting the water over the spillway as opposed to through the outlet pipe. Currently, we've got two large pumps operating on the spillway outside my office, basically diverting water, additional water over the spillway during the CBT closure. I can answer more questions about that later on. I'm sure Ken can also speak to that. In addition to those capital projects, we've been working on renovation of one of the residences up here that will serve as a secondary ranger residence that had numerous safety and health issues. So we've been looking at asbestos, installing a working heat system and addressing drinking water safety issues that both ranger residences up here and repairing damage to the structure. Next slide. So there's our regulatory gate. I understand that it used to be about a 50 year occurrence for when you'd have to machine it and repair it. I believe that according to Jason Elkins that this could be a once in 100 year repair job with improved technology. But it's pretty cool to see this piece of equipment installed in the 60s, seeing the light of day and get to really get up close and see what that looks like. So those are the photos before it was machined and pressure washed and sandblasted and treated and it looks a lot better now and will look even better once it's all put back together hopefully in the next couple of weeks. Next photo. So this is the second residence that I was discussing. Obviously it's in the USMTLC. I got creative and took a photo through the hole in the wall from the inside of the outside of my ranger truck there. So it's a work in progress but it'll be a good investment going forward and we've definitely made a lot of progress over the last couple of months. Next slide. I think there's one more photo after that. So we've been, we had to take it down to the studs and we're improving it from there, fixing wiring issues and other problems as we go along you can see the holes to the daylight there in the center of the photo. Next slide. Great, so we were also looking at visitor safety as rangers we're always concerned about public safety and not only wanting to cultivate a positive experience out here for our visitors but make sure that they're safe. So as part of that we've been updating our equipment looking at how to better train our rangers. I installed two 911 call boxes and we've considered a third that we have two installed one at the ranger office and one at the base of the button rock dam that are also available to staff. So when we're doing water resource or maintenance activities, contractors, engineers, whoever can call out now from the exterior call box on the control house. I've also been coordinating with my counterparts at Boulder County to map unofficial trails, improve signage, and update our pamphlets and kiosk maps to avoid searches for lost hikers up here. Next slide. So if you see these signs around if you do get the chance to come visit button rock they'll be directing you to a place where you can call 911, which is great since we don't have cell connection up here and we have pretty spotty radio connection. And I went and looked back at past annual reports and it seems like my predecessors have always had a critters slide so I thought I'd put that in there. Just a couple of photos that I've taken in my first couple of months up here. It's a beautiful wild place. I'm very lucky to be tasked with protecting it. Got a mule deer buck there on the left in Mullen Park and button rock preserve and a black red fox on the west side in the borough area on the west shore of Ralph Price reservoir. Next slide. I'm happy to take any questions about our button rock preserve operations or the range of program or anything else. Thanks Price. Any questions for Price on the presentation? I did have a couple of, I guess one observation and one question on the price. You mentioned the number of the increase in visitors up there. You know, has that been a major, I mean, what kind of problems have you gotten in terms of that big of increase in the visitation? And I guess, you know, I know Rocky Mountain National Park has done more of a reservation system to try to manage that. I don't know if that's warranted in this case but just kind of curious what you guys have seen and what problems that's resulted in. Yeah, I think, I mean, with a lot of public lands often the most visible impact of increased visitation or capacity issues is parking congestion, parking issues. The city took a number of steps this summer to address that. We posted temporary no parking signs along County Road 80 on the way into button rock to make sure that we were maintaining a proper flow of traffic if we needed to get emergency vehicles in. We worked with other working groups within public works and natural resources to bring additional staff to supplement the one ranger that was on duty during the summer and also worked with Longmont Police Department to have police officers out here just as kind of presence. I think the most obvious example is again, that parking issue, we have an overflow parking area 0.9 miles from the trailhead that sees use even in January on busy weekend days, especially around the holiday. So, honestly, having come from a bigger and busier public land system in Pickin County where I'm used to about 10 times the number of visitors closer to 700,000. I think that there's a lot of similar challenges here, but I think we've got some good tools to address it and prevent us from needing to go to a reservation system. I think that we're lucky that we have a gate and we have kind of a self-regulating system with limited parking. People are motivated enough they could hike in from Boulder County open space to the Forest Service land. But like that, along with just making sure that we've got adequate staffing up here for resource protection and water resource management needs should really help us to be prepared. And there's a little bit more information about kind of steps we took in that handout if you want to look at that as well. Thanks, Price. But the only other thing that struck me is just in terms of the funding for the last 10 years on the stewardship program, there's been $951,000 spent, $445,000 of which is from grants. I just think the leverage that the city has kind of done in terms of doing Forest Stewardship, but trying to use grants to help in the funding is pretty dramatic. So that really kind of struck me. So I think the only other thing going through my mind is obviously with the other fires around anything we can do proactively and especially using grants, hopefully will reduce the potential or the severity of the fires if it comes into the Button Rock Preserve. So I just think you guys have done a great job, your predecessor Price, and hopefully you kind of going forward in terms of managing the preserve and doing the stewardship. So anyway, that just struck me. Any other comments or questions for Price on the presentation, Allison? Yeah, thank you so much. First of all, really great pictures. Thank you so much for sharing those. Those