I'd like to call to order the Sacramento area sew district meeting for Wednesday, December

11.

Why am I hearing things?

Am I hearing?

So many answers.

Would the clerk please call the roll to establish quorum?

Do we want to announce that Katie is on, uh, Maple is on, does that, because she's part

of the roll.

Katie, you're about 12 feet tall.

So we'll call the roll first and after that we'll entertain a motion from the board to

allow Director Maple to participate remotely under the provisions of AB 244.

Okay, please call the roll.

Remember Aquino?

Here.

Desmond?

Here.

Frost?

Here.

Carpensky Costa?

Present.

Kennedy?

Here.

Orozco?

Here.

Robles?

Here.

Sander?

Sander?

Is Pulapati here?

No.

Okay.

Serna?

Here.

Swin?

Here.

Talamantes?

Here.

Guerra?

Here.

Valenzuela?

Villegas?

Here.

And Director Hume?

And we do have a quorum with those members present.

And then we'll entertain a motion at this time.

So we'd like to entertain a motion to allow with Director Maple to participate remotely.

So moved.

Second.

See us.

Don't call vote because she's not here.

Yes.

That's correct.

Okay.

Aquino?

Here.

Desmond?

Here.

Frost?

Here.

Kaplan?

Here.

Carpensky Costa?

Here.

Kennedy?

Here.

Abstain.

Robles?

Here.

Orozco?

Here.

Robles?

Here.

Orozco?

Here.

Orozco?

Here.

Orozco?

Here.

Orozco?

Here.

Orozco?

Here.

Orozco?

Here.

Abstain.

Cerna?

Here.

Swin?

Here.

Gera?

Here.

Vallevillegas?

Here.

And that passes?

Here.

Not unanimously?

Okay.

I heard that I am 12 feet tall.

The same extension made that comment.

Katie, I'm going to let you do the pledge because that way we'll all follow you.

Be my honor, chair.

Please rise.

Salute and 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, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

Thank you.

Could you please read the statement and public comment procedures?

This meeting of the Sacramento area sewer district is cable classed live on Metro cable

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 partially offset the costs of these governments.

Compensation for other board members is delivered to the individuals.

To make a public comment, please complete a speaker 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 satcounty.gov.

Your comment will be routed to the board and filed in the record.

Could you please read the first item?

At this time the board will recess for the closed session item.

A conference with legal counsel anticipated litigation potential to initiate litigation

in the matter of Swiss Ram Sack sewer county claim number SR 348100.

And there are no announcements expected out of closed session, correct?

Katie can't participate in that, right?

So she'll just kind of hang in there and have a cup of coffee while we're doing this?

That's correct.

We're trying to set a zoom up, but we will, I will email you.

Please ready.

Okay.

Very good.

Okay, we'll return from closed session.

I would look to the clerk for any reportable action.

To the attorney.

No.

And do we need to note that director Maple had joined the meeting for the record?

Do we need to say that chair Hume is now here?

Yeah, chair Hume is now here.

His perfect record has been blemished on his last meeting.

Hopefully the vice chair did not get too drunk with power just yet.

In catching up, I would say that we are now at consent.

Is that correct?

That is correct.

And just for the record, director Maple has not quite joined us yet on zoom when she

does.

I will make sure that she's on screen.

Okay.

Very good.

Any items on consent that directors would like to discuss have pulled or make comments

or questions?

I'll move consent calendar.

Second.

Chair Hume, we do have public comment on item number 10.

And I would read that into the record.

Okay.

We have item number 10 is to declare property located on the river along the Sacramento

River and adjacent to Freeport Bridge as exempt surplus land and authorized conveyance of

the property of the County of Sacramento.

Janet Lake, if you were here, you can give your public comment now.

Hi.

Hi.

I'm Janet.

I'm a resident from the Freeport community.

And the area in question right now is right next to the Freeport Bridge and it's been

being used by fishermen and people coming down there to swim.

And so garbage is getting in the river.

There's no bathrooms.

So levees being eroded by people walking down, making their own trails.

And there's 5,000, and that's right now.

And there's 5,000 homes as probably everybody here is aware, being built within walking

distance and that's not biking distance or anything else, walking distance to that area.

So it's probably only going to get worse.

And so there was a feasibility study done that the county already paid for and they

said that there can be a small dock.

There could be a bigger dock, but they'd have to take down trees.

A small dock.

They could pave it, put bathrooms, garbage cans, right?

And the regional parks has agreed to, of course, we'd have to get grant money, right?

But a monitored park there in that area.

So people could access it safely without garbage, bathrooms, and a small dock.

So water access, people could come and park their boat there or you could put kayaks in

and utilize the restaurants, the golf course, whatever, right?

So and that also is in line with the National Heritage Area goals of the Great Delta Trail

throughout the Delta.

It could also be used as a template for other water access parks throughout the Delta because

the feasibility studies already been done and then sequel, of course, would be done on

that one.

And I mean, I see it as a win for the community and I see it as a win for the Delta as a whole.

I mean, obviously, the river is the jewel of Sacramento and it's the largest river in

California and right now we're not utilizing it.

So anyway, obviously, I'm support of the project.

Thank you, Janet.

Appreciate you taking the time.

I just want to clarify what the clerk, you mentioned item number two.

I'm looking at the title of item two and I don't think that's related.

10.

Item number 10.

Item 10 makes much more sense.

Thank you.

Okay.

Thank you.

All right.

And so we will note the commenters comments and hopefully they can be addressed or incorporated.

As we move forward, any other comments, questions, concerns?

Okay.

I have a motion from director Telemonte.

So second from director Suan.

All those in favor is director Maple joined us.

Do we need to do a roll call vote?

Director Maple has joined us.

So we will entertain a roll call vote.

Very good.

Aquino.

Aye.

Desmond.

Aye.

Frost.

Aye.

Kaplan.

Aye.

Karpinski.

Costa.

Maple.

Aye.

Orozco.

Aye.

Robles.

Aye.

Serna.

Aye.

Suen.

Aye.

Telemantes.

Aye.

Quiera.

Aye.

Viegas.

Aye.

And Hume.

Aye.

And passes.

All right.

Very good.

That brings us on to item number 11 then.

Comments from the public on items not posted on the agenda.

Is anybody wish to make comments on a non-agendized item?

Seeing no one.

Dispense with that item.

Move on to item number 12, please.

Item number 12 is miscellaneous director and district engineer matters.

Good morning, Chair and Board members.

Got several things actually.

First of all, as you might imagine, there's no meeting on December 25th.

So our next meeting will be January 8th.

And at that meeting, you will be appointing your new chair and vice chair.

And we'll have an item for that that we'll explain and we'll have a recommendation.

This is also the last board meeting as staff, as county employees.

So it's kind of a monumental occasion.

We are planning a minor celebration.

We're going with the idea of calling it Founders' Day.

If you may have been involved in the organization that has a Founders' Day, it's just a thing,

a way to celebrate all of the great people that got us to this point in time.

So like I said, we're going to be doing a little bit, just some minor celebration next

week for the staff.

And that's all on that.

It's a big deal.

It is really a tribute to your board's vision and then all the people that have basically

been implementing it.

