[0:00] The mayor's thought he might have to call me to get me here at 5, but I made it on my own. So anyway, we are here. This is a regular meeting of the Consumnance Community Service District Board.

[0:11] It's broadcast via live stream. I'd like to watch it sometime on it. You can somebody show me how to do that. I'm not sure I know how.

[0:21] I would like to remind those in attendance a police turn off your cell phones.

[0:26] Before I call the first item of the regular meeting, I'd like to report that we had a special

[0:30] meeting.

[0:31] We did not have a special meeting.

[0:32] We have one coming up on the 12th.

[0:34] Clerk, can you call the first item, please?

[0:37] Yes, thank you.

[0:38] Good evening.

[0:40] Our first item is an AMA, the court order and the session broke off.

[0:44] The record secaries.

[0:45] The director's fees, the director's Fuentes, Vice President Utrail, President Albioni.

[0:54] Here, let the record show that the director's pieces on vacation and is not here today, but we'll be here for a special meeting on the 12th.

[1:05] As you know, we, over time, have asked community leaders to lead us in the pledge of allegiance,

[1:12] with Scumson X on our agenda. And today is no different. Our Superintendent of Elk Grove Unified

[1:20] School District is going to be our lead in the pledge of allegiance, and then we'll share

[1:26] a few words of what the school district is all about. A little bit about Chris Hoffman.

[1:38] Chris

[1:39] He taught and was an administrator, up in North and South of here, and he was hired as a superintendent here.

[1:47] He's a family man with two children, one of which I understand will be getting married here soon.

[1:53] Raises Japanese maple, and one importantly than anything.

[1:57] I think he has been a terrific partner of the CSD and our recreation programs, which I don't believe we could run

[2:05] without the support of the school district.

[2:07] In fact, I'm sure we couldn't,

[2:08] because they do use a lot of the school grounds for events.

[2:14] So, Chris, the floor of yours, please stand.

[2:18] And if you would, after the Pledge of Allegiance,

[2:21] I'd like to just ask you to remain standing

[2:24] for a moment of silence for the six young children,

[2:29] three young children and three teachers

[2:31] and administrators that were killed in Nashville.

[2:34] I am a terrible shooting. Thank you.

[5:13] So I appreciate him as a person and the leadership that he's provided to you.

[5:19] And I do understand that you will be looking for a new general manager.

[5:25] So Josh, I wish you all the best in your next adventure.

[5:29] And to the CST Board, I stand ready to provide any assistance that I can.

[5:34] As you look for your next general manager.

[5:36] enter. Big deal. I don't think I'll see him as often.

[5:44] So again, I just want to say thank you. The district greatly appreciates the relationship

[5:48] that we have with the CSD, we're able to do many other things that we are able to do.

[5:53] And you're able to do the same because of that relationship. And I look forward to that continuing

[5:57] as we move forward. So thank you very much for having me.

[6:00] Thank you Chris. We appreciate you being here. And what you do with the district and the relationship

[6:05] that you and Josh and our staff have created with your staff. It wouldn't happen without the guidance from you and Josh, so we know appreciate it.

[6:16] Thank you very much.

[6:21] Next item. Thank you. Our next item is I'm B and Honstments and Presentations.

[6:26] I'm B4 is the new Hires and Promotions for 2022, Q4 and 2023, Q1.

[6:33] Fire Chief Philippe, my brother is.

[6:35] Thank you all. Let me see. Good afternoon, President Albionni, Vice President of the

[6:39] Trail, Members of the Board, Philippe Rodriguez, your fire chief. This afternoon, it's my pleasure

[6:45] to introduce all of our new hires and primotis for the last two quarters here at the CST.

[6:52] And it's interesting to say good afternoon since we're normally good evening. So with that we'll

[6:58] ahead and show a slideshow that was created and organized by our executive assistants here

[7:05] at the CSD and enjoy and welcome to all those who were new and or promoted.

[9:41] That's it.

