good morning everyone and welcome to the july 20th 2026 regular board meeting of tampa bay water this meeting was noticed in the florida administrative register and on the tampa bay water website the meeting is available for viewing through live stream and a recording of the meeting will be posted on the agency's website today we are going to begin using a new feature that allows board members to request to speak and to make motions and seconds using their tablets rather than speaking out we expect the change to improve accuracy and clarity as it will be difficult is difficult sometimes to hear across the dais so board members as we move through the meeting please use your tablets for these functions we appreciate everyone's patience i'm sure it's going to take a little bit to get adjusted to but i believe that you will see the ability to make the motion come up when the time is right okay and with that being said um our vice chair is out today and so commissioner
cohen was going to lead us in the pledge of allegiance i pledge allegiance thank you clerk you
please read the names of the board members to determine if there is a quorum commissioner cohen
here mayor davis here commissioner eggers councilman miranda commissioner oakley here commissioner peters commissioner wustle here vice chair waitman chair hanowitz here madam a quorum is present thank you so
much clerk okay now we open up our regular meeting are there any changes to the agenda yes uh good
morning madam chair members of the board um we're requesting to defer agenda item c1 um this is the eminent domain settlement with fishhawk ranch cdd4 for the south hillsboro pipeline project while the primary terms of the settlement uh either um the amount is not affected at all uh we did receive wordly yesterday that several of the conditions for these easements um have been modified in the final settlement and they're different from what was presented in the agenda packet so um we intend to bring this back at a you know upcoming meeting but we're in deferred for today so you have the accurate
information in front of you okay well thank you this moment we move on to public comment each speaker will have three minutes to speak i have a card for david gettis jr hi good morning david ballard gettis jr
i live on georgia avenue in palm harbor let's say for instance that i went door to door in every neighborhood in the county and i deceived all the residents into signing the reclaimed water variance application which in effect grants me development rights throughout the residents entire parcel of property it permits me the right to replumb the residential homes with reclaimed water for laundry and toilet use the variance quarters the consent of the homeowner into forfeiting their third amendment rights allowing me the right to enter the homeowner's property day or night as based on pinellis county resolution 95 286 section 3k and to levy an annual indoor water inspection charge against the residents for water use privileges as written in chapter 1 section 13 of maloney's water code published in 1972 the variance affirms my reasoning to take hold of civilian fourth amendment rights in my doing of things in statute 15320 and allows my seizure of civilian owned property claiming eminent domain of the residents taking all their personal and real property in statute 15303 section 5 tapping title to the residential homes in pinellis county ordinance 97 103 section 126 509 taking hold of their religion 2 as based on the variance in my development rights as i have contrived and as i have invoked and let's say i want to take these reclaimed water variants and the development rights that go along with it and sell it to a third party developer transferring such development rights to a third party in order to limit my liability and legislation and the judges were all in on the scam using third party mercenaries as written in the declaration of independence using bashawas as written in federalist paper 30 and now you have created a holy war based on the 14th amendment and attorneys like joe morrissey over there he lit the fuse well thank you we get to
consent agenda um is there anyone that wants to pull something from consent i see no hands move consent okay clerk you want to try that let's try the um machine so there's a motion button mr co um commissioner cohen view compressum oh we have the mover oh i see i'll second that oh there you go and it makes it much and it makes it much easier for the clerk so so we just push the button yeah yeah you can make the motion and that that way the clerk has the name and doesn't have to figure out who said it so we have a motion um and the second the machine is open for voting council members please i mean board members please enter your votes motion passes unanimously thank you okay now we move to the general agenda and our general manager is going to provide us with his report v1 well good morning madam chair and
members of the board uh before i get started on my report i just wanted to take a moment to recognize the passing of former senator jack latvala as you know he was very instrumental in the creation of tampa bay water and helped pass the enabling legislation that created us his role was featured in our documentary lightning in a bottle that can be found on our website for any of you wanting to see more about his impact on the water supply authority here the state-wide drought continues as the summer rains have not been uh consistent in our area as of yet we are we were off to a good start friday and didn't get as much as i was hoping for over the weekend but we're showing some signs and we'll have warren approach the podium he'll go into some more of the details we are still in the phase three water restriction uh from the water management district through october 1st oren morning madam chair members of the board uh just a
few slides to give you a current snapshot of where we are for our water supplies i'll start with rainfall or the lack of it our drought has not been very long but it's been very severe we started in september of last year when we received only about two inches instead of the seven or eight that we normally expect so since then we had an average december rainfall and fortunately we got a pretty good bump in the month of may but otherwise we've had very little for our region the month of june averaged just over three inches instead of the normal eight and as a result of this primarily we see water use go up but we also see diminished river flow which especially in the summer is our predominant source type and it's how we refill our reservoir every year the flow in the hillsborough river this july is the fourth lowest that we've seen in the last 50 years so that kind of punctuates the severity of the drought situation that we're in and how important it is for us to continue with enforcement of those restrictions for our region we delivered an average of 207.9 million gallons a day so far for the water year it's about 8 mgd or four percent more water than we delivered for the same period last year and for the month of june our regional water delivery was about 6.2 million gallons a day higher than we had planned but we're still balancing our sources to make sure we meet demands 24 7. as we look for regular rains to begin unfortunately we have a tropical system on our doorstep and it's going to go away from us so we did get some beneficial rains as mr cardin mentioned started friday we did get good flow in the alafia river based on that friday night rainfall happy to report a little good news today is the first day that we will put meaningful water into the reservoir the last time we did that was october mid-october of 2025 and at that point we were close to 15 billion gallons we will harvest about 47 million gallons a day from the alafia river today and that's 30 for the region actual use and another 17 that we'll be able to send back to the reservoir if we can get into our summer rainy pattern we will be able to harvest water off the alafia now at 19 percent of flow instead of 10 and we'll be able to harvest from the tampa bypass canal for the region for the alafia i mentioned the 19 percent of flow we increased our permit one year ago we went up to 19 of flow and a maximum