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[0:01] All right. There you go. Sorry, Emily. Oh, you've got to be calling. Just one second. Hello?
[0:08] Still all I mean. Okay. Okay. Okay. One second.
[0:19] I apologize.
[0:41] Technical difficulties tonight.
[0:49] Okay. So we are recording. If you want to go ahead and open up and he should be jumping on.
[0:55] All right, it's a 705 and I'm going to call the North Work Special Service meeting to order.
[1:08] Let's begin with a brief report from Paul Stewart on the electrical burial and anything else he has to add to it.
[1:25] Super, you bet. Thanks too. So I just said a few words about SR-92. Let me give you a little bit more detail.
[1:35] So next week, supposedly beginning on Monday or Tuesday, they're going to start filling all of the patches that they've done from the firehouse all the way up to Aspen Grove.
[1:46] Some of that will be across the road. There's sections where they have some very large patchy to do.
[1:51] So the crew is going to be working on that.
[1:53] Hopefully they're not going to be slowing traffic down too much.
[1:56] I expect Titan has said that will take about a week for them to do all of that.
[2:02] Now on top of this, U.DOT has mentioned that they're going to do the whole road after they're done with this whole project.
[2:08] Maybe in 2028, but nothing definitive yet, haven't seen that, but that's a U.DOT project.
[2:13] So eventually after we're done with lower Alpine loop, we should hopefully get some word about what I'm going to start back.
[2:21] So that's the long-term vision, and then I don't have any information to do about the extra conduits that you dot has put in. I've tried to find out why they put in those extra conduits, what we're going to do with them, who they're going to lease them to, I don't know anything about them.
[2:38] Hopefully I'll get some answers on that, but there are extra conduits on Alpine loop that they put in next to some of the Rocky Mountain power conduits.
[2:47] They put in 60 as a matter of fact, they're smaller but I'm not sure all of them have been used yet.
[2:55] Correct. I think half of them according to Titan are empty and I don't know what their plans are with them or what they're going to run in them.
[3:05] The other project that Titan is working on, I don't see Chad on the call, but they're working over at the resort.
[3:12] they're putting in areas, power lines for the new lift. So over on electric
[3:18] coursemen they're doing work over on that side at the base of electric
[3:22] coursemen. And I'm not sure what's involved with that, but they've been sent over
[3:26] to finish that up too. So those are the two major projects that's tightened
[3:30] working on. In the neighborhoods they're currently working scapo so up above the
[3:36] the keypad up above the gate and they need to put in a vault in the next couple weeks
[3:43] which means they're going to have the road blocked and they will put out notice and I'll send
[3:47] that to emily to let them know and I'll let some of the folks over on scape aside know when that's
[3:53] going to occur. They should be working in scapeo for about another two to three weeks and wrapping
[4:00] up up there and then after that they're moving up to the top of alpine loop and they'll be working
[4:06] on some of the smaller roads just below BYU, below the, below Asping Grove.
[4:13] So that shouldn't affect Asping Grove guests.
[4:17] It's the down on the side roads.
[4:20] And then that will be wrapping it up for the resort or excuse me for the, for the neighborhoods.
[4:26] So they should be finished by the end of September in all the neighborhoods.
[4:30] I think Keith or somebody else asked me about when are they going to actually turn on the
[4:34] power on Tim Pavan, but their plan is by the end of September to have power energized
[4:40] on Tim Pavan, so it will all be underground, and there will be no above ground power lines.
[4:47] So that's the plan and the September's when they should have that done.
[4:51] So I'll take any questions.
[5:00] So Nick, I'll thank you for that, just to clarify with the the mill and fill,
[5:06] You said that there will be closures, we don't know if you said you don't know if it's the stoplight thing or what they're going to do, but intermittent closures.
[5:15] Yeah, there will be temporary closures, so but I had asked him this morning whether it would be just if they could get it down to one lane so that we could always have flow and it sounds like that's what their plan is, but there are a couple sections where they're going to be million of feeling across the road, both lanes.
[5:31] So, their plan is to have one lane open at all times, but they'll let us know, and I'll
[5:38] send that information to Emily, so she can send it out to you all as soon as I have some
[5:43] info on it.
[5:43] But hopefully no stoplights that I asked him, I said, please don't put those up.
[5:49] So.
[5:53] Well, thank you so much.
[5:55] You bet.
[5:56] Thanks.
[5:57] Yes.
[5:58] Dr. Mitten, would you like to take over the meeting now?
[6:10] Dr. Mitten?
[6:11] Dr. Mitten, you need to unmute yourself.
[6:18] Dr. Mitten, would you like to take over the meeting now?
[6:27] He's unmuted, but it doesn't seem that he's coming through.
[6:36] Do you want to move forward?
[6:38] Yes, I will, in the absence of Dr. Mitten.
[6:44] We have some important business to do.
[6:49] We're going to change the order of things
[6:51] to get the important business done that is we'll get a report from the district water
[7:12] situation and from the
[7:22] contract with the fire chief.
[7:31] Okay, so the first on the out, we're going to switch up things a little bit and move over to the action items just because we have the board and our
[7:39] Quorum, we're not sure if we're going to have
[7:41] Dr. Mittain for the whole length of the meeting.
[7:43] So the first on the action items is the approval
[7:46] of July 16th, 2026 monthly meeting minutes.
[7:51] Can you hear me now?
[7:53] Yes.
[7:56] Sorry, I was saying yes, but it wouldn't take it.
[8:00] Sorry.
[8:01] So I had to, I believe, with a minute approval.
[8:07] Did you get the comments back on the minutes?
[8:10] Are we ready to vote on the minutes?
[8:12] Yes, I'll the only feedback I got that there was no changes.
[8:16] Okay, I would entertain a motion to accept the minutes is written.
[8:21] I also move.
[8:23] Seconded.
[8:24] All right.
[8:25] All in favor.
[8:27] Hi.
[8:28] Hi.
[8:29] All opposed.
[8:32] All right, Emily.
[8:34] The minutes have been approved.
[8:36] Thank you.
[8:37] The next on the agenda is item B to consider the approval of the fire chief's employment
[8:42] in agreement, the information has been sent out to the board. There was a close
[8:45] session last month.
