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WE'LL CALL TO ORDER THE BRUSHY CREEK REGIONAL
[BCRUA Board of Directors Meeting]
UTILITY AUTHORITY BOARD OF DIRECTORS MEETING TODAY, WEDNESDAY, MAY 18TH, 2022 AT SIX SIX.WE'LL GO AHEAD AND CALL TOWARD PRESIDENT THOMPSON.
PRESENT THE VICE PRESIDENT DUFFY SECRETARY FLORES, DIRECTOR ANDERSON DIRECTOR KIRKLAND, DIRECTOR BAKER.
ALL RIGHT, WE'LL MOVE TO ITEM THREE, CITIZEN COMMUNICATION.
WELL, ITEM FOUR APPROVAL OF THE MINUTES.
CONSIDER APPROVAL OF THE BCR UA MINUTE, A MEETING MINUTES FROM APRIL 27TH, 2022.
ALL RIGHT, WE HAVE A MOTION TO APPROVE IN A SECOND.
A STAFF REPORTS CONSIDER AN UPDATE FROM GENERAL MANAGER REGARDING BC.
ARE YOU A WATER DEMAND AND THE CITY OF LEANDER REGARDING LEANDER WATER SUPPLY STATUS.
UH, THE BOARD REQUESTED THAT I REPORT MONTHLY ON THE WATER OR THE MEMBER CITIES, UM, WATER OF THEIR WATER USE FROM THE TREATMENT PLANT.
UM, AND EVERY WEEK WE REPORT THE DAILY AND PEAK OUR WATER USE BY EACH DIVERSION POINT, AND THEN WE COMPARE IT TO THE MAXIMUMS AGREED TO IN THE MASTER CONTRACT.
UM, SO I AM GOING TO WALK THROUGH THE VALUES AND I'VE BEEN ASKED TO, UM, PROVIDE A PRESENTATION TO HELP UNDERSTAND THE CONTEXT OF THEM.
SO HOW ABOUT POWERPOINT PRESENTATION? AND SO I'M JUST GOING TO WALK THROUGH REED CITY AS I, UM, GO THROUGH THE NUMBERS SO YOU CAN KIND OF SEE HOW, HOW THEY RELATE.
SO THE FIRST ONE IS THE CITY OF ROUND ROCK AND LOOKING AT THEIR WATER USE.
UM, THE RED LINE ON THE GRAPH IS THE CAPACITY ALLOCATION FROM THE WATER TREATMENT PLANT.
AND THEN YOU CAN SEE THE LINES AT THE BOTTOM.
UM, THE ORANGE LINE REPRESENTS THE PEAK HOUR USE AND THE AVERAGE DAILY USE.
AND THIS IS FOR MAY, UM, AND I CAN PROVIDE THIS MONTHLY SO YOU CAN, UM, SEE WHAT THE LATEST IS.
UM, SO THE, UM, YOU COULD SEE THAT ROUND ROCKS, UM, THEIR MAXIMUM DAY USE IS RANGING BETWEEN SIX AND 19% AND I'VE GOT THE, OR SORRY, THE AVERAGE DAY USE.
UM, THERE'S 19% OF THEIR CAPACITY AND, UH, PEAK HOUR IS 43%.
UM, AND THEN THE NEXT SLIDE IS CEDAR PARK.
UH, CEDAR PARK IS, UH, AGAIN, THE RED LINE, IS THERE A CAPACITY ALLOCATION? AND THEN THE, UM, THEY'RE RANGING BETWEEN 12 AND 18% FOR THEIR, UH, AVERAGE DAY AND THEN, UH, 13 TO 14 OR 12 TO 18% ON THEIR PEAK HOUR.
AND THEN LEE ANDERSON NEXT, UM, LEE ANDERS, UM, UH, RANGES BETWEEN 47 AND 60% OF THEIR AVERAGE DAILY USE AND, UM, 76 TO 94% OF THE PEAK HOUR CAPACITY.
AND THEN I, UM, THE NEXT SLIDE, UM, SHOWS HOW, UM, THE DEMANDS OF THE THREE CITIES ARE RELATED TO THE TOTAL BCRA PLANT CAPACITY.
SO YOU CAN SEE THAT, UM, THE PLANT RIGHT NOW HAS A 32.5 MILLION GALLONS PER DAY CAPACITY.
AND THE TOTAL USE IS ABOUT, UM, 12 IN GD ON AVERAGE, ABOUT 36% OF THE TOTAL CAPACITY.
SO I HOPE THIS HELPS, UM, I GUESS, CHARACTERIZE BETTER THE NUMBERS THAT I'M GOING TO BE PROVIDING, BUT YOU KNOW, LIKE YOUR FEEDBACK AS FAR AS THAT'S HELPFUL, OR IF YOU'D LIKE TO SEE ANYTHING DIFFERENT.
SO I HAVE THE CAPACITY FOR THE PLANT WITH ALL THE CITIES WE'RE ONLY USING 32% 36 36.
COULD YOU SEE IT KIND OF RANGES? YEAH.
AND, UM, YOU ALSO HAD, UM, REQUESTED THAT A LEANDER REPRESENTATIVE PROVIDE AN UPDATE ON THE ANDREW'S WATER SUPPLY.
WE HAVE DAN GRIMM'S BOAT HERE TO DO THAT ONCE AGAIN, UH, EVENING, UH, TO THE, UH, WE, SORRY, PRESIDENT AND BOARD MEMBERS.
I'M DAN GRANTSVILLE, THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF INFRASTRUCTURE FOR THE, UH, CITY LEANDER.
AND TODAY I AM, UH, PROVIDING A PRESENTATION, UM, BASICALLY OUTLINING THE RESOLUTION THAT THE CITY OF LEANDRA CITY COUNCIL PASSED, UM, THIS PAST PAST COUNCIL,
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I THINK, UM, MAY 5TH AND THEN, UM, WHICH IS, UM, AND SUPPORTING THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN FOR THE MANAGEMENT OF WATER SYSTEM TREATMENT CAPACITY AND DEMAND.SO I PROVIDED A HARD COPY FOR EACH OF THE MEMBERS.
UM, I KNOW WE HAD SENT THE LINK, BUT, UM, SOMETIMES LIFE GETS IN THE WAY.
AND, UM, SO I, I FIGURED I'D TAKE THE TIME TO PROVIDE EVERYBODY A HARD COPY OF A SAID RESOLUTION SUPPORTING, UM, SAID PLAN OR THE STRATEGIC PLAN, THE CITY MANAGER OUTLINED IN HIS, UM, DO MEMOS.
SO, UH, REAL QUICK, UM, MANY OF THE SLIDES THAT ARE ON THIS PRESENTATION HAVE BEEN PROVIDED TO THE CITY COUNCIL AND A COUPLE OF DIFFERENT, UM, CITY COUNCIL, UM, WORKSHOPS.
SO, UH, COUNCIL MEMBER THOMPSON WILL BE FAMILIAR MAYBE WITH MANY OF THEM, BUT FOR YOU ALL, IT'S NOT, IT'S BEEN PUT OUT THERE.
SO IT'S NOT LIKE YOU'RE SEEING PEOPLE WILL NOT BE SEEING THIS FOR THE FIRST TIME, THIS GUESS WHAT I'M SAYING.
SO WE'RE GOING TO KIND OF GO OVER THE FOCUS OF THE RECOMMENDATIONS, WHICH ARE THOSE SIX AREAS.
AND I'LL KIND OF TALK ABOUT EACH ONE OF THEM, UM, BRIEFLY AND WHAT WE'RE DOING, WHAT WE HAVE DONE AND WHAT WE'RE, WHAT WE'RE CURRENTLY GOING TO DO AND WHAT WE'RE GOING TO DO IN THE FUTURE, UM, FOR WATER, WATER MANAGEMENT.
SO CURRENTLY, UH, THIS IS OUR, OUR SITUATION.
UM, WE GET OUR PLANTS RATED FOR 12 MILLION GALLONS PER DAY, AND THEN FOR A DAY, UM, WE COULD PROBABLY GET THAT, UM, BUT IT'S REALLY LIMITED TO ABOUT 10 RIGHT NOW.
AND, UM, AND WE'VE ACTUALLY HACKED THAT HAVE THAT ACTUALLY ANNOTATED IN OUR PEAK PROJECTIONS.
AND THEN THE WATER THAT WE GET FROM THE BCR UA IS, UH, 15.2 MILLION GALLONS PER DAY OF THE 32.
UM, WHAT YOU JUST SAW THE GRAPH OF, UM, BY THE OTHER CITIES.
