Call to Order:
Welcome: April, Vice President
Present/Quorum: Dave (Manager), Paul, April, Todd, Clint, Sam
Consent Items
Approve – Contents and order of this Agenda: Approved.
Approve – Minutes of January meeting: Approved, with the caveat that we change the date for the second round of rate changes to 2026, not 2025. Motion to approve minutes was passed.
Information Items
Guest Speakers comments (if any): None
Board Member comments (if any): None
President’s Report (Darton)
- None
Manager/Operator Report (Dave)
- PRV relocation and engineering: Contract has been signed, locates are coming out soon
- Grey and Osborn: working on preliminary engineering and talking to well drillers. Estimates are in line with expectations. $6,000-7,000 per well drilled.
- Duncan Greene: 1) Franchise fee discussions are ongoing and we should continue to budget for it. Other purveyors have had issues with their contracts. Are we able to mitigate with fire flow? 2) Late-comers agreement on Point Piner Road. 5 people affected, $27,000 is the cost to join the agreement. Are we able to run a 2” water main alongside the 8” inch existing main? 2 phases possible.
- Ben Dahle: Very close to submitting the SWSP
- Late fee: Motion to keep it a flat 2% was approved.
- King County Parks: Paul and Dave had a good meeting the parks department. We are in a good position for a land lease. 5 wells. We are well beyond the trails. 150 feet specifically. It will open up our well field and could increase access to the whole site.
Committee Reports:
Finance Committee (Darton):
- Results: Monthly financials appear normal for the month.
- 6 year plan: Dave and Todd will look at the Asset Management Schedule and could impact rates setting.
- Todd discussed impacts of various rate changes on an individual members’ bills if we increase capital charges or usage charges, or both.
Water Production Committee (Paul):
- Paul noted that water production was discussed during Dave’s portion of the meeting.
CIP and Planning Committee (Darton)
- None
Old Business / Carryover Items
New Business / Discussion Items
Other Business
What did we decide?
- DAVE: Late fee to 2%, ping King County in the coming weeks
- DARTON:
- PAUL:
- APRIL: contact the Beachcomber re: notifying the community about the increase in the membership fee, Annual meeting reports
- TODD: Budget and asset management schedule
- SAM:
- CLINT: Update Jan Minutes, call for candidates, update board policies
- SUSAN: