- meeting of the utility service for august 10th uh 2026 to order and um to remind uh everybody of our
- mission at city of boomton utilities 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. And our vision on Blue Sky Day is to
- have CBU as the leading municipal water utility organization in Indiana. Okay, we have several items
- on our agenda for today. First is any petitions and communications from the public. And seeing none
- in the audience, we'll go to our
- Second item then, and that's the approval of our minutes from the previous meeting. That's July 27th
- of 2026. Any additions or corrections to the minutes? All right, I'll entertain a motion to approve
- the minutes. I move that we approve the minutes from the last meeting. Second. It's been moved and seconded.
- All in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion carries.
- are approved next is the approval of claims and let's see we have standard invoices and let's see I
- need to as we review those standard invoices for this meeting yeah well there's the bigger one yeah
- but I need to recuse myself from the Indiana University
- the IU costs that were approving for work-study students on page 14. So we can make sure we note that
- in the minutes. I'm recusing from that portion of the claims approvals. I have a few questions. Yeah,
- go right ahead. On page 3, Curry Auto Center, the passenger side mirror replacement, I just wondered
- if there was like an accident, was everything okay?
- I got a thumbs up from the crowd. Everything's OK. All right. Next. Oh, on page eight, and this could
- be something that I've just not noticed before or stuck out to me. The Vermeer of Indiana, a monthly
- rental of Vermeer for $18,000. What are we renting every month that's under stormwater? What type of
- equipment is that?
- And how long is our contract to rent? How long are we renting it for at $18,000? And at what point do
- we just buy that equipment? James Hall, TND. We had been looking at multiple, like 12 different factor
- units, hydro excavation units. And we narrowed it down to two. And so we did a long-term rental a month
- of those two different units to help us better understand, because there was a big price
- point difference in the two units. And so we wanted to better understand it. So that's an invoice for
- one of the units that we tried and we were going to purchase. Great. OK, good. Thank you. OK. And my
- last question is on page nine with the William Wheeler coaching systems. And I think we discussed that
- previously, probably. But has that occurred yet? And how did it go? It did occur.
- I did myself with the customer relations group and participation was very, very good. Great. So that
- would be the customer service team. And then also the leadership communication think tank session. Yeah,
- I think that went really well. The assistant directors and I, we all got together and hit a few different topics.
- We kind of called it a think tank session because it was a variety of topics that we thought we could
- use some more coaching in. One of which is, you know, handling difficult conversations with staff. Just,
- you know, some management skills and then, you know, refocusing in on making sure we're all aligned
- on our values when we communicate and have those tough conversations with staff. Yeah.
- OK, great. Well, thank you. I guess my only comment would be that, like, I guess, check back in regularly
- on those things. You know, I've had like a few months out of the line, like, check back in about it.
- Because I know it's easy to, like, attend sessions like that and feel like, wow, this was great. And
- then you're, like, going for it. And then after a little bit, like, it's, you don't circle back to it.
- And so just to make it most effective, just maybe set, like,
- calendar note and like how are we checking in about that? So yeah, great. Thank you. So this contract
- actually includes some one-on-one coaching sessions to do just that to follow up and have those real-world
- examples. Thank you both. That's all. Okay. Thank you. Other questions or issues for the standard invoices?
- that we approve the standard invoices. Second. OK, it's been moved and seconded to approve the standard
- invoices. All in favor, say aye. Aye. Opposed? All right. Motion carries. Then utility bills for July
- 30 is our next item.
- Any questions on the utility bills? Looks like total amount there is $5,516.38. I move that we approve
- the utility bills for July 30th. Second. All right, it's been moved and seconded to approve the utility
- bills for July 30th. All in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? All right, motion carries.
- Utility bills for August 8th totaling $247,090.43. Questions on those? I don't know if it makes a difference,
- but I think it maybe was payday of August 6th on my paper. Oh, yes, it is. Thank you. August 6th. Thank you.
- that we approve the utility bills for August 6th. Second. It's been moved and seconded to approve the
- utility bills for August 6th. All in favor say aye. Aye. All right. Opposed? Motion carries. Thank you.
- And then next is wire transfers for August, totaling the 10th of August, totaling $659,977.83.
- for the wire transfers about those. All right. I move that we approve the wire transfers. Second. Moved
- and seconded then for the wire transfers for August 10th. All in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? All right.
- Wire transfers are approved. Next is custom refunds.
- Totaling $2,370.10. Looks like a whole bunch of inactive accounts that were cleaning up and final bills.
- I move that we approve the customer refunds. Second. I move and second to approve customer refunds.
- All in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed?