[9:43] Yes, President Albiani that is it and with that as you can see there are quite a bit of faces

[9:48] there, a lot of change, great additions to the team, promotions, opportunity, those are all great

[9:56] things for everyone and we should all be very, very proud of that.

[9:59] Thank you for the nice presentation.

[10:03] Clerk the next item.

[10:04] Thank you.

[10:04] Next item.

[10:05] See communications from the public on non-agentized items.

[10:09] I have received no speaker cards for this item.

[10:13] Is there anyone in the audience that wishes to address

[10:15] the board on an item that's not on the agenda?

[10:18] There's a long litany of things that we can't do if

[10:21] talk about it or take any action,

[10:24] but we certainly welcome anyone that wishes to address the board on any item.

[10:29] That's not on the agenda, please feel free to do that.

[10:34] Seeing none, next item.

[10:35] Next item, Deaconsand Calendar.

[10:37] Staff's recommending the Board Approved's consent calendar items 5 through 7 as presented.

[10:43] Thank you.

[10:44] There are only three items.

[10:45] I have a motion by the Director of the Trail.

[10:49] I'll second.

[10:50] Thank you.

[10:51] A second by the Director of the Terrace.

[10:54] Any discussion?

[10:55] Anyone from the audience?

[10:56] to come in on any one of these three items. Seeing none, all those in favor say aye. I oppose

[11:03] no. Thank you. It passes unanimously. Thank you. Our next time east public hearings and we have

[11:10] no public hearings noticed on this agenda leading us to F staff reports. Item F eight is the fiscal

[11:18] year 2022 23 mid-year budget amendment. Staff's recommended that after the presentation the board

[11:25] one receives the Administrator of General Services Report on the Media Report for the Fiscal

[11:30] Year 2020-22232323. I approve the resolution 2023-08, amending the budget for Fiscal Year 2020-223,

[11:40] attachment one, and approves contract authorization and decision packages, as outlined in the report

[11:47] and further described in attachment two and attachment three. Finance Director, New Veng, and

[11:52] and state of general services Amanda Shai-Razand.

[11:58] Good afternoon.

[11:59] The President Al-Biani and Directors Amanda Shai-Razad,

[12:03] your administrator of General Services.

[12:05] I'm here to present our fiscal year 2022-23 mid-year budget report.

[12:12] As with all of our presentations, we start with our mission

[12:14] and vision, which gives us the direction of the district

[12:18] of where we're going.

[12:19] And this report really helps support what we are doing

[12:23] and how we're doing it to get to our mission and vision.

[12:28] Within our values, our second value is financial responsibility.

[12:32] And with our report today, we are fulfilling the transparency

[12:36] and accountability within our values to the district.

[12:40] We have quite a bit of information to cover

[12:42] and I know you've had your staff report,

[12:45] but we will be going over what the recommendations are.

[12:49] The fiscal responsibilities that we have here at the district,

[12:52] The biennial budget timeline, our budget highlights, reserve balances, the mid-year amendments,

[13:00] the contracts and decision packages, and a quick overview of next steps.

[13:06] Elinecia has already read what our recommendations are, these will be the actions we are

[13:11] requesting the board to take at the end of the report.

[13:17] The fiscal responsibilities that we find for the district are to be stewards of our taxpayer

[13:24] funds. We want to thank the board for their support and encouragement as we've put together

[13:30] a very fiscally responsible budget. We are looking to provide fiscal stability and long-term

[13:37] planning for the district, so not just meeting our needs today but planning for what the future

[13:42] holds. To do this we are looking at revenue diversification and aligning our strategies to really

[13:49] able to deliver on our services. We're doing this through transparency, accountability, and innovation.

[13:59] Within the Bionale Budget, we are almost through this second year. This budget was adopted

[14:06] originally in June of 2021. The mid-year Bionale Budget amendment was adopted in June of 2022.

[14:14] And this is an amendment to that secondary year.

[14:19] The final budget amendment will be adopted in August as we bring all of the year end and

[14:26] Actuals to the board.

[14:31] I'm excited to share some of the highlights of this budget that we are proposing here.

[14:36] We're seeing a 7.3% revenue growth, which is above our expectations and unprecedented here at the district.

[14:44] Within that growth, we are also seeing an increase this year in particular from intergovernmental transfers from EMS.

[14:55] These are offset by some expenses, but they are higher than normal duty.

[15:00] Some time discrepancies. Our district wide reserves, we are going to be able to increase those by 4.7 million.

[15:10] And this is something that the staff are really committed to ensuring we are preparing for any kind of financial changes within the economy in the coming years.

[15:20] We are seeing our insurance liabilities increased and we have adapted to that and been able to cover those costs within this budget.

[15:32] We also are seeing overages in services and supplies due to inflation.

[15:38] Luckily, we are able to cover all of those within this budget due to the increased revenues and the diversification that we are seeing.

[15:48] Going into our reserve balances, we do have a large, very healthy reserve for the district.

[15:56] Our reserves are categorized into a few different areas.

[16:00] The general fund reserve has a total of 39.3 million.

[16:06] Within that, we have our operational reserve at 32.5 million.

[16:12] In layman terms the operational reserve at 32.5 million is our rainy date fund.

[16:17] This is the fund that would be utilized to keep our operations going if we came across

[16:23] a hard economic times.

[16:26] We also have designated 6.8 million in reserves and these are through policy and regulation

[16:33] reserves that we hold.

[16:36] The LNL has a reserve balance of 42.8 million.

[16:40] This reserve is what they use for their ongoing operations as well as capital improvements.

[16:46] It is normal for the LNL to draw on their reserves for their ongoing expenditures.

[16:55] The CIP Reserve is at 52.6 million.

[16:59] This is exceptionally high for the district.

[17:03] And one of the biggest reasons is because of the large infrastructure projects we have going on.

[17:10] That's the building of station 77 and the core.

[17:13] But in addition to those reserves, we also have our quimbi and impact fee funds.

[17:19] The final reserve is an ARPA reserve.

[17:22] This is due to COVID and we will be going over the plan for spending those reserves.

[17:32] Just to give a little bit of a visual around what comprises our reserves, the circle on the

[17:40] left shows our overall reserve balance for the entire district. As I mentioned, the L&L reserve

[17:48] is used for their ongoing operations. Capital projects are used for those infrastructure

[17:53] and impact fees. And then we have the general fund reserve in the blue section. We can break that

[18:00] out and you'll see that we have the operational reserve at 3.25 million. Again, that's like our rainy

[18:07] fund. We also have a capital reserve of 3.8 and a debt service stabilization at 3 million.

[18:16] So with these reserves, we are very confident that the district is in very high and healthy standards

[18:22] physically. So to dig in a little bit more with our budget for mid here, I'm going to turn it over to

[18:30] to go into each of our specific funds.

[18:38] Good afternoon, President Albionny.

[18:39] Members of the Board, my name is New Bank,

[18:42] a finance director of the district.

[18:44] So before we jump into numbers,

[18:47] I just want to emphasize that

[18:48] this is our midyear budget update.

[18:51] So we give you six months of actuals

[18:54] and then project whether remaining at the fiscal year.

[18:58] You'll see that and also give you an update

[19:01] all the supplementary quests based off of the updated amendments or projections we have for

[19:07] our revenues and expenditures. So we'll start off with major funds. The first major fund is the

[19:13] general fund. This is our basic art discretionary fund in our operational fund that we use.

[19:21] When I compare these numbers, we compare this to the last time you officially adopted the budget,

[19:27] which is the mid-Abandial budget update.

[19:30] So these revenue projections based off the last time

[19:32] that that was received.

[19:35] So total revenues for the general fund

[19:37] are expecting increased $10.6 million.

