Water Utilities Community Facilities District - Regular Meeting

I'd like to call to order the Apache Junction Water District meeting of 09/16/2025 and request all cell phones be put on silence. Roll call.

Chairperson Wilson? Here. Vice chairperson Schroeder?

Present.

Board member Cross?

Here.

Board Member Heck?

Here.

Board Member Johnson?

Here.

Board Member Nesser? Present. Board Member Seller? Here. You have a quorum, your honor.

Thank you. Approval of minutes for the 07/15/2025 special meeting?

Your honor.

Yes. Do I have a motion? So moved. Second. Moved and seconded. Roll call.

Vice person Schroeder.

Yes.

Board member Nesser. Yes. Board member Heck.

Yes.

Board member Suller.

Yes.

Board member Johnson. Yes. Board member Cross? Yes. Chairperson Wilson?

Yes.

Motion passes unanimously.

Thank you. Presentation, discussion, consideration, resolution number 2025Dash006. Mike.

Chairman Wilson and members of the board. Presentation, we worked on an intergovernmental agreement with the sewer district here in town for an agreement to lease some land for them for our reclaimed or effluent system and then also for our fiber optic cable we tied between our treatment plant and the sewer plant. So AJ will be purchased the reclaimed water as part of this also. We have an agreement with both the developers to the South and State Land that we are Blossom Rock and Radiance. The sewer district has the same.

So the sewer district in their agreement, says that they will sell us effluent at a certain price. And then the water district agrees that we would sell this effluent to the customers in the end for another price. So we're just getting all these agreements in place and then getting the agreement between the two of us to get it unionized so that we can have our piece of equipment, our tank on their property, and then also they're related to communication. Currently, there's no internet providers in their area or poor internet providers down attached to the sewer district. When we put in the non potable system in this tank, we ran a fiber optic line between the two sites. So we had some extra strands available. So we're going lease those strands

to the sewer district so

they can tie into an internet provider that's on our site at the treatment plant. I have a picture here so I could give you a little more detail in a second. So currently here's our water treatment plant site for our CAP water and then this is the sewer district. This little gray spot here is a 1,000,000 gallon storage tank that has two booster pumps on it right now with a possibility of one additional one in the future. This is the sewer treatment plant.

So they treat their water to A plus water quality standards. So now we can deliver it to those customers to the South for applications as turf, the lake, different things that we have down there. So we have all of our agreements in place and our permits from ADEQ, which is in Arizona Department of Environmental Quality, so we can deliver all that. You'll notice signs out there when you're at some of the parks that says, don't drink this water. This is reclaimed water. That's part of that permit that we have to go out and verify that that's all in place. But to go back to our agreement, again, we're leasing land from the sewer district to have this tank here so they can deliver their effluent to us. We're And going to pump it from that tank all the

way to the lake to

the south and then we'll pump it out of the lake to the south to deliver it to those parks that they have in those subdivisions and then this fiber line also goes from here and then goes back up to our plant And then we have a circuit with an internet provider at that plant where they could tie into. So they no longer have drops in service. They do their billing out of there also so that it's faster internet provider for them to get through all that. So kind of exchange some services as part of this agreement is what we're doing here. Any questions on that disagreement?

Okay. Any questions? Do I have a motion? Mr. Chair. Yes.

I move that resolution number 2025Dash006, a resolution of the board of directors of the water utilities community facilities district, city Of Apache Junction, Arizona authorizing the board chair to execute and enter into an intergovernmental agreement for the sale of reclaimed water and the lease of fiber optic cables with Apache Junction Stewart District be approved.

Second. Moved and seconded. Roll call.

Board member Heck?

Yes.

Board member Cross?

Yes.

Vice chairperson Schroeder?

Yes.

Board member Nesser? Yes. Board member Johnson?

Yes.

Board member Saller? Yes. Chairperson Wilson? Yes. Motion passes unanimously.

