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Good morning. I'd like to bring this meeting to order. Angel, will you please do roll call?

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Dr. Bird. Here. President Trebus. Here. Vice President Orr. Here. Director Ott. Here. Quorum is present. Let's all stand for the pledge, please.

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I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which

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stands one nation under God in the physical liberty and justice for all.

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Angela, will you read the meeting instructions please?

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The Board of Directors welcomes participation in meetings.

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The public is welcome to comment on matters appearing on the agenda at the time they are called.

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the public may also comment on matters which are not on the agenda when the

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president calls for public input for the good of the district. This time is

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provided for the public to introduce any topic within the district's jurisdiction

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because these are non-agent and matters generally no discussion or comment by

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the board should be expected except to properly refer the matter for review as

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appropriate but no action will be taken at this meeting. All consent items are

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approved by a single action. There will be no separate discussion of these

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Thank you.

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Okay, we're going to do consent items and vice president board did you have something you want to say before we didn't consent?

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Yeah, consent items item number three, the warrants, my votes will be only for items one and two, not number three.

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I do the fact that a company that I do occasional work for is in the warrants.

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So my vote will not be counted on number three.

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All right, just identify the source of income interest specifically for the record.

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It's for, for Tina Spurs the one that I do the farming for.

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Okay, since it's on consent, that PVC does not require you to leave the room.

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You can still vote on the matter, just to clerk note that whatever his vote on consent is will be for the other items, and he's abstaining that item three.

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And obviously if it gets pulled, then you have to leave the row.

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Okay, so it doesn't need to be pulled, we can just vote on it normal.

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Okay, do we have a motion for the consent items?

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Motion to approve the consent items.

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Give a second.

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Oh, seconded.

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Do you have any public comment on consent items before we vote?

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I'm not on the phone.

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No, he has a raise.

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Okay. Okay.

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Should we do a roll call on this in Frank?

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Yes. Okay, could we do a roll call, please?

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Mr. Angelo. Dr. Bird. Yes. President Froblos. Yes. And vice president Boer. Yes.

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And director Otte. Yes. Motion passes.

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Okay, so let's move on to a public comment for the

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good of the district. We have any public comment.

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Any public comment anybody who hand raised on the

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Okay. No hands are raised. Okay. They're closing. Okay. Emerson, you want to come up?

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Good morning, Emerson. Five minutes.

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Truly need to be said. One thing I don't see represented today is the Bill Lyons.

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public relations policy. You know because in some areas they're called the

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TARN Brother Gang. We hear a lot of things coming out of some places that

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don't really make sense. And when I start to see people attack, they had

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nothing that involves whatsoever. I take exception to that. You know I understand

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how some people are real desperate to get their point across. But if you can't

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stick to the facts and to the people that are actually involved, then maybe you

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to put your pen down once in a while. I have a couple of concerns. One I wanted to bring up today

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is I can't ask questions here. So I guess there'll be rhetorical. I've got to talk to you.

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I guess there'll be rhetorical, but when I looked in your policies the best I could,

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I'm just an amateur. I was trying to find out if you had a written procedure for handling public

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relations requests. Now I'm not suggesting anything. I've talked about everyone that comes up. If I

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I have an issue. I bring it up and I appreciate the last couple of responses quite honestly.

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I told us some things at least I wasn't aware of at the time, and I don't think the public was either.

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But I, in 25 years, I don't know of making public record requests between here, the Board of Supervisors, the City Council, especially those poor people.

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I've never, ever once, in Qatar, never even heard of whoever the conversation was about, the public record request,

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to follow up with on the individual with a phone call, not once. I just find

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that to be unusual and the reason I bring it up and that's why I look to see if

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you had a public if you had a procedure that you don't seem to have and then when

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I was reading over the weekend we're going to talk about we have talked about the

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fringe parcels and how we were here when we were told you had a policy where

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then we got the public record request that said you don't have a policy and now I'm reading

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in the paper about a, let's see, bisected parcels. So we're going to rename it. Reminds me

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of a Modesto focus when they decide that their nickname should be mofo. I won't tell you how

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many third graders get a chuckle when they hear that call somebody that and see what they think.

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but that's made us their focus.

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But when we're sitting here and we see that we

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don't have a policy for public record requests and that we don't have a policy that

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other districts deemed necessary for fringe parcels, whatever you choose to call

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them, but let's not pretend that anything's different by changing the name, okay?

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Do we need a policy pet? I truly believe that. 2011, as we've talked about before,

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or OID spent a year looking up a study in their fringe parcels.

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That's what I believe we need to do.

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A recent public record request showed approximately 200 native those in MID.

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I'm happy with the box, but there's nothing wrong with that because nobody's gone one by

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one looking through it.

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Now I'm not here to fry anybody.

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I think what OID did, the best I can tell what they did from the articles in the paper,

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makes sense.

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If there is an issue, find a process, find a procedure and move forward with it.

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Solve the problem.

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But what we've been getting is this Tarn Feather Group that goes after, well, it wasn't

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a good enough study.

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Oh, we've got to go do this.

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is that people involved creating, they're asking for the study or bad, everybody's wrong

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but them. And later today I'm going to ask if we ever procedure, they'll stop people

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from selling thousands of acre feet of water out of the MID district of MID water because

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you give them the water. And there'll be a public request today to ask if we have a number

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for how many acre feet of water we're fleshing down that line that goes through Bill Lyon's property.

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You know, I don't know whether it's a distraction or what, but when we were here arguing about

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the price for the groundwater replenishment program, we tried to get a low number to get people to

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use it. I argue for it. I can't use your water. My water comes out of a hose. My electricity comes from

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a switch. I've got nothing to gain in the middle, but not having a policy that nobody's using.

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because it's set too high doesn't make sense to me. I think we need to review

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it all and I think we need to get more procedures in place so people can't just

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do whatever the heck they feel like when it comes to responses. Thank you very

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much for your time.

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Thank you for your comments. Does anybody else have any public

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comment? They'd like to bring to our attention this morning.

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Okay we'll close

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public comment, for now, I would like to say something because this friend's parcel thing has been such a

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controversial confused mess.

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Parcel lines as a potenz of property, they come and go, they change over the years.

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And then my deed does not have any jurisdiction over those issues as you can note in our last go or last last go report.

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NYD legal boundary does not change. The water code requires our rules to be

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equitable. The government code requires our language and those rules to be

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simple. They are. The rule is very simple. If you're in the district, you're

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100% in the district. If you're outside the district, you're 100% outside the

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district. You can call property outside the district, a French parcel, and a

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adjacent parcel. I can hit it with a golf ball from my land inside the district

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parcel. You can call whatever you want,

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but our rule is simple. 1.33 says the

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board every year will allocate an allotment of water to be used for acres within

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in the district, any further comments to that Frank?

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No, we don't have any French parcel policy that I'm aware of.

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We have the, we have in-district water that can be used for in-district.

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Out-of-district water, the only policy or program I know of is the GRP that you can get about.

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There's no, yeah, there's no carve out for French parcels.

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There may be parcels that are French parcels by section parcels, whatever.

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However, but again, there is just indistric or out of district.

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And I don't think we can discuss this anymore.

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We are allowed brief responses to public comment, but that's it.

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So we should stop Mr. President.

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Okay, thank you for that.

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All right.

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Hang on.

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When they're up there, so they can receive all.

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Hey, don't out of order.

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Let's move on.

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Staff presentations.

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Let's do Wilson, will you step up into the local hazard mitigation plan?

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Good morning.

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Wilson Chalabi, AGMF Finance.

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And before you today, I have a very brief presentation to update you

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and receive your input on the local hazard mitigation plan.

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There's no action needed from you today.

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This is just a presentation.

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and staff will come to you at a different time,

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and later time with a proposed resolution

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for your consideration.

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Now for folks not familiar with the local hazard mitigation

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plan, I'll just give you a quick update,

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let you know what it is, and why it's so critical,

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and then I'll pass the presentation to Dave Funk

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and Calvin who are sitting right here.

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Now, what is so important about this plan?

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It is basically a repository identified local hazards as done so by our employees as subject expert

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And also our consultants who are experts experts in this field and have done similar plans for other entities

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Some of these identified hazards can be things such as security at a sub station

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Lighting strike effective transformer

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I'll be up to a crisis such as a damp failure and can affect life and property.

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Now, why is this plan so critical for us?

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As your AGM of finance, I'm always thinking about the district's finances.

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So for me, on a selfish level, it allows the district to receive mitigation funds to address

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some of these local hazards.

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But at MIT, we don't distract the box and move on.

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This is more to this.

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This plan allows us to use this look-class remediation plan as a planning tool in our budget process and potentially create projects in the future that will allow us to address the hazard star in this plan.

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We will also be eligible to receive FEMA emergency funding in case there is a catastrophe. We would not be eligible to receive that funding if we did not have this plan.

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And in the past, we were part of the staff's last county's low class remediation plan as an annexed entity.

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However, that put the allocation of funds in the hands of the county, and the county we need to balance its own needs and its own departments and the district.

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By having our own plan, we put our fate in our own hands and are able to allocate funds as we deem fit.

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And I can't talk about this plan without talking about the colossal undertaking that's

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taken us to get here.

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It's been spearheaded by our safety officer race and the front seat and the front row.

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Along with our consultants, our employees, and of course the local community.

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We've done various outreach events to get the community's input and incorporate those changes.

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We're going to go to our plans.

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Unless Jimmy, you have any input about this plan, you want to mention?

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Sure. So just briefly, as Wilson mentioned, we're not asking for action today. We've mentioned this before. This is just a workshop to lead you through where the current progress is. Every day at MIT, there's hundreds of things that divert our attention, but we know it's important to plan and specifically plan for these hazards. If you think about it last year, this time we were sitting here in this other

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in California that had the fires and all that went into that.

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So we're constantly reminded of how important it is to have a plan for emergencies.

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This is part of that planning process, so you'll get an update of where we're at.

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We receive your input as Wilson mentioned, we'll be back at some point to adopt this and move forward.

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And beyond it, allowing us to tap into funding that we wouldn't otherwise have access to,

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it gives us an opportunity to plan and exercise for the next hazard which is, as we all know, probably just around the corner.

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Well, with that, Dave and Calvin, please come on up.

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Thank you, listen, thank you.

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Good morning, Dave Funk, Dave Elfunk Consulting.

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I'm here with Calvin Furton.

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And Calvin's going to do most of the presentation,

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but I just wanted to say that as a utility,

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M-I-D is a leader, and as a critical infrastructure,

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it's very, very important for power, for water,

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for water treatment, for dams, for all of that.

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We are fortunate that we get to go around the state and work with others and train and do exercises and plan as well, but I'm proud that I've worked a little over four decades in Stanislaus County with the cities and the counties and with the utility districts TID with Calvin was from before and you guys are doing great, great stuff here with the emergency management program training and exercises and this is absolutely critical to make you eligible.

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don't have to do these projects that your staff has helped us identify, but to make

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you eligible to receive millions of dollars potentially over the life of the five years

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and beyond.

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So I'm going to let Calvin go, introduce himself a little bit, and go through, and then

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we'll both be here if you have any questions.

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Thanks, Dave.

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Good morning, directors.

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We're here to, again, talk about this local hazard mitigation plan.

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I recently retired from Turlock Irrigation District, and as the emergency preparedness

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heard his coordinator and Dave and I wrote the same plan for TID back in 2018-2019 and they've used it very successfully to be able to fund or help fund a lot of mitigation projects that they've done over the years, over $10 million they've received in the last five years by having this plan in place and being able to apply for and receive federal and state grants for different mitigation projects.

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We also recently just completed this exact same plan,

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a version of this exact same type of plan for imperial irrigation district down in Southern California.

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So we are officially working for three of the four utilities in the state that provide both water and electric power, and we're happy to be here.

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I now live in Tennessee, but my heart is still here in Modesto, I was born in Sacramento, grew up here in Modesto, and I had lived in California my whole life until just a couple of years ago, so go vals.

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Anyway, so I'm here to talk through this plan, let you guys know what is in it and what is going to be expected moving forward.

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And like I said, we'll bring this back to you at hopefully a relatively short period of time to be able to adopt it and move forward with the plan.

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So hopefully I can figure out how this works.

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Okay, so first of all, what is a local hazard mitigation plan? A local hazard mitigation plan is different than a typical emergency plan.

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And the typical emergency plan talks about if this happens,

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here's how we're going to respond.

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And then ultimately here's how we're going to recover.

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So it's a more response oriented plan,

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something that's responding to something

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that's already happened.

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Local hazard mitigation plan looks forward

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and looks forward to what could happen

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and how we can put some projects in place

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so that when those things happen,

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because I think like Jimmy said,

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it's certainly not a matter of if we're going to have

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some sort of disaster or emergency.

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It's when we're going to have a disaster or emergency and to what level is the damage

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going to affect us?

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So local housing mitigation plans help to identify projects that we can do to move forward

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and so that we don't have such effects on our infrastructure and ultimately our customers

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who we all work for, providing water and electric power.

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So this plan is a little bit different.

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I think it's really a good demonstration of also how MID and TID and IID, all of you guys,

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are forward looking and not waiting for something to happen and then figure out how we can respond,

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but looking forward to be proactive in your planning process with how we can lessen those

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impacts before they ever happen.

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So what this plan does is it looks at all of the things that could happen here.

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And we chose to address in this plan natural hazards, not man-made or technological hazards.

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why did we do that? For two reasons. Number one, if we address man-made or technological

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hazards, meaning a failure of infrastructure, we have to address all technological or man-made

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hazards in this plan, which makes this plan instead of 200 pages, 800 pages. It makes

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the plan very difficult to manage, also, and the main reason that we don't address technological

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or man-made hazards in this plan is this plan, the reason that we're doing this plan is so that

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we can move forward with applying for grants.

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And there are grants for technological and man-made hazards.

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Those don't require you to have this plan in place

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in order to get them.

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But natural hazards, mitigating natural hazards,

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this is the plan that you need in order

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to get state and federal funding.

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So there's really no benefit to us in terms

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of a funding process for doing technological or man-made

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hazards where there's a tremendous benefit for us

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to do natural hazards.

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So what we do is we looked at what has happened here in the past.

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We've had flooding.

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We've had fires.

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We had a lightning fire cause fires in 2020 and the hills above Patterson impacted TID.

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We've had droughts.

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We've had extreme heat events.

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We've even had some extreme cold events back in the 90s where we suffered from some extreme

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cold snaps.

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So we identified that the natural hazards that can occur here.

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And then we also looked at just because it's a hazard doesn't mean that we're going

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to be impacted by it.

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necessarily. So we looked at what are your assets that are at risk to those

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houses and how would they be impacted should that hazard occur. And then we

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took all that information with your, with the staff here at MIT. And I do want to

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say that the staff here at MIT has been nothing but supportive and nothing but

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hard working in terms of how they've helped us to build this. Ray and his

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department, I hate to call anybody out. I just did Ray and his department because

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they've really stepped up and taken this on. This is a tremendous lift. These plans typically take

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at least 12 to 18 months to put together. That's how much work goes into them. And so you guys have

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really been helpful, but look, taking all the information and then coming to you and saying, okay,

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what would you like to do about it? What kind of projects would you like to do? We like to

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characterize it as a Christmas wish list. If I had all the money in the world and all the staff in

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the world and I could do anything I wanted, what would I like to do within reason? And that's the

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the projects that we put together.

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And so we identify those,

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and then those are the ones that we will include in the plan.

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This plan also kind of folds into your long term planning

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too, and you're doing capital projects

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from here on out, we're gonna consider mitigation

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in terms of how can we build this

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with an eye towards mitigation

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and an eye towards these hazards

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that we've identified in reducing the impacts from those.

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And then again, it does provide us opportunity

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for being able to get state and federal grants.

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So the whole part of the process is really to talk about who we are as a district because

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we know, but you got to remember that the people are going to read this plan in order

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to grant you the money, they don't know you, they don't live here, they don't interact

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with you ever.

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And so we need to tell them what type of community we have, and that in terms of our services

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that we provide, the demographics of our community, and especially our disadvantaged communities.

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because it's certainly true that we see it all across the state that disadvantaged communities

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tend to suffer more in the disaster than non-disadvantaged communities. And so they don't

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have as much resources in order to reply, so we need to really consider them and we did.

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Then we use a collaborative process both internally and externally. It's like we've talked about a

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couple of times. We work with the entire district staff as subject matter experts to not only identify

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the hazardous and risk, but also the projects that we're going to move forward, but we also include

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what FEMA likes to call the whole community. And that means external agencies, other special districts,

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governments, public and private nonprofits, citizens, or residents of the community, and we put that

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out to them too, and let them have them say and how all this is done. This is also a public plan.

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This is not one that we hold back and we say no, no, that's privilege information. We can't share that

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with you or that's secure information we can't share that with you. We don't put the level of

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detail on this plan that would make it not shareable. This is a public plan it should be on your

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website for in perpetuity at least as long as you have one. The public comment period is always open

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so we're looking for feedback from the public forever on this plan to be honest or at least the

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lifetime of the plan and because of that this doesn't have a tremendous amount of detail in it.

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The detail comes and let me tell you by having gone through this several times with

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When I was at TID and with clients, when you go to apply for grant, then they want to know everything.

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They want to know where you're going to do it, how you're going to do it, what's the impact on the environment,

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what are the nuts, bolts, and screws you're going to use to build this thing.

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So that's where the detail comes.

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This plan is very high level.

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Once we have the plan to the point where we've shared it with everybody and we've gotten input and

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we've done this meeting, this is a public meeting for the plan, we've done some other public outreach,

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which we'll talk about in a second.

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Then we submit that plan to the Department of California Office of Emergency Services.

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In fact, we work with them along the whole process of building this plan.

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Cal OES will give us feedback and say you've addressed these issues, but we need some more detail.

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Here we have what's called a plan review tool that we use, which is we call it a crosswalk,

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which states in one column, here's the requirement, show us in your plan where you've met that requirement.

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And we walk through the entire process.

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So once we submitted to Cal OES, having worked with them and used that process, we're pretty

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sure that the project is going to be, we're not going to get a lot of feedback.

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And in our past experience, recent experience, we got very little when we did IED's plan.

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Once Cal OES is happy with the plan, Office of Emergency Services likes it, they'll forward

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it on to FEMA.

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FEMA has the same opportunity to look through it and say, you've addressed this or you're

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missing this.

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The TID plan, we got zero feedback from FEMA.

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Once we had gone through that process and sent it to Cal OAS, with the IID plan, they wanted two sentences added to the plan, which we did.

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They told us exactly what to say and exactly where to put it and so we were able to send it back to and get it back very quickly.

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Once FEMA approves it, they'll bring it back, we'll bring it back to you, we'll get a letter called a notice of approvability pending adoption.

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So we'll be back up here in front of you again to talk about where we are in that process.

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us, you will hopefully, I will ask you to adopt it if you do, then we send it back to

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FEMA and say, okay, here's our letter of adoption from the board, and here's our plan that

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you've approved, and now you can start using it to apply for grants and hopefully get

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some money to be able to do some of these projects.

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Then we have to continue to monitor our progress.

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What projects did we do and what was the outcome of those projects, did they go well or did

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they, did we have some challenges, and we're always going to have challenges, so how do

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we address those. What projects did we not do? And why not? We didn't have funding.

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We didn't have the staff time. That risk is no longer such a high hazard risk.

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We moved it down the line, whatever. So we're going to do that along the way.

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And again, that is also remains part of the plan, so it remains a public as well.

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So what hazards did we identify? As you can, I won't go through all of these.

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As you can see through the list, you know, these are, for the most part, naturally occurring

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hazards with really one exception, and that's dam failure.

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Dams can fail for a variety of reasons.

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They can fail because of weather-related issues.

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You can get more inflow into the project than the project was ever designed to handle, and

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you can't release it quick enough.

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You can also get it through misoperation or through failures of equipment.

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But because dam, so dam failure is kind of a mixed bag.

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because Dan failure though has such a high impact to us should it happen we're

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required to include in your plan and also you guys are owners of Dom Pedro and

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also Modesto Reservoir and so those have to be included in the plan. Just an

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example of it's better to be lucky than good. In 2018 we built TID's plan we included

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public health emergencies. What we were thinking at the time was flu or H1N1 we were

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worried about at the time. And so this is again 2019. And so we put that on the

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plan then 2020 happened and lo and behold we have public health emergency. So we're

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trying to look forward and we are looking forward to not only what has happened

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but potentially what could happen to us here.

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Just some highlights from the

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mitigation side that what are we going to do about all these hatches that we've

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identified. We're really trying to help protect your infrastructure from the

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impacts it has, including flooding, including wild and fire, specifically heat, extreme heat.

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And we're trying to help prevent complete loss of assets, complete loss of infrastructure,

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and support water supply reliability.

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This district's been around a long time, more than 135 years.

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And 135 years, we've done a really good job in my opinion.

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And I say we, because I'm part of the team, I think, we've done a really good job of

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being really good stewards of the resources

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we've been entrusted with on the 12-year River in particular.

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And so we want to help support that and make that continue.

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Reliability is a huge, it's not only rates are important,

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yes, but when you turn on that light switch,

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we want to make sure the light's actually turned on.

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Or when you need to irrigate your acreage,

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we want to make sure there's water there available.

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So reliability is a huge thing.

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And it's been proven through studies and reports

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and people way smarter than me.

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That every dollar that we spend on a mitigation project can return a six to eight dollars in benefits through, you know, not having things collapse or fail. So FEMA is in a little bit of turmoil now. I know everybody's probably heard of that. It's now they're calling it FEMA 2.0. And there is a bipartisan bill working its way through Congress. Yes, even in these environments we can work in a bipartisan passion. There's a bipartisan bill with 40 co-sponsors working its way through now to

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re-imagined FEMA, re-imagined how FEMA interacts, moving some of the control to a more local,

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instead of trying to handle everything through Washington, D.C. But one of the biggest

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focuses on this new re-imagined FEMA 2.0 or whatever they end up calling it is that mitigation

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is going to be moved to the forefront. No longer is it going to be only response and only

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recovery. Let's do some work locally with mitigation. And there's an expectation by I think everyone

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that all levels of government, certainly in the federal side, there's an expectation that all levels of government, including special districts and local jurisdictions, counties and cities, will do things to help themselves prior to a disaster or emergency happening.

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This plan is what helps you to do that.

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So how do we engage the public?

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Well, first we've engaged our internal stakeholders.

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This is a list of some of the folks, some of the apartments that have helped us along the way.

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We've also, like I said, engaged with local government, the county counties that you operate in.

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As well as the city, we've done community input.

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We've done several community outreach efforts.

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One of them that's shown in this photograph was the emergency preparedness fair that happened June, September.

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September, sorry September here in Modesto and you guys set up a booth and had a presence

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there and you can see from the photo that we were talking about the local hazard mitigation

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plan. Also your public power week where you had this table set up out in front. We did

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it there as well. We've also presented this plan to the operation of your council which

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is the county Office of Emergency Services and the 9 cities in the county to allow those

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folks to know that you're doing this and how they can how they can participate in the process.

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This slide does show a web address of MID.org front slash LHMP.

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We were hoping to get that web address up before this process.

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We're working to get a shortened link to that page because the link that you'll see later

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is a bit long, so we're working through that.

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But anyway, we've done quite a bit of public outreach, social media, and quite a bit of things.

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So this plan also allows us to access grants.

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These are the grant funding sources that are currently available, the Federal

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Hazard mitigation grant program, and flood mitigation assistance, and then

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state of California has other grant programs available as well, yes, ma'am.

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We're going to get to it.

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Yeah, you have it on your web page now, it's the address that we're working on,

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getting it.

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Yeah, we may not be able to do that and we're working on something, hopefully.

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Anyway, I'm sorry, it is on your website currently, and it has been there the whole

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time.

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This has been on the site since we've been working on it for quite a while, so

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Thank you most, I'm sorry, I need to throw you into the vest there by the way.

428
00:33:23,390 --> 00:33:28,370
Yeah, I need to throw, these opinions are my own, not any opinion of Melissa or anybody

429
00:33:28,370 --> 00:33:29,110
else here at MIT.

430
00:33:31,030 --> 00:33:33,310
There are state hazard mitigation grants available.

431
00:33:33,670 --> 00:33:38,470
The biggest program from the Feds that was cut was a program called Building, Resilient,

432
00:33:38,650 --> 00:33:41,310
Infrastructure, and Communities, or the Brick Grant program.

433
00:33:41,810 --> 00:33:46,930
That program has currently been reassigned to recovery.

434
00:33:46,930 --> 00:33:49,670
That was the biggest program where we could get grants.

435
00:33:49,810 --> 00:33:55,270
That program in my opinion only will come back in some form of fashion because they're

436
00:33:55,270 --> 00:33:57,430
going to be pushing mitigation pretty seriously.

437
00:33:58,130 --> 00:34:03,270
But it's also considered a best practice by the American Public Power Association as part

438
00:34:03,270 --> 00:34:06,690
of your reliable power provider program or RPP program.

439
00:34:06,970 --> 00:34:12,770
It's recommended that you have a hazard mitigation plan in place and that you use it to help

440
00:34:12,770 --> 00:34:14,910
to build reliability in your system.

441
00:34:14,910 --> 00:34:19,410
So not only is it a requirement if you want to get grants from state and federal sources

442
00:34:19,410 --> 00:34:25,250
for mitigation, but it's also a best practice by the industry that we all are associated

443
00:34:25,250 --> 00:34:27,090
with, which is our APPA.

444
00:34:29,770 --> 00:34:33,750
So this is what the process looked like, and that we've done so far, and I won't go again

445
00:34:33,750 --> 00:34:39,110
to go through all of these things, but again working with everybody to assess your risk, identify

446
00:34:39,110 --> 00:34:44,950
the hazards that we feel are the most likely to occur, and then also what are those vulnerabilities

447
00:34:44,950 --> 00:34:49,610
and one of those impacts because just because we have a hazard doesn't mean that we're necessarily impacted.

448
00:34:50,150 --> 00:34:52,750
So we want to make sure we're being fair with that.

449
00:34:53,270 --> 00:34:56,170
And then developing those mitigation strategies and from the strategies,

450
00:34:56,330 --> 00:34:59,970
then we can identify the actual projects, which we have now,

451
00:35:00,110 --> 00:35:02,070
then we completed that work in the first part of December.

452
00:35:03,530 --> 00:35:04,530
So where do we go from here?

453
00:35:05,470 --> 00:35:08,530
Well, this public meeting is certainly a part of that process.

454
00:35:10,650 --> 00:35:12,470
This account says public outreach.

455
00:35:12,650 --> 00:35:13,870
So we wanted to make sure to have this meeting.

456
00:35:13,870 --> 00:35:19,630
We want to bring you all up to speed and so the first time you see this is not when

457
00:35:19,630 --> 00:35:22,690
we're asking you to adopt it, you're familiar with it and I've seen it.

458
00:35:22,970 --> 00:35:26,590
Want to give the public the opportunity to comment in a live session which this will.

459
00:35:27,410 --> 00:35:31,530
But once all that's happened, we'll finalize that plan, we'll send it to the senior management

460
00:35:31,530 --> 00:35:37,230
team here at MID and have them review it and sign off on it, so to speak.

461
00:35:37,690 --> 00:35:39,450
At that point, we'll submit it to Calibacy and FEMA.

462
00:35:39,450 --> 00:35:43,550
like I already described though once their half once FEMA is happy with it we

463
00:35:43,550 --> 00:35:48,070
get our notice of a pendability of approvability pending adoption it's at

464
00:35:48,070 --> 00:35:51,630
that point that we bring it back to you for a board resolution to adopt the

465
00:35:51,630 --> 00:35:56,810
plan then once we do that FEMA will issue a final approval letter and that

466
00:35:56,810 --> 00:36:01,210
starts your clock for the five year review process this plan is good for five

467
00:36:01,210 --> 00:36:04,810
years in five years we have to do this all over again so we'll probably start in

468
00:36:04,810 --> 00:36:10,310
your four because it does take a while to update this plan and keep it moving.

469
00:36:11,230 --> 00:36:15,870
And at that point we can start, we can apply for grants ahead of having this hazard mitigation

470
00:36:15,870 --> 00:36:17,870
plan in place if there's opportunity for that.

471
00:36:18,470 --> 00:36:22,950
You cannot receive the money until this plan is in place and adopted and approved by FEMA,

472
00:36:23,170 --> 00:36:24,590
and you've adopted and sent the letter back.

473
00:36:25,190 --> 00:36:28,810
So you can go ahead and use it saying, hey, we have this plan and here's the process that's

474
00:36:28,810 --> 00:36:33,810
in, here's the state that it's in, but we can't receive the grant money until that plan

475
00:36:33,810 --> 00:36:38,970
comes back. And then I can say we'll do the annual progress reviews every year, reporting

476
00:36:38,970 --> 00:36:42,370
back on what we've done and haven't done in the reasons why we haven't done anything

477
00:36:42,770 --> 00:36:46,810
on some things or haven't done, haven't completed the projects and then we'll do a full

478
00:36:46,810 --> 00:36:54,250
update in five years. So with that I think, hey I'm a recovering public information officer

479
00:36:54,250 --> 00:36:58,810
so usually that means once I get the microphone you don't get it back so I think I get pretty

480
00:36:58,810 --> 00:37:04,070
good as far as our time goes. This is the current state of where the plan can be found

481
00:37:04,070 --> 00:37:07,910
on your website. It's under the safety department and it's under the localizer mitigation

482
00:37:07,910 --> 00:37:12,690
plan. So that plan is currently the most recent draft of that plan is there. Again, as

483
00:37:12,690 --> 00:37:17,990
we've updated it, we've replaced that draft over time. There's also a public survey on

484
00:37:17,990 --> 00:37:22,870
that site as well so people can weigh in and give a feedback. But with that, I'll throw it

485
00:37:22,870 --> 00:37:26,630
back to you and ask if there are any questions, thoughts, comments, or concerns?

486
00:37:26,630 --> 00:37:26,930
Any comments?

487
00:37:31,080 --> 00:37:32,020
Anybody have any comments?

488
00:37:32,420 --> 00:37:32,720
Questions?

489
00:37:36,200 --> 00:37:37,000
No, just a comment.

490
00:37:37,680 --> 00:37:38,740
Thank you for the update.

491
00:37:39,200 --> 00:37:43,880
I completely support, you know, setting this district up for receiving grants.

492
00:37:44,060 --> 00:37:50,420
I think that we owe the rate payers to the rate payers to do this so I'm glad to see we're

493
00:37:50,420 --> 00:37:51,160
in the right direction.

494
00:37:53,750 --> 00:37:54,310
Thank you very much.

495
00:37:54,350 --> 00:37:55,710
We're happy to be here and happy to do it.

496
00:37:57,170 --> 00:37:58,350
I do have one quick question.

497
00:37:58,650 --> 00:38:03,650
Like you said, in five years, we're not five years up or we've got to go through this

498
00:38:03,650 --> 00:38:10,830
from point A to point B or point A to point Z all over again or beings we had this plan

499
00:38:10,830 --> 00:38:15,550
we can do minor little things to it and then we don't have to go through all this all

500
00:38:15,550 --> 00:38:22,370
over again. We're creating a step here that we can advance in that five years quicker

501
00:38:23,130 --> 00:38:25,110
instead of having to go back through this whole thing.

