All right, well, the time is 131.

So I'd like to call to order the February 4th, 2026 meeting of the Northern Nevada Water Planning Commission.

And if we could get started with a roll call.

Casey Mincer.

Present.

Chris Melton.

Here.

Eric Crumb.

Here.

John Enlow.

John Flansburg.

Here.

Eddie Quaglieri.

Danielle Henderson.

Here.

Mylin Nguyen.

Here.

Donna Noel.

Amber Sosa.

Cara Steelen.

Michael Whidmer.

President.

Jennifer Carr.

Dare.

David Kelly.

We have a quorum.

Thank you.

Moving on to item number two.

We have public comment.

I have none.

I believe we have a commissioner wanting to make a public comment.

Yes, thank you.

For the record, I just want to share with everyone.

We lost a giant in the water world on Monday.

George Ball passed away.

You know, it's easy for us to take for granted.

Um when we come into positions and we're always looking at the problems of the day.

We don't think that often to go back and see what the problems of the past were and those who have gone before.

And we stand on their shoulders.

Uh, and it gives us a different perspective.

And I just want to take this opportunity to um remember George.

And many of you may, some of you may not know George because he has been in the profession so long.

Um, but I wanted to uh just recognize his dedication and expertise and service to Washoe County.

Uh George began his career at Sierra Pacific Power, learning the ins and outs of water, uh power and water, and his engineering practice.

George played a vital role in designing numerous water tanks in our region as the district engineer for the Washoe County Water Conservation District for over 30 years.

Uh George ensured sustainable and efficient water management, earning widespread right spread respect and admiration.

His contributions extended to the original uh regional water planning commission, which became the Northern Nevada Water Planning Commission, where he served with distinction for several more years.

His common sense approach and ability to bring people and ideas together greatly impacted the regional water planning and management policies.

George's legacy is reflected in the infrastructure that supports Washoe County and the lives he touched through his commitment to the community.

George's service extended to his fellow engineers serving as chair on the board of professional engineers and land surveyors.

When I spoke to John Enlow about George earlier this week, his comment was George is a legend in Northern Nevada.

That is high praise coming from someone that many of us regard as a legend in northern Nevada.

If I were to ask George what he'd want to be remembered for, I'm confident would be his family.

Just want to shout out for George and just thank him and remember him for his service and making our community better through his example and leadership.

Thank you for that.

Uh recognition, Commissioner Flansburg.

Do we have any other members of the public willing to or uh wanting to speak at this time?

All right.

Um hearing none, uh, item four, we have approval of the minutes from the November 5th, 2025 Western Regional Water Commission.

Oh, I'm uh my apologies.

Right, item three, uh, approval of the agenda.

Looking for a motion.

Right.

Um, motion by Commissioner Malton.

Uh second.

Second by Commissioner Cramp.

All in favor?

Aye.

Aye.

Aye.

Any opposed?

All right.

Motion passes unanimously.

Now, moving on to item number four.

Approval of the minutes from the November 5th, 2025, Western Regional Water Commission and Northern Nevada Water Planning Commission.

Uh concurrent meeting.

Looking for a motion.

Mr.

Chairman Mike Whitmore here.

I have I have a comment on uh in the minutes item number seven.

Uh my name is mixed up with Pyramid Lake Tribe.

It's probably Chris Nixon that made that comment.

I'm not sure.

All right, uh Commissioner Whitmer.

Um, sorry, I was uh looking through my packet to find the relevant section.

Could you repeat your comment, please?

Oh, okay.

Small.

Well, it was on item number seven.

Yep.

On the fourth paragraph, my name is mentioned in as a representative of the Pyramid Lake Tribe.

Oh, that should be uh Commissioner Mixon right now.

Well, I think it was Chris Mixon.

I think Chris Mixon was in that made that comment.

Yes.

So I suppose I'd be uh looking to entertain a motion uh with that.

Commissioner Crumpa move to approve uh with the trusted edits.

Right.

I will second that.

All right, we have a first and a second.

All in favor?

Any opposed?

All right, motion passes unanimously.

Great catch, Commissioner Woodmer.

All right, um, now we are on to item number five, which is action discussion and possible recommendation to the Western Regional Water Commission for approval of a scope of work and funding not to exceed 211,000 from the Regional Water Management Fund for a professional services agreement with resource concepts in to update the 2020 integrated source water and 319 H watershed protection plan for public water systems and the Truckee River in the Trucky Meadows 2020 Source Water and Watershed Plan.

