welcome everyone to the may 18th 2026 tampa bay water meeting the meeting and public hearing were noticed in the florida administrative register the tampa bay times and on the tampa bay water website the meeting is available for viewing through live streaming and a recording of the meeting will be posted on the agency's website vice chair waitment will lead lead the police pledge pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice thank you mr can we please have a roll call sorry mayor davis hello here mr eckers miranda here here here vice chair waitman present here five members present have a quorum thank you at this time we open the public hearing on the fiscal year 2027 operating budget and capital improvements program if we can have the budget presentation i'll i'll leave it to you yes good morning thank you this presentation will be performed by christina saget our chief financial officer and it'll be a recap from last month's workshop on the 2027 operating budget and also our fiscal year 27 capital improvement uh program expenditures christina good morning chair and members of the board as chuck said this is a recap of the workshop that was presented in april and board action will be requested after the presentation and public comment the proposed uniform rate for fiscal year 27 is slightly below two dollars and 66 cents per thousand gallons which is an increase of about two cents over the current year and includes a variable rate around 62 cents per thousand gallons we minimize the increase to the uniform rate by using four million from the rate stabilization account the projected demand for fiscal year 27 is 212.84 million gallons per day and the source selection consists of operating the surface water treatment plant for an annual average of 79 million gallons per day running the desalination facility with an annual average of 13 million gallons per day and using the agency's well fields to produce about 121 million gallons per day of total groundwater around 86 mgd from the consolidated well fields and 35 mgd from other well fields the agency's total costs are divided into two components variable costs and fixed costs the agency's variable cost equal around 22 percent of the total of the fiscal year 27 budget and the fixed cost account for the remaining 78 percent and are broken down into four subcategories contracted operation and maintenance agreements debt service for bonds debt service for member acquisition credits and the fixed cost to operate the agency the pie chart shows that the total debt service for the bonds and member acquisition credits make up almost 41 percent of the fiscal year 27 total costs and just as a reminder fiscal year 28 will be the final year of member acquisition credits completing the 30 years of monthly credits to the members in consideration of conveyance of transferred assets per the amended and restated interlocal agreement the total costs for the proposed fiscal year 27 budget are 223.8 million which is about a 4.4 million increase over the current fiscal year variable costs increased by 1.4 million and fixed costs had a net increase of 3 million the proposed budget includes a 3 percent cost of living adjustment and a performance based merit program of up to 3 percent and the request for four new positions one it network engineer one mechanical technician one and two mechanical technician trainees the projected adjustments of 13.2 million and the 4 million of use of the rate stabilization funds are netted against the total costs to get the proposed net revenue required from water sales of 206.6 million this pie chart shows the breakdown of each division's percentage of the proposed 27 total costs and you can see that the budgets for the water production and the finance administration divisions account for about 82 percent of the full budget this is because the variable costs and the contracted operations and maintenance maintenance agreements for the surface water treatment plant and the desalination facility are included in the budget for water production and the agency's annual debt service is part of the budget for the finance and administration division next i will provide a review of the fiscal year 27 capital improvement program the estimated fiscal year 27 capital improvement program expenditures totals 291.4 million which includes 43 active projects three projects account for 67 percent of this spend the south hillsboro pipeline segments a and b make up 42 percent and the surface water treatment plant expansion makes up 25 percent there are nine projects with expenditures between 2.6 million and 16.6 million and then there are 31 projects with expenditures of two and a half million or less that make up the rest of the estimated expenditures this is the plan funding sources for fiscal year 27 capital expenditures five percent will be funded with pay-as-you-go funds such as renewal and replacement capital improvement p fast and others nine percent will be funded with member government joint project agreements and the remaining 86 percent will be funded with the revenue bonds either the existing revenue bonds or the of anticipated bond issuance in august or september of this year the agency is also anticipating receiving reimbursements totaling 20.1 million from grants and district co-funding during the fiscal year to review the highlights of the proposed 27 budget a uniform rate of two dollars and 66 cents per thousand gallons slightly more than two cents than the current year anticipated demand of two hundred and twelve