AND SO THE ULTIMATE AT THE END OF THE DAY, WHEN THE PLANT'S BUILT OUT, WE'RE GOING TO GET 50 MILLION GALLONS PER DAY, THE NEXT BIG ONE FOR US, WHICH IS IMPORTANT.
UM, AND THAT'S THE ONE THAT, UM, WE'RE HOPING THAT WE GET FOCUSED ON, ON TOP OF OTHER PROJECTS THAT I HAVE A SLIDE THAT TALKS ABOUT THAT, BUT IS PHASE TWO A, WHICH WILL PROVIDE THE CITY, UM, FROM THE PLANET.
SO 32 MILLION GALLONS PER DAY, AND THAT WILL GET US TO THE 44 MILLION GALLONS, WHICH WILL, UM, PUT US ON THE OTHER SIDE, LITERALLY OF THE WATER LINE.
AND SO WE'LL HAVE MORE THAN ENOUGH WATER.
SO HERE, HERE WAS THE CITY OF LEANDER, UM, AND NOT TOO RECENT PAST ACTUALLY, AND JUST QUICKLY GOING OVER IT.
WE HAVE, YOU CAN SEE WE HAVE FIVE DIFFERENT PRESSURE PLANES.
AND AT THAT TIME, UM, SAY EVEN A COUPLE OF YEARS BACK, WE HAD THE ONE INTAKE FROM THE BCRA, WHICH IS RIGHT HERE.
AND THEN WE HAD THE OTHER ONE, UM, WHICH IS RIGHT IN THIS AREA FOR THE TREVISO.
AND THEN THE WASTEWATER, OUR WATER TREATMENT PLANT, SANDY CREEK ACTUALLY WENT TO CRYSTAL FALLS, WHICH IS RIGHT HERE.
AND YOU CAN KIND OF SEE THE ARROWS, HOW THEY WENT THROUGH THE OLD PART OF THE CITY AND THEN KIND OF WORKED THEIR WAY UP.
BUT WE, WE REALLY DIDN'T HAVE ANYTHING GOING, IF YOU WANT TO SAY EAST TO WEST, MOSTLY NORTH THE SOUTH.
UM, AND THIS FOR REFERENCE, UM, FOR THE NEXT ONE, LIBERTY HILL IS UP HERE AND WE PROVIDE THEM WATER.
AND THEN GEORGETOWN IS IN THIS DIRECTION AND WE HAVE A CONNECTION WITH THEM OVER HERE, WHICH IS NOT SHOWN ON THIS CURRENT MAP, BUT IS THERE, SO WHAT HAVE WE DONE OVER THE PAST, UM, BASICALLY YEAR AND A HALF, UM, THE TWO YEARS, WELL, IN 21, WE COMPLETED THESE THREE PROJECTS.
UM, AND SO SAN GABRIEL BOOSTER PUMP STATION, AND I'M GOING TO SHOW YOU THE MAP OF ALL THESE BUDDIES WANT TO GIVE YOU A FEEL FOR HOW MANY ARE OUT THERE.
SO WE'VE COMPLETED THOSE THREE PROJECTS WHICH WILL HELP MOVE WATER THROUGHOUT THE CITY.
AND THEY WERE 5 MILLION, 1.7 MILLION AND 1.5 MILLION RESPECTIVELY DOWN, AND
AND THAT'S GOING TO BE ABOUT 5 MILLION.
AND THEN YOU CAN SEE WHERE IT SAYS WE'RE IN DESIGN AND WHERE DESIGNED FOR THE NEXT FOUR PROJECTS, UM, THAT WILL HELP MANAGE, UH, WATER THROUGHOUT THE SYSTEM.
UM, AND THOSE PROJECTS RANGE FROM 5 MILLION, UH, TO THE SANDY CREEK, WHICH IS ABOUT 16 MILLION FOR THE, UH, FOR THE IMPROVEMENTS.
SO FYI 23, UM, YOU CAN SEE WHERE THOSE THEY WERE, THEY'RE BEING DESIGNED NOW.
AND THEN NEXT YEAR, WE'RE GOING TO START CONSTRUCTION ON, ON MANY OF THOSE.
UM, THE ONE THAT'S PROBABLY KIND OF IMPORTANT TO NOT ONLY US WITH THE OTHER CITIES, AS IT RELATED TO ALSO CONTROLLING PEAK DEMAND, WHICH YOU'VE HEARD ABOUT AND NOT EXCEEDING OUR LIMIT IS PROBABLY THE RONALD REAGAN AND THE TERMINUS PUMP STATION.
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INITIAL PLAN OF THE WATER PLAN WAS TO HAVE A PEAKING FACTOR OF A CERTAIN AMOUNT.AND IN CHAPTER EIGHT, IT KIND OF INDICATED 1.6, BUT FOR VARIOUS REASON, IT WAS NOT 1.6 IT'S.
IT WAS CLOSER TO ONE BECAUSE THE CITIES WOULD, UM, PUT IN THEIR OWN, UM, STORAGE THAT THEY WOULD NEED.
AND IN THAT CHAPTER AT ANY CASE, THAT LEANDER WOULD PUT IN PHASE THREE, WHICH IS STILL A WAYS AWAY, BUT WE NEEDED IT SOONER, 2 MILLION AND 5 MILLION.
WELL, THE TERMINUS PUMP STATION IS NOT GOING TO BE REALLY WHERE OUR TAKE POINT IS, AND WHICH IS TANK 0.3, WHICH IS THE NEW ONE.
AND YOU'LL SEE THAT IN A MINUTE.
AND THE OTHER ONE IS THE RONALD REAGAN AND THAT ONE'S GOING TO BE DESIGNED.
SO THAT'S THE 5 MILLION GALLON, UM, STORAGE TANK AND DETERMINANTS PUMP STATION WILL BE THE 2 MILLION GALLON STORAGE TANK AS PER THE, UM, KIND OF THE INITIAL, UM, DESIGN.
THOSE ARE, YOU SEE, WE'RE ACTUALLY NOT DESIGNED TO BE DONE OR FOR YEARS OUT, BUT, UH, NOT ONLY THOSE TWO PROJECTS, BUT SEVERAL OF THESE PROJECTS HAVE BEEN MOVED UP DRAMATICALLY, UM, FROM THE INITIAL, UH, WATER MASTER PLAN.
AND THEN YOU CAN SEE THE LAST COUPLE, UM, WHERE THEY FALL INTO AS FAR AS, UH, UM, THIS ONE WE'LL HOPE THE, UH, NORTHWEST PART OF THE CITY AND ALSO LIBERTY HILL.
AND THEN THIS WAS WHEN WE'RE GOING TO START CONSTRUCTION, UH, FOR THE RONALD REAGAN.
SO, SO, SO HERE'S WHERE WE LOOK OUT TODAY.
SO THE ONES IN BLUE ARE WHAT WE'VE COMPLETED.
WE'VE COMPLETED THAT 24 INCH LINE GOING ACROSS, WHICH HAS HELPED, UH, WE COMPLETED THAT PUMP STATION, WHICH NOW MOVES THE WATER FROM HERE IN THAT DIRECTION.
YOU CAN SEE THAT THIS WAS ALL RED, WAS, IT WAS ON THIS PRESSURE PLANE, BUT NOW IT'S ON THIS PRESSURE PLANE BECAUSE OF THAT MOVEMENT OF WATER.
WHAT THAT ALLOWED WAS IT TOOK PRESSURE OFF OF THIS PUMP RIGHT HERE, WHICH PROVIDED WATER TO THAT KIND OF THAT WHOLE AREA AND TO LIBERTY HILL.
AND WE WERE GETTING REALLY LOW PRESSURE DROPS IN THIS AREA.
WELL, WE ARE, WE ARE NOT GONNA, UM, HAVE THAT, UM, SITUATION, UM, ANY FURTHER.
THE OTHER THING IS, IS THAT WE COMPLETED THIS CONNECTION HERE, WHICH NOW ALLOWS WATER TO BE DISTRIBUTED THROUGH THIS WHOLE AREA HERE NOW, UH, MORE EASILY.
AND ONCE WE GET THE TERMINUS PUMP STATION, SO ALL THE ONES IN GREEN ARE THE ONES THAT ARE EITHER CURRENTLY UNDER CONSTRUCTION OR DESIGN, UM, MOSTLY IN DESIGN, UH, THE SAN GABRIEL ELEVATED STORAGE TANK AND THE TREVISO, OR HOPEFULLY IT WILL BE BUILT SOONER THAN LATER.
THE LAKE LINE WATER LINE IS AS WELL UNDER DESIGN.
