All right, um, is everybody ready?

We're ready on one.

I'll call.

Yeah.

Here's Jerry with the case.

There you go.

Stole your spot.

Sorry.

You want me to move?

No, we're fine.

You're fine.

Just a time.

We haven't even called the order meeting to what?

We haven't called the meeting to order.

Order to meeting.

Oh, although we're holding we're in the green, yes.

We just haven't called it to order yet.

Okay.

So we are live.

We are okay.

Yes.

All right.

Okay.

Well, it is uh six o'clock on uh Thursday, March 19th, 2026.

We're gonna call this regularly scheduled Walkeshaw Water Commission meeting to order.

Uh roll call, please.

Commissioner Francourt here, Commissioner Fowl?

Here, Commissioner Curry?

Here, Commissioner Pyot?

Here, Commissioner Matthews?

Here, Commissioner Riley?

Here, Commissioner Barthouse.

Absent.

We have a quorum.

Excellent.

All right.

Uh move on to public comment.

There's nobody physically present here.

Um any emails or anything?

No.

I do not have anything.

All right.

Excellent.

We'll move on from public comment to approval of minutes.

So move.

Second.

We have a motion, hurry, second.

Uh mayor.

Maybe second.

What's that thought?

I said curry second.

I was in motion.

Okay.

Go ahead.

I'm sorry.

Yes.

Curry motioned and the mayor seconded.

All right.

Questions or comments from the commissioners about the minutes?

All right.

All in favor, say aye.

Aye.

Aye.

Opposed?

Abstain.

Unanimous.

All right.

Let's move on to action items then.

Uh approved payments from the uh general fund and the improvement fund.

So I'm going to know.

I'll second it.

We have a motion curry, second, Matthews.

All right.

Questions from the uh about the uh the voucher lists.

Yeah, yes.

I I did have a a couple about um, and these were all under contract dispute payments.

I I didn't realize we had three.

There was uh one from these were five five two zero four two five two zero seven five and five two zero seven seven.

Everlaw, stafford, and vertex.

I knew we had staff or do we they are um everlaw and vertex work um under Stafford basically?

Uh um one holds all of our data and the other is uh expert witnesses, okay.

Thank you.

And are those uh how many months worth of accumulation are those charges?

Because the between the three they total about 125,000.

Um we get an invoice each month.

Each month, okay.

Yeah, or most months.

Thank you.

And I should probably know this, but there are a couple ledgers on voided checks.

Yes, so are those um typically voided checks are because um it got lost in the mail.

Um the $11.70 cent one um was lost in the mail.

The other one for 419 dollars and ninety-five cents.

Um this actually has been reissued twice.

This is the second reissue.

Um we have tried contacting this person multiple times, multiple different ways.

Um we have not um been able to get a hold of them, and because the check is dated October of 24.

Oh is so good, so it has been voided.

If if she ever contacts us back, we will rather show that.

So does that fall in those categories of ones that are?

This is the first time I've ever had that.

Oh, okay, okay.

To be honest, so gotcha.

And then uh my last one is um, especially since Dan isn't here.

Item 52038.

Something about a pilot payment.

Something about there we go.

That would be our second of three pilot payments that we make to the city of Waukesha each year.

Okay, no, it's almost 800,000.

Is that correct?

That is correct.

Uh 774,049 dollars.

Closer to 775, just you know.

I I round more.

I appreciate the clarification, Courtney.

Okay, that's it for me.

Anybody else?

I have one other one to point out.

I don't want to see any of these two.

Um we have all of the bond payments uh listed here, so these are all of our um interest-only payments due April 1st.

Um, and they're listed on their um we will have Wifi uh and all of our safe drinking water loans next month.

These are these are our bonds.

All right, thank you for running that out.

Anyone else?

Okay, there's no further questions.

All in favor of approving the payments from the general fund and improvement fund say aye.

Opposed?

Abstain.

So unanimously passed.

Okay.

That moves us on to um action item uh five B.

Approve 155,000 uh and 98.67 cents to Forte for audiovisual equipment and installation services for the new operations center.

So Curry and Frank Hoor motion and second.

Okay, and this is Courtney.

Yes, so um, so this is um uh as part of the construction of the operations center.

Um we oh I'm sorry, have to purchase um audio visual equipment.

Uh this equipment is used to capture, transmit, and display um all of our sound and images.

So it's uh items like monitors, cabling, microphones, speakers, all of the pads that will be in the conference rooms for us to be able to run teams meetings, so all of that kind of technology.

Um we get all of our IT services through the city of Waukeshaw, and the city of Waukeshaw contracts for Tay for all of their audio visual needs, and so we asked Forte for a quote on all of this audio visual equipment.

Um, the quote for the purchase and installation of all of this equipment is 155,098 and 67 cents.

And um, so I'm happy to take any questions, but um the motion would be to approve um 155,098 and 67 cents to forte for the audio visual equipment and installation services at the new operations center.

How is that according to budget?

What do we budget for?

That was 177,000, I believe.

So we are and this was just for clarification.

This was included in the budget, but was going to be done separately is understood from the beginning.

That is correct.

Yes, it is it was part of our overall budget, but it is not included as part of that that bid amount for the construction, so that's why we are coming to you separately with this.

Thank you very much.

Thank you.

Uh Jerry, yeah.

Do we need to upgrade this over time as far as the rain or computerization of it?

Yes, so so like those there's computers and some things that will need um you know updating.

And I should also mention that this does not include our Granicus software.

Um that will be a separate purchase for anything that we do need to upgrade from this facility to move over there.

Um, but those will be smaller purchases, and we're gonna work directly with the city for that.

Um but yes, some of these things will need to be upgraded just as computer equipment does.

But like microphones and and and speakers and things should have a pretty good life cycle.

Okay, all the wiring, yeah.

All right, other questions.

All right, here no questions.

All in favor, say aye.

Aye, opposed abstain.

All right, thank you, Courtney.

Action item five C approve the easement arrangement at the Woodbridge booster station with knee energies at no cost to the utility.

Moved approved, second, okay.

The mayor and curry motion and second.

All right, this is Kelly.

So similar to what we discussed last year around our Crestwood booster station.

There's uh Courtney, could you advance the slide, please?

Thank you.

Doing too many things at once.

So this is our Woodridge pump station, it feeds the Meadowbrook Tower or Pebble Valley Pumps, uh, Pebble Valley pressure zone.

The uh easement would come along the back and up the side, and it would involve them running their cabling in at no the utility would have no cost in it.

We would have potentially a minor interruption the day of the actual connection, but they'll let us know, and we'll just not use that station that particular day.

Um it will not impact our future operations in any way, and it's their standard agreement, so attorney running was fine with it.

Okay.

Questions for Kelly?

Jerry?

The equipment that's going in there, is that their equipment then?

It's their cabling.

Okay.

We have a transformer and a generator back there near where the arrow is.

Okay.

So they're just asking you use our land.

Is that basically they're asking for an easement so that they can use the land?

Yes.

Thank you.

It's a 12-foot by easement, I believe.

Yes.

Okay.

It's nice that it's along the lot line, it doesn't affect anything.

Sorry, towers just to the other side.

This is actually on Wood Ridge Lane in a subdivision.

The towers on the other side of the bypass, but it's piped together.

Okay.

Yeah.

Very briefly.

I'm uh not working on this project, but I'm an employee by this company, so I'll have to abstain.

Okay, yeah.

Thanks, Jeff.

All right.

Other questions for Kelly.

All right.

All in favor say aye.

Aye.

Opposed?

Abstain.

Abstain.

Excellent.

Thank you.

Yes.

Motion passes.

All right.

That moves us on to action item 5D.

Approve our standard professional services agreement with 120 water for the school and child care facility compliance monitoring for 27,731 dollars and 72 cents.

Also second.

French second.

Okay.

So as part of the lead and copper rule improvements that EPA passed following the Flint disaster for lack of a better term.

Um this is something that's implemented in 2027.

Prior to this, we had to do a lead service inventory.

We had to do a variety of other increased testing.

This is the next phase of the implementation process.

What this requires is over a five-year cycle, all secondary all elementary schools and possibly secondary schools if they request it, and all licensed daycares have to have lead and copper sampling done.

And a very extensive public education program prepared so that they're the parents and students understand what the potential impacts are if there are elevated levels of lead and copper.

We have 56 schools and licensed daycares at last count within the city.

Um EPA wants you to do at least 20%, so it's covered within a five-year cycle, but there's no penalty for doing them faster.

Um we have the skills to take the samples, but we don't really have the bodies to take the samples.

56 samples, five-liter samples at each location, and training the staff to help us out and and to select the locations.

It's a pretty daunting task.

And as far as public education, Mary's very good at it, but she's very busy doing all the other stuff that she does and adding this on, I think would be very taxing.

So I'm proposing that we hire 120 water, a firm that specializes in stuff like this and has done this for other communities in the state and outside the state.

We hire them for at least the first year to get the process rolling.

And if we need them for a second or third year, we would obviously put it in the budget, which you would um review and then probably put it in a blanket purchase order, so I wouldn't have to bring this forth to you again.

But um because we didn't have a vendor chosen, but it is in the budget.

Well, I can tell you from my professional experience, 27,000 for annually is nothing for the grab samples and the amount of magnitude, and just honestly one piece of equipment to monitor one location would be about half of that cost just for one location.

So I would have that's very, very, very that is an annual cost of 27 grand a year.

At least for the until we tell them not to help us anymore.

That's very, very, very reasonable for wrap samples and monitoring and the accuracy is gonna be it's not only labor from their team, but accuracy of what the state's gonna need to comply for the EPA and right in there.

So that's thank you for bringing yes.

Thank you for bringing that up.

They have very very nice database that they maintain, and it'll be nice for the customers to accredited with the EPA.

There's usually no pushback onto it, too.

So that's money.

It's a reasonable price.

How many sites does that get us?

Is that is that is that cost for 20% of the sites?

Because you said something about well, there maybe could more could go this year, but right.

That's cost for 20%, and we'll see how we do.

So 11 or 12 sites, yeah.

So very 2500 a site.

Okay.

All right.

And it'll be front-end loaded with uh public education component too, because that could be used for future years.

Sounds good.

Is a federal agency that has mandated mandated this federal legislation, I take up.

Yes.

So are they a source of refunding?

Do they have the grants?

The EPA is not.

It's being enforced by DNR, and they're presently working with a particular firm to offer assistance, but it's not to the level that um 120 water would provide.

Much like Dale said, it's this is a different sys different program still.

Detroit's still trying to get funding from the federal government to mitigate that.

Now it's been what five years ago now, too.

So it's it's a even if they do, it's gonna be a long process.

So we just needed to absorb it in our budgeting process.

Yes, as do every other community water system in the state.

And we expect that there'll be no lead or copper.

Well, actually, yes, you can inside the homes inside the building to get there.

Uh lead or copper coming from any uh solder that's there because these have to predate 2014.

Any fixtures that may be there that are old and contain galvanized pieces parts, but we are supposed to sample the places where the students have access to the drinking water.

So we're hoping that you know the drinking fountains are reasonably new and we'll move on from there.

And we're also still adding our Milwaukee.

Milwaukee adds polyphosphate and our lead and copper sampling that we've done at our residence, have all been really really good.

We were supposed to be on a three-year 60 sample rotation, but we did so well on the first year.

We're back to 30 samples every three years.

And if anyone doesn't know what it basically coats the pipe so the lead and copper don't leach up.

Okay.

Thank you, Mayor.

I read about it.

Too much.

But I don't know the name of the chemical, so no fee.

Yes, in your defense, it switched from when you were giving on the road shows.

So okay.

So I don't know if you have any other questions I can answer.

So, yes, it is an unfunded mandate.

Yes.

I didn't ask because I already knew the answer.

Without asking that.

I was stunned.

Yes, I know you are.

I'm glad you didn't fall out of your chair.

Okay.

So okay, any other questions for for Kelly?

No.

All in favor say aye.

Aye.

Opposed, abstain.

This is unanimous one.

Okay.

Um that moves us on to action item 5E.

Approve the water main offset unit price contract and one percent city administration fee, totaling 51,846.33 cents for the Waxhaw water utilities portion of the city of Walkershaw Public Works contract with Muslim Brothers Inc.

for the Davidson Road Utility and Street Improvements.

Second.

Okay.

The mayor and Curry on the motion and second.

All right.

This must be Matt.

Yep.

All right.

Uh the bids for the Davidson Road utility replacement and street improvements project were opened on Friday, February 6th at 11 o'clock.

There were three bids for this project.

Must and brother came in with a little bid for uh the overall bid.

They're a little bit higher than Wandell was on the water price, but the city goes with a little bit overall.

It's not too far off.

Um there is two offsets that need to be performed on Davidson Road right by um trying to microphone the school level, right?

It's school and hillcrest school.

Um they're adding storm sewer to Davidson Road with curb and gutter.

Currently, there is no turbine gutter.

Uh, and unfortunately, the catch basins land right on top of our water main, so we have to move out of the way.

Um so they wanted to include it as part of the project so that Mosson can take care of the storm and the water at the same time.

Um, there is a little bit of other work on Davidson that we're gonna do ourselves before the project starts, as it won't affect the school.

Um, but these two will turn water off to the school, so the project can't start until uh June 12th, I believe, when school's out.

Um for their work with the uh one percent city administration fee.

There's 51,846 and 33 cents.

So the motion is to approve that $51,846 and 33 cents for the water utilities portion of the city Walkshop Public Works contract with Must and Brothers Inc.

for the Davidson Road utility and street improvements.

Streetwise, we've been uh pretty uh happy with muscle um water utility-wise.

Yep.

Water, yes.

There were a little bit of carryover a couple years ago.

Um the crews we've gotten along well with all the crews, they do a good job.

And local too.

I mean they're yeah, they're local.

The one project they did in 24 was a very large project, and it just carried over to the following year.

But generally, we've not hit any issues with their work.

Okay, that includes the one percent.

Other questions?

Questions for Matt.

All right, hearing none, all in favor say aye.

Opposed.

All right, unanimous again.

Okay, that brings us to the page here.

Uh action item uh F.

This is a long one.

Uh approved resolution uh number three-19-26, which hereby declares that an emergency situation exists as described in section 62.15 sub one sub B of the Wisconsin statutes and directs a general manager to negotiate a contract to replace the water main at Wheel of Park Apartments, 1017 to 1021 Delfield Street for a cost not to exceed 76,665 dollars.

Asphalt restoration will be coordinated with Willow Park Management at a cost not to exceed 20,000 dollars.

Second, okay, curry and fall.

All right, I'm guessing this is Matt again.

The water utility would like to request an approval for an emergency resolution for will park apartments located at 1017 through 1021 Bellfield Street on March 3rd.

There was a significant water main break in front of 1019 Delafield Street following the initial repair.

Maine suffered three more subsequent failures uh the same night.

We'd fix it, it broke, fix it broke.

It was I think it was a total of four that night.

Um before it was good to get us through the night.

Um this follows a similar incident that happened on February 11th, where there was approximately 40 feet from where the this break was in front of 1019 to the west, which also required multiple repairs the same night after broke fixed broke fixed, and I think it was two more repairs that night.

Um distant infrastructure is six inch ductile iron from 1979 79.

Given the recurring failures, we have determined that additional repairs are no longer cost effective or reliable.

As previously discussed with the water utility commission, we deemed an emergency replacement was necessary.

Two quotes were obtained from available contractors and DF Thomasini contractors provided the lowest quote with the quickest response time for the work for a total not to exceed 76,665.

Uh, this replacement consisted of 280 feet of six-inch PVC pipe, one hydrant and valve assembly, and reconnecting three inch and a half services.

Following the utility work, I will be coordinating with Willow Park Management to restore the parking lot.

Uh just so happens that they were planning to redo their entire parking lot this year.

So we're going to work out a deal where we can give them some money towards the replacement where we're not wasting our money fixing it, and then they're tearing it back out again.

So after talking with management there, they're fine with us leaving it as stone for now until we can get uh or not we they can get a contractor in there.

Um city crews are gonna help us replace the part of the approach, the sidewalk, and there's one panel that we had to go out into the street for um so just to get that back in order, and then they'll take care of the parking lot as soon as they can get somebody in there, which asphalt will hopefully be starting up shortly here.

So that restoration is estimated not to exceed 20,000 dollars.

Due to the critical nature of these failures, we request the commission to formally approve the emergency resolution three-19-26 during tonight's meeting.

All right, questions for mail.

Did developer when that was initially built put in the water main, you think?

