- We've got five o'clock. Let's call the Utility Service Board meeting of April 20th, 2026 to order. Our
- agenda today calls first for petitions and communications. Are there any petitions or communications
- from the public? All right, not seeing any. We'll go on to approval of the minutes of our April 6th
- meeting. Everybody's had a chance to take a look at those.
- Any additions or corrections? I have one correction. Yeah. Um, in the new business section where I express
- thanks of where the water main break was, it was actually at Rogers and winding Brook circle.
- That was the, that was the intersection. That's good. Anything else?
- Get that taken care of. The movement seconded. All in favor say aye. Opposed. All right. Minutes are
- approved. Next we'll go to standard invoices and it looks like standard invoices today.
- Total 1,000,040, let's see, 1,410,000. I'm gonna read that, 1,041,000. Yeah, 1,041,000. I need to get
- this bigger. Yeah, $655.14. Better wear my glasses, that would help too.
- We have two questions, both on page two. My first question, and these are both just like, please refresh
- us, give us an update. For Criter and Criter with the Catalan sewer infrastructure, I remember that
- being maybe a grant that paid for part of that project. And so we've already received the grant funds
- and then this is just the funneling out of that or our part of this.
- and then they're giving us a check. And we have been receiving the checks from the grant. Okay, great.
- Thank you. My second question under the next line for Crowe with our water rate case. I was just wondering
- if there's anything to share at this time. Oh, okay. We're working on our, we've submitted all of our
- testimony. We've gone through the rebuttal process and we're waiting for our, how do we call it, our
- hearing in early May.
- Anything else on standard claims? How many employees do we have that are maybe subject to that? Is that
- quite a bit?
- I would say about half of our employees probably. So noisy places. Yeah. And I also saw the charge for
- the total trihalomethane-halocytic acid analysis. I don't know. I know that those numbers were a concern
- maybe 18 years ago, and they've gotten better. I'm just wondering how they're looking now. I know we're
- coming out of the winter months when those levels are usually lower. But I don't know if we've consistently
- I'm seeing some higher rates or if those continue to be looking pretty good. I'm not sure. I don't think
- we've had significantly higher rates. Yeah. Thanks. Great. Yeah. Actually a follow up question to the
- question that that Megan asked. So the
- I noticed here there was a credit memo. So we're seeing credit credits on these, um, on the, on these
- reports every two weeks. Will we see a credit somewhere when Catalan pay, like when we get this grant
- money, does it show up on these? So why do some show and some not that I don't know. Cause that, that's
- a reimbursement. It's not an actual claim leaving.
- Okay. Right. So this we actually paid somebody money up front to do the work and then we're getting
- the grant money after the fact. Okay. But yet like we'll get a credit like a credit memo because we
- paid I don't understand why we'll see some credit memos like on page seven there is a credit memo for
- water solutions and we've seen other credit memos before so I guess I don't understand why we wouldn't
- get a credit back.
- It's shown somewhere. And where does that credit go? Well, we deposit the check, and then we offset
- the expense that we've incurred prior to them giving us the check. Because it's technically not a credit
- memo. It's a reimbursement. OK. Right? So we didn't technically buy anything from them that we returned.
- It's just we're doing the work, and we're putting the money out up front for them to pay us back.
- So then, I guess then,
- So what I hear you saying is that any of those situations where we're getting money back from a grant
- that we've done or some other type of agreement, we as the board will never see it on these claims.
- Correct. Okay. All right. Thank you. Yep. Anything else on standard invoices? Okay. I move that we approve
- the standard invoices.
- Seconded to approve standard invoices. All in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? All right, invoices for today
- are approved. Next are utility bills. And the total there is $281,354.78. Questions on utility bills?
- I move that we approve the utility bills. All right, moving in second for utility bills.
- Any other discussion? All in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? Utility bills are approved. Next are wire
- transfers in the amount of $599,455.54. Any questions on those?
