March 2010 minutes
all minutes are in draft form
March 8, 2010
7:00 p.m.
Basement of the United Church of Underhill
TRUSTEES PRESENT OPERATORS PRESENT GUEST PRESENT
Peter Mitchell
Dick Eldred CLERK ASST. OPERATOR
Joe O’Brien Jane Maheux Sara Ritter
Peter Mitchell called the meeting to order at 7:02 p.m.
1. Review & approval of previous minutes. Minutes from the February meeting were approved.
2. Review & approval of financial statements. The financial reports for the February meeting were approved with the correction of the Profit and Loss to be emailed to the Trustees..
3. Operations Report.
A. Operator’s report.
i. Water usage.44229gal/day
ii. Test Results and Testing.
Bacteria results negative.
Fluoride results within tolerance.
B. Sara reported that the chlorine was a little over one night after she reset the level it was fine.
C. Sara to check on the Gross Alpha results from the State Lab.
D. Analyzer is off while we are waiting for reagents to come from Germany. We will need to get a new cap it is cracked.
E. Usage was down a bit in February.
F. Periodic checks have been going fine.
4. Customer concerns/comments
A.
5. Repairs and Maintenance.
A. The Trustee’s discussed waiting until Steve Guay is ready to move the gate and do the new fence.
6. Old business.
A. Peter received a call from Mark Bergeron at VT Gas .If Steve Guay was to put natural gas in for lot #2 then we would only have to pay for 300 feet to go in. Peter did a cost analysis and over ten years we would save approx. $2500.00.
7. New Business.
A. Joe made a motion to make a donation of $240.00 to the United Church of Underhill for the use of their meeting room. Dick 2nd the motion, and the motion was approved, Jane will send a check.
B. Peter thought maybe it would be a good idea to speak with Jim Carter about the possibility of renting space in the GAR building for office and storage. Jim recently purchased the property. The Board agreed it was worth looking into,
C. Joe moved to go into Executive Session for personnel reasons after the signing of the bills. During this time they voted to give Sara free water starting with the April quarter.
8. Bills to review & approve for payment. Bills were reviewed and approved.
9. Next Meeting Date: Next regular meeting April 5, 2010 at 7:00 PM.
10. Adjournment. The meeting was adjourned at 8:15 PM. Executive Session adjournment was at 8:35 PM.
Respectfully submitted,
Jane Maheux clerk/ treasurer
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Peter Mitchell President