[0:08] Let's go to the President's statement. Well, in sight, I've got

[0:16] Sandnuts, Bill Hill, who served at his office in the office, and volunteered to serve on this board in the late 90s, passed away just a few weeks ago.

[0:27] Feesley and the friends,

[0:32] but every person who volunteers to work here doesn't direct or sacrifice themselves.

[0:42] And Bill knows what's special, we work with Bill, well, I mean, Bill perceived me on the board.

[0:50] And he did a good work and then after, after stepping down from being right there,

[0:55] he had worked with staff, do things like to pray for newsletter,

[1:00] and do a lot of work, especially the comments for the district.

[1:04] But actually, Columbus did you, did you have any words you wanted to add?

[1:12] Yeah, I mean, we've worked with Bill and he's been like you're saying a very special person, very kind.

[1:20] And his passing unfortunately comes to surprise to most of us.

[1:27] And he went unfortunately way too early.

[1:31] And it's very sad news.

[1:33] Thank you.

[1:35] He wants to have a seat.

[1:36] Thank you.

[1:37] The same bill that did the Moss speech park.

[1:40] And he lives on Faldor.

[1:43] For that it's a different bill.

[1:45] No, he used to live on Faldor,

[1:47] and then he got her to board.

[1:48] Right.

[1:49] And that's the person I think.

[1:50] African American.

[1:51] Yeah.

[1:52] Yeah.

[1:53] I know.

[1:53] I'm sorry to hear that.

[1:56] Wow.

[1:57] So tonight when we adjourn, we'll be adjourning.

[1:59] I'm not going to remember.

[2:07] So, it's not very often that we have a group, the member of the team pass when we do

[2:14] to remember the contribution and remember the special person that unfortunately,

[2:23] unfortunately.

[2:23] Yeah, it's the way of all things, but it's a, it's a moment of sadness but also appreciation for the contribution

[2:31] great.

[2:34] All right.

[2:36] Let's go then to oral comments.

[2:38] Do we have any more comments for writers that are not on the agenda?

[2:43] Let's obviously say it in the bill.

[2:45] I don't see any one of the audience.

[2:47] Let's go to sit first.

[2:49] Well, I went to the CSDA conference in Tom's Desert and thought down there, but we stated

[2:55] or some of the time. And I went to several of the conference breakout sessions, so we're very

[3:03] good. This year, one of the ones that I went to was, I don't see, sorry while I go to look

[3:11] through my thing, the authentic leadership and communication in special district governance.

[3:22] That

[3:23] with confidence, a practical guide for special districts since we have our municipal services

[3:29] review coming up. I thought it would be good to know about that. And then there was another

[3:34] one you called teamwork makes the dream work, how to focus on your team for success, strategic planning

[3:43] for special district boards and managers, see, one more,

[3:53] I didn't get to see Martin Rache,

[3:55] I think Catherine went, one voice clear expectations, how courts can get general manager

[4:00] evaluations right, but I did go to unlocking your agency's future succession planning through

[4:06] talent development. And since we just have like one general manager and one president,

[4:15] and if either of you or two suddenly unexpectedly expire, we should have a succession plan

[4:23] in place. But you know, that was a really interesting seminar how they did it. They said that

[4:30] train people, bringing them up through management by, you know, getting them to take on responsibilities,

[4:41] even if they weren't, but if the person bought, they weren't ready, they still made them do it,

[4:46] so that they were kind of brimming them for leadership down the road. Then there's another one that I

[4:51] went to from insights, to influencing developing political acumen, reading the room,

[4:57] It's not a town, it's a skill, and that was it, and then they had the last meeting was just a breakout conference, and it was pretty good. I thought, what do you think Catherine did you enjoy it?

[5:09] I'll do it for my Turkish speech.

[5:10] Okay, well, I have some other things I want to, but I'll give them under directives for reports.

[5:16] Okay, thank you.

[5:17] It was a few days ago, I took a check from San Mateo County for $400, found that ATMs could not digest it.

[5:26] So I actually had to take it in the side because so I don't know something about the check format and it,

[5:31] but the reason I had the check as some of you guys know is that if it turns out your election is unopposed,

[5:38] then the $400 that you paid for putting your candidate statement and name in the bathroom, the voter pamphlet,

[5:45] So they saved money and I got my money back and got another little story of tech failure.

[5:52] But what it's tempting is I need to run a campaign.

[5:57] My there's no position statement.

[5:59] It's possible nobody will even know why exist.

[6:02] So I'm going to I've already got some signage in my front yard and every now and then long shares out there.

[6:07] I'm not going to have good campchairs and I'm like, sir, some drinks and I and I will have a little bat signal.

[6:13] I forgot to bring it for a little batman logo.

[6:15] I can display up in the house as a kind of a front yard forum for

[6:19] monetary people and more speech if they want to put it to talk about

[6:22] whatever and it might be one of the stuff of course, but I just think we need

[6:27] to spend more time talking to each other and relative to the number of

[6:31] documents we find.

[6:32] So the more documents we put in the pipeline, more we need to up our game in

[6:36] person where it's going to the way off site.

[6:37] You know, and CSDA, they have a lot to perform that.

[6:42] Through the chat.

[6:43] They have a lot to do.

[6:44] Great.

[6:48] I'm looking forward to using the excuse of running for election to actually really talk to my

[6:54] neighbors about all kinds of things about how we make these places better.

[6:58] Thank you.

[7:01] Yes, I did go to the CSDA conference.

[7:03] The reason we needed to stay inside was because it was something like that.

[7:07] and 15 degrees somewhere between between 100 and 117 degrees outside for the entire conference.

[7:19] Fortunately, it's a huge hotel and so just walking between the rooms and the conference area.

[7:30] It was a good half mind. It was indoors and air condition. So, as always, the CSTA conferences are very valuable.