point eight four million gallons a day requesting four positions bringing the fte count up to 167 total costs of 223.8 million using four million from the rate stabilization account net revenue required from water sales of 206.6 million plus the fiscal year 27 capital improvement program estimated expenditures of 291.4 million for today's public hearing the remaining budget actions include receiving any public comment on the proposed fiscal year 27 budget or capital improvement program approving resolution 2026 001 which approves the 27 operating budget including any amendments to the budget by the board and approving the estimated capital improvement program expenditures for fiscal year 27 this does conclude my presentation and i would be happy to answer any questions thank you board members any questions on the budget i see none at this point move on to public comment on the budget i have a request to speak from david ballard gettis jr you'll have three minutes to speak good morning good morning madam chair board david ballard gettis jr i live on georgia avenue in palm harbor as a child i used to play the board game monopoly now the board game monopoly has a space on it called waterworks now what if legislation is playing a game with us concerning the waterworks the declaration of independence obviously says that legislation is being pretentious there's also a space in the game monopoly for the railroad the declaration of independence talks about a long train of usurpations while legislation is playing a game of waterworks pretentiously then there's a spot that says go to jail that's where the 14th amendment comes in so i'd give you a heads up thank you thank you this time uh public comment is closed i'll entertain a motion to approve the budget i'm sorry i don't have a motion for you all to vote but here we go well i can we can just do it verbally all in favor aye any opposed okay i'm sorry that's right so we have council member miranda i know roll call do i do a roll call yeah sure let's do a roll call okay uh chair hanowitz yes vice chair waitman yes commissioner cohen yes mayor davis yes councilman miranda no commissioner oakley yes commissioner peters yes and the motion passes six to one thank you okay now we open the regular board meeting and we go to public comments i have a request to speak from mr david ballard gettis jr hello again hi thank you again david ballard gettis jr georgia avenue in palm harbor initially we all had our own well water to supply our household water usage then systematically the city started supplying the water and we began receiving water utility based on a supply and rate wholesale cost meticulously the government designed a sewer system supported by sewer revenue bonds and applied an excise charge into the sewer portion of the water bill invoking a bond charge the disposal of the treated sewage the government predominantly pumped that sewage into local rivers and lakes and here locally dunedin the wastewater was pumped into the intercoastal waters behind kaladisi island methodically newly constructed hoa and deed restricted neighborhoods were equipping every household with sprinkler systems wasting the water exhausting contaminating the groundwater with lawn fertilizers and pesticides planting non-indigenous topiary landscapes to include genetically modified grass killing all the insects in the ground with poison while applying carcinogenic fertilizers to the water destroying our wetlands for cypress mulch used as landscaping required by the hoa association the government and their hirelings contrived what they wanted engineered it for a purposeful outcome to deliberately produce the conundrum that they desired most invoking for their benefit as self-evident suppressing oppressing us the residents in their process as they rise to wealth and importance and privileges and immunities tax-free in the 14th amendment what used to be a wholesale utility water bill now includes ad hoc third-party fees levies imposts excise taxes bond revenue charges the availability fee of reclaimed water as a toll charge backflow charge as a surcharge and now to include a tampa bay water bond dividend charge as almost three quarters of tampa bay waters capital outlay finances bond debt servicing bond debt charges from my perspective the government the government's resourceful solutions to society are not resourceful and you're solving nothing in your process thank you thank you move on to the consent agenda if there are no items pulled um i'll entertain the motion i'll move okay the motion from commissioner oakley second from by share waitman uh that was or it was i'm sorry i thought you said yes and then he said commissioner miranda yep either one somebody to the left mr miranda charlie mr miranda was my father i do not know why i am not getting the option to start your recording on the system so we are going to have to do it do a roll call let's do a roll call sorry uh chair hanowitz yes vice chair waitman yes commissioner cohen yes mayor davis yes councilman miranda yes commissioner oakley yes commissioner peters yes the motion passes unanimously thank you krista we move on to the regular agenda the first item up is b1 the general manager's report this is for information only the votes needed thank you madam chair uh warren and i will cover the first part uh and that includes uh the drought that is uh as you know we're in a stage three and uh most of the state as you see on this chart is under an extreme drought condition however and i'm hoping everyone in this