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