Let's start with the mission statement. The City of Bloomington Utility's mission is to enhance the
quality of life in our community by providing safe, sustainable, and high quality drinking water, wastewater,
and stormwater services in a cost-effective manner, promoting public health, economic vitality, and
environmental stewardship.
Our vision is that CBU will be the leading municipal water utility organization in Indiana. And if any
board member has any personal or financial conflict with any issues or individuals on the agenda, please
be sure to recuse yourself during those portions of the meeting. All right. Do we have any petitions
and communications from the public?
First item is approval of the minutes of previous meetings. Does anyone have any comments? Is there
a motion to? I move that we approve the minutes from the previous meeting. Second. All in favor say
aye. Aye. All right, motion passes. Opposed?
Next is the approval of the claims, starting with the standard invoices for a total of $581,398.47.
Does anyone have any questions or comments?
I move that we approve the standard invoices. Second. All in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? All right,
motion passes. Next is the utility bills for a total of $11,639.37. Is there any questions or comments?
the utility bills from the previous meeting. All in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? All right motion passes.
Next is the wire transfers fees and payroll for a total of $581,113.33. Any discussion? I move that
we approve the wire transfers.
All in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? All right, motion passes. Next is the customer refunds for a total
of $2,946.41. Any comments or questions? I move that we approve the customer refunds. Second. All in
favor say aye. Aye. Opposed?
All right, motion passes. And I believe this is a special check run for a total of $2,349.68. Any questions
or comments? I move that we approve the special check run. Second. All in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed?
motion passes and we have one more special check run for IURC and the amount of $24,864. I'm so tired
today. $24,864.93. Any comments or questions? Yes. This I do have a question on. I understand everything
with our water
case. Approval. Why do we have to pay? I you are see I. Thank you, OK, so this is in addition to legal
fees. The state gets funds just just for this whole process. Yeah. And did we pay this before or is
this? It's like an I'm sorry. Did we make?
Did we have to make other payments during this process that I just missed it? Or this is this is a final
bill. Thank you. Thank you. Just out of curiosity, is there fee like a sliding scale based on the number
of customers that the utility serves or is that their flat fee? Okay, thank you. Just to repeat, if
we were not under I U R C, this would be a fee.
that we did not incur. Chris, you're listening? Yes. Jim, you're always so good at reminding us about
this. I move that we approve the special check run for the IURC. Second. All in favor say aye. Aye.
Opposed? Motion passes. Next is the approval of the consent agenda with Catherine Zager.
I'm Catherine Sager, utilities director. I'm presenting tonight's consent agenda, totaling $24,339.96.
The first contract is with CTI and Associates Inc. for $6,056 for the 2026 Dillman landfill groundwater
reporting. Next is with Thrasher Landscape Inc. for
$8,649.19 for solar panel weed removal and landscaping at Dillman Wastewater Treatment Plant, Monroe
Water Treatment Plant, and the Southeast Booster Station. Next is with Troy Risk Inc. for $3,250 for
phase one environmental site assessment for culvert. The next is with Thrasher Landscape Inc. for $6,384.77.
for the Service Center North parking lot repairs. Is there any member who wishes to consider one or
more of these items individually? For the CTI, I just assume that's regulatory reporting the item that
we conduct for ongoing groundwater monitoring? Yes. Thanks. Hearing none. If there's no opposition,
these items will be approved as recommended by staff.
Hearing no opposition, the consent agenda is approved. All right. Our next item is request approval
of service agreement with Ivy Tech for 2025 to 26 CDL training. That's Audrey Brittingham.
Audrey Brittingham, city attorney. Sorry, I'm not there in person. I wanted to be, but we had a training
I had a training this afternoon and it went over. So there are two agreements with Ivy Tech. This first
one that you're considering is for the 2025-2026 calendar. Essentially, this is just an agreement with
Ivy Tech for them to train our potential CDL employees. Right now, we have a system set up with Ivy
Tech where
If we're having trouble hiring someone into a position that requires a commercial driver's license,
what we can do is we can hire someone and pay for them to get their commercial driver's license through
Ivy Tech's program. So they have a set price for city employees that's listed in there, and we have
a set process for Ivy Tech.