[19:40] And that's largely due to the property tax growth

[19:43] that the district is experiencing.

[19:46] We're expecting about $3.2 million

[19:48] over what we originally had anticipated.

[19:51] As Amanda mentioned, that Caspar 7.3% property tax growth.

[19:55] This is the largest growth that's just a cup seen in nearly two decades.

[20:00] And we know that this is really an extraordinary year in that revenue growth may not be able to keep up with that 7.3%.

[20:10] So overall, a revenue projections for property taxes at $61.5 million.

[20:16] Other revenue increases are EMS revenues at $3.6 million.

[20:20] As we've discussed, part of that is due to the intergovernmental transfer, increase of $2.7 million.

[20:30] As you may recall from last budget year, there was delay in the state funding for IGT funds.

[20:37] We're now starting to see that trickle in, hence for the larger increase for this current fiscal year.

[20:44] Let's transport increase of $900,000.

[20:48] This is updated based on revenue assumptions and also our latest CPI increases.

[20:55] Overall, MS revenue are expected at $18.8 million.

[21:00] We have also had the plan check review in the inspection fees,

[21:04] expecting increased out of $4 million.

[21:06] As we know, our prior prevention is receiving a

[21:09] search, I'll plan check review,

[21:11] so we're accounting for that budget update

[21:13] or those revenue projection updates

[21:15] with a total of $1.5 million for this current fiscal year.

[21:22] And then we look at that recreation service

[21:23] charges for a recreation division.

[21:25] Overall projections for that is $7.4 million.

[21:29] As you may know, we have recently secured a contract

[21:34] with an Elcro school district for after school programming.

[21:38] That is expected to bring about $825,000.

[21:43] There's a building rental facility in Celtar.

[21:46] There's very minimal changes to those projections at $1.5 million.

[21:51] We also have our federal and state grants.

[21:54] Increase of $1.9 million.

[21:56] This is related to our mutual aid deployment on our strike team.

[21:59] mid-years future that time where we true up this number, and these are the actual

[22:04] amount that we're expecting to receive from the state for mutual aid deployment.

[22:10] Other revenues of $1.7 million are related to capital project transfers,

[22:15] related to the core in station 77. We normally pay those construction costs or those CIP costs out

[22:23] up front first and then we get reimbursed from our fiscal agent that holds our

[22:30] deaf financing for that.

[22:35] All right, so we're going to have the expenditure side

[22:37] of General Fun, total we're expecting a total expenditure increase of $8.8 million.

[22:43] Of that, 618,000 are with personnel costs related to overtime and retirement payout.

[22:51] With a total projection of 73.4 million dollars in personnel costs,

[22:55] and includes salaries and benefits.

[22:58] Service and supplies,

[22:59] expecting increased $5.3 million.

[23:02] A big chunk of that is due to the ICT expenses

[23:05] of $2.7 million with ICT.

[23:09] You have to pay into that in order for you

[23:11] to receive those revenues,

[23:12] so that's related to the $5 million increase

[23:15] and expenditures.

[23:18] Overall, utilities are expecting

[23:19] increased $5 million.

[23:21] We are seeing overall increases in utility,

[23:23] rate increases related to water, sewer, electricity overall.

[23:32] And the libel insurance, like we mentioned earlier,

[23:35] expecting increased about half a million dollars.

[23:38] As you recall, earlier this fiscal year,

[23:40] the district took swift action to switch our insurance provider

[23:44] to Golden State Risk Management Authority.

[23:47] Staff has been working with them to update salaries,

[23:51] update information to provide to our new

[23:53] insurance provider, those premiums didn't finalize until late fall, and then

[23:59] so why there's about a half a million dollar increase in our liability

[24:02] insurance. But how do we stick with our old provider? You would have seen this

[24:06] about a million dollars more. So overall we are saving by switching

[24:10] look to the new insurance provider.

[24:15] And then you'll also see professional services

[24:17] increased about $370,000. And this is related to a number of things

[24:22] first is due to the the loot hours contract that we have.