502
00:38:25,470 --> 00:38:30,230
There are parts of that process that are easier. We certainly don't have to go and make everybody

503
00:38:30,230 --> 00:38:33,830
aware that we have the plan and people are familiar with it. But no, unfortunately, we

504
00:38:33,830 --> 00:38:37,350
do have to, we don't know if this necessarily start over from scratch.

505
00:38:37,650 --> 00:38:41,290
But a lot of our steps already have been done, right? The hazards probably aren't going

506
00:38:41,290 --> 00:38:44,490
to change much. You know, maybe there's a new one that comes up that we didn't think about

507
00:38:44,490 --> 00:38:49,290
in the past. We can also add hazards as they go along in the plan and we can remove hazards

508
00:38:49,290 --> 00:38:52,930
if there are reasons why. We've removed it. Maybe we've done a project that has completely

509
00:38:52,930 --> 00:38:59,330
removed our risk from something. So now we can pull that hazard out. The risks still

510
00:38:59,330 --> 00:39:03,690
exist, but the hazard, sorry, the hazard still exists, but our risk is no longer the same.

511
00:39:03,710 --> 00:39:06,130
So we're going to have a grant, we're going to have a ground floor rating.

512
00:39:06,430 --> 00:39:07,730
Exactly. We're going to have a foundation.

513
00:39:07,730 --> 00:39:09,910
We just need to build a new house on top of it, yeah.

514
00:39:10,390 --> 00:39:18,730
I might add that, like Wilson had mentioned, this is, this is your own now standalone plant,

515
00:39:18,870 --> 00:39:21,950
which will make it a lot easier in the future, like you said.

516
00:39:22,510 --> 00:39:28,650
In the past, you have been as far back as 2011, I think, was the last time that MIT was

517
00:39:28,650 --> 00:39:36,870
an annex. You were listed on a table as an annex but you were at the discretion of the county

518
00:39:36,870 --> 00:39:43,370
that now you stand alone. We are doing one for a TID right now where we're refreshing theirs.

519
00:39:44,730 --> 00:39:52,190
So it is easier except that sometimes we're at the mercy of FEMA or Cal OES when they come up with

520
00:39:52,190 --> 00:39:56,470
new requirements like they've done recently. But yeah, we'll be able to hit the ground running,

521
00:39:56,470 --> 00:40:00,890
especially if we do the annual updates that's required as well.

522
00:40:01,050 --> 00:40:02,930
So in my view, it'll be a lot easier.

523
00:40:03,790 --> 00:40:04,070
Thank you.

524
00:40:04,410 --> 00:40:06,550
Just going to compliment your leadership, by the way,

525
00:40:06,670 --> 00:40:07,930
and your direction that you're going.

526
00:40:08,590 --> 00:40:13,510
Jimmy Wilson, Ray, and Toxie Burris forever has been involved

527
00:40:13,510 --> 00:40:17,450
when I was with the county and the city as involved as well.

528
00:40:17,670 --> 00:40:19,210
So you guys are doing great.

529
00:40:19,350 --> 00:40:19,670
Thank you.

530
00:40:20,350 --> 00:40:20,630
All right.

531
00:40:20,890 --> 00:40:22,090
Thank you for your presentation.

532
00:40:23,810 --> 00:40:27,770
Okay, Jesse, you want to give us a water report?

533
00:40:30,110 --> 00:40:33,590
President Fobos, I'll make just a couple of comments as we pull up the presentation.

534
00:40:33,870 --> 00:40:38,570
So we've got the standard of water supply report for you today, but we also threw in a couple of slides.

535
00:40:38,570 --> 00:40:43,370
We had those major storms that came through between Christmas and the New Year.

536
00:40:44,050 --> 00:40:51,730
And so we've added a set of slides in there to talk about how those storms turned out and the effects of the river and

537
00:40:51,730 --> 00:40:56,250
As of our operations, I won't give away too much of what Jesse's sharing, but

538
00:40:56,250 --> 00:40:59,230
you'll see that pretty remarkable actions were taken.

539
00:40:59,490 --> 00:41:02,410
I was updating you in terms of the river levels.

540
00:41:02,930 --> 00:41:07,130
I want to applaud our sister utility TID and their staff beginning with Brad and

541
00:41:07,130 --> 00:41:10,970
two and their hydrologist Olivia, as you'll see in the slides.

542
00:41:11,310 --> 00:41:15,530
A lot of action was taken to balance our precious water resources.

543
00:41:15,990 --> 00:41:19,930
And we didn't have perfect foresight, but we came pretty darn close to it,

544
00:41:19,930 --> 00:41:25,070
given the actions we took in what ultimately materialized in these storms, Jesse.

545
00:41:25,250 --> 00:41:29,930
Yeah, you were coming and when all that was developing, you guys were on top of it.

546
00:41:30,130 --> 00:41:31,430
It looked like you guys did a good job.

547
00:41:31,590 --> 00:41:32,370
Anyway, go ahead, Jesse.

548
00:41:32,850 --> 00:41:36,390
All right, good morning, members of the board, members of staff, members of the public,

549
00:41:36,710 --> 00:41:39,570
Jesse Franco, civil engineering manager for water operations.

550
00:41:40,190 --> 00:41:47,010
He had to provide a water supply report, which will be, this is basically the segue into the next coming months,

551
00:41:47,010 --> 00:41:53,090
weeks as we present more water supply reports leading into what will ultimately be recommendations

552
00:41:53,090 --> 00:41:59,790
and a determination for the 2026 irrigation allocation. So this really is kind of setting

553
00:41:59,790 --> 00:42:06,050
the stage for those discussions and ultimately the determination. So this morning we want

554
00:42:06,050 --> 00:42:10,650
to spend some time obviously talking about precipitation storage and as General Manager Jimmy

555
00:42:10,650 --> 00:42:15,470
mentioned we're going to do just do a recent storm recap and then we have just a few updates

556
00:42:15,470 --> 00:42:17,550
It's on SIGMON or our Strogbo efforts,

557
00:42:17,550 --> 00:42:19,850
and then some last miscellaneous items.

558
00:42:22,020 --> 00:42:23,460
So beginning with precipitation,

559
00:42:23,880 --> 00:42:26,480
we've got basically two charts to share here.

560
00:42:27,060 --> 00:42:28,760
First one is the San Joaquin precipitation,

561
00:42:29,120 --> 00:42:30,300
that's the five station index.

562
00:42:31,300 --> 00:42:34,340
Currently we are trending at 21.2 inches

563
00:42:34,340 --> 00:42:37,040
with respect to the San Joaquin index,

564
00:42:37,760 --> 00:42:39,320
152% above average.

565
00:42:39,760 --> 00:42:41,180
So I mean, this is set in the stage

566
00:42:41,180 --> 00:42:44,120
that we have had some really good precipitation events

567
00:42:44,120 --> 00:42:45,040
that have come in.

568
00:42:45,040 --> 00:42:53,480
You can see that we are trending above average currently with still some months to go, but so far so good with with respect to the San Joaquin index.

569
00:42:55,140 --> 00:43:02,980
And then shifting on to a more focused 12ly river watershed, which we are right now at 19.4 inches. Again, really promising.

570
00:43:03,120 --> 00:43:07,040
We are 128.6% above for this state.

571
00:43:07,740 --> 00:43:11,640
So again, you can see that we are trending in a really good projection.

572
00:43:13,260 --> 00:43:18,860
Those projected lines starting with the top is if we were to encounter a very wet from here on.

573
00:43:19,420 --> 00:43:23,000
You can see that that starts to accumulate really quick and quite substantially.

574
00:43:23,640 --> 00:43:26,880
Followed by the second, which is a green, that's an average year.

575
00:43:27,460 --> 00:43:33,300
And then you can see that orange, which is basically the fourth, is still pretty good.

576
00:43:33,500 --> 00:43:38,540
Even if we had drive from this moment on, we're still in a very pretty good trend.

577
00:43:39,240 --> 00:43:43,100
massing close leads to 20-25, so last year's.

578
00:43:45,680 --> 00:43:50,020
This is just kind of a heat sensitivity showing our precipitation over the last couple months.

579
00:43:50,380 --> 00:43:55,100
Again, we're within that 100% to 200% range, again,

580
00:43:55,160 --> 00:43:58,420
really promising precipitation over the last couple months.

581
00:44:01,590 --> 00:44:06,570
And then this is a basic depiction of just showing basically an actual versus historical

582
00:44:06,570 --> 00:44:08,970
over the last couple months, beginning with October.

583
00:44:08,970 --> 00:44:14,130
October, October, we had a pretty good month with our actual precipitation being above historical.

584
00:44:14,870 --> 00:44:17,390
That trend followed in November again with above.

585
00:44:18,010 --> 00:44:19,430
November was really great.

586
00:44:19,690 --> 00:44:24,330
We had that 5.64 inches that were compared to historical, 3.42.

587
00:44:25,270 --> 00:44:28,710
And then in December, again, we had some really, really good storm events that came through.

588
00:44:28,870 --> 00:44:31,010
Not quite historical, but again, really good.

589
00:44:31,570 --> 00:44:36,350
Right now, we are sitting just in the first couple of weeks of January at Shive the Historical.

590
00:44:36,350 --> 00:44:44,890
We don't know if we'll hit historical this month, but again, at least the first couple months have been really a really solid projection or at least yield so far.

591
00:44:47,680 --> 00:44:59,960
Looking at the 9-day local forecast, no precipitation is anticipated. Temperatures are actually pretty moderate, so nothing in the immediate forecast, which is helpful from a standpoint of

592
00:45:00,000 --> 00:45:10,780
ordinance, our ordinance crews are out there, prime weather to get all our construction activities done. So at least we've got kind of a, you know, breather, so to speak until the next storm starts to make their way through.

593
00:45:13,180 --> 00:45:31,760
And then kind of shifting gears into our snowpack. Currently, we are 37% of what the April 1st average is. And we are sitting right now just shy 89% of normal for for the date of this time of year. So again, I mean, we're good. We still got some some months to go. But at least we're

594
00:45:31,760 --> 00:45:34,840
on a, I think on at least a positive trajectory, so that's good.

595
00:45:37,330 --> 00:45:41,910
So with our snow water content, we are currently sitting in just a 10.8 inches.

596
00:45:42,490 --> 00:45:47,710
So again, you can kind of see that's just a, we're currently in our average, is what

597
00:45:47,710 --> 00:45:48,830
we're seeing, so which is good.

598
00:45:51,040 --> 00:45:56,440
And then this kind of shows you just how, how we were sitting before the storm events and

599
00:45:56,440 --> 00:45:57,000
then post.

600
00:45:57,660 --> 00:46:02,480
So prior to the storm that came through during the holiday season, we're sitting around

601
00:46:02,480 --> 00:46:10,300
You can see on the right-hand side, we were trending about the 80,000 acre feet with respect to snow water equivalent.

602
00:46:10,900 --> 00:46:17,700
After those storms came through, now that has actually jumped us up to 400,000 acre feet of snow water equivalent.

603
00:46:17,960 --> 00:46:25,680
So those were substantially needed and kind of helped us to realize that jump in snow water equivalent.

604
00:46:25,680 --> 00:46:26,440
Don

605
00:46:29,250 --> 00:46:39,100
Pedro currently is at 80% capacity and so this is as of this was based on January 6th we were looking at

606
00:46:39,100 --> 00:46:48,360
an elevation of 795.35 with a storage of 1.6 million and that has since jumped up to I think an elevation of 797.

607
00:46:49,700 --> 00:46:58,640
But again we are currently now in the still still got some months to go but at least right now we're in a healthy position with respect to storage.

608
00:46:58,640 --> 00:46:59,540
And

609
00:47:01,970 --> 00:47:04,910
this just goes to show kind of our reservoir storage currently.

610
00:47:05,410 --> 00:47:15,590
Last report, Modesto Reservoir, we were looking at 17,000, just above 17,000 acre feet as of January 13th.

611
00:47:15,610 --> 00:47:24,530
Modesto Reservoir has since been lowered, but that's also attributed to an outage that we experienced in December to get some work done and inspections.

612
00:47:24,530 --> 00:47:31,670
But currently, Modesto Reservoir is sitting at just shy of 17,000 acre feet in elevation of 20.60.

613
00:47:32,670 --> 00:47:42,310
Don Pedro, and this is MID's portion, last report, we are at 394,000, just about, just shortly about that, an elevation of 790.96.

614
00:47:43,230 --> 00:47:51,410
And currently, at least as of January 13th, we are at 413,000, an elevation of 795.35.

615
00:47:51,410 --> 00:48:00,230
So total storage currently for MIDs portion is sitting at 430,477 acre feet.

616
00:48:01,250 --> 00:48:05,530
And so in comparison to last year, we are sitting in a much higher position, which is great.

617
00:48:08,560 --> 00:48:12,580
Now we're shifting gears to the storm events that we experienced during the holiday season.

618
00:48:12,880 --> 00:48:16,460
And this is when you start looking at this, it'll start telling the stories.

619
00:48:16,460 --> 00:48:17,740
We start looking at these numbers.

620
00:48:17,740 --> 00:48:27,100
So prior to these are the forecasts that our team at TID was seeing, the forecast for projecting, starting at December 17th,

621
00:48:27,100 --> 00:48:32,600
8-day forecasts were showing upwards to a 12-inch precipitation event accumulation.

622
00:48:33,380 --> 00:48:40,280
Looking at the 16-day, there were some variants in there, they were looking at a 12-inch to 15-inch.

623
00:48:40,280 --> 00:48:46,540
So, at that time, you know, the projections where we were going to get a lot of water coming

624
00:48:46,540 --> 00:48:48,320
down in a very short period of time.

625
00:48:49,120 --> 00:48:54,000
And so, when you start looking at the December 18, those projections started to increase.

626
00:48:54,640 --> 00:48:58,980
Eight day forecasts went from 9 to 12 to 8 to 20.

627
00:48:59,620 --> 00:49:03,100
On the 16-day forecast, they were going from 9 inches to 24 inches.

628
00:49:03,800 --> 00:49:07,820
So you could see that the amount of water that was being forecasted was substantial.

629
00:49:07,820 --> 00:49:12,400
So to help kind of put this into perspective and that trend was continuing over the next

630
00:49:12,400 --> 00:49:17,040
couple of days from December 19th to the 20th to the 21st, these were all the forecasts

631
00:49:17,040 --> 00:49:18,660
that were anticipated to come through.

632
00:49:19,500 --> 00:49:23,820
So we started looking at and working with our team at TID have just been a phenomenal and

633
00:49:24,420 --> 00:49:25,340
providing the projections.

634
00:49:25,340 --> 00:49:27,240
This is what we'd be looking at.

635
00:49:27,380 --> 00:49:33,840
So starting at that December 17th, the 8-day forecast was the 9-inch, 12-inch this graph

636
00:49:33,840 --> 00:49:37,380
for showing the 16-day forecast, which is the 15-inch.

637
00:49:37,920 --> 00:49:45,100
So if that 15-inch is worth to have yielded out, basically, this graph is showing how fast

638
00:49:45,100 --> 00:49:51,480
wood those inflows start coming in, how soon would they breach or encroach over our

639
00:49:51,480 --> 00:49:57,480
flood space, and we are required anytime we breach 801, an elevation of 801, we have 15 days

640
00:49:57,480 --> 00:49:58,960
to exit that flood space.

641
00:49:58,960 --> 00:50:05,360
So if you look at that, this top curve shows, okay, if we were releasing at 3,000 cubic feet per second,

642
00:50:05,780 --> 00:50:09,580
we wouldn't hit that target of exiting the flood space within 15 days.

643
00:50:10,240 --> 00:50:12,080
So then you start looking at the different iterations.

644
00:50:12,820 --> 00:50:19,780
If you start looking at a release of 5,500 cubic feet per second, you're still not going to meet that exit of 15 days.