of 75 million a day just that one change in percentage and the amount we can capture has resulted in about 2.5 billion gallons of additional water so it's it has been a substantial change for us we just need it to flow from the back can i get some help changing slides please there we go the consolidated water use permit running average was 103.27 million gallons a day at the end of june and with the high demands and the constrained supplies that we've had so far for july that's likely to increase we are averaging presently about 120 million gallons per day from these well fields which if we stay at that rate it would bring the running average up slightly perhaps to 105 106. hopefully we get rains that make the rivers flow and at that point we can begin reducing our take from the well fields probably the most critical thing for us to do since it's already mid-summer is to refill the regional reservoir once the rivers flow like they should in the summer time we can harvest and store about a billion gallons a week in the reservoir we just need that sustained rainfall and sustained flow the south central hillsborough regional well field running average was 26.3 million gallons a day at the end of june it's about a half a million gallons a day below its permit limit limit and speaking of the reservoir once we got into the drought we were already in it in september so as we began planning for the rest of the year that we're currently in we did forecast to be at a very low level about 2.1 billion gallons for the months of june and july which is where we find ourselves now we're currently at 2.12 billion which is about thirteen and a half percent of our full storage capacity with that i'd be happy to answer questions of me or i'll turn it back over to mr
garden i don't see any questions or comments yes um commissioner eggers you did it right i tried to punch
talk to me a little bit about our desal plant how's that doing the desal plant is up and running
yesterday it delivered 12.8 million gallons a day for the region we did have a little bit of an outage last week as tico was doing some planned maintenance that happened a little faster than expected but i believe the facility was offline for less than one week so it is back up and running now and they're aware of the impact that their downtime creates yes we have regular communication with them they understand the criticality of that that facility for us and their impact on us when they're down there are times when they have to be down for maintenance or planned construction work but they have worked with us in the past year to minimize the outages and time them as best we can so that there's a minimal impact on our system
yeah i just wanted to go back to the reservoir for a minute you you mentioned that you you thought uh we would shortly be able to start harvesting water again for the reservoir bait is there enough
rain coming down now um that that's that that's the case today we'll be able to harvest enough to send continue to send 30 million a day to our surface water plant and store 17 in the reservoir that's purely from the alify river and the flow has already crested if we don't get sustained rain and this is really from lithia into polk county is the the catchment area that we need if we don't get the rains by later this week in that area to sustain the flow we'll be back to no water stored in the reservoir it's really the area from lithia into polk county for the alify river is where we need that rain and the new tampa to zephyr hills area to refill the hillsborough river basin when do you need to start
filling the reservoir in order to be comfortable that you're going to be up at 15 billion gallons by the
end of the rainy season if we get the sustained rainfall and flows we should be full or relatively close to full by the time those flows diminish if we get good summer rains the rivers will flow well into october so we can continue to harvest we may not hit 15 right at the end of the fiscal year the end of september but we can typically harvest through much of october to try to top that off the longer range climate forecast is still for a strong el nino climate event which for us means typically cooler and wetter winter months it depends on where that river of moisture sets up if it's over us it will be a very soggy late winter and early spring if it's north or south hopefully we'll get average rainfall which will help us to perhaps store a little more water for the coming season yes commissioner to give you
a little context we are putting 17 in the reservoir today and that's the first time since the last october there's 47 available from the river but when we're up and running and we expect hopefully real soon we usually push more than 200 into the reservoir so just to give you a comparison we're very happy about getting some water but we can do 205 probably is one of our our bigger bigger days so i'm hoping to get up to 200 a day going forward and we have a new permit limit that's almost double from the the past so we think that's going to be a big help to getting full once the rains start by octoberish people should
be watching between lithia and polk county that's really where you need it that's where we need it for
that river new tampa to zephyr hills for the hillsborough thank you thank you um commissioner
wastel thank you first i would say that this highlights the importance of us continuing to research a secondary reservoir um so that i know that this is one of the worst droughts that we've had in a very long time but i think that this would help prevent us from having to thread the needle um i was talking to staff my staff in development services and i asked in these situations this is the first drought that i've experienced um while i'm legislating do we restrict certificates of occupancy um to new users on our water supply and the response that i received was that no there is currently no mechanism in hillsborough county are you aware of any other jurisdictions um even in the tampa bay water area or throughout the state where when we're experiencing severe drought that we restrict new certificates of occupancy towards new users on our water supply i'm not aware of that
that doesn't mean it doesn't exist but i'm not aware of it in our area or other places wouldn't that
make sense though is that that's something that we um at least look at as a possible scenario that if we're already restrained that we don't add new users onto it i know that you know a small amount of users isn't what caused the drought to happen but wouldn't wouldn't that seem to be common sense
that that's a practice it is a tool that could be used by a local jurisdiction it could help curtail water use from growing as developments come in even before a certificate of occupancy is issued for a residence the builder may have already installed the landscape and with new sod they would likely water every day for 15 to 30 days so whether there's a certificate of occupancy or not that landscape may be there and using the water good point so it's it's a difficult time and question but certainly
any technique would be good for discussion okay thank you for the information um commissioner aggers yeah
just uh following up on the on the d cell comment um we have expansion capability there still i think when you were talking about taking the water off the river um we're using some of it we can't send it to the um to the reservoir we have to pass some through our our surface water plant um with that extra water coming in could we then divert more to the reservoir from the river um i'm just trying to you know balance
all of our different it's all being used for the region uh we're still 30 is about the minimum that we can run out of the surface water treatment plant or we have to take it offline completely so the the 12.8 from desal is coming up to blend with that 30 but it is being consumed through the rest of the region everywhere from the south hillsborough service area around to the saint pete beaches it becomes part of that regional mix we are currently working to install the sixth and seventh racks which should give us additional water once those are complete to give us the best flexibility in our system for the next dry
