[0:05] All right, look at that. We're at 9 o'
ready. Okay, blast off.
[0:12] I'd like to call the regular morning
meeting of the Tahoe Trucking Sanitation
[0:15] Agency board of directors to order here
at 9:00 a.m. for our August board
[0:21] meeting.
All right, I'll skip the signing
[0:26] pledge of allegiance.
[0:31] I pledge allegiance to the flag of the
United States of America and to the
[0:36] republic for which it stands. One nation
under God, indivisible, with liberty and
[0:42] justice and for all
[0:46] the roll call, please.
[0:52] » Yes.
[1:01] I spoke with you. Glad you finished.
>> Oh, well,
[1:05] » any public comment.
[1:10] Wow. Okay.
Why don't we review and adopt the
[1:14] agenda?
Have we done adjust or remove anything
[1:19] from the agenda this morning? We appro
the agenda.
[1:22] » Second. All in favor? I I I motion
passes. All right. Do I have to roll
[1:28] call back?
>> No.
[1:30] » Okay, I'm gonna turn it over to Vicki
who's got some professional achievement
[1:35] awards for us.
[1:41] » Thank you. Good morning, Vice President
Clement and directors. Um,
[1:47] I would like to acknowledge this morning
Ryan Schulz for his 10y year
[1:52] anniversary. And you don't see Ryan in
the audience here because um, he is on
[1:59] his way to Sacramento right now to look
at motor control centers. Um, but he did
[2:06] I did speak with him this morning and he
did express his gratitude for receiving
[2:11] his 10year anniversary. So anyway,
congratulations to Ryan for his 10 year
[2:17] anniversary.
>> I think we should express our gratitude.
[2:24] » All right.
>> Thank you.
[2:30] Send calendar. What I'm told is next.
Anybody want to pull anything from the
[2:36] consent calendar?
The consent calendar. Second
[2:42] favor. I
>> pass.
[2:53] Okay. Why don't we move over to the
regular agenda? Have to talk about
[2:58] employee benefits.
Back to Vicki.
[3:05] » Good morning, June. Directors.
I just intended to provide sort of a
[3:11] quick overview of what I'm noticing for
today. Um, if you do have additional
[3:16] questions, I can do the deeper dive. But
TTSA contracts with Cal PERS for our
[3:21] medical benefits. Historically, prior to
now, we've had PERS platinum and PERS
[3:27] gold available to us within our service
district or our service zip code. Um,
[3:34] the gold plan costs less than the the
platinum, but also offers fewer
[3:39] benefits. TTSA best save on premium
costs when an employee enrolls in the
[3:44] gold plan.
In addition to the medical plan, TTSA
[3:49] provides an HRA and the HRA um is
equivalent to the deductible amount for
[3:57] the chosen medical plan as well as any
cost sharing if the employee opts to
[4:03] enroll into a plan other than platinum.
This year we'll be adding an HMO and an
[4:09] EGO. Those are now available in TTSA's
service zip code. So, we need to make
[4:16] changes to our resolution
um for employee benefits and that will
[4:22] be we will be adding the EPO and the HMO
and we will also be making changes to
[4:28] the H contribution for those plans and
we're also doing just a little bit of
[4:34] minor cleanup and language within the
resolution
[4:38] um which is previous previous
resolutions that are now kind of over
[4:43] the stuff
Um the recommendation is that um the
[4:47] board approve um resolution 10-2026
as well as a vivid A and I can answer
[4:56] any question that I
>> So is it fair to assume that the plans
[5:01] are cheaper than the platinum plan?
>> Yes, in in general. So, so
[5:10] » well the HMO plan is going to be
available to employees in Nevada. So,
[5:16] there'll be a Nevada network and the
premium cost within Nevada for the HMO
[5:22] is very similar to the platinum plan. It
is very slightly less, maybe $10 a month
[5:30] less. However, the HMO um rates within
this um this region, region one, are
[5:37] much cheaper than the platinum plan.
Thank you. Anyone else have any other
[5:44] questions?
[5:48] Yeah. Okay. Motion.
>> Move to approve.
[5:52] » Second. All in favor?