645
00:50:20,260 --> 00:50:26,320
So then ultimately the decision was made to increase river releases to 7,500 cubic feet per second,

646
00:50:26,320 --> 00:50:29,580
which will allow that 16-day exit out of the flood space.

647
00:50:30,440 --> 00:50:32,540
So when the storms actually started to occur,

648
00:50:32,840 --> 00:50:34,440
they were looking at the start date of around,

649
00:50:34,960 --> 00:50:36,800
basically Christmas, 12-24,

650
00:50:37,460 --> 00:50:40,240
giving the exit date of January 11th or 12th.

651
00:50:40,300 --> 00:50:42,640
So again, a lot of water coming in was anticipated

652
00:50:43,060 --> 00:50:44,400
and you got to move that water out.

653
00:50:44,880 --> 00:50:47,840
So that was the 15-inch projection.

654
00:50:49,360 --> 00:50:51,620
The second scenario that was looked at was,

655
00:50:51,900 --> 00:50:53,340
if there was a 24-inch,

656
00:50:53,480 --> 00:50:55,460
24-inch was expected to come in,

657
00:50:55,460 --> 00:51:00,900
Again, you could see that at a release of 3,000, room releases of 3,000, we would be

658
00:51:00,900 --> 00:51:04,500
looking at opening up the spillway, not something that we were on and considered.

659
00:51:05,220 --> 00:51:08,720
So again, these are, it's telling the story of what the risk would have been.

660
00:51:09,100 --> 00:51:14,640
Had we not increased the real, the room releases at a 5,500, again, we're not going to see

661
00:51:14,640 --> 00:51:17,140
that 16-day exit, exit time.

662
00:51:17,600 --> 00:51:24,740
The third line there is the 7,500, which again would be close to meeting that exit timeframe

663
00:51:24,740 --> 00:51:28,000
and then the last one is as if we had to go to 9,000.

664
00:51:28,500 --> 00:51:30,540
So those were the different options that were considered,

665
00:51:31,120 --> 00:51:33,020
which ultimately led to the decisions of,

666
00:51:33,020 --> 00:51:35,940
this is the breakdown of the flood control river releases.

667
00:51:37,040 --> 00:51:39,700
So you can see on January or December 15th,

668
00:51:39,700 --> 00:51:40,760
we were sitting at pretty normal.

669
00:51:41,440 --> 00:51:43,100
Then the forecast started to come in.

670
00:51:43,960 --> 00:51:47,600
River releases were then increased on December 16th to 600

671
00:51:48,140 --> 00:51:50,500
and then ramped up from that point on,

672
00:51:50,600 --> 00:51:52,020
started to ramp up pretty significantly.

673
00:51:52,380 --> 00:51:53,940
And again, this was all based on the forecast

674
00:51:53,940 --> 00:52:00,760
of either a 15 inch or a 24 inch coming in, we had to make sure that enough that water was being

675
00:52:00,760 --> 00:52:08,680
moved out within that 15 day period. And then it ramped up on December 17 to 3,000, December 18 to

676
00:52:08,680 --> 00:52:16,560
5,500, December 19 to 6,500, and then it peaked on December 20. By that time forecast, it started to

677
00:52:16,560 --> 00:52:21,800
shift a bit. We started to see that the numbers started to drop and then we were at least

678
00:52:21,800 --> 00:52:26,260
was confident enough to know and notify MID that the releases were going to start to reduce.

679
00:52:26,960 --> 00:52:30,980
And from that, you start to see the step down of starting on the 21st,

680
00:52:31,360 --> 00:52:38,440
ramping back down to 6500, on the 22nd, down to 5500, down to 23rd, 3400,

681
00:52:38,760 --> 00:52:42,240
and then Christmas Eve to 2300, and then you start to see that projection.

682
00:52:42,560 --> 00:52:46,840
So by the 27th, we were back into normal releases.

683
00:52:47,600 --> 00:52:49,640
So again, it was just kind of making that way,

684
00:52:49,640 --> 00:52:52,440
based on the information and the data that was coming in.

685
00:52:52,780 --> 00:52:56,940
This was the best decision that based on risk and exposure.

686
00:53:00,340 --> 00:53:09,120
So just to recap that, so the storm and forecast were essentially a period from December 16th that spanned to January 8th.

687
00:53:09,140 --> 00:53:14,300
Starting elevation prior to the storms was 790.96 at Non-Pedro.

688
00:53:14,940 --> 00:53:19,320
The ending elevation on January 8th was 795.8.

689
00:53:19,960 --> 00:53:25,040
Had we not done any releases, we would have encroached up to an elevation of 804.9.

690
00:53:25,740 --> 00:53:34,480
The total river releases in excess of our minimum requirement was 78,000 acre feet, but

691
00:53:34,480 --> 00:53:39,720
given the scenario, even though we didn't see those higher swings of 15 inch and 24 inch,

692
00:53:40,160 --> 00:53:42,260
we still would have had to release this water regardless.

693
00:53:42,560 --> 00:53:47,400
So regardless, based on the actuals, this is the amount that we had to release and we would

694
00:53:47,400 --> 00:53:54,620
had to release it anyway. There was no way for us to keep it. It would just be a longer

695
00:53:54,620 --> 00:53:56,300
period of time that we were releasing it.

696
00:54:00,560 --> 00:54:03,020
And then a shift in gears over to our Sustainable

697
00:54:03,020 --> 00:54:11,200
Groundwater Management Acts. We do have the GSA meeting on January 28th. And as part

698
00:54:11,200 --> 00:54:15,780
of that meeting we are scheduled to approve and adopt the well mitigation plan and the groundwater

699
00:54:15,780 --> 00:54:19,940
use management program. They were both required under the revised groundwater

700
00:54:19,940 --> 00:54:26,280
water sustainability plan and then lastly cloud seating events we've actually had seven

701
00:54:26,280 --> 00:54:32,040
seating events as of today and then salmon passage there was a period of time where we weren't

702
00:54:32,040 --> 00:54:40,610
getting some readings but as of January 6th we were looking at 3,725 and with that we can't

703
00:54:40,610 --> 00:54:47,270
happy to answer any questions that you might have. More than a question or comment I think should

704
00:54:47,270 --> 00:54:55,190
be made. So when we did those releases in December and we peaked at seven to eight thousand cubic

705
00:54:55,190 --> 00:55:01,710
feet per second. I will say that I had phone calls from people or two people along the

706
00:55:01,710 --> 00:55:08,710
Twalamy River that were concerned with the releases, but I would say to sum it up, better

707
00:55:08,710 --> 00:55:15,490
safe than sorry. Yeah, absolutely. Because the options would have not been good. And one more

708
00:55:15,490 --> 00:55:22,490
thing I got to compliment the districts on how they did that releasing. They were in fact in

709
00:55:22,490 --> 00:55:30,050
touch with us every 24 hours. It wasn't like, well look at it next week or you know so I appreciate

710
00:55:30,050 --> 00:55:37,970
that and because that way we I know we gave up 78,000 acre feet but the alternative would have not been

711
00:55:37,970 --> 00:55:47,050
good. So in the big picture of everything, 78,000 acre feet is a lot of water, but better,

712
00:55:47,790 --> 00:56:01,930
safe than sorry. So I appreciate that. One question. When TID makes this decision with

713
00:56:01,930 --> 00:56:08,270
our staff together or do they make a decision and then contact our staff we're

714
00:56:08,270 --> 00:56:12,730
going to do this. Since they are the lead and the operator of Dom Pedro they take

715
00:56:12,730 --> 00:56:15,930
that decision on but they are quick to inform us though this is what we're

716
00:56:15,930 --> 00:56:19,430
looking at. Okay fair enough. Hey thank you for the

717
00:56:19,430 --> 00:56:24,450
sure thank you for that. No I just throw a couple comments out there too and

718
00:56:24,450 --> 00:56:28,730
Craig me if I'm wrong a little bit on this Jesse. Same thing with Larry and they

719
00:56:28,730 --> 00:56:32,310
They ran a big cup of real close on this, did an excellent job.

720
00:56:33,210 --> 00:56:37,270
Also two of the other thing that's not mentioned in here that they have to take into consideration

721
00:56:37,270 --> 00:56:41,730
is the watershed and what's going to land in the dry creek watershed.

722
00:56:42,430 --> 00:56:48,430
So you have to get above that out of there quicker so that we can allow dry creek, which is uncontrolled

723
00:56:49,010 --> 00:56:49,930
to flow out.

724
00:56:50,090 --> 00:56:54,770
So everything below dry creek and twalmy confidence doesn't get flooded out also.

725
00:56:54,770 --> 00:56:59,970
So, there's a lot of planning between what the forecast is going to hit for dry creek

726
00:56:59,970 --> 00:57:05,670
and for the watershed for Dom Pedro and the Twainley watershed that goes back and forth

727
00:57:05,670 --> 00:57:07,950
that equates to what they're going to release also.

728
00:57:08,830 --> 00:57:12,830
You're absolutely right, you know, I think dry creek tends to be pretty flashy, meaning

729
00:57:12,830 --> 00:57:16,570
that it's unpredictable so you don't know how much, I mean, you've got your projections

730
00:57:16,570 --> 00:57:20,430
of how much water's going to come through or could come through and so you're right, there's

731
00:57:20,430 --> 00:57:23,870
a balance between how much can be released, when it can be released, when does dry creek

732
00:57:23,870 --> 00:57:25,170
we can anticipate to be released.

733
00:57:25,830 --> 00:57:27,850
Ultimately, it's all a culmination

734
00:57:27,850 --> 00:57:31,530
of where it ties into all of me right at the 9th Street Bridge area

735
00:57:31,530 --> 00:57:34,170
so that you're not exceeding that flood level.

736
00:57:37,550 --> 00:57:39,570
I agree with what Larry and John said,

737
00:57:39,730 --> 00:57:42,690
staff did, I think, a great job in managing this event.

738
00:57:43,010 --> 00:57:44,390
So kudos to staff.

739
00:57:44,930 --> 00:57:47,430
I have a question in regards to cloud seating.

740
00:57:47,710 --> 00:57:47,950
Sure.

741
00:57:48,130 --> 00:57:50,050
How many more events are scheduled this year?

742
00:57:51,410 --> 00:57:54,770
I think it really depends on weather conditions.

743
00:57:54,770 --> 00:58:01,810
We've got X amount that's budgeted, and so basically, they run as many events that they can within their budget.

744
00:58:02,810 --> 00:58:10,450
So at this point, I think last year, gosh, we've got Lou Crawford who's our senior civil in Jose.

745
00:58:11,690 --> 00:58:14,670
Makera, did we have about 10 to 12 last?

746
00:58:14,670 --> 00:58:21,770
I'm going to say that we've quickly suspended file seeding in December because of the

747
00:58:21,770 --> 00:58:28,250
amount of precipitation that's coming in, TIE, suspended file seeding, the contact

748
00:58:28,250 --> 00:58:28,830
of our vendor.

749
00:58:29,130 --> 00:58:36,290
This is suspended until the precipitation event that passed, and so now we're back on,

750
00:58:36,450 --> 00:58:39,530
but we're not going to be right now because of the forecast.

751
00:58:40,550 --> 00:58:40,710
Yeah.

752
00:58:41,110 --> 00:58:42,310
That kind of answer is my question.

753
00:58:42,310 --> 00:58:49,090
Is it, I'm assuming we're contracted out for the year, but do we have the flexibility to pull out of that?

754
00:58:49,410 --> 00:58:52,490
I mean, it's clear to me that it looks, I think we're going to fill the reservoir.

755
00:58:52,690 --> 00:58:57,270
So why are we paying to go do cloud seeding when we know we're going to be dumping water?

756
00:58:57,930 --> 00:58:59,850
So do we have that flexibility to get out of that?

757
00:59:00,110 --> 00:59:00,430
We do.

758
00:59:00,810 --> 00:59:03,550
So usually, again, that's based on the decision of what we're seeing,

759
00:59:03,550 --> 00:59:07,270
what the forecast are showing, where we're sitting from a hydrological standpoint,

760
00:59:07,270 --> 00:59:14,470
point, and then there's that flexibility to either halt, see any additional flights and

761
00:59:14,470 --> 00:59:19,890
just wait, or if there is an opportunity, maybe we delay it until, you know, a little

762
00:59:19,890 --> 00:59:20,270
bit later.

763
00:59:20,870 --> 00:59:20,970
Okay.

764
00:59:21,330 --> 00:59:21,610
Thank you.

765
00:59:21,890 --> 00:59:22,010
Sure.

766
00:59:23,750 --> 00:59:24,870
All good?

767
00:59:25,930 --> 00:59:27,890
One more comment.

768
00:59:28,290 --> 00:59:28,890
She came to mind.

769
00:59:28,890 --> 00:59:29,810
So,

770
00:59:33,490 --> 00:59:51,870
just so the public under the the dry creek issues that John was talking about, dry creek when you're getting three to five inches in the food hills, dry creek is going to we got up to 5,000 acre feet per second was cubic feet per second going down dry creek.

771
00:59:52,210 --> 00:59:56,890
So as fast as it comes up it goes down just almost as fast.

772
00:59:56,890 --> 00:59:59,350
So, we're talking instead of days.

773
01:00:00,000 --> 01:00:05,660
We're talking hours which they do a good job of managing that because they can tell that one

774
01:00:05,660 --> 01:00:11,000
more thing. At right now, I think the Modesto B said we're at seven point, some inches

775
01:00:11,000 --> 01:00:18,320
here at our range age at the MID building. So east of Waterford, between Waterford and

776
01:00:18,320 --> 01:00:27,420
LeVrange, we're at 12.88 today. So as you go up, as you keep going up, you're going to get

777
01:00:27,420 --> 01:00:34,360
more precipitation. Those clouds hit those foothills. And then even if you grow up 10th miles

778
01:00:34,360 --> 01:00:42,640
above the range, they've got another four or five inches above that. So just so you everybody

779
01:00:42,640 --> 01:00:49,500
understands. That's why that all comes together like it does. And anyway, I'm done, but thank you,

780
01:00:49,640 --> 01:00:53,860
thank you, Jesse for that today. Yeah. And again, just as our general manager, Jimmy mentioned,

781
01:00:53,860 --> 01:00:57,280
and you know, a big kudos to our TID team.

782
01:00:57,460 --> 01:01:00,280
They have been, you know, they're really great to work with.

783
01:01:00,540 --> 01:01:03,000
Very informative, they keep us, you know, in the loop

784
01:01:03,000 --> 01:01:06,180
and provide any data that we need and request.

785
01:01:06,860 --> 01:01:08,200
So it's a team effort, definitely.

786
01:01:08,460 --> 01:01:09,680
So, you know, we appreciate them.

787
01:01:11,080 --> 01:01:11,400
Okay.

788
01:01:12,160 --> 01:01:14,660
Thank you, Jesse, that was an excellent report.

789
01:01:14,900 --> 01:01:15,920
You've done an excellent job.

790
01:01:16,300 --> 01:01:17,600
The only thing we need is a little bit more snow.

791
01:01:17,980 --> 01:01:18,160
Sure.

792
01:01:18,460 --> 01:01:19,040
Can you work on it?

793
01:01:19,040 --> 01:01:20,340
Can you do anything about that, Jesse?

794
01:01:20,520 --> 01:01:20,720
We'll try.

795
01:01:21,120 --> 01:01:21,980
Okay, let me know.

796
01:01:21,980 --> 01:01:29,720
All right. Thank you, Jesse. Let's move on. Would anybody like to take a break for a five-minute break,

797
01:01:30,060 --> 01:01:30,680
restroom break, whatever?

798
01:01:33,220 --> 01:01:39,460
No? Okay. Moving along, let's go on to the presentation and possible

799
01:01:39,460 --> 01:01:49,720
action of the well mitigation and the ground-water use management plan. Are you going to do that, too, Jesse?