Thank you. Presentation, discussion, consideration for construction agreement with MGC contractors and company. Mike. Chairman Wilson, just to let you know on

the sewer agreement, they already approved this at their board meeting last month. So now this will go into effect once you guys approved it. So our next one, at Water Campus 2, this is located at our Public Works office. We have a couple tanks down there, well six, and also a booster pump station. This pump station is about 30 years old.

We're getting additional service connections down here we have additional development in the industrial parks and if you guys are working through that process right now with them so larger fire flow demands is the biggest key that we're talking about here our existing booster pumps in this area are roughly about thousand gallons a minute and they're basically start and stop pumps so when the pressure drops to a certain pressure say it goes from 70 to 50 they turn on and they pump it right back up to 70 and they shut off and they probably go down to 50 and they turn back on and pump up to 70 and shut off So it constantly is putting pressure, random pressure on our pipe. So as portion of this, as we know, developments come in, we're looking at some additional pumps here. But this is an existing site. So we have a steel water tank here it's been there since 1998 roughly 30 years old booster pumps were put in this was a concrete tank that would be built roughly about fifteen years ago so this site will be here for a while so we're looking at replacing these two booster pumps with three new booster pumps but a fourth can as part of this project.

So what we did was we reached out to a contractor as part of this and what we want to do is we want to replace those start and stops with variable frequency drive. So what that means is, hey, I'm going to set a pressure at 60 psi and that pump has demands go up, it's going to go 200, 300 gallons a minute, but the pressure is just going to stay there and go between 56, 58, and just keep constant rather than off on off on all these pumps so it's using less energy to start and stop those pumps and stop putting those pressures on those pipes of less pressure more pressure less pressure more pressure so saves you on your water leaks so we'll be installing DFT drives with that we're gonna add an additional booster pump down there with some of these industrial demands so we could meet those fire flows of 3,000 gallons a minute possibly, depends upon how they're constructed. And then we're going add a future can down there as we had the baby vistas as we call it that came in next to the dump that has come in. We got Goldfield Estates that is currently going in it's an apartment complex about roughly 200 units so we're constantly growing in this area so we need to keep up with those those customers pay for a portion of that so this new booster pump they would be paying for as part of the system connection fees that we charge them and then some of our existing customers really paying to replace the existing stuff that's out there for basically maintenance of those pumps replacement we're asking we reached out to MGC contractors we're gonna use the city of Peoria's water wastewater treatment and remote facilities contract it's a joc they have with the city of Peoria so we're gonna piggyback on this contract it's gonna they're gonna do a design construction with us so they hired a consultant to come on and design and then we'll order parts at this first phase for this so this will be phase one it's roughly $2,600,000 phase two will probably be roughly about another $2,500,000 in the end and we did budget for this this fiscal year's budget

so like these are variable speed pumps correct assuming Wi Fi all nine yards you'll be able to operate them not even on-site

well it will through our SCADA system so but we'll be able to operate those but most of the time once we set them up we send to a pressure we just leave them alone and they can go up and down we it will go back we did install fiber to booster pump two a couple months ago so we have fiber and radio for backup so it gets back to our master SCADA they can program them off-site to change those pressures or change different things as part of this.

Mike, can you remind us what SCADA means?

Supervisory control and data acquisition. So to bring that back it's our screens that show our pumps on there that shows they're green means they're on and they're going if they're red they're off it shows our tank levels it gives us all the data out there so we physically don't have to be on those sites or in front of the piece of equipment it's all on the screen so our operators can control it as part of that

thank you you

other questions

can I have a motion Mr? Chair yes

I move that the construction agreement for Phase one Water Campus two booster pump station replacement between Water Utilities Community Facilities District and MGC Contractors Inc. In the amount of $2,623,296.74 be approved.

Second.

Moved and seconded. Roll call.

Board member Cross.

Yes.

Board member Peck.

Yes.

Board member Johnson.

Yes.

Vice chairperson Schroeder?

Yes.

Board member Nesser?

Yes.

Board member Suller?

Yes.

Chairperson Wilson?

Yes.

Motion passes unanimously.

Thank you. Presentation, discussion, and consideration construction agreement with Yellow Jacket Drilling Services, LLC. Mike.

Chairman Wilson, this is our next project. We're looking to drill a well. We're calling it Well 10. So this is going to be further south along Ironwood in our Blossom Rock subdivision. As part of the agreement with the developer, they work to provide three additional well sites on each half of their property.

So three on Blossom Rock, three on Radiance. These wells are for redundancy for our surface water plant so if something happens with our CAP water we have backup well supplies that we can utilize this water so we reached out and we did a request for proposals to drill a well on this site out to the south. We're approximately going down about 1,200 feet, and we're installing an 18 inches stainless steel casing. They just drilled one at our water campus roughly about two years ago. It produced 2,500 gallons a minute.

So what does that mean? It's roughly 3,000,000 gallons a day. And our plant is currently doing 4,000,000 gallons a day. And that'll go up to 10. So we're trying to get that redundant supply so that if something does happen with our plant, some dirty water, or something happens with the canal, that we're available to supply that through our wells.

We're hoping this is a good area. We have done a study to the south that shows that this should be a good production of water quality and water quality compared to our existing wells to the north which are 500 gallons a minute a piece so these are large wells that we'd be drilling down in this area we reached out for proposals we had 10 drilling contractors that came out we're requesting staff our staff is requesting to approve to go move forward with Yellowjacket. But this is just to drill that well, encase it currently. Next year, we'll be funding to equip that well with electrical gear, pumping equipment, tie that into our existing system. Depends upon, again, the water production or water quality that comes to this well.

So we're not sure where we'd be at that point in time. Any questions on

the well? Any questions? Yes.

So Mike, this is just a big kind of an interest question. So with these well, 1,200 feet, if you get to 1,200 feet and it's not proving to be as productive, can you continue to drill down? We can.

It just depends upon what's underneath the ground at that point in time. If we hit solid rock, we'd probably be like, no, we probably don't want go any further because there's no nothing in the aquifer to pump out. If we're still getting the sand and gravels, we may look at going a little deeper. If we go in this well and we get down in there and we don't see any water quality or water quantities that we'd like, it's not going to cost 2,200,000 because we wouldn't put the stainless steel casing. We'd stop at that point, slurry the well back in, and walk away from it. Hopefully we don't have to do that. But this is in the best case scenario where we get another 2,500 gallon a minute well, we case it, and this would be the cost for that equipment or that piece of materials that we purchase.

So the $2,200,000 is for just the casing and the well itself. It's not for any of the equipment to pump the water out in

the future. That'll be another price tag next year.

Correct. And probably between probably $1,500,000 to equip this well. In comparable are the two MGD that we added to our plant was roughly about 20,000,000, 25,000,000. So a lot cheaper, but a finite resource that is not replenished all the time.

No more questions? Can I have a motion?

Chair? Yes. Move that the construction agreement for drilling and installation of Superstition Vista's well Number 10 between Water Utilities, Community Facilities District, and Yellowjacket Drilling Services LLC in the amount of $2,285,435.53 be approved. Second.

Moved and seconded. Roll call.

Vice President Schroeder.

Yes.

Board member Nesser. Yes. Board member Heck.

Yes.

Board member Soller.

Yes.

Board member Johnson.

Yes.

Board member Cross.

Yes.

Chairperson Wilson? Yes. Motion passes unanimously.

Thank you. Presentation, discussion, and consideration, retroactive approval of emergency repair on the Jenny Companies. Mike?

Yes. So I brought this up at our last meeting back in July, I think it was. We had a water main break on June 30 there at Tomahawk and US60. We went out and did a quick repair to sew the water down. But as we got into it, the pipeline is a 16 inches ductile iron pipe that was installed in 1988. Had a bunch of barnacles and scaling on it. So we couldn't just put a repair clamp on it and seal it back up. So we hired. It was roughly about eight foot deep. So we brought Garney Construction, which has built our plant and does some other pipeline jobs for us in the past, through a JOC to come out and replace roughly about 60 feet of pipe.