season thank you commissioner i just wanted to comment on um commissioner wastel's uh remarks because um i think it was right before you were on the board but it was the catalyst for the events that led to the south county pipeline project was people in in south hillsborough county were were complaining because they would turn on their their shower and and it would be no water would be coming out or just drips would be coming out and while uh i don't think it was a moratorium on co's there was a period where hillsborough county did hold up the building permits because of the water shortage in south county and it was only after the interim measures were taken by tampa bay water and hillsborough county that sort of bumped up the uh the supply that they that they relaxed that but there was like a nine to 12 month period where things in in everything south of big bend road sort of came to a halt because of that that uh supply that
actual supply issue so for what it's worth um and just on on that this is a question that has been coming up and i've mentioned this to chuck and i know we're having discussions at our city data centers and i'm just curious you know a lot of people are not familiar with what's happening what's the regulation who are the bodies that are regulating this whether it's large or smaller data centers and i just was wondering in terms of swift mud and their role maybe you could just give us and i know you're i'm putting on a spot if if if you can't that's fine um but if you can just give us something in terms of what's happening with that because it goes again in terms of data in terms of water supply and i'm getting residents oh okay well you're putting restrictions on us and what they're building data
centers and so that is kind of a concern that i'm hearing the water management district did put a policy in place about probably less than a year ago i think it was late 2025 that said any data center must come before the board as a permit if it served through a municipality they will review that municipalities water use permit and if data center was not already permitted as a part of it they will have to go through a justification as a city or county that holds a water use permit and the district has the right to open that back up and make modifications to allow it or disallow it or put more restrictions on it so the water management district is taking a very close look at every data center that needs water in our area potable water making sure that it doesn't impact the environment or the existing
drinking water systems right okay thank you mr egers are you are you okay thank you thank you okay
thank you warren i'm going to finish up i wanted to announce that hillsborough county has hired a new water resources director his name is chris jones i don't know if he's in the audience today but i want to welcome chris he has been on a few meetings with us and he's met some of the other uh staffs above the member governments i did want to give an update real quick on the east pasca well field uh feasibility study the last board meeting we held uh there was an item approved to allow additional drilling uh of the for the test well going to uh up to 3 000 feet and so i believe we finally are there at 2850 feet uh and so the uh work can be completed on that on the well and then they will be putting uh doing a modeling test a water withdrawal test to see if there's any what the yield is for a potential new well field uh at east pasco legislatively we did secure 500 000 in state funding for a scada project that we we had so that was great news and also on a federal level uh the water resources development act uh we've been released from the committee and it includes a hundred million dollar authorization for water projects within the tampa bay region uh and in addition to that we had uh there's three community project funding requests still out there uh seven hundred thousand dollars for the surface water treatment plant expansion seven hundred and fifty six thousand for the south hillsborough wellfield project and an additional seven hundred thousand for the south hillsborough wellfield so about a million five for that one project collectively all three of those projects are about 2.1 million dollars tampa bay waters procurement team has been awarded the 2026 achievement of excellence in procurement award from the national procurement institute that's the second consecutive year they've won that so congratulations christina and your staff speaking of the procurement team they did participate in a reverse trade show so that's where the event allows our staff to engage directly with businesses helping the vendors understand uh how to do business with tampa bay water we also participated at the keep pinellas beautiful's high school environmental leadership workshop and so uh warren was there uh along with our continuous improvement director shane johnson and they were evaluators for the uh workshop i believe we also had a uh one of our hydro hydrogeologists aaron hayes there to uh explain uh how the aquifers work using our edible aquifer project and warren's been pretty busy he's here at the forest hills neighborhood association meeting along with uh the city of uh tampa's water director rory jones and so they participated in a meeting uh explaining some of the things we're doing here and helping the citizens out and again warren was at the um carewood hoa meeting they were wanting to talk to us about their water levels in lake carol this is a some photos of our grant dollars at work we were educating students in tampa bay through the water conservation protection grant these students were paddled through the local waterways during tampa bay water keepers colors of the bay kayak tour series and through our water conservation and protection grant as well the girl scouts of west central florida have water conservation education activities worked into their summer camp curriculum and i think the middle picture is a picture of the edible aquifer that was a very big hit with everybody so that's all i have i'd be happy to take any any additional questions well warren and chuck
thank you for that update um and to our legislative team thank you for all your hard work and getting some more dollars uh to make our projects happen every dollar helps just like every drop of water helps
so thank you mr egress yeah i was going to say that about the legislative team so thank you for that the the other thing is i just wanted to put an exclamation mark on um commissioner wastel's comment about you know the investigation of our second um reservoir um and maybe just the uh kind of a lay of groundwork for some of that conversation just high level kind of targeting areas and working with our different members and start to really hone in on what that really means as far as the needs uh the land needs the infrastructure needs the dollar needs all of that but um i just think that needs to be wherever it is in our system needs to be kind of punctuated a little bit thank you yeah there's
currently uh three projects in our feasibility study that i believe will be in front of the board uh probably by next year mid next year uh so there's three reservoir projects including a surface water treatment plant next to them uh that is at the current site so there would be an additional uh sighting of a smaller reservoir next to the existing one then out of lake tarpon we're looking at taking some water off lake tarpon and putting it in a reservoir and also uh down there the border uh with manatee county off the little manatee river we're also looking at an area there to put one as well so it is a an extraordinary project the one we have now except it is needing mother nature to help it sometimes and so an additional one i agree it would be a big help for our system thank you well we've
deferred item c1 and so the next item up is c2 and that is going to be presented by maribel medina from our planning projects planning and projects director good morning hey good morning madam chair and members