All right.

Uh Ms.

Wittergren.

Yes, thank you, Chairman.

Uh, members of the commission, Birgit Whittagin for the record.

So the 2020 integrated source water and watershed plan was actually approved in 2015, and it has been implemented by regional partners for over five years.

Oh, goodness, sorry.

Forgive me.

Um so anyway, it's been implemented for over five years, and is widely recognized at this point that it needs a comprehensive update.

So here to present a proposal for that update is Jill Sutherland, who's with RCI, and she is the senior engineer and director of their environmental team.

Jill.

Thank you.

Jill Subuline for some questions.

And uh thank you, Julia.

Commissioners.

I'm here to provide update adding to the project and we refer to it at 2020 25 water plan.

So um get kind of when timeline items started in 2013, adopted in 20.

Adopt.

Oh, there we go.

Uh adopted in 2020, and now we're in 2026.

It's time for plan update.

So um, who are the regional partners?

This graphic lists the regional partners, and I'm super excited to say that all these folks were uh involved in developing the plan.

We have quarterly meetings of the planning team, and they're all ready to be engaged in the update, and they've all been working on implementing this plan in the last five years.

Um what types of things have been implemented?

Uh, this lists a few, and there is a long list.

If you go to the Washoe County Cleanwater.org website, you can see a comprehensive list, and it's it's a lot.

Um, and it's over a wide range of things to protect you know, water quality, source water and watershed um or surface water and groundwater both.

Um, for example, we've got everything from planning projects where the source water and watershed plan provided a lot of the data to help out with pieces of the um natural resource element of the Truckee Meadows Regional Master Plan update to on the ground projects like the Gold Ranch Fire Rehab, where source water protection and watershed management kind of got this project off the ground, which was a great collaboration, and I understand one Truckee River had got additional 319 grant funds, which they're just trying to get out on the ground to do you know more specific work right on the river corridor.

And as we move into an update, it is a implementation of the comprehensive regional water management plan uh actions.

Uh section 21019, source water and watershed protection specifically calls out you know for incorporating new water purveyors into the in the planning area and updating the information as needed.

Um, what kind of updates do we need?

Well, um, this plan is divided out into watershed profiles, which is a standalone report for each of the 14 watersheds in that are tributary to the Truckee River between the state line and about Vista Boulevard.

Um, in addition to adding new water systems, a lot of the small ones change over the years, and new wells.

We want to update a lot of the data that is included in the summary tables on these reports for each watershed profile, including, for example, water quality standards.

We use this 2016-2018 water quality standards, and right now the 2022-2024 state water quality standards are out for review and approval.

So we want to use the latest and greatest.

Also, we have fabulous mapping.

And it would be great to update the mapping and geospatial analysis with the most recent base layers.

So all that would be part of phase one.

So phase one would be engaging the partners, updating the public water system inventory, revisiting the mapping, you know, for these watershed profiles and what's online, and then taking that information and kind of updating and reorganizing the website content.

So once we're through with phase one, it's really going to inform what happens in phase two.

Key in phase two will be engaging everybody to find out what they want to do next.

A lot of these projects that are outlined in the regional plan, they're completed.

You'll be amazed at how much has been completed.

What do people want to do next?

Um also as we develop what we want to do next, we want to use the latest and greatest data, for example, the tributary assessments, to inform what types of projects folks want to do and get funding for moving forward.

We've also heard from the partners that they want to improve the um performance tracking for this plan and for the online website.

How do we do that?

That's probably a new tool.

We've also heard they want this to be like seamlessly integrated into the regional planning framework for water.

It's a standalone plan, but it informs the other plans and vice versa.

How can we make that more seamless?

Um, and then the last part of phase two be to circle back on this whole update and make sure that all the partners engaged uh will approve and adopt this plan.

And with that, do you have any questions?

Thank you, Joe.

Mr.

Chair?

All right, any questions from the commission?

Great.

Well, thank you very much very much.

Thank you.

I actually don't have a question, but just uh in an effort to keep our record clear um in the staff report uh in the last paragraph of the summary.

There's references to fiscal year 2006 and two references to fiscal year 2007, and I think there should be 2026 and 2027 respectively.

