Okay.

Good morning and welcome to the Western Regional Water Commission meeting for May 27th, 27th, 2026.

And we'll go ahead and start with the roll call, please.

Paul Anderson.

Here.

Clara Andreola.

Present.

Naomi Durr?

Here.

Mary Louis Garcia.

Here.

Alexis Hill.

Here.

Miguel Martinez.

Here.

Susan Sebert?

Here.

Kathleen Taylor.

Diane Vanderwell.

Here.

We have a quorum.

Great.

Thank you very much.

And we'll go ahead and start with the Pledge of Allegiance.

Ms.

Siebert, if you mind starting those off.

Our pledge allegiance to the United States.

One nation under God.

Thank you very much.

All right.

And we'll move on to item number three, public comment.

Do we have any public comment?

I have none.

All right.

With that, we'll move to approval of the agenda.

So moved.

All right.

We have a motion and a second.

We have a motion and a second.

All those in favor signify by saying aye.

Aye.

Aye.

Aye.

Opposed.

Passes unanimously.

Thank you.

And did did you get the first and second?

I got uh Naomi second.

Yeah, I was Andreola.

Okay, thank you.

Thank you.

All right.

And uh approval of the minutes for the February 18th, 2026 Western Regional Commission meeting.

Uh do we have any changes uh that need to be made?

Any concerns about it?

Otherwise, I'll take a motion.

So moved.

Second.

All right.

We have a motion and a second.

With that, we'll go to vote.

Um all in favor, signify by saying aye.

Aye.

All opposed.

Passes unanimously.

Thank you.

And now we're gonna move on to uh item six, a public hearing uh with action discussion, possible direction to staff on the adoption of the WRWC budget for fiscal year 2027.

Good morning.

Good morning, thank you, Chairman, members of the commission, good morning.

Kim Rigden for the record.

And we are beginning our next fiscal year by launching and approving our budget.

And we have I I watched the PERCMA budget uh at the last meeting, and their budget is way bigger than ours.

So it's a little ours is small and simple, which makes it a little bit easier for us.

In your board packet under item six, you should have three attachments.

Attachment A is the letter from the Department of Taxation saying that our tentative budget was approved with no changes necessary.

Attachment two is the form we'll be sending to the state with the current budget, and I'll do a quick summary of that budget if I can go the right direction on the screen.

There we go.

So at the second attachment, attachment six B is page five, and that summarizes your revenues, your fund balance, your expenditures, and then the ending fund fund balance for that fiscal year.

And attachment C, you've seen before, I brought that before you last March, and that is a breakdown of all our professional services agreements and projects.

And I wasn't gonna go through those again.

We've already gone through those, but I just wanted you to be aware that that's in your board packet if there's any questions on our professional services budget.

It also has our operating budget that covers staff and legal counsel as well as our primary operations.

So the summary is our revenues remain estimated at 2,071,972.

Our fund balance at the beginning of the fiscal year is estimated at 2,000 five 2,000 2 million 598,000, the big difference, and at 929 dollars.

So when you add those two together and you take out the expenditures of 3.9 million, our fund balance at the end of the fiscal year is estimated at 732,068.

And that is well over.

We tried it, we aim first six months operating budget at the end, and that's well over our six months operating budget.

So we're very comfortable with the budget.

And if there's not any questions, that's pretty much uh the budget.

I didn't feel like I needed to go through a big formal presentation on every aspect of the budget since you've heard it before.

And I will turn it over to the board for questions.

We have any quite this one question.

Yeah, thank you.

Um I just wondered can you remind us how um many years we have for the uh project that's about regionalizing sewer and looking at stormwater?

Yes, that was an 18.

This phase of that was an 18 month phase from when it started so well that we approved 425,000 for that project for the wastewater regionalization feasibility study phase one B and 1C.

And that should we we gave them direction to try to do it as quickly as possible, and they're doing that.

We've had a couple kickoff meetings with them, and they're moving forward with that.

Right, but do you when do you expect it to be over?

Well, the the contract was 18 months, so we're thinking probably fall of next year.

So not the 2027 of 2027.

So the 18 months starts.

It started when we approved the project in I'm sorry, was it March or April?

I'm trying to remember when our well, a few months ago.