800
01:01:49,720 --> 01:01:51,340
Correct, yeah, here we go again.

801
01:01:51,560 --> 01:01:52,740
All right, a roll.

802
01:01:53,500 --> 01:01:56,540
All right, again, for those members of the public,

803
01:01:56,740 --> 01:01:58,260
Jesse Franco, civil engineering manager,

804
01:01:58,580 --> 01:02:00,240
and this is a different, this is our,

805
01:02:00,320 --> 01:02:02,240
that's a sub-basin, well mitigation plan,

806
01:02:02,260 --> 01:02:04,080
and groundwater use management program.

807
01:02:04,700 --> 01:02:07,140
It's a presentation, but also for potential action

808
01:02:07,140 --> 01:02:08,260
for the board to consider.

809
01:02:10,700 --> 01:02:13,280
So starting the first couple slides are a lot of just background

810
01:02:13,280 --> 01:02:16,740
behind where it is that we are currently at and why.

811
01:02:17,420 --> 01:02:19,700
So beginning in September of 2014,

812
01:02:19,700 --> 01:02:24,620
This is when Governor Jerry Brown signed legislative, creating the Sustainable Groundwater

813
01:02:24,620 --> 01:02:29,580
Management Act referred to as SIGMA, which essentially provided local groundwater sustainability

814
01:02:29,580 --> 01:02:35,980
agencies with the authority and technical and financial assistance necessary to start managing

815
01:02:35,980 --> 01:02:38,760
groundwater effectively and sustainably.

816
01:02:39,640 --> 01:02:45,280
DWR required the groundwater sustainability agency submits a groundwater sustainability plan

817
01:02:45,280 --> 01:02:48,180
by January of 30 January 31st of 2022.

818
01:02:50,700 --> 01:02:53,640
In August of 2017, the Stanislaus

819
01:02:53,640 --> 01:02:56,460
and 12 New Rivers Groundwater Basin Association,

820
01:02:57,080 --> 01:03:00,760
Groundwater Sustainability Agency referred to as Sturdba, GSA,

821
01:03:01,620 --> 01:03:04,080
authorized Todd Groundwater to prepare and submit

822
01:03:04,080 --> 01:03:06,800
the Modesto Subbasin Groundwater Sustainability Plan

823
01:03:07,290 --> 01:03:08,560
referred to as the GSP.

824
01:03:09,540 --> 01:03:12,540
In January of 31st, January 31st of 2022,

825
01:03:13,380 --> 01:03:16,600
Todd Groundwater submitted the Modesto Subbasin GSP

826
01:03:16,600 --> 01:03:20,260
to DWR on behalf of the Sturgba GSA.

827
01:03:21,180 --> 01:03:23,780
And then on January 18th of 2024,

828
01:03:24,660 --> 01:03:27,120
DWR provided a notification to Sturgba

829
01:03:27,120 --> 01:03:30,480
that the GSP was considered incomplete.

830
01:03:31,060 --> 01:03:32,840
They highlighted some deficiencies

831
01:03:33,530 --> 01:03:37,260
and ultimately notified that the GSA had to submit

832
01:03:37,260 --> 01:03:42,120
a revised GSP by July 16th of 2024.

833
01:03:42,880 --> 01:03:45,660
So I think what's important to note is we've got,

834
01:03:45,660 --> 01:03:52,440
we had a pretty tight time frame once we got the notification from DWR that the GSP had

835
01:03:52,440 --> 01:03:58,400
to be revised to not only correct the deficiencies but to implement two significant programs.

836
01:04:01,080 --> 01:04:08,520
So the revised MNESO sub-basin was submitted to DWR on July 12th of 2024 and subsequently

837
01:04:09,220 --> 01:04:11,760
approved on February 27th of 2025.

838
01:04:11,760 --> 01:04:19,440
As part of that GSP, the revised GSP DWR required a firm commitment from Sturdbut to

839
01:04:19,440 --> 01:04:24,780
develop a well mitigation plan and also management actions to address and mitigate impacts

840
01:04:24,780 --> 01:04:26,280
from groundwater level declines.

841
01:04:27,040 --> 01:04:32,000
And as part of that, commitments, there are basically two significant plans, programs

842
01:04:32,000 --> 01:04:32,720
that were required.

843
01:04:33,180 --> 01:04:39,440
First being the well mitigation plan to help address any potable wells that were impacted

844
01:04:39,440 --> 01:04:43,980
through groundwater management and then secondly it was management actions but specifically

845
01:04:43,980 --> 01:04:46,260
related to groundwater use management program.

846
01:04:47,540 --> 01:04:50,960
So these are the two items that are being presented this morning.

847
01:04:52,780 --> 01:04:56,600
The will mitigation plan provides a framework for the following elements.

848
01:04:56,940 --> 01:05:01,720
First, it's an application process that defines what the parameters are, should the landowner

849
01:05:01,720 --> 01:05:06,800
start experiencing declines or impacts or they're part of a well, there's an application

850
01:05:06,800 --> 01:05:12,460
process that's that walks them through it. Secondly, it establishes a well mitigation

851
01:05:12,460 --> 01:05:18,100
program committee and technical review committee that oversees the application and the claim

852
01:05:18,100 --> 01:05:23,700
process. Now the members of these two respective committees are members of the GSA and also

853
01:05:23,700 --> 01:05:28,260
management area stewards. So as we start taking this, this is the framework but as we start

854
01:05:28,260 --> 01:05:32,500
looking at and carrying it down into the details, these committee members will be either,

855
01:05:35,100 --> 01:05:35,100
you

856
01:05:35,100 --> 01:05:40,720
agencies, City of Waterford, City of Modesto, City of Oakdale, Riverbank, Stanslaus County,

857
01:05:41,140 --> 01:05:44,900
MID, OID, so those are the makeup of the committees.

858
01:05:45,860 --> 01:05:48,980
The circuit GSA will be contracting with self-help enterprises.

859
01:05:49,560 --> 01:05:54,220
There are third party that will actually serve as screening the applications, looking through

860
01:05:54,220 --> 01:05:58,980
them, making sure that they actually qualify, and then assisting with well assessment and

861
01:05:58,980 --> 01:05:59,960
actually well replacement.

862
01:05:59,960 --> 01:06:00,840
The

863
01:06:03,590 --> 01:06:08,330
well mitigation plan also provides a commitment for funding, initial and long-term.

864
01:06:09,030 --> 01:06:14,430
The initial funding that was required by DWR consisted of 300,000 and that was essentially

865
01:06:14,990 --> 01:06:19,350
looking towards replacing 29 wells that might be impacted.

866
01:06:19,790 --> 01:06:24,490
I think since then out of the 29, this was first drafted out of the 29, that number has

867
01:06:24,490 --> 01:06:30,030
actually been reduced to about 15 wells that might be impacted and again just to disclose

868
01:06:30,030 --> 01:06:31,510
these are wells that could be.

869
01:06:31,610 --> 01:06:34,150
They are not currently impacted, but could be impacted.

870
01:06:34,850 --> 01:06:39,170
And so they are at least on the horizon for potential applicants.

871
01:06:40,710 --> 01:06:41,590
The Strip of GSA.

872
01:06:42,050 --> 01:06:42,670
The wells correct.

873
01:06:42,890 --> 01:06:44,330
Correct, domestic wells correct.

874
01:06:44,570 --> 01:06:45,630
Domestic wells, yes, thank you.

875
01:06:46,170 --> 01:06:47,390
Yeah, absolutely, domestic wells.

876
01:06:48,250 --> 01:06:50,910
And then the Strip of GSA respective agencies

877
01:06:50,910 --> 01:06:54,410
are gonna set aside annual funds for this program.

878
01:06:54,450 --> 01:06:56,170
This is part of the long-term program.

879
01:06:57,010 --> 01:06:58,850
Implementation of the well-medication plan

880
01:06:58,850 --> 01:07:05,430
And how this funds will be dispersed will actually start, once the application process begins and

881
01:07:05,430 --> 01:07:10,070
we start fielding some of these requests, then we'll determine how the funds will be distributed.

882
01:07:10,230 --> 01:07:16,570
I think at this point most of the agencies are seeing, initially we put together this shared pot, but

883
01:07:16,570 --> 01:07:24,210
I think as discussions have started to pan out, I think right now I think the plan is for

884
01:07:24,210 --> 01:07:29,370
these funds to be disperse through a management area, meaning that those, the agencies, the

885
01:07:29,370 --> 01:07:35,270
funds within that, the wells that are impacted within certain management areas, those agencies

886
01:07:35,270 --> 01:07:41,490
would commit to those wells as opposed to the shared pot. It's more of a focused pot focused

887
01:07:41,490 --> 01:07:42,370
on management areas.

888
01:07:45,880 --> 01:07:51,280
Do you want to wait till you're done before we ask if you don't mind because I want to go

889
01:07:51,280 --> 01:07:53,960
back to that, what you just said to that point, okay, when you're done.

890
01:07:53,960 --> 01:07:59,320
Okay. And then shifting to the Groundwater Use Management Program, that provides a framework

891
01:07:59,320 --> 01:08:04,580
to allocate the sustainable yield of the MEDESO sub-basin by management area. And basically

892
01:08:04,580 --> 01:08:09,080
what the say is sustainable yield is how much groundwater, what's the maximum groundwater

893
01:08:09,080 --> 01:08:14,220
that can be extracted without creating negative impacts. So that's what the sustainable yield

894
01:08:14,220 --> 01:08:19,840
refers to. The Groundwater Use Management Program also allows each management area steward

895
01:08:19,840 --> 01:08:25,540
to take actions, to allocate the management areas portion of the sustainable yield and

896
01:08:25,540 --> 01:08:28,440
make sure that it's meeting their requirements.

897
01:08:29,280 --> 01:08:32,720
So again, it's essentially that it's not a one-size-fits-all.

898
01:08:33,200 --> 01:08:37,560
Each respective management area will have its allocation are re-responsible to making

899
01:08:37,560 --> 01:08:39,780
sure they're within that sustainable yield amount.

900
01:08:41,100 --> 01:08:45,120
And then lastly, it's an adaptive plan that provides management areas stewards with different

901
01:08:45,120 --> 01:08:47,940
tools, different types of options that can be considered.

902
01:08:47,940 --> 01:08:52,120
And there's an implementation schedule that they will be looking at and

903
01:08:52,120 --> 01:08:53,420
be required to fulfill.

904
01:08:53,780 --> 01:08:58,640
So the first implementation actually starts January 31st of 2027.

905
01:08:58,640 --> 01:09:02,580
So we still have a good amount of work to lay out with respect to details.

906
01:09:03,420 --> 01:09:09,420
After the 2027 implementation schedule starts, there will be five year check-ins.

907
01:09:09,720 --> 01:09:11,980
So beginning in 2032, that'll be a check-in.

908
01:09:13,180 --> 01:09:16,980
2037, ultimately, we have to reach sustainability by 2042.

909
01:09:16,980 --> 01:09:21,720
So these, these schedule, milestone schedules that need to be met, evaluated to make sure

910
01:09:21,720 --> 01:09:24,920
that the action plans are actually producing sustainability.

911
01:09:28,590 --> 01:09:32,710
And then this is pulled out of the actual ground water use management program.

912
01:09:32,770 --> 01:09:38,390
This table is the baseline for the Modesto Subbasin, so you can see Modesto Management Area currently,

913
01:09:38,490 --> 01:09:40,550
what it's projecting, it takes our developed supply.

914
01:09:40,730 --> 01:09:45,090
This is the amount that we take, and then actually, they're contributing back into the ground

915
01:09:45,090 --> 01:09:49,930
on water table, either through sea beach or percolation or things like that.

916
01:09:50,650 --> 01:09:57,610
And then it takes our special cases and overlying use as those also in which are basically

917
01:09:57,610 --> 01:10:00,310
diminimists, municipal use users.

918
01:10:00,850 --> 01:10:05,870
Our total allocation for the Modesto area is 162,900 acre feet.

919
01:10:06,530 --> 01:10:10,590
Our total historical pumping is 173,000 acre feet.

920
01:10:10,590 --> 01:10:15,830
So the reduction that we're looking at is a 10,000, 10,100 acre feet.

921
01:10:16,650 --> 01:10:20,090
So overall, we'll have a total allocation of 90% of our historical.

922
01:10:20,430 --> 01:10:22,450
So without putting us at a 6% reduction.

923
01:10:23,270 --> 01:10:24,510
Again, this is baseline.

924
01:10:25,130 --> 01:10:29,670
You can see that Oakdale, the management area, they actually have more water available.

925
01:10:29,930 --> 01:10:36,510
So I think leading into the discussions, Oakdale, OID, has been at this point,

926
01:10:36,510 --> 01:10:43,770
It's been open to distributing their 22,700 to the Modesto area as well as a non-district

927
01:10:43,770 --> 01:10:50,170
ease for a transitional time to help these two areas rebound a little bit and achieve

928
01:10:50,170 --> 01:10:50,830
this reduction.

929
01:10:52,330 --> 01:10:53,730
So again, it's the framework.

930
01:10:54,370 --> 01:10:57,290
This is the, basically, this is where, this is the goal.

931
01:10:58,150 --> 01:11:01,110
There's still some, you know, we've got a year to kind of iron out the details.

932
01:11:01,270 --> 01:11:05,770
That's going to be dependent on the management areas and the management area stewards to develop

933
01:11:05,770 --> 01:11:12,830
the action plans and the schedules based on looking at the interim milestones, minimum thresholds,

934
01:11:13,110 --> 01:11:16,490
and making sure they're on par to meet the sustainable goals.

935
01:11:20,680 --> 01:11:26,500
So, the recommended, this is potential action that is being set before you is a board resolution

936
01:11:26,500 --> 01:11:32,080
that is adopting both the well mitigation plan and the groundwater use management program

937
01:11:32,080 --> 01:11:38,440
In the sub-minus of sub-basin and authorizing the Sturgood GSA and the consultants, take

938
01:11:38,440 --> 01:11:44,500
such actions as maybe necessary to finalize these documents, barring any substantive changes

939
01:11:44,500 --> 01:11:47,160
to the documents and submitting to the DWR.

940
01:11:48,060 --> 01:11:54,620
Alternatively, we can, the board can wait and we can represent this back on the 27th.

941
01:11:55,100 --> 01:11:57,020
I'm sure the boards have any questions.

942
01:11:57,020 --> 01:12:06,280
We do also disclose that the other respective agencies are scheduled to bring these to their board members or council in the next coming weeks.

943
01:12:06,940 --> 01:12:24,760
OID is presenting this today as well as the City of Modesto, City of Water referred as presenting on Thursday, next week, City of Riverbank is presenting next Tuesday, and then the Stanislaus County and the City of Oakdale are, I take that back, City of Riverbank are on the 27th.

944
01:12:24,760 --> 01:12:28,580
city of Oakdale's on on the 20th.

945
01:12:29,440 --> 01:12:35,380
Stanislaus County is all the respective agencies have had no additional comments to either one of these documents.

946
01:12:36,080 --> 01:12:40,180
Stanislaus County is still currently reviewing the Groundwater Use Management Program.

947
01:12:40,580 --> 01:12:52,460
They have not submitted any comments yet, but if there are any that would be the only I think you basically change or add a change as they could result in that document.

948
01:12:54,100 --> 01:12:57,160
So with that, I'd be happy to answer any questions I do want to go back to you.

949
01:12:57,460 --> 01:12:59,280
Yeah, let's go back to that one issue that.

950
01:12:59,620 --> 01:12:59,760
Sure.

951
01:13:03,070 --> 01:13:03,510
Okay.

952
01:13:03,690 --> 01:13:10,090
You were discussing that as well as go dry, let's take, for example, a non-district lease.

953
01:13:10,250 --> 01:13:17,830
That the non-district lease, GSA members would be responsible to pay for those versus the

954
01:13:17,830 --> 01:13:20,010
medestinal management if a go well goes dry there.

955
01:13:20,210 --> 01:13:22,290
Is that how you're talking about dividing the cost up?

956
01:13:22,290 --> 01:13:25,150
So, that is some of the discussions we're having currently.

957
01:13:25,290 --> 01:13:27,050
Those are, we'll have to be finalized.

958
01:13:27,230 --> 01:13:29,470
This is the first step is establishing the framework.

959
01:13:30,010 --> 01:13:34,370
The second step is how we're actually going to actually implement a lot of the details.

960
01:13:34,950 --> 01:13:40,850
The funding is going to be distributed, you know, either through management area or is this this shared pot?

961
01:13:41,110 --> 01:13:45,430
I think currently the discussions have been, at least from the other agencies, as well as MID,

962
01:13:45,630 --> 01:13:50,690
our position is that we'd like to see it handle through a management area as opposed to this shared pot.

963
01:13:51,250 --> 01:13:56,890
So to answer your question, if there is a potable well on non-district east, that is impacted

964
01:13:57,490 --> 01:14:02,730
than the management area stewards, which would be Stanislaus County, they would be the

965
01:14:02,730 --> 01:14:11,490
lead, and then non-district east, their representatives, whoever that group is, they would be essentially

966
01:14:11,490 --> 01:14:14,630
responsible for helping provide funding for that area.

967
01:14:15,190 --> 01:14:18,950
Now there are grant opportunities, you know, self-help enterprises does have a program

968
01:14:18,950 --> 01:14:25,390
to help with within respective income levels, but if the applicant was outside of that,

969
01:14:25,390 --> 01:14:27,450
there would still be support from the GSA.

970
01:14:27,790 --> 01:14:32,090
So, if it was in the Modestal Management Area, which is basically the Modestal

971
01:14:32,090 --> 01:14:35,510
Irrigation District, it's correct, down-reline, right, okay.

972
01:14:35,630 --> 01:14:37,510
So, if it happened there, then it would be-

973
01:14:37,510 --> 01:14:44,070
So, the Modest so MID and City of Waterford would then take our funds to help with that, well.

974
01:14:44,070 --> 01:14:51,830
So I want to get this correct, I'm in favor of this program because of our deadline, okay?

975
01:14:52,530 --> 01:14:59,790
But what I want to be careful of here is we have a situation.

976
01:15:00,000 --> 01:15:29,980
Where people went up on the east side, which is a north district east, not mean non-district east, drove all kinds of wells, okay? And as you look at the charts, you can see, their contribution to ground water to recharge is zero. Their extraction is 90,000 acre feet. When you look at Oakdale Management Area, Modesto Management Area, we're basically balanced. They're the ones that are called

977
01:15:29,980 --> 01:15:39,880
the problems. Modesto, city, people should not be funding the damage that they're doing

978
01:15:39,880 --> 01:15:46,420
to the aquifer. The MID ratepayers should not be funding the damage that they're doing

979
01:15:46,420 --> 01:15:53,480
to the ratepayers. Waterfers, very direct word. Your division is over in waterfers. You said

980
01:15:53,480 --> 01:15:59,360
a few months ago that you were accountable to 17,000 ratepayers for the money. Do you think

981
01:15:59,360 --> 01:16:06,640
think it is appropriate for the water for people to have to fund well mitigation plans

982
01:16:08,800 --> 01:16:12,620
for things that the non-district east have done to the aquifer.

983
01:16:24,530 --> 01:16:27,890
Okay, I take that as for what it is.

984
01:16:29,250 --> 01:16:30,390
I want to read you some.

985
01:16:31,930 --> 01:16:32,990
I can find it.

986
01:16:37,400 --> 01:16:40,860
This was an article in the Los Angeles Times a couple days ago.

987
01:16:42,970 --> 01:16:51,610
One of the largest farming businesses in Arizona has agreed to use less water and pay

988
01:16:51,610 --> 01:16:59,130
$11 million in a deal that state officials say will help preserve disappearing groundwater

989
01:16:59,840 --> 01:17:05,730
and provide financial help for residents whose wells have gone dry.

990
01:17:07,670 --> 01:17:14,450
Attorney Arizona Attorney General Chris Mayer has announced the binding legal agreement

991
01:17:14,450 --> 01:17:20,930
with Minnesota-based dairy company, Riverview, LLP on Thursday calling the first of its

992
01:17:20,930 --> 01:17:21,710
kind in the nation.

993
01:17:22,710 --> 01:17:29,770
In other words, this is not a far-fetched idea to say, look who's responsible for this environmental

994
01:17:29,770 --> 01:17:31,010
disaster or aquifer.

995
01:17:31,010 --> 01:17:34,970
It's not the residents of Waterford.

996
01:17:35,650 --> 01:17:37,790
It's not the residents of Modesto.

997
01:17:38,830 --> 01:17:40,530
It's not the people of MIT.

998
01:17:41,830 --> 01:17:44,270
But right now we've just put up $300,000

999
01:17:44,270 --> 01:17:47,730
for those people that went on the east side,

1000
01:17:48,490 --> 01:17:51,210
ill advised, and have destroyed our aquifer.

1001
01:17:53,250 --> 01:17:56,090
On the backs of you talk about, you know, the old saying of,

1002
01:17:56,790 --> 01:17:58,870
this makes me very mad, if you can tell.

1003
01:17:59,570 --> 01:18:03,750
because innocent people are getting stuck with a bill that they should not be.

1004
01:18:04,670 --> 01:18:09,630
This is about privatizing the profits. In other words, the people on the

1005
01:18:09,630 --> 01:18:12,970
east side that have their almond orchard, their almond orchard that stuck

1006
01:18:12,970 --> 01:18:18,430
these wells in the ground, sucking the water out, that privatize the profits and

1007
01:18:18,430 --> 01:18:22,450
expect everybody else to pay for the expenses of this. So that's

1008
01:18:22,450 --> 01:18:27,810
optimal. Sturgeon has tools, Sturgeon has rules that we can do exactly what

1009
01:18:27,810 --> 01:18:33,290
they're doing here in Arizona. And we need to work on that. The other member agencies

1010
01:18:33,290 --> 01:18:37,470
beside them, I hope my other colleagues on this board, we didn't hear Director Berg,

1011
01:18:38,030 --> 01:18:42,710
he was silent when I asked him the question. I hope my other fellow colleagues want to

1012
01:18:42,710 --> 01:18:48,290
push forward to hold the people responsible this so the innocent people of the rate pairs

1013
01:18:48,290 --> 01:18:53,350
in MIT and the city of Modesto, Riverbank, Oakdale, they're not stuck funding this bill.

1014
01:18:53,350 --> 01:18:56,270
So as it is, we've got a deadline.

1015
01:18:56,950 --> 01:19:02,170
So I'm going to kind of hold my nose as we move forward today, but we can modify this

1016
01:19:02,170 --> 01:19:02,950
as we go forward.

1017
01:19:03,070 --> 01:19:03,810
Isn't that correct, Jesse?

1018
01:19:04,830 --> 01:19:04,990
Correct.

1019
01:19:05,370 --> 01:19:05,510
Yeah.

1020
01:19:05,590 --> 01:19:10,950
I think at this point, we have met our obligation to the DWR with respect to establishing

1021
01:19:10,950 --> 01:19:11,830
the initial funding.

1022
01:19:11,830 --> 01:19:17,890
So as it is currently, there is $300,000 that is set aside for a well-medication plan.

1023
01:19:18,070 --> 01:19:18,190
Right.

1024
01:19:18,530 --> 01:19:22,990
And the commitment is that that will continue on an annual basis as needed to continue to

1025
01:19:22,990 --> 01:19:23,970
to contribute funds towards it.

1026
01:19:23,990 --> 01:19:26,470
But in other words, what I'm saying is we can modify

1027
01:19:26,470 --> 01:19:30,630
this existing plan in the future to hold people responsible

1028
01:19:31,130 --> 01:19:35,930
for the damage instead of the rate pay-in for it.

1029
01:19:36,190 --> 01:19:36,390
Correct.

1030
01:19:36,530 --> 01:19:39,670
You know what I think, ultimately, that comes down

1031
01:19:39,670 --> 01:19:40,490
to the GSA, right?

1032
01:19:40,610 --> 01:19:42,750
The GSA, you know, they are basically hearing

1033
01:19:42,750 --> 01:19:44,570
from their respective council members,

1034
01:19:44,750 --> 01:19:46,650
their board members, and I think each one

1035
01:19:46,650 --> 01:19:49,490
of these agencies, I think their position is,

1036
01:19:49,530 --> 01:19:52,050
look, we have to represent our constituents.

1037
01:19:52,830 --> 01:20:09,030
and I'm sure there's, you know, it's a delicate situation. On one hand, you know, there's the, we've got to make sure that we are looking out for the best interests of our constituents, our ratepayers, why should a burden be placed on them that is not caused by them?

1038
01:20:09,630 --> 01:20:10,770
So that is one position.

1039
01:20:10,770 --> 01:20:17,130
Right, my constituents are people that are inside the MID boundaries, the City of Modesto

1040
01:20:17,130 --> 01:20:18,470
and the City of Riverbank.

1041
01:20:18,770 --> 01:20:19,390
Those are mine.

1042
01:20:19,790 --> 01:20:27,290
Waterford is Director Burke's and I want to make sure and the boundaries are very clear.

1043
01:20:27,450 --> 01:20:33,390
If you look at the map, let's go back, if you want to scroll back, let's go to where's

1044
01:20:33,390 --> 01:20:33,930
the map at.

1045
01:20:34,110 --> 01:20:35,130
The map is on page.

1046
01:20:38,540 --> 01:20:40,280
You have the map of the...

1047
01:20:40,280 --> 01:20:42,060
I do not have an air out in the presentation.

1048
01:20:42,820 --> 01:20:45,880
We have it in the actual program.

1049
01:20:46,100 --> 01:20:47,980
There's a map that shows it's different than in areas.

1050
01:20:48,240 --> 01:20:50,260
I thought maybe you might have it in your slides,

1051
01:20:50,260 --> 01:20:52,880
so we could show it with the audience what it is.

1052
01:20:53,060 --> 01:20:53,600
We have it.

1053
01:20:56,760 --> 01:20:59,180
Anyway, I think I made my point very clear

1054
01:21:00,840 --> 01:21:04,020
that people that have done the damage need to be paying for it,

1055
01:21:04,080 --> 01:21:05,400
not people that have not done the damage.

1056
01:21:06,880 --> 01:21:07,080
Okay.

1057
01:21:08,400 --> 01:21:11,100
That discusses my point that I want to bring out

1058
01:21:11,100 --> 01:21:15,680
about the well management program, does anybody else on the board want to talk about the well management program?

1059
01:21:19,440 --> 01:21:25,680
Just a few comments, I mean, I agree, I mean, we're under this time constraint and this is just the framework, right?

1060
01:21:27,240 --> 01:21:34,320
I do see in here in this final slide it says, and it's consultants to take such actions as may be necessary to finalize these documents.

1061
01:21:34,960 --> 01:21:43,520
So what we're voting on today, is it going to be changed before it is submitted to the state because I want to vote on what's

1062
01:21:43,520 --> 01:21:44,660
being presented to the state.

1063
01:21:45,200 --> 01:21:52,680
So as it stands, and Frank, I'm sure you can help me out, but as it stands currently, we have final versions of these two documents.

1064
01:21:53,520 --> 01:22:00,620
Now, I think what we wanted to do is, if there are minor changes, formatting changes, or minor inclusion, or minor clarification,

1065
01:22:01,400 --> 01:22:06,880
rather than having to come back to the board for some minor change, that's what we included this clause.

1066
01:22:06,880 --> 01:22:14,300
But if there is a substantial change that is being required or imposed either by the

1067
01:22:14,300 --> 01:22:19,860
county or any other agency or a member of the public, the goal would be we would come

1068
01:22:19,860 --> 01:22:23,400
back to the board and say, here are the changes that we've had to made.

1069
01:22:23,800 --> 01:22:24,600
They are not minor.

1070
01:22:24,860 --> 01:22:25,400
They are substantial.

1071
01:22:26,180 --> 01:22:28,380
So this is approving what we have now.

1072
01:22:29,380 --> 01:22:33,640
With the caveat that there could be a minor change, you know, maybe there's a change in the

1073
01:22:33,640 --> 01:22:33,860
date.

1074
01:22:33,860 --> 01:22:37,000
or a typo, it's correcting those types of things.

1075
01:22:37,460 --> 01:22:43,460
If there is a substantial change, sorry, then we would come back and

1076
01:22:43,460 --> 01:22:47,860
represent and let the board know that this has been, this document has been changed.

1077
01:22:48,380 --> 01:22:52,740
This was the change that was made and request your approval for adoption.

1078
01:22:53,280 --> 01:22:54,920
And Director Alt, let me just jump in here.

1079
01:22:55,020 --> 01:23:00,920
So we discussed this a couple weeks ago, staff and I, and all the different agencies are taken as Jesse mentioned.

1080
01:23:00,920 --> 01:23:06,000
There's several agencies that are going today and others that are coming in the in this week in the coming weeks.

1081
01:23:06,560 --> 01:23:09,260
There was two schools that thought one was to wait to the end of the month.

1082
01:23:11,220 --> 01:23:15,540
We believed I think about a month ago that everybody we would be ready to go by this week.

1083
01:23:15,720 --> 01:23:19,980
And so our thought was to bring it before you, it's listed as discussion and possible action.

1084
01:23:21,160 --> 01:23:27,180
It's not my intent or staff that there's any substantial changes not to make you aware of those and bring them back before you.

1085
01:23:27,620 --> 01:23:31,900
But it's really listed this way by design, possible action.

1086
01:23:32,060 --> 01:23:34,860
If you'd like to wait to the 27th, that's certainly an option.

1087
01:23:35,700 --> 01:23:39,840
We've thought, the best to put it before you, we don't foresee any, but, again,

1088
01:23:39,960 --> 01:23:42,960
it's out still for comments for one of the agencies to get back to us.

1089
01:23:43,040 --> 01:23:46,840
But this is the best that we have now, and what we foresee is, if it's anything

1090
01:23:46,840 --> 01:23:49,100
beyond cosmetic, that we would bring it back before you.

1091
01:23:51,860 --> 01:23:55,300
I just don't think that it's right that, and I think we should vote on it today.

1092
01:23:55,800 --> 01:23:59,080
I don't think that it's right for the other agencies to wait till the last minute.

1093
01:23:59,080 --> 01:24:02,920
and then throw it back on the 27th and ask for us to vote on that.

1094
01:24:04,120 --> 01:24:06,860
You know, I'm okay with moving forward with it today.

1095
01:24:07,140 --> 01:24:08,440
I understand it's a framework.

1096
01:24:08,640 --> 01:24:10,000
I don't agree with it 100%.

1097
01:24:10,000 --> 01:24:11,160
It's a starting point.

1098
01:24:12,260 --> 01:24:15,160
We have to start and move forward at some point.

1099
01:24:17,060 --> 01:24:20,240
I just, I want to make sure that there are no changes

1100
01:24:20,240 --> 01:24:22,240
that we're not aware of moving forward.

1101
01:24:24,240 --> 01:24:26,220
And that can be subjective, right?

1102
01:24:26,220 --> 01:24:34,020
I mean, what you may say is a small change to one of us could be a big change.

1103
01:24:35,420 --> 01:24:38,060
So I think it just, you're going to clear on that.

1104
01:24:38,100 --> 01:24:43,680
Yeah, you're ultimately going to have to trust the discretion of staff, the resolution.

1105
01:24:44,520 --> 01:24:47,740
And if you want to include this in emotion, just to make it absolutely clear on record,

1106
01:24:47,860 --> 01:24:54,220
you can do that, to prove the resolution is presented with the subject to any substantive changes.