[24:27] I relate to our measure e outreach.

[24:29] This 135,000 that was previously approved by the board.

[24:34] There are other items like Whitman and Acta Met charges that I

[24:40] related in here, but those are offset with revenues.

[24:44] And then you'll also see increases in a professional service related to standard of cover

[24:49] in auditing service, those are just more re-appropriation of budget and not really additional

[24:55] funding required for the general fund. And then we also also have exact recruitment in

[25:04] workplace investigation. Those are really on and for those things we can't really budget

[25:09] ahead of time. So that's included in those increases in professional services. And then other expenses

[25:16] increase $200,000 related to transfers and capital outlay.

[25:23] And this is really a snapshot of the

[25:28] revenue overview. You'll see the second column is the approval appropriation that the board

[25:33] approved in June 15, 2022. The third column is our year in projection. You'll see your

[25:40] expectations in the year with $100.9 million in revenue. And the last column is our supplementary

[25:47] requests for a request and a board to offer

[25:49] us about 10.6 million dollars in additional revenue

[25:53] appropriation.

[25:57] And here's the expenditure aside.

[25:59] Again, the year in projections

[26:01] 10, 100.9 million dollars,

[26:03] position you with a balanced budget for the

[26:05] general fund with a supplementary

[26:07] question of $9.9 million dollars.

[26:14] Now moving into the capital projects fund,

[26:18] this is the fund where we expense all our

[26:20] capital, our CIP projects in.

[26:22] revenues are expecting increased for $.3 million, as you recall in October 2022, we're about to

[26:29] you a comprehensive ARPA and COVID-19 fiscal relief spending plan, and that includes $2.5 million

[26:36] in capital projects in this current fiscal year, and so that's part of the increase, and then

[26:42] the LNL transfer of $1.8 million related to the Jack Hill Park and Roger Ophysethic golf course.

[26:51] The expenditures are at $4.3 million or increase of $4.3 million, and this is related

[26:57] to numerous CIP projects we have in the pipeline.

[27:01] Here's just only a few of the projects we have.

[27:04] We have root repairs at several facilities, such as Station 72, Laguna Town Hall, the

[27:10] Modure Office at the Montessori.

[27:12] Those all include in that.

[27:14] We have the Immeral Lakes Golf Course Modure offices, Town Square Park we vitalization, which

[27:19] to work recently approved in the Jack Hill Park.

[27:26] And here is overall snapshot of all.

[27:28] Be revenue and expenditures for the Cal Pro Projects

[27:31] with year-end projections at 37.9 million

[27:34] of both revenue and expenditures.

[27:37] And then the last column is the supplemental request.

[27:44] And our third and final major fund

[27:47] is the Landscape and Lighting Fund.

[27:49] And this is the fund where we fund our park operations out of.

[27:53] revenues are expected to increase $3.4 million. It's not only true, revenue is tied to it,

[27:59] it's just maybe movement of money over lay transfers to district-wide services and then use

[28:05] of reserves for capital projects, with a projection of $35.2 million dollars.

[28:12] Expenditure is $3.4 million, related to services supplies, increase a $1.6 million

[28:18] majority of that, like we mentioned, due to liability and property insurance increase of $780,000.

[28:25] We also have land improvements such as wall damages, storm damages, and playground parts of $78,000 increase.

[28:32] Axe services basically are landscaping for our park, and that's expected increase about $221,000.

[28:41] Over all capital projects, expenditures increase of $1.8 million.

[28:48] Again, here's an overview of the landscaping lighting fund with your Improjection

[28:53] revenue in expenditures of $3.35.2 million dollars and then right is the overall supplemental

[29:01] requests.

[29:06] Now moving on to our non-major funds, first we have the golf enterprise fund.

[29:11] So there's really minimal changes to the golf enterprise fund.

[29:15] You'll see your Improjection at $1.9 million for both revenue and expenditures.

