Good afternoon.

This is Tuesday, April 1st, 2025.

It's 3 30 p.m.

We're here for a special meeting, an executive session.

Call this meeting to order.

All council members are present except for council members O'Neill and Ring.

All right, we're gonna start with our work session, then we'll move on to the executive session.

Good afternoon.

Well, we're here this afternoon to hear from our utilities director, Mark Clark.

Uh he's uh kind of in the middle of a whole bunch of projects, especially at our wastewater treatment plants.

Uh not only things that are on tonight's agenda, but items that'll be coming at the next couple of agendas.

So we thought it would be a nice opportunity to uh have Mark kind of go through all the projects, talk about what's happening so that you and the public can under better understand, maybe take about 45 minutes or so today just to go through the projects and have an opportunity to have workshop talking about the project.

So with that, I'll turn it over to Mark.

Thank you, Mr.

Connor, Mr.

Mayor, Council.

Uh we've got a as Toby said, we we've got a lot of things going on, and we we've given some tours to some of the city council members, so they've had an opportunity to see some of this firsthand, and we would extend the same offer to the rest of the council if they want to go out and see what the facilities really are like.

Uh pictures are worth a thousand words, but seeing it physically is worth 10,000 words.

So um if you could beg bring up the slideshow.

Okay, this is just our our cover slide, which shows a picture of our section 10 plant and all those little white boxes are projects that we've got to do over there at that plant.

If you could go to the next slide.

Okay.

This is another picture of that same section 10 wastewater plant.

But what we've done is we've kind of color coded it so that you can see what's happening when.

Um if you look at the also one other project, it's in blue because it's next year for a finish date, but we've actually started construction on our second aeration basin.

That's on the kind of the bottom left there, that blue box you see, that's aeration basin number two.

That's actually under construction.

We've got the hole dug, we've got the rebar into the existing uh aeration basin all exposed, and uh they're getting ready, hopefully in the not too distant future to put in the base so we can start pouring the floor of that.

Also, what we've got set up for next year, and this is also a council agenda item for tonight is if you look at the just to the left, just to the right of where that aeration basin is, that's our oxidation ditch.

That is uh last time that was rehabbed was about 2007, and it's in pretty poor shape.

And I've got some pictures I'll show you a little later.

Uh, but we're gonna be rehabbing that next year, doing a full rehab on that.

Uh part of that rehab is going to include uh new pumps, motors, uh, and those are the items that we're gonna request that you approve tonight, and we'll get to that when we get to the pictures a little later.

Um, and then all the blue items you see, those are the rest of the items that'll be next year.

Uh, you see, kind of in the middle left part of the screen, you'll see three clarifiers.

There's one new one and two rehabs we're going to be doing.

The middle one there that we call clarifier number two has actually failed.

Uh, yesterday and today we have a company out here putting in some temporary equipment so we can get it back up and running until the permanent replacement equipment is manufactured.

And those these these um the equipment for these three clarifiers will be coming to you at the next city council meeting.

The reason for that and for the oxidation ditch equipment being ordered this year as opposed to next year, is there's a nine-month lag between when we order and when we receive the equipment.

So, in order to get it to be able to be installed next year, we have to order it this year.

However, we do not have to pay any dollars out until next year.

So we won't be paying anything until after July 1 for any of any of this equipment.

They understand that this is part of our next year's budget, and they will not be billing us until next year.

All of these items are included in our capital budget, which will be presented to you later this this year.

Um we also have our RAS WAS, which is the blue one, kind of a little bit further up from the clarifiers.

That is all the equipment that works with our clarifiers.

And then you could see the other items.

Yellow would be done the year after that, and then the green would be orange and green would be done in future years.

So moving along, if you go to the next slide.

So the clarifier I mentioned has died.

This is a these are some pictures of that clarifier.

The motor and everything has stopped working.

Like I said, these were also installed and rehabbed in 2007 as well when they did the last large plant expansion.

So when we do the uh the equipment upgrade that we're gonna be asking for you to approve at the next meeting, that catwalk you see in that picture on the right will remain, but the rest of the equipment in that clarifier will all go away.

We'll have all new equipment brought in for that.

And it'll be a new, a little slightly newer technology, a little better.

Uh hopefully it'll last as long as what this did because it lasted for quite a while, almost 20 years.

Uh we are we had did take a good look at the uh at the clarifier when we got it emptied today, and it's not looking in too bad a shape, but uh, we do have a full rehab that we're gonna need to do on this with cleaning off all the all the concrete, recoding everything, uh, as well as installing all that new equipment.

So as you can see, well, these pictures you can see the bars, those those bars that kind of run to the wall.