Higgins here. Mattton here. Odate here. Angland stand for the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation
under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. And we'll have approval of the agenda. Are there any changes? Sir, some moved. Second.
All those in favor signify by saying I. I. Motion carries. Consent calendar notice to the public. All matters listed are considered routine by the commission and will all be enacted by one motion. There will be no separate discussion of these items unless good cause is shown
prior to the time the commission votes on the motion to be adopted by roll call. Make a motion to approve the consent calendar. Second. Motion a second.
Higgins. Yes. Mattton. Yes. OD. Yes. Public forum. Is there anyone here like to talk about anything that's not on the agenda? No. We'll move on then to commission and committee reports. Personnel committee.
We have nothing to report this month. Okay. B is finance operations committee. Number one is KM tower maintenance contract. Dan, you want to start us out on that? I can. So, um, last year and into early this year, KLM did, um, some
remote operated vehicle evaluations of two of our towers. And in their review of those towers, they recommended having, um, ROV evaluations at a more scheduled level. So, the request here in
the discussion we had, KLM presented to the finance committee on their findings and this proposal. The latter half of this proposal is for budget considerations only. What we are asking or looking for commission's approval is the scheduled ROV evaluations on that
first schedule within here. Basically, a rotating three-year review of each reservoir. Go ahead. What What will that entail for for staff to get to for the inspections and the the first goound to be done?
What will we need to do as far as in the contract and what their requests are? Uh just approving this would be that scheduled of payments on like page three. Um the like first half here. So 2027 would be 3500. But explain to me
what the ROV evaluation is. This is just an exterior view of the water towers. Interior review of the water towers. They have to be emptied. They do not for the ROV evaluation. Okay. That's what I was wondering. All right. So there's nothing that we need to do in preparation, just coordinate with KLM.
Okay. All right. I guess coming out of committee was the recommendation to approve the contract as presented. The only reason I ask is because there was and I don't know if that's later in the contract, there was an expense for any antennas that are on
any of the water towers for the expense for those to be worked around. And I wondered that with climate vision if we if that's in this contract or in the climate vision contract. That would be in the climate vision contract. So I know we'll get there, but I just want to make sure it's included in there. That's all. Okay. Yep. That's what I wanted to
find out what this one was about. Thank you for clarifying. Okay. Is there a motion to approve? I make a motion to approve. Second. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. I. Motion carries. Item two is
approve Bolton and Mink construction management at risk contract. Annie, so last month's meeting we had uh discussed moving forward with the construction at risk management contract
for the reclaim tank. Uh in discussing with Bolton Mink after the attached is a proposal for their assistance in managing that and going out for bid plus interviewing potential contractors to do
that work. uh this was their proposal and uh in discussion with the finance committee it was after the fact uh staff's recommendation is to approve this attached contract to have Bolton M
do that our I guess view on it is that having Bolton M review this and go through this we would be saving more than the cost on the contract. Is there a motion to approve or any questions? Just one question. So, is
Bolton Mink assisting in the design? Also, Bolton Mink has already created the design for the reclaim tank. This is the one that we went out for bids, rejected all bids. And then this would be they would assist in designing uh any
reduction in size or reduction in changes that we would need with the that are discussed with the contractor and they would be discussing that with the contractor as well and they also know who's qualified to do the work getting a lot of that. So I just wanted to make sure the scope of work was that was part of theirs what
they did do and I would make the motion to approve then second. Any more discussion? All those in favor signify by saying I. I. Motion carries. Unfinished business. Um,