>> I She passes.
[5:57] » Thank you.
>> Okay. That was pretty straightforward.
[6:01] Why don't we go over to the departmental
reports? Start with the operations.
[6:20] » Good morning, board of directors. Um,
for you that don't know me, my name is
[6:23] Greg O'Hare. I'm the chief plant
operator TPSA. And, uh, I'm just filling
[6:27] in for Michael today. He's on vacation.
So,
[6:36] uh just happy to report all discharge
requirements were met for the month. Um
[6:40] kind of there's a little more
significance to that statement uh based
[6:43] on being July and the increased loadings
to the plant which causes increased
[6:48] stress kind of throughout the climate.
Uh there's kind of one significant thing
[6:54] to update you on for the that we
performed this month and that was we did
[6:58] perform a plant shutdown. Uh and that
was to assist in the eye department so
[7:03] they could deenergize some equipment u
so they can get some pictures for uh our
[7:08] engineering consultants.
Other than that that's kind of all I
[7:12] have. I don't know if you guys have any
questions on any of the data um that's
[7:16] been submitted to you guys and our
graphs associated with them.
[7:28] point data
averages and other limits
[7:39] questions.
Okay. Thank you. Thank you.
[7:53] Good morning, board of directors. So, we
seem to be filming for one of the quick
[7:57] board meetings that I can recall. So,
>> not so fast.
[8:04] » Slow down.
Good.
[8:10] » We got a close session coming.
>> I'm just going to do my part here to get
[8:13] done.
>> Okay.
[8:17] All right. So for the month month of
July, uh staff did provide support for
[8:21] um what you're used to seeing with
digestion improvements, clean water
[8:24] revitalization project, which we are no
longer calling in red. Um ITO domain
[8:30] controller split uh the network upgrade
project and the SCA upgrade project
[8:36] which um has also uh gone live. So right
now we're actively uh seeking a
[8:43] consultant right now. also working with
engineering on that for sure that I get
[8:46] touched on later.
Uh some of the significant task tasks
[8:50] that we performed um throughout the
month is that we did complete complete
[8:54] the defensible space work at pond number
three um and along road. We did get some
[9:00] questions from uh tsd about uh some of
the work that was going on out at uh the
[9:04] pond. So it's pretty visible, but uh
really did make a pretty big significant
[9:10] difference out there. We were really
able to remove a lot of the brush out
[9:13] there. It's very noticeable from the
highway. Um, we completed the annual
[9:17] TRRI visual inspection. We send somebody
out each year to go walk along, check
[9:21] manholes, check for anything visible um
that might have been damaged throughout
[9:25] the year and the snow and debris that uh
falls along the TRF.
[9:30] Uh we did place a main fuel oil line um
and some of the insulation. There's a
[9:34] picture later in the board report for
that. Um we completed construction area
[9:39] of vegetation removal and clearing. I'm
sure you noticed that coming into the
[9:42] plant on the lefth hand side. Um that's
in preparation of digestion
[9:46] improvements. Uh we're going to continue
doing some more uh expansion of that
[9:50] area to give, you know, the crews enough
room to stage all of their equipment. Uh
[9:56] we replaced an oil single bearings uh on
the BNR strainer. Um and we also did the
[10:02] plant shutdown for switch gear number 27
for project investigation like Bar
[10:08] alluded to earlier. Um, we did some
scaling of some uh ammonia probe or
[10:15] ammonia probe at BNR and installed a
backup server enclosure the remote at a
[10:21] remote location. So, um, any questions
about the notable tasks
[10:29] » of the pictures?
>> All right. Yeah, we can jump right into
[10:33] those. U, not much to report. We did
have a good month. Um we we knocked out
[10:37] quite a bit on uh our corrective uh work
orders uh this month. So um we're able
[10:44] to make a good dent in that. So um but
they do tend to stay pretty flat. There
[10:48] just seems to be a little bit of an
uptick this time of year. Um some of the
[10:52] pictures of before and after for the
construction yard clearing. It's
[10:56] actually uh before was on the right. Um
and on the left you can see we cleared
[11:02] that out. got a lot got rid of a lot of
that old vegetation, the old rocks. Um I
[11:08] think that's going to be a lot better
for our our construction management.
