I'd like to call to order the Wednesday, April 1st, 2026 meeting of the Northern Nevada Water Planning Commission.

And as is customary, if we could start with a roll call, please.

Casey Mencer.

Chris Melton, Eric Crum, John Enlo, John Flansburg, Eddie Quaglieri, Danielle Henderson here, Mylan Newen.

Chris Mixon for Donna Noel.

Amber Sosa.

Caris Delen.

Here, Michael Whidmer.

We have a quorum.

Thank you.

All right, moving on to item number two, public comment.

Have we received any public comment?

All right.

Hearing none, moving on to item number three, approval of the agenda.

Motion to approve.

Motion to approve the agenda.

Do I have a second?

Second.

All right.

Second by Commissioner Mountain.

All in favor?

Aye.

Any opposed?

All right.

Motion passes unanimously.

All right, moving on to item number four, approval of the minutes from the February 4th, 2026, uh Northern Nevada Water Planning Commission meeting.

Looking for a motion.

Moved to approve.

All right.

Motion by Commissioner Mountain.

Do I have second?

All second.

All right, Commissioner Flansburg.

All in favor say aye.

Aye.

Any opposed?

All right.

Motion passes unanimously.

All right.

Item number five.

I believe our presenter is not here currently.

Is it possible we can take these items out of order, or we could pull number five until the end of the agenda?

He is on online.

Oh.

I'm online.

All right, fantastic timing.

All right.

Uh moving on then to item number five action discussion and possible recommendation to the Western Regional Water Commission for approval of a scope of work and funding not to exceed 46,000 from the Regional Water Management Fund for a Professional Services Agreement with Resource Concepts Inc.

to perform the Little and Big Washoe Lakes Connectivity Phase One evaluation of site conditions.

Ms.

Wittigren.

Yes, thank you, Chairman.

Commissioners.

Birgit Whittagram for the record.

And previous Northern Nevada planning water planning commission priority setting discussions, the Washoe, the Washoe County Water Conservation District identified a need to study surface water interactions between little and big um Washoe Lake.

And last year in 2025, the commission prioritized the effort and put aside a budget for it in the fiscal year 26 professional services agreement budget.

So our partners worked with RCI to develop the scope of work and the budget.

And here with us virtually is Jill Sutherland, Principal at RCI, and she will be presenting a proposal.

Can you see the PowerPoint we have there?

Great.

So let me get started.

So one second.

Hey Miss Sutherland, I we're gonna run the PowerPoint from in the room.

So if you could just say next slide, that would be helpful.

Oh great.

That sounds perfect.

So the goal of this study, as Brigitte said, is to develop some information for regional partners about the surface water connections between little and big Washa lakes.

And the first phase of that overall objective is to evaluate the site conditions and compare them to what we can discover about historical connectivity.

Next slide.

So here you kind of have a photograph.

This is some of the site conditions that you see out there between the two lakes, a lot of woody debris.

Some of the questions that we're trying to answer are um, how are the lakes connected in the past?

Have drainage patterns deteriorated over time due to woody debris, sediment accumulation, uh vegetation growth.

And then what are the consequences to the water levels of of those site conditions?

Next slide.

So just a quick overview.

Washoe Valley, the watershed is about 54,000 acres.

And it receives most of its surface flow from the Carson Range to the west, Franktown Creek, Ofer Creek, Davers Creek, Winter's Creek.

These flow to Big and Washo Big and Little Washoe Lake, which then flow north to Steamboat Creek.

And historically, water from the tributaries has been used for water supply for milling in the early Comstock and agriculture into the present day.

Next slide.

So if we zoom in just a little bit, you can see here's Big Washoe Lake.

Here's the Little Washoe Lake under you know dramatically different water conditions.

So what's the question?

Is when does Big Washoe Lake turn into a terminal lake?

If once it's a terminal lake, it's susceptible to increased water loss through evaporation, reduce downstream availability for water in the summer, and heightened winter flood risks impacting the interstate 580 along the west side of the lake.

Next slide.

So the primary focus of our site evaluation is to look at this area between the two lakes.

So the study area is going to lie generally between the north end of Big Washoe Lake and the dam at the outlet of Little Washoe Lake at the very north end.