this is a separate memo. Is there anything on there anyone wants to talk about? No. Okay. Then A is memo. I'm not sure what that was about. That's the attached memo just
placeholder so that we have the memo attachment to the item. Yep. Okay. The next one then is discuss approve flarity and hood lobbying contract for hydro generation. You want to take I can speak on that. So last month we tabled the discussion. So,
the Flare and Hood um and Marty Seaffort, they were lobbying for the hydrogeneration project. That contract ends June 30th of 2025. They had a 14-month contract uh to discuss that and
draft the session materials. We found out so we had the options, the four options that we had from last meeting. We're extending a 12-month contract with Flarin Hood, extending a essentially a 16-month contract with Flarein Hood, working with MMUA or having commissioner
staff members work with their contacts, the legislature to continue this process. We've found out since the last meeting that MMUA's government governance team is not able to help individual um utilities, which is understandable. So our options then are
to either extend with Flity and Hood for a 12 or 16-month process. That was the difference in the 25,000 or $45,000. And then um I guess staff is requesting direction from the commission on which
if any way we want to go. Trent, I don't know if we if you want to speak to some of our findings in the discussions with bar on what's happened with the hydro project. Yeah, just a quick update on that. Our technology that we were looking at is no
longer available for our original um scope of our work. So, we're kind of back to the drawing board on different generating units to install. Um we have some options out there. We just have to revet those options. Um not sure exactly why they pulled out of the game. We're
still trying to identify that the the equipment we were looking at from flight was pretty widely used became becoming fairly popular in the last 20 years. Um so we're still trying to understand why they pulled out of the project. We not sure if it was procurement of pieces or or why they decided to continue to
discontinue their process of u making generating units. Um, so long story short, we're back into that uh search and trying to find a new generator, I guess, is what I'm trying to say. We we did also find out um from Marty
over the last any um legislation that was drafted the last goound needs to be reddrafted now with Senator Iicorn leaving and then Senator Heitzman coming on board. So essentially all the work that Seaffort or Marty Seaffort did in Flareity and Hood they
have to reddraft all the legislation that was there for any requests we would have going forward. Good question. Um so if we were to extend this you know 12 months or 24 months is what what's the date what
would be the date on that new contract? He would begin it now through Yeah. I guess that's part of my concern because I don't see anything happening till at least for the next six months. They don't even come back into session till
what February. So I mean why would we want to just waste six months? They do draft he would draft legislation before October was the conversation I had with Marty. He would draft the legislation. Start drafting the legislation prior
but completely up to you. Go ahead, Mike. Trent, what what's your instinct say on on finding a new generator? I think we have some opportunities out there right now. Are they I mean, can we
get one bought and put in for a million bucks still, do you think, or So, the challenges we run into now was the the generators that we were looking at, there was not going to be much civil work to our pits. Um the new generation now that is unknown. So, we had to kind of vet a few generators and then really
the cost is going to come into play is what civil work we'll have to do in that pit. You're still going to use that pit that's got the new gate that those other guys put in. Yep. Pit six is still our target um pit right now. I The biggest piece of that is there's different ways to align these generators in these pits. So, you can turn them at a 30° angle.
You can have them straight up and down. You can have them horizontal and all that will change the flow characteristics of our draft tube. So being a 20ft head, we have to really do a lot of calculations to make sure that we're using all 20 ft of that head to generate the most power. And that then
once those calculations are found, that'll help us understand what unit will be the best one to fit in that. How long you think that process is going to take to identify another one? I would think that we should be able to bring something to the next commission meeting to understand what we have for options and really be able to flesh that out.