AND I'M HOPING THAT WHEN IT GETS, UM, UNDER CONSTRUCTION HERE REAL SOON, WHICH IS THIS ONE, WHICH WILL ALSO HELP PUSH WATER UP INTO THIS AREA, WHAT WE HAVEN'T YOU'LL SEE THAT THESE LINES ALL POPPED UP.
THEY'RE NOT QUITE ON THE LIST YET.
UM, BUT WE DO HAVE THIS ONE, UM, WHICH IS ALSO ANOTHER ONE GOING AS YOU SEE FROM EAST TO WEST, UH, UM, ALLOW WATER TO GO THAT DIRECTION.
IT SHOULD BE UNDER CONSTRUCTION AND HOPEFULLY IN THE NEXT YEAR.
SO YOU COULD SEE THAT WE MADE QUITE A FEW IMPROVEMENTS AND MOVED TO QUITE A FEW PROJECTS UP TO FACILITATE, UM, UH, BETTERING THE DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM, UM, THAT DOESN'T HELP THE TREATMENT PART OF IT.
UM, THAT'S THE BCR UA THAT'S LEE ANDREW'S PLAN IS TO HAVE THAT PLANT BUILT.
UM, IT'S BEEN THE PLAN SINCE THE BEGINNING, UM, THAT 50 MILLION WILL TAKE LEANDER QUITE A FEW YEARS INTO THE FUTURE.
IT'S JUST GETTING THERE ANY, ANY QUESTIONS BEFORE KIND OF MOVE ON WITH THE, THE ANDREWS PROJECTS.
THAT'S WHAT I WAS JUST GETTING READY TO ASK YOU FOR THOSE WATCHING ONLINE, TO CLARIFY HOW ALL OF THESE IMPROVEMENTS ACTUALLY IMPACT BCR.
UAR OUR PARTNERSHIP WITH BCR UA.
YEAH, IT DOESN'T AFFECT THAT AT ALL.
IT'S GOING TO HELP, IT'S GOING TO HELP US MANAGE WATER, UM, BETTER, UM, AND BE ABLE TO CONTROL DEMAND BETTER, ESPECIALLY WHEN WE GET THE, UM, REQUIRED, UH, GROUND STORAGE TANKS IN.
UM, BUT UNTIL WE GET THAT IN, WE DO HAVE CONCERN WITH, UM, OUR, AND REMEMBER THE PCR YOU PLANT IS THE PLANT THAT LEANDER REALLY DOES USE.
SO WHEN WE'RE WE'RE USING THE FULL AMOUNT IS BECAUSE THAT'S OUR PLAN AND WE PLAN, WE PLAN TO USE IT, AND IT'S GOING TO BE THE PRIMARY, REALLY THE PRIMARY SOURCE OF WATER, UH, FOR THE FUTURE.
UH, SANDY CREEK MAY GET SOME, UH, FURTHER EXPANSION, BUT, UM, NOT PROBABLY ANYTIME SOON.
SO BCR U, SO THIS IS IMPORTANT FOR US.
SO RIGHT NOW THESE ARE THE FOUR PROJECTS, WHICH, UM, IS ACTUALLY QUITE A BIT, UM, WE HAVE THE RAW WATER LINE THAT'S, UH, UNDER DESIGN AND, UM, AND THEN PHASE ONE D WHICH WILL, WILL PROVIDE, UM, LEANDER AND ADDITIONAL PROPERTY, 3 MILLION.
WE WERE HOPING CLOSER TO FIVE.
UM, BUT I THINK WE'VE TALKED BEFORE
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THAT THE RAW WATER LINE IS GOING TO, UH, PUT SOME, UM, RESTRICTIONS ON FLOW, WHICH WILL LIMIT THE AMOUNT OF WATER THAT WE ACTUALLY RECEIVE FOR PHASE ONE D UM, PHASE TWO WAS ACTUALLY THE DEEP WATER INTAKE.UM, BUT THAT DOESN'T ADD ANY WATER AS THE MECHANISM FOR GETTING RAW WATER TO THE THREE WATER PLANTS AND THEN PHASE TWO, WHICH IS, UH, THE PHASE THAT, UH, IT HAS NOT STARTED.
UM, THAT'S THE PHASE THAT LEANDER, AND WE'VE TALKED ABOUT IT A LITTLE BIT AND YOU'LL SEE THAT'S THE PHASE THAT WE REALLY NEED TO GET MOVING FORWARD BECAUSE, UM, THAT'S THE ONE THAT'LL GET LEANNE TO THE WATER THAT, THAT ALLOWS, UH, THE, TO BE ON THE OTHER SIDE OF, YOU WANT TO SAY THE DEFICIT WATERLINE.
SO OUR PARTNER ENTITIES, UM, WE HAVE, WE HAVE, WE HAVE SEVERAL AND, UM, ON THERE YOU COULD SEE HIM, YOU CAN SEE HIM THERE.
UM, LIBERTY HILL, WE ARE LCRA IS AS WHERE WE RECEIVE OUR WATER FROM.
AND RIGHT NOW WE RECEIVED 24,000 ACRE FEET PER CONTRACT.
WE'RE ACTUALLY SUBMITTING AN APPLICATION, UM, NEXT WEEK, UM, FOR AN ADDITIONAL 10,000 ACRE FEET.
IT WAS APPROVED BY CITY COUNCIL.
AND SO WE'RE SUBMITTING THAT, UM, LIBERTY HILL, WE HAVE A CONTRACT WITH THEM FOR 600 ACRE FEET, WHICH IS ABOUT A MILLION GALLONS PER DAY FOR THEIR MAXIMUM OUT.
UM, AND MY UNDERSTANDING, UM, THEY WERE KIND OF PROMISED, BUT WHEN JEAN AND I KIND OF WERE LEARNING THE SITUATION AND WE TALKED TO THEM WHEN I FIRST GOT ON BOARD, WE HAD TO TELL THEM, UH, NO, WE CAN'T PROVIDE YOU ANY MORE WATER BECAUSE THEY HAVE AN ADDITIONAL 600 ACRE FEET THAT THEY CAN BUY OUT OF LAKE TRAVIS FROM LCRA.
AND SO THEY WOULD LOVE FOR SOMEBODY TO TREAT THAT.
AND UNFORTUNATELY, WE'RE NOT ABLE TO DO THAT.
AND I HAD TO LET HIM KNOW, UM, THAT WAS THE CASE.
UM, SO THEY HAVE THAT 1200 ACRE FEET THAT THEY CAN RECEIVE FROM LAKE TRAVIS.
OUR CONTRACT WITH LIBERTY HILL WAS FOR 40 YEARS.
UM, AT LEAST FOR THAT AMOUNT, GEORGETOWN IS A TEMPORARY CONTRACT, UM, THAT WAS INITIATED AND THEY INITIATED THAT CONTRACT WITH, UH, LEANDER MUCH THE SAME REASON WHY WE CAN'T INITIATE THE CONTRACT WITH LIBERTY HILL IS BECAUSE, UH, THEIR GROWTH IS TREMENDOUS.
AND, UM, THEY ARE, IF YOU WAS TO GO LOOK AT THEIR PRESENTATION, THEY GAVE THEIR COUNCIL.
THEIR RED LINE LOOKS ACTUALLY PROBABLY WORSE THAN LEE ANDERS.
SO THEY'RE ACTUALLY CAME TO US TO BUY WATER FROM US FOR THE SEVEN YEARS.
AND THEN, UM, AND I'LL LET RON WRIGHT GO IN MORE DETAIL, BUT THEY'RE ALSO BUYING WATER FROM RON ROCK, UM, TO SUPPORT THEM IN THE SUMMER.
UM, THEY GET THROUGH UNTIL THEY GET THEIR WATER PLANT BILL.
WELL, THEY JUST CONTRACTED UP FOR $175 MILLION TO BUILD A 44 MILLION GALLON PER DAY WATER PLAN TALKING WITH CHELSEA WHO'S, THE PUBLIC WORKS DIRECTOR FOR GEORGETOWN.
THEY'RE REALLY PUSHING TO GET IT DONE IN THREE YEARS, THE FOUR YEARS FOR ME PERSONALLY, THAT'S GREAT.
UM, AS SOON AS THEY GET THAT BUILT AND HOPEFULLY WE CAN GET THEM OFF THAT CONTRACT, WHICH WILL HELP US.
UM, THE NEXT TWO OF COURSE ARE CEDAR PARK AND RON ROCK WHO ARE BCR PARTNERS AND EACH OWN A PERCENTAGE OF THE WATER PLANT, UM, FROM A WATER STANDPOINT AT THE END OF THE DAY, UM, CEDAR PARK WILL GET 15 MILLION GALLONS PER DAY.
AND WHEN THE PLANTS COMPLETE BUILD OUT AND RON WALK WE'LL GET 40 MILLION GALLONS PER DAY.
AND THEN THE ANDER, UH, WILL BE 50, WHICH ROUNDS THAT OUT TO ABOUT 1 0 5, 1 0 6.
UM, THE LAST ONE IS OUR PARTNERS INTERNALLY.
UH, WE'VE HAD MEETINGS ALREADY WITH, UM, LSID, UM, ASSOCIATED WITH, UM, LEVEL LOADING, OUR PEAK DEMANDS.
SO WE'VE HAD CONVERSATIONS WITH THE HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATION AND THE SCHOOL DISTRICT, BECAUSE RIGHT NOW THE SCHOOL DISTRICT KIND OF WATER IS BASICALLY ON TWO DAYS AND WHAT WE'RE GOING TO ASK THEM TO DO.
AND THAT'S BASED ON YOUR ADDRESS AND UNFORTUNATELY WAS BILLING BY MAYBE ACTUAL LOCATION.
SO WE'RE WORKING WITH THEM TO FILL IT, FIGURE OUT WHAT DAYS WE CAN WATER THE SCHOOL SO THAT WE CAN SPREAD IT OUT OVER THE WEEK.
AND SO THEY'RE NOT, UM, CAUSING A DEMAND ON, ON TWO DAYS, SAME WITH THE LARGE HOME HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATIONS.
SO CONSERVATION EFFORTS, THESE ARE SOME OF THE THINGS THAT WE WERE CURRENTLY DOING.
ONE WE'RE STAYING IN PHASE TWO OF CONSERVATION STATUS, WHICH IS ONCE A WEEK WATERING AND ON A CERTAIN DAY.
UM, WE'RE JUST ABOUT TO PUT OUT FOR CONTRACT OUR AMI SYSTEM, WHICH STANDS FOR AUTOMATIC METER INFRASTRUCTURE.
UM, THE SURROUNDING CITIES HAVE THAT.
UM, I HAVE USED CEDAR PARKS AS AN EXAMPLE, THERE'S THIS OUTSTANDING.
UM, THEY HAVE THE WHOLE LOOK ON YOUR PHONE, SEE HOW MUCH YOU'RE USING, UM, REAL GOOD STUFF.
SO WE'RE TRYING TO GET THAT SO WE CAN LET PEOPLE KNOW, UM, THEMSELVES HOW MUCH WATER THEY'RE USING.
AND SO, UM, THEY DON'T KNOW, THEY CAN KNOW DAILY VICE MONTH, A MONTH RE RECLAIMED WATER
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COUNCIL APPROVED A $2.5 MILLION FOR US TO CONTINUE TO WORK ON THAT.THE RECLAIMED WATER SYSTEM CONSISTS OF A FILLING STATION AT OUR WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT FOR TRUCKS THEY USE FOR CONSTRUCTION AND OTHER MEANS.
AND THEN WE'RE ALSO BUILDING A 12 INCH LINE OFF THE NORTH LINE, UH, FOR THEM TO USE FOR THEIR IRRIGATION TO MAKE UP WATER FOR THEIR PONDS.
AND WE'RE HOPING TO GET OTHER CUSTOMERS LIKE THE COMMUNITY COLLEGE HORIZON APARTMENTS, OR HORIZON LAKE SUBDIVISION AND OTHERS, THE TIERED WATER RACE JUST TOOK AN EFFECT.
UM, AND THEY'RE, THEY'RE DOING GREAT.
AND THEN WE'LL TALK ABOUT THE NEXT COUPLE, UM, ASSOCIATED WITH SOME SLIDES, CAUSE WE'VE GOT SOME GOOD DATA ON THOSE.
SO WHAT ARE WE DOING TO LET PEOPLE KNOW KIND OF WHERE WE'RE AT? WELL, WE'RE, WE'VE DONE ALL THESE THINGS RIGHT HERE.
UM, WE SENT OUT MAILERS TO ALL THE RESIDENTS.
UM, WE HAVE SEVERAL OUR PIO AND WE HAVE TWO NOW OR ARE WORKING ON, UM, SEVERAL MESSAGES TO VARIOUS PEOPLE.
AGAIN, I'VE TALKED ABOUT, UM, L I S D AND THE HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATION.
AND, UM, AND THEN WE MET WITH THE LAST ONE WAS REALLY, REALLY GOOD.
UM, I KIND OF BRAGGED ABOUT, UH, GEORGETOWN'S A CAMPAIGN THAT YOUR LAWN RELAX.
THEY ACTUALLY HAVE COMMERCIALS ON TV WHERE SOMEONE'S SITTING IN THEIR BACKYARD, SITTING IN A CHAIR AND, UH, THROWING A FISHING POLE OUT THERE.
SO WE TALKED ABOUT THAT CAMPAIGN THAT THEY HAVE ABOUT GETTING PEOPLE NOT TO HAVE EMERALD GREEN LAWNS, BUT IF THEY'RE BROWN THAT'S OKAY.
UM, SO THAT WAS A GOOD MEETING.
UM, THEY HAVE A PRETTY WELL ESTABLISHED PROGRAM AND THEY GAVE US SOME INFORMATION ABOUT THAT WHOLE CAMPAIGN THAT THEY'RE WORKING ON.
SO THAT WAS, THERE WAS A, I THOUGHT A VERY GOOD MEETING.
THIS IS THE FLYER THAT WE SENT OUT.
UM, SHAWN, UM, WHAT PHASE THAT WE'RE IN, WHICH IS PHASE TWO AND WHAT WE'RE TRYING TO PREVENT FROM GOING TO PHASE THREE AND DEFINITELY TRYING TO PREVENT GO INTO PHASE FOUR.
SO OUR IRRIGATION, UH, PILOT PROGRAM, UM, THIS IS ONE WE WERE, UM, UM, ANOTHER CITIES HAVE THIS, BUT WE'RE KIND OF STARTING OFF TO SEE HOW IT GOES.
WE'RE, WE'RE HIRING A LICENSED IRRIGATION VENDOR TO GO HELP HOMEOWNERS WITH THEIR IRRIGATION.
UM, IT'S AMAZING HOW MANY DON'T KNOW HOW TO USE THE IRRIGATION SYSTEM AND THEY JUST LET IT RUN AND THEN THEY JUST PAY THE BILL.
I THINK MARY WOULD KILL ME IF OUR BILL WAS, YOU KNOW, A THOUSAND DOLLARS FOR WATER, BUT WE'VE HAD A COUPLE OF THOSE.
THE OTHER IMPORTANT ASPECT OF THAT IS THAT, UM, THE CITY, THIS IRRIGATION IS ALSO GOING TO GO CHECK OUT ALL THE CITY FACILITIES, ALL OUR PARKS, ALL OUR FACILITIES TO ENSURE THAT THE CITY ITSELF THROUGH OUR IRRIGATION SYSTEMS ARE, UH, ARE WORKING PROPERLY SO THAT WE'RE NOT WASTING ANY WATER.
SO OUR CONSERVATION COORDINATOR, UM, THAT'S ANOTHER ONE OF OUR BIG INITIATIVES THAT WE'RE DOING FOR THE CITY.
UM, AND THAT'S WHY ONE OF THE REASONS WHY WE MET WITH, UH, GEORGETOWN'S, UM, CONSERVATION PROGRAM MANAGER, IF YOU WANT TO SAY, AND HER TEAM, UM, WE KIND OF TOOK THIS, UH, AND FAST TRACKED IT.
AND SO YOU CAN KIND OF SEE, UM, UM, SOME OF THE THINGS THAT WE WENT AND THE TIMELINES THAT WE WERE LOOKING FOR AND, UM, TO COME UP TO A LITTLE BIT MORE DATA, IT WAS AMAZING THE AMOUNT AND THE SHORT TIME WE HAD THE AMOUNT OF APPLICATIONS THAT WERE RECEIVED, UM, UH, JEAN AND I, AND, UH, AND MIKE AS OURS, WE'RE GOING TO BE INTERVIEWING TWO ON THIS THURSDAY AND THEN TWO NEXT WEEK, ACTUALLY.
SO WE'RE HAVING TO HOPING THAT ONE OF THE FOUR, UM, THERE ALL HAVE REAL GOOD APPLICATIONS AND RESUMES, BUT ONE OF THE FOUR WILL BE SELECTED AND, AND WANT TO COME WORK FOR THE CITY OF LANDER HELPING US WITH OUR CONSERVATION PROGRAM.
UM, THE OTHER ASPECT OF, AS PART OF THE MEMO WAS THE BCRA COMMUNICATIONS.
