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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1988-03-02; Municipal Water District; MinutesI MINUTES OF THE REGULAR BOARD MEETING OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF 2:OO P.M. AT 5950 EL CAMINO REAL, CARLSBAD, CALIFORNIA. The meeting was called to order at 2:OO p.m. by President Bonas with Directors Henley and Woodward present. Directors Haasl and Maerkle were absent due to illness. Also in attendance were General Manager/District Engineer Greaney, Legal Counsel Moser, Superintendent Musser, Administrative Manager Poole, Public Information Officer Renyer and Executive Secretary Woodward. Gordon Bryan, Patricia Laurence, William Meadows, Steve Deering, Patti Heissenberger, Lola Sherman and Katheryn Horton also attended. COSTA REAL MUNICIPAL WATER DISTRICT, HELD ON MARCH 2, 1988, AT Pledge of Allegiance The pledge of allegiance to the flag was given. Approval of Minutes Director Woodward made a mo- tion to approve the minutes of the regular Board meeting of February 17, 1988, seconded by Director Henley. After discussion in which several minor changes were made, the motion carried, with Directors Haasl and Maerkle absent . I 1 I Oral Communications from the-Audience Consent Calendar Ratification of Checks None Director Henley made a motion approving the Consent Calendar seconded by Director Woodward and carried, with Directors ' Haasl and Maerkle absent. Unfinished Business None' Committee Reports Building - status report Mr. Greaney reported on this meeting held this morning. The scope of services to be provided by the architect was dis- cussed with .him. Mr. Greaney felt the architect went away with a good understanding of the scope of work he needs to provide. He will come back in about a week with a written scope of work and a not-to-exceed cost for his services. Staff hopes to have a contract for the Board to review by the next Board meeting. Staff Reports Superintendent Mr. Musser reported the lake level at 490.9 feet and we are buying 16 c.f.s. The crews worked on weed abatement last week at Squires as well as easement maintenance. They will be cleaning Ellery Reservoir tomorrow; he anticipates it will take up to two days. Any repairs will add to that. Inspection by the State 1 I Health Department took place yesterday. Everything was fine. Public Information Officer Ms. Renyer said the quarterly customer newsletter will be out ,in March.. She has obtained a bid for printing which is $900 less than the last newsletter. She will put a draft (of the newsletter) with all the text, in the next agenda packet so the I Board can review and approve it; also a breakdown of the costs. Ms. Renyer suggested that if any Boardmember had ideas they would like to see in the newsletter to call her. Director Woodward is going to do our March Take 5; his topic will be "water storage and management by Costa Real." Jim Van Hahn of Orange County Water District is speaking at the Xeriscape Conference in Orange County. He asked us for a five minute written presentation and slides about our garden; he will be covering our garden in his speech. Multitech. Properties requested 200 in-home water conservation brochures for their Glen Ridge apartments; these were provided. Administrative Manager Mr. Poole referred to the re- vised Operating statement Sum- mary at December 31, 1987 (see agenda packet). He reviewed some of the figures and mentioned that the Engineering Services figure will be rectified when Supplement 8 to our Water Services Agreement with the City is approved and implemented. The expense figures were pretty much as anticipated. He complimented Engi- neering on its frugality. On future agendas Mr. Poole will provide a summary of the City of Carlsbad's Council activities. Attorney Consideration of agreement with Mr. Moser reported that he has Mar regarding hydroelectric received a signed copy from facility at Squires Enkar of the revised agreement and recommended Board ap- proval. (See revised agreement in agenda packet.) After dis- cussion of Director Woodward's concerns as to whether this agreement will conflict with our agreement with KKOS, and confir- mation by Mr. Moser (in response to Director Bonas's inquiry) ' that our agreement with KKOS has finally been signed by them, Director Henley made a motion to ratify the agreement and auth- orize signing, seconded by Director Woodward and carried, with Directors Haasl and Maerkle absent. . I Consideration of Resolution Mr. Moser explained that while No. 573 - Sick leave reim- Board action was taken on Feb- bursement when discharged ruary 3, 1988 directing that a resolution be prepared by staff, the Administrative Code will not be revised unless this resolution is approved by the Board. He recommended Board approval since this change eliminates the appearance that someone is being penalized for being terminated. Director Henley made a motion to adopt Resolution No. 573, "RESOLUTION OF THE BOARD OF I -2- March 2, 1988 I DIRECTORS OF THE COSTA REAL MUNICIPAL WATER DISTRICT PRESCRIBING SICK LEAVE REIMBURSEMENT UPON DISCHARGE OF DISTRICT EMPLOYEES," seconded by D,irector Woodward. Roll call was taken as follows: AYES : Directors: Henley, Woodward and Bonas NOES : Directors: None ABSENT: Directors: Haasl and Maerkle ABSTAIN: Directors: None Update on our involvement in Mr. Moser asked Mr. Greaney to Oceanside's