One more item you have on your desk there, a Bufferlands calendar.

Hopefully you saw that already.

That's an annual thing, very low cost, because we have some partners that we work together

on.

Photographs from the Bufferlands are part of it.

And of course, our staff take the pictures.

It's a great collaboration.

And I hope you enjoy that for the holidays and for the new year.

And then last item, last but certainly not least, this is the last board meeting for

our director Sue Frost.

And so we wanted to take a little bit of time to recognize her for her eight years of service

on the SAC SUER and Regional SAN and SASD and all those different boards that we, all

those names we've been associated with.

I just want to say I know that she is known for my personal opinion, known for her care

for her constituents.

I think that's the one thing that sticks out in my mind.

So with that, I just want to take a moment, if we can, we'd like to give you a gift and

take a picture or two.

And then of course, I'll turn it back over to the chair and for other comments.

Can we get you to come down?

Yay.

The clock?

You know, Sue's really moving in the Thomas.

So be ready.

Here's my forwarding address.

I call it Arkansas, but I think that's the new Thomas.

Just kidding.

It's all I'm going in to be ready.

I'm going to ask Sue to go.

I just air drop this.

Come on, one.

I don't know.

I'm not sure.

Hold it.

I had to.

Ooh, pretty.

I had to.

I'm not sure.

That's what it's like.

It's very nice.

I'm going to go over here.

It's a part of the room.

Turn it off.

We left this little school that we've been in.

It's a very nice little school.

Thank you.

This is my pop-up on his computer.

Just another thing.

Lovely.

Thank you.

Well, I just want to thank the board of directors for the

wonderful opportunity to introduce the board of directors.

I'm glad to be here.

Go ahead.

I'm a great person.

Thank you.

Just air drop this.

Thank you.

This is my pop-up on his computer.

Just another thing.

Lovely.

Thank you.

Amazing.

Thank you.

Well, I just want to thank Kristoff and everyone for this beautiful gift.

This is something that has a special place

in my new office when I get it.

I'm not sure when that will be,

but it's really been exciting to work on the sex who are bored.

And I wanna say that of all the boards,

and I think at the Board of Supervisors,

we serve on 29 or 30 boards.

This is one of the boards where you can always know

that the budget is in order,

the projects are landing on time,

they're not going over cost.

Everything seems to be managed so well

at the sewer district.

And I'm really excited about the transition

that we're about to undergo.

I won't be on the other side of it.

I guess I'm helping to close this side of it out,

but I wanna thank all of you

and all of the SAC sewer staff for over the years

who have helped me understand the technicalities

of what you do.

It seems like sometimes it goes over your head

and you need someone to just help you sort it out.

And you guys have been really great

at helping us learn the engineering side of all this.

And so thank you for this recognition

and I wish all of you Godspeed

and all the best in the coming years.

And the director comments on this item.

Okay, sure.

Vice chair.

Sue, I know that you also represent

the city of Citrus Heights

and you are, as Christoph said, very constituent oriented.

And we recognize that in everything you've done

on the Board of Supervisors,

as well as your role on this board.

And we thank you from Citrus Heights.

Thank you, Jaina.

Thank you, director soon.

Thank you, chair.

Sue, I understand this is your last of all board meetings.

And so I just want to.

It is.

Yeah, just to take the opportunity to thank you

for your service as well.

I remember when we first met

and you were leaving the Citrus Heights City Council

to come on the Board of Supervisors.

And so I've just been a pleasure to serve with you

regionally during all these years

and wish you the best of luck

in your next adventure.

I know you have some plans, I guess I'll just say that.

Some fun plans going on.

So good luck, best of luck to you.

Thank you, Duran.

Any other comments?

We had quite a recognition for you yesterday

at the Board of Supervisors meeting.

It was very nice.

Thank you.

Said my peace then, but I will say

if whatever the opposite of Founders Day is,

maybe gone but not forgotten day.

You certainly fill those shoes.

Thank you.

And I know the next supervisor coming in will be great.

So thank you.

Thank you.

Okay, does that conclude the district comment

or the district engineer comments?

Any director comments for future consideration or otherwise?

No, in that case, we'll move on to item number 13.

Item number 13 is to approve proposed service commitments.

Presentation please.

Good morning, Chair, members of the Board.

I'm Dylan Mealy, Principal Engineer

in the Policy and Planning Department.

And today I'm going to present

SAC Sewers Recommended Service Commitments.

Okay.

I'll start with some service level history.

Go over our current service levels

for collection and treatment.

I'll discuss which service levels are related

to sewer spills, customer service,

regulatory and environmental.

Then get into our proposed service commitments

and our resource recovery dashboards.

So service commitments are promised to our customers

that quantify our business objectives.

So back in 2005, we started tracking service levels.

In November, 2005, your board approved

a list of collection pilot service levels.

In April, 2006, your board approved

treatment service levels, including water quality,

violations, interceptor and plant odor events,

sewer spills, recycled water,

and recycled biosolids.

In June, 2006, your board approved an agreement

with a public relations firm to conduct customer

and stakeholder research for the collection service levels.

In April, 2007, your board approved

six service levels for collection.

And those were service call response,

service restoration, development submittal review,

review time, major overflows,

mainline overflow rate, and sewer line overflow rate,

as well as two pilot service levels,

which were backup into structures

and customer satisfaction.

November, 2007, your board approved

customer satisfaction service level

and dropped the major overflow service level

for the collection.

And in May, 2008, your board approved

the backup into structures service level for collection.

So these are their current collection system service levels,

and these are how we did in 2023.

These are measured monthly report to your board annually.

So the service call response time measures our time

to arrive on site from the time we get a service call.

Service restoration time measures the time from the call

until when we can restore service.

The development submittal review time,

this measures our responsiveness

to our development community.

The customer satisfaction, so after we do work,

we send a survey out, and this measures

the number of surveys rating good or excellent.

The mainline overflow rate, this measures

a number of sewer spills originating within SAC sewer system

per 100 miles for mainlines.

Lower lateral overflow rate measures

the number of sewer spills originating

within SAC sewer system per 100 miles of lower laterals.

And the backups into structures rate measures

a number of times per 10,000 connections

that a stoppage causes sewage to back up into a structure.

So next we have the treatment service level.

Excuse me, the treatment service levels.

And again, we report on these annually.

So water quality violations, these are the number

of violations for not meeting regulatory requirements

for water discharged, wastewater after treatment

discharged into the Sacramento River.

Major sanitary sewer overflows is the number

of sewer spills, each one for it to count

that's to be over a thousand gallons

or reach a waterway, surface waterway.

Major echo water facility spills,

the number of spills within the echo water facility

that gets into a stream or river

or causing a public nuisance.

Interceptor odor events, the number of odor complaints

received within the interceptor system.

Echo water facility odor events,

the number of odor complaints caused

by echo water facility operations.

And the biosolids recycling, the number of acres,

recycle biosolids can fertilize,

and water recycling, the number of acres, tertiary,

treated wastewater can be used to irrigate.

So next in a category for sewer spills,

we have five existing service levels that measure spills.

Mainline overflow rate, major sanitary sewer overflows,

lower lateral overflow rate, and backup end of structures

as well as major echo water facility spills.