- Motion carries. Next then is the approval of the consent agenda. We'll ask Director Zeiger to give us
- the update. Good evening. I'm Katherine Zeiger, utilities director. I'm presenting tonight's consent
- agenda totaling $13,445 for non-chemical contracts.
- The first contract is with Electric Plus for $13,445 for cable replacement for the low service transformer
- at Monroe Water Treatment Plant. Next is with Water Solutions Unlimited for $5.10 per gallon for the
- 2026 supply of sodium thiosulfate for Monroe Water Treatment Plant. Is there any member who wishes to
- consider one or more of these items individually?
- Hearing none, if there's no opposition, these items will be approved as recommended by staff. Hearing
- no opposition, the consent agenda is approved. Very good. Thank you. The next agenda item is a request
- for approval of resolution 2026-14 to designate surplus property for auction or worthless surplus. And
- Matt Havy will present that.
- cleanup. We've got some meter inserts that we're not going to use any longer. A man lift and backhoe
- and some poles that we would like to put up for surplus. Okay, thanks Matt. Any questions on the four
- items for surplus on our agenda?
- 14 second it's been moved and seconded to a request to approve resolution 2026 14 all in favor say aye
- aye opposed all right motion carries next is old business the old business from staff all right to run
- through some small
- budget changes since we voted on the budget and we'll be taking it to council on the 19th. First is
- that the charges for health insurance were moved out of the interdepartmental as it's now accounted
- for in our 100 level expenses, so personnel. Next, there was a 748,000 overall decrease in the budget
- split across all funds.
- due to the removal of a placeholder for the union contract by the Office of the Controller. There were
- some slides that were removed for the council presentation. So those were the tables that were fund
- specific that had each of those different 100, 200, 300, 400 level expenses. The presentation was too
- long. So we just went with the overall revenue.
- table though those tables are still present in the memo though. Um, and then we adjusted the wording
- as recommended about the service center indicating merely the financial ability, um, and not as much
- the intent of moving forward with the, um, project pending our next property and planning subcommittee
- meeting. Do we have to approve
- The changes? No? I just wanted to make sure you're informed. Up to date. Up to date. You said August
- 18th? 19th. Yes. 19th. Sorry. And that's what, a 7 o'clock hearing? So it starts at 6.30, and we will
- be the last presentation.
- tuned in after seven, you'd probably still get. Late night pizza someplace. It's a good thing. Yeah.
- We only have to present to the council once, correct? Yes. Will they vote that? No. Okay. No, we present
- the once and then they vote later. They will send us, at least last year, it was in the format that
- they would send us any recommendations, questions, changes, we would respond and then they would vote later.
- and notes back, would you mind to please share those with us? Oh, yeah. Just to see from their perspective.
- Thank you. Absolutely. Well, good luck on the presentation. Yes. Thank you. I know it's always a very
- stressful time to go and present to council, but we appreciate all the work that you folks have done
- and all of the assistant directors have also helped with.
- We know it's a team effort, so thank you. Thank you. Any other questions on the budget update? Any old
- business from the board? Any new business from the staff? Good. New business from the board? I think
- we should probably make note that we do have the property and planning
- Subcommittee scheduled now for the Tuesday right after Labor Day. I think that's the 8th, isn't it?
- So it's not Monday. It's Tuesday. So we'll meet at 4 o'clock prior to our meeting that would be on Tuesday
- at 5 on August 8th and our agenda there is to talk about As we mentioned a couple of weeks ago to talk
- about the service center planning and what what our options are and
- sort of thing so we'll get an update there okay um let's see now we're up to subcommittees but we haven't
- had any of those since the last meeting um staff reports any new all right any other petitions
- or communications from the public i actually i have i just have a question we now have a vacancy on
- the board we do and is
- Did I miss something or... Oh, well... Did we announce it and I just... We did. I think maybe you may
- have been... Last meeting? Yeah, so... I was here. It may have been the one before. Two ago? It was
- last meeting, but we just probably didn't like... We formally announced it. Go for it. Announce it.
- All right. Well, we can announce that...
- Graham McKean has resigned from the board, he's a council appointee, and he resigned because... Because
- he'll be starting as our hazardous materials coordinator. Okay. August 31st. So yeah, Graham... So I
- suppose we haven't announced him joining us in that capacity yet, but yes. Okay. Yeah, I forget what we've...
- Um, what we've found, you know, talked about before and after meetings, things like that. Yeah. Yeah.
- So we'll have vacancy and I imagine we've, I know he's submitted his letter of resignation. So the council
- office should be tracking that. And we'll hope that they make an appointment as soon as they can. And we're,
- happy that the city found his expertise valuable to the staff. Great, thank you. Thanks for bringing
- that up. It's all good. Yeah, okay. Any other petitions or communications?
- And I think that's all on our agenda then. We can be adjourned. Thank you.