1979.

Uh we probably put that in, I'm guessing in the 70s.

I'm assuming in the 70s, we would have put it in.

We probably did.

It's all in an easement.

Um we're still in our easement.

The water main work is complete as of yesterday.

So we're all live on it.

I think it broke.

The last day they were putting pipe in, it broke.

It broke again overnight that Friday night and a Saturday morning, and then Tuesday when they were tying the services in, it broke again.

So it was a good thing to get it replaced.

Um that's it's all live now.

Everything's backfilled.

They management seems to be happy with everything as of right now.

So we did receive the bill from Thomasini today, too.

I didn't have time to update that.

It is under the 76,000.

I believe it was like 65,000 something.

So yes.

Could you just do a sentence or two?

What does that really do to the crew when you said there was a problem?

We went out.

I mean, you called people out to fix it, right?

Did they turn around, go home, and then you called them back?

Um, for the most part, it we turned it on, we waited, and then it broke within five to ten minutes.

There was one, I think that we had it back filled, went back the next day to compact.

We didn't compact them, then went back the next day to compact.

It broke again while we were compacting.

So we didn't compact any ditches after that and tried to leave it until the new main was completely live, and then went back and compacted everything after that.

So any choice words said a couple.

It's 50-year-old iron, it's gonna break.

Yeah, and it I mean, from the look of the pipe, the pipe did not look bad at all from the top of the ditch.

It was just it's it was bedded on clay and was backfilled in sand.

I think Kelly had said that that sand and the clay kind of just eat away the when they mix with that with the ductile, it's not bagged, so everything was just kind of corrosive and ate away the pipe.

But thanks, Riki, but for the emails during the whole process, those are really nice to get those updates over time.

So appreciate that.

All right, any other questions for Matt.

All right, all in favor say aye.

Opposed, abstain.

Okay, uh, one more, one more action item.

Uh approve the water.

This is action item G.

Sorry.

Approve the water main replacement unit price contract and one percent city administration fee totaling five million three thousand two hundred twenty-five dollars and fifty-three cents for the Walkshaw Water Utilities portion of the city of Walkshaw Public Works contract with Lalan Contractors Inc.

for the 2026 resurfacing utility replacement and street improvements.

We'll move second.

That's Curry and Riley.

Okay, all right.

Matt.

The bids for the 2026 resurfacing utility replacement and street improvements project were opened uh public works on Friday, March 6th.

There were three bidders that are shown in the table here.

Uh Lalande was the low bidder at 4,953,688.64 cents.

Uh, this project was approved as part of the 2026 budget.

Um, I we had 6.9 million in the budget for it, but as you can see on the previous table, bids were quite different.

Um is using mid-city as their water main contractor, so those two are fairly close, but the super X is significantly higher.

So luckily got some good bids there.

Um next slide.

So this is these are the areas for the resurfacing project.

Area one is Pebble Valley Road.

Um, feet of eight-inch PVC that is going in on Pablo Valley Road, and that is from University to Woodburn.

Um, this is 70s ductile iron.

We had issues with kind of the same thing at Willow Park.

It's in a marsh, it's in corrosive soil.

Um bolts on hydrants, bolts on valves, uh pull holes in the pipe.

We figured it was the streets being replaced.

Now's a good time to get it done.

Um the second area is easy street, oak lawn and norton.

That is the 1950s cast iron, six-inch cast iron.

There's roughly 6,000 feet of main in this area with approximately 200 services that need to be current connected.

It's a large project.

There's also some gas that needs to be moved in this project.

So the gas company, there's a coordination between the water and the gas to get the gas moved before the water can be replaced.

Um both streets we've had numerous numerous breaks, and I've been we've been asking for a few years now to try to get these ones relayed, and the city was kind enough to move these up in their CIP for us this year.

Um then the third area is Hillside and Harris.

That's roughly 4,000 feet of 8-inch PVC that'll be going in.

That is also 50s 6-inch cast iron.

Um recall from last year on North Porter, we tied all the services over from the six-inch main to the 12-inch main that is in there, so that had 50s 6-inch cast iron, and then there's a late 70s 12-inch ductile iron main that's in there.

So everything is tied over to the newer ductile iron that we've haven't had any issues with.

So we're gonna be just relaying Hillside and Harris Drive, um, which is approximately 4,000 feet of main and roughly 100 services in that area.

The area four is just the resurfacing of a parking lot that we don't have any water work on.

So motions to approve the water main replacement at the unit price and the one percent city administration fee totaling five million three thousand two hundred twenty-five dollars and fifty-three cents for the water utilities portion of the city walkshop public works contract with the lawn contractors for the 2026 resurfacing utility replacement and street improvements.

Questions from Jerry, I was listening to you talk about area two, six-inch pipe and area three with eight-inch pipe where there's four thousand foot, yet there's six thousand foot in area two.

So we're putting eight inch in there.

I apologize.

We're putting eight inch PVC in it was six-inch cast iron before.

Um side was six inch, we're putting in eight inch, all three projects are getting eight-inch PVC.

Okay, thank you.

Just uh curiosity thing.

If you go if you go from six inch to eight inch, does that allow the water pressure to re reduce or no?

The pressure won't change, it's just more capacity.

And we don't put in anything under eight inch minus willow park.

We would normally put in, we would have put in eight inch, but when Dell Field was relaid in 2023, I believe it was done, it was stubbed with a six-inch.

And since it's a dead end, there was no up side to upsizing to eight inch.

So we stuck with six inch there.

There are some cul-de-sacs would allow six inch, but most everything is now replaced with eight inch.

Probably don't use as much water as when you when you have to clean it out too.