are beautiful, even the unfortunate ones of the fire. And I also just wanted to commend you. I have been up there recently with my family and it's a really great experience and I did see the Ranger at the Lone Ranger and all together it was just a great place to be. So thank you very much for all you're doing. One question is how do you staff over the weekend? Cause it was pretty busy there. And with two of you, is that somewhat challenging? How do we, can you say that one more time? How do we what over the weekend? How do you do the staffing over the weekend? Oh, so Miles and I, we work 10 hour days, we split the week, we kind of vary our schedule really at this point with daylight hours. Since we don't quite have 10 hours of daylight. So we kind of match it to those hours. We try to be out during the busiest times, cover as much of the 3000 acres and preserve as we can with, you know, frequent stops back to the front side to kind of assess the parking situation. And we look forward to having an additional temporary Ranger coming on board in books like in March while train. So that's going to be really helpful. You know, I'm able to piggyback on a lot of what, a lot of the good stuff that Daniel Levine and Miles and Ken and other people have done up here, got some ideas for how to better manage the flow of traffic and whatnot using pop-up signs and things like that. And so we're 2021. So I think we've got a fighting chance of this. Thank you. I'm glad you had a good time up here. Thanks, Alison and Kathy. I just, I don't know if I missed it somewhere along the line, but last year we talked about dogs, the issue with dogs. And I wondered if has that been resolved or are there problems with people bringing giant amounts to dogs or what's that? Specifically speaking to the, you know, so currently we require dogs beyond leash at all times. And then we require people to only bring one dog per visitor. And I would say shockingly, based on my prior six years of rendering experience and maybe a community of less compliance, but that the compliance with the, especially the one dog per visitor rule is pretty fantastic. Oh, that's good. I haven't seen any dog walkers in the past that was an issue. And you'd have someone with eight dogs and there's no way to possibly clean up after them and then that has some water quality impacts. So I mean, I wouldn't even say it's once a week that we encounter somebody with more than one dog per visitor. You know, we probably talk to people almost every day with dogs off leash, but there are a lot of people out here with dogs. So overall the compliance is definitely the majority. So I'd say based on my previous experience working on other public land systems as a ranger that compliance is pretty good. And it helps that we have one gate where we can present people with all the signs and make sure that they're educated. And they do understand what the rules are when they come in. We have them posted, you know, both Spanish and English. So people have every opportunity to be educated on it before they come through the gate. All right, good news. And Kathy, I could just add a little bit to that. What we did a year and a half ago when we recommended to council to change that to one dog on a leash. This has really been a year and a half. It'll be about two years next summer when we've been trying this method. And we certainly hope this is working well that part of the overall Button Rock Preserve management plan will be to address that very question. Decide if this is working or we, you know, need to go loosen it a little or go to no dogs at all. All of those will be explored as part of the conversation. And you'll really start seeing that conversation in this coming spring. I hope late spring as we bring forward that final master plan. And that will be when that final decision we made when we bring forward that management plan for both water board and city council's consideration. So we'll have one more, one more look at that in depth look. Thanks, Ken. Roger, did you have a comment? Yeah, just curious to spill a restoration. What is the estimated completion date on that being finished up? Anybody's? On the restoration of the outlet? Yeah, yes. I believe that we're looking at the first week of March. Ken, does that still sound accurate to you? Yeah, that's, we actually, they've just finished the internal outlet work, repairing some of the coal tar line in epoxy, coating everything. The gate is still down in Denver being refaced, but should be coming back maybe even this week. And then we hope the first week of February start reassembling. And in February, early March, mid is when it should be completely back and fully functional. One question, Ken, you know, Price mentioned you guys are pumping out of the reservoir in relation to the Southern spy pipeline outlet or outage, I should say. Will you need to continue to do that or are you gonna let the reservoir fill up and then start spilling again, coming up once the Southern spy pipeline work is done? Good, great question, Todd. So, during this outage of our outlet at Budnrock, we've been taking most of our water from the CBT system through the Carter Lake connecting pipeline that has a pipeline up to Carter Lake. It is going down for an annual inspection starting tomorrow morning at eight o'clock and it's scheduled to come back Wednesday at about four or five o'clock. So we'll have about a day and a half where that pipelines down. As a result, you know, we needed to get water to the water treatment plant for tomorrow and Wednesday. We've installed two large capacity pumps at our spillway. Prior to today, the reservoir was falling with spilling over the spillway but that was just fluctuating with the natural flow of the North St. Rain Creek, which was nowhere near sufficient to supply our water demand. Those two pumps right now, they can each do 4,000 gallons a minute, we've got them running right now. We just turned them on today at 3,500 gallons a minute each and that's a lot of water. We will be pulling down the reservoir about a foot and a half to two feet over the next day and a half. So it'll no longer be spilling. At that point, the CBT pipeline should be back on. We will turn off one of those two pumps and then we'll keep the other pump running. We'll throttle it down to almost just basically barely idling so that we're still pumping a little bit of water over the spillway, kind of keep the creek flowing but it won't be anywhere near enough to run down to our water treatment plant. And we estimate it'll take about three days for every day we pump, three days to recover for every day we pump. So about four or five to six days, we should get back close to having the spillway full and at that point, we'll just let it go over to the spillway for the remainder of February. So, we can't completely shut off the river for four or five days, but we'll keep those pumps running. We have them leased for an additional week on past the end of this current week. So that should be sufficient to get, allow the reservoir