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Home My WebLink About1957-01-31 Min - BoardThe Manager made a report on the collection of an old bill from 1947 and stated that the District was endeavoring to keep track of any de- linquent customers who may return to the District so as to collect past due bills, Chairman Heller reported that the Board had contacted Mr. Karl Kielhofer of Truckee and had offered him a position with the District at Q4500. per month to start on February 1, 1957. he stated that 14r. Ki:elhofer had said that he would make an inspection of the District and that in the course of 3 or 4 months he should be able to acquaint himself with the system.. No further business appearing, Board adjourned. Ex -Off icio 'Secretary President Truckee, California. January 31, 1957 The members of the Board of Directors of the Truckee Public Utility District met in regular meeting at the office of the District on main St., at 2:30 p C. R. Heller, president, presiding. Upon roll call the following Directors were noted present : Jack Neugebauer Chas. R. Heller Hal Welch (absent) Tyr. John Blersch of Engineering Manage.nent, Inc. appeared before the Board relative to Right of vlay for Southern Pacific pipe line. He explained that his letter of Dec 10, 1966 had been corrected to show the *500. per acre price as requested by the District, and inasmuch as a right of way under the Southern Pacific Co. t s subway on 89 Highway had been' settled to the satisfaction of the District, the following resolution was read and adopted: %;SOLUT ION No. 57-02 dEL-iiS, a right of way for an oil pipe line has been requested by the Southern Pacific Pipe Lines, In.c., across certain property owned by the District bring south of the Tahoe -Truckee High School, and, 14H + i'AS, the terms and conditions outlined in the right of way agreement meets with the approval of the Board, and, VEEEIR { S, in the judgei:aent of the Board the granting of such right of way would not interfere with any contemplated uses of the land involved, by the District, now, therefore be it ROLTiO j the t the Chaiman and a Me �mber of the Board is hereby authorized to execute the said right of way agreement between the District and the Southern Pacific Pipe Lines, Inc. It was agreed that the price of 125.00, offered for this right of way was fair and agreeable to the District, and it was moved and carried that the check for this a -mount offered by 1v1r. Blersch-. be accepted, in payment thereof, r7j•• Cr Ty1r. Blersch then thanked the Board and left the :meeting, and asked that a certified copy of the Resolution be forwarded to hiin. The minutes of the regular 1-aeeting of January 10th were read and a, roved, and the following bills were read and upon motion made and carried were ordered paid: Winifred Kamp -sal Jan 1-15 T reas 152.90 Eve D. Hallett- " " CLk 133.12 Patsy R. Andres " " Off help 51.24 George W. Kenyon " " line -man 21$.17 Bd of Equalization- Use Tax 17.61 E C Bavier- stamps farmailing bills etc 30.00 Ar,manko Office Supp Co- Type repair- paper etc 21.79 Standard Oil Co- gas & oil 11.93 Texas Co- " 7.05 Union Oil Co it 27.18 Pacific Tel & Tel Co- Jan sery 17.90 Burroughs Corp- Service contract 18.00 Cash- dep refunds- r�i_scl cash exp 186.99 C B White- sal acct- Jan 10.00 T L Chwnberlain- Jan ret fee 75 * 00 Truckee Chamber of Co7nnerce- Jan donation 50.00 From the Water Fund- B M Quart ly- sal app lineman- Jan 1-15 156.3 5 J R Souter " it it °i 150.11 E J Mintz " labor " 172.$0 R Joseph- ref Gateway subdivision l4le48 Schneider Mfg. Co- Geophone 95.00 Ramsey Winch Co- parts for winch-Willy-s 84 * 81 Shell Oil Co- gas & oil 14*39 Richfield Oil Co- gas & oil 31.18 Communications were read under date of January 15th, 20th, and 25th from Jos. H. Sanders, relative to the sale of the Sanders eater System to the District, quoting various prices, the last of which in the letter of Jan 25th was the sum of 1000. which was in agreement with an offer made by the District on Noveraber 20th, 1956. After some discussion it was moved and carried that the District again offer 111r. Sanders the suTa of $1000. for all his rights, titles and interests in his water system and the custor:iers connected thereto, together with the necessary rights of way, and the Manager was