So these aerial images are kind of handy.

They show complex flow paths between the two lakes over on the right.

And in the middle, you can see this is dry conditions where there's water coming in from the tributaries, but it's pretty much the connectivity has been severed.

And then on the right hand side, you see sometimes this area is completely covered by flooding.

Next slide.

So in this proposal, the first, you know, and primary task is to research the site conditions.

We propose to collect and evaluate water level data, look at photos, historical accounts, review the water rights and the related mapping associated with those water rights, and then conduct some field work to locate any historical and current structures that are used for drainage and irrigation.

Then we can map these points kind of with a handheld GPS and then overlay it with other resource layers and GIS for the analysis.

Next slide.

The picture here, another sort of picture is from November where you can kind of see the woody debris that's accumulated old willows and things in this area between the lakes.

Next slide.

Once we take a look at all these locations, we'll prepare a summary report talking about the location and condition of drainage and irrigation structures, the changes in connectivity that might be results of these current conditions, and then what the water management implications are for present and future site conditions.

And then trying to come up some maybe with some concepts to restore connectivity.

Next slide.

Total budget is proposed to be 46,000.

The schedule would be starting in April here and doing some site research through September.

We feel like the best time to do the field work will be late summer, early fall.

So you can see in the little graph up here.

It's when water levels are the lowest that we can get access out there.

And then we would wrap up the reporting by the end of the year.

Next slide.

So once we have this information, you know what future phases might be part of this study, depending on what we come up with.

New topographic mapping to tie together some of the historic flow data and water level data for the lake, engaging partners about the resource objectives for that area of Washoe Valley, and also developing future scenarios or alternatives for managing those connections between the lakes.

And also developing future scenarios or alternatives for managing those connections between the lakes.

And with that, thank you very much.

And please let me know if you have any questions.

Thank you, Jill.

Mr.

Chair, Commissioners, any questions.

I remember when this item came forward, and I think it's very important that we understand how these lakes are working with each other.

There, they have not been as operable as certainly not as efficient as they need to be.

And there is a potential for further issues downstream of the use from not having them work the way that they were intended to work.

So I think it's important that we do understand how this is going to all go together.

I don't know once we get the information, the implementation part will be a different uh discussion just on who you know how that will go forward, but getting an understanding of how it needs to work, how it should work, how it might work, um is going to be very important to inform the work going forward.

So appreciate the presentation.

Thank you, Jill.

Thank you.

Any other questions or comments from the commission?

Yes.

Commissioner Mixon.

Okay, it's on.

Um just a quick comment.

The tribe, the pyramid tribe supports this study.

I think it's important for the reasons, Mr.

Flansberg said, but I was asked to just note that um future activities that might involve dredging, could raise concerns about um Mercury movement.

And so the tribe would you know be interested in uh exploring that further, but I think that's future phases.

Thank you.

Thank you.

All right, uh hearing no further comments or questions.

This is for possible action.

I'll recommend uh to the WRWC approval of the scope of work from resource concepts and a budget not to exceed 46,000 for the little and big Washoe Lake connectivity phase one evaluation.

All right, do we have a second?

I'll second.

All right, we have a motion and a second.

All in favor?

Aye.

Any opposed?

All right, motion passes.

Thanks for moving on to item number six.

We have a presentation on the 2026 review and draft updates to the comprehensive regional water management plan, WRW or WRMP.

Chapter one, regional water planning policies and criteria.

Ms.

Rigan.

Thank you, Chairman.

Excuse me, I've been recovering from a cold.

Um, good afternoon, members of the commission.

It's great to see everybody this afternoon.

We have a couple of exciting presentations on the regional water management plan update.

Thank you, Jen.

And so we're gonna start with chapter one, but I wanted to give a really quick brief overview of why we're doing the update.

Um, we're required to do this update every five years per statute for the Western Regional Water Commission Act.

And as we were revisiting the uh previous updates in this update, we wanted to make sure we were updating in alignment with the uh current underlying framework of the uh region water management plan.

And so what we want to do is not try to change a plan that's working and it's supporting current programs and and other regional policies, and of course, implementing the regional plan as well.