[7:46] I had quite a few conversations with Martin and other people, and the workshops are always very good.

[7:58] As a board member on CSDA, we're looking for new ideas for next year where it will be in San Diego.

[8:08] There were over 1,000 people, this is the largest conference they've had.

[8:15] And I started going to them when there might have been 150.

[8:22] Neil, the GM has done a fabulous job of growing and making this organization valuable

[8:33] to special districts,

[8:37] and in more importantly, he's looking to grow it and get ideas

[8:42] for future workshops, so if anybody has any ideas, you can either send him to CSTA or give

[8:47] them to meet and I'll pass them on. One of the things I did notice was we have a very devoted

[8:57] group of special district board members in the state and a summer getting older. And so we need

[9:05] hearing assistance from some of these conferences for some of these sessions.

[9:14] So I've asked them to look into it so that we could have better hearing for folks.

[9:22] There was a woman who's been on the CSDA board for ever so long.

[9:28] And she's got a serious clock home and now, so she can't read what's on the board.

[9:33] And so they've got to figure out some way to have printed handouts of the PowerPoints.

[9:43] I will say that the PowerPoints are available online for every single one of those workshops

[9:50] if you want to find the schedule and look at that now.

[9:58] at our CNACA meeting, California, CNACA meeting, the other day we had a speaker for California

[10:07] Emergency Services, or CNACA County Emergency Services, and they were talking about the

[10:14] projections for this upcoming probable, but not guaranteed, I'll name it out, and I'm not

[10:27] sure how to read the reporting, but at the last Sam Board meeting on Monday, which you can watch,

[10:35] I had asked Kation to do a presentation on what Sam is doing to get ready for this

[10:43] in case this storm does hit. Some people are going, oh, you don't need to worry about

[10:49] this, it's how I'd pop, it's just hyperbole and hypothesis. The problem is that if it does hit,

[10:55] you don't want to be on the unprepared side.

[11:02] So that's it's coming and I would recommend if you've got just in a side, you can go for a senior yard, don't disturb them, they'll help your yard great.

[11:15] That was a little holes, a really good drainage network.

[11:21] And so other than then yesterday, I was sworn in to these special district seat on San Mateo County

[11:31] last night. And I look forward to learning a lot and taking a stronger position for the value

[11:43] of special districts in our communities, because the original life, though, was created with the

[11:52] bias against special districts. And it's been 60, 70 years since then, and I think it's

[12:01] time to start to say, hey guys, we're here. We spend our money on what we say we're going to

[12:07] and we provide the services that make this a civilized area.

[12:14] So, thank you.

[12:15] Okay, thank you.

[12:16] All right, let's go to consent agenda.

[12:19] Do you need to represent any items to the board for discussion?

[12:21] We're going to have a motion.

[12:23] I know if we adopt them.

[12:24] I'll set.

[12:25] Okay, so I moved to the second it.

[12:28] You'll have a roll, hold mode, a vertical champion.

[12:31] All right, go ahead for you again.

[12:33] Thank you.

[12:34] Direct officially heard.

[12:35] Yes.

[12:35] on the British office.

[12:37] And I go to the ICO.

[12:38] Pass is by five and zero.

[12:40] Let's go through new business.

[12:42] I don't want to discussion about local watershed protection

[12:45] and prior intervention on the Ontario

[12:46] of the health trends, five-fast lines.

[12:48] It's some comments.

[12:50] Yeah, thank you, Scott.

[12:52] So we've seen it just a number of times

[12:54] that this community was able to get together

[12:58] and achieve something that really benefited the entire community.

[13:03] And so we put this item up on the agenda, really to commend the local Red Alert

[13:11] Montero Moss Beach, the Rambed Group and their leadership and their leaders, or achieving

[13:19] what they set out to do, and that is to improve the fire, or the fire prevention on the

[13:32] completely overgrown culture and right of where that is going through the heart of the communities

[13:37] Montera and Mass Beach. So again, we are really just looking forward to hearing from some

[13:46] of these leaders and being able to thank them for what they achieved at the culture and right of

[13:54] Thank you.

[13:58] Okay.

[13:59] That's terrific.

[14:01] I see.

[14:02] See, we have Larry Deon there.

[14:04] Larry, we can't help but think of you.

[14:07] And we think of, we're going to want to have my speech.

[14:10] And you're, you're a diligent work to.

[14:12] Reach out to conference and demand some attention for some things.

[14:16] They paid so little attention to for so long.

[14:20] Congratulations on.

[14:21] Thank you.

[14:22] Quite an achievement to not only get there attention,

[14:24] about to spurred them to action.

[14:27] Yes, it was that I'm not sure how we did it.

[14:32] We had a multi-prong approach.

[14:35] We had very good people on the group.

[14:38] The only prong I know that it's target was

[14:41] fortunate in having a person in our group

[14:44] who was connected to the news industry

[14:47] and the NBC piece that they did on this back.

[14:51] I think an April year ago,

[14:54] That really got everybody's attention after that I'm not

[15:00] Not exactly sure how we got it, because if you had read the press release that we're going to do 15 feet from the property line back, and now we're going to be it.

[15:14] And somehow, from what I understand, there was pressure at the state level, I don't know from

[15:20] who, but I know that Cal Fire Sacramento got involved. And the company, the professional

[15:28] tree company that was contracted, told Cal Trance that, you know, the 15 feet thing will take

[15:37] a lot of bucket trucks and we can clear with that clear we can mitigate the fire hazard in the

[15:45] entire area for the same price. So that's what they did. So we had very good people. We had

[15:51] some good connections and somehow it happened. I mean even I'm kind of surprised to be honest with you.

[16:01] But there's no, who's going to maintain that land?

[16:05] Well, one thing at a time, I guess, and I find quite a big, simple, ready.

[16:12] I see a couple of hints up.

[16:14] I'm going to build something sweet first, and it's good.

[16:17] Well, thank you.

[16:18] Wherever you are.

[16:19] Thank you.

[16:20] I was a week or so ago, or a couple of weeks, our friends have been asked to write back

[16:25] up to it.

[16:26] And it was clear.

[16:28] Is this a miracle happening?

[16:29] I've looked at this far as for a while, and now suddenly it started to look safe and you

[16:33] walk through it and faith so why I was imagining it with you guys and glad to hear it was.

[16:40] So I think Larry's the youngest being kind of modest because he actually went to MWS, I mean

[16:49] sorry, MCC and he also of course had the red alert, wants speech, monetary group and he did

[16:58] So I got all the fire board meetings and he went there too.

[17:03] So he actually was the squeaky wheel that made this happen and he's not taking full credit.

[17:08] But I really think he was the one that wrote a lot of the letters down over to CalTrans.

[17:15] Didn't you Larry?

[17:18] It was a group effort.

[17:19] I mean, there's no way I could take all the credit.

[17:22] I'm glad it happened.

[17:23] I mean, I'm pretty sure.

[17:26] Well, yeah, I skirt headed it, but it wasn't all me, but, you know, like I said, it's an incredible

[17:36] incredible thing that's gone on here, because I can see the ocean from my house now.

[17:43] That was my goal, but it's pretty cool.

[17:47] If you know, I'll have to walk when I take a look, that's pretty amazing.

[17:55] I just wanted to add great diagnosis name in there.

[18:00] I know he's been hosting a lot on Next Door and he's been very involved with this as well.

[18:11] And this is yet another example of the citizens of Montana and Moss Beach,

[18:19] pooling together to make our community safe and safe place for everyone to live.

[18:31] I hope it's safe.

[18:32] Greg, he was on our Syrian committee.

[18:38] He did just post the next story.

[18:40] He was an active participant in our Syrian committee.

[18:46] Exactly.

[18:46] And there were others. I just wanted to say and driving down here today, I see we're getting our streets paved.

[18:57] And so people are hand painting the stops, but there's a pavement.

[19:02] You can paint the stop because the experts are doing it.

[19:08] And so we've got these stop signs with nothing on the pavement and

[19:12] And once again, as people who live in Montana, the many things that different individuals

[19:21] have done, are what make this just an amazing act of place to live.

[19:28] And I look forward to MWSD working with the community and with everybody else to figure

[19:37] what to do with this counter-intradable.

[19:43] I mean, we had the Larry, thank you for working.

[19:46] I know you've worked with me, I'm so good at that.

[19:49] And, you know, from these matters to us,

[19:51] and we were happy to send letters to the power of the B,

[19:56] but certainly it was your spearheading that got things lit on fire

[20:03] if you will, in a good way, and we, I think we were all very, very glad to be able to pitch

[20:11] in a bit and, and, and, and, and good work, very good work, and, and, and please pass on our,

[20:19] our, our thanks to the, to the, to the steering committee in any way that we're adult.

[20:26] I don't want to think this thing. Okay, so for you to change over to another agenda, I'm Larry, I don't

[20:36] Blocked at least a catch him had left for the cat trance that was flight bypass alignment and it goes through all the different letters that have gone through the county over the years and has a map of the alignment and it talks about the fact that in order for it to become an official linear trail that it has to get a specific plan and coastal commission certification and

[21:06] everything that I've read on that website says that we have to get the planning of

[21:12] Department of政治 y'all counting to do it. And right now, at least through

[21:17] 2020, the end of 2025, the Mid Coast Parks mitigation fee, which is nice that

[21:24] are collected through everybody that does any kind of a remodeling their home or

[21:33] they build a new home on the coastside goes into a pot and it goes into an interest-bearing

[21:39] account at the county.

[21:42] So right now in that pot, they had at the end of 2025, 287,444 dollars and 58 cents.

[21:51] And for the past two years, 24 and 25, they hadn't spent any of it.

[21:56] So I think Belgium, right time to talk to Steve Monowitz, to try to get them to get rolling on a plan,

[22:05] because if they spend that money, they've just appointed Hannah Armstrong as the new

[22:10] parks director, because they didn't ever appoint anyone since Nicholas falls around left.

[22:15] You may be still spending that money. I know once in the past they spent it all on four and a half.

[22:22] So I'd like to say it gets kind of this north end of the mid coast, so I don't know if you do, but, you know, it's

[22:30] If we were involved in it, we could say where the, you know, different elements of that trail plan, where I think they have to have certain spots where the bus will let you off, etc.

[22:41] We don't want giant parking lots, you know, we want people to ride their bike to it, or something and not a lot of out there.

[22:49] What I think Scott said, I think it's one step at a time, and jumping into buses and parking lots is not going to maintain that property right now, so you know that

[23:03] That's what we'll have to have

[23:06] So I don't understand that's usually said that the other county has to develop the plan.

[23:15] It's got to be approved by the Coastal Commission.

[23:19] However, the property is owned by Kelterans.

[23:23] And they have said that the property is to sell at for sale at market value.

[23:29] So I don't know what the market value is.

[23:34] And I'll put a shameless plug in from my son because he's a executive director of a

[23:40] child's spirit of the Santa Cruz Mountains. And I put him in contact with Clements,

[23:45] because he's aware of grant money that can be obtained for buying property to keep it open

[23:51] space. So I don't know if Clements is a stock tumor or not. I don't get anything out of this

[23:56] point. I don't know if we could maintain it.

[24:01] That's all I'm saying.

[24:02] Okay.

[24:03] Okay.

[24:04] To Larry, one closing thought is you, and I know you'll be thinking you've already mentioned

[24:10] a couple of times about maintenance going forward.

[24:13] So I'm sure we'll have more discussions now.

[24:16] Yeah.

[24:17] Thank you so much.

