From Kaitlin:

I am hoping you will post that the Water District is switching our meetings to later in the day for a four month trial period to see if this generates more attendance from the public. It is a lot easier on staff to have meetings during the day (and there are some board members who would prefer that too) – but some of us, especially myself and Tera, felt it is important to make the meetings more accessible for working people.

So, if folks have had an interest and haven’t been able to attend in the past, now is the time. Also if people want to see our meetings stay at a later time, it would be good to come and show you care.

Attached is the agenda for this month’s meeting, which is on Thursday. It starts at 1:30pm and we put the items that are probably of more public interest at the end so they should mostly land after 5pm.

Thanks for getting the word out,
Kaitlin

(Agenda for the next meeting is below the fold)

Time Set Items:    2:00 p.m. – Engineering Report
5:30 p.m. – Presentation by David Aladjem, Downey Brand, re: water rights fundamentals and District’s situation (for Water Resource Planning process)

ROLL CALL

FLAG SALUTE

MINUTES
Approve minutes of the June 11th 2009 Board meeting *

PUBLIC COMMENT
Members of the public are invited to address the Board on items not listed on the agenda that are within the scope and jurisdiction of the District.  At the discretion of the President, comments may be limited to three minutes per person.  The public will be given the opportunity to address items that are on the agenda at the time the Board takes up that item. (Note – public comment will be taken twice, once at the beginning of the meeting and again near the end to accommodate public who may show up at different times during trial period).

STAFF AND BOARD REPORTS

Operations
Monthly report on projects and operations *
Management
Overview of any management or administrative matters
Engineering (2:00 p.m.)
Status report re: Blue Lake-Fieldbrook pipeline trestle repair project
Status report re: Ruth area projects – hydraulic line replacement and monitoring of spillway walls
General updates re: other engineering work in progress
Financial
Financial Report – discuss and approve June 2009 report *
Resolution limiting appropriations from taxes – adopt Resolution 2009-1  *
Budget – consideration and approval of FY 2009/10 budget  *
Resolution changing maximum health care contribution – adopt Resolution 2009-2 *
Reserves – status report re: Municipal Customer FY2008/09 Price Factor 2 reconciliation and starting balance of MSRA reserve; and consideration and approval of policy statement governing purpose and uses of General Reserves  *
Directors
General comments from Directors
Drink Local Water Campaign – status report from Director Laird and consideration of issuing press release
Follow-up discussion re: performance evaluation for General Manager
ACWA
Report from Director Laird re: ACWA Board of Directors meeting (if held)
Resolution nominating Aldaron Laird to serve on ACWA Region 1 Board as Vice-Chair for 2010/11 – adopt Resolution 2009-3 *
Letter from ACWA re: nominations for President and Vice-President of association for 2010/11 – discuss interest *
RREDC – status report
RCEA – status report

CONSENT AGENDA
It is recommended that these items, which are informational or routine in nature, be received and filed by the Board at the beginning of the meeting.  If any Board member or interested party requests that an item be removed from the Consent Agenda, it will be considered separately.

PG&E Statement of Electric Energy Purchased and related summaries *

Letter to Ruth Lake CSD re: Mad River Rentals request for jet ski rentals at Ruth Lake *

Letter from North Coast Regional Water Quality Control Board and District response re: constituents in drinking water given site clean-up issue in Eureka*

Letters from FERC re: responses to various dam safety regulatory reports/filings *

Notice from ACWA-JPIA re: renewal of Workers Comp Program *

Various newspaper articles of local interest *

CORRESPONDENCE
Letter from Minasian (et. al) law firm responding to District’s question re: water rights permit versus licensing given loss of the pulp mill – brief discussion re: letter, and next steps including proposed briefing with counsel at August meeting *

CONTINUING BUSINESS

Ruth Lake Aquatic Invasive Species Prevention Plan:  *

a.    status report re: implementation and outcomes from joint meeting at Ruth Lake;

b.    status report re: enforcement support from DFG

Flow Releases – discussion re: flow release policy given loss of the pulp mill, and possible approval to release flows for hydro-electric production without corresponding downstream diversion  *

Water Resource Planning: *

c.    Status report from Advisory Committee meeting

d.    Discussion and possible approval re: whether working meetings of Advisory Committee are open to the public (note – a significant component of this process is education/outreach and gathering input from stakeholders and the public, so much of this process will be open to the public regardless)

e.    Presentation by and discussion with David Aladjem, Downey Brand, re: water rights fundamentals and District’s situation (note – this is the same presentation given to Water Resource Planning Advisory Committee)   (Time Set 5:30 p.m.)

Emergency Action Plan for Matthews Dam – presentation providing overview of District’s EAP which is component of overall dam safety program  (note – this item is informational in nature and may be deferred to August meeting depending on length of July meeting)

ADJOURNMENT

(Posted and mailed July 2, 2009)