Yes, a few months ago.

Yeah.

So um I just wondered, and then is there so that'll be covered by this budget, right?

Yes.

And so it you're saying it'll be done in fall 2027, which is into the next budget.

It will, yes, but we have a multi-year contract for that.

So it's okay.

Yeah, and it we actually budgeted in fiscal year 20, the previous budget, fiscal year 26, and we have a contingency fund of like 900,000.

And it doesn't show up.

I mean, in that it would it's in our budget now.

It's in our budget now.

Yes.

So I just wondered um is there a final phase or a phase three or there will be.

So what they're doing right now is they're coming up with three different scenarios that the board will be looking at.

And those scenarios will include regional consolidation, and then a partial consolidation, and they're looking at whether they're including stormwater, what that will look like, and then um maybe aligning sewer shed.

So there's a couple different scenarios, three or four different scenarios that they're actually considering at this point.

Okay, and they're working with the water planning commission on moving forward, how to move forward with those scenarios, and those will be brought to this board for consideration when the report is they'll probably give updated reports throughout.

And then at the end of this study, there should be some options for this board to consider.

Then the next phase would be how do we move into starting the process.

Yes.

So do you think since they started around March, April, maybe a six-month update in this budget year would be good?

Yes, we can do an update.

Yes, we can do an update anytime to just let you know where we're at in the project.

Well, I think it'd be good to do a six um six or eight-month update or whatever, however, whenever there's a sort of a milestone, I guess.

I think there the a great milestone would we have our concurrent meeting with the water planning commission, and we have that scheduled in the end of October.

Yeah, we had to move it up to October this year.

And we'll we can definitely do some type of an update or report at that meeting, because then we'll have the speakers' presence.

And when you say moved it up, do you mean moved it back or when was it normally it normally is the first week in November?

Oh, there are conflicts at some of the things going on at other meetings, and so we moved it to the October.

Okay, perfect.

All right, thank you.

And member Dewar, thank you, because actually I did have a question about that, but you've already answered it.

Um, because I couldn't, I couldn't recall if if we actually had uh like a schedule for updates.

Um, and with that being a you know fairly significant amount, I was curious if we were gonna be seeing those.

So I think October would be a great idea.

Any other questions?

All right.

With that um public hearing, we need to open it up for public comment.

So uh we're gonna go ahead and open this up for public comment.

Do we have any public comment?

I have none.

All right.

We'll close public comment and bring it back to the commission.

Uh if we don't have any questions, comments, do we have a motion?

Mr.

Chair, I'll make a motion to uh adopt a fiscal year 2027 budget and to direct um staff to uh send it to uh those who need it.

I'll second.

All right, we have a motion and a second.

Um all those in favor signify by saying aye.

Aye.

All opposed.

All right, passes unanimously.

Thank you, Kim.

All right.

Uh report on the 2026 review and update of the 2021 to 2040 comprehensive regional water management plan.

Thank you, Chairman.

Members of the commission.

I have talked a little bit about the update to the regional water management plan about six months ago, and I gave a quick overview of of what that might look like.

And I wanted to give you a verbal update today on where we're at, what we're doing, what that schedule looks like.

Um, just as a little bit of background, you'll see on the screen.

This plan has been in place since the 1990s.

It's a pretty robust, comprehensive water management plan that has a lot of historical context in it, mainly around how we look at our water portfolio in the region, how we manage wastewater, and how we look at stormwater as well as how all those things are financed and what what challenges we're having, and then how do we address those challenges.

So there's an issues and action plan in there.

We update the plan every five years by statute.

We're required to review it and update it as necessary.

Some reviews are more simple and some are more complicated, depending on how long it's been since there's been a large update to the plan or an overhaul of the plan.

So this current review process is going to be our fourth edition of the plan and the review we launched in 2026, and it'll be the 2026 to 2045 regional water management plan.

And so just a quick overview of the content.

I'm not going to read through all the content here, but really the regional water management plan content is outlined in the WRWC Act, Section 41, and it currently complies with all the requirements with the subject matter that's in the plan.

You can see all the chapters in the blue lines there.

It must contain written text and it has to have maps and figures.

And what we're doing moving forward is really trying to convert a lot of the maps and figures into online tools.

We have a lot of help from Treke Meadows Regional Planning Agency to help us do that so that it we can tell stories on our website and give the public and consultants that work on these projects access to a lot more information.

One of the projects we're currently working on to enhance our tools is a documents library that is related to water resource planning.

So you could go back to actually we have documents, because you not from the 1950s in our documents library, and you can have access to the history if that's needed to see what decisions were made and why those decisions were made.

So we are working on some great mapping tools and resources on our website to enhance the plan and remove some of that historical context from the plan to keep it more streamlined and simple and focused on what was done over the last five years and what are we doing for the next five years.

So we did a review of the plan, and we've worked with subject matter experts as well as regional partners.

And one of the review findings was is this plan is fundamentally sound as it is.

It covers everything that it needs to cover, and it's aligned with the regional planning efforts and programs, and it supports those programs.

So it we when we worked with the Water Planning Commission on the policies and the goals, they really felt like there were no major policy changes that were necessary.

It covered all the basis and the targeted updates we would do would primarily me be creating the tools that we need to create to make it more accessible to the regional partners, make all the information more accessible, as well as some clarity and seamlessly transitioning from one chapter to the other, making sure that it conforms with the regional plan update.

There were a few items in there that we just needed to update to make sure that we're promoting the hierarchy of the plan, you know, the regional plan development form.

And then there are a lot of source water protection and water quality additions to supporting the regional source water protection program and the mapping tool that they have.

So we're going to try to integrate those into this plan a little bit more seamlessly.

And we keep historical content in there when it relates to current planning decisions, but if it didn't relate to current planning decisions, we we made some executive decisions to kind of tear that down a little bit.

And then, of course, updating data and program activities from the regional partners and progress that's been made over the years and how things might be being managed a little bit differently.

And then, of course, we're working on the graphics and the web tools.

And so this is our schedule, and this is something that the Water Planning Commission is looking at regularly with me on our monthly meetings, as well as how we're updating these sections, these chapters of the plan.

And so you'll see the yellow areas, shaded areas are areas where we were doing the review, really coordinating on what needs to be included in the plan, what needs to be updated, and working with regional staff and partners and the subject matter experts that we've hired to do this.

You'll see green shaded areas and those with the X are dates where we took a proposed draft of that chapter to the Water Planning Commission to then take it back to their staff for feedback.

And we still have to incorporate some of that feedback into the final drafts before we're gonna make them available for our general public comment.

So the green shaded areas are the process of iteration.

We've presented the draft to them, we may get feedback, we may present another draft, and then we plan to have final drafts of every chapter available and ready for review in September.

Now, this is an a pretty ambitious schedule for the content and the coordination that's taking place.

We did meet the April 6th and uh May 6 deadlines for those uh six chapters, and we do have intent to bring chapter two and chapter seven to the water planning commission on June 3rd.

Um, we are getting some feedback on this chapter, so if they get pushed back, we would just push them to the August meeting and then do our best to move some of those dates up if we need to move those dates up.

But right now we're on schedule, and I'm very happy.

My staff is working very, very hard and diligently to get this.

Our goal is to get you guys to have a final plan to adopt in December.

And of course, it outlines the the review periods and it goes to the Trekkie Meadows Regional Planning Agency for review once this board's adopted it.

So with that, are there I I kind of wanted to leave the schedule up because this is the last slide, just in case you wanted to look at it and ask any questions, but um that's pretty much the overview.

So I'd like to turn it back over to the board for any questions that we're out in the process.

All right, well, thank you very much.

Do we have any questions?

Madam Door.

Yeah.

Um Thanks.

I just um a little curious.

So we're with other agencies that are also working on this, like Tamwa.

Don't you bring all these chapters together under the one umbrella?

We do, we do.

So some of the chapters are focused, for example, on water supply.

So the water purveyors and water providers, we work with Tamwa a lot on that.

We work with Tamwa a lot on the water resources where we look at the water portfolio and the water balance.

And then we work with more like the city of Reno and Sparks.

Well, I guess my question is just I thought that they were done for a while.

So is this just the beginning of the five-year process or like we finished one and now we're starting another, or are you bringing in for landing?

I think I've lost my place.