to recover. Thank you, Ken. Any other questions or comments? I don't see any. Thank you for the presentation price. That was very helpful. Thank you, Ted. All right, next item is 9B, which is the monthly water supply updates, Wes. Yeah, so I'll go through that with the board. You're welcome to kind of follow along with me in your packet. So I'm going to be starting by looking at page 19 in the packet, just going to go through some of those water supply and drought indicator bullets. As I've mentioned before, Lama continues to remain at a sustainable water conservation level. We'll be revisiting that level with council, water board and council this summer, late spring, early summer, once we get our complete snowpack. The recent flows, St. Verane and Button Rock Ken just spoke a little bit to that. We have a slightly more increased releases from Button Rock, but the majority of that water is being picked up at our North Pipeline and going to the water treatment plant. So the effect on the river is still negligible. We're, as Nelson reported earlier today, the flows at Lyons were around eight CFS with an historic average of 14. So depending upon the day, we're somewhere in that third, around the third of the historic average, which lends itself to how dry it is. Local St. Verane Creek storage is below average. We're at around 62% as the end of last month and normally we're around 70%. The good news related to that though is we're full higher up in the system. That is Button Rock is full where it would have otherwise been down and Union Reservoir and Pleasant Valley, which would normally be fuller are down. So we still have, even though we are down more in total storage, we've got it in a place that we're happy to have it. Again, as Nelson mentioned, Union is down about 2,500 acre feet below the historic average. So normally we'd been down about 2,500 acre feet, but we're down about 5,000 acre feet. Our water treatment demands last year were about 104% of 2002 numbers. And the reason we referenced 2002, that was kind of a start of a drought year. And when we were, and what's interesting is our population has obviously increased since 2002. So in the last 19 years, our population has went up, but yet we're only using about 4%. So if you looked at it on the short term, compared to last year or the year prior, sorry, we've used about 2,000 acre feet more, but we've still used a similar amount to what we used in 2008. So in other words, with all that being said, the citizens have been doing a great job of conserving their water. They're using what we have expected. And we want to continue to encourage them to do that. The Colorado Snowtale data, which Nelson kind of shared some of those numbers with you, our South Platte River Basin is at 77% of normal with Colorado River Basin at 70% of normal, not a significant change from last month when we reported. I didn't really expect there to be a significant change where we're really going to start to see that here as in the next month or two. That's when we get those wet snows that contribute to the higher moisture content in that snow. Pleasant Valley Reservoir was a call for quite a while. It put some water in its reservoir and we took some water of Pleasant Valley decree into the treatment plant. So it was good that we had that water right available to use in the water treatment plant where that ended it up was that Pleasant Valley Reservoir sits now at about 42% of full. So we've got about 1800 acre feet left to fill Pleasant Valley, so it'll either take its own decree, to its own decree, its enlargement decree to come in or Longmont has some other water rights that have been adjudicated to be stored in there are high mountain dams or we could even choose to put CVT. So we'll see how the rest of the runoff season comes but we're thinking we're definitely going to get some more water of some sort in Pleasant Valley Reservoir. Again, up there at Button Rock, you guys have kind of touched on that a little bit. We're hopeful that we will be ready to have that outlet fully functional by the first part of March. The staff has did an exceptional job, I believe in my opinion to make sure that even during this outage that should something unforeseeable happen, there will still be water be able to be provided to the water treatment plants and serve the citizens. So I appreciate everybody's effort because it's taken a lot of energy and resources to make that happen. Moving on to the next page. If Pleasant Valley Reservoir doesn't fill, there potentially is some impacts to the rough and ready ditch system in particular, U Creek Golf Course, Fox Hill Golf Course, Stephen Day Park, things like that but it's probably premature to expect there to be significant impacts on those but we're aware that that might happen and we're preparing accordingly. The current CVT system is relatively full for this time of year. Longmont with a 50% quota issued by Northern on November 1st, adding to that our carryover that we plan to declare here within the month along with our Excel agreement. We should have more than sufficient CVT resources to get us through this next year. As always, we have to wait till Northern Board sets its next quota. That happens usually in, I believe it's in April and March or April. We have what's a 50% quota right now. They could issue an update up to an additional 50 for a total of 100% and they'll take a lot of things into consideration to making that determination but as of right now, we're feeling that we're very solid with the trans-basin supplies that we have available for us. Again, it's been mentioned several times but it's worth overemphasizing. We've got extremely dry soil moisture and so it's gonna take an above average snowpack to yield an average runoff. So we'll have to continue to monitor that. I've included some other additional attachments and I'm gonna go for my notes because I had it pulled up and I... West, do you want me to share any of those? Yeah, if you would, that would be great, Heather. We could jump to page 21 if you wouldn't mind just kinda showing those and then I can speak to those as you roll through them. Okay. So there you go, thank you. So on this one, we're gonna continue to provide you all with water supply and drought indicators. What this is showing, we're kind of updating these twice a month at the first of the month and the middle of the month. Not really expecting any real significant changes to these but more of trends. On the very bottom, there's a runoff forecast and that information really started coming, information started coming to us this month. And so it's early in that runoff forecast model, it's saying that we're in around 80% give or take for our basin and next time we come to Water Board, hopefully we'll be at least that or maybe even better. Next page, Heather. So this is a copy of the end of month reservoir storage. Again, I mentioned earlier we're at 61, around 61 and a half percent, and it kind of shows you how the button rocks nearly full or at full at 100%, and some of those other reservoirs are down. As always, Highland is a significant part of that contribution, they're kind of there in the middle. And so it takes a while for their system to fill The advantage Longlot has with some of its reservoirs is we have the ability to put more than just that reservoir decree into our reservoirs. So it gives us, if you will, more water at times available to fill them up like Pleasant Valley and Union, as well as Button Rock. So still filling pretty good, even though it's below average. Next slide, please. So starting in January, the Colorado water supply outlook comes out. I've included on this month kind of a statewide is what you'll be hearing in the media and in the news is oftentimes a statewide and sometimes statewide reflects what we hear here, we're seeing here in our basin, sometimes not so much. As of right now, the Colorado statewide water supply conditions are very similar to the same rain basin. And so I'm going to all be including that but what you'll see in this graph here is that we're better than we were in the water year 2018, which is that green line. And we're not quite as good as the average so we're kind of in the middle. But again, I guess an important part of this is you see that that's falling at around five to six inches of snow water equivalent. We're normally at the towards sometime in April, we're pushing around 15 inches and so we're only about a third of the way there so we don't need to panic we just need to, as Nelson said, do our snow dances. Okay, next page please. So this is just another graph kind of showing some of those different basins and how they shape up. So you can kind of see down in the lower left in that south west corner, it's a little drier down there. And in the upper Rio Grande in that blue area, they're closer to average, but generally speaking, we're just slightly below average. All right, next slide please. So this is our Colorado monthly pre precipitation. And what we find here in this graph is generally drier up in most of Colorado, relative to the all of Colorado it's been a little little bit wetter in the Arkansas in the upper Rio Grande. So, time will tell hopefully we can push above average in our precipitation for Colorado here. Later on in the in the water year. Next, next page please. This particular chart shows the Colorado reservoir storage and what you the thing to note on these is they're all very similar to what we've seen in prior years so no, no one particular basin has has a significant change either increase or decrease in its in its storage and so that's that we might say is good news. So the Colorado stream flow forecast, those come from a number of different sites. For our site the South Platte which one and the upper Colorado that we're paying attention to they take a number of different specific locations to come up with their stream flow forecast. Mars is in that 70 to 89% of average as of January 1 where the, the upper Colorado was just right right in there maybe slightly slightly lower. Next sheet. So on the next several pages here, what we're going to what you're going to see is just some more detailed information I won't go through each of these pages. I'm going to give you some more description of what's going on there. I think we'll, when it becomes really important for us to pay attention to the Colorado that river basin, because that ties into our CVT supplies and the South Platte river basin will be more in your April and May timeframe so those are when we're getting a more complete picture. So we're going to go ahead and if you want to jump on up to page 32 for me Heather. So, the way that the that they present this information they it's kind of it looks a little interesting to try to follow what there's a line at about 100% on the far right, and that is showing how much flow we would have if we've seen 100% normal runoff. What the what the green is is what where they think is most likely to occur so you have a kind of a 5050% chance of occurring. And so when you see this line is kind of this line on the right hand side, what that's telling you is there's a greater chance that we're going to be wetter than it is that we're going to be wetter. And so we kind of just kind of look at these as a general barometer to see where we're going to where we'll kind of fall out at. And if we jump to I think it's Heather if we go to age 36 I think it is. Let's go one more please to 37. So, what we're going to see here. So, St. Verane Creek at Lyons, they kind of give you two different forecast periods, April through June and April through September. And so what this is saying, essentially, is that we have an equal chance of seeing 76,000 acre feet of water flowing through Lyons in April or June. We have an equal chance of seeing 76,000 acre feet of water flowing through Lyons on April through September, where normally, we would expect to see 88,000 acre feet or 103,000 acre feet respectively So, that's a lot of information but it just basically says right now they're planning that it's going to be drier than it is normal. And that's not surprising given our conditions. Next slide please. So we always like to include the USDA's snowpack summaries. They're a real good visual where we're at similar to that one we looked at before. We're not as low as we've historically been nor are we as high. But again, emphasis is we were at we've now at five inches of snow water equivalent where our peak is normally at 15 so we're only a third of the way there. And so, the next few months will kind of be a telltale of what this year's going to look like. Next slide. Same thing on the upper Colorado, maybe slightly grimmer than it was on the South Platte, but again it is early. So we'll have to wait and we really emphasis added how much the spring snorms can change those snow, those snow water runoff predictions. Next page please. And then lastly we have this is one specific for St. Rain. It kind of those little bandwidths give you the kind of the confidence level that they have that that we're going to see certain runoff and so where we would like to see it obviously is higher. Right now it's showing about little over two inches of snow water equivalent. We're normally, you know, we would be somewhat higher I think in certain years we've had, you know, four to four to six, even eight inches of snow water equivalent but again, these graphs all start to look very similar to one another and that is, we're not terrible, not great, but we're not bad and we're just going to keep hoping for hopefully some good wet snows. And I think that's, I think that's all I have for that and I'd be happy to answer some questions if you have them. Thanks. Any questions? Not seeing any. One question was I had is, if we're 5000 acre foot down on Union, what bearing or what does that have any implications with regards to the ability of Longmont to meet the Piesco trade? I think you're using holy consumable effluent and then you supplement with Union is that right and if that is right and we're that far that much lower than kind of average or 2500 acre foot below average or typical for this time of year. Does that create any concerns or worries about meeting that obligation this year. So, a lot of what Piesco agreement has to do with is it's about timing. So they'll tell us when it is that they need water. So, and that varies based on a number of conditions that they evaluate. One of the strategies that we're exploring is unions union is off channel so it has to be filled via the oligarchy ditch and it takes a while to fill. And so one of the things that we're considering is taking maybe earlier in the spring releasing some fully consumable water out of button rock and over a longer period of time deliver it to Union through the oligarchy so it can have a chance to fully fill before the runoff season is over. What that does is it creates a space in button rock to fill, which is on channel. Because it's on channel many times in a single day, we have more water rights available to us that we can quote unquote use. But being if it's on channel, we can utilize those decrees and and get those stored so we think there's some operational things that we can consider to allow us to manage our water resources in such a way that it's less of a concern. Right now I don't think we have any any real concern about meeting that trade agreement because we could always release water out of button rock and send it on through the same brain. We just have to work very closely with the state engineer's office to make that happen. The reason you'd use the releases out of button rock through the oligarchy is because later in the season, they're delivering their own water and there's not capacity in the ditch to get it there is that one. Well, actually, it's it's a function of, we don't know how long Union may come into priority under its own decree. And if for example it came under into priority under its own decree for 30 days. 30 days would not be long enough to be able to fill it. And so what we're what we're wanting to do is to create a situation where we can leverage the time, i.e. early before run off and take a longer period of time to start slowly filling Union, so that when it does come into priority we can finish filling it. And yet at the very tail end of the run off season, when we still have a lot of water rights available to us that can go into storage, we can put those into button rock because it's on channel. And one other point I'd like to point out Todd is that in a typical year, we're going to have three to 4000 acre foot hole and button rock and that's three to 4000 acre foot hole and Union for total of about, you know, six to 8000 acre foot hole. This year, even though Union's down more than normal 5000 acre foot down button rocks is zero. So that actual hole we have left to fill this year is actually a little bit smaller than in a typical year. And that's primarily a function that's partially a function of course we couldn't get any water out of button rock, but also because of the situation we've had with button rock and Union going down, we've actually collateralized a lot of more CBT water into windy gap water this year so we had higher affluent return flow credits. So that helped us keep from releasing even more water out of Union. So the actual hole is it sounds big because it's the one spot, but it's not too bad. Good point. Thank you, Ken. Any other questions, comments on the water supply update? Great. Thank you, Wes. If I could just point out one thing, you look around the horn on all of these snow tail sites and it is a little bit scary this year. There is one know that I would like to point out and that is the birthed pass snow tail is sitting at 90% with this week this couple days of storms coming through it's even going to get closer to know it's just going to be barely blow 100% at the birthed pass. That's the Frasier River basin. And actually if you look at look at some of the photos from Winter Park all the way to birth the pass, it looks it looks really good on the snowpack there. That's our Frasier River basin, which is our windy gap water supply. And so one of the advantages of having a really diverse portfolio, both windy gap CBT and native basin is that one of those three basins might do better in a year and this this year it happens to be windy gap that's paying off for us. Obviously, we're only a third the way through the snowpack season and a long ways to go, but it looks like we should be able to pump some windy gap water this year to meet all meet all of our deliveries we've already taken. And so that that's going to be very beneficial to us. Windy gaps paying off this year. Thanks, Ken. Any other questions, comments. Okay, we'll keep moving on item nine C is the monthly legislative report can. Sorry about that. I don't have a whole lot to report on the legislative report on the legislature met on January 15. Just to seat and formally start the legislature, then they immediately went into recess. They have recessed until, I believe it's February 16. And that I'm sure is a kind of if we'll see how how the everything's going with COVID at that point, but they're they're recessed because of the COVID issues. So they there's only been one on that one day they the only water bill they introduced that day was the annual joint resolution on the water projects authorization. So that's all the about 100 projects that's funded through the Colorado Water Conservation Board. We see that every year. I don't believe Loma doesn't have a project on it this year, but we usually supported just because it helps so many water utilities. Although that really rarely has any problem moving forward. So there really hadn't any legislation yet to talk about but they'll be back in session on the 15th, which is about which might even be I believe our February. No, it'll be a week before February board meeting, but we'll we'll have a little bit more to report in February. So that's it on that. Thank you. Okay. Thanks, Kim. Next item is 90 which is the water resources engineering projects update and if I understand right Jason's up at Button Rock and are you going to handle that. Yeah, I'll handle that for him. Actually, you kind of stole the thunder on this one and we were going to talk about the outlet repair. And I think we've probably covered that as well as the pumping and where we're going there. So the only other major project we got going on right now is pre the planning and engineering for a pump station we plan on putting into town alliance to pump water from our South Saber in pipeline to a North Saber in pipeline. That recently went to city council to approve an IGA with the town of lions for acquisition of the right away for that installation, both city council as well as the town alliance board also approved that agreement. So we've we've got the IGA foundation ready to go for that agreement. We've just working on acquiring the it's going to be a design build installation. So just working on that and should be moving that project forward here pretty quickly. And so that's really all I have right now in projects. Thank you. Okay, thanks. Any questions from the board? Right. I don't see any. So keep moving on. The next item is 10 items from the board and the first item is review of water board bylaws and guiding water principles. And the memo looks like it's actually from me. But what I wanted to maybe to give a little background can contact to being said there were some items in there that we should maybe discuss as a board. So those are listed. I think there's five of them. Ken, do you want to just maybe walk us through those items and then, you know, we can discuss that as a board. Yeah, that's about set off you real quick here. The first item is the wording reference in the bylaws to chairman and vice chairman. That was actually reviewed about 10 or 15 years ago by the board who chose at that time to leave it. That is the actual proper terminology. But many boards choose to use the word, either chair chair person, or just chair, you know, that's really a more of a style, the actual legal way you do it as you say madam chairman, or Mr. Mr chairman. But that does tend to get changed in some some bylaws. As far as the other boards in the city, if there is no uniform standard about a third of them in the department use chairman and about a third use chair and third use chair person so I think you know it. I just wanted to highlight that in case there was an interest in looking at that issue. The next one was absenteeism. We really never water board should change the language what you see today. Again, about 10 years ago. We really didn't get too tight on on what is an excuse versus an unexcused used absence. The practicing policy so far has been as long as you call in, you know, it's an excused absence. If it just don't show up it's not excused, and we're staff is fine with that but we wanted to make sure you know sometimes that can make it hard to We've we've never had a problem with with Board enough board members attending to have a quorum but wanted to highlight that the third one is a public broadcast of the monthly meetings. We've really in the past I've never had a live broadcast although these zoom meetings. If everybody, you know, probably getting tired of them, but they actually do work. So, we thought we may the board may want to consider thinking around that issue, partially for the ability, whether or not a board member who's traveling out of state or not available, you know, could maybe attend Remotely like that. It does sound like you know Heather did explain that the long mile leader will now Probably resume once we go back to live means will probably resume. So that may be fine. We may leave it that or maybe we may We've never had a policy where you can attend remotely So that's really kind of both the public broadcast the next two points. So the board may want to consider doing that or may not, you know, and then finally is the timing on the water board packet. Currently, it's kind of hardwired in there five days and I have to admit we try to meet that five day but we don't always meet it. There's a couple of couple of points you could think about. We're fine if we leave it at five days and we'll do our best to get you that packet exactly five days before the meeting. You could some board members kind of preferred even earlier because they don't want to have to spend their whole weekend. You know, it's like city council I can't imagine how they get their packets and huge 500 page packets. And I feel sorry for him at least this is just once a month instead of every week. But after the first year you stop reading hanger leases. That's how we do it. I can see that on the hanger leases. I got you. I agree with you. So, so, you know, one thought is, you know, it'd be better for the board if you went earlier. But if we got it, if we had to get it to the board earlier, that works its way back to we have to have the information earlier to put the packet together earlier and then you have the applicants then have have to come in earlier. And it makes people actually miss a water board meeting because they couldn't get their information to us in time for us to process it and get it in the packet. Or you could do it later. Now that we're doing electronically it's real easy for us to, you know, hit hit sand, and we can hit sand on Friday and that's, you know, two business days for four calendar days. So it could be moved. If that kind of time is no problem, it would give people who are trying to get on the board and trying to get information to us an extra day or two. So I'm not advocating for either one either way or either direction. I just wanted to highlight that. That's currently what it says is five days and we do try to meet that and we apologize if we don't meet it every time. So those are kind of some areas don't need any of those changes and would be perfectly fine if you wish to, you know, adopt, approve the bylaws as is, but just for a couple things that we kind of thought about over over the last year and you might want to consider. Kathy go ahead. Just a few comments. As far as what you call the chair person. Unless the men are happy to be called Mr chair woman, then I would say that we should change it to chair. I just think the whole person thing is too awkward in the mouth. I do like when we get the packets. It gives me plenty of time and, you know, that could even be a day less but that's where I fall on those two issues. Okay, was there other Roger go ahead. I mean, if everybody gets anybody gets, you know, really upset about the way it is, I would be fine with chair person or vice chair person I'm just going to give you my, I'm not going to go with chair woman I don't think Kathy but chair person would be fine with but secondly on the packets, you know, some I used to go on to the website of city council or I mean, long amount advisory boards and you can you can scroll in there. And they got a place where they show the meeting time and show the packets and what have you. I've noticed for several months that is not being utilized for some reason it used to be populated. And when you open it up now there's, you know, there's nothing there and I just kind of curious why that changed or anybody else noticed that. Heather Marsha Marsha why you start. They have changed the document management system. And so the packets are still accessible. So what you're probably looking at is an as a link that hasn't been updated. Unfortunately, since I use the internal one I don't know what it is, but I will be happy to contact the right person I'll take that as an action item and could you please email me the link that isn't there anymore, or the this the spot where there's nothing there anymore. Well, it's, it's not so much there's nothing there but it, you go to the water board and the space where it says agenda and packet it's just it's just not. It's just not and there's nothing there. And the meeting date is not. So you don't even see a meeting date anymore. Okay, so this is that where all of the boards are along the left side of the page that page that place. So I can help clarify that a little bit, if I can jump in. As council member Martin said in July of last year we started using a different document management system and to streamline where all of the community members are pointed to to make things a little bit more transparent for people. We have taken all of the agendas and stuff from the various boards and put it into one place on one page. So I'll share my screen real quick and I'll show you how to get there from the city's home page. So this is the longmont colorado.gov. If you hover over the departments tab along the top over on the left hand side you'll see where it says agendas and minutes and right underneath that says agenda management portal. If you click on that, it will take you to the page where every council meeting and every advisory board meeting is listed, and you just scroll down and you'll see the place where all of those are listed here are the current ones. You'll see the water board here and then there's also an agenda that you can download and if you click on this three dots here, you can download the full packet there as well. But that kind of made it easier for all of the community members to find everything in one place. So Heather, you're sending out that link right because during the meeting I went and clicked on that. I pulled up the agenda while we were all talking and you see me looking away, I'm looking over at my other computer at the agenda. But I didn't know those dots bring up the packet so thank you. Yeah, and then also as a note on the water board page, there's also a link to take you to that portal. So if you get to the water board page, you'll see a listing of this year's meeting dates, but the portal, there's a link on there to get you to the portal for the agendas and the packet. Okay, any other questions, comments. I guess what's striking me is maybe on the I'm fine with just going with chairs to Kathy's suggestion. It seems like that kind of simplifies simplifies things and we, you know, if we won't have to deal with it hopefully in the future. Maybe what we need if we're going to go that route is a motion do we need a motion can go ahead and do that and then we change that in the bylaws is that right. Okay, let's see if there's anything else in terms of the absenteeism. You know it seems like it's been working fine to date. You know, in terms of the, you know, as long as people are letting us know and we're not having people just not showing for multiple meetings at a time, I guess we get to that point we could address it at that time in my mind. The public broadcast and talking to Heather before the meeting it sounds like the long month observer the long month leader now is actually in a contract with the city to provide kind of live streaming if and when we ever can get back together. Marsha looks like you have a maybe an update or comment on that. Just that it's not the long month leader which is now a private business. It's, it's long month public media is under contract. I guess, bottom line is we've got another entity that would be live streaming that for us. So, when we get back together, hopefully sooner than later. That'll the city kind of as a whole is handling it through that public media outlets. So, that's fine. I think we can maybe just hold off on on that they'll be recording it. The remote attendance at meetings. I think it's good to have that that capability in the future but I think we maybe hold off on that now until we can get back together and see, you know, where we end up with as far as, you know, kind of future recording and maybe that's a year from now we just revisit that item I don't think we need to act on that now and timing on the board packets I'm fine with the four days if that gives us the Friday. You know, so they have an extra day can I don't know if any other board members have a thought on that but I think we typically get it on a Friday which works for me. I can review it over the weekend or on Monday before the meeting itself so we can still try to get it out sooner. We just didn't want it to be a hard deadline and that's fine. Do we need a if we go that route do we need a motion on that and change it to at least four days prior. What do you recommend there. Yeah, I'd recommend you just make one motion to amend the bylaws and then approve them for for those two items. Okay, those are my thoughts but any other comments or is everybody okay with with those two items. All right, if we are we need a motion for, I guess the changing the bylaws to have chair instead of chairman, and then the timing of the word packets, at least four days prior to the board meeting. We have a motion do we have a second. Motion by Allison. We have a second by Roger. Any further discussion. I don't see any all those in favor say aye. Hi. Opposed. Okay that carries forward to zero. The other item, I guess we need to talk about kind of separately as we have the guiding water policies, the statement of goal and the policy statement. Was there any questions comments or can did you want to have us look at anything specifically on that. No, we that's, that's our standard set of guiding water principles. We like to include them with the bylaws just so the board can a see them every year but be right before the legislative session it's good. I think our legislative prints principles really stem from these guiding water principles. So it's always good if we wouldn't change them today but if you know any board member once you've read them and looked at them. If you have any thoughts on it and then, you know, be happy to entertain looking at those, bringing it back as a formal project if not, we'll find the way they are. Any questions or comments on the those policies. Just one comment, but when I reviewed them I think just in general they make sense we're working on. I think staff is working on some things that are pretty specific. You know, one that was striking me is under conservation we have a goal or a policy statement, we're trying to stay 10% lower than current projections for water demands, but we also have the cities sustainability or climate action and I know we've tasked the staff with trying to kind of determine what's attainable in that regard of conservation measures and it may just be one that as we get feedback from that. You know, ultimately, in the future we may want to update that policy statement to correspond with what we get is feedback from what's attainable or what level of conservation we feel is appropriate. So there's just a few items like that where I think, you know, this is kind of what we've done historically but we've got maybe a few projects or a few things that the staff is studying that may change that in the future so. Anyway, that was just one to cut my eye. So maybe we can just go ahead and leave those as is but then if if we do get find additional information from that for example that study that we can update that in the future. Any other questions or comments Marsha go ahead. I just say about the climate action task force I