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Home My WebLink AboutAgenda Truckee Donner Public Utility District Board of Directors Joseph R.Aguera John L. Corbett Business Office Engineering Services Riohard K.Curran (916) 587-3896 (916) 587-3944 FAX (916) 587-5056 James A. Maass Patricia S.Sutton REGULAR 14EETING General Manager 7:00 p.m. - MONDAY, 9116/91 Peter L Holzrneister TDPUD BOARD ROOM A G E N D A 1. Call to order 2 . Roll call 3 . Public input (7: 25 PM or as soon thereafter as possible) UNFINISHED BUSINESS NEW BUSINESS 4 . Tahoe Donner Pipeline Replacement Project: a) Status. report b) Consideration of approving invoices, progress pay estimates and making appropriate transfer from acquisition fund to general fund 5. Agreement with Tahoe Forest Hospital for services - consideration and possible approval 6 . Donner Trails Tank No. 2 - consideration of acceptance, authorization to file notice of completion and to make final progress payment 7. Consideration of approving the write-off of uncollected accounts through December 31, 1990 ROUTINE BUSINESS 8. Direction regarding minutes of September 3 , 1991 9 . Correspondence 10. Bills for approval 11. Staff report CLOSED SESSION RETURN TO PUBLIC SESSION ADJOURNMENT NOTE - The complete packet of material relating to the agenda is available for review at the PUD office and at the Truckee library. C E R T I F I C A T 1 0 N I hereby certify that the foregoing agenda has been posted in the District/ ffice and Government Center, provided to the U. S . Post Office d County Library for posting, and mailed to the Directors and i erested parties September 11, 1991. Susan M. Craig, Deputy Dist - t Clerk Post Office Box 309 9 11570 Donner Pass Road Truckee, California 96160 ATTACHMENT TO AGENDA. ITEM #7 TRUCKEE DONNER PUBLIC UTILITY DISTRICT WRITE--OFF LIST: Accounts closed 12/31/90 & prior and still uncollected as of 9/11/91 Customer Customer Name W/O Amount Date Closed 9947--3 Blanton, James T 263 . 00 07/03/90 13003-9 Cox, Michael S 43 . 00 09/05/90 13172-2 Dias, Alan V 16 . 26 11/02/90 14219-0 Dickerson, Cyndee 77 . 93 12/31/90 12904-9 Gibbs, Emma Lou 14 . 70 12/31/90 3561-8 Goosman, Chip J 360. 49 11/19/90 8879-9 Hernandez, Ruben 96 . 39 11/07/90 13845-3 Hernandez, Sergio 98 . 67 12/11/90 11512--1 Holcomb, Eric 25 . 61 08/16/90 2175-8 Hublar, Gail Camellia 32 . 90 07/05/90 10230-1 Hulme, Larry 36 . 82 07/16/90 11906--5 Jones, Roberta 324 . 45 03/02/90 13366--0 Kreieyer, Laura 80 . 39 10/18/90 12972--6 Marshall, Katie 40 . 54 07/20/90 4200-2 Martinez, Ernest 55 . 64 12/1.1/90 13386-3 Mayberry, Jimmie D 27 . 52 10/11/90 12801-7 Nyborg, Erik 108 . 06 06/15/90 13790-1 Proctor, Lisa 528 . 54 12/11/90 3887-7 Reck, Richard M 9 . 00 10/17/90 12690-4 Stansberry, Michael R 23 . 22 07/09/90 2310--1 Story, Mark 34 . 04 12/11/90 9484-7 Williamson, Lynn 9 . 27 04/30/90 2 , 306 . 44 TRUCKEE DONNER PUBLIC UTILITY DISTRICT }SILLS FOR BOARD APPROVAL SEPTEMBER 16,1991 TOTAL ELECTRIC WATER DESCRIPTION -------------.,____-----__--_--_------_-_-------_------------_--_-----------_------------W_--_ GENERAL ELECTRIC SUPPLY 16,934.95 16,934.95 GE 500KVA TRANSFORMER AND 6 GE 37.5KVA TRANSFORMERS. GENERAL PACIFIC INC. 6,280.56 6,280.56 1.92 96068 SANGAMO WATT HR. METERS. SAVERS ENGINEERING INC. 8,443.45 8,443.45 HYDROLOGY STUDY (50.00) FACILITIES FEES (130.00) GRIDER (50.00) BACTERIA SAMPLE MAP (845.00) ESTABROOK REIMBURSEMENT (510.00) SIZZLER (145.00) HENN DEVELOPMENT (120.00) STONEWOOD CONDOS (100.00) TAHOE DONNER SNOWMAKING (485.00) E. RIVER STREET (40.00) DONNER TRAILS TANK #2 (30.00) PROP 55 (200.00) ARMSTRONG BOOSTER PIPE (1070.75) TAHOE FOREST HOSPITAL EXPAN (550.00) REV WATER STAN P E PIPE (60.00) PROSSER WOODS (22.0.00) MASTERPLAN INITIAL STUDY (370.00) HWY 267 RIVER CROSSING (235.00) VAUGHN ENQUIST (100.00) OLYMPIC HEIGHTS PIPELINE (900.00) MISC REQSTS AFTER ANDY (400.00) COP ANALYSIS (50.00) KENDALL (150.00) 'TELEMETRY REQ FOR PROP (475.00) GATEWAY TANK DESIGN ENGR (1037.70) HYDR MODEL @ TSD OFFICE (120.00) . UTILITY TREE SERVICE INC. 5,840.00 5,840.00 TREE TRIMMING SERVICES. WESTERN STAPES ELECTRIC INC. 3,107.04 3,107.04 REGULATOR BYPASS, SWITCH AND RTE 15KV ELBOW. _-___. ----------------------------.._ 40,606.00 32,162.55 8,443.45 TDPlD STAFF REPORT AGENDA ITEM NO. 11 TO: Board of Directors FROM: Peter L. Holzmeister, General. Manager SUBJECT: Staff Report A. Truckee Incorporation Feasibility Analysis Please review the attached letter from Angus N. McDonald. Mr. McDonald has been retained by Nevada County LAFCo to study the feasibility