Just it helps with fire flows and everything else.

I mean, if you're at a dead end and yeah, there's less water.

Yeah, you're not turning over as much water on a smaller pipe then.

Village boundary is kind of square.

Sorry, I forgot about that.

There is part, so part of Hillside Drive, as you can see, the village boundary there.

The city uh between talking with city and village.

We're all gonna work together, and we're gonna replace the village portion with the city's project.

The village is working with the city, the city's working with the village to repave that stretch as well, so we can get it all done at one shot, and we're not splitting it up into dead-ended and dead-ended.

Thanks for doing that.

Yeah, just out of curiosity.

Is the cemetery in the city?

Cemeteries in the village.

It's in the village, okay.

Yes, so there's just like that top corner is city, and then there's a stretch on hillside that's village in that square box, and then there's like just the one corner basically.

It's very okay.

Yeah.

Thank you.

No, they don't use much water.

Is there a reason for that?

Yeah, this is a lot of units, but let's keep moving.

All right, any other questions for mount debt or there?

Okay, all in favor say aye.

Aye.

Opposed, abstain.

Okay, excellent.

Good work, commissioners.

Well, and thank you for coming back.

Kelly and Courtney.

We got we got through all of those.

All right, the hard job.

Yeah.

Okay, uh, discussion items, water main relay prairie.

So it was brought to our attention last month that this stretch of Prairie Avenue from Sunset to the railroad tracks by St.

Vincent De Balls.

Um is part of the village.

They're going to be doing a complete road reconstruction this summer.

We have 20-inch uh cast iron main from the 50s in there.

We don't have a lot of main issues with it at this point, but as you can see, the dashed pink lines, those are all existing stubs from old houses that used to be there.

So those are all live across the street, which become an issue for other people digging in the road when they don't they're hard to locate because the the curve boxes are gone.

It's just not an easy thing to locate.

We also have an issue with valving on that 20-inch line.

So that 20-inch goes all the way down sunset to St.

Paul, across the St.

Paul or cross the St.

Paul or Genesee Street there, and then it comes from that way and it turns up, goes up prairie all the way up to the Saratoga softball fields, basically.

Um we only have a valve basically just south of Saratoga softball fields, and then in front of Culver's on sunset to shut that entire 20-inch line off, which is a substantial amount of water main.

Um so with the budget or with the uh budget for the resurfacing project being what it was and our estimates coming substantially under what I had budgeted for it.

We did a quick estimate of what it would take to relay the stretch, uh, and we'd be well within that same budget if we were you guys were good with letting us go with it.

We just think it's a good time to do it to get rid of the cast iron.

They're doing a complete reconstruct rather than having to go back in the road at a future date to redo it.

Um we would be we've talked with the village, we would be probably running our own project with the water main, but they're gonna allow us to work under their traffic control and work well with them.

So it would be a pretty smooth project to get done while they're getting their stuff done.

And you feel confident you can get it under the money that you've saved on the other budget.

Yeah, that and the the bidwell and prospect project from last month that I brought to you was also under roughly 400,000.

So there's we would obviously I would bring it back.

We'd send it off for bid, we'd bring it back.

If it doesn't stay under budget for some reason, we don't wouldn't go forth with it, but from just doing our estimates on it, we think we should be good to go good to go with it.

And we're we have to save something on repaving the street, I would think.

I mean, the fill.

Yeah, we're not gonna we're not gonna have to pay for anything, it's just gonna cost us for the water main and to fill the trench.

So we're saving a ton of money on street openings.

They're gonna allow us to go out into sunset.

You can kind of see the cluster in sunset right there.

Wow, to get that cleaned up right now.

It's not a very smooth.

We have 20-inch feeding, eight inch that feeds 12 inch, so we would clean it all up and it would be laid out properly.

So the village won't charge a one percent administration fee.

No, okay, thank you.

But they also won't administer it.

No, we'll be we would be administering this ourselves.

Hey, they we can for 500, you don't have to work on what the first project we talked about.

I mean, it's like you're not administering it 500 bucks.

It's gotta be worthwhile.

Now, when you get to five million, it's a little different.

There's a little bit more money there.

I'm in favor of a view of this being done.

Yeah, commissioner, yeah.

I think it makes sense.

Type of timeline.

Uh so the village, we spoke with the village, they'd like to start in July sometime.

We think we can get it out for bid and that's completed by the end of June.

It's roughly 700 feet of 20 inch, so it's not a lot of main, it is bigger, but there's nothing really in the way.

They've got a couple services to cross.

There's not a whole lot of other utilities, so that's gonna speed things up.

Hopefully, we can get a good contractor that moves pretty quick, and I would like to think it probably a month's worth of work, and they could be out of there for our stuff.

No collaboration with the railroad.

No, because we're gonna stay, we're gonna stay south.

As you can see that the line that runs east and west right there.

We're gonna stay south of that that main that runs east and west behind Saint Vincent's just for future because they're not going into the tracks for us to get under the tracks.

We either have to jack and bore.

So we're we're looking for the future portion when we do get into the city.

Um, we would just try to probably line underneath the railroad tracks.

So we're does Tom has designed it to set it up that we can not affect any water customers, and we would just line under the tracks, and then when the stuff to the north, when we would do that at the same time, and they would take off from the north and relay to the north.

You'd also never get started in June.

No, you had to go through.

Yeah, so we're staying well far of a 25 inch or 25 foot setback from the railroad tracks.

Okay, thanks.

Thanks.

That is gonna go into sunset, though, right?

Because sunset's gonna get tore up.

So sunset will just be torn up for probably a couple days because that the plan is to lay from the north to the south, and that would be the final tie-in in sunset.

