Sunny Meadows Missoula County Water and Sewer District
Date 10 04 07
All board Members were in attendance plus one home owner, Bob Zackariasen. Craig Pozega with Great West Engineering was also in attendance from Great West Engineering, brought us up to date on the future activity with our well.
Cindy presented us with the financial reports. One person is approaching the 90 days late on their water payment and will be receiving a letter informing he must pay something to prevent from having his water turned off. Tom Walter is going to speak to this individual and try to encourage him to pay something on the bill. This person is David Darrah
It was expressed to us all that Jose will be leaving us. Apparently there have been some insulting remarks sent in with the bills regarding about the price of the water. She does not appreciate it. She has apparently found another job and will not have time to do this anymore.
Cindy has made it clear that she would be please to sit down with anyone and discuss the billing practice financial report rather than have them sending in insulting remarks with the bills. We all feel this is rather insulting and pretty low of anyone to do this.
Public input:
Lee Cox did us all a big favor by upgrading his transfer pump to help prevent any bacteria from entering our water system. It cost him approximately $800. He is requesting the Water and Sewer District either pay all or possibly help him pay some of the bill. It was all agreed upon to pay half his bill for him.
It was reported by Bill Englested that he received 3 bids to fix our two out of service fire hydrants. It was agreed that JTL would be the best choice to repair as they have already worked on them in the past. They were in the middle of the bidding process as far as the cost to do the job. Cindy Winchell proposed we go with GTL and Tom Walter seconded it.
Cindy Winchell and Mike Lilly both read the Water Use Ordinance for Sunny Meadows Missoula County Water and Sewer District.
Cindy Winchell proposed all the board members are compensated the $10.00 a meeting for last year ending the fiscal year June 30Th 2006 and the coming years ahead. It was agreed we do this. Mile Huber seconded this motion.
With Jose leaving as the billing and meter reader, Cindy Winchell requested that she replace her and perform her duties. Mike Lilly is going to research the by-laws to see if a board member could serve in this position. This would open up Cindy’s position doing the financial reports. It wasn’t decided at this time as to who may replace Cindy.
Craig Pozega explained to us all that the new attorneys working with our grant money was taking longer deciphering what and how the grant procedure was accomplished or written. Craig said it shouldn’t take too long, maybe another month to resolve the issue.
Craig also made comment as to which one of the two Geotechnical Evaluators would work with our new project. He said that SK Geotechnical was a verygood company. They were the only one’s out of the 3 that sent us a proposal to do the evaluation of the grounds the tank will sit. We all agreed. Bill Englestad proposed we use them and Mike Huber seconded it.
According to Craig everything is running ahead of schedule so far. We discussed with Craig Pozega what the best Telemetry usage would be best. He described several and the board suggested we stay with the telephone company as it has always worked. If something does go wrong, all we have to do is call the telephone company and they come out and fix it. The others would require more measures making it more risky when there is a problem. We discussed if we wanted to change systems at a later date and it was decided that we could.
We discussed the booster pump providing water to residents on the upper part of the subdivision. Mike Lilly explained that he has, as well as the other people living near him, have only 25lbs water pressure. Dusty Deschamps has about 85 lbs. Apparently the only fix would be to run a new water line up the hill. This would cost between $35,000 and $45,000 dollars.
Tom Walter Board Member