water study begin the report since he has met with the City of Oceanside regarding their intentions on the report they are preparing now, and how we might fit into that. Mr. Greaney said that, the City of Carlsbad has water rights to the San Luis Rey River near the well field near Mission Avenue in Oceanside. From what he has been able to determine, those rights amount to approximately 3300 acre feet; 1000 acre feet in permits and 2300 acre feet in prescriptive rights. When the agreement was made between the District and the City (of Carlsbad), the District became responsible for the operation and maintenance of those well fields. Over the years there has been an effort to maintain those rights through a plan to eventually put those rights to some beneficial use, whether it be for domestic pur- poses or irrigation purposes or a combination of both. As a result,certain steps havebeentakenovertheyears, suchas the installation of a 14 inch and 16 inch waterline over the bridge at 78 and El Camino Real to intertie with Oceanside, so that in the event that some water is made available from those well fields we would be able to have a takeoff point from the City of Oceanside's water system and take off a like amount from various points within their system. Additionally, back in 1983 and 1984 when the master plan was written up for the District, the engineer included estimated construction costs for building a treatment facility at 'the well fields to treat the water, remove a certain amount of total dissolved solids (TDS), and transport that water in some way, shape or form to the District. So over the years there has been an awareness of those water rights and there have been steps taken to maintain those water rights. The City of Oceanside, in their effort to increase their emergency storage, developed a plan a number of years ago which initially called for development of water rights and the treatment and pumping of San Luis Rey River water. As Mr. Greaney understands it, the City of Oceanside has approximately 18,000 acre feet of water rights in that area; some in the upper basin and some in the lower basin. During the course of their study the power cost increased to a point where that was determined to be not a feasible alternative. As a result they developed another alternative which was called the Gopher Canyon Project. Due to some of the reactions to the Environmental Impact Review recently, the city (Oceanside) had a choice of I I. -3- March 2, 1988 spending an additional $200,000 to proceed with more investigation of Gopher Canyon or to use that money to reevaluate the rights to the well fields and water treatment in the river basin. They chose the latter. The initial part of the study will involve a reevaluation and investigation of the water rights in that basin; who takes water out of that basin and who has the rights to it, and develop a lot of the legal ramifications of water being taken out. In other words, they will investigate all the people who have rights in that basin. As a result, we will end up being mentioned in that report and there will be a certain amount of investigative studying done on behalf of Costa Real just for the City of Oceanside to get off dead center in their report. In talking with Mr. Turner, he said that if their alternative of well fields and treatment become a viable alternative, and if there's any value to our water rights in conjunction with their project, he doesn't see a problem at a later time with working out some type of arrangement for somehow leasing or selling those rights to him in return for being able to take water out of his system at a point such as the Route 78/E1 Camino Real intertie. I Mr. Greaney feels that if the District sits tight we will probably get some information through the study that Oceanside is going to proceed with. (At President Bonas's request, the above report is in full for the benefit of the absent Directors.) General Manager/District Engineer Consideration of attendance: 'Bay After discussion, Director Delta Hearing: Statewide Impli- Henley made a motion author- cations:" Water Education izing attendance with compen- Foundation-Sacramento sation at this Hearing by Di- rector Woodward, seconded by President Bonas and carried,, with Directors Haasl'and Maerkle absent . Consideration of engineering Mr. Greaney said that, after firm for Squires Reservoir interviewing three engineering improvements firms, Luke-Dudek, Engineering Science and Powell & Assoc- iates, concerning what their idea of the project was versus what Mr. Greaney stated in his request for proposal, he has reached a personal conclusion but hasn't had an opportunity to present it to the Engineering Committee. He recommended the firm of Luke- Dudekbe selectedanda contract negotiated forthenext stageof Squires improvements. The design repo-rt is the next phase. After that is approved, next is to proceed with plans and speci- fications for a 10 million gallon +/- reservoir, the pumping facilities and the improvements to the chlorination facilities, to allow more flexibility of the distribution system. He will also ask the engineer to evaluate going to chloramination rather than just chlorination. Discussion followed. President Bonas recommended referring this to the Engineering and Operations Committee to be brought back to the Board meeting on March 16, 'I I -4- March 2, 1988 *. 