AND WE CONTINUE THAT THESE ARE KIND OF THE AREAS THAT WE WORK, THE LAST ONE AS ONE, THAT WE'VE SET UP A KIND OF A BI-WEEKLY MEETING WITH THE, UH, COUNCIL MEMBER THOMPSON, UH, AS IT RELATED TO WHAT THE CITY IS DOING AND KIND OF CROSS-REFERENCING IT WITH THE BCRF ACTIVITIES TO SEE HOW WE'RE GELLAN.
UM, THE FIRST ONE WE'RE WE CONTINUE TO WORK WITH, UH, THE BCRA STAFF TO FIGURE OUT HOW WE GET OUR THREE TAKE POINTS TO WORK, UM, TOGETHER, BECAUSE WE DON'T HAVE THOSE TANKS.
SO IT'S KIND OF A BALANCING ACT FOR US A LITTLE BIT.
UM, AND SO WE'RE CONSTANTLY WORKING ON TRYING TO OPTIMIZE THOSE TAKE POINTS, OR IF YOU WANT TO CALL ENTRY POINTS.
AND SO, UM, I'M SORRY ABOUT THAT.
AND I KNOW THE OTHER ONE THAT WE HAVE A MEETING WITH THE OSI AS TO TALK ABOUT THE PEAKING FACTOR, UM, THAT PEAKING FACTOR WOULD HELP US GREATLY, UM, W WHAT IT BASICALLY DOES AS FOR A SHORT TIME.
UM, IT, IT ALLOWS YOU, IF YOU WANT TO SAY, TO EXCEED IN A, IN A, ON A GIVEN HOUR.
SO WE'RE LOOKING FOR A PEAKING FACTOR OF 1.2.
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AND IF YOU LOOKED AT, UM, RIGHT NOW AT THE PEAKING FACTOR THAT WE AGREED TO, AND IT'S IN THE AMENDMENT, UM, SIX OF THE, UH, OF THE CONTRACT, UM, IT BASICALLY SAYS, UH, UH, WE HAVE AN AMOUNT OF 15.2 MILLION GALLONS PER DAY.AND OUR RATE IS LIMITED TO 10,528 GALLONS PER MINUTE.
SO THAT'S A PEAKING FACTOR OF ONE BECAUSE YOUR CONTRACT AMOUNT AND YOUR RATE AMOUNT ARE EXACTLY THE SAME.
IF WE HAD A PEAKING FACTOR OF 1.2, THAT WOULD GIVE US A 18.7 MILLION GALLON PER DAY, BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY, IT WOULD GIVE US AN INSTANTANEOUS RATE OF 12,638 GALLONS PER MINUTE.
AND SO FOR A PERIOD OF TIME WHERE WE HAVE A LITTLE BIT OF A PEAK DEMAND AND, AND, AND A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME, UM, THAT PEAKING DEMAND ALLOWS US A LITTLE BIT OF FLEXIBILITY THERE.
UM, DURING, DURING OPERATIONS, UM, PEAK DEMAND IS PRETTY COMMON AND, UM, EVERY KIND OF WATER OR WASTEWATER PLANT THAT THERE IS.
SO WE'RE GONNA TALK ABOUT WHAT THAT MEANS.
WE'VE HAD A MEMO THAT WAS, UH, DRAFTED, UH, VIA THE BCRF THAT TALKED ABOUT IT.
UM, THERE'S A REAL POSSIBILITY TO IT.
SO WE'RE GOING TO LOOK FORWARD TO, UM, CONTINUOUS TALKS AND HOPEFULLY GET THAT ESTABLISHED.
THIS IS NOT MY FORTE, BUT I THREW THESE UP HERE BECAUSE WE ARE ALSO WORKING THESE AREAS.
AND IF WE WANTED TO GO MORE IN DEPTH, I WOULD BRING THE EXPERT ROBIN IN.
UM, BUT YOU CAN SEE THAT WE'RE, WE'RE TRYING TO FOLLOW THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN, YOU KNOW, WHATEVER PIECE OF PROPERTY ZONE FOUR, WE'RE TRYING TO HOLD TO THAT.
I KNEW ON THE OTHER ONE, AND I KNOW THERE WAS SEVERAL THAT ARE IN, UM, ON REVIEW, BUT WE'RE TRYING TO DO THIS PHASING OF RESIDENTIAL OF ELEMENTS.
ONE WAS ALREADY APPROVED THROUGH CITY COUNCIL WHERE THEY BUILD ONLY SO MANY HOUSES FOR THE FIRST TWO YEARS, SECOND, TWO YEARS, 13 YEARS.
AND SO, UM, WE HAVE A COUPLE OF HAVE YOU WANT TO CALL, UM, PLANNING CONCEPTS THAT WE'RE WORKING ON.
AND THEN WE ALSO HAVE, ALONG WITH THE PLANNING, UM, LANDSCAPING CHANGES THAT WE'RE MAKING, AND THOSE ARE IN THE PROCESS OF, UM, UM, BEING APPROVED.
UM, SO, UH, THOSE RECOMMENDATIONS ARE ALSO MOVING FORWARD.
NOW I WANT REMIND EVERYBODY AGAIN, BEFORE I GO WITH QUESTIONS HERE IS THAT THE BCRA IS OUR, IS OUR PLANT, AND WE ACTUALLY NEED TO HAVE A RUN IN, AND WE'RE GOING TO USE THE MAJORITY OF THE WATER, UM, UH, THE SAME WITH SANDY CREEK, BECAUSE IT MAKES GOOD SENSE.
UM, THE MORE, ACTUALLY THE MORE WATER WE USE FOR THE PER THOUSAND GALLONS TO ACTUALLY GET A LITTLE LESS, YOU PAY PROBABLY FOR THE ACTUAL WATER BECAUSE OF THE AMOUNT OF MONEY YOU'RE PUTTING INTO IT TO BUILD IT.
THE OTHER PART IS THAT IT'S SO IMPORTANT TO US THAT THE SANDY CREEK AND THE BCR EA ARE ACTUALLY IN OUR EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS PLAN FOR THE STATE.
SO VIA THE THREE, THE SB THREE BILL, UM, THAT PLAN IS PART OF OUR SYSTEM.
AND IT'S ACTUALLY IN THAT PLANT, MAKE SURE THAT IT RUNS.
AND SO WE HAD A WORK WOULD BE SYRIA TO FACILITATE GETTING, UM, THE EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS PLAN FROM THEM AND THEN INCORPORATING IT INTO OURS AND SENDING IT TO THE STATE, UM, TO SEE IF THEY AGREE WITH THAT.
SO THIS IS NOT A BACKUP PLAN, YOU KNOW, AND YOU CAN SEE THE DIFFERENT LEVELS OF THE OTHER CITIES, AND THEY MIGHT BE USING A MILLION OR 2 MILLION, UM, AND THAT'S, AND THAT'S GREAT, CAUSE THERE MIGHT BE FOR THEIR FUTURE USE AND FOR FUTURE ECONOMIC.
UH, BUT FOR US, THAT'S A REAL PLANT WHERE WE'RE USING THAT PLANT AND WE'RE USING THE WHOLE CAPACITY OF THAT PLANT AND WE'LL CONTINUE TO USE THE FUTURE CAPACITY OF THAT PLANT.
AND, UM, THE LAST THING I REMINDED COUNSEL IS THAT IF EVERYTHING GETS DONE IN FIVE YEARS, UM, WE'LL BE ABOVE WATER.
LITERALLY IF WE HAD THAT PLANT BUILT TODAY AND WE HAD THAT 44 MILLION GOWNS.
AND IF YOU PULLED UP THE CHART, UM, THAT'S BEEN KIND OF INDICATED THAT WE'RE IN TROUBLE, THE NEXT KIND OF FIVE YEARS WITH THAT DIFFERENCE, AND THIS HAS BEEN DISCUSSED AND THAT'S TRUE, BUT YOU JUST SEE EVERYTHING THAT WE'RE DOING TO FACILITATE MANAGING THAT.
IF IT WAS BUILT TODAY, WHAT THAT CHART OFF SHOW SHOWS YOU IS THAT WE COULD HAVE ALL THAT GROWTH THAT IS CURRENTLY HAPPENED.
AND WE WOULD STILL HAVE THREE OR 4 MILLION GALLONS DIFFERENCE ONCE PHASE TWO AES BILL.
SO THE PLANT IS THERE FOR THAT GROWTH TO OCCUR.