So we're proposing to consolidate these

into two service commitments,

non-lateral spill rate and lower lateral spill rate.

The lower lateral spill rate would capture

the current lower lateral overflow rate

as well as the backup end of structures.

The lower laterals and backup end of structures

are directly related, so by reducing lower lateral spills,

we'd also reduce backups into structures.

And the non-lateral spill rate

would capture all the other spills.

Next is customer service,

something that's near and dear to us.

We have six service levels related to customer service,

and we're recommending consolidating these

into four service commitments.

We recommend dropping the interceptor odor events

and echo water facility odor events

because these are handled as service calls.

So we respond to these as if it was a sewer stoppage

or an overflow or a spill.

So our response time and mitigation measures

are captured in the service response time

and customer service satisfaction service levels.

Next, we have environmental and regulatory and environmental,

and we're recommending removing the water quality violations

because this is a regulatory requirement.

We don't have the option.

We're also recommending removing the biosolids

and water recycling and reporting those

as well as echo water power usage offset

by our renewable energy generation

on a newly developed sustainable dashboard

on our public website.

And on the right is the developed dashboard.

So here's a summary of our proposed service commitments.

Again, in summary, we're proposing six service commitments.

Non-lateral spill rate, lower lateral spill rate,

service call response time, customer satisfaction,

development, submittal review time,

and service restoration time.

We feel the targets for the service commitments,

measuring customer service are appropriate.

For the non-lateral spill rate,

we're recommending an 18% reduction

spread out over five years.

And for the lower lateral spill rate,

we're recommending a 39% reduction spread out over five years.

And we're recommending, again, dropping the biosolids

and recycled water as service commitments

and reporting those along with the echo water power usage

offset by renewable energy generation on our public website.

So with that, I'm happy to take any questions.

Okay, thank you.

Any questions at this point?

Okay, seeing none.

Any public comment on this item?

I do not have any.

All right, very good.

Mr. Chair, if I could just very briefly,

I've talked to Christoph about it,

but I just wanted to circle back regarding the service system

and the interceptor odor events.

There has been complaints filed with my office.

And I think I've relayed some of that to you,

but I wanted to just publicly request that staff look into

smell coming out of the interceptor vents.

There are vents situated throughout West Sacramento

as the line goes through West Sacramento.

Along the Sycamore Trail,

some of the staff were out there recently.

There's a tree planting event on some of the easements.

And so I just want to make sure that we're accurately

or appropriately monitoring that

because I know there was assurances

given to the adjacent neighborhoods

that that would not be the case.

And I've received a few complaints now.

So something's amiss.

Definitely, we have investigated that.

There's some odor removal media that's been replaced.

And then we're reviewing what would be an appropriate

preventive maintenance schedule for that.

So we've definitely looked into it based on your request.

Okay.

Any other questions or comments?

Is there a motion to approve?

So moved.

All right.

I have a motion to tell months for the second Robles.

Okay.

I believe we have lost our online participants.

We can go to a voice vote.

All those in favor say aye.

Aye.

Anyone opposed?

Anyone abstaining?

Motion carries unanimously on to item number 14, please.

Approve the Sacramento areas

through a district board of directors meeting procedures.

Okay.

Thank you.

Good.

Thank you.

All right.

I'll jump in.

This should be pretty quick.

We have been,

this board has been governed by the Sacramento County board

procedures and between the merger and the moving of our staff,

we just thought it would be a good time to kind of brush that

document.

I think we'll have to go through the procedure and get to

the board.

I think we'll have to get to that.

We'll be able to move on to the next section.

I'm going to go ahead and do some of the details.

I'm going to go ahead and do the final step.

I'll be a good time to kind of brush that document off,

create our own, you know,

edit and make some improvements where we could.

So we've developed this mechanism based on basically based

around the Sacramento County board procedures,

but with review of some other agencies as well as legal

requirements,

differences from the county's board procedures,

some revisions for clarity and functionality.

It reflects the merger and the staffing transition.

There's also a legal review again to make sure

that we're meeting all of our legal requirements.

And then one thing that we were not always clear on

as staff is that there are a few rare occasions

where you need a vote that is greater than a majority.

And so we have a nice table there that lays out

the different situations where that occurs

and what the vote requirement is.

So I think that's very helpful for us.

And we also have some references to the

SACSUR ethics policy, other board resolutions

and other relevant legislation.

So with that, we're just asking approval

of the SACSUR board procedures.

Very good, thank you.

Moves.

Second.

All right, I have a motion from Director Kaplan,

second from Director Villegas.

Any questions, comments, concerns?

All good, all those in favor say aye.

Aye.

Any opposed, any abstentions?

We have SACSUR specific policies.

Thank you.

Mr. Chair, can I make a request?

Item number 15, does that require a quorum be here?

I know there are a couple of us that are trying

to get to other events.

Could we move that one to the end of the meeting

and take these other to the require?

I think that's a fantastic idea.

Can we do that on the fly?

So which item are we moving?

Move the receive and file, item 15,

until after items 16 and 17, which require votes.

Perfect, that's what that was.

Thank you for that suggestion, I appreciate it.

So that brings us then to item 16, please.

Item number 16 is to adopt a minute harvest,

water recycled, water rate and fee schedule.

All right, good morning everyone.

Happy Wednesday, my name is Joe Fulvorha.

I think we are actually moving item 15, is that correct?

That is correct.

We're actually going to be discussing item 16.

We'll give Metro K-Ball moment, there we go.

Thank you.

Okay, good morning Chair, good morning to the board.

Item 16 is the harvest, water, recycled, water,

rate and fee schedule amendments.

Name is Joe Fulvorha again,

Manage, Legislative and Environmental Regulatory

Affairs Manager over at SACSEUR.

With me here today is actually part of our crowd,

hardworking team from our admin PMO office,

Heidi Orioles-Wales, Dave Richardson.

Background and overview.

So earlier this year on March 27th,

your board approved the harvest water,

recycled water, rate and fee schedule.

This established the volumetric rates,

established the annual administrative user fee,

the one-time application and connection fees,

and wave application and connection fees

for users and landowners,

executing a service agreement by phase one,

the original deadline being August 31st

or phase two deadline that is still yet to be determined.

We've since really ramped up engagement

with our grower and agriculture community

in the harvest, water, service area.

And based on feedback from growers and stakeholders,

SACSEUR recommends amendments to the summer irrigation rate

and annual administrative fee for irrigation connections.

So what did we find out?

Analysis to support our amendments.

Rates and fees that were originally developed

based on avoided costs of groundwater pumping

were largely connected to electricity costs

averaged over service area.

Some of the users over shallow groundwater

paid less for groundwater and we've heard

from many of our community members

that switching to harvest water

may actually not be cost-neuser for them.

So we continued our outreach with landowners

and it actually did reveal significant concern

with the original rates that was established by the board

and the fees that we were comparing to groundwater costs.

What we have here today as amended rates

that reflect a ramp-up period when early users

to provide them with additional coordination

with harvest water as an incentive,

as well as to amend the annual admin user fee

to reflect the SMUD, Sacramento Municipal Utility District,

small ag user fee instead of the SMUD large ag user fee.

