Water Resources Board - Regular Meeting
The Water Resources Board discussed a budget amendment to address a projected $20 million loss according to the financial supervisor's accounting methods. The board also considered the purchase of 5,000 new ERT units annually for five years to upgrade its telemetry system and approved an agreement with CSX for existing infrastructure rehabilitation.
About this meeting
- Government Body
- Water Resources Board
- Meeting Type
- Water Resources Board
- Location
- Murfreesboro, TN
- Meeting Date
- August 25, 2026
Transcript
59 sections
So right now we are opening the Council of Water Resources. Is anyone registered to give a public comment? No sir. And for today's agreement agenda, is there a point that wants to be passed separately by the council? And we will delete the point. the maintenance of the OSM cleaning service contract. That will be discussed again in the meeting. But is there any other point that we want to discuss?
No, I will discuss it.
The motion has been presented and it has been decided. All agree? Yes, sir. Can it be clarified? So the OSM point in this market? Not done.
The motion has been approved, sir.
The second agenda is to approve the previous approval note from the 28th of July, 2026. Is there a motion? The motion has been approved and is supported as it should be to approve the approval. Right now, we are going to consider agenda number four, the consideration of the purchase of the equipment of the Serulaw team. And I think Valery or Adam will discuss it. Okay, start first, Adam.
Then there will be questions later. So, in 2015, we started moving to the construction of continuous-level construction. And now, we are moving to the mobile platform for that. And we need to buy the end point. It is called the end point of the cell phone, or hair care. The location is in Netran. And the meter means I can use my little finger here. This is the meter. And Herkini will report to our telemetry system. Then from there, we have a customer portal and a monitoring system for our CS. The plan is to switch. Right now, we have an ERT model that is longer in the system. Done. we need to switch to a newer model, and that is the 500W ERT. The plan is, during the implementation of 5 years, to replace the old ERT and buy around 5,000 ERTs per year. Because we have more than 25,000 customers. And this year's purchase for 5 units is 600,000, which is $ 5,000. Is there anything you would like to add? And because Valery, the last time he wore it was in 2035, it took about five or six years of transition period to install everything and make us used to its population. I invite the audience to watch the video. Okay, the audience has been invited. Are there any questions?
So I have a few questions.
So 5 ribu is the initial amount. I assume we will buy it every year.
And then, from the point of view of the general public,
When we started the network infrastructure in 2015, 2016, we learned each system and you know, whether from the function or the implementation, everything. And this is the system we choose. And after you have walked this far, it is difficult to change it. And you know, basically, because this is a single source, we don't want to change it. Now we have to look for another system, because this is suitable for the system we have. So, Valerie, how about us? So, this will work together. Yes, these 5,000 units will probably replace some, but everything will still work.
Both systems will be used for several years. I think the idea, Adam, is to replace the cellular in the zone, where we can release some hard devices that exist. So we move around the system, switching to the cellular, so that we can turn off some hard devices and don't have to think about the cost.
And the other thing is the equipment and support for the equipment that are in the agreement agenda are also related to this.
So that answers the last question, can the operational cost be compared to the maintenance cost? Operational cost, this sum is lower or higher than what we issue for maintenance.
Do you think this is equivalent to the operational cost or less?
This will save you money, because you don't need to spend too much money on big assets. We also save from the most important aspects. So, we have been providing 14 years of use. When reaching 15,000, We will continue to work on this. This will be the process and we will do it ourselves. We will do it ourselves.
We will do it ourselves. That's good news. Whenever we can take business opportunities from the Ministry of Energy and Electricity, that's a good thing for us. But seriously, right now we already have a motion. I think we're ready to vote.
So everyone agrees?
The next thing on the agenda is to consider the purchase of the KPS unit.
So, even though this is not a big purchase, I just want to convey something that we do, which you may not know yet, namely about this survey class rover unit. We use this device to do all the new constructions, such as water, waste, rainwater, and the like. We record the location with this survey class unit. And the information that we take into our GIS and create the map that you see on the right for all our locations. So, we scan all the new infrastructure for water, drainage, and rainwater. However, this unit can also be reused after we determine the GPS coordinates. For example, the main water type, if we... If the tap is closed, we have that point here, and the unit can take us back to that point to scan the location so that we know where to dig to find the tap. as well as cleaning and things like that, so that we can move the existing infrastructure. Then, both the location and the height of the infrastructure. So we want to buy two new units. It is used by our water inspectors as rainwater. So we want to buy those units. I said Rp. 40,000, but here it says funding. So, the unit itself is worth Rp. 40,000, but with the funding accessories that we offer for the purchase of 50,000-57,000 joules. With that, there will be two units plus the supporting accessories.
