MINUTES OF THE DRINKING WATER
BOARD MEETING HELD ON MAY 9, 2008 IN
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Board Members Present Anne Erickson, Chair Myron Bateman, Vice Chair Ken Bassett Jay Franson Ron Thompson Board Members Excused Daniel Fleming Helen Graber, Ph.D. Paul Hansen Richard Sprott David Stevens, Ph.D. Staff Ken Bousfield Ken Wilde Ying-Ying Macauley Rich Peterson |
Guests Rick Wixom, Bill Bigelow, Verl Bagley, Dustyn Shaffer, Doug Nielsen, Chuck Jeffs, Rural Water Dale Pierson, Rural Water Craig
Hawkes, Jeff Trombley,
Kennedy/Jenks Consultants Curtis Ludvigson, Rural
Water Laurie Ludvigson, self Staff Continued Michael Grange Nagendra Dev Karin Tatum Sandy Pett Sean Jordan Linda Matulich |
ITEM 1 – CALL TO ORDER
The Drinking Water Board meeting convened in
ITEM 2 – ROLL CALL
Chairman Erickson asked Ken Bousfield to call roll of the
Board members. The roll called showed
there were 6 members present.
ITEM 3 – INTRODUCTIONS
Chairman Erickson welcomed everyone and asked the guests
to introduce themselves.
ITEM 4 – APPROVAL OF
MINUTES
Chairman Erickson stated a motion was in order to approve
the February 29, 2008 minutes.
Ron Thompson moved to approve the
February 29, 2008 minutes.
Ken Bassett seconded the motion.
CARRIED
(Unanimous)
ITEM
5 – ELECTIONS OF VICE CHAIRMAN
Chairman Erickson opened the elections for Vice
Chairman to the Drinking Water Board.
Ron
Thompson moved the Board approve Myron Bateman as the Vice Chairman to the
Drinking Water Board for the coming year.
CARRIED
(Unanimous)
Jay
Franson moved to close the elections for Vice Chairman.
Myron
Bateman seconded.
CARRIED
(Unanimous)
ITEM
6 – SRF CONSERVATION COMMITTEE REPORT
Myron Bateman thanked the Board for
their support in nominating him as Vice Chairman to the Board.
1)
Status Report
Ken Wilde reported the Board has a total
balance of $3.2 million for all of the loans that are in the federal loan
fund. Staff expects to receive about
$12.9 million in projected receipts over the next 12 months. Staff expects to receive the federal funding
in July 2008 on the next capitalization grant.
The Board should have about $16 million over the next 12 months.
Ken mentioned staff expects closing a
lot of loans in June, July and August.
Ken mentioned staff expects to close about $22,000,000 in projects
between the state and federal in the next few months. Staff closed
The Board has $3.4 million dollars
available in the state loan fund that have not been committed or authorized yet. The Board should receive about $5.9 million during
the next 12 months. A couple of loans
are expected to close in the May June timeframe.
2)
Priority Point
List
Karin Tatum reported 3 projects are
being added to the Project Priority List which are: 1) the Town of
Ron
Thompson moved the Board approve the Project Priority List to include the Town
of Howell, the Kane County Water Conservancy District, and the East Grouse
Creek Water System.
CARRIED
(Unanimous)
3)
SRF Applications
a)
City of
Michael Grange reported the Drinking
Water Board authorized a $6,000,000 loan for 20 years at 1.77% interest at the
March 4, 2005 Board meeting.
Jay
Franson moved the Board authorize an extension on the loan to
Anne
Erickson seconded.
CARRIED
(Unanimous)
b) Town of
Michael Grange reported the Drinking
Water Board authorized a $111,000 loan for 20 years at 0.0% to the Town of
Greenwich at the July 13, 2007 Board meeting.
The Town of
Verl Bagely, representing the Town of
Discussion followed.
Jay Franson declared a potential
conflict of interest on voting on the project.
Ron
Thompson moved the Drinking Water Board authorize an extension on the loan
authorization to the town of
Ken
Bassett seconded.
