 How are you, Assistant City Manager Matt? How are you? I'm happy here. Help me be unhappy. Successful. Good afternoon, everyone. I'd like to call the meeting of the Board of Public Utilities for the City of Santa Rosa to order. May we have a roll call, please? Yes. Board member Wright. Here. Board member Walsh. Board member Grable. Here. Board member Barthelau. Here. Board member Bavenfort. Here. Vice Chair Anoni. Here. And Chair Galvin. Here. Let the record reflect that all Board members are present with the exception of Board member Walsh. Thank you. Item number 2.1 on our agenda is some employee service recognition proclamations, which I'm honored to read. So I'm going to start with the first one regarding Mike Endicott, whereas Mike Endicott was hired on June 24, 1991 as a maintenance worker supporting the water construction team, and whereas Mr. Endicott was promoted to skilled maintenance worker in July 1993 and transferred to the biosolid section in June of 1996, and whereas over the course of Mr. Endicott's time with the water department, he worked in local operations, regional operations, biosolids, and the geysers, thereby touching each corner of the water department's operations, and whereas during Mr. Endicott's tenure with both the biosolid section and compost operations, Mike often came up with and implemented new ideas that improve the efficiency of the compost facility, and whereas during his career, Mr. Endicott was previously responsible for the biosolids land application program, working with the haulers and agricultural customers to ensure biosolids were applied appropriately, and whereas one time Mr. Endicott was at one of the biosolids properties in South County at 5 AM in the dark waiting for lime delivery when Mike backed up his truck a little too far and got stuck, needing to be pulled out of the ditch, and whereas there was no damage or injuries, and because Mr. Endicott's good nature, the telling of the story gets better every time he tells it, and whereas Mr. Endicott retired on December 5, 2023 and has already started enjoying a well-deserved retirement, and whereas Mr. Endicott has been a well-respected, innovative, and supportive part of the water team over his over three decade career with the water department and will be greatly missed. Now, therefore, be it resolved that the Board of Public Utilities of the City of Santa Rosa does hereby recognize, commend, and express our sincere and heartfelt appreciation to Mike Endicott for his 32 years of dedicated service to the water department and the community of Santa Rosa, and I was happy to sign that proclamation. I don't know, is Mr. Endicott here? Thank you, Chair Galvin and members of the Board. I don't see Mr. Endicott here today. I don't know if either Andrew or Richard would like to come down and get his proclamation for him. That would be lovely, thank you. I just wanna, if you don't mind just say, I really appreciate the work that Mike has done. He's been a great part of the water department for many years. I got to work with him a little bit over the years and we just, he will be missed in the water department, so I really appreciate his service and I wanna say thank you. If any Board members have any comments with regards to Mr. Endicott? I don't know that we've worked with him directly, so okay, all right, we'll move on to the next one. This is regarding Bill Gardner. Whereas Bill Gardner was hired on December 15, 1997 as a wastewater operator number two and during his subsequent 26 year career, he was promoted to senior wastewater operator and earned his grade five wastewater treatment license, which is the highest level treatment plant license. And whereas Mr. Gardner has been an ambassador for the Laguna treatment plant, providing treatment plant tours and implementing suggestions for cost saving measures and treatment plant efficiencies. And whereas during his tenure, Mr. Gardner implemented many improvements, including the development of the UV disinfection maintenance log database, helping save the Laguna treatment plant thousands of dollars annually and replacement costs and unscheduled maintenance. And whereas Mr. Gardner's innovation was a huge benefit to the treatment plant, including when Bill worked closely with the maintenance section to develop a better way to install UV hatch covers, which improved safety and made it easier for operators. And when Bill's efforts to improve the belt press, dewatering process resulted in 5% more cake solid production. And whereas Mr. Gardner has positively influenced current and future wastewater operators by generously giving his time to mentor and train operators in training and by leading his team of wastewater operators, encouraging initiative and innovative thinking. And whereas for the majority of Mr. Gardner's career as a senior wastewater operator, he worked on the graveyard shift, which can only be one of the more challenging shifts due to the schedule and lighter staffing levels. And whereas Mr. Gardner is retiring and will be gainfully unemployed after December 16, 2023. And whereas though he will be gone and greatly missed by all who had the pleasure to work with him, Mr. Gardner's impact will live on through the many improvements that he championed. Now, therefore be it resolved that the Board of Public Utilities of the City of Santa Rosa does hereby express our sincere and heartfelt appreciation to Bill Gardner for his 26 years of distinguished service to the Laguna Treatment Plant, the Water Department and the community of Santa Rosa. Lynn, I'm happy to sign that one as well. Is Mr. Gardner here? I don't see Bill here either, so I apologize that neither could make it today. Again, I