January 23, 2023 Video Board Meeting
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CPNMD Board Meeting Agenda
Monday, January 23, 2023, at 6:00 p.m.
7404 Yorkshire Drive, Castle Pines, CO 80108
I. Welcome. Call meeting to order. Pledge of Allegiance.
II. Roll call. Determination of quorum. Disclosure of potential conflicts.
III. Consider approving the January 23, 2023, board meeting agenda.
IV. Consider approving the board’s November 14, 2022, board meeting minutes.
V. Consider approving the board’s December 12, 2022, Special board meeting minutes (held on zoom).
VI. Public comment period. (Three-minute maximum per person).
VII. Parks, Trails & Open Space Manager's report.
A. Update on Snow Removal
B. Update on CPNMD & City of Castle Pines operation cooperation (Nathan
Travis)
VIII. Consider Approving non-budgeted capital expense for replacement
IX. Finance Director's report.
A. Overview of 2021 Audit Status
B. Overview of Plans for 2022 Audit
C. Consider approving claims for payment including check numbers 27399 –
27566, and electronic payments issued from January 1st, through January 12, 2023.
General Fund/Open Space Approve $198,204.65 Ratify $340,294.34 Totals $538,498.99
Enterprise Funds Approve $416,311.12 Ratify $978,728.86 Totals $1,395,039.98
Electronic Payments (all funds) Approve $32,866.35 Ratify $155,827.53 Totals $188,693.88
Total Expenditures Approve $647,382.12 Ratify $1,474,850.73 Totals $2,122,232.85
X. Legal Counsel's report.
A. Stormwater/ Parks IGA update
XII. Interim District Manager’s report.
A. Update on Lift Station Design
B. Update on 2023 Capital Projects
C. Update on Communications
XIII. Consider awarding bid for Water Treatment Plant HVAC Project
XIV. Discussion Regarding District Contracts (cancelled study session hold-over)
A. Review/ Q&A regarding information included in study-session packet.
XV. Consider approval of full-time contract for District Manager
XVI. Directors' matters.
XVII. Adjourn.
Board President Chuck Lowen:
Welcome, everybody, to the first board meeting of ninth of 2023. It's hard for me to say that, I welcome those in the group and anybody on Zoom and board. I hope you all had a pleasant holiday season as well as, a good new year. Let's, call the meeting to order at 6 p.m. on the 23rd of January.
And if you will join me in the Pledge of Allegiance.
All:
I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you very much.
Chuck:
I'd like to make sure, for the record, we have, a quorum, so I will call roll
Board Member Director Jason Blankaert:
Director Blankaert. Present.
Board Member Director Denise Crew:
Director Crew. Present. No conflicts.
Chuck:
That's good. Thank you.
Jason:
No conflicts.
Board Member Director Chris Lewis:
Thanks. Director Lewis. Present. No conflicts.
Board Member Director Tera Radloff:
And Director Radloff. Present. No conflicts.
Chuck:
And I'm, Chuck Lowen, president of the board. Present with no conflicts. Let's take the agenda approval separately tonight.
Do I hear a motion to approve Approve this? Monday, January 23rd? Agenda.
Tera:
Make a motion to approve the agenda as presented. Thank you. Chair. Any second.
Jason:
I'll second that.
Chuck:
Any discussion on the agenda?
Board Voting All Speak:
No. Okay. call for a vote. Director Blankaert. Approve. Director Crew approved. Director Lewis approve and Director Radloff approve. Thank you very much.
Chuck:
We'll also take the two, board meeting minutes, separately in case there's a changes anybody would like to make. So the first one is for November 14th, 2022. I'd like to hear a motion to approve those board meeting minutes.
Board Voting All Speak:
I'll make a motion to approve the board meeting minutes of November 14th, 2022. I second it. Thank you. We have an approval. And a second, any discussion? Hearing none. Call for a vote. Director Blankaert. Approve. Director Crew. Approved. Director Lewis. Approved. And Director Radloff. Approved. Thank you.
Chuck:
Item number five. December 12th, 2022. Special board meeting minutes.
Board Voting All Speak:
Can I hear a motion to approve? I'll make a motion to approve the minutes as presented. I second, thank you very much. Any discussions on the special meeting? Okay. Hearing none. Call for a vote. Director. Card approve. Director. Crew approved. Director Lewis approve. And Director Radloff. Approve. Thank you very much.
Chuck:
We have a public comment, period.
Do I have anybody Terrence signed in on zoom? Nothing. Anybody in the audience want to speak? Okay. Hearing none, we will move on to item seven. Parks, trails and Open Space manager's report. That would be David.
District Manager Nathan Travis:
It would be. So for we had some printer difficulties getting, board packets printed off for you guys. So David's actually just in the back room staring at the copy machine while it makes copies.
Chuck:
Is there anything we should know from David?
Nathan:
I think the, kind of the biggest things pushing with parks, trails and open space right now is we've, already started working pretty closely, closely with the city in terms of, like, decision making. So we're, I think David's got a weekly meeting set up with, Larry now, and the the driving purpose behind that is to make this transition as smooth as possible and so kind of get out in front of that a little bit.
And so what we're already doing is like looking at lining ups, independent vendors. So, security cameras, stuff like that, that the city is looking at for some sites, we're coordinating with them so that we get the same stuff to kind of keep all of that across the board. That's been going really, really well. They're also, working on some of the, the, like learning how to do the field scheduling for the, like the soccer field and baseball field reservation stuff.
They're working on that pretty well. And, yeah, that's kind of the biggest thing is keeping that rolling while we figure out, you know, what that looks like from a board to council side. But we didn't want to lose any time we've had that, tentative planned start date of around March 1st. And so we didn't want to get ourselves put in a position where, you know, we're 2 or 3 weeks out, we get the green light and then have to come up with all of this stuff on the spot.
So we're kind of trying to blend that as best we can.
Chuck:
And I assume, Nathan, that you're referring to the potential IGA for parks, trails and open space with the city, correct? Okay. I just wanted to clarify that. And I think that, you're early planning is, is very good and important, so that when it is signed, presented and signed by council and I know, councilman or, attorney Seter will, talk to us about that IGA that's in the works in a few minutes.
Anything that we need to know relative to the last snow events, we've had some pretty good ones. How, how did we How do we handle it?
Nathan:
Yeah. And so that actually flows, kind of into the next item on the agenda anyway, which is the, capital, expenditure request. So that's a piece of equipment, to replace our existing kind of utility vehicle that we have.
Chuck:
Let's let's take that off. Let's take that when we get to, item eight, if you wouldn't mind.
Nathan:
No, you're. I totally understand.
Chuck:
I just I want to make sure that, from David's standpoint, and for the, district standpoint, that we were able to handle all of our trails that we were needing, except, a few that obviously we had some equipment problems on.
Nathan:
Right, exactly. And so that's the, the equipment problems really, where we kind of got bogged down a little bit at this time. So that, UTV specifically had a lot of issues getting it started up in the cold, getting it moving up on and over the hills. It was having some plow blade issues. So it really took when we would normally have two guys out all day, every day kind of knocked us down to one and we could kind of backfill with contractors here and there.
But so we did have some unforeseen issues with, just the equipment that we have with that.
Chuck:
What's, what's the equipment we currently have available for those trails?
Nathan:
So we for the trail specifically, we have a, skid steer bobcat, a little small V-blade, and then that utility vehicle, it's like an kind of like an all terrain vehicle.
Look like
Chuck:
Bobcat working?
Nathan:
Yep. Bobcat was running the UTVs where we ran into problems.
Chuck:
Say that again.
Nathan:
The UTV. Okay. Yeah, that's the one where we were having a lot of downtime on that, on that piece of equipment. So, and like I said, I'll go into more details on the, proposed capital on that one.
Chuck:
Okay. And, if I am reading correctly, the last paragraph of David's memorandum is exactly what you were going to discuss in the, purchase of a Kubota, of which we have a picture of.
And, with the number of trails and the mileage that we have to clear, I'm surprised we don't have one yet.
Nathan:
We do. It's just undersized, and it's like ten years old now. So it will be it's not an additional vehicle purchase, so much as it is a replacement for one that we already have in the fleet.
Chuck:
So you're you or David want to make the request to approve this non budgeted capital expense for the replacement of the utility vehicle?
Nathan:
Correct? Yeah. The the current asset we have is completely zeroed out in terms of its depreciation cycle. when we were went to go price these things out, we couldn't even get anybody that was interested in like even taking this, taking it on trade.
And so it's, it's pretty roached out. One thing that I did do is, reached out to Larry to talk to him about it over at the city, especially since this is an asset that they will likely be taking over ownership of. Just to make sure that they saw value in the purchase. And so Larry and I were able to talk through it.
He completely agrees with the purchase. He's he's 100% on board and gave me full permission to present that to you guys.
Chuck:
If and when we do present an IGA to the city. Correct. We'll obviously have, costs in that IGA associated with personal equipment. Yep. And Larry Nemo, their Director. What is he? Municipal?
Nathan:
He's the public works
Chuck:
Public Director.
Was was he felt that was appropriate? Yep. And he understands the cost, which would probably be incurred by the city at some depreciated value at that point in time.
Nathan:
Yeah, yeah. So we we talked through the whole thing how, David and, Colin actually had gone through and gotten a few different competing bids just to see what we could get in terms of equipment specs and pricing.
And so the Kubota was the one that came out a few thousand dollars less than the other ones above it, and still kept us in kind of like the operational power range that we needed. But Larry was, Yeah, very supportive of the purchase.
Chuck:
Okay. would you like to make a motion, regarding that piece of equipment,
Nathan:
I can ask it.
One of you do.