So we had to dig out the existing pipe, replace it. We completed that work on July 11. We only had one customer that was out of service, which was the Circle K right across the street. They didn't lose complete service the whole time, but they were down to low pressures at certain points. We did get them back up and going that on July 11. So what we're requesting, as you can see here, this piece of pipe is roughly just North of The US 60 in this stretch here along the County Island that we have. And this is the Circle K here currently that was out of service at that point in time. We replaced that main. We're requesting approval from the board for $41,000 for replacement of that pipe. At this point in time, we did replace this pipe also with polywrap.

So polywrap is plastic around the pipe. And what does that do? It takes away any oxygen that can get into there that causes corrosion on that pipe. And that's what happened as part of this, and it caused the leak. And the pipe was roughly 40 years old. Typically ductile iron last anywhere between forty and fifty years. So we've got good lifespan on it, but we had to replace it. Mr.

Chair. Yes.

So we replaced 60 feet of it. I mean, I'm assuming there's a lot more that needs attention.

Just this area is where we noticed the most corrosion. We went back and covered those areas. And that's why we went a little further so we could find good pipe so where it was not corroded up. So we're hoping wait, we don't have another area. But it could be in the near future that we'd be replacing some of these. We don't have any additional leaks on it at this point in time, we're hoping there's not. But we'll have another, hopefully, ten to fifteen years of good life left in the rest of the pipe.

Is there no way of checking pipes anyway other than digging down and looking at them?

Not typically. We will do some flushing programs and some different things like that to make sure that we don't have anything going on. We do leak detection every once in a while to see if we have loss in our pipes. We do our annual report that shows us and we stay within that zero to 10%. I think last year we were at 6% water loss. So if we see it get above 10%, which I think when they purchased the water district, it was over that. They actually hired a company to come out and do leak detection. You can do some new things out there with thermal imaging to see cooler spots or warmer spots in the ground that may show you some leaks. But other than digging it up, that would be some other options that we

do. Okay.

Mr. Chair.

Yes. That just sparked a curiosity question. Do these pipes not build scale on the inside of them also?

Typically not. It just depends. So a little more chemistry. There's a Langley index. So either you're scaling on the inside of the pipe, because we have a hard water quality out here, we'll put just a film on the inside of it. Or if you're a little acidic, it'll start eating away the inside of pipe. And you don't want to get to that side of it. So we're maintaining that as we add different chemicals at our plant, that it's always scaling just slightly so that we don't have that so it doesn't eat it from the inside. There's also a concrete liner on the inside of the ductile iron pipe so it's not in direct contact with the iron part of it.

But if need be, we could camera down inside the pipes if we had to.

Some of the larger ones, 16 inches is probably a little small. As you get to 36, 48, the larger diameter pipes and bigger things, yes, they would run cameras through those to verify what's going on. Thanks.

Anyone else? Yeah. Chair? Yes.

Mike, seeing how I've been into a lot of water in my life, the cost for that repair is very reasonable. And we had a blowout at Medtronic two years ago. And it was every bit of that. And I think probably only 50 feet of pipe, 40 feet of pipe. So, yeah, I mean, underground repairs are very expensive and they never happen in a convenient time. So you gotta do with the, you know, the best you can and having Garney right there, that was great.

They're doing construction solar plants. We lucked out. This was over fourth of July week too. So great to have that. Like you said, it happens in the not opportune times to replace mains. You never want to be out there doing that stuff. So it did work out that they were local. They were out there within two days after we called them and repaired it for us. It was great to have them on board. Okay.

Do I have a motion?

Mr. Chair. Yes. I move that retroactive approval of an emergency repair of a 16 inches water main brake on Tomahawk Road using City of Scottsdale joint order contract number 2025Dash042COS with Garney Companies Inc. Amount of $41,032.87. Be approved.

Second.

Moved and seconded. Roll call.

Board member Heck.

Yes.

Board member Cross.

Yes.

Vice chairperson Schroeder.

Yes.