So we approached the update with really focusing on how do we make it clear and accurate, um, how does it align with other initiatives and programs and policies, and really conforming with the Trekkie Meadows Regional Plan, because they uh updated that plan in 2024, and there were a few recommendations that were needed to be incorporated into our plan.

So creating that consistency was really a focus of this update.

Um, chapter one, I thought I'd hit this from two um different approaches.

Um first, we have some clerical updates.

Those are pretty straightforward.

So I didn't want to belabor the clerical updates.

Really, um you've seen the policies being renamed and recat, not renamed, but recategorized under the subjects of the regional water plan, and then a new numbering system to go with that recategorization.

So, for example, if the policy was primarily focused on water supply, we renumbered it WS in accordance with water supply and gave it a new number.

So and then we um created a clickable table of contents.

If you've looked in the packet, you should be able to quickly go to one of those policies, click on it, go directly to the policy to look at it and get what you need or review it.

And those are the primary updates aside from making sure their acronyms are correct and spelling and formatting and all that, which we don't really want to go into all those details today.

So what we'd like to do is just talk about a few key revisions to this chapter and the how we're conforming with the regional water plan update.

So I'm sorry, the regional plan update.

I'm going to do that quite often.

I'm going to put water in there when I mean regional plan.

So in 2024, we had a conformance review of the regional water management plan to the regional plan after they updated it.

And the this is a list of recommendations that we include into the regional water management plan to be in conformance through in this next update.

They found us in conformance with these conditions that we would incorporate some of these policies into the regional water management plan in the future update.

So most of them are already incorporated into the plan.

And I'll go into which policies that they're satisfied in the next few slides.

They weren't extremely prescriptive.

So I think it was be sure to mention and support these regional plan policies so that the that we're not in conflict with the regional plan.

So the key policy revisions that we wanted you to focus on were updated to the discussion of the policy.

They weren't focused on re wording or adding two current policy statements, although we did have one that we did add to, and I'll go through that.

So primarily, unless there was a clerical edit needed, we left the policy statements alone as they're working appropriately.

So water supply five policy was the conjunctive management of surface water and groundwater supplies to withstand an eight-year drought.

That discussion was significantly updated just to reflect the 2025-2045 water resources plan update.

The water quality two is our integrated source water protection policy.

That one, I've I have to apologize.

I thought I had included it in the packet edits, but we wanted to rename that integrated source water protection rather than integrated source water and wellhead protection.

We'd like to remove well ahead from that because source water, wellhead is source water protection.

So it's pretty it covers the wellhead as well as surface water in this name, which the current plan does cover.

So that was updated.

That policy was updated significantly.

I would encourage everyone to take a look at that policy.

We wanted to make sure it included all the updated integrated source water protection and watershed planning activities.

We updated it to really highlight Tumwa's notification process when there's potentially contaminating activities and they're notified through the business license process or development code process that these conversations are taking place with Tumwa, as well as to highlight an example of the City of Reno's code that was the first initiated that other communities can follow that example.

So take a look at that policy.

So we updated both those policies to make sure they align with each other and they align with those plans, as well as the natural resources plan under the regional plan.

The regional planning three policy is was significantly updated to conform with the regional plan update.

This is where all of that table was there were four of the regional plan policies that were incorporated into this as statements of support for the regional plan policies.

So you can take a look at that.1.4.

I did not renumber this one as we're proposing to remove it.

So this is the original plan uh numbering system.

And this is the Trekkie River Restoration Policy.

And the reason that we would like to propose to remove this policy is the Lower Chucky River Restoration Plan in the statement.

The policy was basically to implement the Lower Truckie River Restoration Plan and support the approved local rate plan.

The Lower Truckie River Restoration Plan was implemented in the 2000s, and the approved local rate plan is now obsolete.

So this policy can't be implemented under the current statement, policy statement.

We also did a crosswalk to make sure we weren't removing a key policy that you know promotes Trekkie River Restoration.

And if you look at the integrated source water protection policy and you look at all the um watershed, the watershed policy that I mentioned before, all of those are implemented in a way that initiates Trekkie River restoration activities.

So the One Trekkie River Management Plan that this board and the Western Regional Water Commission funds and supports is currently engaged in a vegetative management and restoration plan.

The stormwater management program has implemented a Chalk Creek erosion control restoration plan.

And the source water and watershed protection program supports things like the Gold Ranch Fire Restoration Project.

So Trekkie River restoration activities are included in many of these other programs that are also addressed under our current policy framework.

And those are the key updates.

So I wanted to open it up here for any questions from the board or comments.

Chairman, thank you.

Thank you, Ms.

Rigman.

I just want to say I I uh think that I see three different draft updates on the agenda today, and I just appreciate how uh expeditious that you were making this process.

Um there was an aggressive timeline that was set, and I think that you're doing a terrific job on uh getting us there and proposing these revisions for us to review.

Are there any other uh comments or questions from the board on chapter one?

All right, well, this item is for information only.

So moving on to item number seven, uh presentation on the 2026 review and draft updates to the RWMP chapter three, water purveyors and other water providers as Regden.

Thank you, Chairman.

I'm gonna sign back into my computer very quickly because it likes to time out on me before I'm ready for it, too.

Members of the commission, Kim Rigden for the record.

Um, I wanted to invite Laura Hawk up to the podium.

She is here today to help present.

She is really the uh the person behind all the updates.

We have, as you know, engaged her in the uh effluent management tool development and helping us with regional advanced purified water, enhanced source control.

She's a genius.

We are very lucky to have her working on all these projects for us.

And um, it just seemed like a smooth transition to have her help us with the updates to chapter three and chapter four of the regional water management plans, and she's needy and all this information already.

So I'll turn the time over to Dr.

Hawk so that she can present what those changes are.

Oh, are you able to?

Oh, I'm sorry.

There you go.

Um, oh, do I just go forward?

Okay.

So I'll start with the updates on chapter three.

Chapter three is with regards to the water purveyors and the other water providers.

So this includes our major water purveyors as well as small systems and recycled water systems.

Um, and before I get into it, I want to just mention how much uh this the updates to this chapter, although they're still ongoing, have required a lot of coordination and input from the different agency partners.

And so I I really appreciate all of their time and insights and feedback.

Um I'll really quickly just go over the sorry.

Okay.

And I'll skim over that and then get into the data and informational updates.

Um minor structural change that's uh recommended, as and then a couple of major revisions.

Um the clerical updates are really just with regards to the terminology use, some of the acronyms and the uses of the terms reclaim water and recycled water, which I'll dig into a little bit more later on in the presentation.

Um, as well, and then also there have been some updates to some of the other references.

Um as far as data, there have been pretty major changes in table 33 and table 34.

This is where we have some changes of the names of the purveyors listed as well as other data regarding with regards to, for example, the population served by those utilities or small water systems.

Uh the updates implemented in these tables have been from the EPA Sidwiss database.

And then moving forward with table 34, which is the small water systems table.

We also have proposed an alternative strategy rather than presenting it in a list table.

It could also be presented in a map figure, which would have better integration with some of the regional water management planning tools that we're working on.

And the mapping tool can give you an idea of the geographical distribution of those small water systems, and also we use color coding to show what the different types of water systems were based on the Sidwiss, the EPA's classification system, whether it's like a transient community that it's serving, a non-transient community that's serving or non-transient non-community and then community water systems, like uh mobile home parks versus schools versus restaurants.

Um in table 35 through table 40, we have summaries about the recycled water.

Uh both, so these include the inflow to the regional wharfs as well as a breakdown of the recycled water use across their purple pipe systems or truck fill stations and other major demands for the recycled water.

So we've done updates so that the data is current with 2025, and we've also provided a bit more granularity into the major recycled water systems under each of the wharfs as as it was relevant to them.

Um we also are proposing removing the if I can use the laser, I don't know if you can see this, but uh in the middle column, there's uh the it used to be called the MGD max month, or um really what this was trying to get at was the peak summer month recycled water demand, most likely.

But what you'll notice is the recycled water demand might change, or and the max month might not be the same for all of the different recycled water uses.

And similarly, it would not be necessarily consistent the same month for the inflow to the treatment plants or the affluent discharge to the environment.

So that column didn't quite make sense as far as trying to illustrate a water balance or seasonal variations.