[29:20] In a supplemental request, in the revenue section, you'll see increase of 432,000.

[29:27] That's simply the transfer of budget from the general fund to the Gough Fund.

[29:34] The Gough historically has lived in the general fund budget and due to audit recommendations.

[29:43] Last fiscal year, we have moved Gough out to its own enterprise fund.

[29:46] and again, which has transferring the budget

[29:48] that was previously budgeted in the general fund for that.

[29:55] We have the American Rescue Plan at our ARPA Fund.

[29:59] We, it's...

[30:00] And the October we have presented you with ARPA spending plan. This is actually a new fund. We created this fiscal year. Just keep track of expenditures separately and also for reporting purposes. As you see, there was no appropriation previously approved because it's a new fund.

[30:16] And that we're requesting for total about $3 million in the supplement of quest for revenues and expenditure appropriations.

[30:27] And our last fund that we have here is our debt service fund, so this is our fund for where we make a majority of our debt payments out of.

[30:35] You'll see there's just minor adjustments due to some changes to the amortization table, where the payment schedule for some of these loans, but minor changes with that.

[30:48] All right, so I will hand this back to Amanda, who was going to come to conclude the presentation.

[30:57] Thank you, New. Well, as you can see, there is a lot involved with the budget and the last piece we want to review is contracts and decision packages.

[31:08] So the first is to ask for approval for contract authorizations.

[31:15] These contracts have already been budgeted and approved by the board.

[31:20] So the action here is to approve the contracts to be made.

[31:25] The first is for a strategic plan assessment tool for $30,000.

[31:32] We have two contracts that are for playground, rubberized surface replacement and a ceiling coat.

[31:40] and so those are two different contracts for different types of services and then we have our

[31:49] weed-moving service contract. Again there's no budget appropriation and this is not a fact

[31:57] any of the general fund that you have already approved. Our decision packages today we have one

[32:05] that is an ad package. This package is to create a full-time administrative manager position within

[32:12] the facilities and development department. The cost for this fund is an ongoing $174,618.

[32:23] This is going to be funded out of the CIP fund and therefore does not have an impact on the general fund.

[32:30] This is to support those large infrastructure activities we have going on and the department that's growing.

[32:41] We have some additional efficiency packages and these also do not require any funding.

[32:47] The first is the conversion of an investigator or a code enforcement officer within our prevention department to be changed to a deputy fire marshal.

[32:58] The second is a reclassification of a management analyst to an administrative manager in the administrative department.

[33:08] The next is a conversion of an administrative specialist to an administrative assistant.

[33:13] This is the downgrade of a position and some of the salary savings will be used for additional staff report in part-time staffing.

[33:21] The final is a conversion of a parks and golf manager to a program manager and a recreation supervisor to a management analyst.

[33:33] And so these are again just efficiency packages with no financial impact.

[33:41] So wanting to wrap all of this up with a quick recap of this budget we really feel is

[33:48] meeting our financial responsibilities and being very viscally responsible for the district

[33:54] and in line with the expectations from the board and our tax paying base. We do have

[34:01] healthy revenue growth and but we are also ready and poised in a very good position to deal with any

[34:10] negative economic impact that may be coming.

[34:14] Because of our agility, we have been able to deal with the strains from services and supplies that continue to increase based on inflation.

[34:23] And we are countering that in our next biennial budget as well.

[34:28] So we're well prepared to take that on.

[34:31] We have been putting some resources behind our risk management to contain the liability we are having with the rising insurance premiums as we see this not only as a trend for the district but a trend in general.

[34:48] We do anticipate having an increase of 4.7 million to our reserves in this fiscal year, which, again, is an

[34:56] attachment to the responsibility and the seriousness that the district and the staff have towards our financial sustainability.

[35:05] So our next steps will be in May.