room got the the rain that we got yesterday and so it looks as though that may continue and hopefully it it is the start of the rainy season uh we got quite a good jump in the uh hillsborough river overnight i'm looking at rory jones from the city of tampa and he's he's smiling today though so that's a that's a good thing uh and if it just continues the rain we should be on our way but i did want warren to go through a few of the slides uh where are we with the uh the current conditions good morning madam chair members of the board through the month of april we delivered an average of about 206.7 million gallons per day to the members for the first seven months of the year it's about eight and a quarter million gallons a day higher than the same period last year about four point two percent more water delivered this is because of the very hot and dry conditions we've been experiencing since september and we are optimistic that the rainy season is beginning we hope it continues in a continuous everyday afternoon rain it usually starts with fits and starts but once it gets going we usually have continuous afternoon rains for the month of april just quick orientation the each bar is what we've delivered to the members each month red is from our reservoir blue is river water yellow is desalinated seawater and green is our mix of groundwater for the month of april we show that we delivered about four and a half million gallons a day less than we expected and the numbers for october of 25 through september of 26 are the projections that we had at the beginning of the year we put those in place so we can compare where we are to what we thought we would be at the beginning of the year for the bars on the right side of the the vertical black line those are what we projected to be for the rest of the water year you can see that desalinated seawater looks absent from to september but at this point we will be running the desalination plant in september of this year so this was just a forecast we would like to let you know the desalination plant is offline this week there was planned maintenance by tico on a substation and transmission systems so there's no power coming into our plant but that should be only this week and we'll be back up to operations as we have reduced our take from the reservoir we're currently flowing about 40 million gallons a day to the surface water plant that has caused an increase in our groundwater sources we reduced the flow to the surface water plant in order to make sure that we sustain that supply through the end of the dry season at 40 million gallons a day we have capacity to meet that flow rate until about mid-july and that would drop us down to that one and a half billion gallon threshold where we have to start making some operational decisions the consolidated water use permit has a permit limit of 90 million gallons per day because of the high demands and the balance of our sources the running average was 96.23 million gallons a day at the end of april we do show that after this month there's a high water use demands on the system should decrease and we'll be able to bring this running average down over the coming months we will have to balance bringing the running average down but also refilling the regional reservoir for next spring dry season so we don't put all of our all of our resources to reducing this pumping rate we have to balance that with storage for next year the south central hillsborough wellfield running average was an even 26 million gallons a day at the end of april and compared to our higher permit limit that we received last year of 26.82 so that wellfield is in good condition the reservoir is down to about 3.8 billion gallons as of yesterday that's about 25 percent full and we are on track to res if we receive our expected summer rains have the reservoir full by the time the flows diminish in october with that i'd be happy to answer system questions before turning back over to mr cardin any questions no questions thank you so much yes okay and i will pick up with some of the updates here that are listed on the slide the first being the alify river water use permit challenge last month the board did agree on the settlement and coordination agreement uh and uh it was approved by the administrative law judge uh to relinquish the jurisdiction back to the uh to the district the district will be taking up the final order uh tomorrow at their regular scheduled board meeting uh legislatively uh the update the the florida legislature is in session uh discussing the budget and uh we do have uh two appropriations uh that are uh they're requesting money for the skate improvements about a million dollars and also the surface water treatment plan expansion uh another two million dollars so they are still viable but i don't have any word on that yet and i will let the board know as soon as i do know uh if we did get the money uh pay and class study is in full gear right now cody and associates is uh doing the study and they're wrapping it up um i'm planning to bring it back to the board uh to review with the board in the in the summer and as well the strategic plan we are closing the window on the last five year strategic plan and so we will be updating the board on how we did in july at the july board meeting and we will be starting the new five-year plan and that'll be in front of the board later in uh september or august september or october we'll be back in front of the board and lastly i wanted to remind the board uh i think christina mentioned