[24:19] And with that, let's move on to the next item on the attention.

[24:21] Thanks for your support as well.

[24:24] Thank you.

[24:25] Happy to.

[24:26] It's all part of making this community great.

[24:30] Okay.

[24:31] Okay, let's go to the next item, review and possible action concerning review of RICALG-2027 solid waste rate increase.

[24:41] Yeah, this is an item that we bring up every year.

[24:45] So once a year we are looking at our contract with RICALG for the solid waste disposal services.

[24:52] And we fortunately have a cap on the increase that can be implemented, that is at 6%.

[25:02] And so we've been fortunate to have that cap in place,

[25:08] because the rate passed rate requests were somewhat higher.

[25:14] So we are in a similar position this year,

[25:17] even though there is a little less requested,

[25:20] of course the buildup from past years so needs to be made up. So we are every year asking our

[25:29] account and Peter McKinna and his firm to review the information that psychology provides

[25:36] and we receive a report and this is what this item is about so before I hand this over to Peter

[25:42] to tell us what he saw in the records. I'm going to let the board know that like every year

[25:49] We will prepare a prop to 18 notice for a rate increase of 6% for the first meeting in December.

[25:59] Thank you.

[26:04] Here.

[26:05] There you go.

[26:06] Yes.

[26:07] As I was saying, it's an annual island that we bring to the board.

[26:12] The ecology provides, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's basically the same as the exhibit

[26:17] e, which basically lays out prior years and then all the various indices which are applied

[26:25] to the prior year expenditure categories to then come up with the current year rate.

[26:31] As comes in, it said, we are fortunate in the overall agreement to have the S4CAP because this year is

[26:41] 4.41%, but because of the effort about from previous years, we are going to get to this

[26:46] 6%.

[26:48] My procedures basically go through a pretty rigid set of really driven, and as far as I say,

[26:59] okay, setting up testing procedures to basically go through, and in essence, test what has

[27:04] been provided to us by our college, and I say, okay, yes, is it accurate?

[27:08] And are there any slim mistakes that would come from formulas or just inappropriate application of the agreement?

[27:20] That's why I'm going through a testing.

[27:23] And so I said, with the period of time going through it and basically going through that process to then say,

[27:30] Yeah, in essence, this is accurate based on the information that we have and a time constraints that are involved.

[27:36] this is an accurate number. The current year is at 4.4 per cent. We are applying the

[27:43] prior year deferred amounts to them, to the 6% which has been reducing the overall

[27:48] deferred amount for future years. For other two more years, the agreement goes through

[27:52] 2028. At which time we're going to go through the overall negotiation process again.

[27:59] But what we have in front of us is basically the agreement that yes. Recology went through

[28:05] process correctly, and there were no material deviations from their process to come up with

[28:15] the six percent increase.

[28:20] Questions?

[28:22] Any questions?

[28:23] I have another question for Cummins.

[28:34] 4.1 percent, why has our, has our, has our, have our other costs gone up, 4.1 percent as well?

[28:48] 4 percent is a lot.

[28:50] Which other costs are you referring to?

[28:53] I'm talking about district costs, there is 4.1, a carried out from years where it was

[29:00] high and we had to smooth it out so that we didn't get a 70% or an 8% price it cost

[29:10] to services increase from Ritholipheet.

[29:15] Well, you may recall that we had actually two digit increases in the past that were requested.

[29:24] And the staff report refers to quite a large number, sorry, I already clicked it away, but I think it was over $200,000.

[29:35] And I read a new and Peter, you can confirm that.

[29:39] I may be able to do two hop in here.

[29:41] To your point specifically, the bulk of the expenses, they do apply the Bay Area CPI, which we also utilize for our salary and benefits increase.

[29:58] But they also include...

[30:00] Include other indices, which are outside of the California CPI, or the Congress, the area CPI, mainly, and the other portion is going to be, they have a collective bargaining agreement with their operators, which can go higher than the 2.78%.

[30:22] The vehicle that I know which is related to the diesel expense is at 6.7%, that's

[30:28] 0.07%, that was probably the largest increase fuel, 8.4%, so it's not necessarily

[30:36] just CPI, there are other indices which are applied to prior year rates.

[30:44] It's an previous year, so this was an index phase years, every three years we have a cost

[30:50] base, which then they go toward their audit for their bases, for the increase, and then,

[30:58] but I said, more to your point, the increase this year, 4.4 percent combining all of their

[31:06] various indices is accurate.

[31:12] hours for our audit or our budget process was not too far off, but it was a full point, less than.

[31:22] But I said, it's not very far off, but I said, when they bring in the other pieces that they do, I can see how they get to.

[31:28] which as I had a pin like go on there and verify their increases, they're not just, you

[31:38] know, here's the spreadsheet, you know, take it for what it is.

[31:41] I do look, they do give their references, and I can't go there, because it is a matter of,

[31:47] if you want to change a number, you want to change it at a decimal point, we can see it, but

[31:53] And these are, these are posted, they, they do provide the references so that we can independently verify it.

[32:01] Okay, thank you. And I, yeah, I've been hearing the diesel in California, it's just going crazy.

[32:09] Let's see if it, and so I guess we can expect a huge increase again in three years.

[32:19] Yeah, well perhaps the largest one was the the California gasoline and diesel price index that increased by 8.8.4%

[32:30] Okay, and as far as it's so they had they had their own internal

[32:37] wage and benefit that was the next largest at 6.69% for wages

[32:44] Okay, as they're in the agreement, there are not

[32:49] stated caps on what they can go above.

[32:54] Right.

[32:57] Okay.

[32:58] Thank you, Peter.

[32:59] Thank you, minutes.

[33:00] We'll consider the report receipt.

[33:04] Let's move to the next item.

[33:05] Review and fossilisation concerning open position

[33:07] for the local agency formation commission.