The rate and fee schedule amendments

would show our ramp-up period to a summer irrigation rate,

beginning with $25 per acre foot on fiscal year 26-27

with initial deliveries anticipated in spring 2027.

We will then continue that rate

as folks ramp up on fiscal year 27-28.

We will then increase the rate to $27.50 per acre foot

in fiscal year 28-29 and then return to the planned rate

of $30 per acre foot from fiscal year 29-30.

And again, we will amend the annual admin user fee

from $400 per year for AFCA to $172 per year.

Quick note, users with larger parcels,

so folks that would have met the SMUD larger user agreement,

will still have multiple AFCA connection points,

therefore they would still be paying multiple $172 fees.

So in that sense, we still feel that there is a fee equity

that's justified from both smaller users and larger users.

And then we are also amending our on-farm connection

assembly phase one deadline to January 31st, 2025.

So what would this look like in numbers?

Here's a chart that shows

the estimated volumetric rate revenue impact.

As you can see, on the second column of the chart,

we are ramping up as we're getting more and more growers

and farmers and partners to sign up for our program.

And so there would be a continued increase

of water deliveries.

As the proposed metric rate goes up,

so will the potential for the district

to recover the revenue.

Now there would be a range of revenue reduction

that would be accepted or at least absorbed by the district

that we're anticipating to be roughly about $168,000

to $298,000 at one time.

There is a range because there's still a lot of unknowns

about the volume of water that's gonna be ordered.

And so this is part of our learning and ramp up period.

Now for the admin user fee, that is the annual fee.

Currently we've had $400, we're proposing a $272.

The number of automated connections would stay

between 90 and 120 connections.

And then we are anticipating a reduction

of 20 to $27,000 per year.

So in conclusion, Saqs, who recommends your board

approve the amended rate and fee schedule for harvest water.

And I'm happy to answer any questions, concerns,

and feedback.

Thank you.

Thank you, Joe Phil.

I do have some people punching in here,

but I wanna take chairs prerogative and lead out here

because I've attended the two community meetings

down in South Sacramento County,

one at the Farm Bureau offices

and the other one down in the community of Point Pleasant.

And unfortunately there is still a sentiment

that this is a byproduct that we're trying to offload

onto people who don't want it.

And I've tried to dispel that myth as best I can.

I recognize that this is probably the cheapest

delivered water anyone can find.

And but it's good that we're doing it.

And it's good that we're making it available

and it's gonna make agriculture

in Southern Sacramento County viable

as the state begins and continues to pinch

other parts of the state who don't have

sustainable groundwater available to them.

And so the fact that a lot of this has been paid for

by other revenues means it's not necessarily out of pocket

from the district.

So I think we can afford to entice

and afford to get people signed up.

And so I just wanted to put that out there

that we fought and we know that we fought

to keep this asset in this region

and that this is a good thing.

And it's really sort of the tip of the spear

leading edge type stuff that we're doing.

And so we need it to be successful

so that other people can point to it

with a positive light.

With that, Director Guerra.

Thank you, Mr. Chair.

I you've mentioned every possible thing.

This is innovative.

It's great.

And frankly, a 203% reduction

on the administrative fee.

Glad to move the item on that.

We don't get that option that often.

But in all reality, I just have to thank

all of the work that's been done

to look at true water sustainability,

given the fact that we're gonna have

continued water challenges in the future.

Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Director Sun.

Thank you, Chair.

I actually want to extend my thanks to you, Chair,

for your attendance at these meetings

and being a face for this board.

And I extend also my thanks to Joe Phil

and the rest of SACS sewer staff

for engaging the community.

I know Mike and Ken are in the audience here

and so look forward to hearing from them,

but appreciate their engagement as well.

I trust that with time, when the water is delivered

and they are to experience the quality,

good quality water for their crops,

I think that trust will be gained.

But I do understand their reluctance at this time.

Again, I think it's echoing Director Guerra and Chairman Hume.

This is a fantastic asset for our region

and so can't wait to get this going.

And the last, the only question I have, Mr. Bora,

because there's such a wide range,

I just anticipate you'll be back periodically

to report to the board

so we can kind of narrow that window, so to speak.

That is correct.

Members, soon we will be reporting to the board.

Appreciate it, thank you.

Great, thank you.

And I'll just add on that at the last community meeting,

we had a jar of the treated effluent

with the label recycled on it,

just to show people this is clean, pure water

and not murky and whatever else.

And I was about this close to going over

and unscrewing the lid and taking a swig of it.

I didn't do it, but I might still,

if it comes to that.

You're not the prime assessor, did you?

Yeah, well, I mean, it's a powerful impact.

Our regulators don't like us to do that.

Well, the reality is the water is as clean almost

as what they would be judging well water on.

So I mean, it is not a byproduct.

I heard a motion from Director Guerra.

Is there a second from Director Sun?

Okay, any further comment, questions or concerns?

All right, we have a rate or everyone in favor say aye.

Aye. Aye. Opposed?

Okay, we have a rate and a connection fee

and an administrative fee.

Thank you.

Item number 17 is to approve revisions

to service agreement template for harvest water

recycled water use.

Okay, good morning again.

That is me again.

I hope you don't tire of me yet.

We can just wait for.

Metro Cable, that is item number 17

if you could bring that presentation up.

All right, thank you, Chair and members of the board.

Item 17 is the harvest water recycled water

service agreement template amendments.

Back in December, almost a year ago now,

December 13, 2023, your board approved

the service agreement template

for harvest water recycled users.

Some of the key commitments that we've included

were the obligations for users of recycled water

and owners of the properties

where recycled water will be delivered,

obligations for SAC sewer,

as well as the process in terms to handle change

and use our ownership.

Based on the feedback from stakeholder growers,

SAC sewer recommends that we amend

the service template agreement.

And again, echoing this theme of continued outreach

with users and landowners,

and I really do appreciate Chair Rume for attending

very many of our community events,

long meetings at the farmer bureau up until 10 p.m.,

and then a very well-attended meeting

at Point Pleasant Church.

There are a lot of stakeholders that have questioned

or at least have chimed in

and shared some of their concerns potentially,

and even signing up for the success of harvest water.

Our goal has always been a long-term commitment

and relationship development over several years.

We've said this many times in the past

that even though this is a $600 million project

with over 50% already been received

through competitive grants,

that really the success of the project

is not just the completion of the pipes

being delivered underground,

but rather the environmental, economic,

and equitable benefits that the community members

will hopefully have generationally come.

And so we abide by that promise

and we try to make good with the community.

We understand that there has been a significant impact

to their daily lives because of construction,

but we also know that there's been significant user

and owner input on the structure of the agreement template.

Sure to say is that when folks have signed up

for the letters of intent,

and then when the construction started happening,

we've actually received more and more feedback

and engagement on the actual agreements

as we're inching closer to that phase one of the deadline,

which we really do appreciate and welcome.

So this new feedback builds on the SAC sewer engagement

that we've had for years and years.

Ever since this project was still named

the Sacramento County South Ag Program,

but it's really ramped up over the last two years.

