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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1954-11-16; Municipal Water District; Minutes-- 5-3 7 z $3 t. l5$ rate or! t'r.e first 15 units. The k!.anar,.er stated that th? easiest way of reducing the cost tc: the shareholder is to chang? the entitleEent, Sirector 3ogers suggested an entitlement of 1,000 units per share for the .remainder of the year, - Xrector ~o~ers moved: sec,onded by ijirectcr Ingels and carried unanimously: 54 -1 3 1 .BE IT ORDERE3 that the water entitlement be increased on the pro rata basis to 100,OOc) cubic feet per share per year, effective Xovember 1, 19%; ancl BE IT F'"E?- O32ERE3 that the 3Eles and RegulatLons of the Company be amended to read. as follows: . "2esolutic.n No, 7 -X- * * * * Provided, however, that a11 water used in excess of the pro rata amount to ivhich the uszr shall be entitled by virtue of ownership of stock of this Corporation shall be charged and paid for at the rate of 15$ per lO0 cubic fee,t of said excess.+ * * I' )c - There being RO further business to come before the f Board, upon E:":otion by airzctor Ingels, seconded by Xrector fiogers, the Eeetlng was adjoxrned at 1O:OO A. M. ..1 . + .. .. . >' ,/ .. c . .L ' -.+. ..," , ,. . _,__ 2 . ] <.. :. yc LC c /'I .. .- c _,/ i' . p- .-. c .{, , / .. President I -... Secretary ..Y ! /- . .. MINLiTES OF THE REGULAR MEETING BOARD OF DIRECTORS CARLSBAD MUTUAL YiAT ER COMPANY Regular The regular meeting of the Board of Directors of Meetinq of the of the November the Carlsbad Mutual Water Company was held in the 16. 1954 r- office of the Companysin the City of Carlsbad, County of San Diego and State of California on Tuesday, November 16, 1954 at 1:OO P. 1.4. - - _.. . 28: E, G, Hagen e, H. Ingels Directors C. A, Anthony W, W, Rogers Present Re R, Xobinson Director Absent Also present were C, E. Trygg, Secretary, Mr. Harold D, Leslie, and his son of the Northwestern National Life Insurance Company, and Maribee Balcom, stenographer. ?resident Hagen called the meeting to order at 1:10 P. Im. The Chair stated that if there were no correc- Minutes tions or changes, the minutes of the. regular meeting of October 19, 1954 and the Special Meeting of November 4, 1954, would stand approved as written, Director Rogers stated that in the minutes of Correction of proposed Metropolitan the Special Meeting of November 4, 1954, the proposed new rates for new rates were 38.00 per acre foot during the offpeak Water periods and $12.00 per aere..foot during the rest of the year. These were the .figures to be charged by the Metropolitan, The figures of $10.00 and^ $14,00 shown were the Xater Authority charges e The Chair then ordered these figures changed and the minutes approved after the change, President Hagen then invited Mr. Leslie to take Employee Retirement Plan. the floor and discuss the Employee Retirement Plan of Benefit the Southern California Mutual. Water Companies Associ- ation, Mr, Leslie explained the plan and the Directors discussed it, It was pointed out that the cost would be- approximately .007 of the opdrating budget, The effective date of the plan is December 1st and quick action is necessary. A voice vote taken from the Directors on their peksonal opinion resulted in four affirmative voles. Director Rogers then ” 286 moved, seconded by Director.Ingels and carried upanimously: 54-132 BE IT ORDERED thai the proposed pension plan of the Southern California Mutual Water Companies Association be referred to the share- holders for action; and a.. bE IT FURTHER ORDERED that the Manager is hereby instructed and directed to submit full informa- tion on this plan to the shareholders for their decision, Ms. Leslie stated that the Escondido Mutual had i, submitted the plan to their shareholders and they approved it with more than 9%. He suggested that the Manager contact Mr. Guyer of the Escondido Mutual and obtain from him a copy of the literature which he sent to the Escondido shareholders regarding the plan. Mr, Leslie and his son then left the meeting. Invoices Director Anthony moved, seconded by Director Ingels and carried unanimously: 54-133 BE IT ORDE%ED that the invoices for October in the, Financial The Directors discussed the financial report, Director Report Rogers moved, seconded by Director Anthony and carried sum of $22,670.07 be approved. *. unanimously: 54-134 BE IT ORDERED that the financial report for October 1954 be approved as presented. Terramar The Manager reported that the Terramar meter will be Meter . installed this afternoon. Calavera He stated that Calavera Lake should be drain,ed wi$hin Lake ten days. The Company was forced to waste 5 acre . feet of water when it rained. The Lake, is down to 201.6, which is 70 or 80 acre feet lower than it was when we started draining. Last week’s rain had about 3 acre feet of runoff which we had to spill, Page 9 0.f the Financial Report shows that our leaks are down con- 28i siderably from last year, We had only 9 leaks in October3x 1954, whereas there were 16 leaks in October, 1953, Oceanside is putting a little more