So it would probably be a two to three day process to get it all tied in, and then with the repair, so sunset is gonna be affected by it, but the village is aware and they're fine with it.

So you're just looking for uh kind of a straw puller or a go-ahead just to get an action.

It's not actually in our budget, so I just with being under budget and we have the extra money.

I also like to point out that arrowhead trail.

We are working on that easement still, and I'm still working with smart properties to try to get that figured out.

And I don't foresee it going this year.

So there's a million dollars there that's kind of left over.

They're having a hard time figuring their layout and their um that piece of property, and I don't really want to put the water main on a lot line and have it in backyards where we're having issues in other areas now.

So the water quality is last last year was better than the previous year.

So we're hoping we can a little bit of flushing out there.

It'll be fine still until they can come up with uh an actual layout of where they'd like the water main.

Right.

All right, any other questions on prairie?

Well, let's move on to B then water main relay on loop borne and walk.

So this is another area of one of those streets.

What's that?

Those are streets and walkshops.

Yeah, so this is just north.

That's prairie on the left side there.

Saratoga field is just to the north.

That's the flower shop.

That 321 is the flower shop floral.

Yeah, prairie.

I know the area, I just didn't know the streets.

So Luke Street, we've had similar issues with Luke as we just did on Willow.

Um we had a couple breaks this winter over on the far east end of Luke towards Walton there.

Um, with those, we've had we had significant damage to the roadway.

Um, so our street openings are we're basically gonna be repaving from Bourne, which is that stub in the middle that goes up and down to Walton from curb to curb for the amount of damage that happened from the road from the the main brakes.

Um this is 1950s cast iron, which is where we see most of our issues with with those types of things.

We keep saying that 50s cast iron.

Yeah.

Uh Walton is 1916 cast iron.

Oh it's been good, it's good pipe.

The corner of Luke and Walton, though, it's only roughly three feet deep right there.

Um you can reach down in the valve box and turn the valve by hand, just wow.

So again, with a couple projects being under an arrowhead trail, probably not going, and the fact that we're gonna have an enormous street opening coming with the with the main disruptions over the winter.

Um we're proposing relaying Luke from Prairie to Walton.

Orne, all of Bourne, and then Walton up to New Hall.

I would like to get up that far, which is just north of the picture here.

Um what's the size?

That is all currently six inch.

We would replace with eight inch.

Um that would allow us to get our depth down on Walton, kind of get that taken care of, um, get the stuff replaced on prairie.

Um, we had another disturbance on the corner of Luke and Prairie, so between the valve and the 20-inch main, that is not prairie.

So that the city is doing some panel replacements on prairie that they are planning on replacing those panels with ramps.

Um, they also I spoke with the city last week.

They have some sewer work that needs to be done.

There would be a little more cost on us for street replacement because it's kind of our driven thing, but it's not a full replacement curb gutter, everything.

There's only the two um handicap ramps and borne would have to be replaced, and I think we would only be on the hook for one at prairie because the other one would be getting done with the street panel replacements.

They also have some sewer work that needs to be done up there, so they would they would probably be sharing some of the costs of the road and then the survey.

Um we did look into it uh with the city just for kind of a rough estimate of what the streets would cost and with the water main.

Um, I think we're around 900,000 was just a rough estimate for what he originally given me for streets and for all the water main combined.

Um, I think that number is gonna be lower now that sanitaries looked and they have some work to do, and we're gonna share some of the street replacement costs.

Um I believe with the arrowhead trail not going and again the funds being under on uh resurfacing quite a bit.

I think there's enough funds there, but this would also be something we would bid and bring back to if funds didn't exceed what we already had budgeted for the year.

Do we have a dead end up there?

At Bourne.

Yes, yes.

There's so the softball fields are right there.

I don't know that there's a way unless we went through the park over to Walton somehow.

Um I haven't explored that at all.

But so you're talking about going to the right.

So yeah, the realistic way would be to come out born and go to the right and tie in over there.

Uh, I don't know.

I'm assuming that's city property.

Yeah, yeah, the back end.

Saratoga.

So maybe it's a possibility to look at it.

Just yeah, I didn't I didn't explore or look into that all.

We were just roughly looking at what needed to be replaced, and but is definitely something we could look at.

No, I think that's a good idea.

Well, with other people benefiting from it too, now might be a good time to yeah, and I like I said I spoke with Brandon up at the city, and he was very open to working with us on it and not you know not charging us a complete reconstruct.

So one other question.

Do you know what the footage is of all of that?

Uh it's like 1600 feet total of everything.

Okay, so it's not it's not a lot of main.

Yeah, I think Luke is like 800, Bourne was 300, and then it was like 500 on Walton.

Good, thank you.

So I mean, I think what is mixed part.

I'm I'm saying, yeah, I'm saying I think it's a good idea.

I agree.

And then just look at trying to get that dead end one checking because we'll work with the city, at least it's city property side.

So in the future, we'll probably be digging it up in the future, might as well do it now.

But also gives you a lot of options too.

Valves if yeah, it breaks anything happening down there.

Yep, right.

Absolutely.

But put it lower than three feet.

Yeah, we'll try to get down.

In 1916, I think they just were like, oh, that's what I said.

I'm like, everything's fine.

They were getting tired at that.

They're like, oh, we kind of miscalculated this a little bit.

All right.

So it looks like both of those discussion items are a go.

Okay, and then we'll bring it back once we have bids and sounds good.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thanks.

All right, brings us into uh information items.

Uh new operations center updates.

I'm gonna have Matt continue to do the updates since I was out on medical leave.

He took over the updates with us.

The contractor says I'm a bit of a safety risk right now, so I haven't been to the job site, but uh they're kind enough to do movies and pictures for me.

So everything is closed in now.

Um, they have the office, so that picture, there's actually a video with it that should play.

Um standing in the he's got the star kind of where the office is there and pans around.

So as you're looking right there would be the training room to the back corner there.

Um as you go to the left.

I guess we'll do this.

So this corner is like right in here.

So as he went around, he kind of just panned the outside of the uh I thought it's it's like if it was all office, it looked really big.

Yeah, it is all office, it's just not portioned or partitioned off yet.

So they have the all the roof drains are in.

That's the PVC you can see in there now.

Um all the exterior walls of the office are enclosed now with all the window, the windows aren't in on the office part, but they do they are plastic off, so it's all heated inside of there now.

They thawed all the the ground in there.

Uh they plan on pouring concrete the March 30th.

So they're gonna start with that actually, like pretty much right where I'm standing, is where they're gonna start with concrete, and then they're gonna work their way from the top of that page to the bottom, get out of there, and then they'll go up into the wash bay and the storage areas and pour those areas so it's the stuff straight north of that where that picture is now, and then uh the shop, the big shop parking area will be done last, and that'll probably be done.

He said these they're anticipating like June or July.

They don't want to pour it, and then drive equipment in there and ruin the concrete, so it'll be one of the last things they do when they're not gonna be going back in there to screw stuff up.

So um they're working on mechanicals, all the underground, as you can see.

The pipes sticking up out of the ground is in for bathrooms, any electrical that's got to come up through the floor is the conduit is in.

Um, so it's all pretty much ready for concrete.

They're working on grading it out when we were there.

Um, they were hand grading in the locker room area.

There's too much plumbing, and I don't know if we're gonna get an actual machine in there, so they're they're working on that now.

So I think there's another picture, right?

So that's the windows in the new commission room.

So that's there.

That's the the front side of the building or the top side of the bottom side is this area right here.

So that's looking at these windows.

This is all window right here.

So that's where that is, and then that plumbing stack is kind of where the bathroom up in the front is gonna be.

Sunset.

Or rather.

They face towards so there's basically an empty lot between us and um Ross, like the Ross Trust for Less.

So it faces that.

There's a bike trail that goes right down there or little roll route.

Um they are happy with the progress.

They think we're still on track for uh late October, November.

It's heated in the in the office in the shop area.

It's kind of nice.

You can walk in there and they're in t-shirts working in there.

So it's dry.

Their windows are in the shop areas wherever they could.

They'll be putting windows in after packages poured in these areas.

I think it's coming along good to looks good.

It's gonna be a little sloppy out there, probably now that we have the snow again, but the inside is should be good, it's just the outside in the parking lot areas.

Excellent questions, commissioners or all right.

Excellent.

Thank you, Matt.

Um information items B utility performance report and administrative activities.

Um for Dan, uh, they are working on expert witness um and the depositions.

They're continuing to work on that uh lawsuit, and um the mayor and Dan are um going to Washington DC in April with the Pewaki mayor to further discuss uh PewKi's future water needs.

Between senators and congressmen, we have meaning meetings.

Back to back.

And um our audit for um with Baker Tilly was Wednesday through Friday of last week, and that went well.

Um they're continuing to work on on our stuff, but uh the initial review was very good.

Um Ellie and Valerie worked uh very hard um for for several months and spent a lot of time uh on that audit.

So um congratulations to them because uh so far, so good.

We're working on the conservation PSC report, which is due to the public service commission on April 1st.

And uh the yearly Wi-Fi documentation and uh reporting uh has been filed with them.

E well abandonment projects for wells five, six, eleven, twelve, and thirteen will uh advertise in the Freeman and on quests on March 24th and the 31st.

We will have a bid opening on the 7th, and it will come before the commission on the 16th for approval of the abandonments of the wells at that location.

At those locations, we'll um abandon the structures or demo the structures under a separate contract to avoid the 15% standard markup.

We are waiting for Wii Energies to install the gas line at Stardust, so we can finish the generator start uh startup that we installed last year.

The PLC projects are continuing.

Quarterly sampling of all of the emergency wells is done, the exception of well seven.

We're doing that on Tuesday.

Uh disinfection byproduct sampling for the first half of 2026 is complete.

The VOC SOC radionucleide sampling that is required by DNR of those emergency wells every five years comes up in 2026.

So we'll be starting that in April.

We will be starting with the wells that we are keeping as emergency wells and well 10 because its status is unknown in the bid documents for the abandonments of the wells.

It is a requirement that they get the pumps out of the wells by June 30th.

No pump, no sample.

So we're trying to save some uh time effort and money doing it that way because this round of samples is a pricier round because of the radionucleides and the SOCs that are in there.

Um I am working with Tara at Jacobs to get a scope for the water system model update that you approved in the budget.

That will come before you on April 16th.

That will allow us to do the field calibration tests this spring and in May and June.

So the model can be fully calibrated in order to give us the data that the fire department needs for their ISO review by October 1st.

I met with the uh the fire department had a training with ISO and and the chief invited me, and I kind of cornered the ISO guy, and he had wanted to do the audit the following week after the training, and I kindly asked him to push it off, and he was agreeable.

So that was a good thing, and that is a good thing.

And then lastly, we are um we hired Dixon approved by the budget to do the drain down inspections of all of the water towers that DNR requires every five years.

The last time this was done in sounds funny.

We did a drain down in 2015, and then in 2020 we did an ROV inspection where we didn't have to drain it down.

Well, now it's time in the cycle to drain it down.