So some of the key requirements for success

that we've been able to really put a hold on

as far as a foundational and guiding blocks

is the ability to adapt businesses needed.

So really no long-term restrictions on land or its uses.

We don't want to encumber our grower partners.

The continued use of groundwater and cost neutrality,

which you have since voted from the last item.

We want to make sure the cost of water

and signing up for harvest water program

would not be exceeding their current costs

of what they're using with the pumping for the groundwater.

Again, with outreach and with users and owners,

subsequent to board approval of the service agreement template,

SAC sewer finalized key supporting documents,

the rating fee schedule, which you had since amended,

as well as the rules and regulations

for the use of recycled water,

which was last approved by your board on May 2024.

We've since targeted focus on the service agreements

since June of 2024, again in parallel

with some of the construction efforts

that is already happening

that my colleague Mike Crooks and I

would be presenting later on to this meeting.

And again, significant additional interaction

from the users and owners on the full program.

These amendments did aim at addressing the recent concerns

and we feel that we've been able to get

to an amenable place where our partners

are happy with the agreement.

Now, these are the key changes that we're proposing to change.

We're adding a recital emphasizing the importance

of continued use of their groundwater.

Again, this is a conjunctive use program,

clarifying the intent to reimburse the growers

with their on-farm connection improvements,

adding a reimbursement for required booster pumps

or capital costs, adding mutual indemnification,

revising access language and providing examples,

and additional minor changes such as updating the names

of our districts to SACs throughout

and committing that we again provide the highest level

of water quality data regularly

and as requested by the users.

So what have we been doing since we've last provided y'all

with a quarterly update?

Again, we've continued individual meetings

with users and owners and community leaders.

We had a November 13th focused meeting of the users and owners

at the County Farm Bureau office.

Thank you again, Chair Yung for attending.

We anticipate holding additional similar meetings

with owners and growers.

We've updated our fact sheets,

covered specific areas of interest,

provided more data on water quality,

examples of other ag water recycling programs,

and additional tools that we've provided to our users,

including our owner FAQ list, repaving maps,

harvest water phone, and email and hotline.

So January 31st is a key day for progress.

Personally speaking, that's my birthday,

so I am also not gonna forget about January 31st,

but we are hoping to have our users and owners

to execute both the service agreement

and an AFCA easement to have those AFCAs included

in our first phase of the construction big package

for the AFCAs.

Again, we will bid after phase one AFCAs identified

by January 31st, 2025 our goal is to be able to hit

a critical number of users so that not only

would the bid package construction and design follow,

but later down the road in 2027 when we start testing

the water that we would have that first initial batch

of users to make sure that our project is intact.

Phase one is essential commissioning harvest water

pump station when it's completed in early 2027,

and users and owners that execute service agreements

and AFCA agreements after January 31st, 2025

will be included in phase two.

Our deadline still to be determined with phase two,

but we're estimating roughly late 2025,

and our phase two AFCAs to be constructed

within 2026 to 2027 or a little bit later.

Water delivery likely not available

until harvest water is completed.

That's available until harvest water is operational by 2027.

And that concludes my presentation.

We recommend your board approve the amended service

agreement for harvest water recycled water use,

and I'm happy to answer any questions or feedback.

Thank you, Joe Phillon.

And picking up on the last item,

I will say that as I've attended these meetings,

some of the loudest detractors in the room

have been individuals who are just in a heightened sense

of negative emotion because of the construction

disruption that's happening right now,

and so they're just pissed off at the project's existence.

Many of them probably aren't even going to be contractors

receiving the water, might not even be in an area

where connections will be made,

but they are having their voices heard,

which can sway people who are on the bubble

and are considering it to take that leap of faith.

And there's a couple of key individuals

who I think are the first dominoes to fall.

One of them's in the audience right now,

and we're very close, and those dominoes,

one because of the location and amount of acreage

they control, but also because of the respect

they command within that community.

And as I warned the board, not so much the board,

but staff, is that farmers and ranchers

depend upon contracts for their livelihoods.

And so whereas it used to be a handshake contract,

now words matter, and the inclusion and exclusion

of words matter.

So we're very close, and I have something

that I want to put on the record here

that I'm going to ask us to take seriously, to consider.

And that is under item one A definitions

to amend it to remove permanent,

prior to the word utility easement,

and to add something in there that says

that if this project goes away,

or if harvest water ceases flowing,

that that easement goes away as well.

And then under section six A,

again strike the word permanent,

prior to utility easement.

May not seem like a big deal to us,

but again words matter,

and it seems like a big deal to them.

But I think if we can do that,

everything else seems to be right there.

Chair, I'd make a motion with your suggested amendments.

So okay, it was a second soon?

Yeah.

Okay, do we have any public comment on this item?

We do, Chair.

We have public comment from Ken Onido.

Oneto?

Oneto.

Thank you.

I'm sorry.

That's okay.

He's been called worse.

But maybe not by better.

He's called worse.

He's called worse.

His mom's called me worse.

Oh, I have a story about you in just a second.

Right.

First off, thank you for the,

for staff for working so hard on this diligent,

diligently on this contract.

And it's very palatable now.

Second item this morning at nine o'clock,

the groundwater authority passed a resolution stating that

as farmers in the area will not lose their

groundwater rights, pumping rights,

when we sign it for the harvest water.

That went through unanimously, so we're going to get it.

And thank you, Chairman Hume, for that amendment.

Just so everybody has an idea of why it came up.

I was looking at buying the ranch next door a couple years ago

and had a list of exceptions about that long.

And one of them was for moving cattle across it.

The person who had the, with a grantee or grand tour,

I remember it was Pat's or Chairman Hume's ancestors.

So according to that document right now,

he could still move cattle across that property.

If you had some cattle, I'll be calling you tomorrow.

I've got a couple cows I'm trying to get rid of.

That's why we wanted to come to the word out of there,

because it's a very small area.

I finally saw the easement document last night.

It's not a very big area on the property,

but it's a little corner.

And if harvest water does happen,

hopefully this does not happen.

We keep continuing to get our water,

but it goes away.

It'd be nice if that corner of our property

becomes unencumbered again.

And one other little quick one,

it just, I think it's more grammarical than anything else.

There was a mention of the

on farm improvement reimbursement agreement.

It's in the document, if it's not in the definitions,

it should, I think, be placed in the definitions

on the document, just so it's showing up

as a separate item.

So, okay.

I thank you very much.

I would appreciate your support.

And I want the water before 27.

I have three pumps ready already.

Come on, guys.

Congratulations on the good effort

at your Groundwater Sustainability Agency this morning.

Thank you.

Next public comment is for Mike Wachman.

Wakeman.

I know.

I'm trying, I'm trying.

It's good.

Yeah, nobody gets my name right.

So, unless you know me, that was my ancestors issue.

I guess he changed the name.

Mike Wakeman, sort of wearing two hats here.

One as of a grower out there.

We have about 1400 acres out in the area.

I think about 600 acres of it

is actually gonna be within the project.

I just got to commend Ken for one thing,

being tenacious enough to get some amendments

to this contract and also staff with a sexer.

All of them have been really good since the beginning

when we started this project way back when.

And it is gonna take a little bit to bring people along.