it uh at the workshop last month and also today uh in july i plan to be bringing a bond resolution for uh the new bonds 2026a bonds worth about 292 million dollars and it'll be a resolution to start the process and at the same time we will be bringing back a request to refund the 2016 a bonds which uh about 72 million dollars refunding could be a savings between six and nine million dollars uh total present value savings there so we'll be bringing those to you in july i did want to flip the slide here it'll show you uh we had our bring a child to work day like everyone else did and uh this is a huge successfully uh program over the years and as you can see the the children are having fun but they're also learning uh a little bit different from when i brought my child to to to work day back in the day they didn't have any of the the activities that we have here so it's pretty pretty exciting and that we get a large turnout uh as you see here our water use permitting senior manager kathleen jonas uh recently represented the agency at geo expo 2026 which was hosted by the university of south florida's geology alumni society also in late april we had a great time out at earth day uh at echo fest 2026 and uh we were the main sponsor of the 2026 chalk festival um here and you can see we had our logo designed for us by one of the artists there and that concludes uh some of my remarks i'll be happy to to answer any questions thank you chuck for the update any questions questions from the board members okay well we move up to action items we have two items the first one is going to be presented by maribel melina the planning and projects director this will require a vote vote good morning okay good morning madam chair and members of the board agenda item c1 is a task authorization under the existing operation agreement for the seawater desalination facility with u.s water acciona the public water has completed two capital projects and is about to complete a third to improve the desalination facilities reliability and restore its uh the facility towards its original design capacity in 2023 the facility requires all seven ro racks of reverse osmosis racks and stabilize them to ensure that they continue to operate last year we removed all of them and reinstalled only five of them which allows the facility to produce up to 20 million gallons per day five of the original seven racks have now been replaced while the long-term approach for the remaining two racks continue to be evaluated in addition we completed upgrades to 13 variable frequency drives or vfds and including five of the vfds associated with the original five racks completed in 2023 this new project builds on that progress improving the reliability and the system redundancy we will restore the facility to its original design capacity of about 28 million gallons per day this project includes the construction of two new arrow racks for trains six and seven the purchase and installation of new pressure vessels and membranes and the replacement or reconditioning of the existing 50 ton ac unit motors and pumps vfds and the communication protocol and materials and communication panels replacement for racks one through five construction of the new racks six and seven will be complete by may 2027 and the final project completion is expected by august 2027 the total budget for this project is 15 and a half million dollars this project completes a multi-year effort and its investments to ensure the long-term reliability of our drought proof water source and with that staff request your approval for this task authorization in the amount of 15 and a half million dollars which includes about three million dollars for owner's allowance and this concludes my presentation i will be happy to take any questions thank you what are the chances that we can get this ahead of schedule we're moving as fast as we can i know you i'll entertain a motion second i have a motion from commissioner cohen second from this it was councilman miranda council member miranda was second oh he was a motion oh well it's hard because i saw his okay so commissioner peters is a motion council member miranda is a second sorry i saw mr cohen also it's a ball head that's getting to you oh it's sorry easy down there one second here sorry is the machine working yeah i think so okay let's cross our fingers yes okay okay there we go i think we haven't got to vote board members if you can enter your votes seeing that all board members presidents have voted clerk you please tell me announce vote yes they did motion carries unanimously thank you so much we move on to c2 and this is going to be presented by mr hogg our chief science officer and this will require a vote good morning again madam chair and board members this is an action item and at the end i will be requesting approval of an amendment to a well construction contract with husk drilling services this is related to the east pasco well field project this is one of our master water plan feasibility study projects for how we can meet your demands in the year 2033 and following this project is in extreme northeastern corner of pasco county and it is examining can we develop a water supply source there from both the fresh upper floridan aquifer and the brackish deeper aquifer the lower floridan or a combination of both the project estimate currently is up between three and nine million gallons a day of some combination of these two water sources the original scope of the project had us constructing test wells and monitor wells