[8:55] You know, I hope everyone has had an opportunity to take a
[8:59] look at the proposal. My comments are our fire chief has really upgraded our
[9:08] fire department. We would not have our wildland fire without him and not as
[9:15] expanded significantly. And so would we like to have some discussion on the proposal?
[9:25] I would like to have Kurt provide some information that he's given us before
[9:32] that can just be added. I don't know if it needs to bring it before us now because he's brought
[9:40] before us in this meeting last, last time.
[9:46] Well, what I can share with you is that I,
[9:51] I'm sorry that I had bad service,
[9:53] sorry, it was really choppy and when I was trying to talk,
[9:55] talk and that I was able to convey a good, good clear message.
[9:59] But based on the proposal that I read from Chief,
[10:08] I feel like it is very conservative and people that do like positions for him are paid
[10:17] as significantly amount more.
[10:21] And I have, I guess in the future, since he is a contract employee, and there were some
[10:34] I heard some concerns about, you know, his percentage or his cost of living percentages,
[10:44] but most chiefs will go ahead and negotiate that per chief.
[10:55] And all the reason I bring that up is if you'd like to see a great example, the budget that
[11:01] that I sent that has the chiefs pays.
[11:05] It has a comparative pay for
[11:09] Solid County, Utah County has comparative pay
[11:12] for people that are doing the same amount
[11:16] of labor that our chief does.
[11:19] He not only runs a fire department,
[11:21] but he also runs a wild land division.
[11:25] And so all those things add up
[11:29] and he is asking something very conservative.
[11:32] That was my only point in sharing that information.
[11:36] For me, I have no heartburn with him.
[11:40] Again, you can see my base salary, firefighters,
[11:43] all their salaries printed through that the whole entire state
[11:46] so there's no hiding what we make.
[11:49] But even our paramedic makes $100,000 a year.
[11:54] That's a top-down medic at where I work in Salt Lake County
[11:58] And in particular, Cobbwood Heights, well, Armedics don't get anywhere close to that.
[12:05] But they stay.
[12:06] They're staying for a reason.
[12:07] Chief is staying and he's doing this great job.
[12:10] He's growing our department and he has brought in revenue and he's doing a great job and
[12:18] he's very conservative.
[12:19] So that's all I had to add and I have supporting documents if you want to look.
[12:26] Thank you.
[12:27] If you'll see that they get into the record, I think that'll be important.
[12:35] Yeah, thank you for sending those over. That was super helpful to see how that all lays out.
[12:41] I'm fine with with his proposal. The one one thing that I would recommend or suggest is that it's cost of living be adjusted to a market adjustment.
[12:54] I just feel like putting in a cost of living like that opens it up for it kind of goes against what our policy is if that makes sense.
[13:03] So you do the same amount but just put it as a market adjustment amount of cost of living if that made sense.
[13:12] It did and thank you for the comment.
[13:14] My other comment is that even though we're a smaller district than others, we compete
[13:23] with them for quality people.
[13:26] And quality people are sometimes hard to come by, but in the long run, they save you
[13:32] a great deal.
[13:34] Sometimes it appears that it's an exorbitant map, but we ask our people to do multiple jobs
[13:41] because we're so small, and you have to compensate these people appropriately, or they get burned out because they feel underappreciated or underpaid.
[13:55] And so we have been very fortunate to have quality people, but we have to keep them.
[14:03] We have to make them feel that we understand who they are and what they bring to the table.
[14:10] When David came, we gave him a percentage of what he could aggressively bring in and he brought in a tremendous amount and then we had to change that contract.
[14:20] But we still are competing with other major centers and so I am very comfortable with it as well.
[14:29] Now, with the comments we've had in the adjustments that we make in order to look
[14:35] appropriate.
[14:42] Make it ready to go on if we're ready to vote on that.
[14:46] Well, then I'll make a motion that we go ahead and move to vote to and also make the change
[14:54] that Duane said on the wording on the cost of living.
[15:01] I accept that proposal, do we have a second on that? I'll second. Okay. I would entertain a motion to approve the proposal from Chief Marcella about his wages. I shall move. Hi. I'll do a year or a second. Wait, did we already call in favor? Hi. Hi.
[15:30] All right. All opposed.
[15:36] The motion is passed.
[15:39] Next.
[15:41] Okay, Dr. Minne. The next on the agenda is to consider the approval of the app code change order for the water treatment facility. Chris, are you ready?
[15:52] Yes. I'm here already.
[15:57] Do you want to pull it up or can you pull it up?
[16:02] Yeah, I can just give you one.
[16:06] Okay, I'll just kind of touch on this real real quick when we, we did this project as a design
[16:15] build, so we were designing as we were building.
[16:19] We got some preliminary, I guess, wording from the state, but basically as we were building
[16:32] it, you know, things, some things changed. What they, we initially had one set of sensors
[16:42] that are checking our turbidity and there's a, excuse me, a few other things.
[16:49] And if you
[16:50] scroll down, you can see those things on the, but the state ended up coming back and saying,
[16:58] and we want each train, so we have three trains
[17:01] to have their own set of sensors.
[17:04] It's the turbidity meters and the pH sensors.
[17:07] Sorry, but.
[17:08] Tell me, what is this for again?
[17:10] This is for the water treatment plant.
[17:12] The water treatment plant, okay, thank you.
[17:15] Yes.
[17:16] And so in order to even operate this treatment plant,
[17:21] we would have to have these sensors in.
[17:23] they won't give us clearance to allow us to pump water into the system without these sensors.
[17:31] And so that's a change that they made, seeing as we were building, as we were going.
[17:40] And so I'm just proposing that we accept this change order
[17:44] in order to fully operate this plant when we can with the power.
[17:53] Let me just, it would appear, it would appear, Chris, that this is not an optional, we have
[18:04] to do this in order to have the treatment plan that would be able to work.
[18:08] Correct.
[18:10] Yeah.
[18:11] Okay.
[18:11] It's not a fault of the design, because when it was designed, apparently there was only
[18:19] the old system applied, but since then, since we've started to put it online, that's changed.
[18:30] Yeah, that's correct.
[18:31] We have the sensors in all of the filter trains.
[18:38] There's three filter trains going to a main pipe, and that's where we have the sensors.
[18:43] They're saying, no, we want you to monitor each train.