[11:14] Uh on the left there, we've got fuel oil
line replacement. Uh uh that presented
[11:20] some issues for us. Um but uh we were
able to get it done and was a lot more
[11:24] complex than we thought it would be. So
um on the right we've got the server
[11:29] enclosure um being installed. That's for
one of our backup servers for all of our
[11:33] SCADA systems. So that stays online just
in case we have a failure. Um should
[11:39] automatically transfer over working on
it.
[11:43] And some pictures of our switch gear
investigation for one of the bigger
[11:47] projects that's for clean water
revitalization and our everybody's
[11:52] favorite suit on the right hand side, a
40 cal suit. Everybody loves wearing
[11:55] that thing when it's middle of summer.
So,
[12:00] and that's all we have in pictures.
>> Hey, Paul.
[12:03] » Yes, sir.
>> Who's doing the landscaping out front?
[12:07] » Uh, that would be the operations team.
>> Okay.
[12:12] They're doing a good job.
[12:16] » They're doing a good job.
>> It's looking great.
[12:19] » Thank you.
>> Whoever's in charge there, Greg, tell
[12:21] them that uh thank you.
>> Yep. It's come a long ways in the last
[12:26] uh couple of months.
>> Very much agree. That's great. Well
[12:30] done.
>> Thank you.
[12:43] » Morning. I'm Kristen Davis, the lab
director here for Scott. So, I will be
[12:48] giving the technical services report
today.
[12:53] Um so starting with engineering the
clean water revitalization project looks
[12:58] like the preliminary design report by
Corollo should be done very soon.
[13:03] They'll get reviewed and then it'll be
brought to the board for special study
[13:06] session that has been scheduled I
believe in the next month or so.
[13:11] Um the digestion improvements project
60% design by Brown and Caldwell is done
[13:16] and in review so we're get that. the
networks upgrade project 90% design by
[13:22] Jacobs is in review. Um, a lot of
reviews going on right now. SCADA
[13:27] upgrade project, the uh request for
quote has been issued. So, waiting on
[13:32] that. The TRRI rehab project. Um,
they're doing a design service scoping
[13:38] and drafting the request for
that is engineering.
[13:44] For lab, we continue to do the CDPH
COVID sampling for Department of Health
[13:49] that they have a a grant that goes
through 2027. So, we'll be continuing to
[13:54] do that and then once that ends, we will
see if they get more funding for that or
[14:00] not. Uh the Tiger Baron soil sampling,
we do that mainly in the summer months.
[14:06] That has been busy for us this year.
Every month we've been getting a bunch
[14:09] of samples, but continuing to do that.
Everything looks good so far. We are
[14:14] looking at a new VOD incubator and
getting quotes. We've gotten all the
[14:18] quotes. We've picked out incubator. We
should be ordering that in the next week
[14:21] or so. And our ion chromatography
machine is very old, due for
[14:27] replacement. So, that one we're getting
quotes for. There's very few of those
[14:30] machines out there. Um hopefully that
will get replaced real soon, too.
[14:36] For it, they have completed the end of
life Adobe software replacement.
[14:42] the continued testing of CIS computer
security templates. Not really an IT
[14:47] person, so
let them hear if you have questions.
[14:53] They're finalizing their policies for
computer placements and the uh USB
[14:59] storage and file storage updates they're
working on. And Lucas went to the Black
[15:04] Hat conference in Vegas,
so he has a little mini presentation on
[15:09] that. Have any questions?
Hey, I got a question in regards to the
[15:16] barium testing.
Are they testing loads that are coming
[15:20] in from excavation projects or um are
they how does they how do they test? So
[15:28] we do well we do the testing they the
loads they bring in based on how many
[15:33] loads decides how many samples we grab
and we do a random sampling and then
[15:38] those get sent out for burum and other
metals and whatnot. Um if it comes back
[15:44] hot and they clear the pile we scrape it
and then we do another sampling to make
[15:48] sure none is left over. Um if it comes
back fine they can grade it into the
[15:52] ground
>> and that's every load that comes in.