of incorporating Truckee. He has an appointment to meet with me at 10: 00 AM on Wednesday, September 18 . Board members are invited to attend. George Ticknor spoke at Rotary on September 12 about Mr. McDonald€ s task. George said that the local group, Planning for Tomorrow in Truckee, has gone on record as favoring an incorporation plan that leaves all of the special districts as they are. George went on to say that under the law, LAFCo must address the status of the special districts in any feasibility study for incorporation of a city. Our Board has taken no formal position on city incorporation. our Board ha I believe, expressed the idea that our Distract should remain i .:. pendent of city government. I think I can make a reasonable argument in favor of our District remaining unchanged. By the way, the PTT committee is meeting with Mr. McDonald on Monday evening in the Truckee library. B. water ouality Report Attached is the water quality report for the month of August. C. Cheap Supply of Gas The enclosed article from the August 26, 1991 issue of Public Power Weekly is enclosed for your information. The Gas Research Institute is predicting that natural gas prices will be low for the 1 next 20 years. iD. Miscellaneous Work in Progress As you may have noted, our agenda is rather short this time. District staff is busy working on several projects and reports which are not yet ready for presentation to the Board. Until we get these items taken care of we will not be able to bring new issues before you for consideration. So, our agendas may be brief for the next few meetings. Following is a very concise list of the things we are working on and a quick status report. 1) Organizational _Structure -- We are still working on job descriptions and talking among staff to make sure everyone knows what we are doing had has an opportunity to comment. 2) Contract leak repair - We are polishing up some language for submission to John Phelps. 3) 1992 Budget - Department heads are assembling budget estimates. 4) Memorandum of Understanding - I am meeting with the Union negotiating committee and we have greatly narrowed the issues. However, the remaining issues are the big ones. 5) Employee safety _ The safety committee and I are reviewing a draft Illness and Injury Prevention Program and a Hazard Communication Program in order to comply with Cal/OSHA requirements. 6) Emergency Response Plan - The Board has directed us to prepare an emergency response plan; so has Cal/OSHA. The Board' s idea of such a plan is to guide us in restoring service to our customers during an outage. Cal./OSHA wants a plan guiding our response to an emergency relating to injury to an employee. We will work on both of these plans. However, I need to get back to a full compliment of employees to do a good job with these plans. 7) survey of District owned-Property and Equipment -- The Board has asked for a comprehensive listing of PUD owned property and equipment. We have such a list for our real estate. Susan Craig prepared it several years ago. We still need to pull together our listing of equipment. Again, I need to add to staff before I can do a good job of finishing that task. 8) Em lv ee Manual - We have a draft employee manual . 2 Our committee should meet soon to begin review of it. 9) com ietion of office space U stairs - 1 am working with Dale Cox to get the upstairs completed so we can reorganize our work space. 10) State Mandated Fees -- T am pulling information together on all the new state mandated fees so the Board can have a full discussion of the picture that is emerging. 11) Water Meter Law - We how have a copy of SB 229 requiring the installation of residential water meters. it does not require that the meters be read. We have $662 , 000 in a restricted fund to install meters. AB 1600 says any money collected after January 1, 1989 for meters must be spent on meters or returned to the customers. We need to discuss carefully what we will do with respect to meters. 12) Transfers from Aggpisition Fund to General Fund - Mary Chapman has written to both Rick Blumenfeld and Sean Tierney for their comments on our handling of payments to contractors. 13) Arbitrage Rule - Mary has also written to Sean Tierney for a clear answer to our obligations under the arbitrage rule in our certificates of participation. 14) Fundin source for Booster Pum Station - Mary is reviewing the documents setting up various restricted funds that 1 have proposed to use in construction of the Northwoods Booster Pump Station. 