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.