just would really like to thank Bill. He's been an integral part of the wastewater treatment plant. Working on the shifts that he's worked over the years is very, very difficult. He's been a great lead of his team, a great lead when he's in sort of making sure that the treatment plant's operating throughout all hours of the day. So really appreciate all of his work and he will also be greatly missed and I'm sorry he couldn't be here today. And maybe Andrew could also grab his proclamation. Thank you, Andrew. Next up is Colin Close. Whereas Colin Close has been a devoted employee of the city of Santa Rosa for more than 25 years and whereas during Mr. Close's tenure, he has served both the police and water departments holding the titles of water conservation representative, research and program coordinator twice, administrative analyst, water use efficiency coordinator, senior water resources planner and acting deputy director of water resources and whereas during Mr. Close's career in the water department, he has been responsible for many projects of significance, including the development of several outdoor water use efficiency programs that are still in use today, the city of Santa Rosa's water energy optimization plans, the water demand offset policy, urban water management plans and most recently his career capstone, the our water future water supply alternatives plan. And whereas throughout the years, Mr. Close has improved the workplace for all city of Santa Rosa employees through serving as a trainer for the first ever building an inclusive workforce series and his voluntary participation in multiple committees and work groups focused on advancing employees, wellness and diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging initiatives. And whereas Mr. Close tackles all water resource data and analysis with vigor and is considered an Excel spreadsheet virtuoso by his peers and whereas Mr. Close has proven himself many times over as a masterful facilitator, achieving consensus on many complex regulatory and policy issues for the city and the region and whereas Mr. Close has achieved praiseworthy success due to his unwavering work ethic, precise vision and collaborative spirit and whereas Mr. Close will be officially retiring on December 29, 2023 and will be enjoying the loving company of his family which includes many very fortunate dogs, his newfound passion for rock tumbling and other artistic exploits. Now therefore be it resolved that the Board of Public Utilities of the city of Santa Rosa does hereby recognize, commend and express our sincere and heartfelt appreciation to Colin Close for 25 years of outstanding service to the community of Santa Rosa and to the city of Santa Rosa. Vice Chair Arnone. Well, I have a couple of things to say about Colin and I've enjoyed very much working with you Colin for the time I've been here and there's a couple of things in particular that I will miss about our working together and the first probably important, I don't know but I just love your audio visual headset and you have such good quality of sound every time you're on a Zoom you just sound more authoritative than anybody on the call just because of technology. So you're brilliant in using the tools available but in all seriousness you're always very, very well prepared and the other thing I will miss is that like most people who are very prepared on the subject matter, you appear to enjoy the debate. You just enjoy the process and the exchange and working through it with a group of people and coming up with a good decision and I just really appreciate debating topics with you and talking about policy issues because you do it so well. So I will miss you and I wish you the best in your retirement. Thank you. Remember right? I do would like to congratulate you Colin. It's a good gig being retired. But I will also say I worked at the city when Colin was first hired and Colin and I got to know each other pretty well in Toastmasters where we gave little speeches every week and had lunch and everything like that and that went on and I was actually a little upset when you left to go over to the police department but then happy to hear when you came back certainly your career is and you've had a wonderful career at the city and did a fantastic job but congratulations. Remember Grable? Yeah I just wanted to echo the comments of my colleagues and just say what an honor and pleasure it's been to work with you Colin and learn from not just your professional expertise and your technical expertise but also the way that you show that classic quote of culture eating strategy for breakfast, right? The importance of the people in our departments no matter how strong your strategy is or your technical expertise if the people doing it don't nurture a culture of a really welcoming culture and inclusive culture that is a healthy work environment your strategies will fail no matter how good they are and you've shown that strong technical expertise can also have strong emotional intelligence and organizational development so it's been an honor to learn from you and to see the example that you said. Remember Baden-Fort? Congratulations to you. Mine has been more selfish I guess but maybe not. You have been a tremendous help to me as a board member patient and the ability to synthesize such complicated information whether it is technical information, data analysis helping me think through what are the proposals that are before us? What is the process that they will go through? How do we get to a good decision that's based on good data and integrity and a really responsible process? You can see it in your work with the public in these