[15:56] It's every random sampling.
>> It's random sampling. So it's every
[15:59] grouping. So once a month we take how
many loads came in and calculate how
[16:04] many samples we do and do a random
sampling between all of them.
[16:08] » Now when the load comes in, do you um um
identify where that load comes from?
[16:15] » Mhm.
>> Okay.
[16:16] » Yeah.
>> Thank you.
[16:22] Morning
[16:26] board of directors Luc specialist. Um
thank you for the opportunity for being
[16:31] able to go to the blackout conference in
uh Las Vegas over um course of the 3rd
[16:36] through 6th of beginning of this month.
Um
[16:41] see if I can get to
um so uh at the um Black Hat uh
[16:47] conference it was a combination uh
started with Black Hat uh ended with
[16:52] Defcon. Um what the what each of these
uh conferences were um uh providing was
[16:59] uh valuable insight to uh ways that uh
hackers are interjecting themselves into
[17:06] systems right now using aentic AIS uh to
uh crack open back doors uh and be able
[17:13] to control things uh within our own
network. So, getting a lot of the uh
[17:18] insight uh and and focusing on these
training sessions that I was able to go
[17:22] into, uh really got to uh we really got
to dive down into the weeds on exactly
[17:28] how they're doing these things so that
we can be uh more in the know uh when it
[17:33] comes to defending ourselves against
these things and uh uh the key pieces of
[17:38] uh equipment that we deploy here at TTSA
that keeps us uh uh on the defense for
[17:43] it. So, um, uh, again, it was a great,
uh, great conference. Learned, uh, a ton
[17:49] at this. The, uh, bunch of bunch of
hackers, uh, much more high level than
[17:54] me being around them, getting to, uh,
network with them and everything was
[17:58] just phenomenal. Um, but a couple of
pictures for you guys from the
[18:02] conference um,
here. And uh one of the uh one of the
[18:07] other things that uh was fun about the
entire conference was the aftermath of
[18:11] it was uh uh people were learning such
good things there that uh one of the
[18:16] Delta flights coming home to uh uh
Georgia. Uh one of the folks from Black
[18:20] Hat decided to hack the Wi-Fi
uh deploy a uh evil twin network and
[18:26] started trying to steal people's uh uh
information. So again, we learned a lot
[18:31] about this stuff so that we can better
defend against it. So, uh, a lot of fun
[18:35] and appreciate the opportunity.
[18:46] Morning,
Liz Cook, your fearless finance leader.
[18:50] The first time I've approached the board
in the meeting. I don't think that's
[18:53] ever happened before. I thank you for
that opportunity to only have this
[18:56] report. I appreciate that. So, we're
here to talk about what the
[19:00] administrative team has been doing for
the last month. On the risk and safety
[19:03] side, uh, just this week, we held our
quarterly safety committee meeting. It
[19:07] might have been last week, the days run
together for me. Um, there's also
[19:10] working on updating the chemical
business plan for Nevada County so that
[19:13] folks know about chemicals we have here
and how to respond to them. As well as
[19:17] doing an overall audit of our individual
training assignments, making sure that
[19:21] everyone has access to the training that
they need to take. On the finance side,
[19:26] same time of year, same story. We're
still wrapping up year end and preparing
[19:29] for our audit that will end very soon. I
have a few more reports uh to bring
[19:33] forward to the board next month and we
can put that to rest. We've also taken
[19:37] some trainings. I attended a CIP 2-day
course that a finance officers
[19:42] association put on so we can learn a
little bit more about developing the
[19:45] structure of our CIP and I can also
include some more funding information.
[19:49] Um, accounting for bonds and accounting
for debt funded capital assets are
[19:53] something our accounting supervisor
participated in so that we can up our
[19:56] game for that because as you know we
keep making decisions here at the board
[20:00] level that cause us to have to account
for things like that.
[20:04] On the billing and customer service side
status quo, we got all of the billing on
[20:08] the tax role. The delinquencies were
completed last month. And something new,
[20:13] you may have noticed that there was
something missing from your board packet
[20:17] or maybe you didn't. There's normally
billing reports included each month.