So we'll be starting that on April 15th.

It the customers won't be affected.

It'll be just like we did for the transition.

We'll put pumps in pressure mode, drain the tower, they'll inspect the tower, we'll disinfect the tower and put it back online.

We're planning on doing one a week for um from April 15th through May when we're done.

What's those tower capacities?

What are you gonna lose and more?

Uh the ballpark one uh UWW is a million.

Davidson's 250,000, Morris is 100,000, Hunter's 400,000 in Meadowbrook is 300,000, so about two million.

Two million.

Okay.

Well, you don't really lose it, don't you?

Put it just we'll pump it down into the system or use as much as we can.

But there comes a point at the bottom where you just can't maintain the pressure you need to the system.

So we will lose some of it.

And then because we have to fill it and disinfect it with free chlorine, we can't introduce that back into the system because now we're chloramines.

So we will lose that full two million at some point.

It's about 30 days by the time we disinfect it and everything.

Actually, there's a method that a AWWAA has approved that allows you to just do it over a 24 hour period.

Wow, that's good.

It's 200 milligrams of free chlorine, so you really cook it in there.

Okay.

It goes pretty quick.

So that's that's my update for water supply.

Which which well, but but two wells are emergency backups again.

Uh three is a backup, seven is a backup, and eight and nine are backups.

We have four.

Four.

Okay, that's right.

Okay.

Thank you.

We've had oh, sorry.

Any questions for Kelly?

All right, let's move on.

Uh we've had eight water main leaks since our February meeting.

Um truck, the chassis showed up, and is that Casper's being assembled with um it's an F550 with a dump body, a plow and a salter on it.

So they're assembling that now.

They were hoping to have it done in two to three weeks.

So hopefully in the next couple weeks here, we'll we'll be getting that.

Um most of our time has been spent up on a little park apartments the last couple weeks.

So uh and then the water main installation on prospect and bid walls started yesterday.

They have the first block installed and filled it this afternoon.

So it's moving along quickly in the two days that they've been out there.

So the snow held them up.

They were supposed to start on Monday, but with the weather, they pushed back a little bit.

That's about all I got right now.

All right.

Commissioners, any questions on the performance report in this trade?

Okay.

Let's move on to the financial report thing.

Okay, so taking a look at our February revenue.

Um for the um month of February and for the year, our commercial and industrial is a little bit above budget.

Um, we have noticed uh several customers uh that in February just used more than they did last year at the same period.

Um so we will we'll keep a close eye on that.

But um, so far this year, then we're about 1.3% above on our consumption estimate.

Um, and we're we're pretty right on with our revenues, so that's looking good.

Our expenses for February, our source is um for all of our purchased water from Milwaukee Waterworks, and we were um a little bit under budget.

Um invoice was under budget for February, so about $8,700.

The next line item is distribution, and we were about $20,000 under budget there.

Um while there were um 11 of those events in February because of timing with payroll and invoicing and things like that.

Um eight of them hit the financials.

We did receive a street opening invoices from the city, but we um luckily haven't had as many as we had budgeted, so um that was a little bit under budget, and there was also a timing in um difference.

Our invoice to diggers hotline.

We split that with the city each year, and so we invoice the city for um half of that, and um that just came at a different month than when we paid it.

So that that made that a little bit off also.

And the last one there is our customer service category is about seven thousand dollars under budget, and we have um the general manager um in training position that is budgeted for the whole year.

A labor is budgeted evenly, and so that um obviously has not been filled yet, and so that makes that account under budget.

Um, we also had credit card fees were a little bit under budget in February, and we did not receive the A B data invoice, which is for our um printing uh sorting and mailing of all of our bills.

Um, they were a little bit behind this month, so they would they didn't get it to us in time, and so we're gonna be paying that one next month.

All right.

The distribution number is significantly different than than budget.

Is there a sense the 20,000 dollars?

Well, I mean, I mean, if you look for the year, sorry, like for the year, even compared to like all the other so we uh the the street openings is probably the biggest piece of that is um with the last couple years, we've had many of those events in the winter, and um it's been a little bit better this year, so um that's that's likely that one.

Um the majority of those costs.

Where does that get put in public or what you know that it's not residential, it's not um the total water the loss, yeah.

Um that that is yeah, that is not any of our sales, so it's part of our water loss calculation, yeah.

And that is reported to the PSC each year, also, so so they do track all of that.

Um our cash um end of January.

Our cash was um 51.6 million dollars, and you can see here um in the middle there are issuance of long-term debt.

We had about a million fifty thousand that we um received from WIFIA reimbursement for the operations center.

Um, other than that, pretty much business as usual on here.

Uh, we're at 52.8 million dollars um at the end of February, and as you could see there with our um invoices that we're paying this month and our bonds, so we're at about three million dollars that we'll be paying out in um in March here.

Sure.

Um, and then finally we have our transmission and distribution, all of our water meeting projects um that we have budgeted for 2026.

Um three of those have are now bolded, which means they have bid out that would be Davidson Bidwell, and then the 2026 resurfacing that we had earlier tonight.

Um, as Matt said earlier, a prospect started earlier this week.

That is the only project that's started so far.

So those uh numbers with our total costs there obviously will increase in the coming months as the projects get underway.

Goodwill and prosper, then just look the electrical, then I would assume at this point because there are they're working out there.

I don't know.

They put in water this week.

When they just started putting in water now, that's the only one that has started.

So sorry if I didn't say that properly.

Does anyone have any other questions?

Right.

Any other cause commissioners?

Courtney, Matt, Kelly.

Anything else?

All right, so if there's no objection, we are adjourned.

It is 704.

Yes, I hope we have.