So to better characterize that, we are proposing a figure like the one shown below that table, where you can have the breakdown of the recycled water demand, which is illustrated in the columns, um, the different bar charts.

So there we also break down what the different users are.

Uh this one's using Tumworth data, so you can see golf courses versus agriculture versus landscape irrigation, for example.

And then we also in line of the lines, we have the inflow to the Tumor facility and the discharge to the Truckee River in this example.

Um then for structural changes.

Um this was just to improve the overall flow and the way that the recycled water summaries are broken down.

So previously we had seen that it went from Tumworth reclaim water to City of Sparks Reclaim Water, City of Reclaim, City of Reno reclaim water, and under that there was a summary of Rose Wharf reclaimed water managed by City of Reno, but not Tumworth.

Um, and then we had the Watchau County facilities.

So our proposed changes just to kind of to flow from the wharfs to the uh agencies that are managing those reclaim systems or the purple pipe recycle systems.

Um another major change is the way that we're defining uh reclaim versus recycled water.

So previously in this chapter, it had only used the term reclaimed water.

Uh what we're proposing going forward with is that reclaim water is referring to the water produced by the water reclamation facility, and then recycled water is specifically the managed reuse of some of that effluent, whether it's for irrigation or the other uses.

So the intentionally managed portion of the reclaimed water that is going and serving as part of your regional water supplies.

Um that classification and distinction is being drawn out both in chapter three revisions as well as in chapter four revisions.

And this is more consistent with the other the language being used across all of the agencies.

So another major revision was the addition of this uh subsection that talks discusses the advanced purified water program.

Right now we've placed it under this subsection regarding the RosWharf recycled water.

And what we're doing previously, all of this information had been in chapter four.

But what we've done is separate it out so that some of the information, the information that's about how this program serves within the water portfolio for the region is presented in chapter three.

And then the information about how it serves as part of the effluent management strategy is retained in chapter four.

And then the other portion of our work has really been to facilitate how this how these updates can better integrate with other plan elements.

So this is, for example, we've been working with closely with Kim to develop this regional water management mapping tool, which is an online GIS map that we're developing.

And it includes pretty much all of the information that's presented in the tables, both in chapter three as well as in chapter four.

So we have layers, uh GIS layers that have the water purveyor service areas, look um information about each of those uh purveyors that you can click on and interact with.

Uh, this also allows integration with other databases like the EPA Sidwiss database and the better illustration of service areas and locations.

Um, and we're also working to better align all of the information presented in this chapter with the other regional planning initiatives.

Um, and just to quickly illustrate that map, um, we have this is an illustration of it.

It's still in somewhat draft form, but it shows the different layers, including the water reclamation facility service areas, the different water purveyor service areas, and then dots uh that are representing the small water systems across the region.

And so you can interact with that and browse through and see a lot more details into information about all of those services.

Okay, and with that, any questions.

Do you want me to say something?

I just round it out real quick.

Kim Rickton for the record.

I just wanted to say this is a lot of updated information.

Um, and so we just want to make sure that the board knows that we didn't make this an action item.

We don't want any of the chapters to not have some time dedicated to be able to review them with you and your staff.

We'll be looking for over the next, we want to give it 60 days to then uh come back and bring you a final draft.

So we'll be reaching out to you and your staff over the next month, given about 30 days.

We'll reach out to you and your staff so that we have some time to incorporate any comments that we have and bring it back in that would make it June.

So we'd like to bring back a final draft in June on these chapters.

The exciting piece of this is also that Laura is incorporating all this into a tool that we're gonna be able to have accessible on our website that will have all these layers as well as a source water protection layers and and it's really getting exciting to start thinking about what information we can make readily available to your staff so that they have the tools in front of them to make good decisions.

And so we're excited about the work that Laura's doing and appreciate this opportunity to share that with you.

Thank you.

Thank you, Ms.

Rigman.

Are there any uh comments, questions from any of the commissioners?

I love seeing that things are going into a more graphical format, and we're getting rid of some of the tabular data.

So I think that is uh, at least for me, I I think that is uh certainly my preferred way to absorb information.

I think it's a lot more user-friendly.

So I look forward to reviewing it in in full.

So great.

Hearing no other comments, we will be moving on to item number eight, which is presentation on the 2026 review and draft updates to the RWMP plan, chapter four wastewater and effluent management planning.