Just for those of us who go back in time looking for information, that's gonna throw somebody off for sure.

Right.

Thank you.

Thank you.

We'll fix that.

All right, any other questions or comments on this item?

Uh, if not, I will be looking for a motion.

I'll make a motion to approve um the uh scope of work as it's been outlined and um uh to forward this recommendation.

Um I believe that we're making a recommendation for that to the Western Region Water Commission for their approval.

All right, we have a motion by Commissioner Flansburg.

Commissioner Steele and second.

All right, second by Commissioner Steele.

All in favor.

Any opposed.

All right, motion passes unanimously.

Moving on to item number six.

We have a presentation and possible acceptance of Raphtalis's final report and findings of the wastewater regionalization feasibility study, phase one A, identification of challenges and objectives.

Um Ms.

Rigdon.

Thank you, Chairman.

Good afternoon, members of the commission.

It's wonderful to see everybody today.

So as you know, uh Rap Talis has completed phase 1A of the wastewater regionalization feasibility study that this board and the Western Regional Water Commission have uh directed staff to continue moving forward.

Um John Mistrasha, who is the executive vice president of RAF Talis is here on Zoom with his team.

I'll let him introduce uh who's on Zoom with him today to present the final report and go over the recommended next steps.

And so with that, Mr.

Mistracio, would you like to take the reins?

Oh, yes, thank you.

Um good afternoon, um, Chairman and Commissioners.

Um I'm gonna share my screen here with a brief presentation for you.

Uh let's see if I can get the technology to work here.

Okay.

All right.

All right.

Well, well, thank you.

As uh Kim had mentioned, my name is John Astracchio.

I'm with Reftelis.

Uh with me today are other a few other team members that uh have worked on the 1A study, including including uh Kevin Cossack from RAF Tellus as well as Gwen Mortulli from Zanhero.

Um and we also had uh Jacobs uh participate in this phase of the work as well.

Uh so as you know, we recently completed the first phase of the feasibility study, and that was focused on uh regional planning and management of wastewater wastewater utility and effluent disposal.

Uh we delivered um a revised report on the this phase of the work.

And um this phase uh focused on a couple of things.

One, we documented the regional challenges associated with wastewater management, and we identified the specific objectives for further exploring uh regional wastewater wastewater management.

Uh that work was uh was completed to really serve as a foundation for evaluating uh uh more regional uh wastewater management in the next phase of the of the work.

Um so the work that was completed was all about gathering input and perspectives from various stakeholders about the current wastewater challenges in the region, and uh what objectives uh the stakeholders had for further um further evaluating uh uh regionalization in the in the future.

Uh we met with members of the WRWC, the NNWPC, the cities of Sparks and Reno, Washoe County, Tumwa, and others to get various uh perspectives and input.

Uh we also held a number of workshops uh with the WRWC working group to have more focused discussions around various topics such as governance, uh customer growth and capacity issues, alignment of sewer sheds with asset ownership, uh, valuation of assets, stormwater management.

Um based on these discussions, uh we identified um and received feedback uh from stakeholders on uh the challenges that um the region is facing in terms of uh wastewater uh treatment and management.

And those challenges were documented in the report that uh we prepared and include these these items.

So, including uh the challenge of constrained wastewater treatment capacity and growth-related pressures, uh, wastewater effluent management challenges involving nutrient loadings into the Truckee River, uh, the complexity and interplay between effluent management, water rights, uh recycled water opportunities, um, the challenge of large future capital needs that are on the horizon related to infrastructure upgrades, nutrient removal, advanced treatment, uh, which will uh have the potential to uh uh impact uh rates in the future.

Uh we we uh documented uh significant differences in wastewater rate structures across the region, differences in how stormwater is managed and paid for across the municipalities, and challenges associated with uh the current means by which municipalities share services and collaborate, which often involve interlocal agreements, uh, which uh can be time consuming to negotiate and sub-optimal from uh from a timing standpoint.

Uh we then um helped to uncover some of the key objectives of evaluating uh further regional management of wastewater in in the future.

Um those included uh these five general categories of of objectives.

Um the first one was about enhanced uh financial and administrative efficiency as a potential, uh achieving greater economies of scale, uh optimizing regional cost sharing, uh, which could lead to perhaps more stable uh predictable rates for repairs.