[18:47] and so we really don't have a choice in doing this.
[18:56] What's the additional cost?
[18:58] I think that quote was 37.
[19:04] And where is this coming from, the money?
[19:10] It will have to probably come out of either savings or general fund.
[19:16] And we've utilized all the grant money, and can we use the loan on this or is that just
[19:28] for the wastewater?
[19:31] That's just for the wastewater.
[19:35] Chris, do you anticipate there will be additional costs above this because I hate to nickel and
[19:43] dime up to it?
[19:53] I don't anticipate there being there's only one other thing that we're working through right now, which is the the skater radio.
[20:02] It would be a minimal cost if there was the equipment's included, but the conduit was not included in any scope of work.
[20:13] work. And so that may be something that we can do in-house out of our water maintenance
[20:20] fund. But other than that, I think this is the last item.
[20:26] Is that so?
[20:27] Also, I'm noticing their sales tax in that, so we need to get a hold of them and have them
[20:31] remove that.
[20:32] Is this 37.000?
[20:34] Also include the installation of it?
[20:36] These sensors?
[20:38] Yes.
[20:38] Yes, I think the equipment is, I think it was like 26,000, it was about a thousand dollars
[20:47] to put it into our ski to system and installation was the rest of it.
[20:59] Again, it seems like it's not a choice.
[21:02] We're going to have to figure out where the money comes from, but there's a proof going forward
[21:11] with doing this.
[21:12] If
[21:15] there's other discussion, let's have it now, but otherwise we can send a motion.
[21:21] I agree with Dr. Menton.
[21:23] I'm just curious, Emily or Dawn, do we know what's in the PTIF fund for water?
[21:28] Like do we have this money?
[21:30] Yeah, there's a little over 300,000 in the PTIF, and then in the operational fund, we have
[21:35] plenty of money as well.
[21:36] So we do have the funds available.
[21:39] Okay.
[21:40] Then I'm good.
[21:41] I
[21:44] think it's always great to have a conscious, a money conscious that reminds us that this
[21:53] money is, you have to know where you're getting it.
[21:56] So thanks, Wayne, for being our money conscious.
[22:01] I would entertain a motion to go forward with approval of this project.
[22:08] I will make that motion, this will motion.
[22:13] Second.
[22:13] Oh seconded. All in favor. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. All opposed.
[22:27] Motion is passed.
[22:30] Emily.
[22:33] Darferman, that brings us back to our informational items. Chief Hart is our,
[22:39] sorry, I apologize. Chief Marcel is not with us tonight. He is on the fire over there in your
[22:45] Park City. So Chief Hart, would you like to report anything tonight?
[22:50] Sure, I can I can do that. We've got three of our wildland cruiser out on various fires.
[22:58] One is in Northern California. I think they've got another week and then we've got one over in
[23:10] Wyoming and there's another one here in Utah somewhere and then chief
[23:18] Marcella is on the Rocky Canyon one there in the Morgan County one and we've
[23:30] had a few ambulance calls this month we had a call last week over the resort
[23:37] that ended up being in a, it was an individual passed away there at the new hotel and then
[23:50] just a few search and rescue ones just minor hikers but yeah that's what's going on in the fire
[23:59] department.
[24:03] Scott there is 125,000 acres that have burned down by Delta. We've been involved
[24:11] The one down by Delta, we had, I think we had some crews down there, Dave was down on that one at the beginning and then his team was replaced.
[24:25] So he's on the great basin team three.
[24:32] so he was down on that wide mouth fire and then they went from there he had a
[24:40] couple of days and then they just called over the weekend to go up to the
[24:49] Weber County that Rocky Canyon one that he's on right now and then with that
[24:58] With that fire the Rocky Canyon one we had Summit County when they initiated their evacuation
[25:06] they
[25:10] It set off a few other
[25:13] Areas that you may have gotten an evacuation notice
[25:17] But they're trying to figure that out and why that happened but we we were able to call just batch and get that result
[25:26] So our team, our office team did a great job in reaching out on social media and to the
[25:33] various HOAs and just getting the word out that we did not need to evacuate.
[25:41] So yeah, I was going to ask about that.
[25:42] I heard on the news that they did the false alarm and they didn't want to do a retraction
[25:47] because they thought it might also go to the people who really should be evacuated so
[25:51] they didn't do the retraction.
[25:54] Right.
[25:54] I was wondering because the Redford Ranch staff never heard anything that it wasn't real
[26:03] until they happened to check social media later that night and find out that it was false alarm.
[26:09] And I was just wondering, I don't know if this is a discussion for this committee, probably not,
[26:13] but I'm wondering if there's like some way to notify of something like that.
[26:18] Yeah, we probably should have reached out to a few others,
[26:20] do I not apologize? Dave was on that fire in his cell service and so I thought just with a few
[26:27] phone calls and social media that we did that but I'll make a note next time he's called the ranch.
[26:31] Yeah, I did reach out to the board. I reached out to Brian Kendra to let him know over at the district
[26:37] but I guess if I don't have the number for the Redford so maybe I should grab his number as well
[26:44] so I can notify him if there's anything. Okay, I've got those numbers Emily and I can get him to
[26:49] and then that way we can get a hold of Josh and his team over there and let them know.
[26:56] I apologize on that. I should have...
[26:58] I was like, I mean, there's a lot going on, I'm sure, but yeah, that'd be very important.
[27:04] Okay. Yeah, we'll just make a note of that. But other than that, I think things are,
[27:10] you know, we're just moving along and I know that as soon as they get back, I'm sure there are people
[27:15] of got chipping and we'll resume those activities when these crews come back so
[27:24] thank you thank you
[27:27] Scott you bet you know the it is really I'm really pleased that we went forward with our wild
[27:40] land and fire. The district, the NF, the North Fork Special Services district has benefited
[27:48] greatly from the resources that have been generated by wild land fire. And so I really
[27:55] appreciate all Dave's work and the fire departments work on that. I will, from a medical point
[28:02] of you say that, trust the whole country, the PM 2.5, the particles that are less than
[28:11] 2.5 microns across are causing real problems in healthcare. They're increasing asthma, reactive
[28:22] airway disease, chronic obstructive lung disease, there have been increased number of people who have
[28:27] died a secondary to it. And when people go outside and are running in areas where this
[28:33] PM 2.5 are increased, they're getting sick. And they should be advised to do more of
[28:42] their exercise inside than outside. And people should be encouraged to get up machines
[28:50] that sucks the stuff, air filtering systems that suck this out of the air because 2.5 can be a
[28:58] dead late problem. And so I'm wondering if we should probably something on our website about
[29:09] people being very cautious about the amount of time they're spending outside and what they should do
[29:17] in order to protect themselves. We don't need to do that in this meeting, but Emily, you and I
[29:24] should talk a little bit about if there's something we should be putting on our website.