So, the next 30 days, we're going to be boots on the ground fleshing that out and hope to have something for you guys at the next commission meeting to give you what the options are. Um, I guess my opinion on this is I do think it's a waste of money to do
this for 6 months, but I also know the wheels of governments and I know that the more lobbyists are lobbying for us and getting this to the top of the stack in at the state, the better. Um it sucks because our state at a at that level
nothing ever seems to get done. So it also does seem like just a waste of money to have a lobbyist. But I I my instincts tell me that that at some point they're going to change over the
is it the reetss the the credits where hydro does does get us better credits. Um I've I've talked to several people in Wisconsin and Minnesota in the last couple months about about dams. So,
I don't know. I I from a personal level say we should extend it for 12 months, but I totally understand if somebody doesn't want to. So, that's where I stand. I just want to clarify his contract ends 6:30, correct? So, it's kind of like a
school year. It'll start 71 and go to 6:30 of 2026 for the 25,000. Yes. And and then it'll go to 12:30. So we are getting the additional six months on for the 45,000 if I look at it correctly. Am I looking
at that right? We're getting a year because it goes through December 31st of 2027. Not right. Technically it would go 6:30 2026 to to 6 to 71 2027 and then we he's saying that he'd go to 1231 it's an
extra six months extra 13 months it's 2027 okay so my question is is having gone to the legislative update we know all of the stuff that goes on behind the scenes and he's got to rewrite the the bill there's a lot of work I understand now
but my question is are we getting a discounted I saying that we would extend it longer. Is it a $5,000 discount or is it additional few months is what I'm asking. I guess do do you see what I'm saying? I see what you're saying. That is confusing. So I mean really this is a 30month
contract if you extend if that is 1231 the true ending date. So I'm not sure what we got going, right? But I understand with uh Senator Heightsman potentially picking up the bill again. And you know, I I I see there being a need for somebody to be down there on
our behalf. Great. But you know, my question is is if we did uh you know, the 12-month extension for 25,000, does that offer to go to 123127 come off the table for the other, you know, for for the the difference? I
would say yes, it would come off the table. It would come off the table. Yeah. So, we'd be having that would to lock into the prices. Now, we'd have to go for the extension. you would need to go for the 45,000. And that only makes sense because even a year from now, they're not going to come back at
another 20,000. It's going to be 25 or better. If we're going to do it, go to do the 45. I I see what you're saying, D. Yeah. As long as that ending date is correct of 123127. Well, and that's what his contract say.
You're going to confirm. Okay. And I just feel it's important or it's necessary because there I know I know that you know some of that stuff is off the table right now. They're not in session right now. But I think there's a lot of work that needs to be done that we're not seeing that on our behalf. I had a conversation with Heinesman's too,
both of them at dinner a couple weeks ago about the dam and it I mean it's important. We need to we need to keep our name down there in the in the mix and and there's some ideas floating around
with some buzzwords to help get this to the top of the stack to get us that money. So I I I hope we can I I would like to spend this money with these lobbyists and keep our keep this ball rolling on this.
Well, the extension to to end of 27 cleans up my confirmed area and that's it's correct. Correct. That is what is listed in the email. Is there a motion then to uh go move forward on this? Make that motion to to move forward with
flirting hoods extension with the 45,000. Yes. Thank you. Second it. Okay. Any other discussion? All those in favor signify by saying I. I. Motion carries.
C is provide climate vision update. Mr. You want me to? What? So, in discussions with climate vision, we've been we've been looking at um easements and different things out at the state hospital site. What we're finding is
neither the city BPU nor uh the state have documentation that is easily accessible on the easements. We've had discussions with everyone and everyone is in agreement that there will be e easements
drafted and and it's not a problem. Uh climate vision is I guess working on a site map what we're looking at doing out there. The question or the direction that staff is looking for and and the concerns from climate vision are would
in an agreement does the commission want a lease or rent of the tower space written into the contract? Well, would you have to? We would not have to in my
opinion. That would be up to the commission. Climate vision will pay for all of the installs, the um assessments, the KM's review of the tower to make sure integrity and the
coatings and everything are correct and installed correctly. I guess the question is, I guess it was a request from Tim Holmes, fire chief, that we put the radar on there up to the commission on what they want to charge. I know in discussions with climate vision or when
Emily presented the commission from climate vision they were struggling with that not knowing their outcome. So they're putting a lot of income here. So you're adding radar. Is this something that's being added to
what they were doing? The low-level radar. Correct. Currently right now we do not have low-level coverage in our area. Central Minnesota kind of has a big hole in it right now. So, this tower would I don't quote me on the numbers, but I think 50 60 miles outside of where our tower is, it'll be
able to help fill some of those voids in that low um altitude radar. Um weather. For weather, yes. So, the value really to the community is we're going to get quicker notifications. We'll be able to see down the things that the meteorologists can't see today, they'll be able to dial into and give us faster
notifications for severe weather. That is the benefit to the community and to the Briner Lakes area. The question really is, is the commission be looking for a monetary amount to have something installed on one of our assets? Uh, Climate Vision typically does not follow
that. They sell it as, you know, your value is the early detection of storms. So, we'd kind of be a one-off if we tried to add some value into that, but we certainly can bring that to them and negotiate it. Um, I think to get the deal done, the value of the radar is the
advanced notification in our area. Normally I would want a lease in place for a dollar minimum just because it gives I mean it's something I'd talk to the lawyer about
but in all my experience there's always something in place even it's you know even like when the city leased the ball fields from pot latch it was a dollar a year um and with the recent storms and problems and
everything we've had I I think this is more important. I don't I don't I think there should be something in place, but I don't think we need to make any money off of it. And that's really the direction we're trying to look for right now. We can start, you know, the draft of the climate vision agreement has started, but those are some of the parts
we have to fill into that to really get it over the next hurdle. So, that's what staff's really looking for right now. If you do have a desire, no problem. From our perspective, we'll have that in and negotiate that. But, um, I think from Climate Vision's perspective, the value is the the early detection of these storms.