meetings just making sure that the public and the board and the staff understand what are these gigantic decisions in front of us? It is the highest priority and the highest role of staff and it's important and it's what's make everything from our programs to democracy as a whole work and so I just appreciate your role and your help to me throughout the years. I hope you enjoy every minute of your retirement. Thanks. Remember Bartholomew. Thank you. Colin, I haven't been here very long so haven't had a huge opportunity to work with you but I wanted to congratulate you and say I'm gonna miss your sitting out there not only your presentations but you always have a look on your face like you really enjoy this work and congratulations on what sounds like a fantastic career and try to have a good time. Colin, it's been an honor to work with you over the last 20 plus years. You have had the ability to tackle some of the most difficult projects or issues that face the Blue Water Department. You've done it with just incredible gifts of your talent and your ability to interact with people whether it's your own staff or whether it's the regional partners or it's the Water Department or the Water Control District, whatever it might be you're always there and you have represented the city just in such a stellar way. It's been an honor to work with you and I wish you much good luck in your retirement. Mr. Nett. Colin, you are the example of what it means to be an excellent city employee. People can look to you and if you've just listened to what the board members said you demonstrate calm professionalism and you enjoy your job, you enjoy what you do. You've picked a field that drives you, builds you and motivates you and that's what we want for all of the employees. You are a perfect example for folks coming up in the organization and I'll tell you it's been a pleasure to work with you in so many different ways. Always know that when Colin's got it, we're good. We're good, it's gonna be delivered great, it's gonna be thorough, it's gonna be complete and no one has to worry about you responding to council member or board member questions because you've got it and you've done such a good job with that and I'll just say over the last two years I've had the thrill of being able to learn alongside and from you as we began to work on the DEIB program here in the city and it is new-ish for this organization and your leadership, your professionalism and the passion that you bring to trying to improve this organization has really been a driving force for us and I thank you because it helped me as I'm growing with the city in that regard so really your service has been really much appreciated and I hope retirement is equally as fun for you. Richard Burke. Thank you. So when I started 20 years ago everyone kept coming up to me and said, are you the new Colin? And I said, I don't know what that means but I'm not sure and came to realize that Colin had just left the Water Use Efficiency Team and was going or was in the police department I believe at that time and so I got to know Colin through a lot of his great work that had been left behind especially on all of the outdoor programs for Water Use Efficiency and over time we got to get him to come back to the water department which was great and then I had the extreme honor and privilege of working with Colin directly. He was my direct staff for a number of years and he was my super right hand, anything I needed, anything that we needed to work on it was just, hey Colin would you mind and I knew it would be stellar, well researched, very detailed and just was amazing at doing things even better than I could ever imagine. So I just wanted to say thank you, thank you for your service. The water department has been incredibly improved due to all the work that you've done and you leave behind a legacy and a lot of folks who will miss you and enjoy retirement and if you're bored you can always just reach out and see if there's something you can do in the water department. I think that concludes the board comments so let's give them a round of applause before you talk. Colin the floor is yours. Just very briefly, I think the water department is by far the best department in the city. I know I'm biased, I try not to be but in this I'm really biased and quite honestly in large part is because of your leadership. There's something very unique about having a department overseen by a board like this through a charter that could go very wrong but it has consistently gone so right. Your dedication, your commitment, your thoughtfulness, your care, your concern, your expertise, I was reflecting on it and anyway I just very much appreciate all of what you bring to this as well and not so professional right now, sorry. Just really appreciate also the leadership in the water department. Director Burke I think was a brilliant appointment for this department and I also, I feel like she gave me some chances that other folks might not have given me chances, gave me opportunities to take on responsibility, some projects, sometimes in water way over my head, no pun intended but that kind of support allows employees to really thrive and I also wanted to, I should have written this town. I wanted to thank Peter Martin, my supervisor, you know how I feel, yeah and all of my coworkers, what an amazing group of people so thank you all very much, really appreciate this, thanks. Last but not least, Kimberly Zanino-Hareman. The proclamation reads whereas Kimberly Zanino-Hareman was hired in June of 1990 as a temporary customer service representative supporting the water than the utility billing team and whereas during Ms. Hareman's almost 