[33:10] Alternative, special district member.

[33:14] Yeah, I think it's got, so we just heard that Casman was elected to as the special district

[33:22] representatives at the San Mateo County of Glasgow, that is the local agency formation commission,

[33:30] and now they're calling for nominations for the open position of the alternate

[33:36] of the special district member, that Casman held so far and that is for the

[33:43] remaining term, and that should be 2028, not 2038, I'm seeing in the staff report.

[33:52] So they also, as every year, ask for authorization of the electronic ballot process.

[34:01] And of course, we can provide that to them in this coming week.

[34:08] So the recommendation here is to discuss and authorize the general manager to submit the

[34:13] electronic ballot authorization to laugh call. Thank you.

[34:21] Yes. I'm not sure I understood, but is this

[34:24] seems the part of the formality of making sure that Catherine takes the position she was elected to?

[34:29] No, it's not about it. It's not about it. It's not about it. It's not about it. It's not about it.

[34:31] It's not about it. It's not about it. Well, it's structured with seven members. Two from the county. Two from the city.

[34:43] two from the special districts and one public member. One of the public members for the public member,

[34:53] one of the public member, Alternate, just resigned and so we selected an alternate applicant to fill that alternate seat.

[35:03] Now, we need someone from a special district to fill the alternate seat for special districts.

[35:15] In case one of the regular members can attend.

[35:21] Okay, so this is part of the procedure.

[35:23] I must opening up that seat for new people.

[35:26] Not us, lack of.

[35:27] the lack of has, but how does it have to move from the office to the full staff's number?

[35:35] There's now what we think.

[35:37] This will,

[35:41] what we're doing tonight is giving funding inspiration.

[35:44] To set it as a form, the lack of requires it says, is it located we do this a lot?

[35:49] Okay, cool.

[35:50] That's that's what we're not putting a need.

[35:53] I don't think so.

[35:54] I think.

[35:56] Happy new.

[35:57] Does it say it?

[35:58] No of people who are going to be putting the names forward.

[36:03] And those are those are other special district services.

[36:06] Okay.

[36:08] And there are people that I and the lack of support.

[36:13] Okay.

[36:14] So that was definitely my question.

[36:16] Okay.

[36:16] So it sounds like if I'm just going to look around the room,

[36:21] Okay, sons, we're operating you, uh, this is not the electronic valve operation to let go.

[36:28] All right, thank you very much.

[36:30] You need us to take a vote or is the direction from the board situation?

[36:35] Direction sufficient. Thank you.

[36:38] Okay, I'm just keeping an eye on Christine, we need to receive an ointment.

[36:42] It was like, okay, all right, thank you. Let's go to the next slide, uh,

[36:46] review an action concerning, oh, this is a fun one, uh, concerning receipt of funding for

[36:50] fee will declare disasters when it's spawned.

[36:53] This is a good receipt of funding on the act of the store

[36:57] ability to make those stuff.

[36:58] We've got more money.

[37:00] Yeah, thank you very much.

[37:02] So we received another check over $75,000.

[37:06] And we have two people here in the room

[37:08] that are helping to bring this money to the coast side,

[37:11] because this money is going directly from us

[37:15] to the sewer authored in the coast side.

[37:18] And Tanya Rowski was instrumental

[37:19] and establishing the for helping us to essentially get in a position where we can receive.

[37:30] We seek these funds through Monterey Water and Senator E Street 4, Sam and Peter Medina is handling everything

[37:37] on our side as well as on the same side, so we're sure that that money is accounted for properly

[37:43] on our end and getting into the Sam coughers properly.

[37:50] So thank you to both of you, and so another $75,000 that went through this district to the benefit

[37:59] off the entire coast site. Thank you. Is that all filled the money from the storm that we submitted for?

[38:11] This is for the electrical system relocation project. So this is a different one.

[38:20] Okay. Wow. Does anybody have an idea how much money we got for Sam all the over time from FEMA?

[38:27] Peter does Peter how much?

[38:33] 1,899,976 and 98 cents.

[38:38] That is one turning target.

[38:41] One eight, oh no, it's in the start.

[38:44] Yes, one.

[38:45] This is the same.

[38:46] 1,899,899,999.

[38:50] It's a start argument.

[38:53] Thank you so much.

[38:55] And it's interesting here because he does have single audit requirements.

[39:01] So we want to start through one.

[39:03] We may have another prawn project completion.

[39:08] The single audit threshold is $1 billion.

[39:10] We've gone through it in the past with the autobus attack.

[39:14] When we received the SRF funds, it's another audit.

[39:18] And it's interesting to be as if the fed funds pass through Cal, Cal,

[39:24] Yes, passed through a bunch of water sanitary, just going to Sam, so it's just an instance of us helping our neighbors, but yeah, it is regulated and with Helvetania as RT, we've been very successful in keeping,

[39:47] it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's very clean because it said I was very

[39:54] but as far as the reporting requirements that that that we responsible for I'm so glad we

[40:03] have these board meetings because we put it out there and we say the amount and we say the

[40:08] running total and we recognize it in gross our financials back it up. We then show very clearly that

[40:15] the checks get God Sam Sam recognizes it our books match theirs. It has gone over fiscal years where

[40:24] we've had the book, a closing journal entry

[40:29] because it did happen after the fiscal year.

[40:31] And so it is interesting just how the interplay has worked

[40:35] out over these, you know, going on four years now.

[40:39] But yeah, it's a wonderful thing.

[40:43] I truly mean that.

[40:45] Thank you for all your hard work with the accounting on it.

[40:49] And signing it for you.

[40:50] No, yeah.

[40:51] Again, our engineering team, along with just the integration with the district and their staff,

[40:58] it's a lot of hours and a lot of hard work, but they do a great job.