15) SMUD Public Hearing Advertisements - Susan Craig is waiting for a response from SMUD regarding their practice of using vicinity maps along with public hearing notices. We may want to incorporate this procedure for District public hearing notices. PLH/smc Attachments 3 Angus McDonald & Associates 7950 Addison Street,Suite I07 Berkeley,Califoma 94704-1102 Telephone(415)548-5831 FAX(415)548-7 599 September 9, 1991 Truckee-Donner Public Utility District P.O. Box 309 Truckee, California 96160 Att: Mike Bonlmer, General Manager Subject: Request For Appointment Truckee Incorporation Feasibility Analysis; 1806.01 Dear Mr. Bommer: My office has been given the assignment by the Nevada County Local Agency Formation Commission to evaluate the feasibility of the: Truckee area incorporating as a city. The adopted LAFCo guidelines require that a full range of governmental alternatives be considered, including the possibility of the city directly providing public services that are currently being provided by your District. I would appreciate the opportunity to meet with you early in the study to be sure that I understand fully the issues and alternatives that must be dealt with. I am mindful of the fact that your District serves a two-county area and that a change in the status quo could produce very significant impacts. I have scheduled a field visit during the time period Monday, September 16 through Wednesday, September 18, in the Truckee area. I would like to to schedule an appointment with you during that time. Glynnis Stevens, my research assistant, will be calling your office to arrange a convenient time. You may want to invite members of your staff or members of your governing body to the meeting. This is entirely your decision. I am enclosing a suggested agenda for our meeting. If there is material that I should read before our meeting, please send it to me as soon as possible. It would be very helpful to me if I could receive in advance of our meeting any of the following documents that are available: .and Use Economics Public Finance Truckee Incorporation Feasibility Analysis September 9, 1991 Page 2 a Operating budget for Fiscal Year 1991/92, 0 Capital improvements program; 0 Table of organization showing number of people in each position; w Classification and pay plan; 0 Annual report. and Other descriptions of your District, including objectives, history, etc. 1 look forward to working cooperatively with you on this project. Yours very truly, ANGUS McDONALD & ASSOCIATES, INC. Angus N. McDonald ANM:crg Enclosure ISG6D001(l1�Il:A:10RGr1.�'CZ'S]ISTt79U43.TRjbJc.',p]AC5?crr�niz AGENDA September, 1991 1. Introduction _W Purpose Of The Study 2. Alternatives To Be Considered 2.1 The Status Quo 2.2 City Departments With Services Pi r idi,.d By 1..14y .3LaLt 1 o T I1. :xiot.li� Bi-county Service Area 2.3 A City Department With City Staff Providing Services In Truckee Only. A New Special District Would Be Established To Provide Services In Placer County. 2.4 A City Department That Contracts With Nevada County To Provide Services 2.5 Others -- To Be Discussed At The Meeting 3. Open Discussion Of Issues And Options M Truckee Donner Public Utility District Post Office Box 309 0 11570 Donner Pass fed. 0 Truckee, California 95734 Customer Service (916) 587-3896 Engineering Department (916) 587-3944 MEMORANDUM RECTO S E P 91991 September 10, 1991 To: Peter L. Holzmeister, General Manager From: Maria Chavez-Martinez, Engineering Services Subject: Monthly Bacteriological Report - August 1991 Attached is the "Summary of Bacteriological Water Quality" report for the month of August, 1991. As you can see, the report shows that all of the 28 samples taken within the District's distribution system were free of coliform bacteria, and met the State's drinking water standards. In addition all of the 30 samples taken at the District's sources were also free of coli.form bacteria. mgcm mgcm SUMMARY OF BACTERIOLOGICAL WATER QUALITY TRUCKEE DONNER PUBLIC UTILITY DISTRICT system Source Samples Portions Percent Samples Portions Percent Yr. lMonth Collected Positive Positive Collected Positive Positive 1991 Mav (Truckee) 20 0 0 8 24 5% (Prosser) 8 0 0 7 0 0 (Hirschdale) 1 0 0 1 0 0 June (Truckee) 20 0 0 15 25 2% (Prosser) 7 0 0 8 0 0 (Hirschdale) 1 0 0 1 0 0 i1i ly (Truckee) 25 0 0 22 0 0 (Prosser) 10 0 0 10 0 0 (Hirschdale) 2 16 6% 2 0 0 August (Truckee) 21 0 0 21 0 0 (Prosser) & 0 0 8 0 0 (Hirschdale) 1 0 0 1 0 0 4 Northside Well (2 tubes) 5 Northside Well (2 tubes) 6 10793 Hirschdale Rd (1 tube)