[29:30] Yeah, Chief did put some evacuation information out which I did put on the website. So there is
[29:37] a little bit of information on there, but I'm happy. I know that there's an individual that's been in
[29:44] district who has been really trying to reach out on her own to inform people, but yeah, any
[29:51] options, any advice or ideas I'm open to putting on the website, just let me know.
[29:56] A. Emily, with that, we might-
[30:00] I'd be able to just put a link with the state's air quality.
[30:05] That way, people know that the air quality index, they can, they can do that on some weather apps. They have the air quality for the state on there. So you, that if you're outrequrating, you can know what it is for the day. And that would be, I think, help Dr. Metin. I think he would.
[30:29] agree with that. Just yeah, you can see what's going on for the day because some days are better than others.
[30:39] So. Right.
[30:41] And and being outside in the morning is better than being outside in the afternoon and evening.
[30:48] Right. And so there are a lot of recommendations on what you should be doing.
[30:53] And I don't see a reduction in this in the near future.
[30:58] I was introduced to an app the other day which shows all the fires across the United States.
[31:05] And it is amazing, the number of fires that are out there.
[31:11] And again, I don't see any improvement in the near future.
[31:17] And so I think we should be doing as much as we can to educate our clients about what the
[31:27] issues are and safety, but they need to be paid attention to.
[31:33] We'll do it offline.
[31:36] I think that's great. Thanks, Dr. Menden.
[31:40] Okay, so the next, I'm sorry, did you say go ahead?
[31:44] Yes, I did. Okay, so the next on the agenda is the district clerk information. So I just wanted
[31:51] to say that we've had quite a few purchases and cells in the district. All five of the new
[31:57] townhomes of Seoul. So that's exciting for Sundance. If you hear of any
[32:03] purchases or sales just make sure they reach out to the District Clerk so we can
[32:06] make sure everything gets moved over. Since Chad's not here I'm going to go ahead
[32:11] and just announce I sent an email out earlier to the board and to all of the
[32:16] residents. This month mark what would have been Robert Redford's 90th birthday so
[32:22] So they are going to be holding a event on Tuesday, August 18th, from 6 a.m.
[32:29] So if you didn't get that information, go ahead and reach out to me and I can send it
[32:32] on to you.
[32:33] So all donations are going to go to the Sundance Neutral Alliance.
[32:36] I did send out the check registers or any questions about any purchases made by the district.
[32:48] Okay, so if there's no other questions, if you're ready, document and we can move on to the
[32:52] next item.
[32:53] Oh wait, I apologize, I apologize. Don, did you have anything to report?
[32:59] Yeah, actually I have some good news. We started something in June called a sweep account with science.
[33:07] And basically what that means is we're using the money that is in our operating fund, you know, just general checking account.
[33:15] It's being swept into an account that is interest earning.
[33:18] And so as of we started on June 9th, and since June 9th through the end of July, we have brought in $5,472.15 in less than two months and it's just free money.
[33:34] That's after we take, you know, just interest earning. It just goes at night. It doesn't impact us. We don't have to do anything.
[33:44] we just earn interest. So the interest earning is variable and I just continue to watch it to make
[33:51] sure that the $200 a month fee is always covered that we're still earning more than it costs to have
[33:59] the sweep account. So free money is good money.
[34:06] I wouldn't call it free.
[34:09] It's close to free.
[34:10] Okay, it's better than no, and so thank you to the Finance Committee and Don for putting
[34:18] that together and make sure we're taking the most advantage we can of the district's
[34:23] dollars.
[34:24] So okay, so the next on the action or sorry, I'm sorry, I just want to say thank you to everybody
[34:31] for all the hard work and continuous to always look at what we're doing and maximize the
[34:40] money that is being generated, any money that extra money that is generated reduces total
[34:48] fees that we have to charge people in the future. So thank you for all the work on doing
[34:54] that.
[34:57] Okay, Dr. Mitten, if you're ready to move forward, the next on the informational items
[35:01] is the financial information. Joe, are you ready?
[35:05] I am ready.
[35:09] We'll share my screen. Go ahead,
[35:10] Joe. Dr. Mitten talked about wild lands. So I thought I'd start with this.
[35:16] graph, wildland has become the biggest revenue and expense of the district, which is
[35:23] pretty amazing to see. So far in 2026, nearly $100,000 in revenue. The nice thing about
[35:33] wildland is that the expenses are always covered. Anytime we go out on a fire and we're paying
[35:46] a cushion built into that, so it's pretty much guaranteed to be profitable, so it's
[35:53] a great program that Dave's been running there.
[35:57] I'm going to scroll down here.
[36:00] Compared to prior year, the district-wide revenues are up, and our expenses are up a little
[36:05] bit, but our revenues are up more than our expenses, we're showing you a little bit of
[36:09] an operating income.
[36:12] This time of year and throughout the year, we'll show this loss, is changing that position
[36:17] is a negative number because of these projects we have going on because those projects are
[36:23] are budgeted. We put those in an expense account. They show here on our income statement throughout
[36:28] the year, but at the end of the year we basically move those from these expense accounts into a
[36:35] capital account either as construction and progress or a finished asset depending on what we're building.
[36:42] So the district has seen good financial shape.
[36:47] We scroll down here to our budget or this is through June.
[36:52] So this is halfway through the year.
[36:54] So you can see that for the most part,
[36:57] we're within our budget within that 50% percentage.
[37:04] We're going to scroll down to the department reports and do a quick look at each
[37:11] each department. So these revenues of each department add up to the total district revenues
[37:21] which I already showed on the previous screen. And this is just a great place to go and
[37:28] look so you can see each department and how they're doing and how they're functioning.