Oh, okay.

No, we haven't.

No, this one started.

We we actually started staff started reviewing the plan last fall.

Yeah.

And then we started bringing in subject matter experts.

We've brought them before the board to say, you know, to get approval to fund some of those uh subject matter experts to help with the very plan be done.

This plan is scheduled to be well, we're we we'd like the final drafts to be ready in September, September 2nd.

If this September this September 2020, so this is where I'm getting a little confused.

So in other words, Tumwa finished theirs, but it fits into yours, and you're picking it up and then you're gonna be done with the overall this September.

Yes, I understand.

You're talking about the Temwa's water resource plan.

Yeah, yes.

So we waited for their plan to be completed so we can incorporate it by reference under our plan and elements of their plan.

Okay, I just wanted to make sure I was understanding where the various agencies are and how it fits together with this one.

Yes, thanks.

Yes.

And any other questions?

Yes.

Thank you, Mr.

Chairman.

Um, I have a question on the planning area that's noted in in the document.

Um, so I know it's statutorily required that we review this every five years, and there's a process for getting as many eyes as possible onto this document.

Um, but what about the area plan or the areas that are not covered in the plan?

So um Tahoe Basin, the Indian Colony, Gurloch General Improvement District.

How are they required to submit plans or how are they reporting out their resources and sustainability?

That's a really good question.

So the Tahoe Basin is a separate beast up there.

And they are highly, highly regulated under other water resource planning um legislation, and and they get a ton of support from the federal government and funding from different sources to do their plans.

So our plan essentially covers the Trekkie Meadows and the TMSA and some of the northern basins that we might have water importation projects um planned into the future.

It really looking at the five years that we look for, we do we try to work with Trekkie Meadows Regional Planning Agency to look at where is the growth happening and how do we how do we really look at what is the water demand, what are the wastewater demand?

As far as the um pyramid lake payute tribe area, they are governed separately and differently.

We don't have jurisdiction over them, so they would govern themselves under a different, but they do sit on our water planning commission.

So we do collaborate and coordinate with them on what's happening in our region.

And those water planning issues are I guess you they're considered from a from a regional perspective.

What about GROC?

General improvement.

Verlack is really far north, and so there's not a lot of overlapping water issues that we would have to coordinate on.

There's no shared water bodies or groundwater basins.

So it's a little bit out of our jurisdiction.

Although we do consider the whole county when we look at water demand and making sure that there's a sustainable water supply throughout Washoe County for the full consensus forecast.

Okay, that helps.

Thanks.

Any other questions?

Okay, I I do have one for you.

Um I was just wondering, and and I'm pretty confident you've told me this before, but as far as working with our partner agencies that are involved in this, um, whether they're cities, county, or come on.

Um is this available as like a resource link or anything like that through their sites, or do we do we just solely house it within our own site?

That's a great question.

I'm not sure how the other agencies reference our website.

Um I'd have to go back and look at their websites to see if they're linking back to our website.

We definitely uh we used to on our old website have links to like the stormwater committee and all the different agency programs that we cover under our plan or address under our plan.

So as we develop the web tools moving forward, the hope is and what we're doing with the plan currently, anything that gets referenced will have a link in the plan.

It'll be a digital plan.

And you'll be if we're talking about the stormwater permit coordinating committee, there will be a link in that section to that stormwater committee web page.

So ours will definitely point to the other agencies.

I'm not sure where they incorporate that into you know, pointing back to us.

So we'll have to we'll have to have that conversation with them.

And I'd appreciate it because just like you were talking about, I mean, that way you don't need to worry about updating if Tumwa makes a change, you just put the link to them, and so they're updating it.

And I was thinking the same thing, how nice it would be if likewise that they can reference it.

I mean, truly I would say one of the top concerns for our community is water.

And so I refer them, you know, one water nevada, Tumwa, and that.

And I thought it would be nice or convenient if you go there and you're concerned that you can click on these links to learn more about the the different projects and and likewise you can see where the the water situation is with each of the groups that are involved with water.

Absolutely, it's a great point.

And we're working on it currently working on an infographic where um we'll have the water planning topics kind of in built into one infographic.

And if you click on that infographic, it'll take you to some type of story map or information.

We haven't quite uh nailed that vision down yet.

But if it's if it's a regional partner that you know works under that water topic, we should have some links to who are our partners that work under this specific water topic with us.

So if it's water supply, Tomwa would be on that link.

Um, if it's stormwater, we would obviously put the stormwater committee City Arena City of Sparks, Washoe County.

Um, and point we what we really want them to be able to do is drill down to who are the partners and how do we work together.

Perfect.

Well, thank you.

All right.

Um, how about those of uh you that are tuned in virtually, uh, member Vanderwell or Hill.

I just applaud the efforts.

I'm really excited to see the new version.

I've been on this board since I was elected in 2021.

And uh this is a total evolution, and I'm really excited to see it.

So thank you so much.

All right, I'm good.

Thank you.

Okay, with that, we're gonna move on to item number eight action discussion, possible approval of recommendation to authorize program manager to execute agreement amendments and notices relating thereto to provide for contracting efficiency upon project approval by the board.

Hello morning.

Um members of the board.

So yeah, so this item is um this item is aimed at the foreign service agreement that that the organization uses to contract with its various service providers.

So, as you know, from year to year, you approve a budget that consistently has some of the same projects in it.

The scope of the scope of work for those projects typically does not change.

And um also in many cases, the budget approval for the fiscal year amount is the same as it is from prior years or substantially similar.

Um, how the contracting process works now is there is a farm service agreement that we use, and it has a variety of um provisions you're probably familiar with from your other jurisdictions, typical for local governments.

Um, but we essentially enter into a single service agreement the first year the project is approved, and then in subsequent years after the budget, uh successive budget approvals are given by this board, then we'll enter into amendments to change the um uh the fiscal year applicable to the agreement and any changes to the amount and the scope of work.

But again, most of the time it doesn't change.

So that creates a bit of a complication from an administration point of view.

We've we're on to like 15, 16, 17 amendments in some cases.

And so it's like it's a bit messy when it it if there were to be some sort of dispute that arose, we'd have to be kind of tracing it back to make sure that we know what terms and conditions we're dealing with.

So we're suggesting here is moving um to a slightly different form of the basic service agreement where that agreement essentially rolls over upon the budget approval by this board and a written notice from the contractor that they're um agreeable to continuing to perform under the same terms and conditions.

That way we don't have to continue this serial amendment process.

Um, new agreements will still have a new agreement form, and if there's material changes that we need in the scope of work, for example, we'll we can do amendments, but this will make it a bit more streamlined.

All right, thank you.

Questions on uh this item.

I I do have a couple on this one.

Um so it states the the scope of work for these um agreements often does not change materially.

I guess to me that that word um is a little concerning.

I mean, the definition of it, and then likewise who determines whether or not it's materially impacted with with a change.

I what what uh I think we're meaning to convey is that sometimes there is a new form of the scope of work, as in like a new letter or scope will be presented to support the budget approval for that year, but the actual terms and conditions of the scope of the work are the same.

So um we could easily you you could easily approve this without reference to the material change and and it would accomplish the goals that staff has, I think.

But we're just meaning to allow for the possibility that there's a change in the documentation, but the actual terms and conditions, the services are remaining the same.

Remain the same.

Okay.

And I I guess the only one I mean, honestly, I've I've always been a little concerned about if you want to call evergreen type agreements.

And I mean, I look at going it, is it reducing our ability to negotiate?

Is it is it reducing the review process of of the body that you know oversees that?

And I don't know.

I I guess if you could help me feel a little more comfortable with it because I mean, if we don't see updates, if we don't receive information on it, then how do we know as a board or commission that that it's the right thing that we're doing to allow these to continue on?

So right, that's a fair question.

So just in terms of the terms of the contracts, um, the the service agreements are subject to termination at will for no cause by this board.

So you can terminate at any time you want if you're not happy with the service.

Um, also there's no obligation that you approve a um successive future year budget.

So if you wanted to see changes or had concerns about it, um, you couldn't just not approve the budget or you raise them in connection with the budget approval.

And then you could also just direct the staff to enter into an amendment to reflect any concerns you might have at some point in time.

So I don't consider this an evergreen contract.

I consider because it's terminable at will.