members of the board agenda item c2 is an action item requesting your approval for the south hillswater wellfield land exchange and easements agreement with hillswater county i will begin with a brief overview of the agreement and the requested board actions the south hillswater wellfield is a new regional water supply project which was approved by you last october at full built out the wellfield will include eight production wells with one well already constructed the site has demonstrated excellent groundwater quality requiring only ozone treatment for hydrogen sulfide removal the project will also include about four miles of collector main a connection to hillswater county's water supply system and associated meeting metering facilities once completed the wellfield is expected to provide an important new source of regional water supply this map shows the south hillswater wellfield site in the balm area of southern hillswater county the western portion is located within the stacy r white nature preserve where wells one through four will be constructed well five is our existing well which is shown in the upper left portion of the map the eastern portion is located in hillswater county's water resources property and will include wells six through eight and the water treatment facilities these facilities will be co-located with hillswater county's future drinking water facilities and adjacent to the bone point of connection for the southern for the south hillswater pipeline project today's request pertains to the western site for wells one through four and associated collector main and access easements construction of this wellfield requires property rights from multiple stakeholders this slide provides an overview of those property interests required for this project we will request approval for additional property rights next year the agreement presented to you today exchanges tampa bay waters water supply development rights at the former cone ranch property which is now known as the lower green swamp preserve for about five acres of easements needed within the stacy r white nature preserve the map chose the lower green swamp preserve in northeastern hillswater county this exchange both supports long-term conservation of the preserve and provides the property rights needed for this new wellfield in this slide you can see the property rights included in the interlocal agreement before you today tampa bay water will receive about five acres of easements within the stacy r white nature preserve at no cost as part of the land exchange we will also acquire about 4.7 acres of easements within the water resources utility corridor which is shown in pink to support the collector main access to the to the well sites and monitoring facilities the co the cost for those utility corridor easements and associated closing costs is about sixty six thousand dollars together these property rights provide the access to key project infrastructure needed to construct and operate this new wellfield and with that staff requests your approval for the south hillswater wellfield interlocal agreement with hillswater county hillswater county staff is expected to present the agreement to their board of county commissioners for approval in august and the requests at this moment are the items listed in the slide and madam chair this concludes my brief presentation i will be happy to address any questions you may have
thank you at this time i see no requests for speakers if someone wants to press a motion button to approve it or not i have a motion by commissioner eggers and seconded by wastel clerk if you can open the machine for voting board members please enter your votes motion passes unanimously thank you so much clerk okay thank you mayor bell next up we have c3 and this is going to be presented by christina sackett our chief financial
officer good morning christina good morning chair members of the board agenda item c3 is requesting approval of the supplemental bond resolution 2026 002 as i mentioned in april and in may the agency needs to issue new debt for the capital improvement projects in fiscal years 27 and 28 and we are issuing refunding debt on part of the 2016 a bonds this presentation will provide an overview of the bond issuance and the parameters of the bond resolution i would like to start off by introducing jay glover and nick rocca with pfm financial advisors to present an update on the 2026 a and b uh financing yes good morning madam chair
members of the board i'm nick rocca with pfm financial advisors and we'll be giving you a brief presentation on the upcoming series 26a and b bonds uh first i want to start out with a graphic detailing the authority's current debt service schedule a combination of the brown and green bars you can see here represent the annual debt service payments related to the outstanding bonds with the green bars specifically detailing the series 2016 a bonds that we're looking to refund for savings all combined the outstanding bonds result in a maximum annual debt service also known as mads of approximately 82.1 million dollars and that occurs there in fiscal year 2027. additionally we show the 10.2 million dollars of the member of the annual acquisition credits provided to the member governments and those go on through fiscal year 2028 with the 2026 a bonds we're looking to fund 292 million of the authority's capital improvement plan with these debt proceeds due to the authority's current debt service payment structure we believe is beneficial to wrap the new 2026 a bonds debt service around the existing debt and this will help minimize the annual debt service which directly impacts the uniform rate the 2026 a bonds will be structured over an approximately 30 year term utilize capitalized interest to cover the first year of interest payments and is expected to make use of a surety to to cover the related increase in the debt service reserve fund requirement instead of placing just cash in there the 2026 b bonds will be issued to refund the outstanding 20 2016 a bonds which are eligible to be refinanced starting on october 1st 2026 and the 2026 b bonds will feature the same maturity date of the refunded bonds so there will be no extension of that debt and they'll also be structured to result in debt service savings each year through fiscal year 2038. the 2026 a bonds will partially fund 29 different projects of the authority's capital improvement plan including the south hillsborough wellfield surface water treatment plant water quality improvements supervisory control and data acquisition system upgrades related to the surface water treatment plant water quality improvements for the eldridge wild field wild wild wellfield and improvements to the cypress creek wellfield the 2016 a bonds will have 72 million 80 000 of principal maturing in fiscal years 2033 through 2038 and of that those are eligible to be refunded prior to maturity without any penalty and are expected to result in significant positive savings for tampa bay water at current market rates we anticipate the refunding to produce approximately 7.8 million dollars in net present value savings due to the low coupon rate on the fiscal year 2039 maturity of the 2016 a bonds is not anticipated right now in the current market environment to produce any savings if it were refunded so we expect to leave that one maturity of the 2016 a bonds outstanding but we are gonna are looking to refund the vast majority of that financing and the table on the right details of principal amounts of the 2016 a bonds maturing each year that we're looking to refund and we anticipate the refunding will result in debt service savings each year ranging from right now we're expecting about 195 000 to current kind that first year that short year fiscal year 2027 up to almost two and a half million dollars in fiscal year 2038 and here on slide six we show the estimated aggregate annual debt service of authority following the issuance of both these series of 26 a and b bonds and here the brown bars once again that represents the outstanding bonds less the 2016 a bonds we highlight on the earlier slide since those will be refunded through as i mentioned previously through fiscal year 2038 and then the green bars on this one that shows the debt service resulting from the 2026 b bonds that will be refunding those 2016 a bonds and the orange bars there at the top those show the impact from the 2026 a bonds that will be funding the 292 million dollars of