Dolly. Yep. And I just remember having these conversations. It was great. They were going to give us a subscription and then but I know there was still discussion from commission that, you know, there was a discussion about monthly rent. And I like your idea of at least having a a dollar lease because you can put the language in there about
uh the easement then as well, you know, and any any changes or modifications. I I prefer I prefer to have some language drafted for that too. The the lease gives us some controls. Yep. For the future. Agreed. Yeah. And to Danny's point, uh, Climb Vision is very much on
board to add all those particulars into it. So, when we do our annual inspections, anything that they have added or modified to our tower, they're 100% understanding that they would be responsible for those corrections and the cost for us to actually inspect those, too. So, they do have skin in the game. I mean, they're they're going to make sure they do a good project, and
we're putting places in to make sure that it is a vetted project. So, you have your direction, then? Yes, Mr. Chair. Yes. Did I hear Mr. Higgins say he's willing to forego making a buck. No, he is going to make a buck. So, we for a dollar. Just a dollar. Okay. We
want to see the dollar, too. I do. I do. I want to see check for a dollar. I don't need I don't need a motion. I I've got my direction. Thank you. Okay, we'll move on to new business then. Staff reports. Um, city administrator, Mr.
Burrell. Uh, thank you, Mr. President. My written report is attached. Just want to hit a couple highlights. The legislative session obviously is over. They did have a a one-day special session on June 9th. Just a couple of the highlights. They were talking about early on at the session about reducing
LGA. They decided not to touch LGA. So, that's going to remain the same. Um city business, our audit on the city side is finishing up. We'll be presenting that to the council in July. We did have groundbreaking out of Country Manor for the new facility out there. So, they're starting work. If you've been out there,
you'll see that a lot of activity going on. Uh, and lastly, I just want to mention that we do have a new interim airport director, Neil Planser, and he began work on June 11th. So, pending your questions, that's all I have. Any questions for Dick? No. Okay, we'll
move on then. Council leaison report. Jeff, thank you, Mr. Chair. Um, I just want to thank everybody for their involvement here and uh interest in keeping these um utility costs uh fair for everybody. It's a difficult job and
uh so there's maybe potential uh other ways of doing things. Hopefully uh we can get that brought to the forefront pretty soon regarding uh who manages uh the different uh utilities in the city and uh who's who's in charge. U it's
it's kind of a big debate that's been going on, but I appreciate everybody's uh optimism and interest and that's all I have. Thank you. Thank you, Jeff. HR Director Chris. Good morning. So in addition to my written report, I wanted
to inform the commission that over the weekend we received a notice of intent to negotiate from the BPU supervisors union. So we will be starting that negotiation process. Is that it? Thank you. Finance manager
report. Thank you. In addition to my report, I wanted to thank uh Charlie and his team, Eric, Sam, and Dan for giving uh the front office staff some tours of the water treatment water wastewater treatment facilities over the
last week. That was appreciated. Um there is an update. So, just wanted to point out the MMUA summer conference has written in my report. There's early bird pricing that ends in July. So, if any commissioners are interested in attending, that's August 18th through the 20th. The registration link was
included in your packet. If you need any assistance, let us know. Uh we did include some dollars in the budget for commissioners to attend uh these conferences. And there is one more training. I don't know if Trent was going to hit it, but on July 7th,
there's we're hosting in conjunction with MMUA the chemical hazard training for um members of the community. The end of my report. Um are you going to cover financials or anything?