[41:03] And through the chair, it goes to Sam, but basically each district kind of saves that a third

[41:12] of that money. Are there a share of that money? Is that right?

[41:15] in the end, yes, for race, because it's one of the same

[41:21] that has to spend on products. Right, yes. Yeah, important products.

[41:26] And so that comes right off the top and that's the memory

[41:29] disease, get the rest. So it's definitely a very big help

[41:34] to lighten the load. I just wanted to get you in a

[41:37] bun in the youth. Did you have anything you wanted to say?

[41:44] Yes, thank you, find me. Yeah, please.

[41:47] I think that the Kudos Coast actually took lements and the board for having the foresight and the

[41:58] willingness to do this. It's a lot of work for you because the first thing foremost was to

[42:07] join the San Mateo County mitigation program, right?

[42:15] Pre-disaster mitigation program.

[42:18] That was the first decision that this board made.

[42:21] Then the board made a decision to include

[42:24] Sam, because Sam cannot.

[42:26] Sam is not special district.

[42:30] He were the only agencies on the course

[42:32] that agreed to do this.

[42:34] All these decisions that were made, we made suggestions and thank you Peter for your kind words and I know you work very hard and it's amazing what you do.

[42:45] But this board persevered and voted and supported and clum and spearheaded this New General Manager provided the leadership for this effort.

[42:59] So, and I just want to add, I think, director Yang asked the question, which part of money there was,

[43:07] the most miraculous thing was that, yes, through this program, Sam received reimbursement for the disasters for the storm damage,

[43:20] for the actual damage. But this money that Peter has mentioned, for the electrical building,

[43:26] is for the relocation, is the pre-disaster

[43:30] medication, which is a miracle to get this money.

[43:33] It's so hard that we were able to

[43:37] through all these programs,

[43:38] made a compelling case.

[43:40] So it's a real win,

[43:41] but I would like to thank the board

[43:43] and the general manager for the leadership.

[43:47] Thank you.

[43:49] Okay.

[43:49] I'd like to have some other good

[43:52] Katherine, I want to thank you because you're knowledge of the field, the youth, you track

[44:00] the opportunities, you've brought many grant opportunities to us to let us know as many

[44:05] available.

[44:06] Here's what it takes to qualify and the teamwork with your, with what you know and what you

[44:15] bring and the work that you do in concert with clones bringing real administrative gift

[44:21] to this, and Peter's providing that all of the financial logistics that we're fired.

[44:31] I love that when we put all this together, we get the picture of governments that is the

[44:38] the opposite of what so many people think government was about.

[44:42] And it's like, nope, this is very clear, very public.

[44:47] All the money is tracked, all the work, we know the work is well-plied and well-done.

[44:54] From end to end, from the glimmer of hope that we might get to go get some money too.

[45:00] What the project has been completed in we haven't. We documented a path all the way through and we like the projects that we get to do out of it.

[45:08] But we know a lot about what we need to do and how much it's going to cost in this time of

[45:15] Sam having to spend millions of dollars that, you know, kind of urgently through being kind of forced on us.

[45:25] It is great to get any help to take care of any of the issues, whether it's dealing with the damage,

[45:34] or getting ahead of it by mitigating it by doing things I'm moving to be a lot of trouble,

[45:39] which you brought to our attention. I believe it was in 2008 or 2009.

[45:44] And here we are, well, not by 20 years later, and there is light at the end of the tunnel here.

[45:51] So, thank you, Tonya, thank you, Simon, thank you, Peter, and thank you, board.

[45:58] And thanks to our friends Sam, who agreed to let go of this complicated route, and here

[46:06] we were there, we were sitting at the 1.8 million in a change, so far, Catherine?

[46:14] Well, I would add that that was work that need to be done that Sam does not have money for.

[46:25] That's funny and for work that does not that Sam did not have to the money to fund.

[46:33] And so it is more than just saving each or third actually half a million.

[46:39] would pay 66% Granada and Montero would each pay about 20% and I know it's in a thank you

[46:55] for that one bay in our inbox, for example. But that said, that's what makes this sport

[47:05] So different from the other two member agencies is we put Sam at the head of our list, and so I like to say we had a discussion about what Sam has been doing.

[47:27] You can get ready for this probable, if it happens, maybe horrific, El Nino, but please watch

[47:37] that show because you could see how much for Sam has done with that money and so it was a very

[47:49] good thorough list raising the burn so that we won't get overflow into the electric building.

[48:00] Kishan is looking at some material that we may be able to use to put in front of the door,

[48:06] so if the water seal, if the water hits it, it will seal the door.

[48:11] Um, uh, happened bay ordered some and so vision is looking into it for that. Um, so we've been

[48:22] Sam itself has been doing a lot. It talked about our, uh, uh, uh, manhole covers and how they have

[48:33] gone through and put in electronic ones that can gauge the flow of the water and protect water from

[48:39] waiting in. To the manholes, they replaced all the manholes that used to have holes in them

[48:46] so you could lift them up easily with a pride bar. Those have all been replaced with solid caps.

[48:56] That stuff's the water running on the street from going into the sewer system.

[49:02] And so there's just a whole bunch of little things that was very, very well done.

[49:09] discussion and either say I can't emphasize enough that you will get a great deal of comfort

[49:21] from watching it because we came within a mirror several inches of losing our entire system

[49:30] three years ago. And it would have taken enormous amounts of money and time to repair it.

[49:41] Had we lost the electrons?

[49:45] It's really briefly about the same board members. I watched the City Council meeting Tuesday night,

[49:53] and they had their DPW thought I'd give a report and he ordered palatized, already pre-filled sandbags

[49:59] for their corporation yard.

[50:01] They also have just plain sandbags for their public yard

[50:06] that you can fill yourself.

[50:08] But they have them, so in case there's an emergency,

[50:11] they could bring them right to a spot.