Just realize that, but this project,

if I switch my hat to my

Omuchominy Hartnell Water District hat,

is one of the most important projects

for the GSAs in the area.

SCGA, which is some of you,

belong to as well as Omuchominy Hartnell Water District

and the City of Sacramento.

So everybody involved in this project

who has supported this project,

it is a huge project being able to deliver

30,000 acre feet over forever.

It's something unheard of in this state.

So it is sort of on the edge project.

Yeah, there are other projects

that have recycled projects that are out there.

But I gotta tell you what,

this was good foresight on behalf of this board.

And I encourage you to continue that foresight

as we go forward,

not looking only how to deal with water quality issues,

but also to deal with water supply issues,

because that is gonna be a major thing.

And this project and what we have going on

in Sacramento County has caught the attention

of farmers down in the valley who don't have water

and they're looking to buy property up in this area

just because of the water issues

and what we've done up here.

So keep up the good work.

And again, thank you staff.

And I support all the amendments

that were being proposed.

Thank you.

Any other public comment?

No.

Chair, I would amend my motion to authorize staff

to add in any clarifying things in definition.

And is staff amenable to that,

to add a definition for OFCA?

Yes, we are, Chair.

Okay.

And does the seconder amend as well?

Yes, second.

Okay.

Any further comments on this item?

Just if I could, Mr. Chair.

I think this, so at least 20 plus years,

this has been in the works in some form or another,

and it's nice to see some starting to come together.

I think this is a great,

offers a great opportunity for this body

to ensure that the public is aware

that we are being good stewards of our water.

I mean, times are a little better right now,

but when they get rougher, as they will,

and we know they will,

we need to be able to demonstrate

that we are continuing to be good stewards

and the impact that this project will have

for many years to come.

So I think we ought to be celebrating these.

I don't know in what form or fashion.

I don't know.

The chair wants to turn on the spicket

for that first opportunity

when we start to use the water in a way

that don't look at me like that.

I think it should be the inaugural drink.

Yes.

I think that.

Don't tempt me.

Everybody take a drink.

I'm gonna do that.

Do you amend the motion?

Yeah, amend the motion to include a drink from the chair.

Something like that.

I won't be the chair at the time,

so careful what you're wishing me.

I'm not sure what the chair is.

To whose district it is.

There you go.

Very good, very good.

But to Oscar's point,

if we didn't initiate this project,

we would be putting this water out into the river

for somebody else to take and sell to somebody else.

I mean, for a much higher price, by the way.

So I think it's great.

All right, we have a motion in second.

Any further comments, questions, concerns?

All those in favor say aye.

Aye.

Aye.

Let's see who can hand that man a pen.

I'm gonna go to the next one.

I'm gonna go.

Okay, now we will go back to,

thank you for that suggestion, Director Aquino.

Appreciate it, happy holidays to you.

Now we will go back to item 15, please.

Item 15 is the Harvest Water Program quarterly report

for July 1 through September 30th, 2024.

Okay, so take care of yourselves.

Are you sure you guys want some more of this?

So we took a little bit of the wind out of your sails now.

Yeah, I didn't expect him to have some photos up there,

so he kinda sold my thunder.

Anyway, item number 15, good morning, Chair Hume,

members of the board, my name is Mike Crooks.

I am the Harvest Water Capital Program Manager.

I'm gonna present today with Joe Phil,

I'll start out with some updates

on the capital side of things,

meaning updates on our construction projects.

We'll touch a little bit on program financials,

and then Joe Phil will cover the admin program updates.

I would like to say that this item

is for quarter number three of 2024.

What's in this slide deck is a little bit more updated

than that, so as opposed to end of September,

this is really, it represents the end of November.

Starting with the Harvest Water Pumping Station,

back in mid 2024, we did execute a contract

with the contractor over, they have mobilized at the site,

they've done a lot of preliminary work,

including utility potholing, electrical investigations.

They've encountered some delays

in some of the procurement activities,

some of that is related to the requirements

that we have to hold to,

matter tied to our federal grant,

but we are getting through those issues,

and they expect to start true construction activity

next month.

Their schedule for completion is early 2027.

Connected to the pumping station,

we've got the Elk Grove Transmission Pipeline.

I've reported before that this project was split up

into two different segments

because of permitting challenges.

Segment number one is not yet under construction.

This is the piece that was delayed

because of the permit that we need from Union Pacific Railroad

to go underneath the railroad tracks at Sims Road.

Last month, your board did approve advertisement

of this project, so it is being advertised.

It was hit the street on December 3rd,

bids are due in January 15th.

We expect that we'll be coming to the board

for a bid award approval in February 26th.

Completion of that project is expected to be 2026.

Segment two of this pipeline is currently under construction.

I think a lot of you have probably noticed it.

It's going through the city of Elk Grove,

coming down Franklin Boulevard.

Currently, we have construction happening

between the entrance to the plant,

which is Sims Road, and Laguna Boulevard.

It'll continue working its way south

over the next couple of years, basically.

So right now, what's been completed,

we're tunneling under the major intersections.

We've completed the tunnel operation under Laguna Boulevard,

and we've started open-trench construction

up at the north end, and it's working its way south.

Again, the contractor's also setting up

a tunnel operation that's gonna happen

at the very south end of the project.

The pipeline has to cross under Franklin Creek,

and then it turns 90 degrees to the west

and goes under the railroad tracks again.

So the contractor's setting up those pits, as we speak.

Connected to the south end of the Elk Grove teaming

is what we call the Franklin Eschinger Pipelines Project.

This was the first one to start construction in early 2024.

So it's represented by the yellow lines,

and the green highlights around it

represent those segments that have been installed to date.

So they've completed their work in Franklin Boulevard.

They're currently working in CORE and Ed Row,

and then they're also working on the east end

on Eschinger, working their way west.

So they're gonna meet basically in the middle at Bruceville.

Next, connected to that Franklin Eschinger Pipeline,

we've got the central south pipelines

represented by the blue lines.

This contract got a little bit late start.

They really didn't start true construction

until I'd say late August, maybe even September.

They started in Camp Road.

You can see that green highlight on Camp shows that it's done.

They're currently working in Bruceville Road.

They started down at Twin Cities,

and they're making their way north.

They're, I think, close to Camp Road.

They're also working their way very close

to the RCCC facility, County Jail.

A lot of coordination with them

to make sure that we're not impacting them,

or at least minimizing our impact to them

and making sure they have access.

We meet their access needs.

There's other little pockets

where this contractor has also completed work,

kind of in the upper left-hand side of it.

You see a little green blob that's high in road.

They've completed that.

They're currently working on Point Pleasant

between Ed Rowell and Bruceville.

So they are actually starting to ramp up

and they're making good progress.

The west pipelines,

it's on the west side of the service area.

Basically, Franklin Boulevard,

connecting to Franklin Eschinger Project at Core Road,

working away south, and then those roads to the west.

They have made good progress.

Again, the green highlights around the pink lines

show the segments that have been completed.

Again, and they are working their way up north

on Franklin Boulevard.

This has been a challenging project

with respect to the community impacts

and complaints received.

Pleasant Point community is pretty engaged.

We've had a lot of communication with them.