1107
01:24:54,220 --> 01:25:02,600
I think it's essentially substantive and substantial, any substantive changes, any changes that change the purpose effect and function of the document.

1108
01:25:03,320 --> 01:25:12,840
But yeah, there could be some gray area there, but I think that I think based on this conversation staffs can be very sensitive to anything that if it's closed, they'll bring it back.

1109
01:25:23,500 --> 01:25:27,620
Okay, I feel like we've kind of discussed the well management.

1110
01:25:27,620 --> 01:25:31,280
and let's talk along and talk about the groundwater

1111
01:25:32,600 --> 01:25:34,140
the GUW MP.

1112
01:25:35,080 --> 01:25:38,140
But we have, there's a board, has any questions about that.

1113
01:25:46,270 --> 01:25:48,170
We're confident that this is going to get us

1114
01:25:48,170 --> 01:25:49,370
to sustainability, Jesse.

1115
01:25:51,840 --> 01:25:53,220
We have no choice, right?

1116
01:25:53,300 --> 01:25:56,060
OK, you know, when I review the documents and all

1117
01:25:56,060 --> 01:25:57,720
the work that Todd Groundwater's done,

1118
01:25:58,080 --> 01:26:00,060
and I, you know, I see, you know, Oakdale,

1119
01:26:00,060 --> 01:26:08,720
is their basically develops a supply or imported water into aquifer is more than they're

1120
01:26:08,720 --> 01:26:14,620
taken out. That's a first statement, right? And the Modesto Management Area is basically

1121
01:26:14,620 --> 01:26:20,680
real close to that. We're off 10,000 acre feeding. And again, you guys aren't seeing the map.

1122
01:26:20,680 --> 01:26:28,840
So, the map is the Modesto Eriegation District, it's those exact lines, right, Jesse?

1123
01:26:30,020 --> 01:26:34,320
The map of the Modesto Eriegation District is the Modesto Management Area.

1124
01:26:35,580 --> 01:26:39,600
The Oakdale Management Area is the Oakdale Eriegation District, correct?

1125
01:26:40,040 --> 01:26:40,740
Correct.

1126
01:26:41,400 --> 01:26:48,640
And then the non-district east is, well, the non-district west is over on the west side,

1127
01:26:48,640 --> 01:26:54,080
But then the non-district key says everything that's not either in OID or in MID,

1128
01:26:54,120 --> 01:26:56,040
just so you guys have a picture of what the map looks like.

1129
01:26:56,440 --> 01:26:56,580
Okay.

1130
01:26:57,060 --> 01:27:05,440
So back to where I was at with OID at this point, it's sustainable, pursuant to the experts,

1131
01:27:06,620 --> 01:27:09,900
or the Oakdale Management Area is sustainable, pursuant to the experts, right?

1132
01:27:11,100 --> 01:27:15,460
And the Medeso Management Area is almost sustainable, pursuant to the experts,

1133
01:27:15,800 --> 01:27:15,940
correct?

1134
01:27:15,940 --> 01:27:16,100
Correct.

1135
01:27:16,600 --> 01:27:17,200
Correct.

1136
01:27:18,340 --> 01:27:21,200
Where they're not sustainable is the non-district east,

1137
01:27:23,390 --> 01:27:23,690
correct?

1138
01:27:24,270 --> 01:27:24,510
Correct.

1139
01:27:25,410 --> 01:27:30,630
So when you look at the developed supply on the non-district east, it's what, zero,

1140
01:27:33,820 --> 01:27:37,160
and their extraction is 90,000 acre feet a year, correct?

1141
01:27:38,580 --> 01:27:39,420
Just about.

1142
01:27:39,800 --> 01:27:40,960
89,700.

1143
01:27:44,010 --> 01:27:53,470
So, they're required reduction to get into sustainability is, is it 59,600 is what they have

1144
01:27:53,470 --> 01:27:54,530
to reduce their pumping?

1145
01:27:54,790 --> 01:27:55,030
Correct.

1146
01:27:55,750 --> 01:27:56,010
Okay.

1147
01:27:56,490 --> 01:28:01,410
So, by this chart alone, it's very clear that that's, when you'd say, the experts of

1148
01:28:01,410 --> 01:28:06,370
term determined Oakdale Management Area is sustainable, has been sustainable all these

1149
01:28:06,370 --> 01:28:09,090
years, many, many years, for the last 100 years.

1150
01:28:09,090 --> 01:28:15,570
Modesto area is sustainable. It's declared by this statement to what I said earlier about who's causing the damages in North

1151
01:28:15,570 --> 01:28:26,730
District east or the non-district east. So and then we let's go to the very last page or almost the second to the last page.

1152
01:28:27,030 --> 01:28:32,390
Let's look at that chart. Now you got this in so small print. Can you put that up there?

1153
01:28:33,230 --> 01:28:33,730
Which one?

1154
01:28:36,270 --> 01:28:38,350
Are you looking at the actual diagram itself?

1155
01:28:38,350 --> 01:28:46,770
Well, a figure five, implementation schedule, we can't get that up there, we can't get that.

1156
01:28:47,670 --> 01:28:50,930
It's not in the slides, it's in the present date, it's in the documents that are provided.

1157
01:28:51,510 --> 01:28:58,930
Okay, can you go through that, Jesse, and explain to how this implementation program is going to develop over the next few years?

1158
01:28:59,690 --> 01:29:07,670
Sure, so once we adopt the framework, once the framework is adopted, essentially the clock is already taking any help.

1159
01:29:07,670 --> 01:29:13,870
But the framework of this groundwater use manager program is adopted as of the end of this month.

1160
01:29:14,290 --> 01:29:19,970
The implementation schedule starts, so we've got a year to work with the respective management area

1161
01:29:19,970 --> 01:29:27,330
and their stewards to come up the action plan to determine, okay, here's the plan, here's the goal, here's the objective.

1162
01:29:27,550 --> 01:29:32,290
You've got reductions that are required, you've got timeframes to meet these reductions.

1163
01:29:32,930 --> 01:29:38,350
So, the stepped progression is you've got five years from starting from 2020, so we've

1164
01:29:38,350 --> 01:29:41,710
got a year now to implement, come up with the details, come up with the action plan,

1165
01:29:42,090 --> 01:29:44,550
come up with how are they going to achieve this.

1166
01:29:45,170 --> 01:29:51,590
Then you've got five years as a check-in in 2032, are you meeting this action plan?

1167
01:29:51,730 --> 01:29:52,310
Are you on route?

1168
01:29:52,490 --> 01:29:53,150
Are you in schedule?

1169
01:29:53,670 --> 01:29:58,970
If not, then the GSA starts to work with the respective management areas to say, okay,

1170
01:29:58,970 --> 01:29:59,970
Okay, what needs to occur?

1171
01:30:00,000 --> 01:30:29,820
Is this action plan not aggressive enough? Is it not planned out well enough? The GSA then starts to work with the respective management area and say, okay, what needs to be done to help bring this sustainability closer into focus. Then you've got another check-in after five years later. In the middle of these five years, there are going to be interim check-ins to make sure that the sustainability levels, the minimum thresholds, the interim milestones, that those are on par, they are basically

1172
01:30:29,820 --> 01:30:34,320
you're seeing some improvement in these respective areas.

1173
01:30:35,100 --> 01:30:36,240
So there's a five-year check-in, right?

1174
01:30:36,360 --> 01:30:38,740
There's 2032, 2037.

1175
01:30:39,000 --> 01:30:41,940
Ultimately, we've got to reach sustainability by 2042.

1176
01:30:42,140 --> 01:30:44,840
So there's five-year check-ins, but within those five years,

1177
01:30:44,840 --> 01:30:48,020
there's also our annual reporting that's going to occur.

1178
01:30:48,540 --> 01:30:51,660
There's the working with the respective management areas

1179
01:30:51,660 --> 01:30:55,140
to see how close and how far, what's the data showing

1180
01:30:55,140 --> 01:30:58,020
that's reflecting either improvement or regression.

1181
01:30:58,020 --> 01:31:05,980
So we've had to follow up with them to make sure that they are ultimately they've got to submit an action plan that is on that is proving results.

1182
01:31:07,640 --> 01:31:13,500
And Todd Groundwater considered our consultants are experts.

1183
01:31:13,580 --> 01:31:19,660
Todd Groundwater would incurred. So Todd Groundwater is handling a lot of the data respective of wells.

1184
01:31:20,180 --> 01:31:27,680
They helped with the well mitigation plan. Woodard and Kern is helping with this actual groundwater use management program.

1185
01:31:27,680 --> 01:31:30,920
and they are monitoring the data for the models

1186
01:31:31,390 --> 01:31:32,960
and the sustainable yield,

1187
01:31:33,520 --> 01:31:35,080
and they're the consultant that's helping

1188
01:31:35,080 --> 01:31:36,420
with that information.

1189
01:31:37,220 --> 01:31:39,800
Okay, so, you know, as we, you know,

1190
01:31:40,140 --> 01:31:43,440
in between these five year periods,

1191
01:31:43,520 --> 01:31:45,620
we'll be doing monitoring and experts,

1192
01:31:46,300 --> 01:31:48,340
and we'll be updating to be able to see

1193
01:31:48,340 --> 01:31:53,040
if this, all the rules, if you will,

1194
01:31:53,380 --> 01:31:55,420
are working to make sustainability occur.

1195
01:31:57,100 --> 01:32:00,040
one other thing one

1196
01:32:03,820 --> 01:32:10,400
other thing is what's the annual budget of Sturgbeam. The annual

1197
01:32:10,400 --> 01:32:19,980
budget with respect to the entire, including our consultants and everything that we spend.

1198
01:32:20,520 --> 01:32:26,200
Gosh it varies and it varies because of the influx we have and the reliance we've had on

1199
01:32:26,200 --> 01:32:32,180
consultant. So give us a high a low or an average? I mean on an average we're

1200
01:32:32,180 --> 01:32:37,900
probably looking at 600,000. 600,000 and that's divided that is all divided

1201
01:32:37,900 --> 01:32:44,820
up by the GSA members from the Meadowsto, City of Meadowsto, MID. So again the

1202
01:32:44,820 --> 01:32:53,820
ratepayers are funding this entire deal. Okay. Any other questions with the board

1203
01:32:54,740 --> 01:32:58,300
I just want to say something to what you were just driving at.

1204
01:32:58,980 --> 01:33:02,900
At the end of the day, this is a program, it's a plan, there's a framework involved.

1205
01:33:03,180 --> 01:33:07,700
What's going to drive sustainability is observe groundwater level management.

1206
01:33:07,900 --> 01:33:10,680
So we've got a plan and we're going to submit that plan.

1207
01:33:11,480 --> 01:33:15,840
But ultimately what says do we meet, the thresholds are not, is going to be observed groundwater levels.

1208
01:33:16,380 --> 01:33:22,500
Those measurements taken between now and those compliance periods have to meet those minimum thresholds.

1209
01:33:22,500 --> 01:33:25,640
So, it's gonna be the data that we observe in the ground

1210
01:33:26,160 --> 01:33:29,240
that will ultimately carry if it's sustainable or not.

1211
01:33:29,500 --> 01:33:30,380
No, and I understand that.

1212
01:33:30,480 --> 01:33:31,780
I mean, we've got multiple test wells

1213
01:33:31,780 --> 01:33:34,640
scattered throughout the whole management areas, right?

1214
01:33:35,160 --> 01:33:38,500
And it's just say, stagnant waters at 112 feet

1215
01:33:38,500 --> 01:33:40,080
at this particular location.

1216
01:33:40,540 --> 01:33:44,460
And if we come back there a year from now and check that,

1217
01:33:44,620 --> 01:33:48,260
and if it's at higher lower, I mean, obviously,

1218
01:33:48,420 --> 01:33:50,660
if it's higher, then our plan's working.

1219
01:33:50,660 --> 01:33:52,680
And if it's lower, then we've got a maybe a salary.

1220
01:33:53,340 --> 01:33:53,440
All right.

1221
01:33:54,760 --> 01:33:58,640
I'm good, unless any other board members have any more questions,

1222
01:33:59,600 --> 01:34:02,160
we need to open this up to the public for public comment.

1223
01:34:03,140 --> 01:34:05,840
And so it is, the public comment is now open.

1224
01:34:09,600 --> 01:34:10,040
And

1225
01:34:20,370 --> 01:34:22,310
I'm just going to drink again a long time

1226
01:34:22,310 --> 01:34:24,150
of deaths for residents only 38 years.

1227
01:34:24,170 --> 01:34:24,890
It's not a big deal.

1228
01:34:25,790 --> 01:34:29,230
I'm concerned from what I heard Dr. Provost talk about.

1229
01:34:29,230 --> 01:34:35,310
Now, you know, Modesto seems like their urban group seems to pay for everything, or 90

1230
01:34:35,310 --> 01:34:39,350
summer, 92,000, whatever it is, residents here, excuse me,

1231
01:34:42,580 --> 01:34:45,260
places you get money from, accounts.

1232
01:34:46,900 --> 01:34:53,440
I've never once seen to go on past a point, but you'll, I'm sorry, I mean to look at you

1233
01:34:53,440 --> 01:34:53,900
up, apologies.

1234
01:34:55,300 --> 01:34:59,380
I've never once seen an opportunity that says, oh, you'll get it in the long run.

1235
01:34:59,380 --> 01:35:02,620
We'll take care of you in the long run because I've got to tell you it never happens.

1236
01:35:03,320 --> 01:35:07,780
We watched two promises, people, he'd get money back, he lasted one term because he didn't

1237
01:35:07,780 --> 01:35:08,280
do a penny.

1238
01:35:08,740 --> 01:35:14,480
Didn't get a penny for anybody because the judge said we'd have to pay for our, we have

1239
01:35:14,480 --> 01:35:16,400
to raise our own rates to pay our own money back.

1240
01:35:17,560 --> 01:35:18,960
I got some concerns here.

1241
01:35:19,560 --> 01:35:23,420
First of all, really would like the opportunity to weigh in earlier about cloud seating because

1242
01:35:23,420 --> 01:35:26,160
I wonder if that adds to the snow pack more than just the rainfall.

1243
01:35:26,160 --> 01:35:30,780
Well, and FEMA didn't get a chance to talk about that either with the current administration.

1244
01:35:31,320 --> 01:35:32,880
There's a lot of issues going on.

1245
01:35:33,040 --> 01:35:34,480
It seems like they're gutting everything.

1246
01:35:34,960 --> 01:35:38,340
So if they gut all the rules, do we have to worry about it?

1247
01:35:39,200 --> 01:35:40,400
Let's go on about this.

1248
01:35:43,600 --> 01:35:46,220
Modesto is looking at slider right now, as we're all aware.

1249
01:35:46,760 --> 01:35:49,540
All the way across the North, all the way through Lad Road.

1250
01:35:50,020 --> 01:35:52,080
Some of the best recharge farm land around.

1251
01:35:52,080 --> 01:35:57,580
I know that's kind of overused sometimes because wood colonies, the big leader there, I'm curious.

1252
01:35:57,900 --> 01:35:59,740
Modesto plans on developing all that land.

1253
01:35:59,940 --> 01:36:00,620
Paving it over.

1254
01:36:01,920 --> 01:36:04,860
River bank from the other side is looking to put in more houses.

1255
01:36:05,060 --> 01:36:07,700
The river walk and everything else, they're paving it over.

1256
01:36:08,300 --> 01:36:10,440
Is that going to affect the aquifer?

1257
01:36:11,400 --> 01:36:14,940
Is it even taken into consideration on this plan?

1258
01:36:16,540 --> 01:36:17,640
And I agree with one thing.