in both the upper floridan freshwater part and the lower floridan but because of schedule and cost pressures we did we brought a recommendation to the board in april to proceed april of last year to proceed in a stepwise fashion to complete the deep core holes so we could get geologic data and water quality data from the deep floridan aquifer and test that brackish source but to defer further drilling and studies until we determine the feasibility of the freshwater part based on the very limited geologic data from this area our consultant had estimated that we would encounter that productive zone of the lower floridan aquifer where we could test the water quality at 2 200 feet below land surface so that was the depth that we worked into the construction contract to date we have drilled below 2 100 feet and we haven't quite found the zone that's productive that gives us sustained water quality that we can then analyze but the picture on the right shows the cores that we're removing from this well so it's a continuous core and we're bringing up the geologic uh formation the actual rocks so that we can study them as we also test for the water quality this is a little hard to see so we actually have a sample that i'll pass around that is a section of the floridan aquifer it's from about 1800 feet below land surface at this site and up until a couple weeks ago no humans had ever seen or touched that rock so you're some of the few you're some of the very few uh what we're requesting today in a contract amendment is to extend the drilling contract to allow the driller to go to a maximum depth of 3000 feet which we believe is more than enough to collect the data that we needed from this site to make future assessments our staff and consultants will be out there as they continue to go deeper and every time they go about 20 to 25 feet we stop and we test the aquifer so as soon as we find that productive zone we'll stop drilling so we won't spend any of the additional dollars that are not needed if we were to pause and see if we get to 2200 and then come back then the driller would likely move to another site and there would be a substantial delay in the project it's also the the core hole the core that you're seeing that's the diameter of the well so imagine going down with a drill bit over 2000 feet there's no guarantee that we could go back into the same well in the same manner it could deviate or getting all different data so since we have set off on a course to cost effectively collect this data we're recommending that the board approve this contract amendment to let us go to additional depth to collect the data that we came to collect at this site we'd be happy to answer any questions thank you and thank you for the exhibit any questions from board members rock is pretty heavy so typically i went where is it that you normally expect to hit water um if you look at the core the part of it is incredibly tight and dense yes and that's that long zone that we've been drilling through that's the confining unit between the upper and the lower and that rock is so tight that water really doesn't pass vertically through it fresh water stays in the top and brackish water stays at the bottom we expected to find the zone in the lower floridan that has more of those connected holes or bugs and that's how the water moves through the aquifer we expected it at 2200 feet max but since there is almost no geologic data from this area that was our best estimate so it's going to wind up being a little bit deeper we are at 2100 and we're finding zones that have more of those connections we're getting water it's just not the sustained amount that we need to get a good water quality sample hopefully within the next one to 200 feet certainly well before we get to 3 000 feet we'll hit that productive zone once we're done the cores will be i believe donated to the florida geological society so that they're available for all through the state to study and catalog so it's a good resource great thank you okay at this time i'll entertain a motion for approval okay we have council member miranda the motion a second from commissioner oakley open the machine for voting foreign members please enter your votes we're seeing that all votes have been cast can you please tally announce the vote motion passes unanimously thank you thank you mr hogg for the presentation next up we have presentations and reports the first item is going to be presented by michelle som our chief of staff and chief strategy officer good morning good morning chair and members of the board i'm here to provide you with a quick update on the implementation plan for the recommendations from the 2025 performance and management audit this is just a presentation and no action is required this study is a requirement of the interlocal agreement it's performed every five years and from august to december of 2025 baker tilly advisory group performed it and the results were reported to the board at your february board meeting subsequent to that meeting baker tilly provided us with an implementation plan but before we talk about the implementation i want to quickly go through the 11 recommendations from the audit the recommendations were broken into five categories and they're summarized on the next two slides the full recommendations can be found either in the audit report or in the implementation plan that's attached to your agenda item the blue recommendations indicate those that have already started and are in progress under workload and structure baker