[37:33] Again, some of these losses down here due to these capital projects that we have going
[37:38] on which caused these law situations throughout the year, but that they'll be capitalized at
[37:44] the end of the year.
[37:46] I would encourage you to look at these reports, especially the department reports, and let
[37:50] me know if you have any questions.
[37:52] Just as a reminder, this is a very long report.
[37:56] With everything, this is like 51 pages long.
[37:58] We have the financial statements that we prepare, but then, if you come all the way down to
[38:02] the bottom, these are the financial statements right out of the district system, which
[38:08] includes every single account of the district you can look and see what the account is and what's
[38:12] in it. You know that he can't sleep at night be something good for you to look at. I'm going to
[38:18] scroll back up and just show that within each we have a department report for each department by
[38:24] itself where it shows what's the revenue as of June of 2026 this is June of 2025. We also have
[38:34] a budget to actual based on what that department's budget is and we have a cash flow statement
[38:41] to show where our cash is coming and going. So this should be a great tool for the managers
[38:47] to look at so they can keep track of things. But if anyone reads through this and has any
[38:52] questions, feel free to reach out to me or Emily and we can help you, but that's the finance
[38:56] report for the night.
[39:02] Thank you, Joe. I would like to remind members of the board is one
[39:08] of the duties of the board is to ensure that all the financial records are accurate and up-to-date
[39:18] and that the money is being used wisely by the district and it represents the needs of the
[39:26] client. We've got multiple levels of security in our system. You know, we have Joe and Emily
[39:35] done and all the people who are keeping our books and analyzing what we do. We have a
[39:43] financial committee that's chaired by Dwayne that reviews our expenses as
[39:52] versus our budget and reminds us all the time of that anything that we do has to
[39:58] have a good reason and we have to be able to document why we're doing it. We
[40:02] have to be able to document that it was appropriated the way we're supposed to do it.
[40:11] We have auditors who come in and review what we're doing.
[40:16] And so we believe we have put together a system which is secure and we're well prepared
[40:25] to make sure that we don't have any fraud or misuse of funds.
[40:28] This happened daily, if you read the newspaper all over the country, that people who have
[40:37] been well-respected people.
[40:39] And so it has nothing to do with hiring inappropriate people or not having good people or sometimes
[40:46] bad things happening.
[40:48] Our duty as a board is to make sure that in our organization, that does not occur.
[40:55] And we can say, well, we're a volunteer board.
[41:00] We're not knowledgeable in some of these financial things,
[41:05] but it really doesn't matter.
[41:07] Our responsibility is if we don't understand it,
[41:10] it's to bring appropriate people in who do understand it,
[41:13] and ensure that it's done.
[41:15] And I feel really good about our system.
[41:18] I feel really good about our people.
[41:20] And I believe that we can just supply all the things that we're doing.
[41:23] And so I want to thank everybody, but just I wanted to remind the board that that is we are the ultimate
[41:32] responsibility in that system.
[41:39] Emily. Thank you, Dr. Mitten for all of that.
[41:42] I kind of, if anybody has any questions in regards to any of the purchases or any of the, like Joe had
[41:47] said, just please reach out to us. We're happy to be transparent and give you any information you need.
[41:52] The next on the agenda document is the water and the wastewater report.
[41:56] Aubrey, are you ready?
[41:59] Yes.
[42:01] Yes, I am.
[42:06] Right.
[42:08] Yes, see that?
[42:10] No, I'm showing that bit.
[42:12] There we go.
[42:13] Perfect.
[42:14] Okay.
[42:15] So we are this black line for our water.
[42:20] This right now.
[42:21] This time last year we are actually pretty significantly below by like two
[42:26] million gallons of water the last two years. So and we got some good news. We did find the leak.
[42:36] So we had the leak that we found earlier on the Stuart side and about like 10, 15, 20 feet down
[42:41] from that leak. We found a bigger leak and both leaks are now fixed and so we're hoping to see a
[42:47] bigger drop in unaccounted water next month because we fixed it towards the end of the month.
[42:51] But we are noticing a difference in our tanks and stuff so we're hoping that
[42:55] that will improve on-accounted water, but with that said, our on-accounted water did go from
[43:02] 30% which has been pretty steady at 30% uncounted and it's dropped down to 23% almost 24% uncounted water,
[43:09] so that's awesome. Good news there. That is awesome. Can I ask a question, Aubrey?
[43:19] Yeah. How many leaks have we fixed on the steward road? Since, you know, we took it over since like before I've been here since I've been here we've done five leaks on that line.
[43:39] And I think there's three before and what has been the total cost to those five leaks to repair?
[43:50] It ranges. I would say we had one of those we had a contractor do I think it was around $15,000.
[43:59] Well obviously when we do it ourselves we're significantly cheaper but yeah it's still a pretty
[44:06] pretty good cost.
[44:10] And we know that that system is a really old system and this is going to continue
[44:17] to happen. At some point, we're going to have to fight the bullet and replace that line.
[44:23] And I'm not sure that we know the criteria for when to do that. But we keep chipping away
[44:31] at fixing it. And the you guys have a thought process of when we would fight the bullet and replace
[44:41] place that line or some major portion of the line.
[44:47] My hope, and we're looking through some budgets and a master plan that we have kind of
[44:57] drafted and we're working on that.
[44:59] My hope is...
[45:00] That we would be able to do that fairly soon. Like I'm talking like maybe next next year, next summer, and we may have to push it back, but I would. That would be very beneficial. I can almost guarantee that there's multiple little leaks. Like, like Aubrey said, we fixed that leak. A few inches away from it was a pinhole leak. Not a significant one. Like the one that we did find was.
[45:29] like a six inch crack in the pipe but eight inches away was a small pinhole
[45:36] leak that was just leaking out that those ones are hard to to find to listen to
[45:42] it's not making significant noise that happened on the one the contractor we
[45:48] had to they fixed the leak just down from it was a small leak and so my thought is
[45:55] that that one does have significant little leaks in it until they get big enough to
[46:03] wake and hear them. We don't find them. It's also an odd pipe for a water line. It's not
[46:14] a ductal line. It's a cast, tarot apt cast line. Even with that, it's hard to find parts.
[46:24] actually on this leak particularly I called every plumbing supply, water supply
[46:35] company in the state to see if we could get a part to fix that and nobody had it.
[46:41] I ended up calling Provo City. They had one on their shelf. They have a fairly
[46:46] significant warehouse. We ended up borrowing theirs and buying one to replace it.
[46:53] and we still have not received that.
[46:55] So just knowing that it's an old pipe
[46:57] that parts are hard to come by in certain situations
[47:04] and that water could be down for a long period of time
[47:08] is stressful in and of itself.
[47:12] But yeah.
[47:15] Well, no, I appreciate that.
[47:20] There is a time when it's like,
[47:23] whether you replace or repair, it becomes an issue and it seems to me we're getting close to that.
[47:32] So the fact that you're considering that in the year or so, I think it is wise.
[47:39] And any information that we can get that sort of helps us make the decision would be helpful.
[47:50] I don't know not even sure what that really truly is. It's probably going to just be a judgment
[47:57] decision. But if we have the resources to be able to do it,
[48:04] we don't know what the future is going to bring. So we just seek that in mind that at some point
[48:10] we're going to have to do that, write the bullet and do that. I'm sorry, I'll break, go forward.
[48:17] work. You're good. There's much times you want. Let me just make a comment. We essentially
[48:25] have two sets of pipes. The newer one is to the north and the scapegoat is the oldest
[48:34] in the canyon and I think should have been replaced a long time ago. It's just not adequate.
[48:44] What
[48:51] size would we put in?
[48:53] Size-wise, too, is a factor.
[48:58] It is a six-inch now, which is restricting.
[49:02] It's the main, I guess you'd say.
[49:04] It's the main artery coming down through Stewart
[49:07] that feeds all of that.
[49:09] The engineer on that capital improvement plan
[49:12] is suggesting a 10-inch.
[49:21] OK.
[49:23] Aubrey, did you have more?
[49:25] Yes.
[49:27] Okay, I don't, we didn't get any more string flow data.
[49:32] Did we, this week, we did this week.
[49:35] We didn't get it on the, the graph.
[49:38] We were at 6.8 CFM, so a little dropping.
[49:45] So as for our wet well levels, they're kind of doing the same thing.
[49:48] They are holding an Aspen group.
[49:50] It is almost exactly the same average this time,
[49:53] this month that it was last month this time the last year we were about eight feet so we're still
[49:59] pretty close within the same but I think we are starting to start to taper down. I think when I
[50:04] last checked yesterday we were just barely getting into the sixes for six feet but it's still kind of
[50:11] bouncing between 6.9 and then seven so and then the spring the Stuart spring is averaging 85 gpm
[50:19] which is up, I want to say, it was like 15 to 20 gallons a minute from last month.
[50:27] And then this time last year we were averaging 115 with a steward overflow.
[50:32] We were averaging about 20 gallons per minute.
[50:36] So the steward spring right now is producing a total of 105GPM for July.
[50:42] And then I will turn the rest over to Chris.
[50:44] Yeah,
[50:47] so to talk about the construction on the water treatment plant, like we said last month, the power to condo is installed.
[50:57] We're just waiting for the line to be pulled in there.
[51:01] I think they're waiting for the full project to be done before they start pulling lines in.
[51:07] I tried to get some clarification on that today, but I wasn't I think they didn't know from the contractor.
[51:17] so we will be still waiting on power. Right now they're painting the pipes inside to match, you know,
[51:28] I wouldn't call it dirty water, but to match surface water from treated water. So we know where
[51:35] that is. If I can interrupt, you know, I was told the end of June was when we were going to have
[51:41] power in there. That's what Marty had told me. So I'll follow up with Marty tomorrow morning
[51:46] and get a definitive date and send that to you. Okay, that would be great. Yep.
[51:54] And then that additional equipment we talked about in the action items. We need to get that
[52:00] stuff installed, those sensors and antenna for our SCADA system to talk. So that's that
[52:11] on the treatment plant. Once all that is complete, then we'll get the state out to come out
[52:18] to an inspection. Chris. Yes. I got a bunch of looks like six inch line casing or the power lines
[52:29] laying up on the ground. I know that the other stuff is already underground. Do you know if those are
[52:34] is that stuff that's up there on the ground going up to the treatment plant? Is that for Stewart Road?
[52:40] I figured they just laid it out and were putting it together, it looks like long sections.
[52:45] I can share some light on that.
[52:47] So that's for SCAPO, and then you'll also see up by the turn by Dr. Mittens' house out
[52:53] on the dirt.
[52:54] Yeah.
[52:54] You'll see a bunch of equipment and a bunch of other stuff stored there.
[52:57] That's all for SCAPO.
[52:59] Okay.
[52:59] That's what I thought I might say.
[53:01] And then they'll take it all off the mountain when they're done.
[53:03] Yeah.
[53:04] Just staging.
[53:05] Yep.
[53:05] But
[53:09] we kind of talked about the leak we repaired, the significant one and the little one
[53:15] on the sewer road.
[53:18] As far as lead and copper surveys, we're up to 86.
[53:22] I think that's up 15 from last month, so we're still climbing on the surveys.
[53:30] And we are in any spare time we're out and about knocking on doors, putting flyers in the doors with the QR code to do that.
[53:44] So we are making an effort to get those submitted.
[53:52] Are the homeowners association president stepping up to help us get that done?
[54:04] I haven't had a lot of talks with them. I probably need to push that harder. I have reached
[54:10] out to some dance and they are willing to help with their, they have a lot. I did reach
[54:22] out to the state, like on the condos. I know it's like one main meter going into that, but
[54:29] since they're individually owned, we have to go into each one and have a photo of the line coming
[54:36] into each condo. And so there's a lot there. I've talked to Sundance. I've talked to Brad.
[54:43] Yeah, Brad. I'm just going to give you one. We've talked to them.
[54:47] Just to our mountain lodging. And so yeah, we've reached out to some major players, but not the
[54:55] A to A presidents so much I can do that. I probably should
[55:01] The new condos don't have meters for each unit
[55:06] Yeah, they should the new the new town homes that they build do but the old condos like
[55:13] Mandan and pines and river. We have to go on each one of those. Yeah, okay, but the new ones too. Yeah, yes, I
[55:22] have had questions
[55:23] On new construction, because there are a few new constructions up here, the state is still requiring pictures on new construction, even though it's almost 100% guarantee that it's not led, but they are still requiring pictures on every, every home.
