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MINUTES OF A REGULAR MEETIbiG OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF 7ZE CARLSBAD MUNICIPAL WATER DISTRICT HELD ON SEPTEMBER 4, 1974, AT 2 P,M. 9 AT 6480 EL CAKING REAL, CARLSBAD, CALIFORNIA:
The meeting was called to order at 2r08 P.K by President Maerkla, with Directors Carmi chael 5 Engelmann, Kelly and Mac Leod answering ro7 1 ca7 1. Also present, were blanager Pri day, Legal Counsel Swi rsky a EnQineer Kubota, Public Relations Piitchell, and Office Secretary. Also present, were Public Works ijirector Ron Beckman of the City of Carlsbarj, Mrs. Arthur Bonas, Citizen’s Advisory Committee, Hrs* Ruth Honnol d and Mrs o A. 3. Skotnicki of the League of Women Voters 3 Gil Davis, reporter for the Blade-Tribune, James R, De Iylarco, Attorney arrd Karl 8. Brown of Williams Engineering, Into, representatives for Covington Brothers.
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After discussion, upon motion of Director Engelmann, secoT: by Director Mac Leod, and unanimously carriedS the Minutes of the regular meeting of August 21, 1374 were approved as
Carl sbad Lake Manager Priday introduced Mr. James R. De Marco 9 Attorney Community - Covington representing Covington Brothers, in regard to a claim Brothers against Carlsbad Municipal Water District for return of
of contract dated July 5, 1974, re Tract 73-24 (Off-site pressure reducing statior who delivereti to tile Board of Directors a written presentation regarding this clai Mr. De Iiiarco made a concise statenent of facts contained in the written presentat’ the assembly and requested the Board and Staff to consider all of the facts preser and agree to renegotiate this contract so that there will be a more equitable arrangement by reason of the fact that the District’s regulations were not fo7 low and, therefore, the contract is void and unenforceable. (See written presentatior
by James R. Ce Marc0 for the firm of Fulop, Rolston, Burns & McKittrick of Newport Beach, California, dated September 4, 1974, File 140. 10121)
President Maerkle thanked Mr. De Marco for his presentation and referred the matte to the Engineering Committee of the Board of Directors for study, review and recommendation.
Legs1 Counsel Swirsky advised the 5oard that the presentation made should be considereti by the Staff and Engineering Committee and a representative from Covington Brothers should be included to study ali the facts and come back to the Board of 5irectors with their findings for their ftirther consideration.
Committee Reports :
San Diego County Director Kelly had no report from the Authority, but Mater Authority referred to a letter from the SDCWA outlining the facts
heads of mecrber agenciesg and Manager Priday informed the Board of the contents of the letter which dealt primarily with distribution of filtered water and the necessity for each member agency to be ready to receive .the filtered water before the distribution can be accomplished, and there are 5 member agencies indicating they will not be ready to accept the flow on the projecteti date by the Authority of the Fa1 1 of 1975.
Tri-Agencies Pipeline Nar;a.;er Pridzy reported to the Board that SDCWA have EIR Study engaged tiRS Research Company to the the Environmental Impact Report for them on the Filtered Water District Project and have been designated as the lead Agency. in this regard, it has been determined that the required EIR report for tile Tri-Agencies Pipe1ir;e
Project can be prepared by this same concern at a savings to the three agencies involved, and have had a firm commitment from LiRS Research Company to do this report for the sum of $6,500, which will be divided between the three agencies,
and requested that the Board consider this and recommended their approval for C.I;.”,.N.D.’s participatSon. After discussion, upon motion of Director Kelly, seconded by Director Engelmanr,, and unanimously carrjed, approval was granted to participate with V.I.D. and Oceanside Water District in the cost of
the preparation of the required EIR as requested by Manager Priday.
Pub1 i c Re1 ations :
$30,000 Letter of Credit and request for renegotiation
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discussed at the August 15, 1974 meeting of the operating
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State !dater Project Public Relations Consultant Mitchell advised the Board tht he has obtained fixed dates for the State Water Tour of November 15, 16 9 17 1974, and is working on finalization
of the plans with other asencies and the M.W.D. people and hopes to have
plans for the tour corqleted by the end of September.
Picture Library Director Kelly presented the District !!;l”th the pictures
he hzs accurrimul ated relative to the Gfst:.?:ct activities and sugsested one in particular be enlarged and framed for display in the
Headquarter‘s office. Manager Priday is turning over the pictures to Consultant
Mitchell to catalog and work out a plan for a District picture library.
Board Communi cations:
Sant? Fe- C12 Director Carmichael commended Manager Priday for the verj Stat1 on inc1 dent concise written report delivered to the Board nembers
relative to the Santa Fe C12 Station incident. Clirector Carinichael made an onsite visit to the station anti recommends that Manager PridaJ look into the feasibility of installing a less powerful panel which he feels
would be adequate to handle the operation of the pump, and also to check out
insurance coverage of this operation with our insurance broker. MaLager Priday
and Engineer Kubota will have further information on this for the Board after
a pl arrned meeting with Mr. Neese.
Lani kai Lane Director Carmichael brought up for discussion, two claim:
Mobi 1 e Park against the Distri ct re1 ated to an upsurge in water
pressure which caused damages; one fro^ Michigan Millers Mutual Insurance Coo for John T. & Gwendolyn W. Lamb and the other from Allstate lirsurance Company for George Clutch. Legal Counsel Swii-sky advised that the upsurge in water pressure was sroven to be a fai 1 ure of the privately owned
pressure reducing station which belong to iar;i kai Lane Mobile Park and not a fault of C.iil.W.D. equipment, and recommended that both of these claims be rejected by the ljoard of Directors, and after discussion, upon motion of Director
Carmi chael , seconded by Director Engelmann, and unanimcusly carried, both claims
as stated above were rejected.
Metropol itan Water President Maerkle apprised the Board of a press release
District Tax Rate ir; the “Press Enterprise” regarding zn attempt by Metropol i tan’s new Manager, John Lauterr , to cut the tax rate from 14$ to 13$ on each $100 of assessed valuation 5 which was defeated by a vote of 874.05 to 2049 o 95.
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Reservoi r Director Engelmann reported that Kimberly Landscaping Project Company have a writter, acceptance of their proposal for pi anting of trees at the 4 reservoir sites from Manal Priday, with a sugigested planting schedule which may be altered to suit the cir- cumstances as dictated by General Superintendent John Henley. Manager Priday
will get a bid on the cost of drip irrigation of the sites and report his findin
at the next rneetiu;g. fiirector Engelmann inspected the sample trees received froa Kimberly Landscaping Company and for the money feels they are satisfactory.
Tri-Agencies Manager Priday reported to the Board that he met this Pipeline Project morning with Mr. Melbourne and Mr. Bill Temple from the
staff 9 Fir. Mubota, Mr. Aldri ch’s representative from Oceanside and Mr. John Collins from V.I.D. Mi-. Melbourne handed out a preliminary set of specification and has plxs and same of the details. Ne have asked him for a time schedule as to the time he will be finished or wants to be finished so that we can incorpora their tine table with our possible bond issue plans. So fars $16,700 has been spent and the prime cost has been for the EIR which will be the deciding factor establishing the right-of-way. in the Calavera Kills area, which comprises abou
bo0 acresg ,they will probably use the a7 i gnment of streets for the 1 arge pipe1 in and we are keeping Mr. Ron Beckman fnforrned because of the City‘s involvement in this ;;rea.
Hanager Priday suggested that a sum of not less than $5,000 be appropriated from our Contingency Fund in the current budget for our consulting engineers, Woodsid
Kubota 8( Associates, inc. to begin preparation of the technical specffications
on this project, and recommended that the Board approve that amount of money to start work on the project. (!io official action was taken on this request)
A discussion followed relative to acquisition of land by the three involved Districts in the Tri-Agencies Pipeline Project for storage facilities, and Manager Priday viill follow through on this problem and contact all irivolved
again in an attempt to arrive at an agreement in this regard,
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Authority. Mr. Beckman was there and 3 others from his
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President Maerkle called for a short recess at this time, 3:03 P.M., and the
meeting was resumed at Sr23 P.M.
Water Association At President MaerkKe's request, a report was given by thc
Meeting - Office Secretary regarding the next scheduled meeting
October 9 9 1974 of the \dater Association , which will be held at the
El Camino Country Ci ub on October 9 , 1974, to be hosted t L'. I .G.
I Legal Counsel :
Ins uran ce Program Counsel Swirsky advised the Board that the insurance pro! for the Llistrict has not as yet been finalized and will
have a report at a later meeting of the Eoard.
District Engineer:
A1 i cante Hi 11 s Engineer Kubota informed the Board that the La Costa Lanc Unit do- 1 Company, developers of the Alicante Hills Unit No. 1 sub-
Subdivision division, have made a request that the District make a
substitution of the financial guarantee on their water SJ improvement. The agreement called for a $230,000 finagcial guarantee, and the Dist took an instrument of credit issued by the Crocker National Bank for $230,000 which was theestimated value of the water system. La Costa Land Company are now asking the District to make a substitution of that instrument of credit with a conventional performance bond - issued by the Leatherby Insurance Company in the principal amount of $230,000 - Bond No. B014666, and this has been reviewed with the Staff and E%-. Swirsky. Engineer Kubota recommended the Board to accept this performance bond and authorize the release of the instrument Gf credit issued by Crocker biational Bank. After discussion, upon motion of Director Mac Leod, seconded by Director Engelmann , and unanimously carried, approval was granted as requested by Engineer Kubota.
1 In connection with this same subdivision project, Engineer Kubota advised the Boarc that they have a request from the La Costa Land Company that we consider a reductic in the total bond amount by virtue of the amount of pipelines they have already put in 9 at a value of $100,000, and are now in the process of working this out with legal counsellors for both entities. Engineer Kubota will come back to the Board at the next regular meeting with a request for their consideration and/or offi cia1 approval of this proposal a
Col ina de Engineer Kubota requested the Board's approval of plans f
La Costa subdivision known as Colina de La Costa, consisting of 11
individual units and 46 tower-type units on a total of
16.2 acres of land with a 10.3 tiensity to the acre, and indicated on the map the 1 ocati on D
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A lengthy discussion followed initiated by Director Kelly relating to the future acceptance by the Eoard of subdivision improvement plans where repairs and replace- ment of pipel ines woul d invol ve complicated landsccping expenditures $ especially in the condominium concept, and requested a design for a better system that will make it easier to read the meters and much less expensive to eval uate the problem anti responsibility for having these systems repaired. Counsel Swirsky presented three concepts of installations to be considered. After discussion, it was agreed to accept this Colin a de La Costa project on the basis of continuity of developyer and upon motion of Director Kelly, seconded by Director Carmi chael , and unanimously carried, approval was ' granted to proceed with the plans presented by Engineer Kubot
and an onsite observation by the Engineering Committee and Engineer Kubota. Engine Kubota suggested a study be rrrade to evaluate our present standards and in discussia come up with alternative planning more acceptable and respomible.
Pacific Point Engineer Kubota informed the Board of a proposed resident Carl sbad Tract community north of A1 tami re, (McReynol d's property) 3 with
NO. 74-17 213 lots, a total of 201 units, density 5.4 units per acr
to be developed by Pacific Point Development Coo
Ayres Property Engineer Kubota advised the Board of another unit, known Ayres "C" Ranch which he indicated on the map and on which he will have tentative plans to present to the
Board at the next meeting.
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Cathedral of The Engineer Kubota advised the Board of an inquiry Manager Priday Pacific has received re1 ative to a proposed church to be known as the
south of the Posey Express Co. on El Camino Real 9 and will report further when more information is available regarding tnis proposal.
City of Carlsbad Engineer Kubota advised regarding meetings with the City and Cis:
Pipeline Project. Also, has been neeting with the City relative to the requirement' by the Fire Department and will be preparing a report on making of recommendations.
Japatul Industrial Engirieer Kubota reported we have been asked to provide informati1 Park - Palomar and guidance to the consultants for Japatul Industrial Park. So far, have had one meeting and asked for additional information a will be working with them in giving them information for the cwrent water system.