We've heard a lot of complaints.

We've also heard a lot of compliments

with how we respond to their complaints.

So although it is disruptive,

we do feel like we're doing a good job,

basically listening to them and responding to them

in ways that we can to minimize those impacts.

This graph just represents the amount of pipe

that's been installed to date as again, end of November.

The Elk Grove T-Main is the first,

again, they just got started this fall.

Franklin Eschinger, they've installed six out of 10 miles.

West pipelines, they've installed four and a half

out of 11, Central South, almost two miles out of 15.

And then combined, you see out of a total of 41,

we've completed over 12 miles.

So over a quarter of the pipelines have been installed.

And yet the rate that we're installing pipe today

is much higher than what we've seen.

So we should see that ramp up.

A lot of these projects will be done in 2025.

Elk Grove T-Main, it's a bigger project, bigger pipe,

more utilities that, you know,

going through the city of Elk Grove,

it's gonna take longer, it'll be completed

towards mid to late 2026.

And this is just a bigger view of those pipeline projects

and the segments that have been completed to date.

AFKAS, we've heard a lot about AFKAS today,

on-farm connection assemblies.

This is a 3D rendering that shows the largest

of the connections that we're gonna be constructing.

This is a 16 inch.

So you see the guy standing next to it,

gives you a sense of size.

Joe Phil talked about the milestone

or the deadline for phase one.

So basically we're hoping to have enough

executed agreements by the end of January

that would be included.

We could include those with the phase one

off construction contract.

After January 31st, we'll know which ones

we'll be constructing with that phase.

And we'll shortly after that be going out,

advertising for bids for that particular project.

The goal for completion is 2027.

It's related to completion of the pumping station

because they both need to be completed

and ready to operate so that we can test them together.

Phase two, it was mentioned in the earlier presentation

that we may be seeing that go out to bid,

maybe the end of 2025,

but right now that schedule's to be determined.

Outreach efforts, outreach has been a really big component

of what we've been doing.

And so these next couple of slides summarize

what we've accomplished in 2024.

Construction notifications that image to the right

is an example of the notifications

that we've been putting out.

So we've put out a total of 19 on different occasions,

reaching over 20,000 properties.

Those have been either mailed or hand delivered.

We've since put out more recently

because of upcoming work that's gonna be happening

near the intersection of Big Horn and Franklin Boulevard.

Traffic alerts.

We distribute traffic alerts each time we have a shift

in the work zones when certain areas open up to traffic

and other areas are closing.

We distributed over 14 in 2024.

And those go out by either email or social media

or on our website.

Media coverage, we got a lot of media coverage earlier

this year, especially when the construction packages

started to get going, started to break ground,

especially the one in the city of Elk Grove.

So we got coverage out of every major Sacramento region

news outlet during August.

This image right here, it's a map where we show

the construction zones, the road closures.

It also identifies the next ones,

when other roads are expected to be closed.

So this is something that we maintain

and we keep up on our website so that people can go to

and they can see what's going on real time.

It's also distributed with the traffic alerts.

Let's see, hotline and email.

This is something that we monitor daily 24 seven

over the weekend and we have a commitment

to respond within 24 hours.

So we through these email, through the email

and the hotline, we received over 90 phone calls

and over 80 emails.

Again, a lot of them voice frustration, voice concern,

some anger, but again, we have also received

complimentary messages from the public

when they realized that we are listening to them

and actually responding in a way to help them.

I've got some construction photos,

probably go through them pretty quickly.

This is the Elk Grove transmission pipeline

showing the tunnel operation at Laguna.

So you're basically looking south.

Again, this operation was completed.

This is a shot of the tunnel boring machine that was used

and this will continue to be used

at the various other crossings

that'll happen with this project.

This shows the first segments of 66 inch pipe

being installed in open trench.

This is actually part of what we call the test section

before they really got going in earnest,

testing their welding and making sure

that the coatings were damaged.

So they had to go through that step

before they could go proceed with the rest

of the pipe segments.

This is that two way tunnel operation

I mentioned at the south end, looking north.

You can see we're gonna be crossing that creek

and then we'll be turning to the left

and going underneath the railroad tracks.

Franklin Escheriner pipelines, again,

more 66 inch pipe going in the ground.

This is out in the rural community.

Roads are closed, creating havoc.

Tunnel operation, this particular tunnel

is under Stone Lake Creek.

It's been completed and the pits have been restored

and they're pretty much out of there.

Central south pipelines, these are the guys

that got a little bit of a late start,

late August, early September.

This shows, this is plastic or polyethylene piping

installed in Camp Road.

And this shows the steel pipe

that they're currently installing

of Bruceville starting at Twin Cities heading north.

West pipelines, as Franklin Boulevard construction,

42 inch steel pipe installation between Lambert and Point Pleasant.

This work has been completed since.

And again, just more of the same.

Program financials, these are slides

that are in the quarterly report that you received.

This represents money spent as of the end of September.

And again, it just represents

that we are underspending our projections,

which is a good thing.

And this is a very familiar slide

that summarizes our budget on the left

and the funding sources on the right.

Close to $600 million budget for construction

and for the Eco program.

And then on the funding side,

we show over $330 million either through grant

or our agreement with SAC DOT for pavement restoration

and then the newer grants that we've received toward the bottom.

And that's it for me.

So I'm gonna welcome Joe Phil.

I'm gonna, is there any questions you'd like to ask right now?

Okay.

Thank you, Chair, members of the board.

And thank you, Mr. Kirk.

One of the things that I'd like to highlight from there,

$5 million investment for Sacramento County

as part of the SAC DOT commitment,

that's actually helping facilitate close to 35, 36 miles

of new pavement and new completed roads down in South County.

And so Chair Yume has mentioned this many times before

that we're into thick of it right now,

but we're also realizing that not only will they have

quality, reliable water, but completed roads,

hopefully in South County as well.

That's been a long time needed.

I'm here to present about the APMO program updates

and highlights.

Water source improvement program elements are underway.

So that is our big source of funding.

California Water Commission, final funding agreement,

our harvest water teams working with our finance

to compile and submit the reimbursements.

We've received our first payment invoice for number one,

received $10 million from the state of California.

And invoice number two and number three

will be submitted in your term for $31 million.

Prop four, which has since been voted by the voters

earlier this November, includes $75 million

for future WSIP projects.

It's very specific to allocating to existing applicants.

We are one of about seven right now

and will not be funding new projects.

We anticipate to be allocated for adjustments for inflation.

And so you had previously seen a chart

that says $330 million of received grants.

That does not include the potential prop four allocation.

And so we're looking for equitable side of adjustment,

but we're also advocating for more than that

because as of now, we are the only project

that is not only constructed or are going through construction

and have gone through all of our environmental quality

analysis, but we are the only project

from the original 2014 Proposition One funds

that are currently underway.

Joe Phil, did you just say we're the only project

from funds that were allocated 10 years ago

that's actually underway?

That is correct, sir.

Oh my gosh.

That's amazing.

And that was Prop One voted by Votes back in 2014.

Outreach, landowner intent and partnerships.

We continue to fill visits to confirm details

for recycled water service with landowners

and discuss service agreements.

We have our community partners here.