All right, Ms.

Rigman.

Thank you, Chairman.

We'll just continue on and allow Dr.

Hawk to uh share her changes on chapter four.

Thank you.

Okay.

Um, and I'll try to keep my time short.

Uh, this chapter four is closely related to chapter three, of course, but here we're focusing on our wastewater and effluent management.

Um the updates, similar clerical updates were needed in chapter four as chapter three, and then we also have a lot of data updates uh regarding the flows into the water reclamation facilities, as well as descriptions of those and then a few major revision areas that I'll be touching on.

So the clerical updates are pretty much the same.

I'll just skip through that because when you're reviewing it, you can see.

As far as our information in the table and other data information, we have updated wastewater flows in our overall summary of the wharfs.

So as our first major revision area, we see the regional wastewater source control source water quality control program.

There was just edits in this section to more clearly and concisely just summarize the major efforts within phase two and what their outcomes will be.

So that's just the development of the sampling plans, the wastewater source control strategy recommendations, the approach for priorities prioritizing those source investigations, and then our evaluation of mitigation and control strategies under that effort.

Under the next subsection, the regional affluent management and planning tool section, we've revised the language based on the current direction for how we've shifted this effort from more of a planning document instead more interactive tools that could be used in like a workshop or other planning type settings.

So the language has been revised to more accurately reflect that the although all of the information from the previously listed tasks is still part of how this analysis is being carried out.

The approach is not like a test-by-task report.

It's instead a Power BI based tool that incorporates all of that information for doing a multi-criteria analysis of different effluent management scenarios.

So we've removed that task-based framework and done more uh edits to better describe the approach being pursued.

Then under the One Water Nevada Advanced Water Purified Water Program at American Flat.

Um, these edits are more to integrate between how it's described in chapter three, our edits and additions there, and then in chapter four, we don't want to be redundant with information, so we've removed anything about how this program or major sections about how it is part of our source water portfolio, and instead focusing here on how it's part of our affluent management strategy.

Although there is still just a little bit of discussion, you know, about the overall project concept and references to send you to chapter three for more information about how it fits into the water supply perspective.

And then moving on, um a lot of the information in chapter four is part of two different mapping tools.

So we have our master map that we're developing, the regional water management map that I gave a little clip from in the previous tool, and where we'll have really all of the information that's critical for the planning efforts about the water reclamation facilities as well as water purveyors and everything.

Um, but we also have a lot of this information in our regional effluent management map.

Um, and both of these have the ability to integrate with our Power BI multi-criteria decision tool so that we can interact with the data in different ways and display it in more uh hands-on ways.

Um the way that our approach for the regional effluent management guidance was to incorporate all of the information about the wharfs and effluent management alternatives.

These were taken from fact sheets, and all of that fact sheet information was brought in and used as basically the information that's feeding different layers about the effluent management alternatives as well as the water reclamation facilities.

And then you can interact with this map in ARC GIS currently online, and then in the future in the Power BI model.

Um here you can see and I get an idea of how this tool works.

So if we click on in this case, the highlighted effluent management alternative is RS5.

When you click on it in the lower left, you see a pane that has all of the over like an overview of that effluent management alternative.

If you were to click on a WERF, it's an overview of the WERF system.

So we have information like a summary of it as well as advantages, disadvantages, water rise impacts, and other information.

And then above that table, you can see some attachments.

So we have this tool allows us to add figures and reports and other critical information that you might want to dig deeper into when you're actually interacting and trying to learn about a certain alternative.

And with that, I'll take any questions or thank you.

Thank you, Dr.

Hawk.

Any questions or comments on chapter four updates.

Thank you so much for the presentation.

Thank you.

Thank you, Dr.

Hawk.

Yeah, hand up to Jennifer.

All right.

Moving on to item number nine.

We have the program managers report.

Ms.

Rigman.

Thank you, Chairman, members of the commission.

Item 9A and B in your packet are our standard every three-month quarterly updates on the projects that we fund through the Regional Water Management Fund.

We populate those in as much as possible.

We we have to be honest, we don't track every single project every single quarter.

