Okay, I'd like to call to order this meeting of the Sacrament Area Sewer District for Wednesday, February 11, 2026.

Madam Clerk, will you please call the role and establish quorum?

Yes.

Director Desmond Dickinson.

Hume.

Kaplan.

Kennedy.

Orozco.

Plucky Baum.

Rafel.

Here.

Roblis.

Rodriguez.

Sander.

Cerna.

Here.

Soon?

Here.

Viegas?

Here.

And Karpinski Costa.

Present.

And you have a quorum.

Very good.

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Very good.

Thank you very much.

Uh Director Hume, will you do us the honor of leading some pledge, please?

One nation under our indivisible with liberty and justice for all.

Right, very good.

Thank you.

Uh I want to welcome everyone to this morning's uh proceedings of the Sacramentary Sewer District.

Uh we have some business in front of us.

So without further ado, um clerk, will you please call the first item?

So we have the closed session first.

Okay, very good.

Uh we will then uh recess to closed session and be back uh following for open session.

Okay, I'd like to call back to order this meeting of the Sacrament Area Sewer District for Wednesday, February 11, 2026.

Madam Clerk, will you please call the roll and reestablish a quorum?

Yes, directors Dickinson, Hume, Kaplan, Rafel, Rodriguez, Sander, Cerna, here, Soon, here, Viegas, and Karpinski Costa.

Present.

And you have a quorum.

All right, very good.

Thank you very much.

Uh let's move on to our first open session item, please.

So for your first item, you have the consent matters, items one through four.

All right.

Very good.

Uh any directors have questions about consent or wish to pull an item for separate consideration vote.

Okay, it's been moved.

Second, second, clerk.

Do we have any public speakers on consent?

I do not have any public speakers for this item.

All right, then please vote.

Member Viegas.

Oh, I'm sorry.

Yes.

It must take forever to get through a West or uh a yellow county board of supervisors meeting.

And that motion carries with those members present.

All right, very good.

Thank you.

Next item, please.

Fair enough.

Item five, you have comments from the public on issues not on the posted agenda, and I do not have any speaker requests.

All right, very good.

Thank you.

Next item.

Item six is miscellaneous district engineer matters.

Good morning, Chairman members.

Uh just uh quick administrative item.

We do not have our second meeting in February, so uh March 11th will be our next board meeting.

And then I did want to mention we were recently uh awarded a uh national environmental award from the National Association of Clean Water Agencies for our septic to sewer program.

That's uh Hood, Franklin, Old Florentown, uh Linda Manor.

Um, and I guess preceding those wasn't part of it, but we also uh Freeport was the original um for those projects.

Um so kind of collectively together we received an award for that, so a national award.

So I'd like to know that.

Very good, thank you.

Any questions for our executive director?

No, all right, very good.

Uh anyone's time to speak on this item.

We have no speaker requests.

All right, then I believe that concludes our business.

Uh no.

Uh we have board member uh matters.

Any board members have anything to raise, address?

No, seeing none.

And we don't have any public speakers, I assume on that.

Uh so that brings us to the conclusion of our meeting.

Um, I do have um actually one request.

Um, and I'm not sure if it's uh of interest to other directors, but I'll throw it out there regardless.

Um, I think it would be helpful uh to have our respective uh staff to have the opportunity to tour the plant.

And I know that that is not um that that takes some time in planning, uh, but is that something, Christoph, that we could uh arrange for some time this this calendar year.

I think it's a fascinating part of our regional infrastructure and um we've all I think had the benefit of uh being out there perhaps more than once to see uh the operation, but uh I think it would be helpful to to have at least my staff have in in uh expressed an interest, and I think it would be uh good for them to have that opportunity.

Absolutely.

We've we've had some of the staff out uh in the past.

Uh we can do we'll try to collect as many as we can, but um we can do more than one, even whatever it takes to get people through the plant process and okay, get them a chance to see it.

Perhaps we can we can coordinate and talk offline in terms of timing and that kind of thing.

Yep.

If anyone's interested in adding on to that tour, just let me know and we'll set it up.

Very good.

Thank you, Christoph.

All right.

Uh all right.

There's if there's no further business in front of us this morning, we are adjourned.