And again, I want to say thank you to Mr. Annetto,

Mr. Wakeman and Ms. Amber McDowell

from the Sac County Farm Bureau for continuing

and working with us and talking to our landowners

and partners.

We have the additional detail on the board items

that you had since moved earlier in this meeting

for both the agreements, rate and fee schedule

and also with the changes that were mentioned today

before the vote.

Continued groundwater level monitoring

and existing private groundwater wells

and outreach to landowners for new monitoring well location

that is part of our CAPB plan.

And we also continue our targeted outreach

for the earliest landowner agreements

required by our eco plan

and the ecosystem benefit agreement

with California Fish and Wildlife.

We've also began procurement for packages

for our eco plan implementations

such as native plan procurement, fencing

and other preparation items.

So here's our near term look ahead.

We would again concentrate on outreach effort

on recycled water service execution,

begin installing addition monitoring wells

as required by the WSIP compliance program.

We completed and submit the harvest water title 22

engineering report for distribution and use

to the division of drinking water

and also complete and submit the notice of intent

for regulatory permit for the regional water board.

Upcoming board actions, very exciting

as we're looking at 2025.

The resolution of necessity to acquire pipeline easements

through friendly condemnation January 2025.

Bit award for the EGTP segment one,

as mentioned by Mr. Crooks previously, February 2025.

Our eco plan landowner agreement templates, spring of 2025.

Customer reimbursement framework for the AFCA's

on farm improvements, hopefully shooting

for spring of 2025.

APMO consultant agreement amendment

that we're targeting for spring 2025

and the bid advertisement from AFCA phase one, March of 2025

which would follow the January 31st deadline

that WED mentioned prior.

And that's the extent of our slides.

I'll invite Mr. Crooks back to the dais.

If you have any questions, feedback, concerns

we're happy to hear it.

Thank you.

Great, thank you.

I do have some people punched in here, director soon.

Thank you, chair.

Just wanted to extend my kudos to you both for the outreach.

This scale of a construction project, 90 calls

and 80 emails, I mean, that's pretty good

from the beginning.

So hopefully it will continue to go down

as you continue to reach residents

and they understand what we're trying to do

and that this project is happening.

But I also want to extend my thanks for being responsive

because as you mentioned, I think that's why

you received some calls also for your complimentary response.

So just encourage you to continue what you're doing now.

And I'm also still amazed that we're the only project

from Prop One, but hey, maybe that means

we'll get allocated a little bit more.

So thank you very much.

Thank you, director soon.

Director Gera.

Thank you, chair.

If you don't have the answer now, if you could email it to me

but on the prop four 75 million for the WSI P eligibility,

what's the amount that we're like going after?

Great question, member Gera.

We are currently right now about 10.1%,

about roughly about 11% of the original prop one 2014 funds.

So that is, I haven't ran this by my bosses yet,

but that would be our baseline that we would be advocating for.

However, as other projects that are part

of the original prop one may or may not continue

to materialize than our ratio increases.

So our fair share amount will also increase.

But we're also hoping to be a little bit above

our fair share amount because we are the ones

that could really demonstrate that the changes

and the cost of construction have gone up

from our original allocation.

So yeah, about 8.9 million as a baseline.

But if I could, sorry to interrupt,

but if you could send me some information on what,

hey, this is what our target is,

what we should be getting on Friday,

I'll be meeting with a number of state legislators.

And I think it would be good to say,

hey, we need to fund and have one successful project funded,

at least one for the state to show that at least

this is where we should be doing.

And if you can't fund this one,

why are you spending money elsewhere

and can't get this one completed?

So if I can get that specific information so that Friday

morning when I meet with this delegation of folks

that I could use my time to advocate for our county.

Thank you.

Thank you very much, member Gada.

And also just to add, that is just a 75 million

on the WSIP related projects.

Prop four also includes billions of dollars

that we are able to hopefully compete for

that includes on recycling, recycling water programs,

sustainability and groundwater improvements

to which we will also hopefully include

to that report to you shortly.

Send it over, it is Christmas,

so a big Christmas list is great.

We'd be happy to do so and I'll work

with Mr. Ewood and Mr. Dobson.

Director Robles.

Thank you, Mr. Chair.

I just want to say thank you for your responsive

on the Ego Water Project.

I mean, I think at first it was shocked

for traffic to be directed by folks

taking that road every day.

I know I was shocked sometimes.

I was like, where do I turn when like

oncoming traffic and everything,

but I think once we got our bearings on that,

truly appreciated it.

I know that there's several folks that were worried

because there is a school on Franklin

and they've sent out extra people to be out there

and you're just to be mindful of kids

who are walking back, especially during traffic.

And also the barriers that have been set.

Some folks don't follow the rules.

I usually will be driving and I'm like,

you're not supposed to do that.

You're endangering it like everyone in front of us

and behind us.

But I'm starting to see more that has been changed

to that has changed because of what's going on.

So super appreciative and please continue to work hard

and if there's anything we can do to help out,

please let us know.

Thank you.

Thank you, Member Robles.

Thank you.

Any other comments?

So I would just echo again,

thank you to staff.

I know it's been a difficult journey

and I hope that we are kind of the peak disruption

and 2025 is going to be a better year.

I have driven on some of the repaved roads

and I gotta say they are fantastic.

I love them.

But the sort of height of you can't write this stuff

where life is weirder than fiction

is when my predecessor called me on the phone

to say he was traveling from Galt to Franklin

and was I aware of all these detours

and the road closures?

And I thought how quickly the retired forget.

You were here Don when we voted to do this.

And we did vote to inflict the maximum amount of pain

in the shortest amount of time possible.

And who knows, maybe feeling off the bandaid

would have been a different outcome,

but we're committed to it and we're gonna see it through.

All right.

If I may, just a couple other things.

I'd like to add working with the city of Belcro staff

has been really great.

They've been super supportive and helpful.

They've had a lot of ideas on how to make things

a little bit better and less painful.

So kudos to them.

Also beware next month,

we're gonna be working on additional traffic shifts

down Franklin Boulevard,

extending south of Laguna Boulevard.

So you'll see it down there as well as the North end.

And eventually the North end will go back to normal,

but it'll be this ever changing thing

as we proceed.

That's fair.

I'm seeing it.

I live right off White Lock in Franklin.

So it's gonna literally come right next to us.

And you're right.

There was a learning curve.

We did have some close calls and some, you know,

incidences where people are getting around the barricades.

And so we had to, you know, okay,

we'll beef it up a little bit.

But yeah, it's gotten to where I think people are used to it.

And it seems to be going pretty smoothly.

Mike, what you didn't know

is probably 40 of those complaints

that were submitted by Director Robles.

And the other 40 were me.

Sorry.

No, I'm sorry.

But I'm sure you will, but as early as possible,

let's start informing everybody what the change is coming.

Absolutely.

Thank you.

Okay.

I believe that concludes our business for the day.

Yeah.

At 1109.

1109, Merry Christmas.

Happy New Year.

And we will see all of the SAC sewer employees come January.

Yeah.

All right, we're adjourned.

Thank you.

Yes.

Right on time.

You are a good chair.

Look at that.

I know.