tilly included three recommendations developing an overlapping hiring strategy for key positions developing knowledge retention and knowledge documentation tools and exploring shared service agreements with the member governments under succession planning and career development baker tilly recommended the agency continue to develop succession plans for positions at high risk of retirement or turnover in the next several years and develop additional career ladders where it makes sense they also recommended building on the agency's leadership development program to expand to other levels of the agency and to create agency-wide key performance indicators technology and processes recommendations included creating a process and evaluating agency systems and applications to reduce redundancy and formalizing an annual review of the agency's artificial intelligence policy strategic planning and governance recommendations included the development documentation and implementation of a robust asset management program and the creation of a business continuity plan and the final recommendation was under organization culture and communication and included the creation of a financial working group with the member governments to increase financial transparency the implementation plan included a prioritization and ranking of the recommendations as you saw on the previous slides more than half of them are already in progress all of the recommendations will be incorporated into the agency's strategic plan that chuck mentioned earlier will be coming to the board later this summer and all recommendations will be implemented within the next five years progress on them will be reported quarterly on the board agenda and annually as part of the strategic plan report and that concludes my presentation i'd be happy to answer any questions thank you any questions ask any questions i'm curious the uh annual artificial intelligence policy review when do we uh start the policy for ai do you have an idea uh it was really just in the last couple of months you know it's recent it was just in 2026 the beginning of 2026. well it's good that we're doing it because a lot of places have even started thank you okay next up we have the hurricane season agency preparedness update we're here already good morning chair and members of the board uh today i want to focus on the 2026 hurricane season our preparedness what changed and how we're going to coordinate regionally here at tampa bay we use a comprehensive emergency management plan and inside of it you'll find a incident command structure all hazard specific responses we got plans for prolonged events communication and coordination plans it's our playbook on how we deal with major disruptions especially hurricanes each year preparation begins in february planning begins with a document and readiness review and the review includes updating all our written plans in march supply is inventoried and we create our needs list or our wish list and may is our training month this year we have the emergency management services international coming in to train the staff and to review our documents that will be happening this week also in june we keep our generators fuel maintained at 90 percent pre-storm and we conduct communication redundancy testing and any other final checks some storm seasons results in changes needed we track and implement those changes through continuous improvement for example since helene and milton the last storm season we improved our generator capacity we also connected additional support services to our partner generators to ensure our warehouse remains available we developed additional contingency plans to keep our well fields powered and we enhanced our fuel contracts to give us a broader fuel supply chain we've updated communications redundancy including purchase in starlink as you see pictured here on this slide and we continue to look for opportunities to move our power lines underground we will continue to communicate status with our partners starting with a kickoff meeting next week we have a great deal of resilience built into our system during a weather related activation we leverage that resilience planning and preparation to adjust to conditions as needed we do so with the safety of the staff and the community at the core of our efforts all activities work towards a coordinated response safety and system integrity we work with our partners to do what we can to sustain the region and stay on mission regional coordination is important to us before hurricane season each year we meet with the member governments to align our expectations communications and any changes from previous years once we're in season we'll continue to report our condition to the member utilities and also discuss topics like impacts to supply water quality or severe weather and start that coordination early during storms we hold daily briefings with our members and coordinate closely with the county eocs in the state for a broader response and from a public standpoint we work to ensure messaging is consistent across the region the goal is shared operating picture so we can respond as one regional system in summary our focus in 2026 is to maintain a reliable regional water supply support member government stern disruptions and deliver a coordinated resilient regional response we can't control the storm but we can control how prepared we are that concludes my presentation do you have any questions thank you mr johnson any questions i see no questions every year through november 