CARRIED
Jay
Franson abstained.
c)
Town of
Michael Grange reported the Town of
Springdale is requesting a $19,000 Planning Advance to help develop a Master
Plan for their culinary water system and to conduct a comprehensive water user
rate study. The Town of
Rick Wixom, Town Manager for
Discussion followed.
Ron
Thompson moved the Board authorize a $19,000 planning grant to the Town of
Springdale to prepare a Culinary Water System Master Plan and perform a
comprehensive water user rate study, with the condition that the master plan
identify and address any system deficiencies, as well as construction options
and phases, as necessary.
Jay
Franson seconded.
CARRIED
(Unanimous)
d)
Town of
Nagendra Dev reported the Town of
Nagendra mentioned the financial
analysis of the project reveals there will be an interest rate of 3.13% for 20
years. The water user rate will be
$35.73 per user per month will be 1.19% of the local MAGI. The current average bill is $30.80 a month.
Craig Hawkes and Bill Bigelow,
representing the Town of
Discussion followed.
Jay
Franson moved the Board authorize a $95,000 construction loan at 3.13% for 20
years to the Town of
Ron
Thompson seconded.
CARRIED
(Unanimous)
ITEM
7 – APPROVAL OF A NEW COMMISSION MEMBER FOR THE CROSS CONNECTION
CONTROL COMMISSION
Patti Fauver reported that Jeff Tingey,
a Cross Connection Commission member, is no longer on the Commission. The Cross Connection Commission is recommending
the Board approve Brad Jones,
Ron Thompson moved the Board approve Brad
Jones to replace Jeff Tingey on the Cross Connection Control Commission and
complete Mr. Tingey’s term ending in 2009.
Myron
Bateman seconded.
CARRIED
(Unanimous)
ITEM
8 – PROPOSED RULE TO AMENDMENT TO:
“GROUTING TECHNIQUES AND
REQUIREMENTS R309-515-6(6)(i)
Bill Birkes reported he has attended
some meetings with the Division of Water Rights on some confusion of wording
for the temporary surface conductor/secondary casings. Staff is proposing a rule change to hopefully
clarify the language and the intent.
Staff had a conflict about gravel filled
or gravel packed wells, and whether or not the grout seal is required between a
conductor or surface casing and a permanent casing. Bill reviewed the proposed changes.
Discussion followed.
Jay
Franson moved the Board authorize staff to conduct some further investigations
and bring back a recommendation on their findings to the Board at the next
Board meeting.
Ron
Thompson seconded.
CARRIED
(Unanimous)
ITEM
9 – CHAIRMANS REPORT
Chairman Erickson thanked the Board for
voting for her to continue as the Board Chair for this year. Chairman Erickson enjoys being on the Board.
Chairman Erickson apologized for not
being at the Division Annual Retreat this year.
Chairman Erickson mentioned Danny was
unable to make it to the meeting today due to a family health problem today.
ITEM
10 – DIRECTORS REPORT
Ken Bousfield mentioned the Division is
fully staffed now. Ken introduced Sean
Jordan, Environmental Engineer, who started with the Division on May 1, 2008.
Sean Jordan addressed the Board about
his experiences and background.
a)
Ken Bousfield reported that state laws
need to be periodically reauthorized or they’ll be automatically sunsetted. The Safe Drinking Water Act is scheduled to
sunset the end of this current calendar year.
The Safe Drinking Water Act is item #5 on the Natural Resources,
Agriculture and Environment Interim Committee’s agenda for their May 21, 2008
meeting at 9:00 a.m. Ken will be
representing the Division and the Board on this review. The meeting is at the west entrance of their
building, in room W020 on the first floor, which is immediately north and west
of the Capitol building. The Board is
invited to attend the meeting.
Discussion
followed.
b)
State EPA
Mid-Year
Ken Bousfield reported on the April 25,
2008 Mid Year Review by EPA. Ken
mentioned that EPA felt we have a good program and are doing a good job. EPA expressed concern that the Division was
unwilling to sign an enforcement escalation policy.