[50:15] And I guess when I heard that I did watch the Sandboard video,

[50:20] sounded as if the timid it sounded as if the electrical room

[50:26] is still possibly could be flooded.

[50:28] So maybe get a pallet of sandbags just in case, who knows?

[50:37] Yeah.

[50:38] I'll just start by saying that we've had a long run to get to the point where we could get underway on the IPS repair project at scale.

[50:56] and Monday night we approved a number of okay to go, okay to contract, okay to spend money on

[51:07] on the right of elements of what that's gonna take. So, things are going and we were again,

[51:18] we're in a situation where we were obligated to be complete with the work by a next summer,

[51:25] but our staff negotiated with the ERF's group that sued the agreed to change that to give time to get instead of just one year.

[51:37] Two years to get the work done really well.

[51:41] So we don't run the risk of doing work during the early wet season of our things can go pretty bad pretty quickly.

[51:47] So I think it's very well worth out the,

[51:52] everything's gave them their way.

[51:54] It is all extensive.

[51:58] So it's worth, it's worth numbers.

[52:00] I'm gonna say it's worth, thinking,

[52:01] look at where everybody's going

[52:02] and just how big the money is

[52:04] and what it costs, you know, per foot.

[52:08] To do what hourly rates are,

[52:11] what how many people it takes to get the work done,

[52:14] what kind of people it takes to get the work done.

[52:18] there's all sorts of things going on.

[52:21] And if you look at the sound at the same agenda for Monday night,

[52:25] then just look at the things that we approve.

[52:27] You might find at least one thing on there you're going to go.

[52:30] So I didn't know he had to do that. He was all part of doing a big project and especially a project that's going to span probably 18 months. So it's terrific.

[52:39] He had just been a lot of work to get to where we're all agreed to send money, but we have three English authority, you see, all the green to do this. So here we go.

[52:52] Great. And I'll agree, Catherine, we point about the staff, review of all of the places

[52:59] where they've been doing all this work. It's very visual, it's informative, it's fun, it's

[53:05] sort of into the meeting. And I recommend it, I'm going to watch it again with some good stuff.

[53:14] So I guess it was good timing. It was a very pleasant and very quick sandwich.

[53:21] It was part of good. Let's go to the Coast Community Council. Anything about it, just please.

[53:29] I'm going to go to the meeting because I was sleeping a lot after I got back for the bomb desert.

[53:38] But in fact, I might have even still been there. I don't remember.

[53:41] But I did look at their agenda and it mostly talked about GCSD and their parks.

[53:47] And it's a very bottom of the thing, the, well, they did also talk about the oversized vehicle parking restrictions on cap to strung our road, and they were hoping that expand that to other neighborhoods.

[54:03] You guys all know what that is, right? So I need to talk about it, artbees, parking, unappropriated lands.

[54:13] And then I didn't go, so I didn't have to watch to me or anything.

[54:18] It does say I am a C, at 825, they were going to talk about the Montero Water Sanitary Discrete

[54:24] Sponsored Community Outreach in response to letters they got about sealed code, and they

[54:31] want the MWSC to attend an MCC meeting and provide updates.

[54:37] I don't know if they talked about it or said you guys are a letter, that's all I have on

[54:41] but I did have some other meetings I went to.

[54:44] Let's move to the agenda.

[54:47] The USDA report report.

[54:49] We reported on the most recent improvements.

[54:53] And the most recent CSDA meeting was Monday.

[55:00] And that was where we had the Office of Emergency Services

[55:03] present and I'll be here. I will send the claimant to copy of the presentation so he's

[55:10] been put in on our website.

[55:15] LACO, we were working on two issues that involve fears of influence and one is the

[55:35] I forgot in the name of it now, but it's a strip of land in

[55:38] Atherton that has been a drainage area, and it has some issues on funding.

[55:47] This lack of the vehicle license fees is hurting all of the special districts,

[55:53] including those that take care of these drainage facilities,

[55:59] where in the

[56:00] 100 years ago when they were building all these neighborhoods they were just running the

[56:07] crease under pipes and now with what real drainage problems. And so trying to sort out who's responsible

[56:19] for what and who pays for what that's what the spirit was.

[56:25] So we're going to be the staff

[56:28] is going to be doing a report on the, for the November meeting.

[56:37] The Attorney's Report, they're seeing.

[56:38] I have three things to talk about.

[56:40] No, we're working our way through the report.

[56:44] Thank you, President Boyd.

[56:47] I do have a report and, coincidentally, enough.

[56:51] It's about fire prevention.

[56:54] So, I wanted to briefly alert the board to a development concerning wild-fired, defensible

[57:01] space requirements that ultimately may affect district facilities.

[57:08] In 2020, the legislature enacted AB-374, maybe some of you are familiar with it, it directed

[57:17] the state forestry and fire protection board to establish a new zone zero. So that's the one before the zones 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. I think there are maybe six.

[57:31] And the zone zero is an ember resistant area within the first five feet around certain structures.

[57:41] The purpose is to reduce the risk that windblown embers will ignite vegetation or combustible materials immediately adjacent to a structure and then spread fire.

[57:56] So, although the legislation was enacted over five years ago, the detailed implementing

[58:03] regulations have been delayed.

[58:06] They're supposed to be developed by the Department of Forestry and the Fire Marshall, and

[58:12] they've missed a few deadlines, but apparently in August, the Board of Forestry finally

[58:20] approved these regulations and they're now before the OA, the Office of Administrative Law,

[58:28] but they're not yet effective. If and when they do become effective, the regulations again

[58:34] generally restrict combustible materials within a five feet radius around a building or facilities,

[58:43] they apply differently depending on whether property is located in a state responsibility area

[58:50] or within a very high fire hazards varies zone. Parts of Montana, maybe must be, I believe

[59:01] I haven't checked these in a while, are located within those two areas.