30 year career with the city of Santa Rosa, Kimberly held many positions in the water and finance departments, including customer service representative, utilities technician, civil engineering technician, water use efficiency coordinator, revenue manager and deputy director administrative services and whereas during Ms. Hareman's career she has been involved in many teams and special projects including co-chairing the city's employee fund drive, leading Santa Rosa's water root beer float sales for the woohoo, water's ultimate hoopla unit and sharing the holiday party committee, chairing the holiday party committee, ensuring water department employees were well celebrated for their service and whereas Ms. Hareman has led numerous complex projects that have changed the way Santa Rosa water operates including the implementation of the customer information systems, CIS billing software and the WaterSmart portal and the multi-million dollar multi-year advanced metering infrastructure, AMI meter upgrade project including the continuous management of the multiple AMI softwares and whereas Ms. Hareman has worked tirelessly to ensure the fiscal stability of the water department, developing clear and effective water and wastewater rates, water and wastewater demand fees and in recent years leading the very successful 70 million dollar bond sale to fund the UV upgrade project and whereas staff in the water department have many different questions and due to Ms. Hareman's various roles and tenure Kimberly has all the answers and is always willing to jump in and help on any and all projects and whereas Ms. Hareman has been a fearless leader providing amazing support to her team, supporting and encouraging them to perform at their best and whereas Ms. Hareman will be retiring on June 4, 2024 and will be enjoying her well-deserved retirement by scuba diving, hiking and traveling the world and whereas Ms. Hareman has been a leader, mentor, friend, support, coach, cheerleader and so much more to many city employees during her over three decade career with the city and will be greatly missed by all who had the pleasure to work with her. Now therefore be it resolved that the Board of Public Utilities of the city of Santa Rosa does hereby recognize, commend and express our sincere and heartfelt appreciation to Kimberly Zanino Hareman for her 30 years of outstanding service to the community of Santa Rosa and to the city of Santa Rosa. Did I say June? Did I say June? Maybe you did, she said something about it. Vice Chair Arnone. So there's not a lot of people that could follow the ovation given to Colin but Kimberly I think you're the one person I could think of that is in a good position to do so. I've mentioned this to you before but one of my very first impressions of Santa Rosa water was Kimberly trying to explain to somebody who had no idea what he was in for what AMI meant and how it worked and you spent an afternoon walking me through this whole thing and in terms of first impressions of a department I was very impressed. I mean you obviously knew your stuff and you were ready to go and that's the theme that I've seen ever since which is that you're a very, you're a calming presence in a lot of ways. When you're addressing something, you're doing it calmly and logically in a methodical manner and I appreciate the fact that you are always prepared and you give great reports and we're gonna miss that so I hope you enjoy your retirement and I really appreciate all the help you gave me as a board member, a new board member so enjoy it. Board member. Well congratulations and like I said before it's a pretty good gig being retired from the city. I'll just tell a couple of little stories. I've known Kimberly since she came to work at the city but when she first came to work at the city, I mean Kimberly still looks really young to me but she really looked young then. And at the time I was an engineer and I was preparing plans and specifications, all that for the utilities departments and all these projects and so Kimberly walks in the door basically a blank sheet with no knowledge of anything and I swear to God two weeks later I go over there and ask her a technical question and she's got the whole system wired. She knows all the rules, the regs, all the where the files are, she knows everything and it was just like how'd that happen? How'd that happen in two weeks? So that was, so she's been amazing to work with and then later on we worked in the capital improvement team on the utilities department and I was familiar with capital budgets but I never actually did an O&M budget and my goodness I wouldn't have been able to get through that without Kimberly, she just basically took 20 minutes and we were done and so that was, so I really appreciated that and then later on we worked together on water use efficiency when we got going on the AMI program and what a wonderful thing. She just came to work for me and then I just forgot about it and everything just cruised along. And so anyway, congratulations. I hope your retirement life goes as well as your professional life did. Thank you. We'll move over to Board Member Grable. Yeah, congratulations Kimberly. I just wanted to say echo again the comments. Also can I propose whatever the opposite of a hiring free, hiring freezes? We're gonna have a, all have a total emotional breakdown. If you read one more of those things, I swear. Whatever the opposite of that. I'm so moved, right? I really, really appreciate and have appreciated your patience with walking us through us bumbling lay people through the upwards of $160 million budget on the budget subcommittee. I remember that specifically as just something