Board member Nesser. Yes. Board member Johnson.

Yes.

Board member Soller. Yes. Chairperson Wilson.

Yes.

Motion passes.

Thank you. District manager's report.

No report, your honor.

Okay. District director's report. Mike.

Chairman Wilson, we're requesting to enter into a professional service agreement with Valley Collection Services. This district has never had a collection services in the past to go after those delinquent bills. We're not talking the ones that are just past due of $10 or just past. We're talking about people that have left the district and closed out their accounts and left an outstanding balance with us of a $102,100 dollars and moved away. And we may never see them again.

We may get lucky and they move back in and then we could charge them for those fees that they left us holding the bucket on. So we're requesting to hire professional services that if we have this come up again is once somebody moves away, we can provide that to the contractor and they would actually go after those dollars for us. They will charge a fee to, I believe it's 7 percent, it's in our contract, seven or 12%, somewhere in there, to collect those fees for us. But at least we're getting some of those costs that were left out there. In the past, it hasn't been very much.

But as we're a growing district, it will grow as we get a number of customers come from here. During COVID season, ours didn't hit very high. I think we were roughly at 15,000 that we had to we didn't collect on. But in the city of Phoenix was out millions of dollars because they couldn't collect on. But they have 10 times the amount of customers, 100 times the amount of customers that we have. So we don't want to get in a situation like that, so we want to get ahead of it. So we decided to reach out to a collection service. This particular service actually does 20 different cities throughout the state. City Of Scottsdale is one of them, City Of Mesa, the town of Gilbert, city of Chandler. So there's multiple ones that utilize this contractor.

Typically, they go after them and receive some of those funds back. At least we're being good stewards to our customers of going after those debts that people have left us with and trying to collect on some of those things. So we're going be signing this agreement to move forward with some of those collections.

Have a couple

of questions. How much do you think that you have that is beyond one hundred and twenty days at this point?

Outstanding balances?

I cannot answer that question currently, but I can get that information for you.

Yeah. And not only how much, but how many households?

And

does it have a sliding scale? Like you said, it's at what, 12.5%? So no sliding scale.

But if it's under $20 we're probably not going to go after that customer because we pay more in fees or our time trying to create those lists to go after that $20 And if it's above that, we'd probably go after those customers.

I know a lot of collections, they deal with if it's one hundred and twenty days, it's a certain percentage. If we turn it over and we turned it over at, say, two fifty days, $3.65 because we're just starting out, do they charge a higher percentage? They do not. GREGORY It's a straight 12.5.

GREGORY Yeah. I think it's lower than that, but it's a certain percentage. It does not change during any if it's one hundred and twenty, one hundred and eighty, two ten days, it does not change.

GREGORY I'm kind of looking at it under the compensation on page one that it states 12.5 of the total debt collected.

I need to double check that. You got me.

Does

it As sit out

long as it's flat. Because when you're first starting out, you might have some people that are one hundred and twenty days that are $200 And you might have somebody that's a year and a half since you've never done it, correct? JOSHUA Well, we're not going to go

back for this one's a year and a half. We're just going to start moving forward. And I believe it's probably going be one hundred and twenty days we'll start submitting those to and try and stay on top of this rather than waiting for a year to go after customers. Because by that time, they could have moved a couple other times or went somewhere else. So we try collecting sooner than later. I'm not going to guess we I'd have to ask a company that had a better success rate of finding them within one hundred

and twenty days rather than waiting. JOSHUA When you said you were going to start fresh, does that mean let's say you had $20,000 that's out there now. Would you be submitting them or only the people that just become?

JOSHUA We're looking at this from the start of this fiscal year, so from July 1.

JOSHUA So anything that's owed now, we're not going to turn into collection. We're just going to write off.

Correct. That's what practice has been in the past that we've done for the district. We wrote it off for the last fiscal year. Again, we want to get good stewards of our customers' money, so we're going go after these other people to collect on those debts.