We talked about the opportunity for a more unified approach to integrated water resource management, including effluent management, water rights, the expansion of water recycling to maximize regional water supply benefits, as well as for further environmental stewardship effort efforts, achieving better operational optimization for uh related to improved asset management, uh service levels, streamlining the process for for developers.

We documented the objective of the ability to uh do better strategic planning on a more unified approach to infrastructure planning to address complex regional challenges that are difficult for individual entities to solve independently.

And we also um documented the objective of providing a more consistent framework to make wastewater capacity available to support growth and development across the region.

As we are identifying these uh uh these challenges and the objectives, uh, we we also documented for the uh benefit of addressing the next phase of uh looking at some some regional uh alternatives and and um completing some detailed evaluation around those, some some concerns and obstacles that would need to be addressed uh in in those future phases of work.

One was the concern around the um potential for uh loss of local control.

So um uh control over decision making uh related to capital investments, related to growth, related to assets and rates, and uh just general decision making would need to be addressed.

Um equity would need to be addressed, ensuring that uh there's fair recognition of prior investments in uh wastewater infrastructure, equitable distribution of future costs and benefits, and to ensure long-term equitable rates across the region.

Um governance complexity uh was also a concern in terms of uh ensuring that there's there's uh uh governance representation and ensuring that regional governance models are uh effective, they're efficient and and there's accountability.

Uh we um we we discuss the challenges around staffing and and the desire to make sure staff are taken care of as we look at um some of these options uh for further regionalization.

And and then um momentum, uh keeping keeping the momentum.

So we heard the desire to move forward, but also concerns that past full regional regional management efforts have fizzled due to some loss of momentum.

Um, and um so we want to be mindful of that and move move quickly in the next phases of the work to uh provide information that uh uh decision makers stakeholders can use to make uh decisions moving forward.

So with that, we we um we outlined some next next steps.

Um those next steps are documented in the report.

They're also included in a uh uh uh a proposal that I think is before the before the commission today.

Um, and that involves a next phase of the scope of work and a proposal for the feasibility study for the regional wastewater management.

We call that um two phases.

There's there's uh second phase, which is really phase one B, uh, which would validate some regional alternatives that were identified under the initial uh phase 1A of the work, uh, which consisted of uh the possibility of creating a regional combined wastewater agency and water agency together, um, which uh would involve uh would potentially involve Tumwa as part of that.

Uh we also um included comparing that um alternative with a uh regional wastewater agency that's separate from uh the uh management of water resources.

Um and then the scope of work also includes identifying how stormwater management could fit into either either of those uh kind of big, big broad options that uh we brought uh brought to you on in the first phase of the work.

And um it also includes as a fallback option uh consideration of alignment of sewer sheds with wastewater treatment plant ownership to um to have better alignment uh between those things and if um if some of those bigger, broader regional opportunities um are uh deemed to be uh in infeasible moving forward.

So the outcome of this one phase one B would be validation and selection of up to two reasons specific regional models that we would detail in a further evaluation as part of this scope of work.

And then we call that that phase uh one C.

Um, that it would be a detailed evaluation of these models, including how the organization and the governance could work under those models, how would staffing be addressed?

Uh, how would the financial and rate aspects of a regional agency look compared to the status quo?

Um, it would involve um how uh compensation for wastewater assets that uh become part of the the uh uh regional agency would work and other operational management considerations.

So, in terms of timing, the uh phase one B scope that I laid out would um would be roughly uh take a timeline of about four to six six months to complete, and then we can um move directly into the next uh phase one C, which would be approximately another six months to eight months of of time in order to complete.

And then when we're all done with the phase one B and one C, uh we would um prepare and provide the information that would be necessary to uh make an informed decision as to whether or not to move forward with uh some form of uh regional wastewater agency implementation.

And with that, uh concludes my presentation and I um welcome any any comments or questions you might have.

Thank you for that presentation.

Uh are there any questions or comments from the commission?

You know, on my part.

I I think too that uh this has been a really great collaboration amongst all you know the the partners that have involved in the technical working group.

So um I think working with Rev Talis has been a great experience, and I appreciate the work of the of the uh uh WRWC and the Northern Water Planning Commission to you know breach this out, you know, this this uh final deliverable.

Um Commissioner Flansburg, you had a comment or question?

Uh just a comment, you know.

Oftentimes we um are working on or we have staff that is working on different objectives and we get reports.

This particular one, we were we were the ones uh with our sleeves rolled up and and going through uh the discussions.

And so just appreciate the um the report and the some summation of the of the steps that we have gone through uh to get to get us to this point.

And so I do not have any other questions.

Thank you.

I just have a comment and and I too appreciated um uh this this collaboration.

And I also want to recognize uh Manager Rigdon and her staff for collaborating.

Uh it was uh I know it's a big lift, so I appreciate it.

Thank you.

Any other comments or questions?

All right.

Uh if not, I would be looking for a motion uh on the possible recommendation or on the uh possible acceptance of the RAF Talis final report.

Right.

Uh motion by Commissioner Flansburg.

Yeah, move to accept uh the report and direct staff to present it to the Western Region Water Commission for their consideration.

We have a first.

Do we have a second?

Uh second.

Right, second by Commissioner Kremp.

Any discussion?

All right.

Looking for a vote.

All in favor say aye.

Aye.

Aye.

Aye.

Any opposed.

All right.

Motion passes unanimously.

Next item is action discussion and possible recommendation to the Western Regional Water Commission for approval of a scope of work and funding not to exceed 475,000 from the regional water management fund for RAF Talis to provide financial consulting services for phase one B and one C of a feasibility study on regional planning and management of wastewater utilities at FMO disposal.

All right, Ms.

Rigdon.

Thank you, Chairman, members of the commission.

I know our link, the uh item descriptions um can be a little bit overwhelming.

So I know I promised we were going to work on that, and we'll get those shortened up a little bit.

So you did hear from uh Mr.

Mistraccio, and he actually presented the next steps and most of the focus of this, so we don't have another presentation on that, other than maybe questions on the proposal for this particular item, if there's something that needs to be discussed.

The total amount of 475,000, we have 175 um budgeted for the remainder of this fiscal year and the other 300 would kick in for next fiscal year.

We do have that set up so that if unused funds may be rolled over so that we don't have, you know, we they have plenty of budget to get through the next uh couple cycles.

And with that, Mr.

Chairman, if there's any questions for myself or John Bistraccio, uh, we're happy to ask answer those questions.

All right.

Any uh comments or questions from the commission or the non-voting members that are that are here today.

Commissioner Flansberg.

I'll I will uh again.

We have uh been through, we received the report, um, and been involved in the process all the way through.

I will make a motion uh to recommend the Rev Telescope of work and funding not to exceed 475,000 from the regional water management fund uh to the W Western Region Water Commission for their approval in the proposal funding cycle and contingent upon uh the WRWC budget approval.

All right.

We have a motion.

Is there a second?

Commissioner Woodmarks seconds.

All right, we have a motion and a second by Commissioner Woodmer.

All in favor, say aye.

Aye.

Any opposed.

All right.

Motion passes unanimously.

All right, moving on to item number eight.

We have action discussion and possible direction to staff on the draft Western Regional Water Commission fiscal year 2026-2027 tentative budget and possible recommendation to the WRWC to uh approve the tentative budget.

Right.

I'm assuming uh Ms.

Ridgen again.

Thank you very much, Mr.

Chairman, members of the commission.

We're gonna get the slides going here.

I think I have control.

Is that right, Jen?

I'm in control now.

Okay, great.

Perfect.

All right.

So members of the commission, it's budget season again.

The WRWC is required to submit the tentative budget by April 15th, uh, 2026.

And staff has scheduled a public hearing on May 27th, 2026 to with the WRWC to adopt the budget uh in ahead of the deadline of June 1st, 2026.

Oh, I I hit my computer rather than the clicker.

That's where I'm at today.

All right.

And if you look in your board packet under item eight attachment A, we have the WRWC fiscal year 27 tentative budget worksheets for you to look at as we go through the presentation.

Staff um has worked very closely with the Washoe County budget office to make sure that the projective revenues can cover planned expenses.

Uh the total anticipated revenue that we uh anticipate coming in from our one and a half percent surcharge fees from uh water systems within our planning area is approximately 2.1 million.

That is up almost $96,000 from last budget cycle due to rate increases over the past few years.