They're attached. If you have any questions, I'll be Well, my my question is, I mean, we only have through February now that the audit is done. Will these be caught up by next meeting? They'll be caught up by next meeting. Yes. Okay. Thank you. Any questions of Danny?
No. Operations manager report. Thank you. My report this month will be verbal. Um just quick update on a few of the projects that we got going on. The southeast reconstruction project. We had TED hydrants replaced with gate valves added to those locations. That work has
been done. It's not completed yet, but the hydrants are installed and there's still more road work to do there. So, that project's still ongoing. All the water shutdowns as of now should be completed for that particular piece of the project. Uh Wright Street, uh that one's kicking off today. Temp water services will start being laid out
today. Anticipations end of the week for temp water services to be hooked up. Um so that project's moving along well. Uh safe roads to school up on 8th Street. The pumminus had been removed up there. So we're working on relocating some of our street light facilities and
adding a service for the new crosswalk lights that'll be installed up there. uh Country Manor and Labor to Love will be getting temp services here in the next uh Labor to Love will get one probably this week. We're hoping two weeks out for uh Country Manor to get them temp power out there so they can get their
job shack set up and that's going very well to Nick's point. Uh a lot of work's happening out there. A lot of dirt's moving around. They're making some good progress. Happy to see that. Um Saturday we did some mutual aid with Crowing Power. We sent a truck and four guy or two guys uh to help them with
restoration efforts. We had one crew working all day on Saturday. Put in about a 17- hour day. Um but we were able those outages were coming in onesie twzies so we're able to keep in front of them. Um Sunday night, Monday morning was a little bigger event for us. Um I think at the height of our outages, we
had just under 500 customers out approximately 2 a.m. in the morning. We were able to restore most of those customers back on by about 4:30, 5:00 in the morning. And then it was onesie twzies. Most of our damage revolved around falling trees. Uh we've spent a lot of time on vegetation management in
the last 10 years. It really helps us out to where when we get those 60 70 mph winds come through our service territory, we get beat up a little bit, but um nothing that we can't really ride through and that leaves us the ability to help our neighboring communities also. So uh very happy how our system held up with the weather events that we
had. It was pretty pretty uh we had 47 miles an hour down at the dam for a wind reading and I heard 56 mph at the airport was the the reading Sunday night. So uh pretty high winds for this time of year with the trees on the ground, the rain we've been getting, saturation um tips trees over, but so
proud of staff on that one that went well. Uh July 2nd, we're meeting with USGS up at the hydro facility to actually do some flow monitoring through our pits and through our spill gates and having conversations on where we're going to potentially update or move that monitoring station downstream. Um so
that'll be a good meeting for us. Flows today at the dam with the water we got. It's about 2600 cubic feet per second. We have four generators online right now. Hopefully keep it that way for a little while. But the water as fast as it comes, it leaves that fast also. So, uh, we're hoping to be able to keep generator, uh, four operating for the
end of the week, maybe into next week with the waters dropping quickly. So, um, that's my thousand foot view. I would love to entertain any questions. I'm sorry, I have one more. I've been working with some local what I'll call at this point private water systems, i.e. trailer parks, some other things
like that where there's not necessarily the agreement for the public water system and the private system for maintenance and flushing of that equipment. um made some very good traction late last week with one of our uh customers um proposed a few things for them. I plan on bringing it back or maybe even having an operations and
finance meeting put together to discuss some of that so I can get it in front of the commission and then hopefully at the next commission meeting have something that you guys can vote on as a group. Um really what that aligns around is uh maintenance of hydrants, flushing the water, and then if there's any repairs to be made, the thousand foot view on
that right now would be we would entertain giving them a bid to do the work or they could do the work um on their own side if they wanted to hire a reputable contractor to do that work. We would approve that work. So, so far all those conversations went well. We do see a need there. Um I had staff sit down in