Is the device able to see or look under the ground? Or are they just using data? They can't see under the ground.
We are just using coordinates to return and determine the location where he is. Have you seen this before? Before.
At this time, we will consider the agreement of CSX and Jaya for rehabilitation.
We have tried this work under the CSX train track at General Mills. I think this is our second project, where we try to get permission and work together with CSX to get permission to do the work under the fire train track in the existing casing. That is the main supply channel. The main supply channel is this. This is where we want to work through the rehabilitation contract of our waste stream. We need an involved contractor. I think with the last contract we will conduct an investigation on the side of this train rail. This second rail set was installed by General Mills and the department doesn't know anything about it. So our train casing is not extended through the rail. In all our research, we did not find any permit for crossing the CSX. It has been there since 1975. So the part under the train rail and then to the right is the intersection. All of those parts have been there since 1975. The northern part leads to Landstrains and Automobiles, and it has existed since 2009. We didn't realize, and this is why I used the information from our LJA engineer, our GIS showed that this parallel line was outside the CSX roadway and the CSX roadway in the GIS, we were inaccurate. So, because We are trying to get this permission, it was decided that all of these are also on the CSX route, namely the thick dark green line. So to achieve their current status of permission, we have to go through it as if this is a new construction and get permission so that the network remains and can be operated. the amount that they sent to us. And I have worked together with the legal department to see if we have the right on the route that is already in their territory, especially the 1975 route. And the answer is no. We don't have, you know, we don't have the right. I think it's just permission to be there. Because we've been there for a long time. So basically, we have to work together with CSX, and the cost of the agreement is Rp. 100.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000. As long as this work is open, we will also inspect the roads that cross from east to west, or north to south here, from left to right of the field, because we have not yet investigated the status of those roads. However, as long as the permission and agreement are open, I think this permission will be valid for five years. We will investigate it at the IMEI. If there is a problem, we may include it in the next rehabilitation project. And so we will work together with DLJL to return next month with other tasks, because the current project will be completed immediately. This is one of the last things to complete the project, that is to complete the CSX work in this fire train. Only the parallel part is straight here. We know how to get out of here. That is why we want to do rehabilitation. We have planned in the project to put the coating in the pipe. Sometimes when you are under the train rail and have an iron pipe, the inside will be corroded. So we want to coat it because the pipe starts to show signs of erosion. Right now, they don't allow us to extend and cross the stream. One more thing, we don't want to dismantle this train track. And something that is not visible is the passage of the rainwater. And honestly, I think, Dermet, maybe you can leave my memory, but I think our main drain is under the rainwater passage and we can't access the track to extend the stream. Use your earphones first. So, the best way is to cover it. It will last for years to come, even if we don't extend it as far as the CSX wants. They don't ask us to extend it as far as possible, but they, as you know, with the permission process, they give us the commitment to continue to improve the route. What is the benefit of the commitment process? What do we have to get? who gave us permission to be under that bridge. If we still have to tell them if we will do the work in the future, even with that permission, we still have to go through the permission process. Because they want, when we work, they want there to be a police officer there and someone as an inspector who monitors the work to make sure that we do not damage the train tracks in any way. All of our work is done from accessing the god hole, so we don't have to be near the train tracks.
Our god hole is here.
And I know here, oh, we have one here. We have a god hole here, on that slope and down here. And the plan is to cover from this god hole to this god hole. And then with the next project, we will see the condition of this route. And we may have additional layers that we want to do on the route. And that will complete our work there. And it should not be necessary to do anything for the coming years. And this permit, are you going to do it in the coming years? Yes ma'am. So, the legal part has checked the agreement. It has been sent to CSX. The legal part has several things that they want CSX to consider to see whether they want to add or change the agreement. We have not received any news from CSX. So, the agreement on this agreement will depend on the agreement of the legal part regarding the form of the agreement. Okay, I will immediately receive it, Miss.
I want to propose a motion to be approved by the Ministry of Justice and the Ministry of Justice.
Has it been approved? Has it been supported by the Ministry of Justice?
I'm sorry, sir. I agree, sir. It must be approved.
It must be approved.
All right, at this time, we will listen to Mr. Joseph Dastin, who will present the report of Mr. Joseph Dastin.