Chuck:
You can't make a motion, can you? No, that's why. Good. Thank you. Go ahead, Chris, go ahead.
Tera:
Thanks. So, a couple questions. One. And did you in the report, can you enlighten me as to the timing of, turning over the reservation system to the city? Are they going to do that for the.
Because I know the reservations book up first thing in the year. So are they already doing that or what does that look like? What's the what's the project plan on that?
Nathan:
Yeah. So the city's basically taking it over. Susan's walking them through that process and kind of making sure that all of her huge contacts list for all the various coaches and associations that are affiliated with those fields, have an easy transition so that they can talk through any scheduling issues that they have.
But yeah, we're already starting to move that over. We've, kind of expanded our contract operations a little bit as well with our new parks, trails, and open space team coming on board. We're also we have, like, a separate crew and a separate contract through that same organization for things like picking up trash bags on the weekends and, like, grabbing the pet waste stations.
And so we've expanded just the trash removal and the, dog waste stations to Elk Ridge as well, because it just made a lot more sense than trying to get it on its own little tiny baby contract.
Tera:
And what would happen in the event that that IGA is not approved by either party?
Nathan:
It's a month, to month expense.
Yeah. So it's we're not we're not locked into that one for any contractual obligation at all.
Tera:
Right. But for like the reservation system that we could resume the reservation system here. I'm just saying if that. Oh yeah, that IGA certainly it has not been approved yet. So. Right, exactly. And then can you enlighten me a little bit of what this, piece of equipment does?
It looks like there was also some repair. We maybe try to repair the piece of equipment. It look like there were some repairs in there and, expenses for this Kubota or whatever. And what does it do? You put a plow on the front of it as it used year round? Or can you tell me a little bit more about what?
That.
Nathan:
Yeah. So this this specific one is used year round. So it does have a plow attachment that all that it gets on the front, which is really handy for a lot of those tighter back trails that we just can't get pickups on at all. It also has and part of the there's like a few extra bucks in there for like some of the attachments.
That's for, excuse me. That's for, like a mobile water tank. Like, it's a pretty good sized water tank that I think carries around. And so there's a lot of areas that we like do tree replacements, especially for like, you know, spots, sod repair, stuff like that. And so that's the vehicle they used to go water those sporadically.
Especially if they're areas that are designed to have a tree once they get established. There's not actually an irrigation system there. So David does a lot of hand watering year round with it. He does a lot of fertilizing spot checks with it. And then that's also the easiest way to kind of get around and do just like a quick overview of the parks and open space.
So it's a it's even the old junky one we've got now is out in the field probably, I don't know, 80% of the time 80%. Thank you.
Chuck:
Where will it be housed when it's not being used.
Nathan:
Here. Yeah, it's it'll be in the same spot the existing one is. So there's the the right below my office.
On the far side of the building. There's that lower entrance with the bay.
Chuck:
So it'll be in the shed. Yeah. Okay.
Nathan:
Yeah, it'll be in the basement of this building.
Chris:
Chris. So you said you had like, three quotes. Can you provide those or at least tell us what those were?
Nathan:
That'll David will have more specific information on that one.
Chris:
But that's I'm just that's the only thing I want to know on that. And then for Mr. Seter with with this, how does it does it have an effect on the IGA?
Legal Counsel Kim Seter, Esq.:
No, it shouldn't have any effect. We will we'll finish that. The parks transfer IGA by the end of March. And this will all be dealt with in there.
So it's good timing. Thank you.
Chuck:
Anybody else? All right. I guess then we're at a point where, we'll make a I'll make a motion that, allows, the district manager, the interim district manager at this point in time, to, purchase the Kubota as described for future use in landscaping and snow removal. I hear a second it.
Chris seconded. Any further discussion on the Kubota?
Tera:
So then where, how has that being covered in the budget or where is that coming from?
Nathan:
So it would be an expansion based on like kind of dipping into those capital reserves. So we do have and I think I don't know if Sadie and Phyllis have that number close on hand, but we do have several million dollars.
Primarily geared toward like the things like the potential skate park, the money that we use for the pickle ball courts. Some of that funding still sits in there. And so it's a slice out of that pie.
Chuck:
So if I hear you saying that there's adequate, surplus, I hate to use the word surplus, but funds available for this use, over and above the existing budget approved for 2023.
Nathan:
Correct? Yeah, yeah. And I think, maybe a more helpful term is more of a, more like what we have in reserves than an actual surplus since, given our capital planning for the parks and open space with the sod removal and finishing up whatever they end up doing with the skate park or, even the outstanding payables on the pickle ball courts, we're actually spending more than the parks brings in, but we're kind of tapping into some of those reserves that we've
had built.
Board Voting All Speak:
Okay, further discussion, call for a vote. If you approve the purchase. Director banker, I approve. Director Crew approved, Director Lewis approved. And Director Radloff approve.
Chuck:
Thank you. Jason. unless there's anything else on parks, trails, and open space, we can re, address that. If David wants to add anything when he's done doing what he's doing.
Nathan:
Okay. Sounds good.
Chuck:
Finance Director's report. Who do we have online? Phyllis.
Nathan:
So we have Phyllis and Sally with us online.
Chuck:
Are they there?
Phyllis Brown, Director of Finance and Accounting Community Resource Services of Colorado (CRS):
Yep. I'm here. Okay.
Chuck:
Thank you. I feel like we were worried about it. I thought I'd have to present that and then we'd be in real trouble.
Phyllis:
Oh, you can't. Well, if they be here, I'd like her to present it. If she's, on as well.
Chuck:
Okay. Well, you're on.
Phyllis:
Maybe, are you here. I'm going to open up the.
Do you have the packet open or. I have to go back to the file and find it.
Chuck:
Apparently, Sadie's having trouble, getting online. Phyllis.
Phyllis:
Oh, yeah. She just texted me saying. Yeah, we were both having trouble. Well, I apologize, look, open up the packet, Okay, so hold on.
Chuck:
Do you have a copy of the agenda, Phyllis?
Phyllis:
Well, I want to make sure I have the final one. Well, that's what I was looking for.
The if you can put it up on the screen or.
Chuck:
Well, we all have a copy of the agenda, but the
Phyllis:
Here it is I got it, I got it.
Chuck:
Okay. The first A is overview of the 2021 audit status.
Phyllis:
All right. And what page are you on let's say.
Chuck:
That's just the first page is the budget. I mean you have the agenda. Item nine packet.
Phyllis:
Okay. The audit. We are making progress. working with Nathan. We've went, We've gone through the capital assets, and that was the biggest piece that was open. And so we're finishing that up, getting them all the invoices, this big schedule that Sadie did.
And Nathan did a great job helping us go through that. Now, we're, kind of at their mercy. The auditors mercy for when they can get back to looking at the audit. But They've told us that they get some time to work on it. They'll get it, they'll get to it. You know, they've got their audit schedule from, you know, now till probably July.
But a lot of times the audit slips some audit for other clients. And so they'll squeeze them when they can to help get this done as soon as possible. That's what they've told us.
Chuck:
Phyllis, is there a date we need to match or meet for the, finalization of the,
Phyllis:
It's already late, so, there's no penalty.
There's no financial penalties. We just want to get it done as quickly as we can. So that we can get, the 22 audit started and try and get that completed on time, but it's not late. So that's our goal, which would be July 31st. Oh, and in our best world, we have both of them filed by July 31st.
That's what we're shooting for.
Chuck:
July 31st for the 2021 audit.
Phyllis:
Well, I'd like to get that done sooner, but also the 2022. Okay. So now that we've gotten a lot of the bulk of the 2021 audit done, we're continuing to work on the 2022 activities and reconciling accounts and preparing the schedules that are needed for the 2022 audit.
Which will take which will take a bit of time, as well as keeping up on doing the 2023 work and making sure we've got everything going there. So we've got three, three years going at it right now, but we're I think we've got a handle on it. Sadie is doing a great job. You know, when Susan is paying the bills and as you guys know, that's the biggest part of doing all this is making sure we keep the bills paid.
The people are not happy when they don't get their money.
Chuck:
Okay, so just to reiterate, the, 2021 audit status is is an unknown.
Phyllis:
I'd say, So if our work is substantially complete, the auditor work, I don't know, I can't tell you what percent they're they're through, but they have to go through. Now, everything we've done on the capital assets that we finished in December with Nathan.
Okay, they'll have and then they have to go do their audit work on all that. And so I'm not sure how long that will take, but there was a significant amount of activity in your, capital and R&M expenditures. And so we've gone through with Susan's help and Sadie's help and Nathan's help and, accumulating all those invoices and all those schedules.
So tell the auditoe, here's what we want to capitalize and here's what to expect. So now we're going to go back and check it. And then they can complete, the audit part, deciding whether that could take life or whether it's going on operations.
Chuck:
Okay, I understand that. I just was concerned that we get this, the 2021 done before we dig into the 2022.
And you're assuming that that is going to happen?
Phyllis:
I'm hoping so, but I think we could go ahead even if they don't finish the whole audit. We've got our trial balance for 2021 and we'll have any adjustments that they have to date. So to me, it was it makes more sense to keep you working on 2022. And if they come up with something else that will be easy to make a change to what we're doing for 2022.
So we don't want to hold up this, you know, moving forward with the 2022 work.
Chuck:
Okay. Thank you. Any, follow up with, Phyllis? We do have to, approve, the electronic payments, but anything before we do that for Phyllis, Tera.
Tera:
Hey, Phyllis. I do have a question on the electronic payments. on those bank service charges. Can you tell me a little bit about those and why those are so high?
