WEBVTT 00:00:00.642 --> 00:00:08.701 - Okay, it's, even though our clock's gone, it is five o'clock and let me call this meeting of the Utility 00:00:08.701 --> 00:00:16.914 - Services Board to order for Monday, March 9th. And to get started, we'd like to welcome our newest member, 00:00:16.914 --> 00:00:24.590 - Mr. Graham McKean. He'll be joining us. Just been appointed by our city council. We sure appreciate 00:00:24.590 --> 00:00:29.502 - that. Graham, if you'd just take a moment to introduce yourself 00:00:29.762 --> 00:00:35.918 - Let us know a little about your background. It would be great. Thank you, Kurt. Good to see you. Graham 00:00:35.918 --> 00:00:42.014 - McKean, previously with IU for the last 20 years. My background is in public and environmental health. 00:00:42.014 --> 00:00:47.933 - I have a degree in environmental management and sustainability. And I have since done a lot of work 00:00:47.933 --> 00:00:53.852 - with the university and now with the State Department of Health in various public and environmental 00:00:53.852 --> 00:00:58.942 - health programs, everything from food safety to recreational water to drinking water. 00:00:59.394 --> 00:01:06.857 - to community disease, hazardous waste. So also taught at IU for 10 years in environmental health science 00:01:06.857 --> 00:01:14.107 - course. And so know a lot about water systems, wastewater systems, how they work. But this is all new 00:01:14.107 --> 00:01:21.712 - to me. I'm just very excited to learn more and assist any way I can. Graham, we welcome you. We're awfully 00:01:21.712 --> 00:01:28.606 - glad to have you. I had a chance to work with Graham five years ago as we went through the COVID 00:01:29.506 --> 00:01:38.686 - journey and we depended on Graham for his updates and reports every day, sometimes twice a day, as the 00:01:38.686 --> 00:01:47.865 - university made the strategic decisions that it did. We depended heavily on Graham's latest day-by-day 00:01:47.865 --> 00:01:57.758 - updates and I'm excited that you'll be able to provide that kind of expertise that you've built over the years 00:01:58.338 --> 00:02:05.081 - for the City of Bloomington and our rate payers and our consumers. And you're one of them, so we're 00:02:05.081 --> 00:02:11.891 - glad to have you. Welcome. Thank you. Yeah. Well, are there any petitions or communications? Whoops. 00:02:11.891 --> 00:02:18.836 - Oh, I've got to get to the mission statement here, yes. Sorry about that. Just to remind everyone, our 00:02:18.836 --> 00:02:26.590 - mission at the City of Bloomington Utilities is to enhance the quality of life in our community by providing safe, 00:02:27.042 --> 00:02:34.087 - sustainable, high quality drinking water, wastewater, and stormwater services in a cost effective manner, 00:02:34.087 --> 00:02:40.932 - promoting public health, environmental and economic vitality and environmental stewardship. Our vision 00:02:40.932 --> 00:02:47.644 - is that CBU will be the leading municipal water utility organization in Indiana. And just a reminder 00:02:47.644 --> 00:02:54.489 - for our board members, if they have any personal and financial conflict with any issues or individuals 00:02:54.489 --> 00:02:55.486 - on the agenda, 00:02:55.746 --> 00:03:04.585 - then please be sure to recuse yourself during those portions of the meeting. And with that then, we'll 00:03:04.585 --> 00:03:13.252 - start with any petitions and communications from the public. Any input from the public? Things to be 00:03:13.252 --> 00:03:22.349 - brought to us? All right then, next is approval of the minutes from the previous meeting. That's February 00:03:22.349 --> 00:03:23.550 - 23rd of 2026. 00:03:26.722 --> 00:03:39.384 - hear a motion to approve. Second. Any other discussion? All in favor say aye. Motion carries. The minutes 00:03:39.384 --> 00:03:51.926 - are approved. Next is the approval of standard invoices get to the claims. And today's standard invoices 00:03:51.926 --> 00:03:53.598 - total 798,000 00:03:54.210 --> 00:04:07.520 - $780.01. Any questions about the standard invoices for today? All right, do I hear a motion to approve? 