Good afternoon, Chairman Russell and members of the committee. I would like to thank you all for giving me a few minutes to discuss a report on the quality of rainwater this year. And I want to say that the rainwater management involves many city departments, many staff, and many people in this room who have been helping to manage the rainwater from time to time. So, this report discusses the quality of the program. If you remember, the city of Murfreesboro must get permission to throw rainwater into the river and wetlands in the same place as MS4. So that is the rainwater disposal system that the city of Bajau has. And in that permission, we must have minimum maintenance steps. We consider this as a sub-area program. And we have six such areas that are included there. Then at the end of the report, The year that we sent through the web portal TDEC, we have to do an evaluation of our program. So we have many different methods to do it, but I just want to cover some areas of this program.
Education and affordability, of course.
This is about the impact of rainwater and pollution. We held 19 events last year and managed to educate more than 3,000 people. This also provides an opportunity for participation and involvement. So, we are required to allow the public to contribute to our program and that is what we are doing this afternoon. And many of the events give that opportunity. Under this condition, we are also required to train city employees. So what we want to do is to improve the ability of field workers or field crews, seasonal crews, who may not have access to computers. We want to meet them in the morning and have a short conversation to reach out to those who have passed through the education. Then you have several more maps on the right. So you can see the benefits of the GPS unit that we talked about earlier. So that is the drainage system that is located on the web map. So someone in Murfreesboro can open a web map and find the nearest drainage channel to their workplace or home. And if they see the potential for illegal waste, and that's the point of this program, they can report it to us. So this part of the program is basically aimed at eliminating illegal waste and we do it in two ways. We were told about it through We search internally. We search for waste channels along the river. We inspect the waste system and then we rely on the community.
The picture above shows the actual place where the community can report illegal waste.
So last year we received 9 reports from the community and 5 reports from employees. And you know, the most common is the cleaning water, the waste of soft oil, and illegal waste. So, we will really use the irrigation system to filter the illegal resources, then start to comply with the rules or education. Going back to our basic construction management, so we call it the Permanent Rainwater Management Program. And this is actually related to maintenance, long-term, rainwater control steps. So, talking about the permeable irrigation system and water storage. It's on the bottom left, it's actually in Veterans Park. That is the bioretention area that is being filled with soil mixture. So, the state partially obliges us to have a program to inspect these things, review the plan, inspect it when installed, and then ensure long-term maintenance. And we have two inspectors who monitor the installation of these features actively. We completed 62 locations in the past year, so that's almost twice as many. from the number of locations that completed the previous year. And we have one inspector, Andy Landrum, who checks the construction site and makes sure that the operators are aware that they have these features in the location and that they have their maintenance documents. We work with 41 operators for education that produce 44 improvements. And on the top left, you can see the graphics from our lung inspection device, and that is an overall picture of the maintenance status of these features. So, you can see most of them get a B or C. We consider it functional. The values B and F are considered to be non-functional, so we will continue with the compliance of the rules. And for improvement, In my opinion, this year we really want to focus on finding the HOA, the new HOA or new business owners who may have this facility and help them understand their obligation to maintain it and then focus more on the riverbank. We have many inspectors who monitor the rainwater management steps so that we can start focusing our attention on the riverbank that is being managed. And let's see. Hello, this is our last minimum control step. This is a good pollution control system. So, this is actually about what we do in our own location. So, we have 12 locations that we consider as operational facilities related to rainwater. You can see that it is a fax facility. And the rack on the right, which is covered by And we met with the leaders of this location to discuss the best practices of rainwater, inspecting their facilities, and there are many efforts to prevent pollution, including people in this room who operate, supervise the operation of vacuum trucks to remove sediments from the rainwater channels, road crossings, and many other pollution prevention. We want to get to the point where we track and link those numbers with how many sediments have been thrown away from the rivers and drainage systems. And for our improvement, we are approaching several steps to control the rainwater in our city. I don't know and Robert, I don't mean to make you cold. Do you remember the first step to control the rainwater? We are with Robert Helly, former coordinator of rainwater in our city. Look, the boxes are full of gold. It's really confusing for you. How many of you are already old? More than 10-15 years old. Do you need treatment? So, we reported that how many of you need more significant treatment?
There are 11 of you in total.