UM, UNFORTUNATELY IT KIND OF OCCURRED MORE QUICKLY AND FOR VARIOUS REASONS, THE BCR PLANT DIDN'T HAPPEN MAYBE AS QUICKLY AS IT COULD HAVE FOR THE CITY OF LEANDER, NOT KNOWING THAT GROWTH THAT WOULD, BUT I DO REMIND PEOPLE THAT IF IT WAS HERE TODAY, WE COULD HAVE ALL THAT GROWTH OVER THE NEXT FIVE YEARS AND PHASE TWO A WOULD STILL SUPPORT SAID GROWTH.
UNFORTUNATELY WE'RE NOT THERE AND THAT'S FIVE YEARS AWAY.
SO WE HAVE TO GET TO THAT POINT.
AND ONCE WE'RE THERE, THEN WE'LL BE ON TRACK FOR HAVING THE WATER THAT LEANDER NEEDS
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UNTIL 2040, OR MAYBE FAR BEYOND.BECAUSE ONCE WE PUT THESE INITIATIVES IN PLACE AND PEOPLE ACTUALLY START USING LESS WATER, UM, WHICH RON ROCK HAS A GREAT STORY ABOUT THAT.
AND SO DOES, UM, THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO WHERE THEY HAD A HIGH FLOW AND THEN THEY HAD A SITUATION WHERE PEOPLE COULDN'T USE THE WATER AND THEN THEY NEVER HARDLY WENT BACK TO THE LEVEL THAT THEY WERE EVER AT BECAUSE PEOPLE HAVE BEEN CONSERVING ALL ALONG.
AND SO WHEN YOU CONSERVE, YOU DON'T HAVE TO BUILD FUTURE INFRASTRUCTURE.
SO WE CAN ACTUALLY GET PEOPLE IN THE NEXT FIVE YEARS OR REALLY CONSERVE AND MAINTAIN THAT.
WELL, THEN THE BCRA WILL LAST INSTEAD OF MAYBE 15 YEARS OR 20 YEARS, IT MIGHT LAST 35 YEARS.
UM, I CAN'T PREDICT THE FUTURE, BUT YOU KNOW, THE POTENTIAL IS THERE.
SO STANDBY FOR ANY QUESTIONS, ANYBODY HAVE ANY QUESTIONS, BUT THANK YOU FOR ALL RIGHT.
I DON'T KNOW IF IT'S FOR, UH, MS. BONDI OR FOR YOURSELF, BUT THE ULTIMATE BUILD-OUT OF 105 M GDS.
WHEN IS THAT FORECAST FOR, WHEN IS THAT EXPECTED? ANYBODY OR DID I MISUNDERSTAND THAT? WELL, I DON'T, I PROBABLY COULD ANSWER 20 16, 20 16.
AND THEN, UH, WHEN I HEARD THE POSSIBILITY OR THE QUESTION PERHAPS TO BE POSED IN THE FEATURE ABOUT 1.2 TIMES, TAKE THAT'S CONCERNS ME BECAUSE I GUESS I WONDER DO WE PUT OURSELVES AT RISK OR IS THAT 1.2 TIMES TAKE FOR LEANDRA ONLY, OR IS THAT ALL SIS, ALL CITIES, THAT WOULD BE ALL CITIES, BECAUSE THAT WOULD JUST SEEM LIKE THAT WOULD PERHAPS POSITION US FOR A FUTURE CRISIS.
PERHAPS IF EVERYBODY'S TAKING MORE THAN THERE, THERE ACTUALLY IS.
SO WELL, THAT'S WHY THERE WAS, UH, A STUDY DONE TO FACILITATE LOOKING AT I THROUGH MODELING TO SEE IF THAT WAS A REAL POSSIBILITY AND BASED ON THE MEMO FROM K FREEZE, UM, INCORPORATED THROUGH THE PCR EA THERE IS A POSSIBILITY FOR THAT, THAT, THAT, THAT, THAT 1.2 TO OCCUR AND IT DECLINES LATER.
RIGHT? SO AGAIN, IT DECLINES LATER, THE REPORT SHOWED THAT PEAKING FACTOR, RIGHT? WE'D HAVE TO THERE'S MODELING AND THEN THERE'S REAL LIFE.
AND SO AT SOME POINT YOU KIND OF HAVE TO INCORPORATE REAL LIFE.
DOES IT MEAN THAT WE DON'T CHANGE THAT? WELL, YEAH, WE CHANGE THE CONTRACT AMENDMENT SIX.
UM, BUT, BUT, BUT FOR LEANDER AND THE CURRENT SITUATION, UM, IT WOULD BE USEFUL FOR US.
UM, THE OTHER CITIES ARE CURRENTLY NOT AT THAT POINT.
THE PEAKING FACTOR, I THINK BECOMES MORE CRITICAL WHEN YOU'RE, EVERYBODY'S USING THE FULL AMOUNT AND THE MEMO TALKS ABOUT THAT.
IT'S JUST A, MORE OF A LAYMAN'S QUESTION BECAUSE I'M IN A, CERTAINLY I'M NOT ANYWHERE CLOSE TO BEING AN EXPERT ON ANY OF THIS STUFF, BUT JUST, JUST A QUESTION THAT CAME TO MIND AS HE, AS HE MENTIONED THAT.
SO THE OPERATING COMMITTEE IS GOING TO MEET TO TALK ABOUT THAT AS WELL AS FOLLOWING UP ON THE, UM, SO, SO I HAVE AN ANALOGY FOR KIND OF PEAKING FACTOR FOR LAYMAN'S TERMS, AND IT MIGHT SOUND FOOLISH, BUT I COULDN'T THINK OF IT.
AND I KNOW, AND I HAVEN'T GIVEN ME AND I OWE YOU, I OWE YOU THIS.
BUT BACK IN THE DAY BEFORE WATER SYSTEMS WERE PROBABLY AS GOOD AND YOU HAVE LOW FLOW EQUIPMENT AND ET CETERA, ET CETERA, PRESSURES WEREN'T AS GOOD.
AND, UM, YOU WOULD BE IN YOUR SHOWER AND SOMEBODY WOULD FLUSH THE TOILET AND YOU WOULD BE SCOLDED.
AND THE REASON YOU WOULD BE SCOLDED IS BECAUSE THE WATER LINE, THE COLD WATER LINE WAS A STRAIGHT SHOT TO THE SHOWER, BUT IT WASN'T ANY SURGE TANK IN THERE, THE COVER.
SO WHEN YOU LOST THAT THREE, THREE GALLONS INSTANTLY, UM, THERE WAS A DIFFERENCE BECAUSE YOU DIDN'T ADJUST THE MIXING VALVE, BUT ON THE HOT WATER SIDE, YOU HAD A SURGE TANK.
I WAS CALLED THE WATER HEATER.
AND SO IT'S RUNNING TO STEADY STATE AND IT HAS A FLUX IN THERE.
SO THAT PEAKING FACTOR IS THAT BASICALLY THAT TOILET FLUSH, IT HAPPENS INSTANTANEOUSLY.
ALL OF A SUDDEN, EVERYBODY TURNS ON HER SPRINKLERS OR PROGRAM AT TWO O'CLOCK IN THE MORNING.
UM, AND THEN FOR A PERIOD OF TIME, UM, THE WATER, BECAUSE THERE'S NO TANK, WE DON'T HAVE A TANK THERE YET.
UM, THE WATER THAT THE PLANTS PRODUCING, CAN'T KEEP UP WITH, WHAT'S BEING PUT OUT THERE.
AND SO, UM, IF YOU, IF YOU DON'T KEEP UP WITH IT, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT CAN HAPPEN IS THAT PRESSURE DROP AND, AND IF YOU LET THAT HAPPEN BELOW 20 PSI, THEN IT BECOMES A BOIL WATER NOTICE.
AND SO, UM, THAT BECOMES A KIND OF A SAFETY
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AND HEALTH CONCERN.IF, IF WE CAN PREVENT THAT, UM, EVEN WORKING WITH THE PARTNER CITIES THAT, UM, AND, AND FOR VARIOUS REASONS, LANDER IS WHERE IT IS TODAY.
AND WE'RE, YOU SAW THAT WE'RE TRYING TO DO A LOT OF THINGS TO, UM, OVERCOME THE GROWTH WE'VE HAD OVER YEARS.
UM, BUT THE LAST THING WE WANT TO DO IS, IS PUT THE SYSTEM WHERE THERE ARE PEOPLE ARE GETTING SCOLDED LITERALLY, UM, BY NOT TRYING TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO MAINTAIN THAT, THAT, UH, PEAK DEMAND AND, AND MANAGING IT AND NOT LETTING PRESSURE DROP BELOW 20 PSI.
SO IN A SUGAR SENSE, THAT PEAK DEMAND IS THAT QUICK, ALL OF A SUDDEN AMENDED YOUR TOILET FILLS BACK UP AND EVERYTHING'S GOOD TO GO.