The utilities department, I don't know. I think that someone else there might be able to talk more about
how many people were sent over the course of this last year. But I know utilities has sent a handful
of people through the program previously. This agreement covers June 2025 to July 2026. We are behind
in getting it signed. That is partially my fault. It's partially Ivy Tech.
They had to, we had to get them to agree to our addendum, which you'll see that they signed in there.
That has a lot of the legal requirements we're bound to include in our service agreements. So e-verified,
non-collusion. It took them a bit to get that approved on there and then signed. And then it's just
taken me a bit to get this onto the public works agenda and then on this board's agenda. But hopefully
this will be it for the 2026.
signature process. I'm happy to take questions. Any questions? No questions. I'd just like to say that
this is a great program that we have going on and I hope that this is the beginning of other partnerships
with IB Tech for not only the utilities but other city departments. So thank you Audrey, thank you everyone
whose work to make this happen.
Questions or comments? I move that we approve the service agreement with Ivy Tech for the 2025-2026
CDL training. Second. All in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion passes. The next is for the service
agreement for 2026-27 so I think we can just go ahead and vote on that.
Unless there is the service agreement with Ivy Tech for the 2026-2027 CDL training. Second. All in favor
say aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion passes. Next is a request approval of resolution 2026-13 to designate
surplus property for auction or worthless surplus. That is Chris Wheeler.
Chris Wheeler with City Legal. This is just the monthly list of assets that CBU has identified as being
surplus that they are asking the board to determine is worthless surplus that can be discarded. Some
of these items actually do have a value and we intend to sell them for scrap.
I think the vehicles, there's a vehicle that will get sold through auction and then we have a piece
of furniture or some office equipment that what we generally do, not generally, what we do is offer
it up to the rest of the city to see if any of the other department needs it and if they don't, then
it gets scrapped or thrown away. So we're just asking for the board to approve our identified items
for surplus so that we can get rid of them.
Who do we use for bringing scrap metal to? I don't know where we take, I don't know who hauls it, I
don't know where we take it. I'm sorry I don't have those answers for you. I would just suggest J&B
salvage though. They pay pretty well and they're pretty honorable. Mr. Havy's department seems to handle
most of this and I'm not sure if you know. It's either that or Boomton Iron and Metal.
Questions? I move that we approve resolution 2026-13 for surplus. Second. All in favor say aye. Aye.
Opposed? Motion passes. Thank you. Next is a request approval of service agreement with Wessler Engineering
with Dan Hudson.
Dan Hudson, Capital Projects Manager for the City of Bloomington Utilities, and I'd like the board to
consider a contract with Westler Engineering for the upgrade, partial upgrade of the SCADA system and
the distribution system. This is a phase one of a five-phase project, so it's just beginning and it's needed
a lot. What they're doing is replacing the PLCs, they're reprogramming it, and for three sites they
are removing the radio and putting in cellular systems. And that is for $115,000.
That's a new acronym to me, SCADA. Oh, PLC, Program OBS. SCADA. Oh, SCADA, Supervisory Data, Supervisory
Control Data Acquisition. Thank you. Thank you. I move that we approve this service agreement with Westler
Engineering. Second. All in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed?
Motion passes. Thank you. You'll see me back for the other phases. All right. And next, we have the
request approval of amendment number two to service agreement with Lane Christensen Company. That's
with Hector Ortiz Sanchez. Hello. Good afternoon. Hector Ortiz, assistant director of operation.
Um, this am- am- am- am- I don't know. This am- am- amendment we lane, the second amendment is to, um,
extend the date, the- the original expired, um, tomorrow and this is to extend it to September 30th. So,
They have some delays on parts and they are running a little bit late, so we just need a few more months
to get it done. Any questions? No change in costs, right? No change in costs, nope. Any questions?