Phyllis:
I that's more of a Sadie question. I wonder has she been able to get back on? Let me just look this up. So you're looking. Yeah. Yeah, that is that is a lot, bank service charges. So I'll have to, and that's that's for the period for November to January. So. So I'll have to go back and have her look, if she can't get on, I'll have to have her give you an answer for that.
Because she probably knows off the top of her head.
Tera:
And then the other, thing is, I noticed that under the board of Directors, that Director Blankaert doesn't appear, and I just want to make sure that he's not being overlooked consistently.
Phyllis:
I'll check on that as well. Well, that would be like, nice. Much like. Okay.
Nathan:
I didn't want Jason to find out this way, but we made some changes over Christmas.
Tera:
Oh, wait. No. oh.
Phyllis:
I guess now I'll check on that. Sadie's emailing me right now so she doesn't have speakers, but she said that's the credit card activity. The fees are related to the credit card charges.
Tera:
So people that are paying, their bills by credit card, because we just started doing that.
Phyllis:
Right? Yeah. Yeah.
Let's just let's see what she answers. But.
Chuck:
So if I understand that explanation, when a resident pays their water bill via credit card, there's no, add on for, service fee or convenience fee or whatever we may call it.
Tera:
Yeah. I mean, I thought, I don't know why I was thinking this, but I thought they paid for their own, their own fees of the user credit card to pay.
Nathan:
No. Yeah. Honestly, I don't know. I'll have to talk to Susan about it on Monday and kind of get more dialed in. That's not a that's not a stone I have yet looked under.
Tera:
Well, I just, I don't I don't know if I'm getting that confused with the, the city because I think the city policy is that if you're paying with a credit card, you pay you pay the fee.
Nathan:
Yeah. And that would that would make sense.
Tera:
Okay. If we could look into that. That's great.
Phyllis:
Yeah. Put Sadie on here. Sadie.
Sadie Whitworth, Accountant, Community Resource Services of Colorado (CRS):
Good evening everybody.
Phyllis:
Hello. Hold on, let.
That. Okay. Try that again. Sadie.
Sadie:
My apologies. Can you hear me? Yeah.
Chuck:
Thanks, Sadie, Welcome.
Sadie:
Thank you so much. Please. On the, bank statements, they are coming through as BTOT and MTOT any charges with any credit card fees, which all merchants have. When you accept credit card payments.
And it's based on most of the time. I haven't seen your credit card contract specifically, but most of the credit is based on percentage of use and amount as well.
Phyllis:
And that that's been, And that's been a consistent charge Sadie, that's not something new.
Sadie:
I'm sorry Phyllis please repeat.
Phyllis:
That's not something new. That's been a consistent
Sadie:
That is correct, it has been on the bank statements. When I started processing everything going back to May and prior.
Tera:
Yeah I mean that tells me what it is, but it doesn't tell me what's in it.
I mean, I appreciate your explanation, but it doesn't really. If I could see, you know, if we could see a breakdown or something, what that looks like, just so we understand it better. Because if it is related
Sadie:
We don't get that on the bank statement, which is getting a lump sum fee on the bank statement, it's not broken out.
Chuck:
It's not it's not broken out from the, credit card company when we're bills that amount. Is that what you're saying?
Sadie:
You know, at the end of the month, when the bank statement arrives, it's just on a statement has a monthly charge. It's not doesn't provide breakdown detail.
Phyllis:
So that's not that's not coming from the credit card. That's actually the bank.
A citywide bank is charging us that?
Sadie:
Well it's not the bank itself that's charging us. I don't think I believe it's related to, oh wait, actually, yes. It's on the bank statement. My apologies for the confusion as a citywide deduction.
Phyllis:
And that's based on the the dollar amount. So that, and you guys, I don't know how long you've used citywide banks. But we could look at, another bank if you'd like us to just see if we can get something with less fees charged.
Chuck:
Well, before we start changing banks, let's, zero in on the expense. If it was Citibank bank. Bank? Excuse me. Let's get Citibank to, give us an explanation on what the charge covers on a monthly basis. I think that's important. Okay, okay. Okay. So let's, Phyllis or Nathan, which one are you going to follow up on that?
Just so we know who to look to?
Nathan:
Yeah, I'll follow up with the two. I want to, touch base with Susan, tomorrow and see if we do, any kind of, like, service charge for use of a credit card, and then, I'll follow that up with Phyllis. I've got some other bank stuff I've got to do.
Finish up. Anyway, getting names.
Chuck:
We have. We have a contact in Citibank. I'm assured. Yeah. Okay. All right. Further questions. All right. Let's approve the claims for payment for check numbers 27399 through 27566. And electronic payments issued from January 1st through January 12th, 2023. n the General Fund approve $198,204.65. Ratifies $340,294.34, for a total of $538,498.99 on the enterprise Fund.
Approve $416,311.12. Ratify $978,728.86 for a total of $1,395,039.98 for the electronic payments. Approve $32,866.35. Ratify $155,027.53, for a total of $188,693.88, so the total expenditure year approved were $647,382.12. Ratified $1,474,850.73 for a total expenditure of $2,122,232.85. Can I hear a motion to approve?
Board Voting All Speak:
I'll make a motion to approve. I'll second. We have a motion and a second. Director Blankaert. I Approve. Director Crew. Approved. Director Lewis. Approved. and Director Radloff. Approved. Thank you very much.
Chuck:
Any further questions of either David, now that he's here? Thank you, David, for the reports. or Travis, any further questions for either one of those?
Hearing none. Let's move on to item number ten, Roman numeral ten. Legal counselors report.
Kim:
You have a copy of the report in the packet. And note that, May of this year there is an election coming up and that's described there. We'll be bringing you some resolutions and things next month that will have to be adopted to take care of the election.
The second matter, the one that was of importance tonight, is talking about the stormwater service conveyance, IGA, all of the terms of that were agreed upon in early January. And I believe Chuck came over here and signed that. I sent an unsigned copy over to the city. They were having a meeting. I thought they had signed it and sent it back.
But I learned this morning that we don't have it, so reached out to the city attorney, but haven't heard back from her yet. As far as I know, there was nothing else to discuss. There was one attachment missing. That map, which I think I had seen somebody had prepared earlier, either the city or it was prepared here so
We should be done. But I haven't heard anything today.
Tera:
So are you saying we don't know if they've approved it?
Kim:
Yeah. We don't. They should have, because the draft that I finally sent over there was already agreed upon, at least between me and the city attorney. And Mr. Penney and Mr. Nemo were also on those emails. So
Chris:
When did we send it over?
I'm sorry. Mr..
Kim:
It's probably January 15th. There's somewhere around there.
Chris:
Can you can someone follow up on that, please?
Kim:
Yeah, yeah, I followed up today, but this morning but just didn't hear back yet. So I'm believing it's done. I haven't heard anything otherwise. So the next step in that process will be by March 30th, we will have drafted the parks, how the parks are going to move over.
At that time, March 30th, the stormwater they'll take over control of that will transfer over the funds. And then the next IGA will describe how the parks are going to go. Because remember, we're going we're going to hold on to the title to those, but they're going to take over the operations and maintenance until and we'll we'll keep collecting funds to pay for those operations and maintenance at the level we were in the past.
They will contribute to that for any upgrades. And then once they get their own mill levy so that we're assured that they can take care of the parks on their own, then we'll convey the property to them and we're completely out of out of the business. But, starting in probably early May, we're going to be out of the operations and maintenance side.
Chris:
So back to the IGA and the stormwater. Do we know how much we're transferring to the enterprise Fund for that?
Kim:
Whatever was in our enterprise fund. And I know that you were asking a lot of questions of Phyllis as of that in on December 14th and I think the number that was being sent around at that time was $1,400,000 something.
Chris:
Okay. We don't include that in the document anywhere or we don't include it, just notification or record of what that is.
Kim:
Now, everything that is in the stormwater fund, when we do the conveyance will move to their stormwater fund. So you may recall that back in October, we were waiting for them to form their stormwater enterprise, which they had completed, I think, on October 31st going through their processes. So now we'll just take our stormwater enterprise funds moved over to theirs.
And the way they go.
Chuck:
So to follow up, a little bit with Chris's question, when we make that transfer, there will be a dollar amount. Yes. Can we record that at that time? And is that something that we're expecting is appropriate to fund the city's requirement to carry the work?
Kim:
Absolutely. And that was the deal from the start that whatever our fund is goes over to them.
They've already done their work, I think, last year to make sure that they've got sufficient funds. And of course, they'll have the economies of scale when they roll it into their other operations. And our fund should actually be a little more than it was. Had we done this in September like we thought we were going to be able to.
So that'll all go there. They've assured us that they'll be able to operate with that.
Chuck:
And just a follow up question, comment. The funds that we eventually hand over to the city for the stormwater, is there a provision in the IGA that requires the city to use those funds specifically for the stormwater? Yes, that's what I thought we discussed.
Kim:
And yes, okay. And that's why we waited until they got their own stormwater enterprise, because once those funds are in their enterprise, they can't be used for anything else.
Chuck:
They can't what
Kim:
They can't be used for anything else.
Chuck:
Okay. And we've covered that. We covered that. Yes. Legally in our document that they've signed the we hope they sign.
Yes. Okay. Okay. Chris, Tera anything. Thanks.
Chris:
So parks trails and open space. We're working that since November. Now it sounds like we're going to sign that in March. What's the delay?
Kim:
That was always the plan at the end. At the end of March, we would sign the second IGA. That has to do with the parks, because we wanted to get the stormwater stuff together.
Then at the end of March, we'll be in a position to sign that because we wanted to keep them together and but separate because
Chris:
I understand they're doing them together.
Kim:
Yeah. And it's going to it's going to take March, that's all. Yeah. That was just the day we chose.