WELL, WE ARE WORKING ON BUILDING THOSE TWO WATER TANKS AT THE TAKE POINT SO THAT WHEN EVERYBODY TURNS THE SPRINKLERS ON THAT 2 MILLION OR 5 MILLION GALLON, UH, STORAGE TANK, THAT WATER STARTS GOING DOWN SLOWLY, LIKE I MIGHT BE IN A WATER HEATER AND IT COVERS THAT INSTANTANEOUS AND THE WATER PLANT KEEPS PROVIDING WATER AT A STEADY STATE.
AND THEN WHEN EVERYBODY'S SPRINKLERS TURN OFF 30 MINUTES LATER, UM, THE, THE TOILET'S FULL, THEN THE TANK FILLS BACK UP AND THE PLANT MIGHT TURN ITS PUMPS OFF BASED ON THE TANK LEVEL, OR IF THERE'S A STEADY STATE.
AND THE TANK STAYS AT A CERTAIN LEVEL, A CERTAIN NUMBER OF PUMPS WERE RUN.
SO IF THERE'S FIVE PUMPS, MAYBE ONLY NEED THREE OF THEM RUNNING TO MAINTAIN THAT, THAT CONSTANT CONSTANT FLOW.
BUT THAT'S KIND OF WHERE LEANDER IS, IS THAT WE HAVE THAT STRAIGHT LINE GOING.
AND UNFORTUNATELY WE DON'T HAVE THE HOT WATER HEATER AND PEOPLE TURN OUR WATER SPRINKLER SYSTEMS ON OUR THINGS ALL AT THE SAME TIME.
AND WE GET THAT INSTANTANEOUS WATER DEMAND, UM, FOR A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME.
AND THAT'S THE PEAKING FACTOR WOULD HELP WITH THAT.
UM, SO ALL OF THIS IS GOOD AND IT'S A GOOD STEP FORWARD IN THE PROCESS.
I STARTED THE PROBLEMS WITH THIS, UH, PEAKING ISSUE.
I DON'T THINK IT SHOULD BE THE PARTNER CITIES HAVING TO ASSIST, UM, BACK FROM THE MATTER OF SALT WATER TO OTHER CITIES.
AND NOW, UM, OUR RESIDENTS AND CEDAR PARK SPEAK FOR THEM HAVE ADDITIONAL COSTS ASSOCIATED WITH THAT.
SO, UM, I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT Y'ALL ARE ABLE TO FILL THESE WATER TANKS OVERNIGHT SO THAT, YOU KNOW, ESPECIALLY IN THE MIDDLE OF THE SUMMER, WHEN EACH IS HIGH, UM, AN OFF TOPIC ON THESE, UH, SMART METERS, YOU NEED TO HIRE SOMEBODY TO MONITOR THE SMART BETA.
ONE OF THE BEST THINGS ABOUT THE SMART METERS IS THAT YOU CAN TELL WHEN HOA HAS HAD BREAKS IN THEIR LIFE.
THEY'RE NOT YEAH, BUT, UH, MOST OF THE CITIES AROUND HERE GET THEIR WATER FROM LAKE TRAVIS.
SO THEY, TRAVIS PROVIDES WATER FOR A SLEW OF PEOPLE, UM, THAT HAVE ONLY SURFACE WATER.
AND, UH, MANY OF THE CITIES AROUND HERE ARE THE SAME.
THE EVAPORATION RATE FOR ANY GIVEN SURFACE WATER IS, UH, IS HIGH.
AND YOU HAVE TO TAKE THAT INTO ACCOUNT WHEN YOU'RE TRYING TO DETERMINE YOUR FIRM YIELD AND LCRA, AND THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI WHO OWNS TWO LAKES, GO THROUGH A WATER MODELING AND GREAT EFFORTS TO DETERMINE WHAT THEIR FIRM YIELD IS BASED ON THE WORST DROUGHT OF RECORD.
THAT'S BEEN RECORDED TO ASSURE THAT WHEN STRAWS ARE BEING DIPPED IN THERE, THAT THEY HAVE THE PROPER AMOUNT OF ACREAGE BEING PROVIDED.
AND THEN WHEN THEY START GETTING TO LIMITS THAT THEY ALREADY HAVE IN PLACE, BASED ON THAT FROM YIELD, THEN THEY END UP THE CUSTOMERS KNOW THAT THEY HAD TO START
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CUTTING BACK.SO YEAH, THAT EVAPORATION RATE IS THERE, BUT IT'S ALSO PART OF THE WHOLE MODELING PROCESS RELATED TO FROM YIELD.
AND SO THEY KNOW HOW MUCH WATER THEY HAVE PEOPLE DEALING WITH SURFACE WATER.
WELL, I WAS JUST GOING TO ASK, I KNOW YOU SAID YOU APPRECIATE EVERYTHING THAT'S BEING DONE ON THE LEANDER SIDE, BUT YOU DIDN'T THINK IT WAS GOING TO BE ENOUGH.
DO YOU HAVE ANY OTHER SUGGESTIONS OR THINGS THAT YOU WOULD WANT TO SEE LEANDER PRESENT GOING FORWARD THAT WOULD, UM, SHOW MORE EFFORT OR A SHOW THAT WE CAN ACHIEVE? THE THINGS THAT WE'RE SAYING WE ARE TRYING TO ACHIEVE NOW THAT WEREN'T IN PLACE BEFORE
SO GOING FORWARD FOR, UM, TO NARROW THE FOCUS OF WHAT YOU PRESENT TO BCR UA AT THE MEETINGS, I HAVE MADE A LIST OF THINGS THAT WE'D WANT TO SEE HIM PLEASE CHIME IN.
IF THERE ARE ADDITIONAL THINGS THAT THE BOARD WANTS TO HEAR PRESENTED FROM LEANDER, BUT WE WOULD WANT AN UPDATE ON THE CONSERVATION EFFORTS OF THE NEW CONSERVATION SPECIALIST COORDINATOR THAT'S BEING HIRED, UH, UPDATES ON THE AMI SYSTEM, WHERE WE ARE IN THE PROCESS.
I KNOW IT'S OUT FOR BID RIGHT NOW, BUT WHERE WE ARE IN THAT PROCESS, UH, ANY UPDATES OF THE IMPACT OF THE TIERED RATES, UM, HAVING THAT UPDATE UPDATES ON, UH, PERMITS.
SO I DON'T KNOW IF YOU WOULD WANT TO HAVE DIRECTOR GRIFFIN HERE, IF Y'ALL WOULD JUST BE ABLE TO PROVIDE THAT, UM, DIRECT UPDATES ON, UH, THE PEAK DAY LEVELS.
CAUSE WE TALKED ABOUT HAVING PEOPLE CHANGE THEIR WATER CYCLES SO WE COULD MANAGE THAT BETTER AND THE UPDATES WHAT'S GOING ON WITH LAND OR ISD AND THE HOA, SINCE WE'VE REACHED OUT TO THEM ALSO UPDATES ON THE PILOT, UH, THE IRRIGATION PILOT PROGRAM AND WHERE WE ARE WITH THAT.
AND LASTLY, UPDATES ON THE PEAKING FACTOR.
ONCE Y'ALL MEET WITH THE OSI, IF THAT'S ALL WORKED OUT, ARE THERE ANY ADDITIONAL UPDATES THAT YOU NEED TO SEE WHEN THAT, THAT DISCUSSION THAT CAME BACK TO HER ON THE DISCUSSION WITH THE PEAKING FACTOR TO GO UP TO THE 1.2? LIKE WHO'S, WHO'S THE DECIDING LIKE, ARE, DOES THE BOARD GIVE THE BLESSING TO THAT ULTIMATELY? OR, I MEAN, I, I BE KIND OF CURIOUS WHAT THOSE DISCUSSIONS LOOK LIKE, UM, WITH, CAUSE I KNOW YOU'RE COMING FROM A PLACE OF LIKE DEFENSE AND THIS MAKES SENSE FOR GOING FORWARD, BUT KIND OF TO, UM, I'M GOING TO REDIRECT MY QUESTION TO THE GENERAL MANAGER YEAH.
TO MR. FLORES IS CONCERNED ABOUT THE RISK FOR THE REST OF US, YOU KNOW, THAT'S, THAT WOULD BE MY CONCERN.