where I know, as Glenn said, you know like the back of your hand, you could do that in your sleep, but to also have to walk us lay people through that in a way that not only we understand but we're prepared to vote on and give feedback to our appointing council members and all of that is just the communications and policy acumen that you have and have really helped us with is just unmatched and it's been an honor to learn from you as well and congratulations on your retirement. Member Bartholome. Congratulations Kimberly. I would echo everyone else's sentiments and also just say that you do have a really calming effect as these numbers are thrown out there which what sometimes feels like monopoly money and I've always really appreciated it and I hope you have a wonderful retirement. Board member Batenfort. Congratulations. I was one of probably very many board members that sat there in awe and actually got to understand what is an AMI project and was gracefully informed and educated by Kimberly. Thank you so much. It takes, I can't even imagine, but it takes in the small budgeting that I do kind of in my day today what it takes to understand and to compile and to manage and to execute and to oversee just what you do. What I've always really been appreciative of is of course when I was on the budget committee the ability to help us understand that and make decisions that are based in integrity and accuracy is, it's paramount to what we and what the city does. But I've also always really appreciated that you always integrate a care and a calm and concern for our customers. That along the way, how do we make sure through the drought that we're taking advantage of every opportunity that we can to make sure we're not turning off customers in the middle of a pandemic? Where are the opportunities for funding for that? How does that fit within our system and our structure? And so thank you for that. Congratulations to you. Appreciate you. Kimberly, I will echo everything that's been said. Like with Colin, you've been a jack of all trades through your career here at the city. But I think you're probably most proud of the AMI project and the fact that you were handling that and trying to get it completed at the same time as you took over all the budgeting responsibilities. That just seemed like an overwhelming task and you did it with such grace. You made it easy for us as a board to comprehend not only the AMI process, but the budget, it's just, it's amazing to me how well you kept us informed and at a level that we could understand, which for me was challenging. So I wish you all the best in your retirement and all your travels. So thank you again. Assistant city manager, Nutt. Kimberly, so I thought the proclamations spelled out the highlights of your career grade, but it missed something. And no disrespect to the fantastic engineering teams we had, but in the wake of the 2017 fire, we would not have made it through our recovery process without Kimberly. And her expertise and knowledge of Glenn, you said it really well. She picks things up really, really fast. She learned the process needed to be able to not only create obligation requests from the federal government, but also navigate the path to get recovery. I think finance learned from you, I learned from you. I think Cal OES learned from you along the way. And so the piece that you brought to this city to be able to help, not just the water projects recover, but all of our public infrastructure, you were the catalyst that helped us get there. And really my heartfelt thanks for your multi-year effort to get us there. And now we move into closing. I think you were the first one to create the real closing documents and understand what that means and start that. So honestly, you've been the solid glue that has helped hold that program together. And you've been the shining star, helping get us back on our feet so that the teams can really go and deliver things. So really I don't know how to say thank you enough for what you did to help us recover from that disaster. Director Burke. This is gonna be a hard one for me. Shoot. So I have worked with Kimberly for quite a long time. And I have just always been impressed and just so grateful to know her. She's probably one of the best people and has the biggest heart. She is extremely intelligent and just has been one of, she's been the heart of the water department for many, many years. She's been an amazing part of the leadership team for the last five or so years. And it has just been my honor and privilege to work with her and get to know her. And I'm going to miss her immensely but we'll be stalking her so that she can't leave me alone. Thank you for your service. Thank you for being a part of my team. And I wish you the best in retirement but I will find you. The floor is yours. Reading glasses and all. Okay. I did write it down calling because I knew I wouldn't make it through. Ask my family. If I don't write it down, I just cry. So it's much better if I have a plan in front of me. And you thought this was gonna be a short meeting. Just kidding. So since you heard the list of my positions you probably wouldn't or would understand that there isn't enough time to thank every single person that I've worked with or I've worked for here but I do have some thank yous that I don't wanna miss out on. So first of all, I need to thank my family who is here. I would not be where I'm sitting today if it wasn't for the support of my parents, my daughters and my husband. They took care of everything else when I needed to focus on my job. And they did that so that I could do the best job possible. To the board, thank all of you for all the support