[55:51] And then as far as the unaccounted water elimination, we've just added that we fixed that leak.
[56:00] Like Aubrey said, we fixed it towards the end of the month, and it did make a pretty significant drop.
[56:09] We hope that by the end of this month, we do have even more.
[56:18] Okay. Any other questions on water before we move to wastewater?
[56:27] Okay. So this is it.
[56:29] Good. I have to go ask Emily.
[56:32] We met with a representative of one of the associations about the water bill that we had given.
[56:41] And we gave them information. Did we ever get a response back from them?
[56:46] Nothing.
[56:47] at the pines.
[56:49] Yeah, we've not heard anything back.
[56:51] Yeah, they wanted to know if we had documentation.
[56:57] And fortunately, we did have documentation
[57:01] on the usage of their water.
[57:03] And so we gave it to them.
[57:05] Their understanding was they thought that this had been resolved
[57:09] and we wrote it off.
[57:10] But there is no documentation that that ever occurred.
[57:13] And I couldn't believe it. I told them that and I would write that off because one of the things that we are receiving our training is is that we cannot discriminate from one group to the other and we made other people pay that bill and so she was going to take it back and have for people and then she was going to get back to us.
[57:36] So I am working on that.
[57:39] I'd like to get that resolved.
[57:41] I don't like long-term kinds of unanswered questions.
[57:46] And so, but whatever we do in that,
[57:48] it sets precedence for the future.
[57:51] So we just have to always be careful what we're doing.
[57:54] And again, this goes back a decade or two.
[57:57] It's been a long ongoing issue,
[58:00] but I will reach out to her tonight actually
[58:03] and I'll make sure you're included.
[58:05] Perfect.
[58:06] Thank you so much.
[58:13] Next.
[58:15] We have a kind of exciting report this month.
[58:18] So this is our first wastewater sample that we have taken since the
[58:23] DAF is up and running.
[58:25] And so this sample has been through the DAF.
[58:28] And so it's definitely it's taking out a lot.
[58:33] And one of the things that is the fog coming in is so low,
[58:37] We can only detect five milligrams per liter, and it's below that. It came in non-detectable not detectable
[58:44] So it comes in as a zero because they can't report because it's too small. So that's a good thing
[58:48] All right, it's good problem when you say it's coming in many meaning going through the DAF and then it's then it's measured after that
[58:55] Wow
[58:58] For DAF after DAF
[59:01] Is the business level what it was not July 1?
[59:04] Oh, sorry. July 28th. So probably similar business levels, I would assume.
[59:11] I would assume so, but yeah. I don't know. That's great.
[59:16] I know. That's why we put it 10 million dollar wastewater plant in to accomplish that.
[59:28] But if it hadn't, I would have been really disappointed.
[59:33] We have more problems.
[59:36] We also was a waste water committee meet with Sundance once a week
[59:42] and talk about progress about how much they're using,
[59:47] how much discharge goes into the drain fields.
[59:52] So we're trying to keep on top of all of that.
[59:58] And I would like to
[1:00:00] I compliment both sides of that. Sundance, it's been my observation. It's been very open and very cooperative in that. And our group has been very receptive of the meetings and doing this stuff together. And I think that's a great community effort together in order to make this work.
[1:00:30] Yeah. It's been, I've had a great relationship with the
[1:00:32] Sundance team and working through that
[1:00:39] with I was just going to say when the facility is
[1:00:47] pretty much complete we will take a number of the Sundance staff to show them how it works
[1:00:54] specifically
[1:00:59] with the with the with the with the DAF you can in the results you can see it's
[1:01:09] also dropped RTSS in BOD, which is good.
[1:01:16] It is working extremely well. The sludge tank
[1:01:21] that we had installed was supposed to basically be able to hold about seven days of sludge
[1:01:29] with the DAF. We're getting about two and a half days. It's pulling a lot out. It may
[1:01:38] be just how we are in the process with the phasing it, and hopefully that kind of spreads
[1:01:48] out a little bit, but yeah, we're having to remove and run that through the screw press
[1:01:57] a lot more. Which is good. I mean, we're getting rid of that stuff. It's doing what it's supposed
[1:02:03] to be doing. So we still are running on MBR3, just running on the one MBR, it's running great,
[1:02:14] the new MBR. This week they craned in the membranes into one and two.
[1:02:23] They're planning to do some
[1:02:26] concrete, finish up kind of the little bit of concrete that's there. And then the all the piping
[1:02:35] and the new pumps relocating them into their permanent positions.
[1:02:41] And so we are getting close, we're moving, I would say the major work is done.
[1:02:48] The pumps and the piping is kind of the, some of them, one of the bigger, major things.
[1:02:53] And so we're moving right along.
[1:02:57] They just have their substantial completion as the end of September.
[1:03:03] I think we're still on track for that, so we'll probably end up ass-volving sometime around the end of September, but yeah, we're moving right along.
[1:03:15] Is Sundance occupancy a hundred percent, eighty percent, or what?
[1:03:22] They say it's full.
[1:03:29] For the most part, we're talking to Brian, they are pretty consistently full,
[1:03:38] you know, they're having a lot of people in.
[1:03:40] So they Chris to get that blower electrical blower problem resolved we are still working on the blowers the
[1:03:57] Technician that came out to do our inspection. I think that
[1:04:02] He left the company and so it took us some time to get that inspection back
[1:04:09] We've we've had Kubota out a few times looking at some things
[1:04:15] And so we have reduced the amount of trouble we're having with those blowers, but we haven't
[1:04:21] totally eliminated it.
[1:04:24] And so we're still working on that harmonic filter.
[1:04:33] Thank you.
[1:04:38] Chris, at some point, I would, if anybody else would like it at the same time, I would love
[1:04:46] a tour of both the new water plant as well as the wastewater plant and sort of the follow
[1:04:55] it through and see all of it.
[1:04:59] Yeah, I think that's the same thing too, but I don't want to be weird and ask for a tour
[1:05:03] of the wastewater plant, but yeah, that'd be cool.
[1:05:08] It's already in the making, so the wastewater committee is going to be hosting that one.