- All in favor of approving wire transfers say aye. Opposed? All right motion carries everybody gets paid
- that's a good thing. Next our customer refunds and the total of customer refunds is $1,381.73. In the
- discussion on the refunds
- inactive accounts moved and seconded to approve the customer refunds all in favor say aye opposed all
- right motion carries refunds are approved next our credit cards and we have those listed and the total
- is nine thousand nine hundred fifty seven dollars
- and Sixth Sense. Any questions on those expenditures? Yeah. Is this something new or have I just not?
- The refunds? No, the credit cards. So what happens is the credit cards due out of the cycle for these
- meetings and so we have to do a special check run until it's not late. Okay, so this is a special check
- run, not a
- Okay, I understand. I was, I thought we were getting, I thought we were getting, now we have to get
- reports on what you guys spent on your credit cards. But no, this is really a special check. To pay
- the credit card, yes. But usually these are included in the standard invoices. If timing works, it is,
- yes. Sure, thank you. Okay. Thank you, that clarifies it. Okay.
- And moved and seconded. All in favor of the special check run for credit card, say aye. Aye. Opposed?
- All right, motion carries. Next then is the consent agenda approval. And we'll go to Kat for that. Good
- evening. I'm Katherine Sager, utilities director. I'm presenting tonight's consent agenda, totaling $7,750.
- The contract on the consent agenda is Wheeler Coaching Systems LLC for $7,750 for customer
- service communications training at the Utility Service Center. 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.
- Very good. Consent agenda is approved. Our first item then after that is a request for approval of the
- service agreement with on course Home Solutions LLC. And James Hall will give us the description of
- this proposal. Hi, I'm James Hall, Assistant Director of TND. What this is is, as you've heard from
- members of our community, we have an issue with cost replacement of sewer laterals from the main to
- the house, because they are responsible all the way from their house all the way to the sewer main,
- which typically runs in the middle of the road. And depending on where you live, that may become very
- costly. We have a whole committee, Molly is a part of that, to try to figure out how to kind of offset
- these costs. There's a large infrastructure cost to us to try to go out and do that all of ourselves.
- We've kind of stated an in-house policy as we're actually digging and replacing sewer mains that we
- will go ahead and extend, replace the laterals out to the right way with cleanouts and leave that for
- the customers as we go along. We're just not doing that on every sewer main. We've estimated that it
- would cost us around $70 million to do that. So we're hoping that this is kind of a stop gap for our
- residents and basically
- It's a private insurance agency that will provide insurance for folks for their sewer or sewer lateral
- or water service line on their side of it, whatever they're responsible for, from the meter to their
- house on the water or from the main to the house on the lateral.
- In as part of this agreement, we will provide them our customer information so that they have those
- customers and can reach out and they will use our branding and logos so that they will have that on
- the information that they're sending out so people understand that they're kind of they went through
- us and talked to us. And then the other thing about that is that we will approve all the marketing material
- that they send out. So before any of that sent out, our staff will kind of look over that and send it out.
- where we're at and I think in your packet there should have been kind of what it's gonna cost our residents
- for each of the services there. So if you have any questions and then also I believe Sarah and one of
- her colleagues is on the line if we have any more detailed questions or wanna know anything else. Okay,
- any questions?
- from the board. If you're having trouble finding in your packet, the monthly cost for the water line
- protection is 590. For the sewer line, it's 954. If you buy those together, it's 1250. And then if you
- wanted an add on in home plumbing, that's 899. For the water line, it covers $30,000 per occurrence.
- That includes $15,000 for infrastructure. So that's the sidewalk or whatever that may be. And then $15,000
- for the line
- In my experience, that $15,000 for the service line repair will be more than enough, especially on the
- water side, and that 15K should be way more than enough to service any of the infrastructure costs,
- especially sidewalks and things of that nature. On the sewer side, it's the same kind of breakdown.
- Again, the material labor costs, that should be sufficient. That $15,000, the infrastructure, maybe not,
- It depends on where you live and where that sewer main lies relative to your house. But for the most
- part, it will offset a large portion of that. The other thing that may be of note within their thing
- is the customer must be signed up for their program for I think 30 days and Sarah can correct me if
- that's wrong. Yeah, Amanda. First of all, I'm really glad that we are doing this and I do hope that
- the public will
- take some interest in purchasing this, I mean, it's insurance. It's a gamble. It may or may not happen,
- but when it does happen, it's very, very costly to a homeowner. So for all of those who are out there
- listening, and as you start to see these, this is a legitimate program, and it is something that you
- do not want this expense without an insurance. One of the questions I had, is this policy, or are these policies
- only being offered to homeowners? Are they being extended to business owners? I believe so. I believe
- if you are a customer in our with us that you can purchase this. Sarah, that's correct. Yes,
- this is Sarah. Nice to meet you. I'm the business development director for the central region.
- And yes, so we primarily focus on homeowners and so that would be the folks who would be receiving our
- communication. So a question for you. I'm a landlord and I own properties that are on CBU billing. So
- is my cost the same if I have an apartment complex that has 38 units in it and one sewer?
- We don't cover apartment complexes, so we can do duplexes, for example, but we focus on single-family
- homes as our primary customers. But if you are a landlord for a single-family home, you are able to
- purchase this program for your rental unit. And I guess so then my next question, my follow-up question
- is, is there some sort of program available
- There are buildings that are going to have, there's multi-unit apartment complexes all throughout
- Bloomington, but there are also several, as you mentioned, duplexes, which that's great. But there are
- some that are, I'll give you an example. It is one home has three separate units in it. We get a bill
- for that. We pay for that.
- And we are on trash, because it's less than three units, or three or less units, we also pay for trash
- pickups. So that would not be eligible. I believe we can service up to four connections within a residence
- or a unit. So I believe that that would be covered. And Jeff, you can chime in if I'm mistaken. That's
- exactly right.
- just the larger buildings that our product does not cover. But it's certainly something we could explore
- and partner as a future state. OK. If one wanted to inquire about properties and getting this on, what
- would they need to do? Oh, so how would a resident enroll in our program? Sure. Is that OK? Well, I
- guess a resident, but also I'm thinking in terms of landlords,
- who have these, you know, landlords, small businesses that own a restaurant that's in a house that is,
- you know, like our Fourth Street restaurant, they would be eligible or no? Jeff, any considered commercial?
- Yeah, so I can take this. So as James mentioned, and I'm Jeff Ellis, I'm Senior Vice President here
- at OnCourse. So thank you so much for having us today.
- So we will be getting a customer list from the CBU and then we will be preparing marketing materials
- that, as James mentioned, get approved by the CBU and are designed for education. As you mentioned,
- these are things that are optional and we just need to educate people of what they're
- responsibilities are and let them make the choice that is right for them, right, and their risk tolerance.
- And articulate what is and is not covered very clearly. So in the case that you mentioned, and as Sarah
- mentioned, the program is primarily designed for single family dwellings. We can accommodate up to four
- units. So it just depends on the structure. If it is commercial,
- You know, we can work with CBU to figure out what exactly would be covered so that we're sending the
- right materials to the right, you know, eligible party. Right. That's great. Because again, you know,
- the restaurants on 4th Street are, you know, have singles hookup to those houses. And if we could offer
- this to homeowners, why couldn't we also offer it to business owners that are in those situations?
- And in many cases, you'll find that there are rental units above the restaurants in the home that's
- on the street. So I would encourage us to do that. I think it's wonderful that we're doing it for single
- family and homeowners. But there is another market here that may find it very beneficial to have this
- type of opportunity of insurance for them. Fantastic.
- Jeff and Sarah, I think what you're hearing is our customer base is a little different than a lot of
- the municipalities that you probably work with. We have a high number of rental units because we're
- a college town, and you've probably been exposed to that kind of customer mix. But for us, it's a big
- part of our customer base because
- Over half of the Indiana University students live off campus in different types of rental units, from
- single family to very large buildings. So yeah, it's something we have to take a look at to represent
- all of our rate payers. I have a couple. So this is maybe kind of an offshoot of Amanda's, and maybe
- it was answered, and I just didn't get it in my mind.
- So I know that many of the single-family homes that are rentals in our community are in the tenant's
- name for their utility bill. And I think that the property owner would probably want the insurance.
- So for the CBU, just thinking about how, I mean, maybe you already have a plan, but how will that be
- rolled out to the property owners when they're not the ones paying the utility bill each month? And
- then to confirm,
- This program is kind of, you know, approval through the CBU, but if a claim is made, you know, the contacts
- will be made with them. The work will be done by them. We are not completing the work. Correct.
- Thank you. And then when do we, I know that policy owners would have 30 days to be under the policy
- before they'd be eligible for a claim. When do we anticipate a rollout of our first customer signing up?
- Well, we're doing a kickoff meeting next week. And then I know we have a timeline somewhere. It's fairly
- quick. Okay. Thank you. Yeah. Yeah. So hopefully in June, is that, does that sound about right? Sarah?
- Yes. It's eight weeks after contract signature. So when we will be ready for you. Okay. Thank you.
- You know, Megan, that's a really good point because the
- property owner would normally not get this mailing since, yeah, we're gonna have to work on that. Yeah,
- we're trying to figure out how we do that. A lot of the accounts, we kind of, you know, Brian who works
- in engineering has a lot of point of context when we have this issue of who actually owns the property
- and we're trying to say, hey, you have an issue on the renter side that it needs addressed. Yeah.
- Cause I can see some of the, some of the landlords would be very interested in this. That cost isn't
- going to go to their tenants. That cost is something that's going to go to them to the property owner.
- Yeah. Yeah. The tenant 98% of the time, unless some kid goes out and drill something into, you know,
- into it and cause that problem, you know, a majority of these things are due to, you know, age,
- They're due to some other construction company making a mistake. It's very rarely the owner intentionally
- doing something to ruin their pipelines. And to address your question a little more about who will be handling
- I had a couple long conversations with the city of Fort Wayne. They use this program to talk about,
- you know, because we were like, well, really, how much time are we going to have to spend on it? And
- they said they've been doing the program, I think, for five years, a little over five years. And I talked
- to the customer service manager and she was like, you know, every once in a while, even at the beginning,
- we had to, you know, know this is who you need to contact. But it wasn't an immense amount of time because
- we were concerned about that as well, about how much time we would
- have to run interference. And they said it was very minimal. And since we'll be providing a list of
- our customers, then we'll on course provide a list back of people who have signed up for the program.
- Will we know we'll know that? I believe so. Yeah. Yeah. Thank you. Okay. Question I had was, you mentioned
- Fort Wayne,
- And have you checked with some other cities to see how this program has worked with them and what their
- feedback has been from customers? Mostly Fort Wayne. We included, I think maybe in the presentation
- there was a thing about Detroit because we had some concern about in our conversations about who would
- actually, people who have maybe can financially afford to replace these things would be the only ones
- utilizing it and they had a very good case study in Detroit where
- these different economic classes were actually utilizing it even better than we thought they would be.
- But just personal communication was just with Fort Wayne, was the only one that I spoke with. Did they
- report pretty good customer service satisfaction from the company? Yeah, their numbers were a little
- lower than they had hoped in getting people on there, but they had never made a strong push to push
- people to it, and that they were going to actually do that this year.
- to try to get people to sign up. They had never made an effort to do that. I can't remember if they
- were, where they were at in those numbers. I think it was around 5,000 is the number they were at. Okay,
- and the other concern I have is since we're sharing this information with an external entity, it'd be
- good to know what kind of protections on course
- has and what's in what what provisions we have for them limiting the use of this information and security
- for their databases. Maybe Sarah or Jeff could help us with that. Yeah, sure. I'm happy to elaborate
- a little bit more. So great questions. And I was purposely not trying again to let the dialogue continue.
- Just for a little bit more context on who we are and our scale, so we actually came out of utility.
- We were out of American Water, which you probably have heard of, and also NYCOR, which is Southern Company.