Ken explained that he was unwilling to
sign the policy because, as he stated, one size does not fit all. He felt signing the policy would require that
he take enforcement actions against even cooperating systems.
The Board expressed their support of
Ken’s decision to not sign the enforcement escalation policy.
Discussion followed.
c)
DDW Retreat
Ken Bousfield mentioned staff has a
Division Retreat in April of every year.
One of the objectives of the retreat is for staff to finalize the goals
and objectives for the Division for the coming year, going from July 1, 2008 to
June 30, 2009. The document has three
sections: 1) the Division of Drinking
Water has an agreement with EPA, which hasn’t been finalized yet; 2) the
Division will undertake some initiatives to improve their processes or take on some
new challenges, and 3) core elements which the Division accomplishes during the
normal course of business. The
Department gave each Division some directives to follow for the coming year. Some of the topics included: compression issues, employee focus, looking at
the out-of-state travel budgets, and incentive awards.
Ken reviewed what the Division
accomplished during the Retreat for the coming year and what has been
accomplished during the present year.
The final report is due on May 30, 2008 to Rick Sprott, Executive
Director of the Department of Environmental Quality.
Discussion followed.
d)
Conflict of
Interest Forms
Ken Bousfield reviewed the Conflict of
Interest forms.
Discussion followed.
Other:
1.
Ken Bousfield
reported staff will be asking for another rule change from the Board. The rule deals with the requirement that all projects
be designed by a professional engineer, and the professional engineer verifies
his design by stamping the plans. The
supportive state law lists qualifications to this requirement. Ken reviewed some minor projects, such as
painting the interior of a storage tank as projects not needing a professional
engineer. The rule change would deal
with describing those projects that don’t need to be prepared by a professional
engineer.
Ken reviewed the information on the rule
change.
Discussion followed.
2.
Ken Bousfield
mentioned when the Board members receive their packets there are two agenda
items at the end of packet entitled: “Letters”
and “News Articles”. Ken asked if the
Board members would prefer receiving the letters and news articles in the
packet or on a weekly basis by e-mail.
The Board requested having the letters and news articles sent to them on
a weekly basis through
the e-mail.
ITEM 11 – LETTERS
The letters are in the packet.
ITEM
12 – NEWS ARTICLES
The news articles are in the packet.
ITEM 13 – NEXT BOARD MEETING
Chairman
Erickson polled the Board members on where they want to hold their July 11,
2008 Drinking Water Board Meeting.
Ron Thompson moved the Board approve
holding the next Board meeting on July 11, 2008 Drinking Water Board meeting in
Cedar City and precede it with a tour of Kane County Water Conservancy
Districts facilities.
Myron Bateman seconded.
CARRIED
(Unanimous)
The next
Board tour and meeting will be on:
TOUR:
MEETING:
TOUR: Cedar Breaks & KCWCD water systems DATE: July 11, 2008
DATE: July 10, 2008 TIME: 9:00 a.m.
TIME: 2:00
p.m. LOCATION:
105 North 100 East
ITEM 14 – OTHER
Chairman
Erickson reviewed the handouts they received. A travel handout shows there some
minor increases for motels, meals and gas.
Chairman
Erickson mentioned the Board members received a Redirect Guide directory.
Chairman
Erickson thanked Patti for the update on the Twenty-five Worst Drinking Water
Systems List.
Chairman
Erickson reported on the County Planning Issue Committee meeting that was held
recently. Chairman Erickson is representing
the Board on this Committee,
Dale
Pierson addressed the Board on the County Development Planning Committee
meeting issue from the Rural Water Conference in February, 2008.
Curtis Ludvgison
mentioned he has been working with staff and water systems on their water rates
and funding systems with their projects.
Chuck
Jeffs reviewed water systems on the Twenty-five Worst Drinking Water Systems in
Discussion
followed.
ITEM 15 – ADJOURN
Chairman
Erickson stated a motion was in order to adjourn the Board meeting.
A motion was made to adjourn the Drinking
Water Board meeting 2:35 p.m.
The motion was seconded.
CARRIED
(Unanimous)
Linda
Matulich
Recording
Secretary