chlorine Chlorine in the water since both the State and County contactgd them then they found no chlorine in it. the Purita,s Water Company went out Wednesday Bottled Water md counted all the bottled water in South Oceanside which1 msuunused, and paid us back in cash approximately $41.00, Service ended as of noon Wednesday, Applications €or transfer and allotment of Stock Transfers vater stock were approved by the Board as follows: Application by Attorneys Myers & Martin for Logan transfer of -160 shares of water stock Buchart covered by Cert. 6193 from Logan Buchart, to Lester Deceased to Lester LaVerne Buchart, together Buchart with affidavit of lost certificate, Application for transfer of ,941 shares of Wedeking to stock covered by Cert, 9684 from Willard W McClellan Wedeking and Mabel M. Wedeking to C. D. % UNASSIGNED Dolores E, McClellan UNASSIGNED, Subject to payment of assessments due and transfer fee, Also subject to’South Oceanside Stock removal fee. * Application from G A & Agnes Rounsevell €or Rounsevell the transfer of Cert. 10995 UNASSIGNED to to 2246 Spruce Street, Rounsevell Correspondonce; Berkeley Bank Bulletin No, 47 dated October Berkeley 29th. QTdered filed, Bank Copy of letter of October 29th from San Diego San Diego County Water Authority re water storage; also County Water letter of November 12th with report on same Authority subject by Raymond A, Hill, Director 3ogers stated on the question of Water Storage ater storage that the only storage available is in San icente, We can store water there for $2.50 an acre foot and do aot we to pay for the water until we take it. If, as expected, the t 288 change in water charges from $10.00 the year around to $8,00 and $12,00 goes into effect on the 1st ofsDecember, however, that will probably result in the City of San Diego storing all their water in San Vicente in the winter when they can buy it for $8.00 and take none during the summer. Therefore, we could not store water in SamVicente as there would be none for us in the aqueduct in the summer when we needed it. Manager's The Manager then presented his report on pro- Report on Via t er a -posed water storage, including report on amount Storage used for the past seven years by the Mutual. Copy of such report is attached, Calavera Director Rogers stated that we should aim for Lake approximately 350 acre feet in Cafavera Lake on the 1st of March, The Manager said that both Escondido and Vista were letting their lakes-fill up and using Colorado River water during the winter. Director Rogers thinks that we- ought to discount the amount of possible runoff during the winter in order to be sure to have the lake full. Terramar The Manager stated that he had contacted Mr. inJa t er Company Cannon of the Terramar Water Company but got no information as to what he is preparing to do, Mr. Cannon thought he might have some runoff in his lake and was not prepared to take an acre foot per day. Director Anthony moved, seconded by Director Ingels and carried unanimously: 54 - 135 BE IT ORDERED that the report prepared by the Manager for Mr. Hofmgren of the amount of water used by the Carlsbad Mutual Water Company for the past 7 years be approved. Correspondence, Cont: Escondido Letter from Escondido Mutual Water Company re Mutual Water sale of their electric distribution district Company November 15, 1954 ., ' , 28! Board of Directors Carlsbad ,Mu,tual Water Company Carlsbad, California Gentlemen: In re: WATER STORAGE REQUIREMENTS As directed, at.the last Board Meeting and as requested by the §an Diego County Water Authority in their letter of October 29th, I wish to make the following report on water storage requirements for the year, Column 1 lists the month. Column 2 gives water production in acre feet for' the Column 3 gives the amount of water in acre feet which Carlsbad Mutual Water Company for the last 7 years. could be derived from the $an Luis Rey and still keep the chloride content in the blended water below 110 ppm. Column 4 shows the amount of water that would have to be diverted to Calavera Lake during the winter to enable the Company to have a full lake at the beginning of the summer, Column 5 lists the withdrawal from Calavera Lake in acre feet during the summer period. required for the Carlsbad Mutual Water Company if we were to maintain the chloride content of 110 ppm or below, required in excess of 3% of the average flow from the Metro- politan. Normally this water would be stored in San Vicente and released to us in exchange during the summer, COMMENT: Column 6 shows the amount of Metropolitan water Column 7 lists the amount of water which would be I recommend that the Company store the indicated 300 acre feet of water in Calavera Lake during the winter months, Storage of water in San Vicente should be investigated because of the limited capacity of the Oceanside lateral to Carlsbad to deliver water during the summer. Respectfully submitted y/ffi f -1 C, E. T-qyg-ecretary-Manager b -.- -. -. li 290 November 15, 1954 2, 3, 4. 5. 6, 7, Production Production Lake Lake itan Vicente (Used) S. L. R, Production ;nth Water Water To From Metropol- San an. 100 44 75 131 eb 61 34 75 102 arch pril aY me JlY J9 2pt. :t , lv b 3C , 123 205 257 351 340 364 334 286 227 127 2775 - 50 51 49 73 70 76 69 57 57 50 680 - 75 60 60 60 60 60 60 75 - - 300 360 Runoff Evap, 11 0 50 14 8 154 148 218 210 228 205 169 170 152 2035 - 40 40 58 35 .L ". . 29 Letter from the City of Oceanside reporting Oceanside reading on Test Well f13E to be 30.33. Test Well Report from the San Diego County Weather San Diego Modification Corporation. Mr, Ingels, as County Beather Director of this organization, made full report Modification on proposed work during December, January, * Corporation February, March and April. The California Department of Public Health. + Califarnia presented application and form for resolution Department of concerning use of Colorado River water, Health Director Ingels moved, seconded by Director Anthony and carried unanimou sly: BE IT ORDERED that the following resolution is 34-136 approved and passed: RESOLUTION "Resolved by the Board of Directors of Carlsbad Mutual %later Company,. a corporation, that pursuant and subject to all of the terms, conditions and provisions of Division 5, Part 1, Chapter 7, Sections 4010 to 4035 of the California Health and Safety Code and all amendments thereto, relating to domestic water supplies,+ application by this Corporation be made to the State Board of Public Health for a permit to use Colorado River Hater; That the Secretary-Manager of this Corporation be and he is hereby duly authorized and directed to cause the necessary data to be prepared and investigations to,be madre; and that the President and Secretary of this corporation be and they are hereby duly authorized, in its name and as its act and deed, to sign and file with said-State Board of Public Health the proper application.'* i ! The &Imager reported that he had talked to Mr. Financing ,. Bowen who was the third engineer suggested by the Facific Mutual, and Ms, Bowen says he is going on vacation now. Mr. Eberhard has talked to Facific Mutual, and he thinks that within a week we will have more engineers available. We feels there is a possibility 05 Mr, Volk being available to do this work. The ganager stated that stock was subject to Assessment No.47 sale on November l%,h for delinquent assessments. A letter from Mrs. Lucinda Keller was read to the Board asking for further time on her assessment, or that the amount be transferred to her water bill,, " - 292 Director Rogers moved, seconded by Director Anthony and carried unanimously: 54-13? BE IT OFiDERED that the scheduled sale of 6. delinquent stock €or non payment of Assessment No. 47 be postponed until 11:OO A, M. Wednesday, December 15, 1954, Penalty of 5% will apply to all payments received-by this Company after 11:OO A, M. November 19, 1954, The Directors agreed that no assessments were to be transferred to water bills but that the Manager was author- ized to accept 30-day personal note in lieu of payment if necessary, Fire The Manager reported that he had met with Mr, Fennel Insurance and a representative of the insurance company for discussion of new fire insurance policy. Laboratory The laboratory reports of Dr, Wilson were presented Eieports the Board, They show the water to be satisfactory. Quorum for The Manager read two letters from Attorney Eberhard Annual Shareholders regarding quorum at the Annual Shareholders Meeting Meeting to elect directors, One was dated October 11, 1946; the other, dated November 15, 1954, was as follows: "1 have Mr. Trygg!s letter inquiring' as to whether or not there is any method of electing members of the Board of Directors of a corporation at a stock- holders meeting at which there is not a quorum present, I know of no method by which this can be accomplished, and I am sure there is none, It is the practice among many corporations for the existing Board of Directors, or the officers of the corporation, to mail to the shareholders with the notice of the annual meeting a proxy authorizing one or more of the officers to vote the stock of the shareholder who does not intend to be present at the meeting, It seems to me it should be possible to get enough proxies to hold a regu1a.r meeting, If it is not, of course, the existing Board of Directors continues in office," Shangrila The Manager stated that Mr. Yourell's engineer, Mr. Brown, had plowed out the copper service' on our main .. - .. 'line, Director Anthony has been assisting in trying to work out what might be done with him if he goes too low, x The Manager said that we are going to start Kighland Avenue cleaning and lining the line on Highland in December. We have to dig up forty or fifty water services. We will take a section of approximately 1500 feet at a time, There being no further business to come before the . ' Board, upon motion by Director Rogers, seconded by Director Anthony, the meeting was adjourned at 3:25 F. M. . l5.p /? ><yhp-&&" Secreta c - .", i.f;ir,ji-,yz;s CF -ifTE .7c:-- 7 <Fr-rT,,T- .~-~VL:'.?~ C:?C.L- Aiq- 05 ti.,f or' the Tj. 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