1259
01:36:17,820 --> 01:36:21,400
If we've got people, I can't see how if they're going to keep pumping water, that they're

1260
01:36:21,400 --> 01:36:26,240
going to make it anyway. I don't know why we would wait. I don't know why we would say let's

1261
01:36:26,240 --> 01:36:33,640
look at it in a year. When you stick the flag in the ground and say here I don't see that happening.

1262
01:36:34,720 --> 01:36:37,080
Anything else is just a pretence unfortunately.

1263
01:36:39,690 --> 01:36:43,070
Does this prevent a single person and we'll just

1264
01:36:43,070 --> 01:36:48,750
call it out Bill Lyons, 10,000 acre feet? Does it prevent him from doing that again or someone else?

1265
01:36:48,750 --> 01:36:53,090
I'm not trying to sing my mind. I'm just tired of seeing that acre putty taken out of our

1266
01:36:53,090 --> 01:36:54,390
rock of her going somewhere else.

1267
01:36:56,480 --> 01:37:00,460
But I don't see any restrictions for that. Nothing's mentioned.

1268
01:37:00,980 --> 01:37:05,520
Why is it always the big pocketed people, the deep pockets, and do whatever the heck they want?

1269
01:37:06,980 --> 01:37:13,640
Why? I don't see anybody doing anything here. No offense, sir. You're doing it best. I understand,

1270
01:37:14,540 --> 01:37:20,780
not after you at all it's maybe it's the process that gets frustrating because it's always somewhere

1271
01:37:20,780 --> 01:37:25,720
down the road that we're going to have the true up and it's not lived from the dust a long time

1272
01:37:25,720 --> 01:37:33,080
they don't believe in true ups my knees are about the same you know yeah a lot of good feelings

1273
01:37:33,880 --> 01:37:41,080
but the residents of the dust that don't seem to be represented here no offense who takes our side

1274
01:37:41,780 --> 01:37:46,300
We're the actual deep pockets, we're not special interest groups, we are in a way.

1275
01:37:46,700 --> 01:37:50,680
We just want water to drink, but if they're going to pave over all that land in Slido,

1276
01:37:51,080 --> 01:37:54,820
which they have planned, there's three different versions of that land, if you haven't paid attention.

1277
01:37:55,760 --> 01:37:57,080
Is that factored in?

1278
01:37:58,420 --> 01:38:05,980
I'll stop with my rant now, but people, especially those that represent Modesto Residents, forget

1279
01:38:05,980 --> 01:38:06,960
about down the road.

1280
01:38:08,300 --> 01:38:09,120
Take care of today.

1281
01:38:09,120 --> 01:38:15,060
You take care today, tomorrow take care of itself, but saying we're going to do it all,

1282
01:38:15,180 --> 01:38:22,340
we'll have more time to play with it, I'm tired of tender feelings, solved the problem.

1283
01:38:22,780 --> 01:38:23,860
That's all we've ever asked.

1284
01:38:24,380 --> 01:38:25,580
It just never gets done.

1285
01:38:25,940 --> 01:38:26,880
Thank you very much for your time.

1286
01:38:28,320 --> 01:38:29,520
Okay, thank you for those comments.

1287
01:38:29,760 --> 01:38:30,600
Is there anybody else?

1288
01:38:35,900 --> 01:38:37,640
Wrangler, I see you sitting there trying to be.

1289
01:38:40,840 --> 01:38:41,660
Anybody online?

1290
01:38:42,480 --> 01:38:43,440
No hands raised.

1291
01:38:43,620 --> 01:38:44,260
No hands raised.

1292
01:38:46,020 --> 01:38:46,680
No other comments?

1293
01:38:46,940 --> 01:38:47,760
Okay, going once.

1294
01:38:48,040 --> 01:38:48,520
Going twice.

1295
01:38:50,060 --> 01:38:51,580
Okay, public comment closed.

1296
01:38:58,190 --> 01:39:04,270
If no other questions from the board, I guess the next question is do we have a motion to proceed on?

1297
01:39:04,730 --> 01:39:06,410
I guess we're going to do these in two motions, Frank.

1298
01:39:06,950 --> 01:39:08,750
One for the well-management.

1299
01:39:09,170 --> 01:39:09,850
You can do it as one.

1300
01:39:09,950 --> 01:39:11,410
You can do this one on this motion.

1301
01:39:12,010 --> 01:39:17,190
Excuse me, I apologize, but I was waiting for a response to see whether that development

1302
01:39:17,190 --> 01:39:21,930
is planned is back to him. I didn't get that answer, but I'll sit right there.

1303
01:39:29,480 --> 01:39:32,760
The answer, do you want to answer that question?

1304
01:39:33,280 --> 01:39:33,840
Yes, yes, yes.

1305
01:39:33,960 --> 01:39:35,180
I'd love to have you answer that question.

1306
01:39:35,180 --> 01:39:35,900
Yeah, that's a good question.

1307
01:39:36,140 --> 01:39:39,860
So, one of the things that we looked at in the sustainable yield was there's an allocation

1308
01:39:39,860 --> 01:39:42,080
for municipal municipalities.

1309
01:39:42,080 --> 01:39:55,000
and so in that it takes into consideration what is their future build out, what is their annexation plan, what is their ultimately what are they planning for their projections and that that yields an increase.

1310
01:39:55,520 --> 01:40:08,420
However, considering that they are also held to certain state requirements for water conservation, the goal was there for to hold them at where they are currently basically an offset.

1311
01:40:08,420 --> 01:40:13,400
So any projected development they have is going to be offset by the requirement to conserve.

1312
01:40:13,760 --> 01:40:17,980
So they are currently, where they're currently, is staying the way it is.

1313
01:40:18,460 --> 01:40:23,260
So as they develop, there's still, there is no increased ground water.

1314
01:40:23,420 --> 01:40:25,660
They're not allocated for any additional ground water pumping.

1315
01:40:26,040 --> 01:40:27,320
What they have currently is what they have.

1316
01:40:30,180 --> 01:40:33,120
So I think that was a good job of answering this question.

1317
01:40:33,120 --> 01:40:39,520
But I think it goes to your point about this is an ongoing study.

1318
01:40:39,800 --> 01:40:44,300
I mean, we're going to continue not just every five years, but every year we're going

1319
01:40:44,300 --> 01:40:45,260
to be reviewing it.

1320
01:40:45,420 --> 01:40:52,800
So as things change in our environment, you know, things get paved over whatever we'll

1321
01:40:52,800 --> 01:40:54,680
be updating this on a regular basis.

1322
01:40:55,280 --> 01:40:55,360
Right.

1323
01:40:55,940 --> 01:40:58,200
I mean, it is, you know, I mean, it's a moving target.

1324
01:40:58,300 --> 01:41:03,060
This is what we have currently, yeah, as they have development plans, where's the water

1325
01:41:03,060 --> 01:41:08,240
going to come from. I think maybe that's where Mr. Emerson is going, is at some point they still

1326
01:41:08,240 --> 01:41:15,540
may not have enough water after their development. And if they continue on these development trends,

1327
01:41:15,540 --> 01:41:19,360
where is that water going to come from? It's got to come from somewhere. Is there more reliance on

1328
01:41:19,360 --> 01:41:23,900
surface water? And those are questions that are all yet to be, I think, have to be sorted out.

1329
01:41:24,020 --> 01:41:30,140
But currently, as it stands, as the snapshot now, what the municipalities currently have with respect

1330
01:41:30,140 --> 01:41:35,940
to groundwater is what they will continue to, is what they have for the next, till 2042.

1331
01:41:36,480 --> 01:41:53,360
Last, you know, the data starts to show different direction, and at that point, if we want to make some changes, then that will be, you know, that'll be part of the GSP process, updating the GSP, updating the figures, updating the numbers, updating, you know, it's all about making those required updates.

1332
01:41:54,480 --> 01:41:56,140
Okay. Does that answer you guys questions?

1333
01:41:58,160 --> 01:42:02,880
Any more questions by the board? We're good to go. Somebody want to make a motion?

1334
01:42:04,040 --> 01:42:05,600
Frank says we can do it in one motion.

1335
01:42:07,140 --> 01:42:10,240
So Frank, if you can help me with this, I'll make the motion to approve

1336
01:42:10,240 --> 01:42:13,920
Barring any septic symptoms changes being made.

1337
01:42:14,720 --> 01:42:21,980
Yeah, you would say as I would motion to approve the resolutions because there's actually two resolutions one for each as presented.

1338
01:42:24,220 --> 01:42:33,240
subject to any substance changes being made and if there are, then they will come back to the board for a further review.

1339
01:42:34,060 --> 01:42:36,840
So you can just say so moved if you like what I just said.

1340
01:42:37,220 --> 01:42:37,680
It's so moved.

1341
01:42:38,680 --> 01:42:39,260
That's easier.

1342
01:42:44,240 --> 01:42:46,400
that. I'll second it.

1343
01:42:49,220 --> 01:42:56,300
So with that, you got the motion, Frank. Okay. With that, let's

1344
01:42:56,300 --> 01:43:01,180
do a roll call, Bill. Please. Dr. Bird. Yes. President Furbos. Yes. Vice President

1345
01:43:01,180 --> 01:43:06,900
Bore. Yes. Director Ott. Yes. Motion panel. Thank you. Jesse, thank you for that.

1346
01:43:11,580 --> 01:43:12,060
That's

1347
01:43:12,060 --> 01:43:15,280
a lot of work to protect the ground water for future generations.

1348
01:43:15,660 --> 01:43:18,860
No, considering what's at stake, it's a good discussion, so I appreciate it, thank you.

1349
01:43:19,180 --> 01:43:20,280
Thank you for your efforts.

1350
01:43:23,200 --> 01:43:33,080
Okay, so let's move on, I guess we're done with that, so let's move on to items too late for the agenda.

1351
01:43:33,460 --> 01:43:34,060
Do we have any of that?

1352
01:43:34,240 --> 01:43:34,820
Jimmy, right?

1353
01:43:36,320 --> 01:43:39,540
Okay, how about any announcements from board members?

1354
01:43:40,720 --> 01:43:41,420
Yeah, going.

1355
01:43:41,420 --> 01:43:47,760
far away. Last Tuesday just an update that served like a committee report

1356
01:43:47,760 --> 01:43:53,840
because I know what's going on. Last Tuesday we had a DPRA meeting. It was

1357
01:43:53,840 --> 01:44:00,720
presented. The only action item was presented was a 2% increase on top of

1358
01:44:00,720 --> 01:44:10,340
the 3% in mooring and the houseboats and a 3% on top of the 3% that they had

1359
01:44:10,340 --> 01:44:21,620
for 2026 for all other moorings that was approved with the contention of there's projects

1360
01:44:21,620 --> 01:44:28,580
that have to be started by May 1st if not started DPRA will be pulling all that back

1361
01:44:28,580 --> 01:44:34,320
out. So that's a report from DPRA meeting. Any questions?

1362
01:44:37,360 --> 01:44:46,600
Thank you for that vice president for I would like to point out that we received a letter

1363
01:44:46,600 --> 01:44:57,700
from Senator Marie Alvarado-Gill regarding last board meetings vote and events that occurred

1364
01:44:57,700 --> 01:44:59,980
I very much appreciate it.

1365
01:45:00,000 --> 01:45:29,880
Appreciate her concerns. I want to have all options available to make this right and make sure the rate payers are protected. And I hope my colleagues feel the same way. With that, we're going to go to Jimmy and see what he has for an update for us. Three items here. First, we just spent quite a bit of time talking about groundwater. And so just to keep with that theme, as you know,

1366
01:45:29,880 --> 01:45:35,640
We, a long, long time ago, November, we had, we held an evening workshop on our ground and water replenishment program.

1367
01:45:36,460 --> 01:45:40,740
It's a really good meeting, well, good turnout and a feedback received.

1368
01:45:41,100 --> 01:45:52,000
Following that, we've incorporated some of the feedback, both at the board level and from some of the stakeholders to try to enhance what was already submitted in that evening workshop.

1369
01:45:52,560 --> 01:45:59,860
The revised agreement and application have been posted on our website and I believe that we've also shared them on other social media channels.

1370
01:46:01,420 --> 01:46:07,700
We're planning to present these items for your consideration coming up here soon.

1371
01:46:08,660 --> 01:46:18,320
And so just January 27th is what we're targeting so that'll be here at the end of the month.

1372
01:46:18,820 --> 01:46:26,360
Again, I think we have really good momentum received feedback from all different folks and hopefully that's all that's represented.

1373
01:46:27,260 --> 01:46:27,820
Secondly,

1374
01:46:30,790 --> 01:46:34,890
you might have gone out to the mall for some shopping during the holiday season, and

1375
01:46:34,890 --> 01:46:35,890
or to maybe have dinner.

1376
01:46:36,450 --> 01:46:41,350
And you might have noticed there's a new mural out there just outside where the restaurants are in the Apple Store.

1377
01:46:41,930 --> 01:46:49,330
MID partnered with the Stanislaus County Farm Bureau Foundation to help build this mural up.

1378
01:46:49,330 --> 01:46:55,350
That brings awareness to agriculture and the important store community obviously driven by water.

1379
01:46:55,830 --> 01:46:59,510
There was an event out there, I think just before Thanksgiving with City of

1380
01:46:59,510 --> 01:47:04,330
Minnesota, and some other folks, I think there was a couple assembly members,

1381
01:47:04,870 --> 01:47:09,130
Center, all of our other guilds as well as a one and a lease out there.

1382
01:47:10,030 --> 01:47:14,890
And we've received some good, some good press coverage, I think, since that event.

1383
01:47:16,650 --> 01:47:21,130
And then last but not least, just want to give, again, a big thank you to our employees

1384
01:47:21,130 --> 01:47:24,810
beyond keeping the lights on and the water flowing and all the work that you saw.

1385
01:47:24,810 --> 01:47:35,810
All presented this meeting, just before Christmas, one of our traditions is to partner with the Stanislaus Community Services Agency, Child and Family Services Group.

1386
01:47:36,230 --> 01:47:41,290
We partner with them to provide gifts to about 100 different children in foster care.

1387
01:47:42,070 --> 01:47:50,330
This was all employee volunteers who volunteer their time and of course, their donations to provide these gifts during this important time.

1388
01:47:50,590 --> 01:47:53,350
And I just want to give a big thank you to all who are involved.

1389
01:47:53,350 --> 01:48:01,330
always a team ever, but I do want to specifically highlight Blanca and Alex in our Energy Services Group who spearheaded that effort this year.

1390
01:48:02,090 --> 01:48:05,510
Thank you for taking time and a busy time to think of others.

1391
01:48:05,770 --> 01:48:08,930
So that concludes my general manager update.

1392
01:48:09,970 --> 01:48:11,010
General, Mr. Sulfur.

1393
01:48:11,190 --> 01:48:21,470
Yeah, I actually, you said something to remind me of other part of one of it in my announcement is to I want to put a big kudos out to our staff and

1394
01:48:21,470 --> 01:48:27,910
everything. Also, in lieu of the big storms that were coming up in December, they prepared

1395
01:48:27,910 --> 01:48:36,590
for it. And we were one of the areas in California that at least amount of outages were back

1396
01:48:36,590 --> 01:48:42,970
up and going. And we listened to the radio for calls and everything else in the fire department

1397
01:48:42,970 --> 01:48:50,250
side of it. And it was very quiet. There was not a whole lot of wires down. Customers

1398
01:48:50,250 --> 01:48:55,850
worked without power for long period of time. The preparation that went into that it showed

1399
01:48:55,850 --> 01:49:01,730
and I want to just say appreciative to the staff that they did an excellent job on keeping

1400
01:49:01,730 --> 01:49:08,170
the lights on during a pretty good wind event and the rain event. Excellent for that John and

1401
01:49:08,170 --> 01:49:15,870
Jimmy and we thank you for those comments and the next board meetings are January 20th next week

1402
01:49:15,870 --> 01:49:19,790
and January 27th and this meeting is adjourned.