Okay, well welcome Elk Grove. Happy you could make it. With that we'll go ahead and call

to order the Wednesday November 13th 2024 regular meeting of the Sacramento area sewer

district and ask for a roll call to establish a court. Good morning. Member Aquino here

Desmond Desmond Frost here Kathleen here Carpensie Costa President Kennedy maple here

Orozco Robles here Serna here Swen

um towel here Vegas and Hume here and you do have a quorum. Thank you very much. Would

you join director Robles in the Pledge of Allegiance please?

Please.

End of our pledge. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to

the Republic for which it stands one nation under God and one not indivisible with liberty

and justice for all.

Thank you and now if the clerk would please read the Metro Cable Replay Statement and

the public comment procedures.

bodies is required to be verbally disclosed. The amount of $100 will be paid for each member

participating today as a member of the Sacramento area sewer district. Compensation for Sacramento

County supervisors and City of Sacramento council members is paid to the county and

city respectively to offset to partially offset the cost of those governments. Compensation

for other board members is delivered to the individuals. To make a public comment please

complete a speaker request form and hand it to the clerk. The chairperson will call your

name when it's your turn to make a comment. You may send written comments by email to

board clerk at satcanny dot gov. Your comment will be routed to the board and filed in the

record and that concludes the clerk statement. Excellent. Thank you. That brings us on to

the first items which is the consent matters. Items 1 through 14. There any item that a

director would like to ask questions or have pulled from the consent? I have a motion from

director Cerna. A second. Was that from Desmond? Okay. All those in favor signify by saying

aye. Aye. Any opposed? Any abstentions? Consent calendar passes. Onto item number 15 which

is public comment for items not on the agenda. Looking into the audience I don't note any

members of the public rushing the podium. So we'll dispense with item 15. Move on to

item 16. Sacramento area sewer district separate matters. The miscellaneous director and district

engineer matters. Good morning chair and board members. As far as our meetings go we have

one meeting in November and one in December. So our next meeting right around Thanksgiving

is canceled so happy Thanksgiving to you and your family. And then we're going to do our

continuing series of meeting our section managers so I've got a couple of section managers today

Paige Betagrew and Linda Stevens. And I'm going to start with Paige Betagrew. It's back

there. I'd like to introduce you to Paige Betagrew, Sac Sewers public information manager.

Paige's journey began with us in 2008 when she first interned in our communications department

while earning her bachelors in public relations at California State University Sacramento.

Until did she know that her passion for sewer systems would become a career calling. She

gained invaluable experience in the private sector where she designed and implemented

communication strategies for a number of clients including several utilities. Driven by her

goal to fulfill the duties of what we like to call a sewer nerd. She rejoined our team

in 2018 as a senior public information officer. She championed many of our major initiatives

in this role from advertising and stakeholder awareness to community engagement and construction

communications. Promoted to public information manager in 2022 Paige is now responsible for

strategic communications, media relations, regional partnerships and leading the teams

responsible for carrying out communications work for the communities we serve. Thank you

very much Paige.

All right and next up is Linda Stevens. Linda started working for Sac Sewer in 2002 in the

wastewater source control section of the policy and planning department. She's currently an

environmental program manager too and has been the section manager since 2021. She started

her career in environmental consulting and occupational health and safety services before

working at Sac Sewer. Her section implements the federal pretreatment program and local

program permits, tracks pollutants of concern and provides pollution prevention outreach.

She and her staff are responsible for protecting the conveyance system, workers, the environment

and the treatment plant from the harmful effects of sewage discharges. And I believe Linda

would like to say a few words.

Okay. Thank you. Good morning Chairman and members of the board. Thank you Christophe for

the intro and the opportunity to say a few words I'd like to highlight my staff. Our

program is in its 41st year so we're ensuring compliance with the discharges from the industrial

users. And it's been such a long time that we had our program. I just want to highlight