So um we're not obligated to do anything from year to year.

It's just that if you take action to approve it, then it's easier to document.

All right.

Kim, hang on, just like I I just might add, just as a level of comfort, because the the way that we do our priority setting every year with the water planning commission, and we identify all the priorities in the projects, and we have really in-depth discussions about what the projects are accomplishing, how they implement our plan, and then we bring that budget to you.

We have our concurrent meeting where we can discuss the projects and and that would be a good time to raise our concerns and have those discussions around whether we think a project is appropriately uh implementing our priorities or not.

And then we can keep it in the budget or not keep it in the budget because this is really contingent upon the budget approval every year.

Right.

Okay.

If it brings all that level, I appreciate you help me have a little more comfort with with where it's going in.

And I appreciate efficiency, and really that's what the purpose of this is to hopefully lessen the workload for you all so you can focus on other things.

Yes.

Yeah, remember.

I'm glad you asked the question, uh, Mr.

Chair.

Because I guess what I'm unclear on, we you saw we we just adopted the budget.

We're not asking questions.

So, and we're certainly not diving into every contract.

And so I guess what I'm wondering is when's the natural time, like these 17 amendments or whatever you said that we have.

Um I'm a little unclear on that.

We have projects ongoing for 17 years.

Is that right?

That is specific to the stormwater permit coordinating committee.

So we've been funding them since 2011.

Yeah.

And it's a good example because what happens is the stormwater committee has to approve it in their public meeting.

Then they take it to the City Areno Council for their public meeting, and then we take it to our public meeting and it creates an administratively long process where we're rushing sometimes to get things signed and then to the next.

Okay, well, how would that work in this case with the City?

So that one that's that was a prime project that we wanted to do this for actually, because what that would do is it would allow the stormwater permit coordinating committee to develop their priorities and send us a letter saying we could say our board is we do our priority setting in October.

So we know in October what our board wants to dedicate to funding for the different projects.

And they get about 262,000 every year.

Once the stormwater committee, the stormwater committee, just our just from this group.

And don't other groups also pay in.

Um or is all the funding come from Western Range?

The funding for that program comes from the Western Regional Water Commission.

I I think they get project funding from other sources, but our to the administrative piece of it is funded through the WRWC and shared with NDOT pays a percentage of it as well.

So um, so what it would do was enable us in October when we have our priority setting discussion with the water planning commission, reevaluate that budget, make sure the budget is sufficient.

And prior to that, we worked with staff to kind of figure out well, what is your work plan look like over the next year?

We bring it to the water planning commission uh up for discussion.

They decide whether they want to continue this as a priority for funding, and then we have our concurrent meeting with this board and that board, and we have all of our projects listed, and we can go through any of those projects and talk about the funding.

That's the time where we really want to nail down are these projects the projects that um are going to be included in our professional services budget.

Then in February, we bring it to the boards for the tentative budget approval.

And so there's a like two or three board meetings where we have an opportunity to discuss right.

But I guess what I'm trying to get at what you're trying to get at.

So that's more like a continuing governmental services contract in my mind.

It's an interlocal agreement, yes.

Right?

Uh-huh.

And you're just saying you don't want it to be the 17th, 18th, 19th agreement.

Like there's different ways to approach it.

I mean, you could every five years initiate a new agreement, like a new planning period for stormwater, the master stormwater plan or the MS4 or whatever it is about.

But I guess then how does it work with a different kind of contract that's just a two or three-year contract?

Um, I don't think it would apply to a two or three-year contract.

We wouldn't, we for a contract that has an end date, for example, the one that we're doing the wastewater regionalization, that's a professional services agreement.

Yeah, and we have a specific timeline and scope of work, and that scope of work will end.

It's not the same scope of work to implement a program from year to year.

So, what we would do with that is that's not going to have the terms and conditions that we're talking about.

That contract would actually have a deadline and it would have to come, you know, we would give our presentations to the board, you would understand.

But nothing would change for the regular contracts.

We wouldn't, yeah, no, for for professional services where we hire outside consultants to do a specific scope of work, this would not apply to those contracts.

But on ongoing intergovernmental or interlocal agreement is that really the only one.

I'm just curious.

Uh no, we have desert research institute that we fund every year, the precipitation monitoring.

Um, we we fund they have uh their rain gauges and they host a website to look at evaporating transpiration rates that helps the public, you know, look at when it's appropriate to water their lines.

Okay, so the change for these intergovernmental contracts would be what exactly we they wouldn't come to the board or they would or everything would remain this would remain the same.

It's just that when we go to document the the subsequent year of the agreement, we wouldn't have to create a specific amendment to reflect that approval.

The approve the the they the contractor would remain obligated under the original agreement by virtue of just noticing us in writing that yes, they are going to remain con uh subject to those terms and conditions, and and we are signaling to them that they will get paid essentially by virtue of the budget approval for the successive okay, I get it.

Okay.

The original terms and conditions all stay the same.

Everybody's bound to the skipping one step is the amendment process for these type of annual programs.

Yeah, and really, I mean, to Kim's point, I think it's mostly for the benefit of the contractors, honestly, because their processes already are not as efficient as ours.

They don't have a program manager necessarily authorized to execute an amendment under a certain amount consistent with the budget approval, so it has to go through and what is our amount for Kim?

Is it 50,000, 100,000?

What do you know?

I'm sorry, for which one to approve an agreement.

What what is your contract amount?

Well, she can approve the program manager can approve an agreement if the board directs her to at any amount.

Yes, but but I'm talking about without board approval.

Like does she have a up to 25,000?

I see what you're saying.

There's a threshold we have a resolution where there's a threshold of 25,000 where I can with the Northern Nevada Water Planning Commission approval.

I can approve a contract, but and then bring it to this board if there was a time constraint.

That's not what we're talking about.

But that's not no.

Okay.

Yeah, thank you.

All right.

Uh do we have any uh questions from uh member Hill or Vanderwell?

All right.

No, it makes sense to me.

Thank you.

All right, thank you.

Uh if we don't have any questions, uh this is an action item if uh we have someone willing to make a motion.

I'll move to approve the staff recommendation to revise WRWC service agreement form to provide for automatic renewal under certain conditions, including subsequent budget approval as described here.

All right, we have a motion by member Andreola.

Do we have a second?

Second.

All right, second from uh sorry, member Garcia.

I'm having a brain fade here, sorry.

Not enough coffee this morning.

There you still call me Gomez all the time.

But you know what?

That's actually where I was getting ready to go down that road.

I'm like, geez.

Okay.

Um with that, we have a motion and a second.

Uh if you would please um thank you.

Thank you.

Say aye if you agree.

Thank you.

Aye.

All opposed.

All right.

Motion passes unanimously.

Well, that was a hard one for me to get out of.

Sometimes it's hard to get three.

All right, thank you.

We'll move on to um item number nine, discussion possible direction to staff regarding agenda items and dates for future WRWC meetings.

Uh you already heard the the desire from um from us that we would like at our joint meeting to have an update on the uh wastewater um study and where we stand on that.

Do we have any other items or uh dates, concerns, anything like that that you'd like to add?

We do have the consensus forecast coming up.

So at our June meeting, uh, we'll have our director from the Trekkie Meadows Regional Planning Agency joining us and giving us a presentation on that.

So excuse me.

All right, thank you.

And we'll move on to uh nine uh item 10 public comment.

Do you need do you have all your dates?

Do you have to share those?

Yeah, the next meeting is June 17th here in the Sparks Chambers, and we'll decide whether it's 8:30 or 9 o'clock, pending the number of items on the agenda.

All right, thank you.

All right, now move on to item 10 public comment.

Do we have any public comment?

I have none.

All right.

And um item 11, commission comments.

Any comments from the commission?

And oh, yes.

I just wanted to thank you, Kim, and your team for all you do.

We don't meet as often as some other boards, and I think it's well worth recognizing that you're a small but mighty team and an integral part of our community.

So thanks for all you do.

Well said, thank you.

Item 12, staff comments.

No staff comments at this time.

All right, Paul.

Oh I set a form, the budget form in front of you that I need all of you at the dais to sign before you leave.

Thank you for that staff comment.

Yes, we'll make sure that everyone everyone uh signs this piece of paper here.

Okay.

With that, we'll move on to item 13 with adjournment.