This is the area of permeable pollution, people with retention who are experiencing erosion, So we have implemented a corrective action plan. We will start with what we can do internally, then for what we can't do, we will maybe improve some of these features. Do you see a strong system at the moment? Maybe it's hard to see, but the connections have to be filled in again with the connection fillers. And before that, it was scattered. Well, that's after restoration. So, as I said, a better solution than an effort to prevent pollution. And that's back to the trucks, and the drivers, and getting data from that. In my opinion, we can already know, especially with the ONM, how many linear tracks have been cleaned, but it's a bit difficult to extrapolate it to the number of sediments that are collected from the river. And as I said, our permission requires us to measure our effectiveness and measure how effective our program is. So we do it with monitoring of waste and river values. So last year we started to work on garrison creep and barebranch. We really want to start installing dashboards on the website, so you will see the type of program effectiveness there. Then we will create another tab, which is called the map, application, and IS statistics. And there will be a lot of numbers related to pollution prevention. So we are waiting for that. However, that is the summary. I will submit it through the portal in the next few days. And that is the end of this year's annual report. I am available if anyone has comments, questions, or suggestions.
Thank you, Joss. You're welcome. All right. Right now, we have information on the demand for PADO or BEJU for water resources.
This is basically from the financial supervisor. Since I've been here, and previously, we've been using the AWA industry standard, which is more or less based on cash, which is cash in and cash out. So, we usually estimate the budget between six to nine million dollars a year. The financial supervisor obliges us to submit a budget report every year to them. However, they include the incursion into it. So, they consider the incursion as an operational burden, even though it is not special. We always make a very conservative estimate. For example, we estimate Rp. 100,000 for exports and maybe only use Rp. 80,000. The manager may estimate Rp. 100,000 more to be safe. So we are always very conservative in estimating exports. So, what happens for fiscal year 2027 is that with the reduction of about 20 million dollars that is put into it, it makes us suffer losses. And the financial supervisor sends it back and says we must not lose In my opinion, they use one standard for everyone, regardless of whether you have one million dollars or one hundred dollars. And I understand that many of the things they do is monitoring to ensure the usefulness of the financial services, and I understand that. However, they ask us not to suffer losses anymore. So basically, we re-check it and that's what the memo is about. I mostly take what was written by Alan Tucker for Lewan, because it's important for us to move fast so that the security officers are satisfied. So we will reduce emissions in several categories and change our budget so that we meet the requirements of the supervisor to perform the inspection as an exit, even though it is not cash. So that's the purpose, to let you know what we have done. I think at last week's meeting. Yes, and the appearance documents are also there.
We can show it if there are any of you who want to see it on a larger scale.
I don't have any documents about any changes made to the bill.
Yes, I saw the documents about the issuance and what amendments, from what was changed. I don't understand why it's like a 1.1 million salary. That's because we have a lot of empty positions.
And so we estimate every empty position for the department. You know, the city uses a tighter budget. They assume that if a position is empty, it will not be filled for a few weeks or one or two months. And so they will save money in the budget. But we continue to estimate every empty position and every position that is estimated for 12 full months. And so this will basically come back from tightening the budget. Expenditure for wages and wages taxes, as well as loans will also be reduced. So this is just a budget, from the day of completion to utilities to wages.
Assurance?
Yes, everything in general.
No, just so I can understand. We used to have the same performance, but this year we are suffering losses, what are the benefits?
This year, yes, before the savings budget did not make us lose, and this year it turns out to happen.
So you are constantly experiencing advantages or disadvantages. If you fill a position in the middle of the year, you will now ...
Right.
More budget for that. It can be true, it can be. But I mean, a lot of you know, the position that we budget, we haven't filled it yet. So then we have a rotation, our staff has a rotation, such as the city budget, which is estimated to take a few months to fill the open position. So that's where we will tighten everything back.
So this 5 million won, where the position is now in the city impasse, or I am a little positive, or we are ... That will make us a little above the impasse.
This makes us return. Lucky according to the controller. However, from a special basis, this makes it much better.
But you don't need a proposal from our committee here?
We have to bring it to the committee because usually we don't bring the budget amendment back to the committee. It's already in the court and we actually don't have it.
That's right. I think we've only ever made one budget amendment while I was here.
So just like you said, we have to take it to the court immediately to get it under control. But we want to tell you all that it's already in the court and we have it in the court.
That's good.
I don't have any changes on the CIP page for five years. So the financial work is still closed. Yes, the bookings are officially closed this Thursday.
So next month I will give a report on the financial of the beginning of June or what I call pre-audit to see the condition of the month of June to see. Usually there is adjustment related to pensions during the audit process for us and the city. And I will also give data for August for these two fiscal years in the next report. There are other matters from the committee. Okay, we'll be right back.
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