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

 

 

I.      CALL TO ORDER

 

The properly agendized meeting was called to Order by President Wanda Smith at 6:30 p.m.

 

 

II.     CHANGES TO AGENDA and DECLARATION OF CONFLICT (6:31 p.m.)

 

Director Torr recused himself from Item V-B (Discussion/Action re Tampering fee and time/materials charges assessed to Dave Major)

 

 

III.    CONSENT CALENDAR (6:32 p.m.)

 

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.

 

 

IV.    PUBLIC COMMENT (6:32 p.m.)

 

(None.)

 

 

V.     REGULAR ADMINISTRATIVE MATTERS (6:33 p.m.)

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

 

 

VIII. CLOSED SESSION (7:39 p.m.)

 

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.

 

 

IX.    ITEMS FOR THE NEXT AGENDA (8:17 p.m.)

 

1.         Discussion/Action re RROC Grant Funding

 

 

ADJOURN

 

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:            ______________            _          ______