Well, I'm glad to see you guys looking to put something in place, at least now. But please do let us know how much the write off has been over the last couple of years, please. I do know that it's been roughly about 15,000 that we've written off, which is less than 1% of our gross revenue. So it's not

a huge amount that we've been writing off, but it is an amount. And that's why we want to start collecting on some of these. And it's going to continue to grow as we get additional customers out there that walk away.

Might you charge a late payment fee if they don't pay it on time? You charge a late fee? Correct. Okay, you do. Okay.

The way our billing works is you get your first bill. If you don't pay it within that month, you get $10 late fee. Your next bill is coming out. If you don't pay that bill, then you get shut off. And sometimes, if people are leaving their house, they decide, well, you know what? I'm not going to pay that bill. Most come if they're only there for eighteen months, we'll have a deposit of $120 And we can collect on that would be our first step. So we do get some money back from that. But if they're past eighteen months, they've been good stewards, and they paid their bills, and then they walk away, now we have a bill of, you know, probably after two months, dollars 120 bill that's still outstanding because Because we don't have a deposit, they've been paying their bills ever since they started with us. It's been three years.

Now we have this $120 bill that we can't collect on. Now we turn them into our collections company to go find that money for us.

I want to make a quick comment on the aspect of this company that does it for the city of Mesa. Unfortunately, I have some property. It was over in Mesa area. And the water company, the Mesa Water Company, had a line of water that was going to the place that we owned, which we were paying on. Unfortunately, somehow, they decided that the neighbor's water bill needed to go on to that property as well And that we were severe behind.

And they were coming after us for collections. And I ended up going down to their office in the water office in Mesa and arguing my points. And they ended up sending somebody out to take a look at what the heck was going on. And that's when they discovered, well, this other water line is not your water. It's going over here to the neighbor.

And we were billing you their water as well. I have no idea how many years that was going on. But it was something that was caught. And it had gone to this collection agency. And between the collection agency and the Mesa Water Company, it took about two months to straighten out and remove that bill. But they were working with everybody and responding. Just never got a refund.

Hopefully, we won't have any of those issues. But they do come up where something gets crossed like that or happens. So I'm glad that Mesa worked with you and this company worked with That's good knowledge to have.

Together all to resolve the problem once they found out there was a problem.

Perfect. Chairman,

just real

quick. We discussed it before the meeting. But I have to give your kudos to your staff. It was a mistake on my bill. But the staff was very professional, very helpful, and got it cleared up very quickly. So kudos to your staff. Thank you.

And just to hopefully, I guess we're oh, I'll do it in a little bit later. Guess the next subject we have on is we want to talk about our new Water District Office. So we're currently working with public works. They're in need of a new admin building and a public works buildings for their field operations down there. Roughly, the building is about 40 years old. It's part of their fleet management. It's where they're at currently. We're currently here. Our admin staff is in development services. And our field staff is in also a metal building that we created an office in.

We roughly have about 12 employees in there. And as we continue to grow, it's probably a 12 by 15 room and we're outgrowing that room at this point in time. It's really meant for storage of our materials and not for an office for our employees. So we're going to start working with Public Works on a major project down there to build a new admin building and our operations building on Public Works site there. We've hired a consultant, BWS, to do initial master planning for the entire public works yard with Water District as part of that, redoing some of the fleet services and some different things.

I believe public works just came in and had a contract approved by the city council at that point in time. But we're going continue working with them on that. We'd like to move our admin staff and our operations staff into one location. We did budget for this this year, roughly $2,500,000 This is a big project for the city and the district. We're going to be sharing costs together on this project.

I'm going guess in the end it's probably a $30,000,000 project between the buildings and the road improvement that needs to be done, water infrastructure that needs to be put out front, and parking lots and different things that we have going on out there. But I just want to make you guys aware that we did have it in our budget this year. We are going be spending that money. We do have a memo between the city and the district to pay our fair share of the design and the master planning for this. It's roughly going to take eighteen months, twelve to eighteen months to get that design done.