[35:07] we will bring you the initial fiscal year 2023-25 by annual budget. In that budget, we will be

[35:16] introducing our internal service funds. Those funds will include information technology, facilities,

[35:24] fleet replacement and a plan for risk management. These internal service funds will align with best

[35:30] practices around how other departments and agencies deal with their internal funding and they're

[35:38] really going to allow us for planning a long term on asset management and replacement.

[35:45] We also will be bringing our updated book of fees with our finalized budget to the board

[35:51] for approval in June of 2023.

[35:55] That concludes my presentation. We're happy to take any of your questions and I will just leave

[36:02] the decisions for the board here for your review.

[36:14] We see that those insurance premiums have gone up by $500,000 and we changed our insurance

[36:23] provider recently to try and find perhaps a better quote on our premiums. So what is the total

[36:30] premium that we pay on an annual basis to that provider and how much coverage do we have for

[36:38] that expensive premium? Great question. I had a feeling we might get some questions on insurance.

[36:46] So for our general and what we're really talking about here with this insurance is our general liability

[36:51] insurance cost. And so I believe it's 3 million in our total for the for the fiscal year is 3 million.

[37:00] which is, you know, if we had stayed with our original provider, it would have been 4 million.

[37:07] So we do have a savings there by making this switch.

[37:10] The additional change also gave us a little bit more coverage.

[37:16] So with the previous provider, we had some substantial deductibles, depending on the type of claim.

[37:24] With our new provider, we have very minimal or no deductibles depending on the type of claim.

[37:31] So not only are we saving that one million, we also have reduced any need for the need for covering those deductibles.

[37:40] So while the overall has still increased, we do still feel that this new provider is the best option.

[37:47] And we are working on plans to really help negate and track where our largest liabilities are so that we can mitigate those before they become an issue.

[38:00] Excellent, Amanda.

[38:00] Thank you so much for predicting my question.

[38:07] Amanda, just one quick question on the IGT of the 2.7 million dollars.

[38:10] How much of that was supposed to come in on last year in 2022?

[38:16] Do we know what that number is?

[38:17] I believe it would be about half right about half about 2 million would have come in should have come in in previous years

[38:28] perfect. Thank you.

[38:43] Thank you, Amanda, and thank you.

[38:51] I'll read them quickly so the audience

[38:56] can read themselves.

[38:59] So these are the recommendations.

[39:01] I would entertain a motion for all three of our legal counsel tells us that works.

[39:08] Move to approve.

[39:11] Second.

[39:12] I have a motion to approve the recommendations of the staff and by the Director of the

[39:19] Trell and thank you for your second.

[39:24] Any discussion?

[39:27] Hearing none?

[39:28] First of all, anyone from the audience wishing to comment?

[39:32] I did just one of clarifying one thing about the IDT funds.

[39:36] The funds that we received this year, some of them were for even previous years, then just the last fiscal year.

[39:42] There have been some delays for several years on those funds.

[39:45] As a stakeholder act together, we're going to get it on time.

[39:49] Since you mentioned IGT, there are some places in your presentation where you use initials like this.

[39:59] I'm suspecting that some of the audience doesn't know what IGT or some of the other are,

[40:05] I would suggest that when you do future presentations that you look at that if it's common knowledge

[40:12] like EMF or whatever that you might be able to put the real name in there and then everybody can keep up.

[40:21] So I have a motion in a second. Thank you, by the way. A motion in a second to approve the recommendations

[40:26] of the staff, we've had some discussion, all those in favor say aye.

[40:32] All right.

[40:32] Those opposed no.

[40:35] It's unanimous, and I thank you, and I thank you for your fine presentation.

[40:39] New, thank you.

[40:43] Next item.

[40:44] Thank you.

[40:45] Next item.

[40:46] I'm.

[40:47] I'm.

[40:47] I'm a California special district association's request for nominations.

[40:52] Staff is recommending that after the presentation, the board.

[40:54] considers the California Special District Association, CSDA,

[40:59] requests for nomination for CEC, the director for the term of 2024 to 2022.