30th hurricane season okay next up d3 south hillsboro pipeline and surface water treatment plant expansion project construction update miss medina hello again um agenda item d3 provides the status of construction progress for both the south hillsboro pipeline project and the surface water treatment plant expansion projects this map illustrates our 26 mile pipeline designed to deliver up to 65 million gallons per day to the growing area in south hillsboro county the project includes 17 tunneling locations which are shown in the image with orange diamonds and these tunneling locations are strategically planned to minimize both traffic disruptions and reduce environmental impacts during the construction phase the diamonds highlighted with a red circle indicate the locations where tunneling work has already been completed in addition to the pipeline the overall project includes the construction of a new alkalinity adjustment facility at our regional facility site as well as two points of connections in hillsborough and hillsborough county infrastructure tunneling is progressing really well across the project we have completed several major crossings including the king's and bloomingdale the cxx crossing at limona road and fitchhawk creek active work is currently underway at state road 60 the alafaya river leaderfish hawk creek as well as at parsons avenue and lomsden road in the image you can see our micro tunneling machine which is very known as the crimsicle and this machine is used for the installation of our 60 inch diameter pipe open cut installation accounts for about 90 percent of the pipeline construction construction is now complete along south king's avenue between bloomingdale avenue and greenbriar road and crews are continuing to advance towards buckhorn creek and are currently preparing for work along mcmullen road in parallel crews are preparing additional areas by installing maintenance of traffic controls trimming trees and implementing erosion control measures in the image you can see our horizontal directional drilling at leech uh little fish hawk creek the public information team is working really hard to keep residents and business informed with frequent construction and detour updates throughout a variety of ways as you can see on the slide in april our team handled 195 stakeholder interactions including five complaints and public outreach and project team staff are visiting businesses coordinating media media media stories and tours and attending hoa and community meetings to present and answer questions among other things in addition our construction manager at risk garney uh has in his in their team community coordinators which are stationed in the field to assist residents and businesses with a variety of needs overall this project is progressing really well and remains on track construction is currently at 2.4 percent complete based on the amount of linear feet of pipe installed and spending is aligned at 14 percent of the total 478.4 million construction budget at this stage we have not identified that we need to address the budget and schedule and the project is performing as expected now the surface water treatment plan uh project is is designed to increase the capacity of our system by 12 and a half million gallons per day it includes the addition of the fifth treatment train along the supporting systems which are labeled on the graphic a through e the new treatment train will meter the existing treatment processes currently in operation the area shown with letter a represents the fifth treatment train in b is where the new belt felt press uh filters will be in replacement presses will be installed area c identifies the location of the three new filters area d shows the location of new chemical buildings and area e includes the expanded area for our solids uh drying beds in area a a the team has begun utility relocations and the installation of new piping in the belt filter press area we have demolished the existing belt felt filters and started the installation of new supply lines and in areas c and d the we have completed the grading for the new filters and the chemical buildings overall the surface water treatment plant expansion project is progressing well as well and remains on track construction construction is currently at three percent complete and spending is aligned at 12 percent of the total 167 million dollar construction budget as construction activities increases we will continue our focus on maintaining alignment with the construction and budget and schedule and we have not identified at this point that we have any budget impacts or schedule impacts and again it's performing as suspected and this concludes my presentation i will be happy to take any questions thank you any questions i see none well thank you miss venina for your presentation are there any other administrative matters role business we have to address okay that means that we move to receive and file i'll entertain motion move yeah commissioner uh i'm sorry council member miranda did the motion first and then mr uh vice chair waitman was the second board members please enter your votes being now present board members have voted clerk please tally announce the vote motion passes unanimously thank you well this concludes our meeting uh we are off in june which means we are back here july 20th i believe so with that um everyone have a great june uh and hopefully you have some good vacations and breaks so we can get back refreshed for july thank you everyone meeting adjourned