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May 22, 2007 The Board of Directors of the South San Joaquin Irrigation District met in regular adjourned session in their chambers at the hour of 9:00 a.m. Upon roll call the following members were noted present: DIRECTORS: KAMPER KUIL SCHULZ ROOS Also present were Secretary/Manager Stroud, General Counsel Emrick, District Engineer Gilton, Engineering Department Supervisor Bologna, and Water Treatment Plant Manager Hubkey. President Kuil called the meeting to order and asked for public comment. There being none he asked the Board to consider approving the Consent Calendar items as presented, except he asked that item “C” be moved to the action calendar. CONSENT CALENDAR A. SSJID Warrants of $335,896.68. B. Regular Board Meeting Minutes of May 8, 2007. C. Approve Resolution No 07-09-S, Updating South San Joaquin Irrigation District’s Injury and Illness Prevention Program. SOUTH SAN JOAQUIN IRRIGATION DISTRICT RESOLUTION NO. 07-09-S ADOPTING REVISED INJURY AND ILLNESS PREVENTION PROGRAM WHEREAS, South San Joaquin Irrigation District (the “District”) adopted an Illness and Injury Prevention Program consisting of an Illness and Injury Prevention Program and a Safety Manual, by Resolution dated October 12, 1999 (“Original Program”); and WHEREAS, the 1999 Resolution directed management to periodically revise and update the Original Program; and WHEREAS, the Illness and Injury Prevention Program has been updated and will be maintained as a separate document from the Safety Manual; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the Board of Directors of the SOUTH SAN JOAQUIN IRRIGATION DISTRICT hereby takes the following actions: 1. Adopts the revised Illness and Injury Prevention Program. 2. Authorizes management to maintain the Illness and Injury Prevention Program and the Safety Manual as separate documents. 3. Directs management to periodically revise and update the Illness and Injury Prevention Program and the Safety Manual. The foregoing Resolution was duly adopted at a meeting of the Board of Directors of South San Joaquin Irrigation District held on the 22nd day of May, 2007. Motion by Director Schulz, seconded by Director Roos, to approve the Consent Calendar items as presented. PASSED AND ADOPTED this 22nd day of May 2007 by the following roll call vote: Ayes: Kamper Kuil Schulz Roos Noes: None President Kuil announced that we will have a special presentation of previously adopted Resolution 07-06-H, In Memoriam of Nick C. DeGroot to the DeGroot Family. President Kuil introduced the family, Nick’s wife Trudy, sons; Bill and Nick Jr., and daughter-in-law Lisa DeGroot. President Kuil read the resolution and presented it to Trudy. Kuil then called a short adjournment for pie and coffee with the family, directors, staff and audience in attendance. Discussion and possible action relative to removal of sludge from the Water Treatment Plant site. Hubkey told the Board that he has a bid from a trucking firm who will haul and accept the sludge at a cost of $300 per load. Based on 23 loads, their bid is $6,900 or $300 per load whichever is higher. He recommends accepting the DH Winn Trucking proposal. Motion by Director Kamper, seconded by Director Schulz, and unanimously carried to accept the proposal of DH Winn trucking. Consider a proposal from Mr. Kamboj to purchase a property
interest of the District’s. The
property is adjacent to Mr. Kamboj’s property located on a) Subject to the terms and conditions outlined in the Developer’s Agreement, the conveyance of the District property will not hinder District operation. b) The retained easement interest is adequate for all reasonable District purposes. c) The payment of established value in accordance with District policy, execution of required documents, and payment of all costs relative to transfer is valuable and adequate consideration for the conveyance. d) It is in the best interest of the District to transfer property in exchange for the new easement and the established consideration. e) The property to be conveyed is not “surplus land” within the Government Code Section 54221 (b) since the parcel is not capable of park and recreational development. f)
The proposed conveyance is categorically exempt under the
Environmental Quality Act as a class 12 project pursuant to 14
If the Board conceptually approves of the sale, the matter will be brought back to the Board for approval of sale and adoption of a resolution upon signature of a Developer’s Agreement outlining the e terms and receipt of money. The transaction will not be final until such time as the pipeline is replaced as required. Motion by Roos, seconded by Kamper, and unanimously carried to conceptually approve as recommended. Consider approval of improvement plans for the Lombardi
development located on Special conditions and requirements (Exhibit “C” of the Developer’s Agreement. a) Developer shall submit improvement plans to the Engineering Department for approval and comply with all standard requirements concerning replacement of all facilities located within the development. b) Developer shall not build or develop on lots within the District easement until replacement of the District’s pipeline has occurred in accordance with approved plans. c) Developer shall comply with District standards relative to encroachments within District easement area. d) Developer shall notify District at least 48 hours prior to commencement of work. Work shall be complete and pipeline operational prior to deadlines established by the District. The deadline for work is typically February 15 of any given year. e) Developer acknowledges that acceptance of storm water for this project will be subject to the terms and conditions of the Storm Drainage Master Plan between the District and the City.
Authorize approval of plans for the Jack Tone Road Bikeway project for
the City of Consider approving purchase of an additional vehicle for
use by administrative personnel. Stein
said we are looking at a Chevrolet Impala for around $20,000.
Director Kamper asked about using one of the used pickups on the list of
pickups for sale, such as the extra cab, unit number 251-02.
Stein said he has no problem with that suggestion, in fact the request
was made by Consider adopting Resolution No 07-08-V, Authorizing Sale of Property no Longer Necessary for District Purposes. Stein said since we are going to use 251-02 for a pool-car, we will remove it from the Resolution. After discussion it was moved by Director Schulz, seconded by Director Roos, to adopt Resolution No. 07-08-V.
RESOLUTION NO. 07-08-V AUTHORIZING LONGER NECESSARY FOR DISTRICT PURPOSES WHEREAS, the District may sell for valuable consideration, any property of the District, which it finds to be no longer necessary for District purposes; WHEREAS, the Board of Directors of the South San Joaquin Irrigation District, finds the following pickups for sale listed below: DISTRICT I.D. NO. SERIAL NUMBER 252-03 208432 253-03 281354 264-04 275880 265-04 275712 266-04 275849 Are no longer necessary for District purposes and that it is in the best interest of the District to sell said property; and
DISTRICT 252-03 6,300.00 253-03 7,150.00 264-04 7,350.00 265-04 6,450.00 266-04 5,715.00 NOW, THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED AND ORDERED that the Assistant General Manager of the District is authorized to display said property for sale for a period of ten days, thereafter, directed to sell said property to whoever presents the highest cash offer, provided that the offer is equal to or exceeds the following: DISTRICT I.D. NO. MINIMUM PRICE 252-03 5,670.00 253-03 6,435.00 264-04 6,615.00 265.04 5,805.00 266-04 5,715.00 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED AND ORDERED that the Assistant General Manager is authorized and directed to take all necessary steps and execute all documents necessary to transfer title to said property. PASSED AND ADOPTED this 22nd day of May by the following roll call vote: Ayes: Kamper Kuil Schulz Roos Noes: None Consider authorizing a new phone system for the District
Offices. Stroud said Pac West our
current carrier sold off part of its network and no longer offers support.
We have looked at alternatives and found a couple of alternatives that
are not only better, but less money. Stroud
recommended the Board authorize System Administrator Receive a recommendation of ad hoc committee for appointment of a labor negotiator. Kuil said he and Director Schulz interviewed two firms, Kronick Moskovitz, and The Clark-Heidrich Group. Their recommendation is to hire the firm of Clark-Heidrich, with Mr. Lee Clark to be the negotiator. Cost per hour for their services is $150. Motion by Director Schulz, seconded by Director Kamper, and unanimously carried to retain the firm of Clark Heidrich and to authorize the District Counsel to draft an agreement. President Kuil called for Managers reports: Hubkey reported the following: We had another PG&E power failure last night. Current flow is 18 million gallons per day. Sludge ponds are drying nicely this year. Currently working with Zenon on disposal of the membranes. Putting together the 2007-2008 budget for the Cities. General Electric is about two weeks from finishing work on the generator so we do not have to manually disconnect and connect to PG&E after a power loss. Director Schulz asked what percentage of the total water consumption of the Cities of Manteca, Lathrop & Tracy’s is provided by our surface water? Hubkey said he would try to find out. Kennedy Jenks is doing a study for the City of Director Kuil asked Hubkey for a copy of the lab analysis on the sludge. Hubkey said he would get him a copy. Stroud reported the following: Relative to newsletters being done on more frequent basis, we are currently looking at a new outreach program which will help in reaching areas of interest. Currently have several entities monitoring legislation, Dolphin Group, ACWA, CMUA, to keep us up with current and proposed legislation. SCADA Tech will start work on May 29th. Relative to freeboard loss on Lateral “V”, Shields reported the following: Meeting with customers on municipal departing load, we helped some of them file protests. In addition we filed our own protest for our bills. PG&E is supposed to reply in five days, to date no response, it has been 10 days. Governor Schwartzenager has introduced legislation to help get solar off the ground. Air Conditioning program is off the ground. PG&E held a dinner and paid $150 to sign up on their program. Capacity is being looked at closely. PG&E got $1,000,000 for ancillary services on the Tri-Dam contract. Sand Bar’s contract is silent on renewable credits, I estimate value at between $400,000 and $2,000,000. Western Energy Coordinating Council is starting a program called Regis, where anyone can register and sell credits. PG&E announced their profits are up 19% over last year, and at the same time are asking for a rate increase to increase their profit margin. President Kuil asked for Directors reports: Roos asked about dirt off canal at Wilma Overpass. Gilton said he would check and report back. Director Roos, thanked President Kuil for postponing the ceremony for the DeGroot’s to this meeting since he was at the ACWA Conference at the last meeting. At the Conference he gave a speech at the presentation of the Claire Hill scholarships, which was a result of the Nick C. DeGroot Water Treatment Plant, I announced during the speech that Nick had passed away. Friday at the conference the Sacramento Chamber of Commerce talked about the need for new water projects in the state. Need to get the legislation before losing our current Governor. Announced he won the door prize for staying to the end of the meeting, $250.00, passed out a copy of the check for all to see. Several other Directors commented on the ACWA Conference Kamper asked about the Flap Gate, are we going to shift it to another location. Gilton said after the water season we will make another attempt to adjust it in the same location. President called for closed session. General Counsel Emrick reported we will discuss the following in closed session: Conference with legal counsel, existing litigation, Gov. Code, S. 54956.9 (a).
# CV030855. Conference with real property negotiator, Negotiating
parties: District, Oakdale Realty. Property:
Stanislaus Upon returning from closed session District Counsel Emrick announced there was no reportable action taken in closed session. There being no further business to come before the Board it was moved by Director Schulz, seconded by Director Roos, and unanimously carried to adjourn to June 12, 2007 at 9:00 a.m. ATTEST:
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