The total anticipated um estimated expenses, including professional services contracts, staff and routine operating expenses come to 3.9 million.

That is also up from 3.4 million last uh budget cycle.

And that's primarily due to some of our uh contracts that you just saw that we're approving for this next year for our professional services as well as um cost of living increases for some of our contracts and staff.

And our estimated beginning cash balance for fiscal year 27 is approximately 2.6 million million.

That's also up 1.8 from last year.

So we haven't spent as much in the last couple of years as we have um previous years.

So that gives us a little bit more uh wiggle room in our budget to cover our expenses.

So for fiscal year 27, our projected cash balance is 732068, and that is up from 433 last year.

And it does cover our minimum six months um operating budget requirements recommendations.

Did I click it?

Okay.

Then if you want to turn to page two of attachment AA, you'll see the professional services budget detail.

This is something that you've seen before.

I present this at the priority setting workshop.

There was uh an inclusion that was not in the priority setting workshop, and that was for the watershed and uh source water plan update that you saw the presentation on today with resource concepts in.

So that that was included as well as the budget for the second phase of the RAFTALUS contract for fiscal year 27.

Excuse me.

So projects that don't have a fully developed scope of work are labeled TBD to be determined, and those um are covered in our $900,000 project contingency budget.

Those projects don't necessarily have a scope of work and budget associated with them yet, but they were prioritized by the commission at our priority setting.

So we do have sufficient funds to cover those projects when they're ready to move forward.

And there was, as you saw, a significant increase in the wastewater and effluent management category due to accommodating the new RAP TELUS study and the in-the-water quality category for the RCI contract.

And finally, on page three, you'll see our WRWC routine operating budget.

And this includes staff time, tech services, travel, supplies, legal services, our financial audit, and um that went up slightly due to cost of living increases in both categories for a total of 819,333.

And I did put fiscal year 26 up there so you could see it was a slight increase.

And with that, um, I don't have any other significant comments.

There are a few projects on there that we're still working on the scopes because we're waiting for things like um the EPA to come out with their their UCMR5 results, which is the UCMR5.

I'm gonna mess this up.

Unregulated contaminant monitoring reporting, where they go out and they re collect 29 to 30 different constituent samples to see what their priorities are to be looking at in water distributed water treatment systems and what those regulations, if there's any new regulations that are coming out.

So we do have a couple contracts that are in the concept phase where we want to make sure that we have some regulations tracking or assessing what those impacts might be if those regulations come out to our partners moving forward.

And with that, Mr.

Chairman, um, if there's any questions on the budget, we'll take those questions.

All right, well, thank you, Ms.

Rigdon, for that presentation.

You know, I I do really appreciate the budget detail summarizes each of the individual projects by the focus area of of this commission.

I think it's really a great kind of spot check that as we do the prioritization that we talk about, you know, in terms of the big picture, water, you know, supply, water quality, wastewater, affluent management.

That you know, it's a really good um reference that the resources are growing, you know, as as we prioritize them.

So I appreciate that that level of details always taken with this item.

Um, with that, are there any other questions or comments from the commission?

If not, I would be looking for a motion.

All right.

Um, so I just uh a comment and then a motion.

So um obviously I'm not used to uh approving budgets that the expenses is twice the revenue.

But I also recognize that we have 900,000 that is in the contingency fund and for those projects that are developed and um and it does seem you know, those are just the ones that we've been covered, so understood.

So with that, and just the clarification.

So uh anyone who is um curious about that, uh, there's there is a method to our madness, so to speak.

So with that, I um would like to move to approve the tentative budget uh as presented and recommend um forwarding to the Western Region Water Commission for their consideration.

All right, we have a motion by Commissioner Flansburg.

Do we have a second?

Second.

All right, second by Commissioner Crump.

Any discussion?

All right, all in favor say aye.

Aye.

Aye.

All right, any opposed.

All right, motion passes unanimously.

All right.

Uh next up is item number nine, report on the regional water management plan update and schedule.

Again, Ms.

Rigdon.

Thank you, Chairman, members of the commission.

Kim Rigdon for the record.

So I have one slide on this uh particular item, and many of you know that we have been working with our various subject matter experts as well as the commission on uh review of the regional water management plan chapters over the past few months.

