Utility Committee Agenda and Packet 2019 09 13

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Republic being sent with more information. August 12th Republic will start putting carts out and that process will take about 3 weeks. Then the 4th week will be to mop up if anything is missed. Last week of August Western will pick up their containers starting on Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Councilmember Stolzmann asked if Mr. Kowar can draft a letter for the residents explaining why they have two sets of trash cans. Mr. Kowar agreed.  Emerald Ash Borer – Mr. Kowar explained how there is still a quarantine in place and there is a Federal Process taking place right now that has some key dates coming up. We should get an idea if the quarantine is lifted or not but won’t know anything until the winter (January/February). Mr. Kowar continued saying that is the high level quarantine and now the internals of the quarantine is that in October there is a no fly period where in the summer you can’t ship it out without grinding it but in October that no fly goes away so we can ship in October without grinding it up. So our first plan of attack is that we meet with A-1 Organics which is the States lead composter to set up a green materials recycling site at the Wastewater Treatment Plant but that isn’t looking good and may not happen. What we are going to do is stock pile compost and put it in roll- offs and when October comes along we’ll ship it out. XI. Update – Water Resources  Water Supply Update – Cory states everything is super awesome with all the snow we’ve had! One thing he did want to bring up is the Coal Ridge water that the City bought in the 80’s where we have 220+ shares that takes out too much off the main stem of Boulder Creek so it’s downstream from us. It is very hard for us to use it. We have an exchange that allows us to bring it up to Marshall Lake and the intake where we can use it that way but we don’t get the full use out of it. There is a buyer interested in acquiring our Coal Ridge Shares. I’m working on a deal to trade our shares for CBT water and probably cash. They haven’t put the full proposal together yet but they are working on it. Councilmember Stolzmann asked if it affects our impact in Marshall Lake storage. Cory said it does not. Committee continued discussing the impacts and Cory explained how Coal Ridge works and ideally he asked for the CBT’s full allocation.  Windy Gap Firming Project Update – Cory said the design is complete and now looking at going out to bid for construction and have official bids by November. So we could start construction as early as 2021. The legal process is still going and that could delay starting. Northern District is looking at two options as far as funding. The first one would be the base concept is have an Interim payment like we had this year. Then we’d go into financing in 2021 with full payment at that point and then Bond in 2022 depending on the outcome of the lawsuit. 8