about 5 minutes they came up with 72 locations that um are not 100% black and white on ownership. So this is something that I'm grabbing hold of and we'll want to get this resolved quickly. So hopefully we have some good documentation and agreements to get in front of uh the commission. The intent of those agreements will have mapping to
show ownership of every part in there. So BPU's ownership to where the private system starts, what we'll perform for maintenance. Uh and it'll be an annual fee for this maintenance that we will charge. Um and so some of those high level things is what we'll kind of get into, but I'll bring back more at the
next commission meeting. What? So you're saying like behind the meter fire hydrants? Correct. Behind the meter fire hydrants where we have metering pits. Uh so like a trailer park for example may have one or two meters but they serve 50 60 trailers. So the
trailer park really is the private ownership of that water system. We're just supplying them bulk water. They're redistributing it and then they make their money through their rent payments. So that's not part of the public water system necessarily, but it's our public that's using that water. want to make sure that mate maintenance is getting
done accurately and fire hydrants expect and hydrants. Yep. Yep. So, um I'll be looking to probably send out an invite here to try to pull the operation and finance committee together just to get some uh few of those edges flattened out and then present at the next commission meeting
on the safe routes on H Street. Is that are both sidewalks on the north and south side of H are they open to protest and travel? Do you know? As of today, I'm not sure. Um, I was up there yesterday and there was a lot of equipment moving around. I would say yesterday there wasn't, but they shouldn't have been yesterday as they were removing stuff, but I know that
they had um plans for putting some temporary access in, but I do not know if it's installed as of today, Jeeoff. Okay. Anything else? Yeah, I have two questions. Uh, the water interruption May 27th, it was a frozen water line.
Uh, that that's probably a typo. Okay, that's what I thought. I was just I thought that was weird. But um the outage on Sunday, the the I don't know if customers know that they can actually look at your outage map on online, but I did want to know if the mobile displays
differently than the desktop because when I looked at the mobile, it was just it just displays the square with the number of calls. Is that all it's supposed to do? Correct. Yep. When the power came back on, when does that get updated? So, there's several ways that those get populated into our map. So,
our metering system will automatically populate any outage that it sees and then it'll take it off of our map when it's restored. If customer calls in and says, "Hey, I have something going on." That one will stay on there until we actually clear it out. Um, most of the time, to be absolutely honest, 3:00 or 4 in the morning, I don't clear those out
until the following day. So, it manually gets cleared out. Those ones that are publicly entered get manually cleared out. That makes sense. All right. Awesome. Thank you. Anything else for Trent? Oh, one last question. Since we're doing the doing the Buffalo Hills project, do are we replacing any water
lines down there? No, not this time. Okay. All right. That's all I have. Thank you, Charlie. You don't have much time. Trent took most of yours, but uh quick qu uh correction on the uh
graphs. If you would scroll all the way down the graphs, uh the report is as it is. Um I missed the header. So the first three graphs are are uh Briner Baxter wastewater um combined backer and such. So the
header says north and south uh zone for distribution or drinking water. So my bad missed the header. Um but uh that correction will be made and then uh supplemented into for next commission meeting. But that's the only correction
I have. Thank you Dolly for bringing to my attention. Um um some things high note um we hosted at the wastewater facility um along with uh um Rural Water Association of Minnesota
um a line uh tracing school and then hydrant repair um in which we took um hands-on down at the wastewater facility uh for 198081 hydrants and uh rebuilt them um for
labor was free. So surrounding communities helped us uh uh rebuild a couple tight uh uh hydrants during that school. Um just kudos for everybody that attended and and the surrounding communities. So that was a very nice uh
school. So that's about it. Any questions? Did we start sending water to Baxter yet? Very little um as of right now. So, the weather's been pretty decent for for
that type of thing. But, uh I did touch base with uh Baxter here recently. I'm kind of looking at a schedule to see, but uh right now uh nothing on the on the schedule. Could we get an update monthly on how much water we're selling
