Sunny Meadows Missoula County Water and Sewer District
Meeting Minutes
November 20th, 2025 06:00 PM at East Missoula Fire Department
Roll Call: Cyndie Winchell, Meggan Quigley, Michael Bushey, Paula Niccum (on Speaker phone).
Approval of Minutes: Meggan made a motion to approve the minutes for October, Michael seconded. Motion to approve minute passed and minutes approved.
Financial Information: We have still not received current and correct financial reports from the county. Cyndie is still trying to set up a meeting with Meggan and Dusty also attending.
Robbie has submitted her reports but they are still unable to be reconciled. The county needs to find someone who can put the reports from the new system into a readable and reconcilable format.
Public Input: None.
Old Business:
- Project Update: Amy wants to attend our December Meeting. She has lined us up to apply for 3 new grants which require no matching funds. The well pump problem has been diagnosed, it was electrical. (Advance pump systems?)
- Telemetry bid- the bid for telemetry was approved. Mike Neeley is going to to install before the end of the year so we can use our grant money while it is still available.
- Rate increase discussion will begin in 2026.
- ARPA compliance review is ongoing, should continue into 2026.
- The Sewer system line video work and work to raise the manhole at 4400 Edgewood will be scheduled to take place spring of 2026.
- New Operator contract and SOW are in progress. Tami came to discuss her role with the system and DEQ assessment of our system and remedy for coliform hits.
- The board is planning to do some meter reading to look for and address system alerts which could indicate high or low water use, leaks and/or faulty equipment. There was a discussion of inspecting homes to determine whether all homes have the backflow preventers which are required and have expansion tanks where needed.
- Ordinance and By-Law updates will begin in 2026.
New Business:
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Adjournment:
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- District Website: http://www.sunnymeadowswater.com/
- Respectfully submitted by Paula Niccum