you've given me over the years. You've always made thoughtful decisions even when they're the hard ones, just for the good of this organization and the community. You have always made staff a priority and I can't thank you enough for that time and dedication that you give here. I have to thank all my current director reports who are just the greatest group of individuals that made my job easier and certainly made work more enjoyable. And the director's team, my fellow deputies, Gina, Easter and Elise, they all worked so hard and even through those hard days like the fires and COVID, we would get together in our meetings and we'd laugh and that friendship and support made my time here really special. And then I also want to take just a little time to recognize my current division, Water Billing. It's where I started and I'm now ending my career. If you sat in my office downtown here, I'm sure like me you would be so impressed over hearing all of the conversations that go on with customers. Our staff treat everyone with so much respect and dignity. Even when they're not being treated well, they truly work to help our customers and I am super proud to have been a part of that. And finally, I want to thank Jennifer. I think I can get away with not calling her director Burke today. When you work closely with her, you see things many other staff members may not see. She truly cares about the staff at Santa Rosa Water. She fights for all of us, even when we don't see her doing it. She expects a lot of her department, which is evident by how great this department is, but it's not even close to what she expects of herself. She leads by example. So I can definitely say that it has been an honor to work with her and work for her. I am really proud to have spent basically my entire adult life serving this community and working here gave me the stability to do my most important job I've ever had, which is to raise two amazing human beings who are sitting in the audience. So thank you to everyone I've worked with for all of your support and the fun that we've had. It's been a great career and I will really miss working with this whole team. Thank you. We'll take a picture in just a second. Before we break, I do have to open it up for public comment on item 2.1. So if you wish to make a comment, please move to the podium and wait for the timer to appear on the screen. All right, see nobody moving. Then we will break for cake. And I know we wanna have some pictures taken with each of you and your families and the board. So we'll temporarily adjourn. Okay, I will now reconvene the Board of Public Utilities meeting after a wonderful proclamation and cake recess. So at this time we'll move on to item 3. Any statements of abstention by board members? Hearing none, we have no study sessions. The minutes for November 16th were in your packet. So at this time we'll take public comment on the approval of the minutes. If you'd like to make a comment, please move to the podium. Seeing no one, the minutes will be approved and entered. Now move to the staff briefings. Director Burke. Thank you, Chair Galvin and members of the board. Our first staff briefing will be our water supply update. And Peter Martin, Deputy Director of Water Resources will be making the presentation. Good afternoon, Chair Galvin, members of the board. I do have a brief end of the year water supply update for you. Just a quick highlight of the operations of PG&E's project and Lake Pillsbury's storage. The last time I was before this board with the water supply update, PG&E had filed a variance for their FERC mandated flows. They continue to operate under reduced flows to the Upper Russian River until they reached the point they reached storage of 36,000 acre feet. As of today, it's about 31,000 acre feet. This storm, I don't think we'll recharge anything substantially to the point where we'll see some additional storage, but there is more on the horizon. I do wanna note at this point too that on October 13th, Snowmawater filed a temporary city change petition. Again, coming out of the summer months, they are aligning their mandated flows under decision 1610 with the storage in Lake Mendocino as opposed to Lake Pillsbury. Obviously the operations of Lake Pillsbury has changed over time, so it's more consistent with the water year type on the Russian River. And they anticipate that hopefully they will have that temporary city change petition in place before the end of the year, allowing them to manage their storage beginning January in association with that change order. As of today, storage in Lake Mendocino is about 59,000 acre feet. They are now in the storage pool, no longer in the Furo pool above and beyond their water supply pool, but still obviously starting off this year much higher in terms of storage than previous years. At this point, storage has been declining at about 1,400 acre feet per week, but anticipate that that will start to diminish in terms of the rate of reduction of storage. In terms of storage in Lake Sonoma, as of today, storage is at about 217,700 acre feet. Water is very plentiful in terms of our contract storage, and storage is declining at about 1,200 acre feet per week. I do have a couple updates on PG&E's licensed surrender process. On November 17th, as anticipated, PG&E did release their initial draft licensed surrender application for public comment, and it includes a conceptual decommissioning plan and licensed surrender process for eventually removing Scott Dam and Cape Horn Dams, of course, and as anticipated too as well, they did include the Eel Russian facility proposal from the partners, which includes a future diversion of Eel River water