If we can all please rise and um Brian, if you can lead us in the Pledge of Allegiance, please take the five mission.

Thank you.

And if I can please have everybody mute or silence their cell phones while we are in the meeting.

And I better do that myself.

Okay, and for the record, I am going to go ahead and take roll.

So uh Brian Moffitt.

Present.

Matthew Bose.

President.

Linda Costan.

Can you pronounce your last name, please, Linda?

Cosand.

CoSand.

Present.

Thank you.

Raquel Gomez.

Present.

Raymond Mitchell.

Present.

And Ronaldo Garcia.

Present.

Thank you.

And we do have a quorum this afternoon.

So the very first item of business is going to be the consent calendar.

And this is the approval of the February.

Sorry, let me get the right date here.

Of the July 15th, 2025 regular meeting minutes.

If I can please get a motion to approve.

Second.

Thank you.

I do have a first and a second.

And I will go ahead and conduct a roll call vote.

Member Garcia.

Yes, I'm sorry.

Member Garcia, do you approve the consent calendar?

Yes.

Member Mitchell.

Member Gomez?

Approved.

Member Cassan Cassandra.

Approve.

Member Moffitt?

Approve.

And Member Bose.

Thank you.

The consent calendar is approved.

So our next item of business is actually going to be a presentation on the Open Meetings Act.

And so I will be giving that presentation this evening.

If I can get the clicker to work.

Oh good.

She's going to stand up.

So I'd like to thank each of you for agreeing to serve on the public infrastructure advisory board.

The board was established to provide input to the governing body regarding water and wastewater utilities, roadway and drainage matters, including an annual operating and capital improvement budget, five-year capital improvement budget, water and wastewater rates and charge adjustments, projects funded through bonds or loans, and report annually to the governing body.

And so I'm going to actually cut from the slides and ask Director Gallegos and Director Gottlib to introduce themselves briefly because you will be seeing a lot of them over the next few months.

I'm the director of utilities, which encompasses water, uh wastewater and recycled water, including our uh direct injection system.

And so uh welcoming uh all of you on board and uh looking forward to uh any questions that you guys may have in the future.

Uh uh we also have our staff over here, uh Jason Herman uh as his uh our deputy director in um operations.

Uh he just came on board from the Mexico Environment Department.

Uh he's a great addition to our uh our uh team, uh Nita Gonzalez, who's uh deputy director of our uh our revenue side, and uh so that's our customer service.

I call him the Mario Brothers Group because uh that's where when they when it uh we're fully self-funded, so uh with the water rates, sewer rates, um so they bring in the money, they manage the money, and Jason spends it wisely so that we keep everything uh operating well.