think that one was universally set aside, you know, as an unsupported outlier, and oh hi Francie. So I think we would be in. We would be glad to hear about what, you know, an attainable worst case scenario might be, but I think everybody understands that you have been pretty cautious in your recommendations to date. So it's not like we're finding that there's a hole in the plan or anything like that. Probably Francie should weigh in on that as well. Sure, go ahead, Francie if you want to chime in. Yeah, and I just wanted to clarify, just in term of timelines. In the recommendation to city council that was approved on how that climate action task force recommendation should be adjusted. We propose that the study would begin in kind of timing of the 2024 water efficiency master plan update and return the city council to evaluate more ambitious goals. So that probably won't begin until 2023 would be so we're probably two years out from beginning that more extensive study. And thanks for the clarification. So I guess bottom line is we'll analyze that and then determine what what is the potential or what can we do is that study is done that makes sense. Any other questions comments. Okay, so I guess we'll leave the guiding water principles as is at this point, unless anybody has any problem with that. With that, we are on to item 10b, which is a review of major project listings and items tentatively scheduled for future board meetings. Ken, do you have any comments on that? I have not enough. One item I would put in there and it, I made, I guess it may fall under item 12 a for future board meetings as we talked about savory and left hand water conservancy district. They're doing a stream management plan they're trying to do the implementation, and they're going to come back to us in March or April. So I guess my only comment would be to stay in touch with Sean Cronin. After they get that determined, we can get a presentation. So we're kind of on the same page as them as to, you know, what they're looking for in terms of implementation and specifically how the city would fit into that. Very good point. Well, we'll include that and talk with Sean. Okay. That sounds good. So we're on to 10c, which is a resolution of appreciation for Ray Petros. Ken, maybe I'll have you kind of give an overview of that. We talked about it and I suggested we maybe do a resolution, given the time and effort that Ray has put in and the things items he's helped the city along with. Yes, thank you, Todd. Yeah, and, and I guess for me this is a little bit personal personal as well I've worked with Ray for over 35 years of the time he's been here. We actually started, even before the city did its first major water rights transfer cases, we have a set of water rights transfer cases. We call them our 81 transfers they were. In fact, in 1929, we had transferred a, you know, some long month supply and Palmerton water just a real small amount. But really since then, hadn't, you know, we had water rights but hadn't really gone through a transfer process. We got a lot of water rights in the 60s and 70s. None of them had been transferred. We helped as well as Bob brand really help put together the city's first major water rights transfer cases, of which we then were able to model our other transfer cases. Over the years, he also helped guide us through all kinds of issues surrounding our water. Over the years, you know, windy gap CBT, gas and oil gravel mining and our first ever gravel mine augmentation plan for sandstone expansion, just a myriad of things over the years that really help move long month forward and help us get one of the most dependable water supplies along the front range of Colorado here. So, so I really do appreciate all his efforts Ray has at the end of this year at the end of December, fully retired and turned over his firm to. Some of the other junior principals, I don't know if they turned over sold it but it's now now different, even named differently, but he's now no longer our water special water council after over 40 years of providing service to the city so I just thought it would be fitting to just send him a resolution. Thanking him for all the work now many years and really helping long month move forward with an extremely dependable water supply. One comment I would make is you know we talked about earlier Union reservoir and West you gave a little overview of your ability to move water into Union, move it up into button rock. And, and I would just say, you know, I'm a water resource engineer this is the kind of, I do some of this work for a living and having that flexibility is no easy task. So, I assume, Ken when you're alluding to what Ray has done for you guys that's a kind of testament to that of that flexibility and having that flexibility is invaluable. And managing your water supplies so anyway, I just want to bring it back to something we talked about a little bit earlier in the meeting that has immense value to the city so I don't know if anybody else has any other comments but I think having obviously 40 years of service to the city and you know what what he's done I think deserves us trying to recognize that in the context of resolution so any questions comments or any problems with with that. If not, I think we need a motion to approve that the resolution was included in everybody's packet. I don't know if anybody any comments on that otherwise if there's a motion to approve the resolution was included in the packet. I'd like to see that if we can. All right, we have a motion by Allison do we have a second. Kathy is seconding the motion. Any further discussion. Hearing none all those in favor say aye. Opposed. Okay the motion carries four to zero. Thank you for for doing that. And can I guess if you talked to Ray wish him. Happy retirement so we'll do that and we will get this put on some nice nice paper and get it around for the board to sign thank you very much. Thanks. All right. The next is item 11, which is informational items and water board correspondence. I don't know if the board has anything there was a couple in the packet. I think just in terms of the schedule the meeting and that sort of thing so I think kind of standard on that. Is it board have any comments anything else they want to bring up at this point. I don't know. Any comments. Hearing information items and water board. I guess we did already did that I'm sorry. Item 12 as items tentatively scheduled for future board meetings. In March we have the cash and Lou review again and then as I mentioned, maybe in March or April. We can hear from say, stream management plan implementation so are there any other items coming up that you see on that can? I have not no. Okay anything else for the good of the order? February's meeting is going to be the week after President's Day so it will be the fourth Tuesday of fourth Monday of the month like we did for this month. Great thank you Heather. If there's nothing else I'm gonna go ahead and adjourn the meeting. Thank you. Have a good day. Thank you. Bye everybody.