into the Russian River watershed as asked and requested by the regional partnership. So in terms of just what to anticipate in the coming years with that licensed surrender, PG&E is at this point allowing folks to comment on that draft license, surrender license, but eventually they will need to submit a full draft license surrender application to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission in June of 2024 and a final application in January of 2025. Throughout that process, they will be consulting with the fishery resource agencies and tribes as well as the natural resource agencies involved as well. And then additionally, the ongoing work through the grant funded projects of some water are gonna continue. So they had the two proposed options for the Eel Russian diversion that they will continue to facilitate the further design of and other elements of that potential project to be able to continue to incorporate that into PG&E's process and also allow them to align with PG&E's anticipated decommissioning of the project. They also continue to work with others in the Upper Russian River, including Potter Valley on some opportunities for water supply reliability as well. And then, of course, the news just this Tuesday is that the County of Sonoma and Sonoma Water joined, or excuse me, approved the joint power exercise of powers authority agreement. And that means that they have an entity that will potentially or is proposed to run that project about once it is in constructed. And that's comprised of Mendocino and then Power and Water Commission, the Round Valley Indian Tribe, Sonoma County and Sonoma Water as part of that proposed joint powers authority. I also wanted to follow on an update that you received from Clare Nordley previously in terms of our progress on the new requirements that they make in California, conservation of California way of life. I just want to summarize that this is an evolution of the 20% by 2020 requirements. Of course, Santa Rosa Water did meet that requirement, and this is the new requirements for furthering water conservation for utilities going forward. It established targets in 2022 and the implementation is expected to begin this year, although the regulations have not formally been adopted and they are anticipated to be adopted by the State Water Board in the summer of 2024. There are a series of targets and interim targets that utilities are expected to meet leading up to 2030. And after 2027, non-compliance with those are subject to penalties. This graphic has been shown to this board before, but just a reminder that there is an overall water use objective given to all utilities. It's a combination of indoor residential use, outdoor residential use, and our CII standards as well as landscapes for those CII customers and a water law standard plus some other potential variances and bonuses for recycled water use in urban areas. So the reason why I'm updating you today is that we are preparing the interim report, which is due on January 1st. So the reporting is going to be due despite the regulation not being finalized. So we are submitting this data in an interim format and it's being collected by the Department of Water Resources. Once that regulation is finalized, it's anticipated that the final data will be submitted and collected by the State Water Board beginning in 2025. At this point, we are being asked to report our 2022 data because of course, we wouldn't have the 2023 data finalized before January 1st, but the good news is at this point, in terms of our interim target, we are at about 52%. So Santa Rosa is performing very well in terms of meeting our urban water use objectives. I can take any questions you may have at this point. Thank you, Deputy Director Martin. I'll open it up for any board member questions or comments. All right, hearing none, we will then take public comment on item 6.1. If you wish to make a comment, please move to the podium. See no one, that will conclude item 6.1. Thank you again. We'll now move to item 6.2, Director Burke. Thank you, Chair Galvin and members of the board. Item 6.2 is our Recycle Water Supply Update and Andrew Romero, our wastewater superintendent, making the presentation. Actually, Reclamation Superintendent, sorry about that. It's okay. Good afternoon, Chairman Galvin and members of the board. My name's Andrew Romero, Reclamation Superintendent, and I will be providing you with a recap of this past year. The slide is a visual of historical treatment plant flows starting from 1986 through 2023. The lighter blue lines is the historical flows. The black line is the 2022 through 2023 water year plant flows, and the purple line is the average of all years combined. This year, the plant is expected to produce around 7 billion gallons, which is considered average between 1986 and 2022. This year's plant production allowed us to meet the city's controversial obligation with Calpine and our urban users in the cities of Runapark and Santa Rosa. In addition, we also allocated close to 1.6 billion gallons to our AG users and irrigated our city farms, oops, sorry, and irrigated our AG users and irrigated our city farms that are local AG users lease to grow crops for their livestock. This slide is a summary of our urban usage with the city of Runapark and Santa Rosa. The city is contractually obligated to deliver up to 450 million gallons to Runapark, which through October they have used 66% of. Our city of Santa Rosa urban usage is expected to be around 20 to 30 million gallons this year. Also, we expect to deliver around 110%, 115% of the contract amount to Calpine. 