- So we are very, very used to very tight data security, data privacy, and extremely tight regulatory scrutiny.
- We actually are the exclusive endorsed partner for the National League of Cities, which probably some
- of you have heard of, represents kind of the interests of cities, towns, and villages across the US.
- And actually just won that in January for our customer service, our customer experience, and for the
- other cities that we serve. So you mentioned Fort Wayne and Detroit. We power this program for New York.
- Baltimore, Pittsburgh, Phoenix, Vegas, Wilmington, Delaware, and many others. So we've got over 2 million
- customers, 95% customer satisfaction. And yes, we definitely have all sorts of top-notch security and
- data privacy. Since we are go-to-market, it's through utilities just like CBU. And are there provisions
- in place, Jeff,
- you do not share this information outside your organization? 100%. Okay. All right. Other questions?
- Yeah, Megan. This would be more for here. So say that $5.90 per month for the water line, correct? Mm-hmm.
- Okay. And then $9.54 for the sewer. So regardless of how big your property is, how far your water sewer
- line is from your house to the connection,
- This is the price, this is what you'll receive, regardless if you're in the city or the county, if you're
- a customer for this, this is the price. Okay, thank you. Okay, anything, any other questions? All right.
- I move that we approve the agreement with On Course Home Solutions. Moved and seconded, any other discussion?
- All in favor say aye. Aye.
- Opposed? All right, motion carried, thank you. You're welcome, thank you. Next is the request for approval
- of change order number one with TORC Engineering and Dan Hudson is here to discuss this one. Good afternoon,
- I'm Dan Hudson, Capital Project Manager for the City of Bloomington Utilities.
- Torik is our contractor for the Blue Tripul wastewater treatment plant that's doing the PLC and skate
- upgrades. It's a pretty big job, but during the construction process, they found a spare conduit in
- the back of the administration building.
- that we can use to run our wires out. Before that, we thought we were gonna have to dig a trench and
- bury it and do concrete work. So we're taking that off of their job. And so we get a savings of $23,562
- for a new not to exceed $827,857.
- Did you get that right? They also would like an extension at time for a month. Was it going to be at
- the end of May? Do you like to go to June? I think it's fine. Dan, the memo says extending to July,
- it looks like. There's two different dates. Oh, we do? OK. The bottom says July. And then in the memo,
- it says June 20. Oh, it's June. OK.
- June it is. June, yes. Oh, it does say July. Oh, sorry. It's all right. Well, as long as we approve
- June 26, we're good. Yeah, right. All right. Any questions for Dan? I hope that we approve the change
- order for Torque Engineering. All right. Any other discussion? All in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed?
- Motion carries. Hey, it's always good to save some money. Thank you, Dan. Next then is the approval
- of service agreement with Xylem Water Solutions. Xylem is the main, is the manufacturer name for our
- flight pumps. And those in the industry know the flight pumps is like the top pump that you can buy.
- It's really good pump. We have five of those in the,
- Influit pump station, Dillman. They've been there 18 years or so, and recently, it's called a MAS unit,
- but it's spelled M-A-S. I have to say that. I don't know why they pronounce it MAS, but it's M-A-S unit.
- And that unit takes the information from the pump, temperature, vibration, amp readings and everything, and then
- analyzes it and determines if the pump should run. Well, we had recently just one of those units broke,
- okay, and we tried to replace it. And you can't replace it, of course, with the existing unit. You have
- to buy a new, improved, upgraded unit. And so we've decided that if one is broken, we better do all of them.
- and we can't replace them ourselves. They have to be done by a xylem technician and they are asking
- $92,981 and 54 cents to do that. Okay. Any questions for Dan on this one? So there is a correction then
- to the memo.
- Because the contract does say moss unit, but it should be mass, moss, but M-A-S, capital M,
- capital A-S. I know, me too, because I thought... This is very difficult. Thank you. Well, so we don't
- have much moss in the... In the mass. In the Dillman plan, I guess.
- If we did, we're upgrading it to it, right? Yes, right, we're upgrading it. So they're new and approved.
