International term.

I call the uh May 6th, 2026 meeting of the information technology board to order.

Um, all members are present except for Mr.

Costolmy, who did uh inform Chris that he was unable to attend this evening.

Um we do have a quorum, and we will proceed with the meeting.

Um item two on our agenda is pledge of alignments.

And to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God with liberty and justice for all.

Yes.

Item three is public comment.

We don't have any members of the public with us uh this evening because our staff, so move on to approval of minutes.

We do have minutes from our April ITV meeting.

I took a look at them, they looked good.

Were there any concerns or questions, comments?

Is there any objection to approving those by unanimous consent this evening?

Hearing and see no objection.

We'll approve those by unanimous consent.

Moving right along.

Item five is our business items.

We have two business items to address tonight.

Uh first five A review and approve the contract with second nature for the stormwater management system.

Yeah, but Jonathan Shapakam from Public Works with us this evening.

And Chris, um, did you want to start with this?

Or you want to write over?

Um Jonathan uh was here in 2025 for the 2024.

Was it 2024?

September 2024.

Yeah, yeah.

For the 2025 CIP process.

Well, yeah, because it's 2026.

Yeah.

Um I was talking budget earlier today, so my brain is in 2027.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So he was here in 2024 talking about this project during the CIP uh project.

So he can he'll give you a quick reminder of what it was.

Um but um yeah, so this is a stormwater management program.

Uh he'll get into the details on that.

Uh one of the reasons why it's taken so long to come back here for a contract is part of the new permitting inspection program.

We did tack on this as an optional item for those vendors to um reply to.

Uh there were a handful, maybe one or two uh of those that replied back, but the the vendor we ultimately picked for the permitting uh did not have the stormwater.

So they went back to uh this one, which was came out of RFP as well, and um, and so this was the best fit for the city.

And so I'll let Jonathan take over from there.

Sure.

Okay, thank you, Chris.

Yeah, as mentioned, uh we're back in 2024.

We were looking at this particular piece of software, which is by a company called Second Nature.

The name of the actual form um program is to inform.

Um, as mentioned, it uh is a sp a stormwater specific software.

So it is is not a check of all trades, master all none, and it's really one that's primarily honed in specifically on stormwater.

That's one reason why we were very interested in it.

Going back to our September why we had mentioned it at that particular time too, is just because we have a permit with the DNR for handing our straw our stormwater called an MS4 permit.

And as part of that, we need to maintain um not only of our stormwater initiatives, but also we get credit.

We have to have certain removals of total suspended solids and phosphorus and things of that nature, and that all uh we we have our own ponds that we have for that, but we also can take credit for private ponds.

And part of this uh initiative too would help us better manage some of those initiatives too that we get from other um other entities, HOAs and things of that nature.

We have a lot of that data, but that data is all housed very nicely on in spreadsheets and on share drives and things of that nature.

Whereas this would house everything pretty much within one piece of software.

We could click on a particular BMP that's a best management practice.

That could be a pond, that could be a swale, it could be uh we call different products called the storm scepter.

It's basically a hydrodynamic separator of materials.

It's basically all about water quality at the end of the day, is what the all these different and all these different BMPs attempt to do.