Chris:
Now we are having those conversations with the city. Are we having any, information that would cause us to think that that date is going to move?
Kim:
No, not at the present time. I'm going to start drafting the parks. IGA tomorrow, and I suspect it'll take two days or so. And then we'll go back and forth with the city attorney, and there may be some negotiations that go on between now and the end of March with regard to funding and how that's all going to work.
But, the idea is pretty straightforward. I don't think we're going to that date's going to slip. Thank you.
Chuck:
Kim, on the, stormwater, agreement, we had the city's attorney, work closely with you, as I understand. Yes. And, am I to assume then, that, Linda Michow? Michow. Yes. will be working with you on the IGA for the parks, trails and open space.
Yes. And so hopefully when we get it to sign and review and approve it, it will have had the city's input. Yes. Okay.
Tera:
And then when are we going to give our input? Are we having a study session coming up. You know, you'll you'll get to see it too in February. And then again in March.
Chuck:
Yeah. Good question.
Okay. Any questions of counsel board.
Tera:
So on this just wanted to go back to the stormwater IGA. You came in and signed it before the end of the year. Because I just remember we were meeting before the council meeting was the next night or something. So we're good on our end we've signed it.
Nathan:
We're good on our end.
Chuck:
The city has it. It's signed on our end.
Nathan:
Yeah. So yeah, we've signed it. Is that a document you want me to give to you or just keep it in my office for now, or
Kim:
You might as well keep it.
Nathan:
Okay. Okay.
Chuck:
Okay, okay. All right, further questions. All right. Let's move on to, number 1211 disappeared on us. Number 12 is the intern district manager's report.
Chris:
I got a question.
Chuck:
And, We back up
Chris:
On the legal council's report. We had, district manager. We doing that then?
Chuck:
No, we're doing it later. Later on. Okay.
Nathan:
All right, so,
Bear with me one second here.
So just a few things I wanted to touch base. kind of leading into my report off the top. The first one is an update on where we are at with the lift station project. As a quick reminder, this is the initial design phase for resolving the compliance advisory that we have from the state, specifically regarding, the age and condition of seven of our lift stations.
And so I met with Greg briefly last week on it. He's going to have it's basically like his presentation ready for either upcoming study session or board meeting. He'll have it available for both. We'll just kind of see what makes sense in terms of scheduling. And if that's something we're going to slide in the study session, or if we'll just add it full fledged to the board meeting, depending on, a lot of different things.
But yeah, once, once I get in there and get a better understanding of kind of what the paths are from there. And so, the this initial design phase is really, like a lot of due diligence gathering, making sure like figuring out what all of the specific rules and requirements are for each site and getting the site application process kind of dialed in and all of that stuff.
A lot of legwork in terms of like, looking at physically recording different flows, flow, flow rates, sorry, different flow rates and capacities for each one of these lift stations. And then evaluating a lot of the, not only the condition of the current equipment, but also the piping systems that connect all of them. And so they're, they've been doing a ton of work on it this last year.
And so they'll get ready to go with that initial design report. And that'll really be the board's opportunity to kind of point them more in a direction. So they'll have, some sort of either a strong recommendation or maybe even 1 or 2 options to choose from in terms of like how we want to go forward. Addressing these.
And so, Greg will be at the, I would anticipate it probably being in the study session next month. We'll probably keep it pretty dedicated to that. So I didn't anticipate Greg, Greg Sekera, district engineer, and likely Lisa, our other engineer with Kennedy Jenks coming in and giving a presentation on that.
Just so I know we're we're that one on, update on the 2023 capital projects. So we've got, following the the special board meeting. Then last December, we've got Glacier on boarded there are currently doing all of their, like, material sourcing for the backwash reclaim reconstruction project at the tank or at the water treatment plant. And so we're really trying to get kind of all of that dialed in.
And we're not sure exactly when equipment is going to be available, when it's going to be delivered. And that'll be really heavily impact, kind of the way that we end up staging that, and that also ties in a little bit to the HVAC bid, which we'll, discuss as a separate item here in a second. But the HVAC for the same facility, pending the board's approval, will be awarded to the same contractor.
So all of those bid schedules are going to get tied in together. We've got, currently, we we have one of our two storage tanks up in the village or main distribution completely offline, scheduled maintenance. So we've got Kennedy Jenks is going in and doing structural evaluation. So we've pulled that We pulled one of those off line for a full drain down, and we can't find record of that ever being done before.
We've done a bunch of divers, but we haven't actually pulled pull on empty and really got in and looked at it. So Kenny Jenks will be in there the next through the kind of throughout the rest of the week over the next 3 or 4 days, doing a lot of different structural testing. We're in the older of the two tanks.
It's our original 2 million gallon tank that was built in 83 or 84. And everything looks fine. It looks like it's in actually pretty amazing shape, all things considered. But we won't know for sure until they get in there and get some of their more heavier ground penetrating stuff. And, and then still on tap for this year, things that we'll have coming.
Probably pushing a little bit more in the summer will be the, filter replacement and redesign. We'll have that in place and getting ready to send it out to bid. And then also the, liquid ammonium sulfate injection injection room, and that one specifically is really, really contingent on that group's contingent on that backwash reclaim tank project getting done, because it's very much in the way.
So we can't really like push forward on that at all until we've got the first one. First one resolved that, that's far less critical. The actual plant operations. I know that was a lot of technical jargon.
Chuck:
Back up a little bit, Nathan. What Tank is totally offline in the village. Did you say?
Nathan:
So yeah.
Our two, our two water treatment tanks, are treated water tanks. Our storage tanks sit inside of the village. Bounds are right up there by the country or by the, golf course? Yeah, yeah. And so it's, it's the one that's closest to the building. I don't know how familiar are, but the area. But basically the one that's right out in front of the door, it's the 2 million in-ground tank,
Chuck:
And we've taken it offline because we're going to rehab it or it's it's got a problem.
Denise:
Just inspects it.
Chuck:
Just inspect that. Okay. And how long you think it'll be offline.
Nathan:
It'll be back up by the end of the week.
Chuck:
And we draw from that as as well as the other tanks for our.
Nathan:
Yeah. So there's only there's only two. So we just basically we waited until our, our demand was at the absolute lowest so that we could, you know, not have to worry about keeping as much water on hand.
And so we're just keeping this tank two extremely high. We're keeping it almost filled all the way to the top. And we've got this one done. And then, once we get through this tank at the end of the week, we're actually going to switch. So we'll fill this one up and then drain the other one out and go through the go through the process again.
Generally speaking, you know, we do, a comprehensive tank inspection at least once every three years. I have a very, very strong preference toward actually getting into the tank. You can accomplish these a few different ways. You can use, certified dive teams, and stuff like that. And there's just a lot of mixed results. So what I've generally done with any treatment, treatment storage like inspection program, we've done that at an absolute minimum.
We cycle between like, you know, one three year cycle, use divers the next three years, like actually pull it off line and get a full structural evaluation. There was a, tank that I had encountered pretty early on in my career, actually, working down at Castle Rock, where we've had certified dive teams go in and give this give the tank like an A-plus rating.
And we ended up having to, incidentally, take it offline, two weeks later. And, they were like, oh, well, we'll just have the engineers go in there and check it out just to make sure. And so the engineers failed so badly we had to demolish it. Oh yeah. So I like to, you know, really cycle those.
They both have their place. But it's really good to get them and get them down and empty. It's a little bit more expensive. You probably don't need to do it every three years, but every six is. Good, good. Watch it. Good investment.
Denise:
When's the last time that was done? Do you know
Nathan:
We have no record of these ever being pulled off line?
Okay. Yeah, yeah. So as far as we can find, this is the first time we've ever actually taken them all the way down. That, like, done a full engineering inspection. And we do have, you know, records of doing like, the, the dive and some other stuff we can do for comprehensive, tank inspections to make sure that we're meeting our state requirements.
But this is the first full structural evaluation that we can find that's been done on them.
Denise:
Good Call them.
Chuck:
I had a question, Nathan, on your, district manager's report, relative to conservation. And, did the rest of the board have have you had an opportunity to review Nathan's, comments on conservation? I think that, before we enact anything, we certainly this is second page of Nathan's intern district manager's report. We certainly should have a discussion relative to the rebate program as well as the sod replacement.
And then obviously, anytime we, set guidelines for, a fine schedule, there'll be a lot of conversation. And I'd like to have the board review this current situation program that Nathan has, suggested. And, at the next study session, I think we should look at this very seriously. And, make comments on it. We don't need to do anything tonight, sir.
Yep.
Anything else? Nathan?
Nathan:
Yeah. And then the only other thing I wanted to cover was, just kind of an update on where we're at with communications since, Ken Smith has resigned. So we've got, and I sent you guys some kind of sporadic emails that had included, some information on a company called, streamline.
So we've been moving forward, full steam ahead with that. It's been going really, really well. We're about 95% migrated from all of the existing stuff on our current website is already into the new platform. I've got some training stuff set up over the next couple of weeks, so I'm going to go in and like, really learn how to manipulate it.
There's a lot of incredible, like, user friendly tools. It's just it's it's a really awesome kind of one stop shop for, a lot of quick access direct messaging stuff so we can get get messages out quickly and succinctly. We'll have basically full control over the website in-house. And then there's, some, some mod, some of them, but there are some module lid.
There's got to be a word for that. Help me, help me out, Jason, with that.
Well, yeah. Without having to actually create a new word. There's a, there's there are some things on it that will be able to change and kind of adapt to fit our specific needs over time. But for the most part, we we should have that thing up and running. I mean, realistically, if we wanted to, we could we could pull the switch now and to have a pretty seamless domain transfer across, I just want to get in there, get familiar with it a little bit, kind of play with it.