[1:05:14] Yeah, fantastic. Yeah, fantastic. I mean, again, a lot of things for going on simultaneous
[1:05:24] for a small district, we had big ideas, big plans and we were fortunate enough to have
[1:05:33] Sundance and everybody help us get grants so that we could finance, but still we didn't
[1:05:39] increased the big number of the people. And so to do all these projects,
[1:05:43] simultaneously, as while we were functioning, it wasn't being built from scratch so that we could
[1:05:48] function down the road. We still had to function during it. So I am super impressed with the staff.
[1:05:54] You guys have done a yeoman job with all of this. And we have not had major issues with services
[1:06:05] to our clientele. So you guys deserve everything that you get and more.
[1:06:16] Thank you. The crews are doing a great job and it's a good relationship with everyone
[1:06:25] on the mountain, including contractors and electrical contractors, our contractors.
[1:06:31] So yeah, things are things are moving well, so are
[1:06:43] you done Chris Aubrey I think so yeah. Yep. Yeah, well
[1:06:49] I I want to just talk a little bit about some communication that we've had with Ann Marie Howard
[1:06:59] Nathan sent me a copy of the latest communication. I think it's the latest communication between Ann Marie
[1:07:07] there are two outstanding issues. One is the global agreement. Remember that had to do with
[1:07:14] finalizing the Ridge and Redford Fire Hydrant and several issues. And Steve Yukovic has been the
[1:07:26] main negotiator on the Redford aside. And it appears that we're getting very, very close to
[1:07:36] being able to finalize the global agreement.
[1:07:42] As you remember, we had several separate issues
[1:07:46] and we made a decision on both sides
[1:07:49] that rather than, again, do it in 20 different projects,
[1:07:53] put it all together and try and get a global agreement
[1:07:58] to get rid of all the issues that we're outstanding.
[1:08:02] And so I think we're really, really close on that.
[1:08:04] the other issue was the land that Mr. Redford had agreed to sell to the district. It's taken
[1:08:16] quite a while. Mr. Redford's estate required a lot of work in order to make sure everything is right,
[1:08:25] done right. So I am told that we are getting close on trying to finalize that as well. And so
[1:08:34] We made a decision to move forward in certain parts of that and I think that was a good decision and I think that
[1:08:41] We will be able to finalize this hopefully in the near future now. What the near future is I can't exactly tell you
[1:08:49] But the communication was is that it shouldn't take a real long period of time and so
[1:08:56] I have a lot you all know when both of those agreements that get to a point where we can finalize them
[1:09:03] That
[1:09:07] will be great.
[1:09:10] Dr. Miner, are you ready to move forward?
[1:09:14] Yes.
[1:09:15] Okay.
[1:09:16] So the next on the informational items is the committee report.
[1:09:20] Are there any committee chairman that would like to speak?
[1:09:24] Sure.
[1:09:24] I'll go.
[1:09:26] So I've got something really exciting to share.
[1:09:28] But first, I just want to, again, say kudos to Don for bringing up the sweep account idea and seeing that through.
[1:09:36] And again, thanks to the Finance Committee for all the work you guys are doing.
[1:09:39] I'm going to be doing there.
[1:09:40] The exciting thing is budgets are coming.
[1:09:43] It is that time of year.
[1:09:44] Everybody should be smiling, especially Stu.
[1:09:49] So just to heads up, Emily will be reaching out shortly to the department heads to get that
[1:09:53] going.
[1:09:53] Just want to give you a heads up on that.
[1:09:57] That's it.
[1:10:03] And I just gave my water report when I told you what about the contract.
[1:10:10] do.
[1:10:14] I think I've discussed what's important.
[1:10:21] Do you have anything to report tonight?
[1:10:24] Emily, the fire committee, you can see that we're busy with wildland and we appreciate
[1:10:29] everybody's support and help in making sure that the department provides the services for
[1:10:37] the community and yeah we're moving in a great direction and Dr. Vanden thanks for your continued
[1:10:44] work on the Redford property to help us with that so that's all I have for the fire committee.
[1:10:55] Nothing from the conservation side.
[1:11:00] All right Dr. Mitten if there's no other
[1:11:02] committee chairs it would like I think we did send out I think we sent out a copy of
[1:11:13] a letter that we received from Chad.
[1:11:16] Chad's not here tonight, but there has been,
[1:11:19] and I don't think you've done this yet.
[1:11:22] There has been some reorganization
[1:11:24] within Sundance Resort,
[1:11:27] and Chad is going to no longer be
[1:11:31] in the near future a general manager and the president.
[1:11:34] He will only be a president,
[1:11:36] and that involves so much work
[1:11:40] that it was minimizing the amount of time
[1:11:43] that he could be a general manager.
[1:11:45] For eliminating the general manager position,
[1:11:49] there will be a person who is over the day-to-day operations.
[1:11:54] I don't remember the exact name they called it,
[1:11:58] but that job has sort of been split in two.
[1:12:01] So I wanted to offer congratulations to Chad
[1:12:05] for the job that he does
[1:12:09] and the total position that he occupies at this point in time.
[1:12:16] If you have an opportunity to interface with politicians and local people,
[1:12:26] Dad is extremely well known and he goes out and he has a great reputation
[1:12:31] and he is very, very good at working with people
[1:12:36] and he has been really a very, very good spokesman and face for a Sundance, and he's going to continue in that, but in a role of being much more out there in marketing and developing relationships with different entities.
[1:12:58] And so I just wanted to offer from the board, congratulations to Chad and his promotion.
[1:13:04] I
[1:13:07] agree.
[1:13:08] Well said.
[1:13:14] All right, Emily.
[1:13:16] There's been that wraps up our agenda for the evening.
[1:13:23] That is a much better bit of news than its budget time.
[1:13:33] I would entertain a motion to adjourn.
[1:13:35] I'll second.
[1:13:38] I'm so moved.
[1:13:43] All in favor.
[1:13:45] Hey.
[1:13:46] Hi.
[1:13:47] Hi.
[1:13:47] Have a great, have a great evening everybody and thank you all for all the work that you do it is greatly appreciate by the community. Thank you.
[1:13:56] Thank you.
[1:13:57] Good night.
[1:13:57] Good night.