Minutes of the Board of Trustees – Wed, August 10, 2011.
1. Roll Call:
Present: President, Evan Long; Secretary, Belen Gomez; Larry Roberts; Richard Phillips; Bette George and Rosemary Hellwig.
Staff: Manager, Michael Alburn;
Others: Consultants, Monique Miron & Jerry Lemus, CM Construction Services.
2. Building Project:
Michael, Monique and Jerry reported on building progress;
Storm Drainage/ Parking Lot resurface
Parking lot is a mess. Looking at having all storm water managed and drained by gravity.
Resurface of lot with asphalt, three drains.
1 week to 10 days to get estimates. Then, 2-3 weeks to get city approval.
Want to tie in the street cutting for the electrical with the drainage to the storm system.
Forrester Weber working with the City, CM Construction working on Edison requirements
Expect to seek Board authorization to proceed, once we have costs better understood.
Edison
We have to put in a three phase system that runs the entire District. We cannot use two meters. Electricity is coming from north side of Houston Ave. to the District, requiring a step down transformer at rear of lot. We are figuring out costs but expect the line will be run up the east wall of the south bldg through the bracing and out the west wall. So we will keep it clean and out of sight.
Construction
Footings poured on August 2. Slab is being poured August 10 & 11. Construction meetings are held on Thursday mornings. Thursday, August 11 the Architect will attend in person.
Expenses
Obligated funds dedicated to the project were presented for review by the Trustees.
3. Approval of July Minutes:
It was moved by Belen Gomez, seconded by Rosemary Hellwig and unanimously carried that the Minutes of the July meeting be approved as mailed.
4. Approval of July Bills:
Following discussion, it was moved by Bette George, seconded by Larry Roberts, and unanimously carried that the July Bills be approved as submitted. See: Board Order to disburse funds No. 2, Exhibit I.
5. Approval of August Payroll:
Following discussion, it was moved by Richard Phillips, seconded by Bette George, and unanimously carried that the August Payroll be approved as submitted. See: Board Order to disburse funds No. 3, Exhibit II.
6. Deutsche Bank:
Following discussion, it was moved by Belen Gomez, seconded by Rosemary Hellwig and unanimously carried that the Deutsche Bank invoices be approved as submitted. See: Deutsche Bank Bills No. 4, Exhibit III.
7. Public Forum:
None.
8. Operational Report:
The Manager reported on the following operational items.
Pasture mosquitoes giving us a lot of trouble near Patterson Tract. ULV fogging tonight/ and tomorrow morning.
Kings River continues to run high, no changes in treatments limitations or on entry restrictions. Lots of fish are in the areas we have been able to get into, helping us through natural control.
Kaweah Rock Plant treatment by aircraft presented an issue of a worker being in the area and us having the inability to communicate with the aircraft. We are presently working out the schedule with the Rock Plant and the communication concerns with Gilbert Aviation to ensure no one is in the treatment area when the application is made.
9. Fiscal Budget 2011/12:
Review of the Misc Revenue line item revealed that Visalia Redevelopment check issued on July 1 was counted in the 2010/11 & 2011/12 fiscal year. The Manager explained the actions he has taken to reduce the budget and make true the calculations he presented in July, when the Board took action to authorize a one time salary adjustment. Following discussion, it was moved by Richard Phillips, seconded by Larry Roberts and unanimously carried to adopt the amended 2011/12 Fiscal Budget as presented.
10. WNV Report:
The Manager reported the following statistics:
Tulare MAD – 2 human cases of WNV. 35 yr old male outside of Lindsay and a mid 60’s male near new COS farm. No other cases currently being investigated by Tulare County Health.
10 human cases from 6 counties (2 – Tulare, Fresno, Los Angeles, Stanislaus; 1- Santa Barbara, Madera).
392 mosquito samples (Los Angeles 115, Kern 67, Delta 61, Fresno 50, Sacramento 48).
19 counties have WNV in human, bird, mosquito, chickens or squirrels.
Delta
VCD
63 WN+ mosquito submissions and 0 pending: Total 335 mosquito submissions.
49 with-in Visalia Area, 2 with-in Yettem (Ave 384 East of Rd 128) Area, 2
with-in Exeter Area, and 8 with-in Dinuba (South of Floral Ave East and West of
Rd 80) Area, 1 with-in Woodlake (N of Ave 344 & W of Valencia), and 1
with-in Ivanhoe (S of Ave 328 and E of Rd 156)
27
WN+ birds, 3 pending: Total 51 dead bird submissions
24 with-in Visalia area, and 3 with-in Exeter area
Delta is not making further submissions until September. Nearly all samples submitted are coming in positive. We are using traps to locate quantity of mosquitoes in trouble areas. Our counts remain low. Media campaign runs radio ads again 8/22 – 8/28.
11. NPDES:
The MVCAC meeting indicated that the District should put together a PAP and submit the request to be under the NPDES permit offered by California Department of Water Resources sooner than later as it could take up to five months to process. We have time, expecting end of September submission.
The Association is putting together a power point in order to train the members for the visual monitoring reporting requirements on all applications (10% have to be logged).
We will sign up to do some of the sampling the association needs done … volunteered to do methoprene in ag environment.
Our legislative hopes are not going to go far it appears as Boxer has put a hold on H.R. 872 and it will likely die as a result. Feinstein not supportive either.
12. CSDA Annual Conference October 10-13, Monterey Marriot:
The Manager sought authorization for the travel to the upcoming conference on behalf of himself and Trustee Hellwig. Following discussion, it was moved by Bette George, seconded by Belen Gomez and unanimously carried to approve the budgeted travel.
13. Adjournment
The meeting adjourned at 8:25p.m.
Board Meeting Minutes Approved on September 14, 2011
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Michael W. Alburn, Recording Secretary