And then we'll be doing a presentation, in next month's study session.
Chuck:
So I'm assuming that these changes are very friendly to the public. Yeah. So they need to get in and communicate with us or ask questions or find out information.
Nathan:
Right. And so, you know, as we're moving kind of forward right now, like we've got, what's historically been a pretty heavy lift in terms of our spending on like our communications and outreach.
And a lot of that time that was created that's required to, like, manage a lot of those things was really just because of how archaic our website was. So we've got a very old school, kind of like early 2000 website design. There's tons of drop down menus. It's a little bit unintuitive to navigate. So the new line is going to be actually not super dissimilar from what you see over the city, but just a really clean page, like 4 or 5 options and some quick contact push through.
And then the website also gives us an ability to really push information out the other way as well. So once we get our email lists uploaded and all of that stuff, we can also use utilize the website as a direct contact for customers and scheduling and events and board meetings.
Chuck:
I don't know if this would work, but rather I don't know how you intend to make that transition, but is there an opportunity to run the two web pages in tandem so that they always have the current one if the new one fails?
Nathan:
All right. Yeah. So because yeah, because we're taking over the domain. Yeah.
Chuck:
No way to do it. Yeah. Because you're going to go to see, you know CPNMD dot. Yeah. Whatever.
Chuck:
So it's going to be the same address and it'll conflict.
Nathan:
Right. And the the streamline services, it's a really, really well established platform at this point. So it's not this isn't a small organization by any stretch of the imagination.
It's not a like quirky little startup like these guys have been doing this and doing it successfully for a very long time now.
Chuck:
Is it something we can any one of the board members could look into, early and, and just, review it and feel comfortable with it. Oh, yeah. I've been. Jason.
Jason:
Yeah. Yeah, I'd love to see it as well.
And, yeah, it's probably a WordPress based site. That's my guess. Yeah. It'll be pretty easy to manage for you, I'm sure.
Chuck:
Okay, okay. Thank you. Thanks, Nathan. What else?
Nathan:
I think that's all I've got. Unless there are any specific questions otherwise around, I report beyond that.
Chris:
So can you give an update on the pickle ball court and skate park and all that crap?
Nathan:
Pickle ball courts are moving right along. I think we're still on target for, into March opening on there. In terms of the skate park from the from the district's perspective or the work that we've completed on it, after our last rounds of, like, public engagement stuff, specifically with, like, the Hidden Point neighborhood. I was able to compile all of the comments, concerns and all of those things and, into one large report, it took me a little bit longer than I'd anticipated to get that out, but it's been sent over to the city.
And as I understand, it's kind of just waiting to go through, their process with their, parks, trails and Open Space Commission or whatever they have, as well as, you know, seeing what happens with, the purchase that, Douglas County property at Monarch and Hidden Point. So there's a few things up in the air, but we basically kind of pushed the skate park final location to them.
Chuck:
Relative to that skateboard issue.
As I understand it, we selected a tentative location for the land we don't own. But the city is intending to buy. Do we know if that's purchase has occurred?
Nathan:
I don't know if it's officially gone through. Not,
Chuck:
I'm getting I'm getting I'm getting a no from the audience. Not Yet.
Nathan:
I was going to I think that Michael had originally indicated like early February, probably for February for I'm sorry, February at the earliest would have been kind of the.
Chris:
I'm sorry I can't hear is it. Not yet. It's not approved or not yet. It hasn't been purchased. I don't understand.
Audience Member Off-mic:
It hasn't closed yet.
Chris:
So it's being approved. It's just not closed.
Audience Member:
Ah I don't want to say I'm not sure.
Chris:
Okay, okay.
Jason:
Have we, in regards to the skate park, have we done any community outreach, any polling to see if this is even going to be a popular idea to do a skate park instead, maybe using this money to do, a different type of activity or having a different type of, amenity.
Nathan:
And so that was, an incredibly common question that we got asked, like through this whole process is like kind of what that looked like.
I kind of came in a little bit in transition in that project. So I, David and I were given direction to go move forward the with the skate park. And so we did one of the advantages, the kind of the things, the way that things have unfolded, is that it did really help us kind of get an opportunity to, like, step back away from it and take a little bit off the pressure of like, getting a little pressure off of, like getting this thing done, like, now, and so what the city is going to be able to do is especially as we look to potentially push over parks, trails and
Open space to them, or even if we're just talking about this, like planned acquisition that would potentially expand coyote, whatever that is, but it allows it to get it into their comprehensive plan. So they already have a commission in place. That's, you know, representative of the entire city. They've got some polling stuff that's already going up around like basic general community needs.
And then once they get into more specific skate park design, there will be a lot more like user groups, like open houses, stuff like that. So it'll be, it'll be a process. And when I, you know, get moving through it pretty quickly, as I understand it, it does have pretty wide, city support. I, you know, not every council members on board, but, there's a lot of positive movement over there in terms of, like, a mutual desire to get it done.
But there's a lot more land on the table. They've got a huge, section of, designated open space over in, like, the canyon side. They're really not sure where that's going to go. So there's a lot of different locations that I think it ultimately. And, but they're going to put it they're going to put it through the ringer on their end.
Jason:
And so this is pretty much the city's decision then.
Nathan:
Yeah. For the most part I mean, pending the official signing of the IGA that would move parks, trails and open space over to them. Yeah, that was kind of where we left. It was to at least get it to a spot. And then we're kind of in a holding pattern until something does or doesn't happen with the park side.
Yeah.
Chris:
So I saw you guys. Are we I think a combination of us and the city had a a meeting a second meeting, or maybe a third meeting with the residents of is it Serena and Hidden point. Or is that the same meeting that was here?
Nathan:
The same meeting that was here? Yeah. So we had done. We've done the one skate park user group where the, you know, skaters and potential site users came in.
And then we had the specific meeting, that following Wednesday for concerned residents and Hidden point.
Chris:
I'm tracking. I thought it was a separate meeting. So that's the one we have here. I'm good. Thank you. Yeah.
Chuck:
Anything else on, item number 12, the district manager's report.
Tera:
Thank you. Yes, Mr. President. Okay. Really quickly, I just,
And I can't find it, in here. But when I was reading through it, I. There was some I don't know if was Kennedy Jenks, but there was something about a re drill. There was something in here about a re drill. And so I wanted to make sure that we that's something that the board gets to kind of have a conversation on or review.
I don't, I don't remember where it was and I can't find it.
Nathan:
Yeah. Yeah. So we're that's, a five, well, site, we're looking at potentially re drilling that well. So that's the one that's related to the capped project over at the Coyote Ridge that we lost. 50% of that was capacity a number of years ago.
So we're looking at options to fully reinstate the capability, the capacity and that well and that is that well. And that is something that was included in the approved capital planning. When we went through that process back in November. So that was captured by those total expenditures as well. But yeah, absolutely. That's something we'll we'll pay closer attention to make sure that it's viable.
You know, we'll bring the board in early and often on those.
Tera:
And then just quickly in, the miscellaneous part of the report from I think it's Semocor. What what do like failed inspection, nine meter sets and emergency call outs eight. Is that anything that should be alarming?
Nathan:
No. Nothing alarming. Those are just, data points.
So the, I'd have to go pull it out, but so, like, the the failed inspections, those are new houses coming online. So we, we we have the final inspection on those to make sure the meter trees are installed properly. A few other various checks before we actually put their account and service. So that just means that, you know, they out of the however many they have, they got called out to go do nine of them failed.
We specifically track those failed ones because we have had issues in the past with, home builders, just like calling in entire neighborhoods full of these things, not really caring if they're ready or not, and then really just relying on us to like, do their job for them and like, tell them what's wrong with all of them so they can go fix them.
So we did get to a point where we, we put some stuff in place where that becomes an issue, like after, you know, after your second call, it's an automatic 2 or 3 week post back and some stuff like that. So that's why we track that number. And then, yeah, emergency call outs. We had a slightly busier than usual month.
Most of that was due to that super, super hard cold spell that went through there. I can't remember what else was on that list, but yeah, it's all it's all well within normal operating stuff. Thank you.
Chuck:
Tera Took that away from me. I wanted to ask a question on the, what constitutes a failed inspection in in, Semocor's line of thinking for under there.
Miscellaneous.
Nathan:
Yeah. And so that's, when we go to, basically install the water meter, and the radio that we're going to get meter readings from that on a new house.
Chuck:
So this is addressing new meters. Correct. Okay. And the installation of same.
Nathan:
Correct. Yeah. Yeah. So there's there's a bunch I mean, if you don't have the address on the house that can fail, if there's any parts that are in order that can fail your inspection and then we just don't set the meter, give you a radio.
Chuck:
It's not something we fail that per se.
Nathan:
Correct. Yeah. They're they are failing our. Yeah. Yeah. Look we are we're performing the inspection. The developer fails our inspection. Oh, past or failure.
Chuck:
Good to understand that. Thank you. If we're done with 12, a Roman numeral 12. How about Roman numeral?
Kim:
Mr. Chairman. Yes, sir. Before you move on to the next Roman numeral, you had a discussion under conservation about talking about the increases in the potential for increasing fines and is, under the law, we have to give notification 30 days ahead of any time you discuss the possibility of increasing fees.
If you're sure you want to talk about that in February, we'll go ahead and get it published now. If not, we can wait. But if that's going to be a discussion item, we'll have to publish them.
Chuck:
Well, that's a good question. since it was in Nathan's report, I suspect, that it has some validity as we look at our conservation requirements and needs and what our neighbors are doing relative to conservation of irrigation, and, the planning of no sod or left sod.
So I think it's something we need to talk about, I would suspect, and the board can correct me if I'm wrong, but I think we should talk about it at the February study session.