We try to get as many updates as we can and populate that table so that we're understanding where our projects are in their progress.

So I don't have any real significant updates on the project status report, other than uh the WRWC approved the Raptalis agreement for phase 1B and 1C on that wastewater regionalization feasibility study.

And we will be including that on the table next uh quarter.

And we have a kickoff meeting for with the Northern Nevada Water Planning Commission working group immediately following this meeting.

And we will report have more to report next next quarter on that.

And on 9B, the third quarter revenue expense report.

Um it's right in alignment with how with how we performed in the past for quarter two and quarter one.

It looks like our revenues are outpacing our expenses, which is typically what happens at the beginning of the year.

And then as our we get more professional services billing coming in towards the end of the year, that catches up very quickly.

But everything is in alignment and um no concerns with our finances, and I can take any questions from the board.

Thank you.

Any questions?

All right.

Well, thank you for that presentation, Miss Regan.

Moving on then to item number 10, uh discussion and possible direction of staff regarding agenda items, meeting dates, and possible locations for future NWPC meetings.

Thank you, Chairman.

Kmiggen for the record.

Members of the commission, our next meeting will be on May 6th here in the Washa County Chambers.

Uh, currently on the agenda is our another three chapters that we would like to bring before you revised chapters five, six, and eight.

So those would be our stormwater and watershed-based water quality planning chapter, flood management and stormwater drainage, and our water conservation plan components of the uh regional water management plan.

So we'll keep our fingers crossed that we have all those ready to go for you next month.

Thank you, Chairman.

Thank you.

All right, this is for possible action.

Um assuming that we do not have a motion that we're content.

Right.

Hearing that being the case, moving on to item number 11.

Nomination and election of chair and vice chair of the Northern Nevada Water Planning Commission and NWPC for the term of April 1, 2026 to March 31st, 2027.

Ms.

Ridkin.

Thank you, Chairman, members of the commission.

It's that time of year again.

Uh according to the WRWC Act, we need to hoard board hold board elections each year.

Um, and the chair position rotates annually, and the the WRWC Act is silent on the vice chair position.

So that's up to the board.

Um, all 12 seats have served as chair at least once since the inception of this board, and six seats have now served twice.

So the seats that are have not served twice uh should be considered for the chair and vice chair positions, and those are uh two Tamwa seats.

So that would be Member Steele and Member Enlow.

Uh the Trekkee River Flood Management Authority seat, which is Member Henderson, the public at large seat, which is member Nguyen, and the Pyramid Lake Paiu tribe position, which is Member Noel.

All right.

And so with that, I suppose I'll open it up for discussion, if not, um motion.

Actually, just um a couple questions uh being relatively new.

Uh it appears uh previously that uh vice chairs kind of went into the chair position, but I heard that the Sun Valley GID seat has already served twice.

Is that my understanding the Sun Valley G I D seat?

Oh, I'm sorry.

No, did I not mention I was thinking in my mind he'd be rotating it in that position, so I didn't mention him.

I apologize.

Chris Melton is eligible for that seat.

Yeah, Sun Valley G A D has not served twice.

And I'd be prepared to make a motion for the chair position.

I would move to uh nominate uh Chris Melton for chair.

All right, we have a motion and a second.

All in favor?

Aye.

Aye.

Any opposed.

All right.

Motion passes unanimously.

Congratulations, Commissioner Malton.

Thank you.

Thank you for the opportunity.

Appreciate it.

I'm sorry, did we say a vice chair?

I was checked.

No.

Nope.

But I'm willing to entertain a motion.

Um I will uh I would like to nominate Daniel Henderson to serve as the vice chair of the Northern Vedouare Plan Commission for the April 1st, 2026 to March 31st, 2027 term.

Hopefully, she's okay with that.

Second.

All right.

We have a motion and a second.

All in favor.

Aye.

Hi.

Any opposed.

All right.

Motion passes.

Congratulations to Commissioner Henderson.

And I think with that, I will pass the gavel to my successor.

Thank you, Casey.

So we'll move on to item 12, uh, Commissioner Comments.

Seeing none.

Staff comments.

No staff comments at this time.

Thank you, Chairman.

Item 14, public comments.

And with that, we'll adjourn.

Thank you.

Thank you.