So we're talking maybe end of next year that we have that done and then start building. And probably that building is going to take twelve to twenty four months to get through in the end. So we're looking at a three year project here. Development services growing. As you guys are aware, we went from roughly 100 permits a year for new residential homes to 1,000. So obviously, they're going to need more staff here. And that puts us homeless at that point in time. So we'd like to start planning for our future here and make sure that we have a building ready for us when development services ready for us to move out. Any questions on that? We'll keep you informed as we get the master plans going.

Either public works will come in at city council meeting and let you know where we're at in the process, or we'll bring them in and let you guys know how the design's coming and kind of give you guys a heads up of what's happening down there.

Okay. I

have a quick video for you guys. SRP did a great navigating of the drought conditions in Arizona. I'll So pull this up for you hopefully. Maybe. I may need Matt's help.

The valley is very fortunate. A salt river project was part of the development of the water supplies for the valley. Before Arizona was a state, salt river project was formed to build Roosevelt Dam that enabled us to take the river that supplied water in very wet years and store it so it could be used in dry years. That allowed agriculture to bloom in the desert. As those lands urbanized, that water supply became the basis of an urban supply that supported growth in the valley.

SRP manages a 13,000 square mile watershed that's located in the forests of Arizona where snow collects into rivers and streams, comes down into our reservoirs. We store that water and deliver it to the valley through a 131 miles of canals. Now that water is delivered to water treatment plants, it's treated to drinking water standards, delivered to residents. Other parts of the valley have access to Colorado River water delivered to them by the Central Arizona Project Canal, and those supplies together form a dependable supply that is resilient. In times when there's not enough surface water, we supplement with groundwater from wells, and that gives us a dependable supply that helps us withstand what happens during droughts.

We've been in a drought for over two decades, but it's important to remember that drought is a meteorological climate condition. It's something we prepare for, something that we adapt to. And so when we think about drought, we have to remember the parts that we can control. We can be prepared by advanced planning to make sure that we have necessary supplies and backups. And those things that we invest in keep us from having a shortage.

As we've done in the past, storage is really the key factor in preparing for periods of drought. One of those ways is at Roosevelt Lake. Roosevelt Lake has additional storage capacity in what's called flood control space. We'll actually increase the ability to store water in wet times so that water is available to us in dry times. Water is complicated. SRP is very fortunate to have great relationships with city partners, other parts of government, as well as private water companies, and we have been working closely with them on projects that will prepare us for the future. These partnerships allow us to maximize the benefit. So we're not just acting on behalf of SRP. We are acting as a region to solve these problems together.

So I just put out this video roughly about a month ago.

Yeah, I just wanted to share

The quick question here.

Come out

to everybody.

Can't go

do this to clear out stuck poop fast

on 06/15/2019.

Stuck poop problem.

Good old YouTube. Thank you, Mike, for sharing with

the board. You guys have any questions on

that? Where are

you at on the Bartlett Dam?

We're still working with the federal government on that. It's with the Bureau of Reclamation right now. We're still waiting for how much water they are requesting. SB a portion That would be for firming up some of the supplies that they're required to by law. We haven't got through that. So we are in the NEPA process. And now, an environmental study, that's roughly going to take about two and onetwo years. I think we're roughly about four to five months into it. So we'll be slowly going through that process. Due to the fact that Bureau of Rec is short staffed after they cleaned house over there, they're slowly getting through a lot of the projects they have.

But this is one of their big ones they have on their list. Will give you guys an update at our next meeting, a little more detail. We continue to go to meetings. We're there monthly with SRP moving forward with that project, also with the SCIF project or the interconnect between SRP and CAP. But But nothing major has happened. That's why I haven't brought them back to you guys yet. But the projects are still slowly inching forward. That is a long term project. We're probably still looking at 2034 to 2035 before we've finished. But it is moving forward behind the scenes, but not much to update you guys on yet.

All right. Thank you, sir.

Oh, it's you, Joel. I guess it was.

Who fell?

Any other questions for tonight? Alright. Thank you.

Okay. District treasurer's report. Alright. No further. I will adjourn the meeting. Thank you.