Good afternoon everybody. >> Good afternoon. >> Thank you. This is uh the Lunberg Water District Commissioners meeting. Today is February 25th. It's 5:30 p.m. >> This is why your seat supposed to be in the back date. Uh we are going to start
by saying the pledge of allegiance and the flag is right there. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and
justice for all. >> Wow. We got to work on getting to say that. >> We have to work we're going to have to work on that, guys. Yeah. >> Yeah. >> At least we say it. That's >> We get some minutes that are going to be floating around here and some warrants.
Why don't you send that down? Look at you. Huh? Look at you. All this for this meeting. >> Did PJ go to his his class? I think he has two days left. >> All right. >> Wednesday's his last day. >> Yeah. >> And this is for CDL.
>> CD. >> Mr. Chair, I would make a motion to accept the minutes of February 11th. All those in favor? Hi. Hi. >> Warrants. Can you pass me those warrants, John?
>> This is really nice. You know, when you when you see the selectman hand the warrants down. Yep. >> It's like this. I'm >> like, wow. Yeah, >> don't worry. You're on there, Mark. >> Okay. >> Everything's pretty consistent month to
month. >> Yeah. >> Week to week. >> Yeah. >> This I'll go to you anyway. >> Oh, you can put in the folder. >> Okay. >> Thank you. >> There you go, sir. Thank you. Okay. Okay. Number three, we have review and vote uh
to approve the FY2027 budget and reports which is this in front of us. >> That's the uh commissioner's report. Making sure you're good with that. And then the maintenance and operating budget, the breakdown. >> Yep. >> Those two pages. Yeah,
>> you guys can change. We can change whatever you want on that. >> So, we're getting that set up for the uh d.gov with where we can put all the files so you guys can see. Yep. Files. I've been noticing I've been So, >> yeah, he's creating the one drive. I still have that.
>> Okay. But I'm getting emails that are quarantined or something and I can't >> I I've had a few of those, too. So, I'm going to talk to him about that. We're kind of in that process of getting all of these. >> Okay. Because it took me like eight years to figure out Google. Now, I got to figure out how it looks. >> Yeah. Everything's going to go into the
one drive so that we can create a commissioner. So, anytime we need to send this kind of stuff, it'll be a file that you guys will be able to get into. >> But you guys say, "I don't like this. Let me let me do this. I want to do this. >> Resubmit it. >> Okay. >> Yeah. There's things. >> They're still in the phase of getting that done. So,
>> yeah, we're just getting it going right now. >> Yep. >> I haven't even figured out how to >> I haven't either. >> So, we have time to change stuff. So, if you you guys can take that and say change this, get rid of this, add this, whatever you want to do. >> Okay. When does this need to be
>> We just need to put in the books. >> Couple weeks. Okay. So, we don't need to vote. We don't need to vote on that's not a vote. >> The budget is the budget's a vote. >> Yes. >> We don't want just nothing on this right now.
>> The report we don't have to we don't vote on a commissioner's report anyway. >> Yeah. >> That just goes in the uh booklet. >> That looks good. >> So, >> do we want to do anything with the budget now? >> We do need to vote on that and approve it. >> Uh Mr. Mr. Chair, I make a motion to
approve the maintenance and operation budget for 2026 2027 as listed in this budget breakdown. Uh the budget would be $2,15,000
96344. Is that how it's said? Close like that. >> Close enough. >> Close enough. All those in favor? I I >> so everything in the budget we carried straight over. I mean some things uh rose a little bit.
>> Uh even the health insurance stayed we carried the same number. >> Uh it was very minimal increases on every pot. I mean the loan stuff kind of went up, interest went up on some principles. It just fluctuates. >> After uh looking through Mark's report last time, I think we're I mean it's
pretty same same. I mean, the budget is uh not much more than it was last year, you know, uh like almost an appro approved for like inflation. And I think we're >> we're on the right track. >> Yep. Yeah, it looks good. >> Um okay.
And next thing we have is vote to approve annual warrant articles which is the warrant for the articles the warrant uh articles for the annual meeting that will have come up on March 13th. Is that correct?
>> Uh March 28th. >> March 28th. I'm sorry. Um basically uh this is everybody has this in front of us. These are the eight articles. I think the only thing that we might want to change, as we talked about, is we're going to make the polling hours from
8:00 a.m. to 4:00 pm. Yep. >> So, we'll kick off the meeting at 10:00 a.m. as we normally would, and then we'll break until and reconvene again at 4:00 p.m. to basically announce the winners. >> Yeah. To announce article one, the uh moderator and commissioner. >> Correct.