[41:07] Good afternoon, President O'B. Any members of the board?

[41:10] I see that design. This is an opportunity, maybe, to learn a little bit from other organizations.

[41:18] I have served on a couple of committees of a lower level than this.

[41:25] This is the actually a staff kind of a position there that might make it worthwhile for some of us that are going to be around a while.

[41:35] I can't take this would not be interested, frankly, but it's 24 through 26 and I won't be here past 24.

[41:43] or so. It looks at the one of you three if you have an interest. And Josh, would you direct

[41:52] this question to Angela and see if director's piece may have an interest in this might

[42:00] be something that interests her? Can we wait until she arrives, comes back and we can't.

[42:09] Okay, then it doesn't appear that we have a great deal of interest for this position, so can we go on to the next item?

[42:17] Yes, our next item is item G, or to the director's business, items G, 10, 10, 3G, 12.

[42:26] Anybody have miscellaneous reports, meeting event approvals and meeting event reports?

[42:34] Any one of those will take them all.

[42:38] That's fine.

[42:41] It's going to be a short meeting. Maybe this could be started early. We end earlier. Any next item item H?

[42:54] Identification of items for future meeting.

[42:57] Anyone have an item for a future meeting? Amanda, I think you put a solid slate.

[43:06] No, it's a little rude. It was humor.

[43:08] Director, I'll be on you. I just have a question of management and that is I know in the past we've said let's put that let's do a report back at a future meeting

[43:20] Do we have any of those items type of things pending?

[43:26] Thank you for the question director point is at this point we do not have any items pending to come back to the board.

[43:32] Okay, thank you.

[43:36] We close to adjournment but before we adjourn our general manager of some years.

[43:43] who has brought this organization along and has done a lot for the staff and in his efforts

[43:52] in the community, we'll be leaving us for a new position and I just want to officially

[43:58] say that as a board, each one of us is moved by the fact that you're leaving but we look

[44:08] forward to you doing very well in your next job and want to thank you for what you have

[44:12] done for our organization and a culture you have created here among the employees and the staff.

[44:20] And so we wish to thank you and all of us wish you luck.

[44:23] There'll be a more appropriate time to do this but I thought at an open meeting is probably

[44:27] no better time than just to say thanks Josh.

[44:30] You have really brought to this organization a culture that I personally appreciate and more

[44:38] that I think you've made us very relevant in this community and you've created relationships

[44:47] with the city and with school districts and when others we deal with and those are ever

[44:54] so valuable. Thank you.

[44:57] You're correct, right?

[44:58] President, I'll be on you.

[44:58] If I can just say...

[45:00] I appreciate that. As I mentioned at Cameron yesterday, I'm just moving down the street. But nothing here happens without the team of people that you put around me and the team that we have here and the people we have here are absolutely incredible.

[45:16] And so the work happens every day out on the streets and out on the line. And it's been an honor of mine to be able to support those that do the work every day.

[45:27] And thank you as a board for your leadership and trust in me and our leadership team to be able

[45:31] to do that.

[45:33] I'm the next item is in the comments.

[45:35] Sure.

[45:35] Yeah, one more comes.

[45:39] Josh, I've appreciated everything you've done.

[45:41] All of your years here, all the conversations you and I have had, you've always been very

[45:46] supportive.

[45:46] The direction I wanted this forward, this agency to go in and I've come to learn that there

[45:55] many skills the general manager has to have and I don't know that there's one word that

[46:01] covers it all but I was just thinking in terms of like political leaders we often use the

[46:06] word statesmen when we talk about a senior person in community leadership nationwide and at

[46:16] some point they have earned the term statesmen and I think you you are that to us and to the

[46:25] Thank you.

[46:32] I'll save my comments for a way from the microphone.

[46:41] So this again, thanks, Josh, and thank you for all being here. This meeting is adjourned.

[46:47] At 546, not a record, but pretty quick.

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