90% is the minimum required. However, with the lack of usage this year and to manage our overall storage, we had to deliver more water to Calpine than usual. This slide is a recap of agriculture irrigation season. We allocated just shy of 1.6 billion gallons to our AG users. The total use through September was 64% of the 1.6 billion gallons. AG season officially ended this year on November 6th. In addition, we irrigated 170 million gallons on the city farms. This next slide is our recent recycled water storage curve. 2022 through 2023 water year is in the black and the red is our current storage level. So about 300 million gallons, which is average for this time of year. Earlier in the year in March, the black line, you could see two drops in the storage, which were our two discharges, which equaled 697 million gallons. We are currently preparing for the wet weather season and we will be watching the weather closely over the next few months. And that concludes the 2023 recycled water recap and I'm happy to answer any questions. Thank you, Mr. Romero. I'll pick it up for any board member questions or comments. Board member Wright. Just one question. I don't know, this might have to go to Director Burke, but do we get any credit for 115% of discharges to the geysers for next year? Or is it all even up on at the end of the water year? Yeah, that's, it's calendar year with the Calpines agreement. So we don't get to carry anything over. There's no carryover credit. Okay. No. That's too bad. Thank you. Sure. Other board member questions or comments? All right. We will now open it up for public comment on item 6.2. If you'd like to make a comment, please move to the podium. You know one that will take care of item 6.2. Thank you again, Mr. Romero. We have two items on the consent calendar. Make a motion to approve the consent calendar. Second. We have a motion by Vice Chair Arnone, seconded by Board Member Grable to approve the consent calendar. We'll open it up for public comment on the consent calendar. If you wish to make a comment, please move to the podium. Can't see no one. May we have a roll call vote, please? Board Member Wright. Aye. Board Member Grable. Aye. Board Member Bartholome. Aye. Board Member Batenfort. Aye. Vice Chair Arnone. Aye. Chair Galvin. Aye. And those passing unanimously with Board Member Walsh absent. Thank you. We have no report items. Item number nine is public comments on non-agenda matters. So we'll now take public comments on item nine. If you wish to make a comment, please move to the podium. See no one move. That'll take care of public comments. We have no referrals. We have no written communications. Do we have any subcommittee reports? Don't believe we do. All right, any Board Member reports? And we'll move to the Director's Report. Thank you, Chair Galvin and members of the Board. First, I'd like to note that we have a familiar face back on Zoom. I'd like to let the Board know. We're very excited to have our Assistant City Attorney, Morgan Bigger, staff back with us. I do wanna thank Bob Maddow for stepping in and providing some interim services as well as Jeff Burke who provided us some assistance while Morgan was out. And we're very grateful to have him back. So welcome back, Morgan. I wanted to also let the Board know that on November 28th, the Council did support your recommendation and directed the City Attorney's Office to file the necessary paperwork to opt out of both the Dupont and 3M PFAS class action settlements. So that has been filed with court. Also wanted to provide a quick update for the Board on the next round of a rearage funding from the State. The State Water Board did release a second round of funding to provide for customers with overdue water and sewer bills. This funding, as before, goes straight to the utilities and does not go to the customer, but will be used to credit the customer's account. I do wanna thank the water billing team. They are working diligently to ensure that we file all the necessary paperwork with the application before the deadline in December. This is a very taxing assignment and they have to put in a lot of extra hours. But the good news is we do get funding back for the time it takes for them to pull all the data. Originally, the first round of funding only covered charges from March through June of 2021. With this new round of funding, we will be able to go from July of 2021 through December 31st of 2022. The funding will be available for residential and some commercial customers, but does exclude irrigation-only, industrial, process water, fire lines, and delinquent fees. So based on the new parameters, Santa Rosa Water has almost $2 million in unpaid arrearages on more than 2,000 customer accounts. And so we are reviewing all 2,000 of those accounts and are hopeful that we can get funding reimbursed for the overwhelming majority of those accounts. And we will continue to update the Board as that process moves forward. And then last, I wanted to let the Board know that we will be canceling with the Board's chair's approval. We are canceling the December 21st and January 4th Board of Public Utilities meetings. And so I wanted to wish you all a very happy holidays and we'll see you back in 2024. Thank you so much and I'm happy to answer any questions you might have. Thank you, Director Burke. Any questions for the Director? All right, hearing none, we'll open it up for public comments on item 14. If you wish to make a comment, please move to the podium. See nobody moving. That will take care of item number 14. Item 15 is adjourning the meeting. I'd like to adjourn the meeting in honor of the four proclamation recipients and also wish all of you happy holidays and happy new year and we will see you in 2024. We're adjourned.