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.