​​​​​Jericho Underhill Water District Underhill, VT

all minutes are in draft form

 

January 15, 2015

7:00 p.m.

Basement of the United Church of Underhill

 

TRUSTEES PRESENT          OPERATORS PRESENT          GUEST PRESENT

Peter Mitchell                                    Marc Maheux                             Paul O’Leary

Joe O’Brien                                                                                                                                 

Jason Ritter                                                                                                           

                                                                 CLERK                       ASST.  OPERATOR                               

                                                            Jane Maheux                            Mike Willard

Peter Mitchell called the meeting to order at 7:02 pm to adopt the Agenda, which was approved. 

1. Review & approval of previous minutes. Minutes from the December meeting were approved. 

2. Review & approval of financial statements. The financial reports for the December meeting were approved. 

3. Operations Report.

    A. Operator’s report. 

        i. Water usage. 50648 gal/day 

         ii. Test Results and Testing.

             Bacteria results negative.

             Fluoride results within tolerance.            

    B. Marc reported that manganese was added to the testing schedule by the State. 

    C. Dwight returned the reader with a dead battery; Marc had a very tough time getting the route of it. There were a few mistakes which he will correct and then recheck. He spent most of the month working on the billing program. 

    D. Marc got a phone call from the State Police around 2 am New Years day reporting the power company wanted to know where our water line was on the corner of River Road and Park Street someone hit the telephone pole. 

    E. Mike replaced the 4 way valve on the chlorine pump with a used one it is working better now. He also reported that he believes we have an antifreeze leak on the generator at the control building. 

4. Customer concerns/comments 

     A. 

5. Repairs and Maintenance.   

1. A.    Marc reported that the weather has not cooperated yet to pull the electrical at the Maple Ridge tank. 

 6. Old business.     

1. A.    Mark to contact Randy Troupe about coming back in the spring for more leak detection. 
2. B.     Joe made a motion that we accept the easement deed for Jacobs Hill as written and gives Peter authorization to sign on behalf of the Board. This motion was approved. 
3. C.    The Board had a discussion with Paul O’Leary for preliminary engineering to submit to the State. We are looking to see if there is any funding available for planning. Would like to see if there is any long term funding available that will be forgiven. Discussed the scope of work that we would plan for the year and then discussed a long term Capital Plan. Paul will review the discussed information and talk to the State to see what planning money is available, he will write up something for the Board to review, and if done in time we will meet with him on January 19, 2015. 

 7.  New Business.      

     A.   Joe made a motion for Peter to sign the maintenance agreement from Cat for the 2015 maintenance on the generator at the control Building.  The Board approved the motion. 

8. Bills to review & approve for payment. Bills were reviewed and approved. 

9. Next Meeting Date:  Next regular meeting February 2, 2015 at 7:00 PM. Special meeting January 19, 2015.                                        

10. Adjournment. The meeting was adjourned at 9:20 PM. 

Respectfully submitted, 

Jane Maheux clerk/ treasurer

 

 

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Peter Mitchell President