Chris:
I concur.
Tera:
So I do think we need to talk about it. I want to make sure that we, you know, I don't know how much, how many topics we can handle in the time that we've committed to keep them to an hour, because we also need to talk about the IGA.
So...
Nathan:
I'll talk fast.
Chuck Off mic:
And then a my......
Chuck:
That IGA, you'll send us copies obviously before the study session.
Kim:
Yes. And you'll also have another chance to see that in March.
Chuck:
So I understand, but if we're going to do it as a study session in February, will we see a copy? Yes. And that February meeting is the 22nd for the study session. Okay. Thank you. The questions consider awarding the bid for water treatment plant HVAC project.
Nathan.
Nathan:
Yep. So this is, I briefly touched on it earlier. So this is the heating, ventilation and air conditioning plan to redo the water treatment plant. We went through the full bid process. Did the opening, received all the bids. We only had one qualified bid. One qualified contractor ultimately submitted a bid. And so the one that we have to choose from is one.
That's not necessarily a bad thing. So, on the downside, you know, the total cost comes in, on the bid is $463,287. So that is running, ahead of our original engineer, Bill, engineer, forecasted number, which was about 340,000, mostly nonstop shifting price price points on trying to get this equipment here and showing up every time you wait two weeks, everything is magically more expensive.
And so that we the sooner we can get this awarded, the better. The other, nice, kind of continuity that we have with this specific contract is, like I mentioned earlier, Glacier already has. So the, the, the company that is our only bidder for the HVAC system is also the bid winner for the, backwash reclaim project.
So they'll have a lot of their same subs. They'll have a lot of the same guys out there. It'll be a much smoother process. This is one company that's going to basically from an internal perspective, they're going to fold it into kind of two projects and run it. And then that's how we'll manage our, our side. But it is two separate bid tracks.
So that's just more of an accounting, being at this point.
Chuck:
Nathan, not to prolong the, bids situation, but only one contractor, did we did we provide a request for proposals from more than one?
Nathan:
Yeah. So these, it's the same. The same kind of path, the path that we've always used for these. So there's, you know, there's bid announcements that go out.
There's opportunities for companies to, like, buy the bid packet, which is really just like a nominal fee to get to cover our cost of like producing all these engineer drawings and all that stuff. Then there is an initial bid kind of opening. So we do like an open house that allows any contractors to come in, ask us any questions that they have about the project.
We kind of do like a brief overview. We did a site tour, and then we do the official bid acceptance, which is, I think we did it two weeks later at this one. I have to go back and look. Then that's where we again have another public meeting. Anybody that comes and drops off a contract.
Chuck:
This is a utility system for the building? Correct?
Chris:
This building?
Chuck:
The water treatment, water treatment plant. I'm. I'm confused as to why we didn't get more qualified contractors submitting bids. I would think at this time in this world, the work like this and half a million is pretty important.
Nathan:
Yeah. There's a, you know, we're a we're into the kind of the big the big bid season of the year too.
So there's a lot of really, really big projects that are just getting launched that were ready to go January 1st. The Metro wastewater, for example, just released a bid, I think like a week ago for like a 30 or $40 million per project. And so a lot of a lot of these guys are like really throwing their time and resources at that specifically with the HVAC side, like, these things are just really hard to get.
I don't know that, honestly. If Glacier hadn't already won the bid for the backwash reclaim, I don't even know if they would have bothered to put it in for this one either. It's just there's a lot there's a lot of bigger fish money to go get right now with, some of these, like, massive infrastructure projects that are getting ready to fire off.
Chuck:
All of the contractors.
Were they, involved in other water treatment plants, or is this specifically in HCA contractor? yeah.
Nathan:
So Glacier, pull them for both. They're, they're they're they're pretty old and, at least regionally. And water, wastewater treatment plant construction pump stations, they've done a lot of that stuff. The guy that's actually running their, their site foreman that is running this project we had a chance to meet last week.
He and I have already worked together. He was the site foreman when they built the Lagae wastewater station, which had nothing. Its shortcomings have nothing to do with Glacier. Glacier installed exactly what they were told to install.
Chuck:
I'm not sure that's a good example.
Nathan:
Yeah. So glacier side was the construction side was solid. You know, our concerns are more on the design side of things.
And so I've already got a pretty good relationship established with the guy. He's incredibly communicative, good head on shoulders, keeps the safe site.
Tera:
Well, I remember when we were discussing the bid in December, I had some concerns with Glacier and our other, you know, our engineering firm said that they also had experience with them, and they thought that they were, pretty reputable.
I know I was concerned that they were maybe under bidding to win the contract or whatever, but I mean that at that point I know that my concerns were addressed. So and it seems like there would be, efficiencies. And I don't know if that helps reduce our cost if they're already on the other project and they're using all the same subs, then I think that's also kind of creates an efficiency there.
So yeah.
Chuck:
Well, I'm hoping so to a half $1 million for an HVAC project to me seems like a little heavy, but I'm assuming that we know what size or tonnage, HPC unit we're getting.
Nathan:
Right. And so I think so something to keep in mind when we're talking about like a full building HVAC replacement for a water treatment plant.
So there's, one like chemical storage rooms. I'll have like very specific requirements for designated venting. That's like separate from the rest of the building. And so there's like a lot of these smaller systems that go in, and then really kind of taking a holistic does that look at that building. We realistically don't need probably like 70% of that building to be actually temperature controlled.
But we do have specific areas like so where all the pumps and motors sit kind of in that back corner, like we need to be able to keep temperatures specifically cool in that location. So there's a lot of like real custom vent work that goes into all of this. The state and also change the way that they look at open filter bays.
So one of the other multiple things that kind of added to the cost on this is that when, you know, if you're upstairs in the plan, there's the filter galley where you walk through the state is now treating those, basically under the same requirements as, like them being finished water storage tanks. And so that requires us to do like separation from the rest of the building.
So we have to have like extra filtration in place between that room and the rest of the building that gets put in there. We have to do special air rent, air returns because we have to seal that room off a lot tighter than it's ever been. So we've got to create paths for the airflow to move back and forth.
And then, you know, as well as just, replacing everything that's in there. It's a it's a lot of work.
Chuck:
Good, good. Good points. Thank you for sharing that.
Chris:
So I, you know, it's 40% or more than what the engineers even said it should be. And the fact that we only have one bed, I think that's the concern I have.
I understand using the same vendor that we're also using should create efficiencies, but that should bring down the cost, not increase the cost. And I understand all the technical, information that you were just reviewing and going over, but that all was gone over by the engineering folks when they did the evaluation. So my only concern is I, you know, even if the final bill bit ends up being what it is, we need to make sure that we have done the due diligence.
And I I'd like to have another opportunity for folks to bid on it. Maybe not the whole process, but I need more than one bid to feel comfortable that this is in the best interest of what we need to do here.
Nathan:
Yeah. So if that's, you know, obviously if the board would like us to go back out and swing again and see what we can get in, we can certainly do that. You do run the risk of those costs just going up. You know, we the longer we push this back is, you know, we get longer lead times on this, like piping and supply equipment like those costs could increase.
Kennedy Jenks did review the bid when it came through. And so they also looked, you know, things like, like market price, current market pricing versus, you know, their, their engineering estimate of this was back, came through, would have been done in, September, October. So there has been a pretty good amount of time since then.
And so Kennedy Jenks did go through. They reviewed like all of the specs and all the equipment that they expect out, and they did feel that it was it was in within range of what they would expect to see this coming back in at today.
Chris:
Okay. Well, if that's true, and I'm sure it is, maybe they need to provide a better estimate.
Chuck:
What's the what's the timing on the need for this HPC system to be working or before summer obviously. But is it important right now? I mean, do we have a system that's running?
Nathan:
No, we don't currently have a system that's running,
Chuck:
So there's no HPC system running in the entire building.
Nathan:
We've got, localized cooling, specifically in like the mechanical room where all the, like, big, heavy electrical equipment is.
We have that up and running so we are able to keep that cool, which is important. We have occasional thermostat control over the office where the operator sitting there, it is very, very hit or miss. There's just a lot of corroded wiring, hidden inside of that system. So it kind of works sometimes kind of work doesn't work.
Other times.
Chris:
How long has it been offline?
Nathan:
The HVAC system, two coming up on two years now. So we had, already replaced the rooftop unit, which is turned into like its own separate nightmare. So that was done with approval. Well, we just actually got the unit on site in the last couple of months. Last six weeks or so.
We physically ordered that thing May of 2021. 2021 yeah.
Yeah. That's right. And yeah, it took yeah a year and a half to get here.
Tera:
Well, it sounds like it's pretty, I don't know, critical to the water plant operations to keep our chemicals, temperature controlled. And I understand the desire to have competitive bids when we can, but I think, you know, given that there weren't that many respondents, I think we have to be acknowledged of where we are that, you know, inflation is like 8.5%.
And that, you know, we can go out for bid again, if we don't, if we don't, if we still or maybe Glacier's like, well, we don't want, we've already expended the resources and maybe they won't bid on it again. And then what are we going to do? I don't know.
Nathan:
Yeah. My, my recommendation would be to, to move forward with this one.
But, you know, I'll, I will do what is asked of me either way.
Denise:
Quick, quick question. You said if you put it out for bid again, realistically, do you think we get any bids?
Nathan:
Probably not. I mean, these things get advertised like anybody that does this work sees them. Those packets go out monthly.
Denise:
I say stay the course and continue with what we've got.
That's my personal preference. Opinion.
Jason:
What I specialized in with Nathan telling us that he's just not getting any, that we, any other feedback from anybody else.
