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.