We've been working on looking at the policies and what the policy updates might require, um, and as well as working with the UNR to help us with digitizing much of the information in the plan and creating this online web page and tool so that the plan is easier to follow to understand what kind of projects we're we're working on to implement the plan.

So we have a pretty exciting web page that'll be launched at the end of this.

Um in the interim, we're gonna be putting together an update on our website to collect comments in the meantime.

So we'll put up after we bring a draft um modified chapter or proposal to the board.

We'll be putting those up on our website so that they can be revisited and reviewed and commented on as a part of the public comment process as well.

So we'll get that set up pretty quickly here with the regional planning agency with their help.

If you look at the the figure, this is our overall ambitious goal to get the 2026 uh regional water management plan updated, and you'll see the light green.

I'm I shouldn't say colors because I'm not even seeing the colors very well on the screen right now, but you'll see that first X in March for chapter one.

Those are shaded light green, and those X's are our goals to bring a draft updated red-lined copy of what we think that PDF chapter report will look like.

And we'll be coordinating with staff, senior staff, as well as the water planning commission members on those changes and updates as we go.

So it shouldn't be a surprise when you see that.

But it will be a draft.

So though we will not be seeking approval for those.

That's just to bring those drafts and what we think those changes might look like to the board, collect comments, make adjustments as necessary, and you'll see that the rest of the months after that are green, and those are our you know, revisit it, revise it, edit, do the things that we need to do to make sure that those uh chapters are gonna become the final chapters that they need to be.

So you'll so on the schedule, those are our goals for bringing those chapter updates.

At the same time, we're updating those documents because we have to have a PDF document of the plan.

We'll be working on updating the website, but you may not see those website updates till the the end of the probably August or September.

I'm working with Director Smith over at Team RPA to look at how long it would take and what their staff availability is to get all that completed.

Our plan is to have a presentation of the final draft to the Northern Nevada Water Planning Commission in September, and that would give you a month to review the final draft and then come back and seek um approval of that the following month in October.

So that would give quite a bit of time to look at each chapter as well as look at the final plan for a few months before we seek a public hearing to recommend that to the WRWC for approval.

That give requires a 30-day public review period, and we would anticipate bringing uh having a public hearing in December with the WRWC for adoption of that plan.

And then, of course, that goes to the Trekkie Meadows Regional Planning Agency for 40 day review to be in conformance with the regional plan.

So that's really what the schedule looks like.

It's pretty ambitious at this point that we are pretty we're we're feeling good about pulling that off.

So working with all you fine folks.

So that's what I have.

Do you have any questions?

Please let me know.

Um, we will be working really closely with many of you.

I know I've been bugging you a lot with everything that's going on with the wastewater regionalization study.

So this is another layer where you're gonna hear from Kim a lot over the next few months.

Thank you, Chairman.

Thank you, Ms.

Regnant.

Uh, this item is for information only.

So I would be looking for uh comments or questions from the commission.

Uh it's an ambitious schedule.

I'm looking forward to participating in it.

All right.

So moving on to item number 10.

This one is discussion and possible direction to staff regarding agenda items, meeting dates and locations for future NWPC meetings.

All right, Ms.

Regnond.

Thank you, Chairman.

I just wanted to put the calendar year outlook up on the screen.

So I have a check mark next to today's meeting.

We've accomplished today.

A couple of highlights.

We won't have a July meeting.

That meeting falls on the 4th of July week, and so we typically do not have that July meeting.

Um, we did have to schedule our priority setting uh concurrent meeting with the Western Regional Water Commission on October 22nd, and that's a Thursday morning.

I did coordinate with a few folks on that.

So if there's a problem with being able to attend that meeting, please let me know and we'll work on that schedule.

Um that seemed to work for most of our commission members.

Um the Wednesday, November 4th meeting.

If we get everything done that we need to get done in October, we won't need to hold a meeting the following week.

So that'll be there if we need it for the regional water management plan update.

I'm keeping it on the calendar just in case, but I I we won't likely need that meeting if everything goes according to schedule and plan.

Thank you, Chairman.

Thank you for the presentation.

Um, so with this, are there any comments, questions?

This is for possible action.

So any discussion or direction to staff regarding future agenda items, meeting dates or locations.

Do we need a motion?

Okay.

All right.

So hearing no comments, we'll move on to item number 11.

So we have uh commission comments.

So are there any comments from the commission or from our non voting members at this time?