- The utility's mission is to enhance the quality of life in our community by providing safe, sustainable,
- and high-quality drinking water, wastewater, and stormwater services in a cost-effective manner, including
- public health, economic vitality, and environmental stewardship. If any board member has any personal
- or financial conflict with any issues or individuals on the agenda, then please be sure to recuse yourself
- during those portions of the meeting.
- We will begin with petitions and communications. Are there any petitions or communications from the
- public? Okay, now we'll move along to the approval of the minutes of the previous meeting. All in favor,
- please say aye. Aye. All opposed, say nay.
- the approval of the claims. First, we have standard invoices for a total amount of $1,177,782.48. Are
- there any questions or comments on the standard invoices? Move approval of by... Standard invoices for
- November 21st. Second. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. All opposed, say nay.
- Standard invoices are approved. Moving along to the utility claims for a total amount of $259,190.07.
- Are there any questions or comments on the utility claims? I move approval of the utilities claims list
- for November 13th, 2025. Second. All in favor please say aye. Aye. All opposed say nay.
- The facility bills are approved. Next we have wire transfers for a total amount of $635,556.52. Are
- there any questions or comments on the wire transfers? I move approval of November 2025 wire transfers.
- Second. All in favor please say aye. Aye. All opposed say nay. Wire transfers are approved.
- And lastly, we have customer refunds for an amount of $2,084.47. Any questions or comments on the customer
- refunds? Is that a new number? Wait a minute. Yeah, there it is. I see the total. Okay. I move approval
- of the customer refunds for November 21st. Second. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. All opposed,
- say nay. Customer refunds are approved. Thank you all.
- Item five on our agenda is the approval of consent agenda. Catherine Zager. Good evening, I'm Catherine
- Zager, utilities director. I'm presenting tonight's consent agenda totaling $29,683 for non-chemical
- contracts. First is with BL Anderson Co Inc. for $3,292 for the annual flow meter calibration at Monroe
- Water Plant.
- Next is with commercial service of Bloomington Inc. for $12,181 for HVAC service at Service Center.
- Next is with Bledsoe, Rigert, Cooper, and James Inc. for $960 for Dillman Landfill Monitoring Well Survey.
- Next is with the National Salvage and Service Corporation for $6,300
- for fiberglass, fluoride tank removal and disposal and mineral water treatment plant. Next is with Carol
- Fish Inc. for $6,950 for the replacement of an HVAC system in the solids building at the Dillman Wastewater
- Treatment Plant. Next is with the C.I. Thornburg Co. Inc. or Sitco Water for $1.87 a pound for the 2026
- supply of polymer
- K144L-NA at Blucher Wastewater Treatment Plant. The next is with CI Thornburg Company, Inc. or Sitco
- Water at $1.72 per pound for the 2026 Supply of Polymer Prestal, K275KLX at the Dillman Wastewater Plant.
- The next is with CI Thornburg Co, Inc.
- Orcica water for $1.70 a pound for the 2026 supply of polymer, which is Prestol K110LTR at Monroe Water
- Treatment Plant. Last is with Neo Water Treatment LLC for 84 cents a pound for the 2026 supply of Neo
- FX300 at Blucher Wastewater Treatment Plant. Is there any member who wishes to consider one or more
- of these items individually?
- Hearing none, if there is no opposition, these items will be approved as recommended by staff. Hearing
- no opposition, the consent agenda is approved. Item six, request approval of emergency contract with
- Comeline Sanderson Corporation. Mark Menafee. Hi, Mark Menafee, capital projects engineer.
- This contract with Comlan Sanderson is for them to review the operation of the filter belt press at
- the Monroe plant. We were having some difficulties with its performance so we called the manufacturer
- in to evaluate its performance and they gave us a report that the press was operating properly.
- And so we're still working out some details with that. It's $4,800, and they were just troubleshooting
- and repairing the belt filter press. Be happy to answer any questions. Questions or comments for Mark?
- Seeing none, do we have a motion to approve? We approve the contract with Comline Sanderson Corporation. Second.
- is approved, thank you. Thank you. Next we have a request approval of service agreement with Lane Christensen
- Company, Hector Ortiz Sanchez. Hello, good evening. Hector, City and Director of Operation. This contract
- is to Fort Lane
- to come to the water intake, pull the motor of pump number four, get a review, and then install it back.
- Happy to answer any questions. The contract with Lane Christiansen Company for the low service number four
- motor rebuild and reinstall. Second. All in favor please say aye. Aye. All opposed say nay. Request
- is approved. Thank you. Thank you. Next we have request approval of service agreement with
- Wessler Engineering Incorporated. Markman.
- Mark Menafee, Capital Projects Engineer. I have two contracts with Wessler tonight. The first one is
- for the design and bid documents for replacing the filter media at the Dillman plant. Simply that is
- the removal of the gravel and sand filter media, take out the old, bring in the new.
- That contract is $28,500 to Westler Engineering. Be happy to answer questions. Mark, don't cover memo.
- I think just for the record, what we've got is a record destruction date of October 31st of 2025. That's
- probably 35. I'm not sure, but. It's 26. 26. Yeah, I have a corrected memo.
- typos in there yeah the one I think we got in the packet didn't have the full summary either but on
- the online packet but yeah the online packet had the whole thing but though the one we got in our summary
- packet the summary part of the summary was left off yes there were a couple versions went out apologize
- for that okay
- But this is for a fairly simple job to replace filter media gravel and sand and replace I had to dig
- a little bit to find it Mm-hmm the description right I agree Ten to fifteen years And it just gets it
- gets clogged up over time this is what removes all the material to clean up
- the water before we discharge it. You said the record destruction date you saw one where there was showed
- 2025? Yeah. Yeah. So the destruction date is 10 years after the expiration of the contract. And that
- is just something that we internally try to keep track of. It doesn't affect the contract itself. So
- that would have been just a typo on the cover memo. Yeah.
- You got it correct in your office. Yes. Yeah, we have a spreadsheet completely separate from this cover
- memo that keeps track of every one of our contracts throughout the year. And incidentally,
- just for fun, this is the first year since I've been with the city where we've exceeded a thousand contracts
- for the year. So just thought I'd say that. I mean, the same way. Yeah.
- I move approval of the contract with Wechsler Engineering for the redesign for the gravity filter at
- Dillman. Second. All in favor please say aye. Aye. Opposed say nay. The request is approved. We have
- another one. Yes. The second contract we have with Wechsler Engineering and I wanted to explain why
- they're separate. The media replacement is a fairly straightforward.
- project, there are just certain contractors that will take care of that kind of work. The second contract
- we have is to replace some flow meters and to do some electrical work. So this would be electrical
- contractors, mechanical contractors, and so we kept those two projects separate because they'll be bid
- separately with different contractors.
- So this contract is worth $42,000 with Westler Engineering and be happy to answer any questions. With
- Wexler Engineering.
- request approval of amendment number one to service agreement with that environmental Chris Wheeler.
- Hello, Chris Wheeler with City Legal. This is an extension of an agreement that the board reviewed and
- approved not too long ago. We're just extending the time out to the end of the year and increasing the
- not to exceed amount to cover costs for that environmental to continue doing additional
- review and retrieval of documentation, organization getting it to our litigation counsel for their review
- in answer of discovery requests and productions of documents that have been asked by the Leonard's-Lennon
- attorneys. So we're in the discovery phase and we're just simply trying to gather and share information
- one party to the other. That's what this contract is about, this amendment to the contract and I ask
- for approval. I move approval of the
- Amendment to the agreement for professional services with vet engineering Yes, you as a board see this
- request roughly monthly it's cbu's
- desire to cull through its equipment, its assets and determine if anything is surplus and then either
- try to sell it through the state's auction platform or if it is worthless to have it discarded. And
- this simply is the request for this month for that very thing to have various items surplused.
- I move approval of resolution 25-22 to designate surplus property. I do have just a quick comment. I
- know since these happen about every month, maybe just like an annual report at the end of the year that says,
- We sold nothing or we made $75. I don't know. Just that would be nice. Thank you. Okay, thank you. Old
- business from staff. New business from staff.
- We didn't have a subcommittee today. Staff reports. Yeah. We have a welcome to Alexander Myselovic,
- who is our new operator at Monroe Water Treatment Plant. So welcome, Alexander. We want to
- extend congratulations to Carson Swilford, who
- is our pre-treatment program inspector who successfully completed the wastewater operator class four
- and class D exams. And to Brent Solberg who is a utility specialist to an environmental who earned his
- pesticide management certificate. So congratulations and welcome. Thank you.
- Next, petitions and communications. Are there any petitions or communications from the public?
- I have one. I just wanted to announce I'm not seeking reappointment after 20 plus years. And so I didn't
- take the decision lightly. And it's just a time issue. And I had to cut something. I'm involved on three
- other boards. And I'm the executive director of a nonprofit now. And it's just a lot.
- I was pleaded with to give up something and this had to be it. Anyway, the point that I wanted to make
- was the composition of the board right now and its experience, the leadership and personal qualities
- of the board make it a really good time for me to feel good about this more than any time that I can
- remember. I have great confidence in this board.
- And the same can be said of staff. The experience, their characteristics and professionalism just make
- me feel really good about, you know, it's a good time to step away. You know, the oversight that I've
- provided in the past I don't feel is needed nearly as much. And I'll really miss everyone. I'll be back for the,
- not this next meeting, but the meeting that follows is probably a claims only meeting. Anyway, I just
- wanted to say thank you all, and it's been a privilege, an honor, and most always a pleasure. It's also
- been a privilege and an honor getting to work with you. Thank you so much, and you're definitely going
- to be missed on this board.
- It's a great experience and knowledge. It's going to leave a big hole in that chair there we're going
- to fill, huh? We'll find someone good. I've let the council know they need to get on it. Yeah, much
- appreciated for your service to our community, your leadership. You have been a valuable asset and resource
- for me and I'm assuming that I can speak for everybody on the board. Thank you very much. Yeah. Wow.
- Not a good way to transition from that, but do we have a motion for adjournment? I move we adjourn.