[20:21] We'll now be bringing those to the full
board semianually and making a more
[20:26] robust report out of it.
On the other items, purchasing handle
[20:31] all of the POS and requisitions and
general responsibilities as normal and
[20:35] performed various administrative duties
at the pleasure of the board and the
[20:38] general manager. Happy to answer any
questions.
[20:42] » I'm disappointed I missed the two-day
course on bond accounting. I mean to be
[20:46] fair it was only portions of the day not
full 10our day.
[20:50] » Yeah there was a lot of information so
thank you very much
[21:00] going up.
>> Good morning board. Um brief general
[21:05] manager report. Um lot going on. Tail of
the tape is obviously the traveling road
[21:10] show. Um it was a great month. Went and
uh spoke to several member agencies,
[21:16] several local stakeholder uh groups and
got pretty universal appreciation for
[21:23] the project. So it sounds like people
are kind of understanding. Uh it also
[21:26] sounds like I hear a lot of the same
story. So there's a lot of
[21:30] infrastructure um that's that's in need
of repair or replacement in California
[21:35] and it's tough to figure out a plan to
make it happen. So, we're uh we are
[21:39] definitely in good company. Uh but we've
been doing usual things with the
[21:44] projects, meetings with Corollo. Uh you
know, Scott's out at the moment, so I'm
[21:48] kind of the point person for the project
decisions. And uh you know, right now we
[21:52] just uh initiated testing some tankage
out here because we plan on reusing some
[21:57] of the facility for the new facility.
So, just usual stuff going on. uh public
[22:02] outreach kind of calming down a little
bit now as far as you know tent and
[22:06] flyer type outreach. Um I think we might
have one more two more the big truck and
[22:13] » there's something on a Thursday night in
Truckucky I
[22:15] » block party.
>> Yes.
[22:17] » Yeah, the trucky block party. We're
planning on attending that and um we've
[22:21] got Michael Peak that'll be attending.
So if you want he he does a great
[22:24] presentation so if you want to go bother
him that' be fantastic.
[22:27] uh strategic plan implementation is kind
of now that we're definitely rolling. Um
[22:33] I've been focusing very heavily from my
perspective on some of the more employee
[22:38] focused um targets. So going to be
putting together um this deal from TCPOD
[22:44] and I'm going to create a a leadership
academy voluntary um offer anyone in
[22:49] need that's interested in opportunity to
come learn about leadership learn about
[22:53] qualities um maybe even learn some basic
administrative higher level kind of
[22:57] things uh things you don't always get
the opportunity to look behind the
[23:00] curtain on. Um maybe turn it into like a
six or seven week course something they
[23:05] would do kind of once a week some
homework after hours. Um just uh Sean
[23:11] has had really good reports from success
over TCP on that. So I'm I'm going to go
[23:17] ahead and emulate that where I can. Um
I'm also going to be starting um
[23:22] effectively a supervisor academy. Um I
want to have uh all the supervisors
[23:28] really strong team uh supporting each
other and all on the same page. So, as
[23:33] we do this process, there's likely to be
several policies that get revisited and
[23:36] and uh kind of codified and a little bit
more specified. So, um that's going to
[23:42] be kind of the brunt of my focus aside
from the project right now is kind of
[23:45] getting uh getting some of the more soft
targets kind of uh identified and
[23:51] planned for those. Um again, so I went
to uh CTA,
[23:58] people were excited. Went to Good
Morning Truckucky. Several uh
[24:01] stakeholders there had no idea who we
were, what we do, why we're here. Uh it
[24:06] was really good because I got Universal.
I mean, they were excited about the
[24:10] project, but they seemed to be very
excited just to learn about what we do.
[24:15] And um that was very very uh
encouraging. uh both CCPUD and OBPSD I
[24:22] got way more questions than I was
expecting which was awesome. Uh it was a
[24:28] lot of engagement a lot of highle
thinking I I really appreciate that the
[24:33] other boards are engaging in this and
getting involved and thinking about it
[24:37] and understanding some of the decisions
we're making and uh it just it's a great
[24:42] collaboration and it feels more like a
partnership. Um again, Liz mentioned uh
[24:47] quarterly safety committee meeting. We
are uh we're going going to have a
[24:51] really heavy focus on the safety uh
meeting and the committee and the
[24:57] emergency response crew because we had a
a very hazardous chemical here that we
[25:02] got rid of a few years ago and we had a
really serious response team ready to go
[25:08] in the event that that chemical were
released. Well, that's no longer needed.