Chuck:
And can take a look at it as well. That's that's, somewhat reassuring. I'm a little concerned that the price because, one bid, isn't what I'm customarily seeing. When you have something of that magnitude.
But if, if they're hard to get right now and I could. Don't doubt you at all that contractors are slim and far between. We're in a funny economy cycle world right now, so, I'd like to hear a motion on, Nathan's request to award the bid.
Denise:
I'd like to make a motion to award the bid for the water treatment plant, have it project to Glacier.
Chuck:
I have a motion. Do we have a second?
Jason:
I'll second that motion.
Board Voting All Speak:
Any further discussion? Hearing none, I call for a vote. Director Blankaert, I approve. Director Crew. Approved. Director Lewis. No. And Director Radloff. Approved. Approved. And I approve.
Chuck:
So that's, majority. Nathan, you're good to go.
Nathan:
Sounds good. Thank you.
Chuck:
Let's see. Question and answer session on number 14 regarding district contracts, I think, Tera, you had requested, seeing the package. Have you had an opportunity to review, what was, sent out via email? I have okay. Do you have any questions?
Tera:
I do. So, overall, with the contracting process, could you kind of explain what the process looks like and how, our attorney is involved in that?
Nathan:
Yeah, for the most part, I don't know that we have any specific protocols in place to really evaluate this stuff as it comes across. The vast majority of these are contractors that we've used for a very long time. In some circumstance or another, we have very few that operate under, actual contracts with the district. So we've got them in our parks, trails and open space
has their landscape contract that they use. We've got our contracts with Semocor. And then CRS also has the contract that a lot of those other ones that kind of fall in there just like TNM. So it's really just like experience. We've got you know, first, second, third call lists for all of our like operational emergencies and a lot of those kind of like annual procedures that we go through.
But yeah, there's, there hasn't been too. And.
Tera:
Yeah. So, I mean, I just see mainly two contracts and they both look like they terminate as of December of this year. But, just as we go to renew those contracts or look at those contracts, how does our attorney get involved in reviewing them?
Nathan:
Yeah, I'm absolutely open to.
However, we need to build that process. It seems a little bit. And it took me a while just to kind of like even dig through all the files in the office to see what we had and who have we? We had relationships with and what was standing and what was kind of old and out. And so that was, really we're definitely I have a good understanding of who we're using, roughly how much we're we're paying them a lot of variable costs, with all of them.
So there's not a lot of like, firm this is how much we pay them, dollar amount stuff. But yeah, I think that, like, shoring up those processes is really a very logical next step.
Tera:
To, it looks like, which I don't find unusual, but, landscape maintenance is expensive. 26 mowing days. We must have a lot of stuff to mow.
Nathan:
Acres and acres and acres.
Tera:
And then I would like to get clarity. I appreciate you bringing up, the communications, but between streamline services, and the existing contract, it looks like we're paid up through October of 23 with our existing contract. And I'm not I'm not really clear how all that works. So for 300 per month, we're getting the whole website and hosting and storage or whatever.
Yeah. It's just, I just it's hard for me to conceive because we were paying so much money. Yeah, it's it's shockingly so
Nathan:
$300 that's going to replace, $120,000 budget line item.
Chuck:
Okay, I Nathan, it's always been a Thought of mine or a process of mine. when I would, sign contracts that we have one contract approved by council.
And then I found over the 53 years of service that that never worked. I'm wondering, if it's appropriate that, you and maybe you already do this, but when a contract is signed, and it meets your budget expectations. If it's different than a standard contract that, is provided by the district. It's something that probably the attorney should review and, get a blessing on so that it doesn't commit us to something unreasonable, either monetarily or from a service standpoint.
Nathan:
Absolutely.
Tera:
So this contract that we've already committed through 2023 is that, a firm fixed price. And and we don't get any money back or terminate the.
Nathan:
Yeah. So the only, the only thing that we have, currently locked up for that long is our final hook or video hosting stuff. I'm staring at the man because he's right over there, and he knows so much more about this than I do.
But basically, like that, that's the the existing server space that holds all of, like our streaming, all of that goes through there like it's it's there provided services through that. So, yeah. So that contract does go through the end of the year. It does have, a, I think a 30 day or 15 day bailout, so that we can notify them.
And so that's one of the things I've been working with, all of our video guys here, they've been absolutely fantastic forces, making sure that that transition goes as smoothly as possible. So we've already had some upfront conversations around like how that can look. And then also, options around ultimately deciding to move that in-house. You know, if we're going to start like simplifying and streaming stuff, they're working with them to kind of figure out what that equipment process looks like or if we want to continue, down the path we've been going with, like having them come in and record everything and host it in stream, that we can do it.
But so, we're really committed and, more verbally than anything just through, January and February. That just allows us a little bit of buffer time to kind of get all of those little details figured out, long term cost per protective, long term cost projections and all of that fun jazz.
Jason:
Nathan, sticking to the IT realm.
We did need to, replace a server in-house here.
Nathan:
Off and running
Jason:
That got off and running. All right.
Nathan:
Yeah. So we, we are following the meeting that you were on. We did elect to just, sign the agreement to move forward with the, physical server replacement. And so going over to the, cloud based. And so that, equipment was on the shelf, they started.
I'd have to go back through look, there was an email that came across earlier today on it, but basically they're already there already well, well underway on that thing.
Jason:
So so it's not complete. It's just in process right now.
Nathan:
Yeah. It should be done relatively quickly. There was one small part that they inevitably always seem to not have when you do these kinds of projects.
That pushed us back a couple of days, but I think for less than a week go okay for being done.
Jason:
Okay. We're not under contract with Greystone, are we?
Nathan:
I don't have, any contracts that I can I have been able to find with them. As far as I know, we're, you know, if there's an existing one that's a little bit older, that has a sound like some sort of auto renew, I know that there's some kind of laws that I don't necessarily have a straight background on, the kind of protects districts from that.
Like, we can't really do, contracts in perpetuity. Some stuff like that. I'm sure Jim could explain it much better. I hope we could explain it much better than I can.
Chuck:
It looks like from your notes there, a an hourly contractor, right. It's not a term.
Nathan:
Yeah. So that's how we bill them. But I don't know if we have any kind of, like, contract that's like a, exclusive service agreement or anything.
Jason:
Okay. I would hope not. And, I mean, this process did take a long time for them to replace this server.
Nathan:
Yeah, it took us it took a we we originally asked for the proposal on July 17th
Jason:
right there 6 months ago.
Nathan:
Yeah. And they took them. Yeah. Took them five and a half months just to give me a proposal.
Jason:
All right. Thanks.
Chuck:
So, so from a from a general purpose, I noticed, some of the contracts or annual contracts. Do they terminate automatically and we renew them at a new price or a lesser price? On our annual contract for, Ark Ecological, the pool crews, the Lantec. These are all annual contracts. So do we negotiate them every year?
Do we bid them?
Operations Manager David Anderson:
We we throw out RFP on all the landscaping stuff. The poo crew is is brand new. And, that was recommended by the village. Okay.
Chuck:
That was not one I focused on. Okay.
David:
It's the Lantech one.
Chuck:
Yeah, yeah. And then the others, if I read your report correctly, Nathan, are mostly, hourly contracts.
Nathan:
For the most part.
Yeah. Hourly or piece. So, like our and even some that are, you know, contractors we have a long standing relationship with, the TW Summit one that comes to mind.
T.W. summit does a basically all of our, our fire hydrant maintenance, our valve maintenance, our PV maintenance, our air vac. So a lot of different things out in the system they handle. And so like that one, there's just nobody that really does what they do, like those the, reason that the owner started that company is because there was a huge, huge vacancy in the market for people to come out and just specialize in these areas.
And so they filled that gap and they filled it really, really nicely. So there's not like a lot to like compare that again. So they keep they keep a running list of every year they, they'll give us like locked in pricing for the year. So like let us know this is what it's going to cost every time we turn a valve.
This is what's going to cost. We flush a hydrant. This is our basic hydrant repair cost. And so they we refresh that every year. And that also gives them there's some, protection stuff in there too, because they're working with, you know, multiple agencies once they're working on fire hydrants. So they also have like, South Metro rules and regulations that they have to keep in place.
So we keep that chain of custody all in.
Chuck:
Go ahead.
Tera:
So my question with that is for Mr. Seter. I mean, the one contract that I remember seeing and had a I think it was Kennedy Jenks, maybe, but it had a termination date. I mean, it was a contract from last year that had a renewal clause for one year with an increase in it.
But then for all of these other just, I don't know, time and material contracts, is there any do we have any exposure. Is there like the the contract that I read required the, contractor to carry their own general liability in a certain amount and that type of thing. And with these other contracts that aren't really contracts, and there are time and materials, is that creating any exposure for us?
Kim:
No, not really, because you're in a situation where you're requesting the work and then it gets done. Would be good to have a little short form contract to use for each of those, but you're not incurring any liability if they don't come through. You're not paying.
Tera:
Right. But if they if anything goes, you know, if they get injured or of any of that, I mean, is there any type of exposure on any level that we have.
Yeah. Through just that time and materials arrangement.
Kim:
Under those circumstances, they would all be independent contractors always. So there's no responsibility on the district.
Chuck:
In that same vein, or any of our contracts or all of our contracts that we've signed Cancelable on five minute notice, 30 day notice. 60 day notice?
Nathan:
Yeah. So the the vast majority of those ones that we were just talking about, like the TNM one, so TW Summit emergency pipe repair, even Joe like our NC guy I like the vast majority of those since they're kind of like on call as needed positions, like we historically haven't had anything in place
to, like, secure that so we could I mean, we could call whoever we want at any time and stop using them without any kind of notice or procedural. Like, there's no there's no legal obligation.
Chuck:
For the reason I ask as we as we move forward with an IGA, with the city, you know, if we're fortunate enough to, have that happen, we'll have to notify our contractors because we will no longer be the employer or contract.
Nathan:
Right. And that that that specifically only really affects the, three that, Tera kind of touched on a little bit earlier. That's the, the Lantec contract, race for our, our, our park ecological.
Chuck:
So even if they're assignable, we may we may not want to assign them or the contractor may not want to be assigned.
Nathan:
Well, in yeah.
The the reality is, the more the most likely scenario for those is that the whoever holds those contracts with the district, city hasn't been super pleased with some of their, service results under their existing contractors. And so they're kind of doing like in a lot of ways, like a little bit of a trial run with our new Woodland Tech on board as well, because there's a good chance that if the city does go through with an IGA that it's not going to, it's not even going to be like just reassigning this contract as it is, they're probably looking at a really significant expansion on that to capture, the rest of the city
as well. Then of course, that opportunity could go the other way. If the city has a contractor that they use for something that they really, really like, you know, they'll we'll be able to really just capture the benefit of combining all of this stuff into one large contract instead of a bunch of small competing ones.
Tera:
But the contracts that I did see do have termination clauses.
Yeah, yeah. But however we if we do an IGA however we work that out. But yeah, right.
Chuck:
Any other questions on those contracts. I'd like to move to item 15 if possible. There's one contract left, an agreement. We need to approve. Hopefully. I would like to thank all of you have had an opportunity to read the Castle Pines North Metropolitan district district manager, employment agreement.
I would like to be able to, request, the board approve it if you have read it and feel comfortable with it. If not, we can talk about it. I'd like to vote on it. And I would like to at the same time, eliminate the term, interim Director, and award Nathan the Director district manager position, not Director.
District manager position. So I'd like to take a moment. And before any motion is made and discuss this district manager employment agreement. It has been reviewed by Nathan. It has been reviewed by Kim, and I have reviewed it. But you certainly all have the right to read and review and ask questions.
Tera:
I have a question that's pretty small, but, Kim, under term and number two in the agreement, it says, in effect for an indefinite term.
I don't think that's a legal I don't think legally you can do that. You have to do an auto renewing term.
Kim:
Because it's cancelable that will. Okay. That takes care. That's a Tabor concern. You're raising it and you're exactly right. But the terminal at will takes care of that. Okay. Thanks.
Chuck:
I didn't know that. Good. Good question.
Jason.
Chris:
So, so good to know that everybody's reviewed it. Kim. You're good to go, right? I'm good to go. Thank you. So, question on the, bonus bonuses. I think that's, like five something under paragraph five. Something. Do we pay bonuses for this position?
Kim:
The way this was written, it just allows Nathan to be part of a bonus pool. If you have one for the other employees. It may be that within that pool, some people get a bonus and some don't, so he may not get one. Again, it's more discretionary, but saying he's eligible.
Chris:
Okay. Do we get bonuses to our folks here.
Nathan:
It's become more of a kind of common practice, especially when we were going through, like all of the turnover with the city and like the uncertainty for the there was, I don't I have no idea how it came to be.
It just kind of started happening one day. But they put, for lack of a better word, like check in retention bonuses in place. It's been relatively inconsistently applied. So, you know, we'd get we'd get one when they were supposed to be told we were going to get one that would never show up, and then the next one would come through and it'd be like twice as much.
And it was kind of like a little bit all over the place. So that is still captured in our budget. We do have money in there for, some sort of like, you know, however you want to look at it, if it's bonuses or, you know, merit honors, like, however, the board would want to proceed with that.
But generally speaking, it's like we've got 20 and have to go back and look, but it's somewhere in the neighborhood of like 3000 employee per year.
Chris:
Yeah, I just don't remember in the past that we paid out bonuses. But if that's something that we do, are we we have we have, then we probably should, I guess, outline it appropriately and and decide whether that's something.
It's January probably bonuses are normally paid out of you know, end of the year or something or in January. So we probably should at least, finalize that or make it official if we're going to do that next January or just whatever period of time it. But it shouldn't be. If we're going to have a bonus, somebody should know what their compensation is based on
a bonus, just a base, a base pay or whatever it is. So that's kind of why I was asking the question. And then the last one was on the, the vehicle use. So it says that you can use the vehicle. Is this one of our existing trucks that we have, and is that, the normal that we let the district manager takes to take the truck home?
I'm just asking.
Nathan:
Yeah. So it is a it is a an existing vehicle we have in our fleet. And then, yeah, historically, the district manager, as well as the parks, trails and open space manager, and the operations manager or the field foreman all take vehicles home, for parks, trails and open space. Like, they they're kind of in this weird on-call limbo situation where they could end up getting pulled in for any number of reasons from snow events, stuff like that, from operations.
The district management stuff is kind of the same, same reasoning. There's a lot of different launch points. Your first stop of the day isn't always at the district office. There's a pretty heavy opportunity to get called back in, to and from. But yeah, that's been standard practice for the entire time I've been here.
Tera:
Well. Thank you. So do you want to say that, I appreciate this contract. I am in favor of, having Nate be our full time district manager because I have seen so much progress in the last six months than the whole metro district in the 20 years that I've lived here. And I want to thank you for that.
That being said, I think every decision should hold up to scrutiny. So I do have some questions on the contract. First of all, on item number three, the salary I see the salary is $150,000. And I would like to have some context for that. I know when we looked at the city manager compensation, that we actually were able to compare that to, some of the other municipal cities around to sort of put that in context.
And that seems to be I don't remember, quite frankly, what your interim was, but it seemed to me like it was 125 or 130 or something. So that is a significant increase. So how do we put that number in context?
Nathan:
Yeah. So contextually, the regional average for a similar position of organizations of a similar size. So we looked at and we actually, were the beneficiary of a lot of work that had been done with, our regional wastewater treatment plant.
Just did we just completed the evaluation for their, general manager guy down there. And so they had already done a lot of, like, very, very updated regional comparison. So the, midpoint for this position somewhere, organization is 173,000 a year. Regionally. The 50 the 150 is more on like the kind of lower end of that.
But, you know, especially considering like, I'm very new to a district manager position, like, I don't have any expectations that I come in anywhere near the midpoint on that. And so just like being in the lower end of that range with like, room to move from there, seem fair, but yeah, we're, we're at the, the low end of the total range.
And then the active midpoint is about 173.
Tera:
Okay. And then this question is for because it says in this contract that we have advise, we have advice from our attorney. So Mr. Seter, you I take it that you have reviewed this contract that seems to be I have okay. The question I have for you is under termination.
6A termination without cause, including elimination of the position due to things such as inclusion. I see that this contract says that there will be an immediate payout of accumulated paid time off, six months salary, and a sum equal to the cost of Cobra for six months. Is that something that's standard within the industry? Because I know in corporate America, we just continue to pay for the Cobra.
We don't, lump sum out that amount.
Kim:
Yes. I have always drafted him this way so that the employee, when he leaves just takes care of that himself instead of the in the entity having to continue that. But the entity could pay it as well. But the Cobra coverage is a personal coverage to the person who has been terminated, who or who left.
So it just seems to me simpler. Just give them a check and let them take care of it. And then if they don't, then that's their problem.
Tera:
And then, getting back to you, Director Lewis. Question is there there is a big blank in the benefits under B, which says shell you to utilize for all district business the blank pickup truck. Do we need to fill something in there or.
Kim:
Yeah. That was intended to just identify the the vehicle okay.
Tera:
So it could be better just to be blank in case
Kim:
license plate number whatever it is.
Tera:
Okay. And then the way that I read number five is just saying that if there is bonuses that the manager is eligible for right now. Yes, but it, it's, it says there he's just eligible.
If there are bonuses that are given at the board's discretion. Yes. Okay.
Okay. Thank you.
Chuck:
Thank you. Tera.
Further discussion on the district manager's employment agreement. I'd like to make a motion in that case, that I would like to Number one, offer Nathan Travis the position of district manager for the Castle Pines North Metropolitan District, eliminating in term. And I would also like to approve this agreement. for Nathan's signature. Period.
Chris:
I second it.
Chuck:
We have a second.
Board Voting All Speak:
Any further discussion? Hearing? None. Director Blankaert, I approve. Director Crew. Easily approve. Congratulations, Director Lewis. Absolutely approve. Director Radloff. Approve. So we have a majority. Congratulations, Nathan. You. You've earned it.
Nathan:
Thank you. Guys.
Chris:
Good job Thank you for all you've been doing.
Chuck:
I'd also like to echo what Tera said, this this year, this last year, although troublesome because we didn't do an inclusion, has been made more palatable, if you will,
With your leadership in taking over the infrastructure and operation of the district's, water and, and wastewater and sewer and storm storm drainage and parks and trails. David, thank you. So all of you and your staff get a round of applause from for me, and I hope the rest of the council thank you. Congratulations.
Nathan:
Thank you guys.
I appreciate it.
Chuck:
Directors matters.
Tera:
Just I'm just going to, echo the sentiments of President Lowen because I'm, I do want to. I've seen so much, work done and so much being accomplished then. And like I said, the whole 20 years that I have lived here and I really, really appreciate that. Thank you for creating such a, collaborative working relationship with the city and, for all the work that you're doing.
But I also want to express gratitude to all of our staff, you know, our extended staff, which means our contractors for everything that you're doing to keep, this district running and for all the things that you do for us. So for all staff and, includes all of our contractors. Thank you.
Chuck
Thank you Tera.
Anybody else? All right. Unless there are no other Directors matters to discuss. I would like to hear a motion to adjourn the meeting. So moved. I second, adjourned. All right. Thanks, guys. Thank you all.