additional capital improvements so the net result of all this is an increase in the maximum annual debt service to approximately 90.3 million dollars in fiscal years 2029 through 2032 that's roughly 8.2 million dollar increase we have also added a red dotted line to this graph and that represents the current debt profile compared to our projections after the issuance of the 2026 a and b bond so you can kind of see a comparison there and you might notice kind of there's a little gap there between the red dotted line and the green bars and that's essentially the savings you're getting there from that refunding so it looks kind of small on on this graph but it's quite significant uh on our final slide here we just lay out the preliminary financing schedule for the upcoming issuance today we are requesting the tampa bay water board of directors to approve the bond resolution allowing the issuance of the 2026 bonds based on certain parameters which will be further detailed by bond council following my presentation during the week of august 3rd we currently expect to price the 2026 bonds and if priced during that first week in august we expect to close to financing on august 27th and then we just highlight here october 1st that's the first allowed call date of the 2016 a bond so this is when they'll actually be refunded and redeemed uh this concludes my portion of the presentation and i'll pass it back to christina at this time thank you nick with that i
would like to introduce michael brochard with our bond council neighbors uh giblin and nickerson and he will go over the parameters of the bond resolution morning madam chair and members of the board i'm
mike brochard from neighbors giblin nickerson we serve as the authorities bond council so before you today we have resolution 20 26 002 and what this resolution will do it is establish the maximum principal amounts of each series of bonds which i'll discuss in the next couple slides it'll set the purpose of the issuance it'll authorize a negotiated sale of these bonds by a series of underwriters selected pursuant to this resolution it'll set out the financial parameters of the bonds which again i'll talk about on the next couple slides it'll give some delegation authority to the general manager to allow for the sale of the bonds on the day that that we enter into the bond purchase contract it approves the form of the purchase contract and the escrow deposit agreement related to the bonds as well as the preliminary official statement and the official statement for the bonds it'll establish a 2026 construction fund which is a bit of a um a technical requirement under the authority's master bond resolution it'll set out how the bond proceeds are to be allocated and it will allow for the purchase of a surety bond for should um should the underwriter underwriting team and staff and financial advisor decide that appropriate at the time of sale but for the first series of bonds the um the new money new money bonds the series 2026a the resolution will set out the following financial parameters the bonds will not be issued in a par amount greater than 325 million these bonds will be for issuing the capital or for financing the capital projects discussed previously the resolution sets a true interest cost of not more than 5.5 percent and an underwriting discount not to exceed 0.4 percent of the par value a final maturity date no later than um 10-1-2056 and the first call date no later than 10-1-2036 the second series of bonds the refunding bonds previously discussed will have the following financial parameters pursuant to the resolution they won't be issued in a maximum par amount of more than a hundred million they'll be to refinance all our portion of the series 2016a bonds bonds will have a true interest cost of not more than 4.5 percent and an underwriting discount not to exceed 0.4 percent of the book the par value also the present value savings of the refunding will need to be equal to at least three percent of the par amount of the series 2016a bonds that are being refunded and again the final maturity date will be no later than 10-1-2038 and the first call date it will be no later than 10-1-2036 so with that we ask that you approve resolution 2026-00-2 which will authorize the issuance of the refunding the revenue bond series 2026a and the refunding bond series 2026b pursuant to the parameters set forth in such resolution thank you thank you board i don't see
any speakers requesting oh commissioner eigers yeah um because my you know i'm not remembering all of the things that we've financed um and refinanced and re-refinanced um i'm wanting to make sure i understand um the picture that's on page six that shows the new debt load that we have here this one yeah what's included in that is that is of all the major projects that are going on what's in that number because i'm seeing obviously our our responsibilities going up significantly over the years above the red
dotted line yeah what has caused the increase in the past few years um largely since 2024 uh was the south hillsboro pipeline i mean that's a half a billion dollar project in and of itself the expansion of the surface water treatment plant which is close to 200 million the new reef the new fundings that we're doing right now will include the south hillsboro wellfield which is about i think 160 and then it also includes the design phase for the p fast treatment projects which is another 35 million for for those those um those are the large projects and then there's um we did the board did approve um coming up but that would be in future bonds you know potentially the construction of the p fast projects and the construction of or the design and construction of the water quality but right now this includes just
the design for the p fast projects but it does include all the major projects that you just mentioned um and obviously things that we talked about today when i used the exclamation point on the expansion looks for a reservoir that's a whole different set of of correct yeah correct um okay well i think this is you know it's important obviously we started talking about having sources of of funds that i guess i'm just thinking about the the the next the next phase if you will of expansion here and what it's going to to result in additional funding uh whether it's the the desal plant or or other items so just keeping a close eye on on all of that is going to be really important for us to kind of keep keep our arms around
it i guess more than anything thank you and um based on commissioner egger's comments um and maybe you can comment obviously we have increased debt service and there's future projects later on and maybe uh nick or jay you guys can talk about credit rating and where we are in terms of your debt load and the agency itself
madam chair board members jay glover also with pf and financial advisors obviously a great question i mean part of the credit quality of tampa bay water is because each of you member governments have very strong credit ratings the majority of them in the triple a double a double a plus range so um you know and as you know most of the fees paid to tampa bay water are operating expenses of each of your member government so all of that results in a very strong credit rating that tampa bay water has um we have actually uh heard that um one of the ratings has been affirmed already we're working on the other one we hope to have both of those ratings you know probably in the next day or two but again you know we do look at credit ratings as any part of a financing discussion and how we structure the debt um and i think the rating agencies are very comfortable with your debt structure um you also maintain significant liquidity we fund that debt service reserve fund that was mentioned so all these things are done to make sure you maintain the credit ratings which obviously lowers the borrowing cost and with significant cip needs and significant debt funding really minimizes the impact on the you know the the rate as we move forward so those are all discussions we're having with your general manager and your cfo as