[25:13] So, what do we need? So, we're we're
trying to identify what the agency needs
[25:17] and trying to identify what kinds of
targets we want to maintain and how we
[25:21] want to continue to keep people focused
on safety and turn it into a little bit
[25:26] more holistic program. Um, so more to
come on that. Um, and we have been doing
[25:31] some surplus sales. I I if you ever go
out in AWT, it has historically been a
[25:37] little bit of a boneyard for us because
it's not it's a defunct facility. you
[25:41] know, leak parts of vehicles out there,
but we also kind of store stuff that we
[25:45] don't know what else to do with. Some of
it's been sitting there long enough and
[25:49] uh we were able to determine it didn't
have any value to the agency. So, we uh
[25:53] we've been auctioning o auctioning it
off and we've been doing pretty well. Um
[25:58] sounds like there's one guy in
particular that's very interested in
[26:00] buying almost everything we have. So,
that's cool. Makes it easier. Um but
[26:05] that's going to continue to go on. Um
so, I'm going to be continuing the
[26:09] visits. We um just got engaged with
Tahoe Forest. They're doing um a
[26:14] symposium maybe would be the best word
for it over in uh Olympic Valley that is
[26:21] focused uh I believe they're calling it
uh beyond possible is the theme of the
[26:26] symposium and they would like us to
create a project poster for the clean
[26:31] water project and uh be available during
lunchtime. They're going to have like
[26:36] four or five major regional projects
represented. One of ours, one of them is
[26:40] going to be ours and we'll be there to
answer any questions and um so I'll be
[26:44] attending that and it's good opportunity
for networking. Anyway, um CSDA annual
[26:49] conference, Liz and I are both going
down um we've got an extensive list of
[26:56] sessions that we're trying to split up
and very very beneficial uh sessions. a
[27:00] lot of them relating to some of the
legislative stuff that's kind of always
[27:04] a little bit of a of a puzzle to try and
figure out. So hopefully u make some
[27:08] good contacts as well. Um you know we're
we're always interested in any way we
[27:13] can get better plugged into legislative
affairs or any of those kinds of
[27:17] statewide federal type things. Uh keep
our ears a little bit better to the
[27:21] railroad track funding as well. Um, and
we are going to be hosting the quarterly
[27:27] area boards clerk lunch budget. So,
everyone's representative of the boards
[27:30] clerk will be at TTSA having uh lunch.
And I believe
[27:36] that's that. Do you have any questions?
>> I got a comment, Jason,
[27:40] » sir.
>> That presentation you gave um at the
[27:45] Olympic Valley Public Service Disc was
awesome. Got a lot of positive feedback
[27:51] from it. And as we journey further into
our deals with Curillo and uh the plant
[27:59] rehab, and I don't want to pack your
schedule, but it would be really nice to
[28:06] have a follow-up presentation from the
agency um at at Olympic Valley um with
[28:14] the progress that we're making because
um it that uh that PowerPoint
[28:20] presentation was very helpful. good
>> and uh it was very much appreciated and
[28:27] um it'd be nice to be able to sit back
and
[28:31] maybe in a few months or
>> yeah uh to have a followup so that um uh
[28:38] our board can sit back and understand
where we're headed as an agency.
[28:42] » Yeah, that is not a problem. Charlie and
I are are keeping it in pretty constant
[28:46] communication on that. So yeah,
>> um we'll let you know probably like a
[28:50] 60% milestone kind of a thing might make
sense
[28:54] or at least after we have our study
session.
[28:58] » Yeah.
>> It was very helpful. I just want to
[29:01] thank you.
>> Good. That's appreciate that.
[29:07] » Questions for Jason? Nope.
Thank you.
[29:12] All right. I'm going to move us into
close session here at 9:29.