All right. I move that we approve the amendment number two to the service agreement with Lane, Christensen,
and Company. Second. All in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion passes. Thank you. Thank you. All right.
We have old business next from the board. Old business from staff. Right, new business from the board.
I have something I want to say. I just wanted to thank Liz Carter for planning the green infrastructure
tour that a few of us took a few weeks ago, along with some members of the Environmental Commission.
Sam Arthur and Brent Solbrig led that. Ginger Thomas was with us as well.
We went to four different sites, including Rooftop Garden, Miller Showers Plaza, and two different curbside
sites and got to see how that works and the strategies that are really effective and the hard work that's
put into that every time there's a rain event. So thank you to that team for giving us the opportunity
for the tour. I second that. I was quite amazed. I drive by those street sites,
pretty much every day and I never noticed them. They're amazing and we thank Liz and Sam and everyone
else and I recommend to anyone else on the board that the next time they make it available, take advantage.
All right. Any other new business from the board? Just segue off that.
We've had some historic rains over the last couple of weeks and we haven't had, from my knowledge, much
flooding as we have in previous years. So kudos to our staff and kudos to the board for the approvals
that we've given over the last couple of years to do all the hard work that we've put into our city.
So I don't think that should be understated or overlooked how far we've come in the last couple of years.
So thank you all.
And we're not out yet. I mean, it's hot. Hot as all get out, but we're doing well right now. Any other
new business from the board? All right. New business from staff. So if everybody's aware or not, but
we have a boat water station down on the top of the slot where you can pull up and find your credit
card and get boat water. That credit card reader hasn't been working for a while, which is why it's
been shut down. But to get a new system on there,
everybody that we have talked to has to charge us the credit card fee first. And then we can add a surcharge
onto the transaction to charge them for it. But we have to get charged for it first. And so I just wanted
to make everybody aware of that since the credit card fees were a challenge for a while. But I just
want to give everybody a heads up that we're gonna have to have those get charged to us on the front
end and for us to recover later. I don't know if that makes sense or
So thank you for letting us know about that since you know, we hate the credit card fees So let's say
I'm going to the bulk station and to get in I swipe my credit card to start it. Yeah Okay, but then
it knows like I've taken so many gallons and then It's gonna charge me directly, but it won't add the
credit card fee. Correct, correct So then the utility gets billed the credit card fee later, but the
customer has already paid their portion
Yes. So then they're going to get like a $5 credit card bill or whatever we deem. We can do it on a
percentage basis or we can do it on a transaction like just a $2.50 charge or whatever we want to do.
But the charges are going to come through to us first.
I think the question is that surcharge will happen at the time of payment, right? Yes, yes, yes, yes.
And is it like a percent like 3% of what the mean? What is our surcharge on it? Is it 3% of the bill?
Is it a fee to be determined? We don't know until we get a contract with a provider, but I just want
to make sure everyone is aware that we're probably going to start seeing those customers at the bulk
station have an opportunity to
do the purchase without a credit card? Not at the moment, no. Or when this new system is up and running,
would there be like a, or is it just they have to use a credit card? There's options to set up pins,
and we could bill them after the fact. And then if they set up a pin that was like, the customer's gonna,
I don't, I'm just really going off on a line here, but do they do like a auto draft, and then that wouldn't
result in a card fee, or? It probably depends on which one we choose, but worst case scenario is we
just send them a bill.
At the end of the month. Any other new business from staff? Subcommittee reports, we did not have one
today. Staff reports.
Um, yeah, we'd like to welcome, uh, two new staff members. Our first staff member is James Stanger,
who is joining us in TND as a specialized crew leader, and, uh, Charles Allen, who will be joining us
at, uh, Monroe Water Treatment Plant as a new operator. So welcome. All right. And petitions
and communications from the public.
Your turn.