we go through this financing process great thank you j based on that any other questions uh chuck if you can provide that information once you get it from j to the board that would be fantastic with that if there is a motion um and a second on this i have a motion by commissioner wassell second by commissioner cohen clerk if you can open the machine for voting board members please enter your votes motion passes unanimously thank you well thank you mike j and nick for being here with us and joining us today um and christina thank you so much for your work on this too okay next up we have d1 we get to the presentations reports phase of our agenda we have a member government report from the city of newport ritchie and we have colin eichenmuir yes ma'am okay good morning morning madam chair board members
so this morning we're going to do a brief rundown of the city of newport ritchie public works utilities for an update from our member of government i am colin eichenmuir the public works director for the city of newport ritchie i want to run through today we're going to look over our potable water system our sanitary sewer system as it pertains to our reclaim water system and how that bolsters our distribution and our current and future utility projects our potable water system overview our main source is starkey well field for the eight million gallons daily for sustainable flow we have our main water treatment plant which averages 5.6 mgd per day and 3.63 of that goes to our city customers and is also distributed through the city of port ritchie and then 1.97 mgd to the regional system that's pushed back through our tampa bay water connection we have 154.8 seven miles of potable water mains and that's 70 975 active service connections we're currently seeing an increase in those connections with the development of the newport corners district and that will be an additional 331 connections which is completing its arriving at completion now so those are going in as we speak to go over our sanitary sewer system and again this is as it pertains to the production of reclaimed water our wastewater treatment plant averages about 5.5 mgd we have a total of 76 lift stations 29.82 miles of sanitary force mains 87.46 miles of gravity sewer lines and it's a just shy of 15 000 connections with the again our current increases of 331 connections and that will be with that newport corners development our reclamation facility again is housed there at our wastewater treatment plant and averages about 5 to 5.5 million gallons of reclaim per day that's 21 miles of reclaim transmission lines 17.5 miles of reclaim distribution lines with 100 with 516 service connections the newport corners district there is going to be master metered that was installed in september of 2025 and so they're currently up and running to go over some of our current utility projects with the city of newport richie we have our west grand neighborhood that project was out to bid has been awarded and will be kicking off here shortly and that will be updating some of our utility lines six inch eight inch and increasing our fire protection in those areas we have our potable and reclaim extensions something that we wanted to really look at in the upcoming years and we've been going over this current year is a needs assessment on our reclaim production and distribution to better dispersed throughout the rest of the city of newport richie and see because of the water conservation efforts kind of review with our our city members and our residents what they are looking for as far as reclaim and if there's an increase in demand for that we have our smart meter replacement project this year we completed the inch and a half and two inch meters we'll be going into the three inch and four inch meters in the future years as well and then we completed our pasco county interconnect upgrades we have our sewer utility system improvement that'll be conducting that's out for design right now and we'll be going out to bid sometime in 26 27 the sewer extension projects those are kind of our continuous efforts to ensure that as we expand our utility we do it in a way that is intelligent and we aim for the septic to sewer conversions we have our manhole lining project which is closing out this year and we're also going to be looking at our conducting a water loss audit we've engaged with a few different disciplines to take a look at that to see where we can better utilize our efforts in identifying not only where our water loss is but essentially where there might be a connection that might be unknown or something to that degree we really want to hone in on that and make sure that what we're we're sending out of our plan is that our best efficacy so looking forward our upcoming projects would be the high service pump at our elevated storage tank again looking to expand our reclaim system throughout the city of newport richie and further uh our china country leisure lane sewer extension again that that would be focused on the septic to sewer conversion out there the we will continue to update our potable water within our um our district and the water utility system improvements as well the sewer utility improvements we do those those are a part of our annual rotation so we'll do our water project one year we'll do our server projects the following year so we're always out to design and always looking to upgrade our system and again our sewer main and uh manhole lining project some key projects i really wanted to focus in on uh would be out of our wastewater treatment plan again this is really to focus in on a reclaim production as it pertains to both water conservation efforts and just providing those services to our residents and our utility customers so the schreiber tank conversion the schreiber tank is is a clarifier aerator all in one unit it's a heavily maintenance required unit and as such we have chosen to look into converting that into just a direct aerator that would help with our nitrogen reduction reduce our total maintenance and is expected to take about 12 to 18 months in total currently our wastewater treatment plant is due for an upgrade and some refurbishment it's hit that lifespan on most of its mechanisms as far as the aerations go so right now we're conducting our aeration tank seals and coating those will be conducted every two years for our four aerators and then we'll have our clarifier gearbox replacement projects as well that concludes this presentation i appreciate your time and i'm here for
any questions thank you thank you for the presentation i'm curious in terms of the um your reclaim water system you said um you have future utility project right an extension is that for more to reach more customers and if so what are you looking at in terms of extending the size of it you have 21.7 miles at this point so how much more are you looking to expand so to answer the first question what we would
like to do is really we've done this in the past and we kind of looked at a needs assessment looked over what our residents were looking for and what our utility customers were looking for and if if there was a need there if there was a desire to have a distribution line in that area so that's what we're looking at first and that would drive that expansion so if we see that there's a demand for it in certain areas in certain neighborhoods then it would be looking at those identified neighborhoods and saying okay we still haven't expanded into this we haven't put a distribution main down that that particular street or within that district so let's go ahead and start moving forward with that and that would be a part of that design element so it's first identifying where our highest needs are where folks really want it and then going out to design on that specific area okay thank you i don't see any
requests to speak well thank you so much for your presentation and for letting us know what's happening in the city of newport richie thank you next item up is d2 and this is going to be presented by eliana lara our senior professional engineer good morning eliana good morning good morning madam chair and members