[59:08] So, we may be subject

[59:10] to the five-foot rule implementation of whatever requirements that we may be required to perform.

[59:19] We'll probably be phased over a number of years.

[59:23] And so the long and short of it is, even though we're a special district, it doesn't create

[59:29] any regulatory or enforcement responsibility on our part because we're not the local fire

[59:36] protection agency, Coast Cites, but the potential significance to MWSD is as an owner and

[59:46] operator facilities located in the district if they are located within these certain areas

[59:53] we will have to make sure that we comply with the five-foot rule.

[1:00:00] So the staff and I will continue to monitor the regulations as that you can find, final, once they're effective, and the state issues, implementation guidance, it would be appropriate for the district to identify facilities that are located in these areas,

[1:00:24] pump stations, tanks, buildings, equipment structures. So we'll keep you updated on that.

[1:00:33] I think this was, even though this was enacted in 2020, the legislation,

[1:00:40] there's been such a long delay to get these regulations in place. They missed a 2023 deadline

[1:00:47] and then a 2024, but I think it was the trigger for pushing it now was probably the specific

[1:00:56] palicates fire. And so I think the governor's office probably put some pressure on

[1:01:03] the state departments in charge of this. Oh, that's all I have. Thank you.

[1:01:10] I've got a question. You said it's some parts of Monterey and Lassterey and Lassterey

[1:01:17] My hybrid area is there existing masks right now and where would we find that on the state fire

[1:01:25] Marshall website it's if you just type that into Google it'll take you there and it's

[1:01:31] pretty easy to navigate to the fire zones you type in an address you can even type in

[1:01:35] Montana and then zoom in and out they're all color coded it's pretty pretty easy and interesting

[1:01:45] So, through the chair on zone zero, you can also type in zone zero and find out what their guidelines are.

[1:01:55] And one of the main important things to note for our district is that you can't have any wood products around the perimeter.

[1:02:04] If you have wood chips or a bark chips, you have to remove those and have rabble, or concrete, or flex, stone, or something, right up against the perimeter of a building.

[1:02:17] So I already have that in my house, but some people have bushes in front of their house and anything combustible like that has to be trimmed back. You can have perennials, but you can't even have anything with wood stocky wood stems.

[1:02:34] In fact, some succulents don't even qualify, but I'm just thinking back in what she's talking about.

[1:02:46] So, you can go on the website and see all the things they've already got.

[1:02:50] A whole list of what's available for a sound zero.

[1:02:52] The main thing is not to have ladder fuel that will go up to your eaves and catch the whole darn house on fire.

[1:02:58] And we recently had a really bad fire in Monterey on Grant Road, and there's like an $80,000

[1:03:05] or a go-fun me for the family that got, you know, displaced by anybody.

[1:03:12] You speak moving into the direction.

[1:03:14] Okay.

[1:03:16] I've got three things.

[1:03:18] I did go to the Board of Supervisors while he'd go.

[1:03:21] I was on Zoom Tuesday.

[1:03:23] And one of the things, they're going to propose.

[1:03:28] shortly, they're going to have a government location here on the coast finally, and it will be a

[1:03:36] combination facility which might have some, you know, a refuse place for emergency evacuation,

[1:03:46] maybe some place to go in and apply for your permits, that sort of thing. They haven't picked

[1:03:51] spot and they are going to race that he was going to have a meeting to have people weigh in of

[1:03:58] different parcels that they're going to think about putting it in. And then today I went to

[1:04:06] Jack and Spears event of seniors on the move and one of the speakers was our

[1:04:13] Steve Wax staff, who's the San Mateo County District Attorney, and he did mention check

[1:04:19] washing and, you know, scams that seniors get, and one of the things they said is that

[1:04:24] some of the checks get, they have a fraud prevention thing at the county because of people

[1:04:30] stealing checks, that even county checks gets stolen. So that might be why you couldn't have

[1:04:42] City Council, I went on Wednesday, at Tuesday night they had their meaning and they still have

[1:04:49] a deficit but it's improving because they have better TOT and tax revenues and stuff like

[1:04:56] that but they still have a deficit. However, they did both themselves healthcare for the city leaders,

[1:05:05] what do you call it? City Council members are going to get healthcare and they dropped their

[1:05:13] What do you call it,

[1:05:17] thing with the ALPRs, they're not going to have flock to their cameras anymore,

[1:05:22] but the mid coast gets to keep theirs.

[1:05:25] They're not going to have their contract anymore with the automatic license plate readers.

[1:05:32] And that's it.

[1:05:34] Any other directors?

[1:05:38] All right.

[1:05:40] See, General Manager of the board.

[1:05:42] nothing on top of the written report. Thank you.

[1:05:47] Uh, there's a strategic plan.

[1:05:49] I've already paid for more.

[1:05:51] It wasn't on the agenda and bills out of town.

[1:05:53] So it's nice.

[1:05:54] I don't know.

[1:05:55] No, I don't know.

[1:05:56] It's on the agenda.

[1:05:57] It's on the agenda.

[1:05:58] It's on the agenda.

[1:05:59] I don't.

[1:06:00] I don't.

[1:06:01] I don't.

[1:06:04] I don't.

[1:06:05] Okay.

[1:06:05] I don't have anything.

[1:06:07] I didn't.

[1:06:08] No.

[1:06:09] All right.

[1:06:09] Well, but this brings us to the conclusion of the public session, we're going to take a break.

[1:06:16] We're going to thank PCT for their excellent work being here and getting this out to our community.

[1:06:23] After the break, we'll come back into cool sessions where we are on this item.

[1:06:28] One is conference or through the property you can go shaders and one is conference.

[1:06:33] please go to Council Bill, and just be this invocation

[1:06:35] in the details of the student agenda.

[1:06:38] With that, we're in recess.

Montara Water & Sanitary District - 9/17/26

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