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November 13, 2007 The Board of Directors of the South San Joaquin Irrigation District met in their chambers at the hour of 9:00 a.m. Upon roll call the following members were noted present: DIRECTORS: HOLBROOK KAMPER KUIL ABSENT: SCHULZ ROOS Also present were Secretary/Manager Shields, District
Counsel President Kuil called the meeting to order and called for public comment. There being none he asked the Board to consider approving the Consent Calendar items as presented. CONSENT CALENDAR A. SSJID warrants of $938,435.69 and payrolls of $283,687.20. B. Board Meeting Minutes of October 23, 2007. C.
Authorize payment to Beck’s D. Authorize signature of a License Agreement for a strip of land owned in fee by District and acceptance of an access easement related to required parcel map conditions for Brand Klump. PASSED AND ADOPTED this 13th day of November 2007 by the following roll call vote: Ayes: Holbrook Kamper Kuil None: None Absent: Schulz Roos President Kuil called for closed session. Public Employee Discipline/Dismissal/Release Attorney Alan Coon representing the District’s Board of Directors and IBEW Representative Sam Glero joined the closed session. During the closed session, the Board conferred alone with attorney Alan Coon. At the end of the closed session, Alan Coon announced that the grievance filed by the I. B. E. W. on behalf of David Marker was denied and the decision of Assistant General Manager was being upheld. Motion by director Holbrook, seconded by Director Kamper, to approve the Consent Calendar as presented. President Kuil asked WTP Manager Hubkey to give his monthly report. Hubkey reported: Met with the cities operational staff and other than Lathrop reducing its consumption from 1.5 MGD to 1.0 MGD there were no problems. Relative to Log Booms, we received a bid for new “Boom Boxes” that cost around $275,000. These are bigger and have a single cable that goes thru them. To date we have spent around $100,000 on maintenance. The semi-annual maintenance inspection, which costs $8,000, plus any required repairs, is coming up shortly. Fiber repairs to date have cost $107,000. Shields said the V-2 is the problem, but when we remove the trays we may be tweaking them and that is why they are so hard to remove. Have interviews tomorrow to fill the vacant Operator III position. Also we are looking at creating two new Operator in Training positions, the Cities have agreed we should, and we will be submitting details later. President Kuil asked the Board to consider the following: Consider approving 2nd phase of the District’s video project not to exceed $30,000. Sayler said we obtained three bids from $21,110 to $24,245. She introduced Dr. Charlie Chapin of Moonshadow Productions, Inc. Moonshadow did Phase 1 of the Promotional Video. Sayler recommends we take the bid of Moonshadow which is $24,000 because he did the video and he is a much better writer. Directors asked what type of organizations he has done videos for, Mr. Chapin said for schools, corporations, and other governmental agencies. Motion by Director Kamper, seconded by Director Holbrook, and unanimously carried, to approve the Phase II Contract with Moonshadow Productions for a not to exceed price of $24,000. Consider approval of request by the Islamic Center for a
Deferred Agreement related to required improvements to Lateral “Y” for their
proposed building project located on Update on complaint of Dawn Pacale regarding periodic flooding of her mother’s property, in Escalon. Stein reported that Tom Haggard and he visited the property look at ways to solve her flooding. There are two options. 1. Put in a drain line at a cost of about $10,000; 2. Monitor irrigation next year and set time limits, which should eliminate most of the problem. Stein said that Tom Haggard, Assistant Water Superintendent would monitor her irrigation to determine a time limit for irrigating. Board agreed to allow staff to monitor irrigation next spring as requested. No action was taken. Consider replacement of Northwest SIDE Project air conditioning compressor. Shields said during preventative maintenance by Johnson Controls they found the breaker tripped. After investigation they found the windings on the compressor had shorted, causing the breaker to trip. The new compressor is available through a local parts house and can be replaced immediately. Shields’ recommend authorizing staff to proceed with the work at a cost not to exceed $2,600. Motion by Director Kamper, seconded by Director Holbrook, and unanimously carried, to authorize staff to proceed at a cost not to exceed $2,600.00. President Kuil called for closed session. Conference with Labor Negotiator. Agency Negotiators: Lee Clark and Jeff Shields. Employee Organization: IBEW, Local 1245. Upon returning from closed session it was reported that no reportable action was taken. Manager’s reports: Shields reported the following: Attended the Farm Bureau meeting last week. Relative to the Metro PCS tower at
Reported that the $39,180 budgeted for ca Solar project at the Nick C. DeGroot WTP is underway. In fact we have an invoice for $4,526,977 that we will be wiring the funds on tomorrow. Reported that A The Payroll Clerk position will be moved from the General
Unit to the Manage President Kuil asked for Director’s reports and comments: Director Holbrook asked why not take a low bid such as on the video project. Emrick said we can do this as long as we state in the RFP that we will not be choosing the vendor based on price alone. We did just that according to Sayler on the video project. Sayler asked about choosing an agency to do our advertising and direct mail. She said the cost will be approximately $200,000. She asked if she needed to go out to bid. Emrick said you do but you should put the above statement about not choosing the vendor based on price alone. President Kuil called for closed session. Conference with legal counsel. Existing Litigation, Gov. Code, S. 54956.9 SSJID v. LAFCo, Superior Court – Conference with legal counsel. Anticipated Litigation Significant exposure to litigation. Gov. Code, S. 54956.9 – Two cases. Conference with Real Property Negotiator Negotiating Parties: District, Stockton East Water District Property: Agency Negotiator: Jeff Shields Under Negotiation: Price Upon returning from closed session it was reported no reportable action was taken. There being no further business to come before the Board it was moved by Kamper, seconded by Holbrook, and unanimously carried, to adjourn to December 11, 2007 at 9:00 a.m. ATTEST:
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