of the goal of the board as you mentioned my name is eliana lara i'm your senior professional engineer and project manager at tampa bay water presenting agenda item d2 this is a presentation for the 2045 system hydraulic and emergency scenario analysis no action is required from the board at this time the purpose of this presentation is to outline the key findings and recommendations based on the analysis of the regional systems performance through the year 2045 by confirming hydraulic capacity and ability to meet future member government demands identifying reliability and resiliency improvements and addressing emergency hydraulic and power outages services scenarios in collaboration with our six member governments we aim to prioritize these improvements recommendations to support long-term capital planning investment decisions and routine operations and emergency events considering efficiency and cost the tampa bay water completes a comprehensive evaluation of its regional water transmission system every 10 years to proactively identify system capacity and reliability improvements needed over a 20-year planning horizon the 2045 analysis is the third iteration of this report we started this with the 2035 analysis and updated it with input from each member government we also had a lot of meetings with the utilities directors their engineers water plant operators maintenance you name it all the key players as a matter of fact i see a couple here present today thank you for attending they collaborated reviewed and approved the report we're presenting to you today in five years we will be verifying that the projections are in line and in 10 years the full the full the next full 2055 analysis in this analysis hydraulic capacity reliability and resilience were considered the analysis incorporated member government demand projections growth through 2045 and confirmed the need for targeted transmission system improvements our consultants utilized software models to simulate historical data data and what ifs scenarios identifying bottlenecks and key challenges in the system the models also identified eight new hydraulic capacity improvement concepts to help mitigate system constraints that would otherwise pose challenges in meeting demand during drought years of the eight system capacity reliability and resilience improvement concepts the analysis recommends implementation of the cypress creek re-pump mode to provide energy efficiency in the system upgrading booster pumps and motors at the morris bridge pump station and adding pumps at the lake bridge booster pump station the construction of a potential pinelas booster pump station parallel transmission mains loops and all other lower value alternative concepts are recommended to be deferred the good news is that the agency has already begun identifying projects for the implementation within the capital improvement program in addition to the hydraulic capacity risk reliability and resilience we also consider unexpected hydraulic emergencies such as pipe breaks or facility outages this part of the assessment addresses critical hydraulic challenges and provides recommendations to ensure a reliable and resilient system as shown on the figure to the right over 20 emergency scenarios were analyzed of these eight outages were identified as critical emergencies that could prevent tampa bay water from supplying water water or the member governments from receiving it the hydraulic emergencies assessment recommends taking proactive steps to address these scenarios by developing emergency operating procedures and memorandum of understandings so that tampa bay water can rely on the abilities and functionalities of the member government's systems lastly it recommends improved system interconnections with member governments finally the analysis consider as well unforeseen power outages providing recommendations to ensure a reliable and resilient system though the agency is required to meet the annual daily demand with backup power the analysis showed a deficit for the year 2045 lessons learned from recent hurricane seasons also helped identify additional backup power gaps in the system based on the power outage emergency assessment the recommended improvements are remote access monitoring and control of backup power systems increased generator capacity at key facilities change of generator ownership and operation and enhanced coordination with electric utility providers one more time the good news is that the agency has begun identifying projects for implementation within our capital improvements programs so with all that said here's a quick summary of the recommendations discussed it will be crucial to monitor member demands to ensure a timely implementation of solutions therefore in five years we will be verifying that the projections are in line and in 10 years the next full 2055 analysis and this concludes my presentation i will be happy to answer any questions that you may have thank you eliana commissioner wasstel
thank you could you pull back up slide five real quick that recommendation from morris bridge down to cosme is is that recommendation that's not an existing line right they're they're recommending a full
new line so this is this is part of the um uh low value alternative concepts that were recommended to be deferred um when you're talking about loops parallel pipes transmission mains so it does not exist but we did take a look at if
it would be a benefit okay all right thank you no problem thank you i see no more questions okay thank you so
much eliana for the presentation thank you next up we have d3 and this will be presented by danielle kersey
the senior project manager hi good morning good morning madam chairs and members of the board agenda item d3 provides a construction status update on the south hillsborough pipeline and surface water treatment plant expansion projects first up is the south hillsborough pipeline the map shown illustrates the 26 mile pipeline route from brandon to lithia and balm this pipeline is designed to deliver up to 65 million gallons per day of water and it includes 17 tunneling locations which are represented by the orange diamonds on the screen these tunneling locations are strategically planned to minimize traffic disruptions and reduce environmental impacts during construction the diamond circled in red show where tunneling work has already been completed in addition to the pipeline the project also includes the construction of a new alkalinity adjustment facility as well as key points of connection with hillsborough county here's another look at the route showing all locations where crews are currently working as you can see the contractor is very busy crews are now working at 11 different locations on micro tunnels horizontal directional drill and open construction open trench construction this accounts for 90 percent of the pipeline construction and we're happy to report that this weekend the 48 inch htp pipe was successfully pulled into the tunnel shaft beneath little fishhawk creek what you see on the screen is them preparing in addition to our active locations crews are preparing additional work zones by installing maintenance of traffic controls trimming trees and implementing erosion control measures as you can imagine when we're working in so many locations at once we do have to coordinate with many other utilities we meet monthly as a team to go to go over construction progress and discuss the upcoming schedule hillsborough county and the district regularly attend those meetings as well the project team also regularly meets and coordinates with other utility providers such as tico spectrum frontier and more we did recently host a week-long utility coordination meeting block where we offered to meet with individual utilities at their convenience throughout the week we also work hard to keep residents and businesses informed with frequent construction and detour updates as you can see on this slide we use a variety of tools to reach residents including direct mail email updates social media and hoa meetings and more and residents and businesses can reach us on the project hotline and email our public engagement team is also coordinating with key stakeholders on a regular basis we have ongoing communications with hillsborough county public schools transportation and administration departments anytime a new traffic plan is put in place and we meet regularly with individual schools before and during active construction activities near