so instructed to advise Mr. Sanders. A =,imunication was read under date of January 28 from orglan E. Stewart, Sanitary Engineer for the Department of Public 'Health, acknovrledging the receipt of the District's Permit Application. Copies of the results of the analysis of the sa-aples of water taken "by Mr. Karoly of the Depart ment of Public rlealth, from the various sources in the District, were submitted to the Board members and after perusal of the sage were ordered filed. A co munication under date of Jan 16th from the District to the Inter -County Title Co. was read setting forth the terns and conditions under which a deed of sale was to be Bade to Eve Popovich of the land in the rear of the California In- spection Station, The 1,1anager reported that r. G Lewis had called at the office a�Zd stated that he would be interested in acquiring -most of the land east of the High School at such timme as the Highway Department were acquiring lands for they. new freeway. The 1r1anager advised that 1-1r. Walter Barrett of t le Sierra Sun had requested perm --fission for space in the front office of the District for a desk to be used by the Executive Officer of .the Olympic Planning Co emission, until such time as office space could be secured in soae vacant building along the :train St. The Board agreed that such arrangements would be satisfactory. A discussion took place relative to the recent circular letter sent out by the District to the property owners along Main St. relative to new street lights. The Manager reported that he had had no answers to the sarie. No farther action was taken. The Manager advised that Mr. Loren Russell along Donner road near H adoVr 4ay had requested the removal of the restriction on his lot, relative to its use as a junk yard so that he could consu:i ate a banl- loan. The I -Tanager stated that he had advised 1,4xr. Russell that a letter from the Bank to the District agreeing to such restrictions daring the life of the loan might be satisfactory to the Board in agreeing to remove the ,$Now" initial restriction in the deed. The Manager read a portion of a newspaper clipping describing the action of the P G & 1-il' in endeavorirk-; to block the Shasta Dam Utility. District from buying governmment power a&zd suggested that it might be well for the District to ask I-ir. Paul H. Cha-mberlain to look into the ,matter with a view to protecting the District's interests. The Board agreed. The lilanager sub,aitted a rough sketch and advised the Board of the situation existing at the old Truckee Resort property, owned by I=Ir. I 0 Gifford, explaining how the water services supplied to x,Ir. Lloyd were being re- distributed and sold to other ?parties in that area, also the fact that Mr. Gifford was obtaining service under the name of Jack Lockridge, a former customer who had left town. It was explained that Mr. Gifford was in arrears for several years to the District to the amount of 053.66. The Manager was authorized to bring the matter to the attention of 14Ir. Paul H. Cha--nberlain with a view to forcing collection, if possible of this amount. The Mianager reported that there was an election for one director coming up this year, Mr. Chas. Heller' s term expiring and suggested that consideration be given to increasing the Board members to 5 instead of the present 3 me�cbers. The Manager was instructed to take the .matter up with I:Ir. Paul II. Chamberlain and have hirii take the necessary legal steps to increase the Board at the coming election. The reports of Auditor White for the month of December covering the Electric and Water System were presented to the Board me_--ibers, and after perusal of the same they were ordered filed. No further business appearing, Board adjourned. a--Officio Secretary President Truckee, California February 14, 1957 The merilbers of the Board of Directors of the Truckee Public Utilitv District met in regular meeting at the office of the District on I -:lain St., at 2:30 p M., C R Heller, president, presiding. Upon roll call tine following Directors were noted present: Hal TwIelch Chas. R. Heller Jack Neu.gebauer (absent) The minutes of the regular Meeting of JanuarY 31st were read and approved, and the following bills were read and upon notion made and carried were ordered paid: