04-04-85MINUTES
REGULAR MEETING OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS
SOUTH TAHOE PUBLIC UTILITY DISTRICT
APRIL 4, 1985
The Board of Directors of the South Tahoe Public Utility District met
in a regular session, April 4, 1985, 4:00 P.M., 1900 Lake Tahoe Blvd.,
City Service Center.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS: President Madden,
Directors, Mason, Olson, Jones, Wynn
ROLL CALL
STAFF: Cofer, Baer, Fischer, Mamath, Taylor,
Chr~tianson, G. Eppler, B. Eppler, Schroeder,
Plasterer, Trebotich, Attorney Weidman
GUESTS: Mike Hoffman-Tahoe Daily Tribune
Clerk of Board Added Items 4 and 5
CORRECTIONS/ADDITIONS TO
AGENDA
Moved Wynn/Second Olson/Passed Unanimously
to approve as submitted:
1) Authorized staff, upon discovery of
present or future additional sewer units
on any given piece of property within the
District's boundaries to:
(a) Notify property owner and City
or County by letter of District's
intention to place matter on Board
Agenda; and
(b) if authorized by Board, to
correct billing and bill the property
owner for all new connection and
sewer charges and permit fees.
Moved Mason/Second Wynn/Passed Unanimously
to approve the March 21, 1985 Regular Boa~'d
Meeting.
Director Jones deferred his comments re
the Water Agency meeting to Attorney
Weidman.
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CONSENT CALENDAR
APPROVAL OF BOARD MINUTES
REPORT BY BOARD MEMBERS
SHOP STEWARD'S REPORT
COMMITTEE REPORTS
REGULAR BOARD MEETING MINUTES - APRIL 4~ ~1985
3/28/85 - Corps of Engineers re Applica-
tion Permit to Construct at ICR
4/1/85
4/2/85
4/3/85
4/4/85
- 4:00 Workshop/Agenda Items
- E1 Dorado County Water Agency re
Tax Transfer Funds
- Tahoe Human Services Workshop on
Drug Abuse
- 3:00 P.M. Finance Committee met
with District Staff
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PAST MEETINGS
Manager Cofer reported on four items:
1) Receipt of Clean-Up and Abatement
Notice from Lahontan. 128 acre feet or
368 million gallons had to be released to
Indian Creek due to heavy snowfall. District
will respond to Lahontan proposing a mod-
ification to the operation at Indian Creek
after Labor Day weekend. It would allow
drawing Reservoir down to top of outlet
works (20 ft. of depth) to gain 800 acre
feet of storage. District has contacted
Dept. of Water Resources and BLM and is
trying to reach Dept. of Fish & Game.
2) Talked with Joan Phillipe, City of
South Lake Tahoe, re Consent Calendar
Item. Manager Cofer has requested a
letter from her stating who the District
can deal with to resolve problem. Also,
quarterly progress meetings will be held
to identify the status of each item on
our list.
3) Attended meeting with representatives
from U.S. Postal Service, TRPA, Forest
Service and District staff re the Neighbor-
hood Postal Cluster Boxes which has been
proposed on the land the District leases
from the Forest Service for the Emergency
Holding Pond (corner Black Bart and Pioneer
Trail). Manager Cofer restated the District's
concern of the land coverage problem. A
pending solution may be to amend our present
F.S. permit to include an additional 3.6
acres.
4) TRPA requested 40 sets of all environ-
mental documents for the Plant Conversion
project. Because of the huge quantity
(3,000 pages each set or 120 thousand pages
@ 5¢/ea = $6,000) Manager conferred with
Bill Morgan and reduced requested amount to
6 complete sets to TRPA, 33 sets of the Draft
EIS, Final EIS and the 300 page summary.
~INAGER'S REPORT
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4) Plant Conversion Project was remoVed
from A.P.C. 4/10 Agenda and will be de-
layed one month.
Attorney Weidman reported on eight items:
1) Schwake Litigation - Federal court
case has a 4/12/85 status conference to be
attended by Ed Clifford and John Weidman.
2) ~yramid Lake Paiut~e Indian Tribe vs
State of CalifOrnia - The 3 invloved
districts which included STPUD mad~a s6m-
mary motion to be removed from lawsuit.
The Judge has granted the motion subject
to appelate time for the Indians.
3) Water Rights Report - There will be no
Draft Supplemental EIR or Draft Policy on
State Water Rights until August. Brown &
Caldwell is working on the matter on a work
product basis.
4) Water Agency - There is no demand for
the 3117,000 for the EID project. Matter
will be on the Water Agency 4/8 Agenda.
Meeting to be attended by Baer & Weidman.
5) Alpine County Litigation - Settlement
Conference is scheduled for 6/7/85. Sierra
Club has requested it be moved forward.
6) Alpine County Legislation (AB914) -
Meeting in Norm Waters office is scheduled
for 4/11 to be attended by Manager Cofer
and Attorney Weidman. Judge Perluss is
preparing a Clarification Amendment.
7) TRPA Settlement - Allocations are going
to be not a part o~ the judgements. There
will be Some arrangement between TTSA and
TRPA before TTSA will agree to settlement
and stay the appeal. How that works out
will affect District's connections and
how we get our money.
8) Lahontan Board - Four new Board
members: (1) Engineer from Arrowhead
representing County Gvt., (2) Engineer
from Barstow representing Water Quality,
(3) Industrial Waste Representative from
Mammouth Lake, (4) Lassen County Rancher/
Member Board of Supervisors representing
Agricultural Irrigation.
MANAGER' s REPORT (continued)
ATTORNEY'S REPORT
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Mike Hoffman from the Tahoe Daily
Tribune introduced himself as the
person covering District news for
the newspaper.
PROGRAM MANAGER'S REPORT
COMMENTS FROM AUDIENCE
(Short Non-Agenda Items)
BOARD ACTION
Moved Wynn/Second Olson/Passed Unanimously
to authorize payment in the amount of
$317,866.19.
Presented by Assistant Manager Baer.
Moved Olson/Second Jones/Passed Unanimously
to authorize Task Order No. 4 for William
F. Pillsbury Engineering Services related
to 10" water line behind the So. "y" Center
in an amount not to exceed $2,597.
Presented by Gary Plasterer.
Moved Wynn/Second Jones/Passed Unanimously
to: A. Authorize Culp/Wesner/Culp Task
Order No. 14 in an amount not to exceed
$3,000 for design engineering Of steel
roof.
B. Authorize staff to go to two
separate bids:
1. Fabrication and installation
of roof; and
2. Purchase and installation of
Hyplon Liner.
Amount of the two bids not to exceed
$35,000.
Presented by Chris Christianson.
Moved Olson/Second Jones/Passed Unanimously
to authorize purchase of new auto trans-
former in the amount of $9,661 plus tax and
shipping.
Presented by Ken Schroeder.
Moved Wynn/Second Olson/Passed Unanimously
to authorize repair of pump in an amount
not to exceed $6,000 to Johnson Pump Co.
Attorney Weidman reported on the District's
position regarding recovery of repair costs
from Capital Machine Corp. who originally
repaired the spare #3 pump.
PAYMENT OF CLAIMS
1984 WATER DISTRIBUTION
SYSTEM IMPROVEMENTS
REHABILITATION OF FOREST
MOUNTAIN TANK - ANGORA WATER
SYSTEM
LUTHER PASS PUMP STATION
MOTOR NO. 4 STARTER
SPARE #3 FINAL EXPORT PUMP
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4/9/85 - 10:00 A.M. - So. Shore Water
Purveyors
4/12/85 - 10:00 A.M. - Harrah's Water
Service with Lou
Powers
Manager Cofer requested Neal Olson attend
the meeting with him.
4:35 P.M.
NOTICE OF FUTURE MEETINGS
ADJOURNMENT
MARY M. ~DEN, PRESIDENT OF BOARD
SOUTH TAFIQ~ PUBLIC UTILITY DISTRICT
ATTEST:
PAT A. MAMATH, CLERK OF BOARD
SOUTH TAHOE PUBLIC UTILITY DISTRICT