those facilities we also maintain two-way communications with hillsborough county transport authority and fire rescue to ensure continued coordination throughout overall this project is progressing well and remains on track construction is about five percent complete based on linear feet of pipe installed and spending is aligned at 20 of the total 478.4 million construction budget at this stage no corrective actions for budget and schedule are required and the project is performing as expected now for an update on the surface water treatment plant expansion project this project expands the existing surface water treatment plant capacity by up to 12.5 million gallons per day it includes a fifth train along with supporting systems which are labeled a through e on the screen the new treatment train will mirror the existing treatment processes currently in operation area a represents the fifth train area b shows the belt filter press replacement area c identifies the location of the location of three new filters area d shows the location of chemical buildings and area e includes the expanded solids drying beds in area a crews have finished utility relocations and the installation of a new 24-inch return pipe under the north axis road which is shown at the top of the screen along with ground reinforcement work the excavation of the 24-inch recycle return piping as picture at the bottom screen is in progress three of the belt belt filter presses have been delivered and set at the site the crew also completed forming the pedestals for belt filter presses 5 through 7 along with the concrete encasement of the 10-inch drain line in areas c and d crews have completed installation of the 48 48-inch ductile iron pipe at filters 16 through 18 as well the encasement of the tees and piping the installation of the 54-inch waste back washer piping is also complete overall the surface water treatment plant expansion project is progressing well and remains on track construction is currently at six percent complete and spending is aligned at 17 percent of the total 167 million dollar budget as construction activities increase our continued focus will be on maintaining alignment between progress spending and schedule performance at this stage no corrective actions for budget and schedule are required and the project is performing as
expected with that i'd be happy to take any questions i see no requests for speakers it's time
commissioner eggers yeah thank you i mean this these two projects obviously much needed and very excited to kind of follow um how are we monitoring complaints from residents um i'm sure we're going to get them from businesses and residents and how are we no thank you you don't need to answer i guess wasp is getting all the
we're getting plenty in my office okay hi good morning i'm michelle robinson with dialogue public relations we are tracking everything in a stakeholder database called simply stakeholders so right now we have thousands of stakeholders in there anytime someone calls it's logged and followed up on and we can track
it on a daily basis so all of his complaints are kind of filtering through that system too they get to
us eventually sometimes they're an email from katrine or from michelle but they do get to us and we log it we respond to everyone we try to do it the same day sometimes it might take 24 or 48 hours to chase down
the answer and respond thank you hey commissioner wasp oh i'm sorry one other comment um so one of the
thoughts that i was thinking about earlier when we were talking about the eight well fields that's not for you i'm sorry um was more about you know how do we how do we minimize the cost going forward and i know this probably goes to somebody else i'm sorry if if i'm if i'm hitting the wrong person but the importance of those eight well fields the importance of additional credits that we're getting in the area are where i know we're hoping for a 23 water supply project being non-existent at least that's my hope and prayer because of the amount of cost that we're bearing on all of this other stuff going forward so just a comment maybe on that water supply accumulation that we're kind of doing along the way instead of a 2333
water supply project maribel warren's probably the he's been our designee um i i describe him with with a basket and he walks around and uh collects water uh permits
no it's it's been great he's he's used to it i'm going to requisition a bigger bucket we have acquired about 3.72 million gallons a day transfer them to what will be the south hillsborough wellfield we plan to bring another two acquisitions and transfer three permits probably we'll have that to the october board meeting for approval that should hopefully take us above four and we are still actively talking with property owners in south hillsborough to see if there's other quantities that we can acquire as those properties transition from agriculture to either residents or industrial uses we believe there's more and we'll continue to squeeze every rock to get
all that we can so he he's just described hillsborough county he's also met with the pasco county staff they've identified potential and so he's going to be working the pasco county areas uh in addition we have a feasibility study of increasing the 90 million gallons a day uh and that should be ready by next year so we are working very hard on that end as you suggest commissioner yeah thank you thank you warren and uh
one last question on the six percent and 17 i'm assuming that's a lot of prepaid stuff that they're that they're getting they're buying ahead of time is that kind of the idea why we're so far ahead on
the cost expenditure versus the yes we did do early procurement of materials and equipment okay thank you
on budget everything's no problems okay thank you thank you thank you commissioner waspill thank you i
wasn't cued but um simply stakeholder what is it called oh state the the systems hi it's simply
stakeholders it's a kind of like a contact management application and so we we've got every person who's ever emailed us or phoned us in that system we're able to track tasks within it so if somebody says we would like business signage for example that task is put in there it's assigned to a person they've been given a date and we check it multiple times a day to make sure that we're keeping up with inquiries and tasks and complaints complaints get logged in there as well and you said you call the
complaint people even if you don't have an answer you leave contact absolutely absolutely i don't know if i missed the memo on this organization but all seven hillsborough county commissioners need this info to forward um the emails that we're getting for complaints of this just so that we're not using um the general manager as a customer support support agent and i know that i get a lot so so
i don't know if your office had it harry but we know we're we're sending him directly here oh yeah
just let's just all of the commissioners because they'll click the button that says contact all and you might get duplicates this way but because of the way that people can contact us in sunshine law
that way we can just forward them straight to her so we can we can provide the project team email that's where it's all coming and that's how we track everything okay yeah that would be very helpful to us
thank you sounds like something very good came out of this for the commissioners over there in hillsborough well thank you so much um for your work on this danielle and for the presentation and the update and thank you to everyone who's actually working with the stakeholders on this i know it's a lot of work but coordination is key okay commissioner eggers oh no that's wrong okay um we have no other administrative manners any old business i don't see any receive and file okay if we can press the button there's a motion to receive and file mover dave eggers and seconder board members please enter your votes motion passes unanimously thank you i'm just curious uh board members how do you like the system so far any suggestions uh it's different but it seems efficient no comment sometimes that's good okay that's rare that's rare well thank you everyone um for a great board meeting our meeting is adjourned thank you