them? U on the charts it'll show. Um, so from last year, you know, monthly totals, we're talk I'm talking about the thing we approved a couple months ago. Is that we're talking about the same thing? Yep. Yep. So if you look at um the actual real screen um it's be the
last three um you'll see Baxter North and South and then you'll see Baxers's uh in there from one more the total year from 254 total monthly. Okay. So Okay. Got it. Okay. Perfect. Is that is that good enough or you want me to Okay, long
as I know where to look. Okay, any other questions or are you there was a request made on Facebook and social media for um those that wanted to participate in the their drinking water? Do you still need
participants for that? We do. Um the the revision rule for lead and copper and testing has gotten pretty tight for the program itself. So, we really do need the homes that were constructed between 82 and 85 um with them specific copper
and the the solder to use in that time frame. So, they're being uh the revision has really tightened up the program. So, I have to be real specific to make certain tiers. So, one and three we're lacking on in our program. So I'm
requesting anybody within that time frame that would qualify to reach out to us. Okay. So I'm I'm lacking 12 total to have a successful program. And that was the year years built 82 to 86. Yeah. 82
83 to 85 86 is what we're really looking for them houses constructed with them building materials that are we're looking for. So it' be copper and uh lead lead uh solder. Got it. Why isn't 84 included?
It be between that time frame for that span. So 82 to 85 86 area. Okay. For them home builds. All right. Um I requested how many homes from the county, from the city here, how many building permits we had within that time frame.
And uh it's kind of tough to get them records from that far ago. Um, so we went out on Facebook. Sure. Works. Thank you. Anything else?
No. Okay. Commission member reports. So, I did attend the min uh MMUA legal update. It was fantastic. Uh, it was kind of great to have so many different other utilities there kind of hearing some of
the issues all around. And again, hearing the backside of it sometimes, um, you know, when we read about what's going on down at legislation, you you you don't actually always hear how many times people have to testify on on the behalf of the utilities or behalf of
whatever industry that you're uh in need of. So, it it just to me it was eyeopening. Um, I think everybody should at least listen to the legislative update on occasion. I know Nick when he goes he goes for the full expansion of what you know happens at a city level but this was more the utility level and
we all have our industry so it was kind of neat but one of the things I did want to bring back was um MMUA does and does offer annual orientation for staff and commission and council. So we want to make sure that and then the training because you're going to be doing that.
So I just want to make sure that when we have the option to utilize services like that that we are um and I did attend the groundbreaking also for um country matter. It's exciting. Appreciate uh EdP for hosting that. That was pretty
awesome. And then um last I just want to recognize the passing of Senator Samuelson, former commission Don Samuelson. um uh uh BPU commission Daniel Don Samuelson. Um just a couple
of things about him that I thought was, you know, we kind of lose sight of on occasion. It was just he was a pillar of the community was integral in CLC being here. Um the high-rise to be built, uh you know, he used the platform to benefit Brainer and I just think that's
pretty awesome. Just wanted to take a minute to recognize him. That's all. Mhm. Um I guess just an update. I had a meeting um last week about how I'm getting my mind wrapped around how the gravity sewer is separate
from the treatment and water. And I'm going to be setting up a meeting with Nick in the very near future and talking to some more city councilmen. I think that it's kind of crazy the way we have it set up. Um, and after doing a little bit of homework, it's it's kind of an
anomaly and I it's something I'd like to see fixed. I don't care what direction the community goes with it, but to me, all the utilities need to be under one envelope and it's just something that I'm going to be talking to people about and I just want to be transparent about
it. I don't care which way we go or if it happens or not. Um, as far as the commission, if in the city council would have to vote seven to zero to make a charter change, and if not, to my understanding, then it could go to a vote. But I just think that with the
issues we have coming up in the future with waste treatment, not being able to control um what's coming down our sanitary lines or the city, somebody else controlling what's going in there uh is is an issue that needs to be addressed.
Other than that, that's all I got. Thank you, Mike. Motion to adjurnn. Second. We're adjourned.