>> Yep. Um, >> and the rest of the articles were pretty much the same. It's the reports, um, the budget, which you guys just approved. >> Um, article four is always the same one that's in there. Yep.
>> Um, authorizing me, >> kind of the temporary borrowing that we had from ASAV. Um, article five, we always um put money into our equipment and mains account which we use to do the rolling acres project. Um, article six
was um to purchase a new truck as one of ours is falling apart. >> Pretty tired. Um, article 7 was a citizens petition article um basically regarding um voter um and election
um changes >> procedures >> procedures. And then um article 8 was another citizens petition or a citizens um article to vote to approve um the expansion of the water district. Another developer is going into that wants to
purchase that property on uh Bird Street. >> Okay. Will they be here to talk about that? >> Yeah, we can make sure >> if they want. I mean, we should ask them, you know, people will have questions. >> Oh, yeah. Uh, so he submitted the paperwork with the signature. So, he meets a majority of the property owners,
which he has. So, he he's he's legit. So, he he's at the stage now where we just need to put on a meeting for the vote. >> Right. >> But I will I will reach out to him and ask him to be here for the meeting. >> The expansion of the district doesn't cost the district anything. >> Correct. And any of the any of the
infrastructure that he puts in that uh we could use is at the developer's cost >> at his Yep. his expense. Yes. >> And how many hydrants are we going to get out of that roughly? Do you know? >> I'm going to guess four. And then whatever's inside his project. So could
be a total of six, seven. >> Always good for fire protection to expand the expand the district. So, we we kind of did discuss how we're going to extend it 12in main down Page Street to Arbor and then when it gets to Barbridge Street carrying 8 in down to his project, but the 12 in will mostly
be because if we ever do Arbor Street will be at 12. So, we're setting that up for the future >> cuz currently it sits at the corner of Reservoir and Paige. >> Correct. >> So, he's going to have to pull it from there past arbor over to barge down a little ways and then whatever. So, it's just dead ending through there. >> Correct.
>> Yep. >> Okay. If you ever went through par street completely and we had a main on flat hill, is 8 inch going to be sufficient >> or if you >> uh I I think it would because if we have
a loop through it would loop flat hill to reservoir which would be a 12. >> That would be a bigger man. >> That would be the 12. So the main outside loop would be the big and then just these are just little pass through. I'm not that's a pipe dream but that is >> just making sure.
>> Uh that is >> Mr. Chair I'd make a motion that we approve for the warrant for the annual meeting article one two three four five six uh seven by petition and eight by
petition. >> Correct. >> Yes. Uh seven is we sent to our attorneys for review. >> Correct. Thank you also. and they'll be here on the for the meeting anyway to if there's any concern. Great. >> Okay. All those in favor? >> I
>> I uh what else we got? >> Uh just next thing I have is a commissioner, superintendent, clerk, treasure, additions. Anybody got anything? >> I have nothing. >> I'm good. >> I'm good. I'm just >> I'm good too. I think
>> I think uh >> Hey, one question for superintendent. >> Put you in a hot seat. See, somewhere Metro West, they were having a a bunch of water main breaks and they said it was due to the power out outages outages. Is that something that would affect us
at all if we had outages or everything's generator? Correct. >> Uh it's gener but but in that case they was they have a booster pump station. >> Yeah. >> And they lost power. So it it slammed the whole system. >> Okay. >> So I think they had more than four brakes. There's four more. >> Yeah. So that No, that that would not
happen in Winberg. >> Okay. >> I mean we do we do have if the pumps are going even with the generators. We lose power. >> It it stops. It's a pretty big slam to the system and then the generator will kick up and the pumps will start back up. >> But uh we do have like because I'm keing
well uh that has a pressure relief valve. So there if there were some surge blow >> it would blow it off the side of the building. Yeah. >> But but it could happen but I this very unlikely very unlikely. >> That's all I got. >> Nothing.
>> Okay. I'll take a motion to >> do we need to do >> I make a motion. >> Oh, sorry. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. >> Any public comment? >> Okay. >> One question. What did the increase look like from last year to this year?
For the for the numbers, >> I can I can tell you the total is probably about 20 25,000 >> 25,000 >> on a on a $2 million budget. Correct. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. We have a we have a copy of the
budget if you want draft. >> All right. I'll take a >> I make a motion we adjourn. >> Okay. We'll adjourn.