- Okay, any other questions for Dan? All right. I know that we approved the contract with Xilin Water
- Solutions. Second. All right, moved and seconded. Anything else? All right, all in favor say aye. Aye.
- Opposed? All right, motion carries. I do want to say with that, a little addendum, that I'll be coming
- to the board for an addendum
- for contractors doing a PLC upgrade, and we're going to take that data and take it into our SCADA system
- so we can start using it for statistical process control, predicting maintenance, you know, some cool
- stuff that we're going to try to do. Right now it's not being used anywhere. It's just in the pump,
- and we're going to try to bring it into our system. Great. Okay.
- The next item on the agenda is the request for approval of revised service agreement within power. This
- one you have seen this contract before fact last board meeting and you're probably wondering why you're
- seeing it again. It's the same price for two hundred ninety four dollars two hundred ninety four thousand
- five hundred dollars. What happened in power.
- got the project and decided to look at it, read it. And they said, oh, there's a few things we'd like
- to change on it. And there was a couple of articles they changed. And they sent it back to me. And I
- gave it to legal. And legal looked at it and said, well, OK, it's not changing anything substantial
- in the contract. It's not changing the agreement.
- or anything, it's just some administrative words. So we've accepted what they ask us to do, but now
- it needs to be re-signed again. Okay. All right. Any discussion or questions? I move that we approve
- the revised work agreement with
- in Power Inc. All right, moving and seconded. Any other discussion? All in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed?
- All right, motion carries. Thank you. And our next item is request for approval of the change order
- number one within situ form technologies. I'm going to do that. You're going to do that? Okay.
- Phil couldn't make it this evening, so he asked me to do it. This project is done. It's just we're finishing
- up the paperwork, and we need to get some money back because we didn't do quite all of the project.
- It didn't need to be done. And so we are asking for a savings of $53,138.84. This is a lining project
- with its situation.
- All right, and I guess the question is, if we didn't do it all, do we still have more to do? No,
- it's done. We're done. Okay. It's one of these where they looked at it, they videoed it, then they did
- it, and they said, well, this really doesn't need to be done. Okay. It's plastic or something, you know.
- Right, right. And so, actually, that neighborhood is complete. Great. And we save $53,000. That's a
- good thing. Yeah, that's a good thing.
- And just since you said it, I'm just to clarify, we've not already paid and we'll be getting a refund
- for the $53,000. We just will deduct that from our final payment, correct? That's right. They don't
- pay us $53,000. Right. We just don't pay them. I just wanted to confirm because I... Right. Thank you.
- Exactly. Any other questions? Okay. All right. I move that we approve the
- change order with in situ form technologies. All right, it's been moved and seconded. Any other discussion?
- All in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? All right, motion carries then. You're done. Next is request approval
- of a service agreement with Troy risk incorporated. And looks like we're ready for this one.
- I'm not Kelsey Thetonia. I'm Liz Carter. I'm the MS4 program coordinator for the utility. And this contract
- is a request for environmental management services related to our 8th and Fountain detention pond project.
- Happy to take any questions. A retention pond at 8th and Fountain? Two of them. Two of them, okay.
- kind of curious what kind of environmental management services they provide. Great question. So when
- we did some soil sampling, it was a little, a little bit high for arsenic and lead. So they're going
- to oversee our soils management plan on site. And so this is a retention facility that we own and maintain.
- We haven't built it yet, but yes. Yes, it's two detention ponds and a little, a small piece at 8th and
- Fountain, a piece of property that we have there and we should be starting construction as soon as we
- finish up our permitting with other city departments, which I'm hoping to wrap up in the next couple
- of weeks and then we can get started. So there'll be sampling as we go then? In one small area, I believe.
- Okay. Yes. Do we have to get a certain clearance level before we can
- begin construction. Is that Kelsey? Unsure. Okay. All right. Other questions for Liz? All right. We
- approve the
- contract with Troy risk. All right. Then moved and seconded. Thank you. Any other discussion? All in
- favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? All right. Thank you. Thanks Liz. And then request for approval of the
- resolution to 2026-09 to designate surplus property for auction.
- Matt. We just have some pipe that we're wanting to scrap out. And so this one's pretty straightforward.
- OK. Any other questions for Matt on our surplus property designation here? All right. I move that we
- approve resolution 2026-09.
- All right, then moving to second, any other discussion? All in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? All right,
- resolution is approved. Next on the agenda is resolution 2026-10 to recommend an amendment to Title
- II of the Bloomington Municipal Code regarding loans between utilities. Looks like Chris is here for
- us. Good evening, Chris Wheeler with City Legal. Title II is where we
- find the utility service board's provisions in our Bloomington Municipal Code. And what this resolution
- is proposing is for the utilities to have flexibility to provide a loan from one utility to the other.
- Doesn't matter which one, both will be able to loan money to the other. If there's a situation where
- one utility is running a little bit short and the other one is flush, we can
- pass money to the other in a form of a loan. In order to do that, we have to have the common council
- pass an ordinance that reflects statutory language that would allow us then to be able to do these loans.
- So this is the first step, having the board make a recommendation to council for approval of the addition
- of a brand new section of Title II, which would allow us to start doing these loans. So it creates a
- cash reserve fund for each utility, and then over time, if we ever need it, we can make use of that
- loaning flexibility. This is sort of getting ready for the rainy day that may never come. But to give
- us that flexibility. Yes.
- Just for the record, this would be in addition to Title II, and this section would be, let's see, 2.24.091,
- titled Administration of Utility Monies, Cash Reserve Fund, and Loans Between Utilities. Absolutely,
- that's what Exhibit A is showing you. That's the language that we would propose. It is a paragraph that
- basically runs through the statutory provisions and would allow us then, once council passes that,
- New section of title two, once they do that, then we would have the ability to start funding the cash
- reserve funds and be in a position to be able to do loaning if we needed to. Okay. And it looks like
- Amanda might have a question. So thanks, Chris. So I have a question about this. Have we already been
- doing this or
- planning to do this and now we have not been doing this. I don't know whether previous iterations of
- we ever did this, but this is the way we are supposed to do it. I thought we've actually talked about
- it this year. We discussed the idea of wanting to loans. We've discussed the idea of wanting to do that.
- But in order to be able to do it, we have to take these steps. That's okay.
- So just to clarify, we have mentioned this on multiple occasions, I believe during our budget discussions.
- And we have been watching our water cash flow very carefully to prolong the amount of time before we
- would need to do something like this. And we still are
- You know, we don't need to pull the trigger right now on a loan. But these are the steps we need to
- take in order to be able to do that when or if we need to do it. Thank you. That's exactly what I was
- trying to get at. I guess I was kind of under the assumption that we were already borrowing funds, but
- we haven't. This is just what's getting put into place. So in the event that we do and we're following
- the rules of
- I'm sure when Chris was hearing all these ideas of what we were gonna do with loaning money,
- he was going, wait a minute, we have to do this a different way. So thank you, Chris, thank you. You're
- welcome. And I'm sorry, I didn't see your hand earlier. Oh, I, Chris just noticed my luck. There was
- no hand. Good. All right.
- Other questions about this resolution? New language? All right. I move that we approve resolution 2026-10.
- Second. All right, it's been moved and seconded. Any other discussion? All in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed?
- All right. Thank you. Thank you. Motion carries.
- Next on our agenda is old business. Is there any old business by the board? Old business by staff? No.
- New business from the board? New business from staff? Okay. Subcommittee reports. I don't think we have
- any today. No, but we did have a bid opening tonight. Yes. For the Dillman
- Wastewater Treatment Plant Filter Rehab. We had three bidders. Dan and team will be reviewing the bids
- and be back to us on May 4th with a recommendation. Very good. Thanks for covering that one for us.
- Staff reports? None. None? All right. Any other petitions or communications from the public or others here?
- Well, then that concludes our agenda. We'll stand adjourned. Thank you.