1988. Director Woodward asked that Mr. Greaney get a not-to- exceed figure from Luke-Dudek prior to the Committee meeting. Director Henley then made a motion to refer the Manager's recommendation to the Engineering and Operations Committee and back to the next Board meeting, seconded by Director Woodward and carried, with Directors Haasl and Maerkle absent. Organizational Reports None Directors' Reports Southern.California President Bonas postponed this Water Conference item until the next meeting when Director Maerkle can make a report. Director Woodward added that Director Maerkle has invited Mr. Winther of Bedford Properties (who made the presenta- tion in Los Angeles) to make the same presentation to one of the water groups here in San Diego County. CWA Water Reclamation Director Woodward reported on Advisory Committee several items covered at this meeting that he felt were sig- nificant: The Otay Municipal Water District's reclamation project; reviewing the problems they have had since 1981 trying to process, store and utilize their reclaimed water in agricul- ture. They are still trying to find other ways of using the water and recently became aware of a huge grading project (up to 3 million gallons of water needed per day) that may be able to use this reclaimed water if permits are given. The Eastlake golf course project may be another possible user; up to 500,000 gal- lons a day. Their biggest problem has been the bureaucracies. Another topic of interest was the Progress '87 Public Facilities Task Force Report calling for needed public facts; i.e. adequate water supply figures, and reclaiming water in county areas to reduce burden on sewer plants. The Quality Control Board amend- ment process is something they feel the CWA should be involved with and act in an advisory capacity to districts like Otay in helping find ways to use reclaimed water. The overview of the Water Authority Reclamation Warrick Program on the Encina basin project was discussed as to how it can be used in our area. The purpose of this study was to investigate the feasibility of water reuse within the Encina Water Pollution Control Facility tributary area. The next committee meeting is scheduled for March 28, 1988. President Bonas added that Milt Emerson, General Manager of Otay Water District, asked her for a presentation of our xeriscape slide show of our model home. She referred him to Mr. Greaney or Ms. Renyer. President Bonas said further, as clarification for those who don't know, that this committee, the CWA Water Reclamation Advi- I 1 I -5- March 2, 1988 I sory Committee, is not an action committee but strictly advisory. Consideration of support of a res- Ms. Renyer reviewed the letter olutioa to plant xeriphytic land- received from an eighth grade scaping at state buildings student requesting our suppopt for the bill which they wrote (see memorandum with attachments in agenda packet). A draft of our support letter, to be SignedbyalltheDirectors, is also in the packet. Ms. Renyer suggested that we may want to encourage other water districts in San Diego County to support this bill. President Bonas, who was the actual recipient of the student's letter, recommended sending copies of this letter and packet to the Carlsbad City Manager and City Council, the Carlsbad Unified School Board, c/o Julie Nygaard, Oceanside Council and Jim Turner, San Marcos County Water District, Olivenhain Municipal Water District, Encinitas, Vista Irrigation District, County Water Authority and also the ACWA News. After discussion, Direc- tor Henley made a motion to send a letter of support for this class at Suzanne Middle School in Walnut, California, in their efforts to pass Resolution No. 68, seconded by Director Woodward and carried, with Directors Haasl and Maerkle absent. Director Woodward made a motion that the District contact all the groups mentioned above as well as other water agencies in Southern California, emphasizing our support of this bill and asking them to join with us to get Resolution No. 68 passed, seconded by Director Henley and carried, with Directors Haasl and Maerkle absent. I Consideration of resolution cov- Director Henley made a .motion ering procedure for Directors' to refer this item to Legal cancellation of reservations or and Legislative Committee for registrations too late for reim- review and recommendation, to bursement to the District be brought back to the next Board meeting, seconded by Di- rector Woodward and carried, with Directors Haasl and Maerkle absent . Legislative Alert from AWWA Mr. Greaney said he received this alert that a legislator in New Jersey wants to have some backing for' a resolution to declare May 2, National Water Week. This will be brought back to the next Board meeting for consideration of Board action. I Status report on land- Mr. Greaney said he met with scaping at reservoirs Karen Hannah, the landscape architect, who has the first draft ready for the Board to review. He will take this to the Committee shortly. -6- March 2, 1988 I Carlsbad sister city, Futsu President Bonas had some in- formation to give to the Board members that she got at the'last Council meeting. The man responsible 'for getting the two cities together as sister cities and who made the 'presentation at the Council meeting, is 78 year old Yoshira Fu jimora. Adjournment The meeting adjourned at 3:14. Respectfully submitted, I I -7- March 2, 1988