00:04:07.520 --> 00:04:20.958 - Second. All right, it's been moved and seconded. All in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? All right, standard 00:04:20.958 --> 00:04:23.902 - invoices are approved. 00:04:24.354 --> 00:04:35.851 - our standard utility bills, utility claims list, totaling $88,132.76. I move that we approve the utility 00:04:35.851 --> 00:04:47.458 - claims list. Second. All right, any discussion on utility claims? All in favor say aye. Aye. All opposed? 00:04:47.458 --> 00:04:53.918 - Motion carries for utility bills. Next are wire transfers. 00:04:54.338 --> 00:05:07.814 - for March of 26, dated the ninth day of March, for $651,647.56. I move that we approve the wire transfers. 00:05:07.814 --> 00:05:22.046 - Second. We moved and second. And any other discussion about wire transfers? All in favor, say aye. Aye. Opposed? 00:05:23.010 --> 00:05:34.652 - All right, the wire transfers are approved. Next on the agenda is customer refunds for March 13th of 00:05:34.652 --> 00:05:46.410 - 2026, totaling $3,892.26. Any questions on those refunds? Look like we have one vendor there that got 00:05:46.410 --> 00:05:48.254 - caught up with. 00:05:51.714 --> 00:05:59.685 - That actually was my question. What happened with the Hunter property, or Hoosier Court property, that 00:05:59.685 --> 00:06:07.578 - there were so many refunds? It's just us going back and cleaning up those inactive accounts, and they 00:06:07.578 --> 00:06:15.781 - just had several accounts that were inactive. Interesting. That's quite a bit of money for us. Wonderful. 00:06:15.781 --> 00:06:21.662 - Thank you. Yeah, no problem. So in that instance, the property manager pays 00:06:21.922 --> 00:06:30.913 - bills, not the tenant? That's my understanding, yes. Thank you. OK, any further discussion on customer 00:06:30.913 --> 00:06:40.078 - refunds? All in favor, say aye. Oh, you have the motion, sorry. Yes. I move that we approve the customer 00:06:40.078 --> 00:06:48.544 - refunds. Second. OK, it has been moved and seconded. Any discussion further on customer refunds? 00:06:48.544 --> 00:06:51.774 - All in favor, say aye. Aye. Opposed? 00:06:52.834 --> 00:07:02.422 - All right, customer refunds are approved. And let's see, those are all done there. Our next item is 00:07:02.422 --> 00:07:12.682 - the approval of the consent agenda. And we'll call on, I think, right, call on Kat for that. Good evening. 00:07:12.682 --> 00:07:22.462 - I'm Katherine Zegar, utilities director. I'm presenting tonight's consent agenda totaling $10,774.29. 00:07:23.842 --> 00:07:33.525 - The slide is not updated. The first contract is with Electric Plus Inc. for $4,932 to run cables for 00:07:33.525 --> 00:07:44.071 - data for the new EV charger to the data closet. Next is with Brehab Corporation for $5,842.29 for replacement 00:07:44.071 --> 00:07:50.974 - of VFDs for solids feed pump at the Dillman wastewater treatment plant. 00:07:51.970 --> 00:08:00.499 - Are there any members who wish to consider one or more of these items individually? Hearing none, if 00:08:00.499 --> 00:08:09.028 - there is no opposition, these items will be approved as recommended by staff. Hearing no opposition, 00:08:09.028 --> 00:08:17.557 - the consent agenda is approved. Okay, thank you. The consent agenda is approved, and it's an updated 00:08:17.557 --> 00:08:20.766 - number from what we had on the slide. 00:08:21.346 --> 00:08:30.086 - Next item is the request for approval of on-call service agreement with Springfield Electric Supply 00:08:30.086 --> 00:08:39.088 - Company, and Jose will report on that. Good afternoon, board members. My name is Jose Fuentes. I'm the 00:08:39.088 --> 00:08:48.352 - purchasing manager here at CBU. We are requesting an on-call contract with Eco Plus, sorry, Eco Electric. 00:08:48.352 --> 00:08:50.974 - They do low and high voltage, 00:08:51.266 --> 00:09:02.819 - work and what's extremely important is the high voltage for us because of our plants and the station 00:09:02.819 --> 00:09:14.715 - and booster stations. All right. Any questions for Jose? All right. I move that we approve the contract 00:09:14.715 --> 00:09:17.918 - with Echo Electric. Second. 00:09:18.914 --> 00:09:28.390 - All right, it's been moved and seconded. Any further discussion? All in favor, say aye. Aye. Opposed? 00:09:28.390 --> 00:09:38.145 - All right, motion carries. Thank you. Next then is the request for approval of on-call service agreement 00:09:38.145 --> 00:09:46.878 - with Harmony Acres Incorporated, also known doing business as Value Fence Company. Jose. Yes. 00:09:47.202 --> 00:09:53.097 - I'm requesting this on-call contract with Value Fence. As you all know, we've had some storms in the 00:09:53.097 --> 00:09:58.991 - past couple of years that have done some damage, and this is just a safety, security concern for me, 00:09:58.991 --> 00:10:05.411 - and I just thought it would be important to have something like this. These are for fences at our facilities? 00:10:05.411 --> 00:10:10.430 - Yes, that are plants, booster stations, lift stations, and even here at CBU services. 00:10:17.666 --> 00:10:27.532 - services agreement with Harmony Acres? Second. It's been moved and seconded. Any other discussion on 00:10:27.532 --> 00:10:37.399 - this contract? All in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? All right, motion carried. And let's see, next is 00:10:37.399 --> 00:10:47.070 - the request for approval of on-call service agreement with Water Solutions Unlimited Incorporated. 00:10:47.330 --> 00:10:56.503 - Jose. Thank you again. Uh, this is for on-call, uh, services with, uh, water solutions. They work on 00:10:56.503 --> 00:11:05.585 - pumps fittings and they also do minor repair on, on our pumps as well. This would be for our plants 00:11:05.585 --> 00:11:14.939 - as well as our booster and lift stations. Okay. Jose, uh, this says it's got an expiration date of May 00:11:14.939 --> 00:11:16.574 - 31st of 26. Yeah. 00:11:23.106 --> 00:11:35.534 - What's, how long is the period? It's a one year with three. It's a one year term that will expire in 00:11:35.534 --> 00:11:47.839 - March of next year with two renewal periods for a total of three years. Okay. Am I on the right one 00:11:47.839 --> 00:11:52.638 - here? It will expire March 27th. Okay. 00:11:54.178 --> 00:12:02.659 - Electric Plus, right? Water Solutions, Water Solutions, okay. That one's correct. It's next one that's 00:12:02.659 --> 00:12:10.893 - off. Yeah, go ahead. So looking at the agreement, I see they're based out of Minnesota. So I'm just 00:12:10.893 --> 00:12:19.209 - wondering, are there local people here that are able to do that? Or they come from Minnesota here to 00:12:19.209 --> 00:12:23.902 - do this work? If I'm not under the impression there's a, 00:12:24.354 --> 00:12:35.353 - one of their companies is based out of Indianapolis. That's the main headquarters, correct. Okay, 00:12:35.353 --> 00:12:46.801 - thank you. All right, anything else? Second. Okay, it's been moved and seconded for the approval. Any 00:12:46.801 --> 00:12:53.086 - further discussion? All in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? 00:12:54.338 --> 00:13:05.786 - motion carries and now we're to the request for approval of emergency contract with electric plus and 00:13:05.786 --> 00:13:17.233 - Hector will be joining us for that one and that's the one I noticed that on the cover memo we need to 00:13:17.233 --> 00:13:23.294 - make a correction it looks like I think is it if it's 00:13:24.098 --> 00:13:35.592 - Good afternoon, Hector Ortiz, City and Director of Operation. This contract was for an emergency that 00:13:35.592 --> 00:13:46.860 - happened February 5th, electric plus, we had a transformer that blew up the breakers, and we have a 00:13:46.860 --> 00:13:52.382 - certified, we have three certified electricians. 00:13:52.610 --> 00:14:04.280 - from Electric Plus who went there and make it work for that night and we're still using it so happy 00:14:04.280 --> 00:14:16.299 - to answer any questions. Okay so then that is correct then that the contract would expire by May 31st. 00:14:16.299 --> 00:14:18.750 - All right very good. 00:14:19.586 --> 00:14:26.239 - Well, that could be that. Yeah, that's I think that's what threw me off. The due date for signature 00:14:26.239 --> 00:14:33.157 - is March 9th of twenty five. Chris Wheeler was city legal. That cover memo is not part of the contract. 00:14:33.157 --> 00:14:40.010 - It's for your information. And I look at a lot of cover memos and sometimes I put wrong dates on them. 00:14:40.010 --> 00:14:47.195 - That should be for twenty twenty six. Right. Due date today. That's all that's going on there. So apologies 00:14:47.195 --> 00:14:48.126 - for the typo. 00:14:48.450 --> 00:14:57.063 - It isn't like we just do one or two things a meeting. There's a lot here. Thank you, Chris, for the 00:14:57.063 --> 00:15:05.677 - update there. I didn't think my eyesight was going too bad there yet. Good deal. All right. I think 00:15:05.677 --> 00:15:15.582 - we're ready for a motion. I move that we approve the request for contract with Electric Plus Incorporated. Second. 00:15:16.226 --> 00:15:27.016 - has been moved and seconded to approve this contract for the transformer switch bypass at Dillman. Any 00:15:27.016 --> 00:15:37.282 - further discussion? All right, all in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion is approved. Thank you. 00:15:37.282 --> 00:15:43.358 - Thank you. Okay, next is the approval of resolution 26-04 00:15:43.746 --> 00:15:52.818 - which is the bid acceptance and contract award for the mineral water treatment plant, transformer replacement 00:15:52.818 --> 00:16:01.148 - project, and Daniel Hudson will report. Dan? I'm Daniel Hudson, capital projects manager for city of 00:16:01.148 --> 00:16:09.396 - Bloomington utilities. And I'd like the board to consider resolution 2026-04 for the bid acceptance 00:16:09.396 --> 00:16:11.870 - and contract award to empower 00:16:12.258 --> 00:16:22.170 - to replace the very large VFD and transformer for the high service pump number one at Dillman. We had 00:16:22.170 --> 00:16:32.081 - three bids. We had a special board meeting right before the board on the 23rd, I believe. And Empower 00:16:32.081 --> 00:16:41.118 - came out to be the most responsive and responsible of the three bidders and also the lowest. 00:16:44.098 --> 00:16:58.050 - Great. All right. Any questions for Dan? Looks like some good work here. Okay. I move that we approve 00:16:58.050 --> 00:17:12.140 - the request for public work agreement with Empower Incorporated. All right. All in favor say aye. Aye. 00:17:12.140 --> 00:17:13.918 - All opposed? 00:17:15.490 --> 00:17:26.784 - Oh, yes, right now. We got to do the resolution first. Sorry, we're one ahead. So the resolution is 00:17:26.784 --> 00:17:38.304 - 2026-04. Yeah, for that one, yeah. I move that we approve resolution 2026-04. Second. All right, it's 00:17:38.304 --> 00:17:43.838 - been moved and seconded and really this explains 00:17:44.194 --> 00:17:52.104 - the project and gives a resolution that we've agreed to do it. You agreed to do it, okay, now we have 00:17:52.104 --> 00:18:00.478 - to. And then we'll get to the next one, so yeah. We have to vote. Yes. Call the vote. Any other discussion? 00:18:00.478 --> 00:18:09.086 - All in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? It's approved, the resolution. Now we'll get to the public works agreement 00:18:10.978 --> 00:18:21.933 - I'm Dan Hudson, Capital Project Manager for the City of Bloomington Utilities, and we have a contract 00:18:21.933 --> 00:18:32.996 - for Empower to do the replacement of the VFD and transformer at the Monroe Water Treatment Plant. This 00:18:32.996 --> 00:18:38.366 - is for high service pump number one. For 294,500. 00:18:43.138 --> 00:18:52.547 - that we approve the requests for Public Work Agreement within Power Incorporated. Second. All right, 00:18:52.547 --> 00:19:01.863 - it's been moved and seconded. Any further discussion or questions from Dan? All right, all in favor 00:19:01.863 --> 00:19:11.366 - say aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion carries. Thank you. Got some work to do. Thank you, Dan. Appreciate it. 00:19:11.366 --> 00:19:12.670 - Okay, next is 00:19:13.122 --> 00:19:19.856 - The request for amendment number three to the agreement with Commonwealth Engineers Incorporated. Kevin. 00:19:19.856 --> 00:19:26.590 - Yeah, Kevin White, Capital Projects Coordinator. This is related to the ongoing lift station improvement 00:19:26.590 --> 00:19:33.196 - project. If you all remember, we had a fairly significant savings from the contractor. Instead of just 00:19:33.196 --> 00:19:40.123 - taking that money back, we've moved forward with additional work. And so this amendment to the Commonwealth 00:19:40.123 --> 00:19:41.726 - contract will go towards 00:19:41.858 --> 00:19:48.155 - design related to the Westwood lift station. We set up a flow monitor at that location, showed we've 00:19:48.155 --> 00:19:54.514 - got quite a bit more flow going into the lift station than originally anticipated. And then there was 00:19:54.514 --> 00:20:01.373 - some additional growth in the area. So between those two is going to take a significant amount of engineering 00:20:01.373 --> 00:20:07.358 - work to redesign that that lift station to accommodate the flows and the amendment for $30,430. 00:20:07.554 --> 00:20:14.836 - We'll bring the new not to exceed up to $697,600 and no cents. We'll also add one year to the expiration 00:20:14.836 --> 00:20:21.910 - date of the contract with Commonwealth. They've already began the design, but by the time they do the 00:20:21.910 --> 00:20:28.845 - design and there's a lead times for some of the parts, pumps and pipe, what not related to the lift 00:20:28.845 --> 00:20:34.878 - station, they felt comfortable with the year timeframe. Happy to answer any questions. 00:20:37.794 --> 00:20:46.056 - Questions? Lift station improvements? All right. I move that we approve the amendment number three on 00:20:46.056 --> 00:20:54.236 - the lift station improvement contract with Commonwealth engineers. Second. Okay, it's been moved and 00:20:54.236 --> 00:21:02.579 - seconded. Any further discussion? All in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? Okay, motion carries. Thank you. 00:21:02.579 --> 00:21:07.358 - Thank you. Thanks, Kevin. Next is the request for approval 00:21:07.714 --> 00:21:19.155 - of resolution 2026-03 to designate surplus property for auction or worthless surplus. Hello, Chris Wheeler, 00:21:19.155 --> 00:21:30.066 - City Legal. We as a board see this resolution roughly monthly. We didn't have one brought to the board 00:21:30.066 --> 00:21:35.998 - for February, but this is the February surplus list for 00:21:36.866 --> 00:21:45.473 - Items identified by CBU as either worthless surplus or items that are eligible for auction. And we would 00:21:45.473 --> 00:21:53.834 - ask the board to approve the resolution so that these items can be appropriately taken care of. Do we 00:21:53.834 --> 00:22:02.195 - do a normal auction? Regular auction? There are sites available online, government auction sites. The 00:22:02.195 --> 00:22:05.310 - city has an auction that it conducts. 00:22:06.658 --> 00:22:13.430 - I don't know how regularly they're doing that anymore but CBU will either designate an item for auction 00:22:13.430 --> 00:22:20.072 - and put it up for auction. First thing we do actually is we will make the items like office furniture 00:22:20.072 --> 00:22:26.648 - and other supplies and things like that that might still be worth some other department using. We'll 00:22:26.648 --> 00:22:33.485 - allow other departments an opportunity to take over those items and if they don't want them then they'll 00:22:33.485 --> 00:22:34.462 - go to auction. 00:22:35.074 --> 00:22:41.447 - The other items that are just worthless surplus, we discard. Very good. So items, let's say like the 00:22:41.447 --> 00:22:47.946 - vintage green filing cabinet, that might get some dollars. So like, do you leave that here or is there 00:22:47.946 --> 00:22:54.508 - the designated place with the city that you take that to? And then if somebody, or if it's tiered, like 00:22:54.508 --> 00:23:00.818 - if somebody buys it, they just show up and be like, I'm here for the vintage cabinet or what? Yeah, 00:23:00.818 --> 00:23:04.478 - if we auction it off, it's online. It'll stay here until, 00:23:04.802 --> 00:23:20.428 - first that buys it comes to pick it up on their own. Hey, that's gonna be a hot item about the third 00:23:20.428 --> 00:23:25.534 - week of August, let me tell you. 00:23:26.050 --> 00:23:37.176 - Kind of like our clock over there, isn't it? It won't be in the surplus sale. All right. Any other questions 00:23:37.176 --> 00:23:47.791 - for Chris? All right. All right. I move that we approve the request for this surplus property donation. 00:23:47.791 --> 00:23:55.038 - Second. All right. It's been moved and seconded. Any other discussion? 00:23:56.130 --> 00:24:06.853 - All in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? All right, that is our surplus property designated approved. Thank 00:24:06.853 --> 00:24:16.535 - you Chris. All right, next item then is any old business from the board? We need to discuss. 00:24:16.535 --> 00:24:23.198 - Any new business? Oh, we're gonna go to staff for old business? 00:24:24.066 --> 00:24:30.948 - Sure, I think this fits an old business. So we had our field hearing with the IURC on February 25th. 00:24:30.948 --> 00:24:37.899 - I think it went really well. We had good press attention from the B Square Bulletin afterwards. There 00:24:37.899 --> 00:24:44.917 - were three testimonies from the public, two of which were from the business community and one was from 00:24:44.917 --> 00:24:47.166 - Southern Monroe Water Authority. 00:24:54.434 --> 00:25:03.433 - One of the speakers from the business community was Eric Spoonworth from the Chamber of Commerce. Who 00:25:03.433 --> 00:25:12.432 - was the other? The owner of HeartWorks Spring. Owner of HeartWorks Spring. OK. OK. And then the other 00:25:12.432 --> 00:25:20.990 - person you said? That was Rodney Ira with Southern Monroe Water Authority. OK. Great. Thank you. 00:25:21.090 --> 00:25:27.664 - I've asked Kat this question in email, but that was not recorded, correct? So we can't watch that. The 00:25:27.664 --> 00:25:34.110 - public can't see that. It was just simply an in-person meeting. Yes. Okay. Thank you. I looked for a 00:25:34.110 --> 00:25:40.748 - recording. Yeah, I appreciate it. Thank you. They did record it, but I don't know if it becomes public. 00:25:40.748 --> 00:25:45.982 - I mean, they're not a video recording, but they had a transcriber there. Oh, yes. 00:25:46.434 --> 00:25:55.622 - court reporter. But not like a video recording. Thank you. I attended as well. And I've got some notes 00:25:55.622 --> 00:26:04.720 - on the three presentations. I don't have them with me. They're my other book. But can you give us the 00:26:04.720 --> 00:26:14.086 - clips notes? Well, I'd say there was the one speaker was what was his name that the first speaker Rodney 00:26:14.086 --> 00:26:15.870 - was really speaking 00:26:16.418 --> 00:26:26.390 - in favor about how we needed to do good work. Is that a good assessment? Yes. Okay. And then of course, 00:26:26.390 --> 00:26:36.074 - Eric Spoonmore from the chamber discussed the impact to the business community overall, particularly 00:26:36.074 --> 00:26:46.238 - the discussion about the fact that large users are going to have to absorb a very large percentage of the 00:26:46.530 --> 00:26:55.789 - the of the increase. And that's concerning from the economic development perspective. And then the owner 00:26:55.789 --> 00:27:04.871 - of Heartwork Brewing, she made a very good case about how this would be better phased if we could. But 00:27:04.871 --> 00:27:13.689 - of course, we couldn't, you know, I would have loved to explain I did before the meeting, discussed 00:27:13.689 --> 00:27:16.158 - with both of them about how 00:27:16.578 --> 00:27:27.193 - we can't do this by inflation adjustment each year, and so these four-year spans that we have to take 00:27:27.193 --> 00:27:37.809 - make it more difficult. But she was explaining the difficulties of operating in a small business with 00:27:37.809 --> 00:27:45.406 - the ups and downs, and how the IURC should take that into consideration. 00:27:46.402 --> 00:28:00.182 - And those are all good points. And it's a very official meeting that the state puts on. So very good 00:28:00.182 --> 00:28:12.734 - points by all three speakers. Thank you. All right. Any other old business, board or staff? 00:28:14.850 --> 00:28:23.361 - So I'm going to put this in old business as well. So on January 29th, the board meeting of January 29th, 00:28:23.361 --> 00:28:31.628 - this board approved an update to rules and regulations at section 24.2, adding a new measure that CBU 00:28:31.628 --> 00:28:39.977 - may consider for extension of sewer outside of city limits. I think there's been some discourse around 00:28:39.977 --> 00:28:42.814 - this recently, so I just wanted to 00:28:44.514 --> 00:28:52.709 - offer to answer any questions about it I was not able to attend that meeting but it's really just adding 00:28:52.709 --> 00:29:00.513 - a it identified a circumstance where we would allow for sewer extension outside of city limits very 00:29:00.513 --> 00:29:08.629 - specifically for development that's been identified by the city of Bloomington economic and sustainable 00:29:08.629 --> 00:29:09.566 - development 00:29:09.890 --> 00:29:17.049 - as a strategic economic development site that would contribute specifically to job creation and wage 00:29:17.049 --> 00:29:24.491 - growth. So I just wanted to make sure that was clear. I know that you had voted on this on January 29th, 00:29:24.491 --> 00:29:31.792 - and I'm sure there was great discussion then that I unfortunately missed, but I know there's been some 00:29:31.792 --> 00:29:39.518 - discourse around it, so I just wanted to make that clear and offer any additional discourse. Thank you, Kat. 00:29:39.618 --> 00:29:49.119 - Maybe you've seen some of the media reports about how the mayor's office is seeing this as an opportunity 00:29:49.119 --> 00:29:58.082 - to support large economic development projects. And glad that we could provide the support for that 00:29:58.082 --> 00:30:07.134 - back in January. Jim. But it is true that it still needs to meet the continuity requirement? No. No. 00:30:12.258 --> 00:30:22.247 - and it does not include residential. These are targeted economic development projects. Thanks for the 00:30:22.247 --> 00:30:32.334 - update. All right, next is new business. Any new business from the board? New business from staff? No? 00:30:32.334 --> 00:30:38.014 - Well, we just had a subcommittee, so subcommittee report. 00:30:41.250 --> 00:30:49.691 - two great presentations. The first was by Steve Stanford on the pretreatment program annual review. 00:30:49.691 --> 00:30:58.470 - In his presentation, he gave a background and history of the pretreatment program, the Clean Water Act, 00:30:58.470 --> 00:31:07.164 - and the objectives of that. We learned in his presentation that we are one of 47 municipalities in the 00:31:07.164 --> 00:31:10.878 - state that is designated as a control agent 00:31:11.138 --> 00:31:24.250 - which has the legal authority to oversee pretreatment in the area. With that, it controls funding, local 00:31:24.250 --> 00:31:37.862 - limits, significant industrial users, and enforcement response plans. Of note, there weren't many violations 00:31:37.862 --> 00:31:40.734 - in the violations that 00:31:41.026 --> 00:31:54.432 - were in there were corrected promptly. So very thorough report and another testament to our transparency 00:31:54.432 --> 00:32:08.094 - for our community. Then we had the state of the storm 2026 from Liz Carter in that she discussed the great 00:32:08.226 --> 00:32:20.258 - achievements of the MS4 program that she's headed for a couple of years. We had 21 outreach events in 00:32:20.258 --> 00:32:32.290 - 2025 which are educational events around the community with IU with schools and things like that. She 00:32:32.290 --> 00:32:37.598 - also discussed discharges and enforcement of 00:32:40.290 --> 00:32:51.758 - construction sites, pre-construction, post-construction. Let's see what else my note says. She also 00:32:51.758 --> 00:33:03.915 - established goals for 2026 which operates around improving the post-construction mandates and enforcement 00:33:03.915 --> 00:33:09.534 - as well. One thing of note that we had discussed 00:33:11.682 --> 00:33:22.460 - Last year, I believe, was permit fees. And in 2025, CBU was able to collect $10,000 in permit fees, 00:33:22.460 --> 00:33:33.454 - which was collected by nine permits that were issued. Already this year, in the two months in change, 00:33:33.454 --> 00:33:41.214 - we've had about 25 to 30. So the permit fees should increase this year. 00:33:42.178 --> 00:33:50.944 - As I said, another great presentation and testament to our transparency and our mission and goal of 00:33:50.944 --> 00:33:59.972 - being the premier utility in the state. It's a good report. Thank you, Seth. I think the environmental 00:33:59.972 --> 00:34:09.264 - committee heard a lot of good things today. It's a good update for 2026. Any questions for Seth or anyone 00:34:09.264 --> 00:34:11.806 - else that was in attendance? 00:34:14.850 --> 00:34:22.956 - Thank you. Any other subcommittee reports? I don't think we have any others since the last two weeks. 00:34:22.956 --> 00:34:31.300 - Staff reports? Yeah. So we would like to welcome Savannah Stillions, our newest communications operator, 00:34:31.300 --> 00:34:39.327 - and we would like to congratulate Christian Eberle, who is being promoted to utilities mechanic two. 00:34:39.327 --> 00:34:44.254 - Great. Congratulations. Good news. Thank you. Thank you, Kat. 00:34:44.674 --> 00:34:51.945 - Any other petitions or communications? All right. Matt, I'd sure like to thank the City Council for 00:34:51.945 --> 00:34:59.217 - your latest appointment. We're glad to have Graham with us. Thank you for your help getting getting 00:34:59.217 --> 00:35:06.707 - that through the process. Sure, briefly, we're excited about Graham's appointment as well. I apologize 00:35:06.707 --> 00:35:07.870 - that it took us 00:35:08.002 --> 00:35:14.160 - months to get through it we have a bit of a clunky process with interview committees and recommendations 00:35:14.160 --> 00:35:20.024 - that to do appropriate vetting that I think the board requires or warrants did take us a minute but 00:35:20.024 --> 00:35:26.005 - I'm glad we got there and I'm glad for Graham's service. Thanks Matt. Appreciate it. All right. Is it 00:35:26.005 --> 00:35:31.166 - really is it kind of baptism by fire that we just throw them into this or does somebody 00:35:31.362 --> 00:35:38.721 - meet with him to kind of say. We'll get together maybe but it will be after my first meeting. Rachel 00:35:38.721 --> 00:35:46.371 - has sent him a nice introductory memo with all the background and when we meet and scheduling and things 00:35:46.371 --> 00:35:53.730 - and I'm sure we'll set up a time with Chris to do the normal orientation. A nice packet of materials 00:35:53.730 --> 00:36:00.798 - to review as well. Fabulous. We haven't had a new board member in so long and I was kind of like 00:36:02.178 --> 00:36:09.608 - What do we do? You know? So I hope. Well, may hopefully will. And I guess just in terms of two, if there's 00:36:09.608 --> 00:36:16.830 - something that does come up, don't hesitate to ask and say, hey, you know, how are we doing this? Sure. 00:36:16.830 --> 00:36:23.357 - I'm sure I'll have more questions. Great. Thank you. And good question. Great. Welcome again, 00:36:23.357 --> 00:36:30.718 - Graham Graham. Any other items for our board? All right, then we'll stand adjourned. Thank you, everyone.