Sweetwater Springs Water District
Board of Directors Meeting
MINUTES
Board of
Directors Meeting
Regular
Meeting
October 5,
2006
6:30 p.m.
Board Members Present: Gaylord Schaap
Jim
Quigley
Victoria
Wikle
Wanda
Smith
Michael
Torr
Board Members Absent: (None)
Staff in Attendance: Chuck
Howell, General Manager
Julie
Kenny, Secretary to the Board
Others in Attendance: Jack
Locey
Mike
Gogna
George
Klineman
Ken
Ward
Skip
Cassady
Richard
Deering
The properly agendized meeting was called to
Order by President Wanda Smith at 6:30 p.m.
Director Torr recused himself from Item V-B
(Discussion/Action re Tampering fee and time/materials charges assessed to Dave
Major)
Director
Schaap moved to approve the Consent Calendar:
A. Approval
of the Minutes of the September 7, 2006, Regular Meeting
B. Approval of Operations Warrants/Online
payments/EFT payments/Construction Warrants, and West America account activity
C. Receipt
of Item(s) of Correspondence. (None)
Director
Wikle seconded. Motion carried 5-0, but
Director Torr noted that he was absent at the September 7, 2006, meeting so his
vote was only for Items B & C.
(None.)
A. (6:33
p.m.) Report of District Engineer re
CIP Phase III-B Construction. District Engineer Jack Locey an
overview of CIP Phase III-B status and the rate study. Discussion ensued.
B. (6:39
p.m.) Discussion/Action re Tampering
fee and time/materials (T&M) charges assessed for tampering with and damage
to District property (item agendized per request of Dave Major). Director Torr excused himself from participation in this
item. There was no discussion or action
on this item as the person who requested this item be agendized was not in
attendance.
C. (6:39
p.m.) Discussion/Action re Neeley Road
Slide (item agendized per request of Ken Ward). Ken
Ward provided an overview of this item.
District counsel provided clarification. The GM provided further comment.
Discussion ensued. District
Engineer Jack Locey provided further overview.
Public comment was made by Richard Deering. Further discussion ensued.
Public comment was made by Skip Cassady. No action was taken.
D. (7:03
p.m.) Discussion/Action re County
General Plan (VW). The GM provided an overview of this
item. Discussion ensued. Direction was given to the GM to write a
letter addressing the impacts to the District.
E. (7:07
p.m.) Discussion/Action re District
goals and related workshop. The GM provided an overview of this
item. Discussion ensued. District counsel provided comment. Further discussion ensued. Director Schaap provided a handout of
mission statements of other Districts.
Further discussion ensued.
Director Quigley moved to hold off hiring a facilitator at this time and
instead have a Board meeting/workshop on October 28, 2006, without a
facilitator. Director Torr seconded. Motion carried 5-0.
VI. GENERAL MANAGER’S REPORT (7:25 p.m.)
The GM
provided comments on the following subjects:
A. Laboratory
Testing
B. CIP
Phase III Status Report
C. Potential
funding source
D. Hwy
116 CIP
E. Board
workshop
F. Election
of Board officers
G. Employee
illness
VII. BOARD MEMBERS’
ANNOUNCEMENTS/COMMENTS
(7:38 p.m.)
Director
Wikle commented re Clean Water propositions
Director
Quigley commented re completion of his Ethics training
At 7:39
p.m., the Board went into Closed Session at 8:15 p.m., the meeting reconvened
and the following action on Closed Session items was announced:
A. Conference with Legal Counsel –
Significant exposure to litigation pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section
54956.9.
Number
of cases: 4
Facts and circumstances:
Claims relating to Neeley Road slide
Direction
was given to staff.
1. Discussion/Action
re RROC Grant Funding
The meeting adjourned at 8:18 p.m.
Respectfully
submitted,
Julie A.
Kenny
Clerk
to the Board of Directors
APPROVED:
Wanda Smith: ______________ _ ______
Victoria Wikle: ______________ _ ______
Jim Quigley: ______________ _ ______
Michael Torr: ______________ _ ______
Gaylord Schaap: ______________ _ ______