Reservoir Painting Engineer KuLcta distributed a copy of the progress report on the Program Reservoir Painting Project to the Board for their review, and requested approval of progress paymefit go. 2 to the subcontracto Kobiison-Burnap Painting Contractor in the amount of $12,648. After discussion, upon motion of Director Engelmann, seconded by Director Mac Leod, and unanimously ,carried, approval was grantea to release progress payment No. 2 to Robison-Burnap C in the sum of $12,648.
Cathedral of The Pacific to be located on 40 acres of 1 and just
tri ct Staff regarding mutual involvement re1 ative Tri-Agencies
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Reservoi r Tank "E" EGgineer Kubota advised the Board,.that in conjunction with the
Reservoir Painting Program, the District staff have recommended inclusion of Resveroir Tank "E" be included in the current budget funds 5 and re- questeci approval of the Board to negotiate with our subcontractor, Robison-Burnap to provide services in connectionwwitn repair of Tank "E" and will report to the?:. Board findings at the next meeting on terms and conditions under which he will provi de these services 4 and President Haerkl e concurred.
Pallomar Airport ERgineer tiubota advised the Board that he has responded to the Expansion County and given them plans, and have suggested to the County
the complete implications of tnis proposed airport expansion program.
General Manager:
Council Meeting Manacjer Priday reported to the Board on his attendance at the City of Carlsbad Council Meeting last evening and brought them up to date on matt
I that they meet with us and the staff and discuss in more detail
relative to our District.
Bel 1 ford Vi1 1 age Manager Priday advised the Board of a letter received from Smi til
Vi 11 age, which he has referred to Counsel Swirsky and Engineer Kubota.
Sq ui res Dam Manager Pridsy requested the Board to consider and approve the Trai 1 er rennovation of the trailer at Squires Lam which will cost
approximately $1,000. After discussion, upon motion of Director Ciirmichae-i 5 seconded by Director Hac Leod and unanimously carried, approval was gral to proceed with the work of rennovation of the trailer at Sqlaires Dam, not to excee,
$1,000 as recommended by Manager Pri ciay.
Postage Clacikine Pianagcr Priday advised the Board that the postage machine we hav,
been using has broken down and the cost of repairing the machine was excessive and has broken down again. tie suggest that we defer payment of -the bill 5 and would 1 ike to recommend consideration by the Board of the purchase of new macnine, and have requested Sinser-Friden give us a loaner to use and submit a proposal to us for the purchase of a new machine and give us a credit for the 01 d machine and void the repair bill submitted to tis.
Superintendent Kenley reports the flow at 22 c.s.f. and Lake level at 492.2.
& Peltzer, attorneys 3 requesting a meeting relative to Bell ford
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bknager Priday brought to the attentiou! of the Board a request for purchase of the trailer which is on the headquarter's property and in this regard has requested an appraisal firm to give us a quote on worth and cost to put it into saleable condi ti on.
Hawaiian Keeting PlanagerPriday recorrmended to the Board that in order to confirm
John Heni ey :oh Henley's reservatton :s ConriecTfon.xith his attemdamce at .:
the Hawaiian Meeting in October, we pay the bill 9 in the amount of $1,376, which covers l'jrz tienjey's reservation and ~ISG his wife and daughter ., charges which are lncluceu 1n thls amountS as the billing cane In after Mr. Henley
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le,g$ on his vacation, and in order to meet the deadline for payment, will have to'. before he returns frora his vacation, ana Mr. Henley will reimburse the District for the amount in excess of his reservation cost. After discussion, upon motion
of Director MacLeod, seconded by Director Engelmann, and unanimously carried, approval was granted to pay the Sill of $1,376 as recommended by Manager Priday, with the stipulation that Mr. Henley will reimburse the District ugon his return from vacation.
Kat i f i cati on lipon motion of Director Mactecd, seconded by Director Engelmann, of Checks and unanimously carried, the Board ratified checks No. 1939 through No. 1962, covering the period of August 21, 1974 to Septelrber 4, 1974, in the amount of $10,856.91.
Adjournment There being no further business to come before the Board, the I
meeting was adjourned at 4:55 P.K.
Respectfully submitted,
e*Q .&& Secretary of the Board of Directors
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