THIS IS SOMETHING WE'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT FOR QUITE A WHILE THAT THE, UM, UH, LEANDER HAD PRESENTED A STUDY THAT HAD BEEN DONE BY THEIR CONSULTANT ON, UH, PEAKING FACTOR AND THE, UH, OPERATIONS
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COMMITTEE DELIBERATED AND DETERMINED THAT THEY WERE NOT SUPPORTING A PEAKING FACTOR ABOVE 1.0.AND THAT IS WHAT, AS DAN MENTIONED, WENT INTO THE CONTRACT THAT WAS APPROVED IN DECEMBER AND HE WANTS TO RAISE THE ISSUE UP AGAIN.
SO WE'LL, YOU KNOW, CONVENE THE OPERATING COMMITTEE AND TALK ABOUT IT AGAIN AND WE'LL THEN REPORT BACK TO THE BOARD ALONG THOSE LINES, FOLLOWING UP ON WHAT WE HAD, UM, TALKED ABOUT LAST BOARD MEETING, WE ARE ALSO, UM, CONTINUING TO, UM, DEVELOP A PROCESS FOR, UH, TO BRING TO YOU TO ADDRESS ANY, UM, POSSIBLE EXCEEDENCES BY, UM, A PARTNER AND ALSO, UM, FOR THE PROCESS TO IMPLEMENT CONTROL VALVES.
UH, WE HOPE TO HAVE THAT, UM, THEM IN PLACE POSSIBLE, UH, BY SUMMER 2023.
AND WE'LL BRING ALL THAT TO YOU FOR RECOMMENDATIONS, CONSIDERATIONS AND ANY ACTIONS GOING FORWARD.
ARE THERE ANY OTHER QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS? ALL RIGHT, THANK YOU.
WE'LL MOVE ON TO ITEM SIX RESOLUTIONS, CONSIDER A RESOLUTION, AUTHORIZING THE PRESIDENT TO EXECUTE A CONSTRUCTION CONTRACT WITH A FAIL-SAFE JOINT VENTURE FOR THE PHASE TWO, UH, RAW WATER DELIVERY SYSTEM PROJECT.
WELL, ON THIS HISTORIC OCCASION OF THE BOARD, CONSIDERING AWARD OF THE PHASE TWO DEEP WATER INTAKE CONSTRUCTION CONTRACT, I'D LIKE TO REFLECT ON THE EFFORTS THAT HAVE BROUGHT US TO THIS DAY.
AND THEN AFTER THAT, UM, AARON ARCHER IS GOING TO GIVE YOU A PRESENTATION RELATED TO, UH, THE REVIEW OF THE CONSULTANTS AND THE SELECTION PROCESS.
SO WAY BACK IN 1997, THE, UH, TEXAS WATER DEVELOPMENT BOARD, UH, CONDUCTED A STUDY CALLED THE TRANS TEXAS WATER PROGRAM STUDY.
IT WAS DONE FOR THE ENTIRE STATE, BUT THERE WAS ONE DONE FOR THIS PARTICULAR REGION.
AND THEN THAT WAS FOLLOWED BY A WEST WILLIAMSON COUNTY REGIONAL WATER SYSTEM STUDY.
AND, UH, BOTH OF THESE IDENTIFIED A FUTURE DEEP WATER INTAKE NEAR WHERE THIS FACILITY IS LOCATED, MENDOZA BROWN, 2005 AND 2006, WHERE THE CITY'S REALLY INITIATED DISCUSSIONS ABOUT A REGIONAL WATER PARTNERSHIP TO MEET FUTURE WATER SUPPLY NEEDS.
UM, AND THEY THROUGH THE DISCUSSIONS AND MANY OF THOSE WHO PARTICIPATE IN THAT OURS ARE HERE.
I'VE BEEN SO FORTUNATE TO HAVE ALL THE INSTITUTIONAL KNOWLEDGE OF THIS, THE DEVELOPMENT OF THIS PROJECT.
UM, THEY DETERMINED IT COULD, UH, THEIR NEEDS COULD BEST BE MET BY JOINING TOGETHER IN A SINGLE LARGE REGIONAL WATER SUPPLY PARTNERSHIP, ESSENTIALLY TO CREATE A RELATIVELY DROUGHT PROOF WATER DELIVERY SYSTEM OUT OF LAKE TRAVIS.
AND THEY DETERMINED TO PLAN FOR AN INTERIM FLOATING INTAKE, BUT IT ALWAYS ENVISIONED A PERMANENT DEEP WATER INTAKE AND PUMP STATION.
IN FACT, I HAVE AN ARTICLE FROM THE AMERICAN STATESMAN FROM 2006 THAT TALKS ABOUT THE PARTNERSHIP.
I'D BE GLAD TO, UM, CIRCULATE THAT, BUT IT, IT MENTIONS THE DEEP WATER INTAKE AND HERE IT IS 2022.
SO IN 2007, BCR UAT WAS FORMED IN 2009.
BCI UA ISSUED $182 MILLION, UM, FOR PHASE ONE A AND BEGAN OPERATIONS IN 2012 AND 2014 BCR WAY ACQUIRED THE PUMP STATION SITE.
AND THEN TWO YEARS LATER, THE MAINTENANCE BUILDING SITE IN 2016, THE PRELIMINARY ENGINEERING REPORT WAS COMPLETE.
AND IN 2018, UM, WE RE ACQUIRED THE TEXAS WATER DEVELOPMENT BOARD SWIFT FUNDS FOR FINAL DESIGN.
NOW SOME OF YOU ARE STARTING TO SAY, OKAY, YEAH, I WAS HERE WHEN THAT HAPPENED.
UH, WE ACQUIRED PERMITS FROM, OR NO NEGOTIATED AGREEMENTS WITH THE CORPS OF ENGINEERS, THE CITY OF AUSTIN, TRAVIS COUNTY LCRA PRONOUNCED ELECTRIC.
CO-OP THE VILLAGE OF VALENTI BELCONNEN IS CANYONLANDS PRESERVE AND, UH, TCEQ.
AND MOST OF THOSE WERE MULTI-YEAR PROCESSES, IF NOT ALMOST DECADES AND THEN ACQUIRED LAND RIGHTS ON OVER 200 PARCELS.
SO I WANT TO TAKE A MOMENT AND GIVE KUDOS FIRST TO THE OWNER TEAM.
UM, THE BCR UAA STAFF, UM, THE CITIES OF CEDAR PARK LEANDER AND ROUND ROCK, INCLUDING, UM, THE ENGINEERS WHO ARE THE ONES WHO WERE FAITHFULLY ATTENDING THE MEETINGS AND HAVE REVIEWED EVERYTHING THAT HAS EVER BEEN THOUGHT ABOUT ANALYZED, UM, REPORTED AND HAD GIVEN,
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UH, AMAZING, UH, INPUT, UM, AND BECAUSE THEY'RE ALL RUNNING THEIR OWN SYSTEMS. AND SO THEY'RE ALL EXPERTS IN THEIR OWN RIGHTS.SO FRANKLY HAVING THREE HEADS COMING TOGETHER TO MAKE, UM, DECISIONS IS I, I IMAGINE MAKING BETTER DECISIONS, ALMOST ANY OTHER PROJECT WHO DOESN'T HAVE THE KIND OF PARTNERSHIP THAT WE HAVE, OF COURSE, THE FINE FINANCIAL DIRECTORS AND THEIR STAFF FIGURED OUT HOW TO MAKE ALL THIS WORK, UM, FINANCIALLY AND OUR ATTORNEYS.
UM, WE HAVE WONDERFUL ATTORNEYS FROM EACH CITY AND THEY HAVE WORKED TOGETHER AS A FANTASTIC TEAM.
I MEAN, REALLY JUST ALL PROBLEM SOLVING, RARELY A CONFLICT THAT HASN'T BEEN ABLE TO BE WORKED OUT.
UM, AND ALL THE BCR UI BOARDS.
I MEAN, YOU ALL HAVE GONE THROUGH SOME ROUGH STUFF WITH, UM, HOW WE HAVE, YOU KNOW, DISTURBED THE PEACE AS WE'VE MOVED THIS, UH, LARGE REGIONAL PROJECT FORWARD.
UM, ALSO PARTICULARLY WANT TO GIVE KUDOS TO OUR, UM, CONSULTANTS.
AARON ARCHER IS MEN ARE A FAITHFUL LEADER AND, UM, FROM WALKER PARTNERS, UM, DREW HARDEN FROM FREESE AND NICHOLS, UM, YOU PROBABLY DON'T KNOW SOME OF THESE CONSULTANTS, UM, BUT SCHNABEL ENGINEERING IS THEIR TUNNELING, UH, CONSULTANT, UH, CAKE FREEZE AND ASSOCIATES, UH, WORKED ON A LOT OF THE ELEMENTS AND COB FINLEY DID ALL OUR REAL ESTATE.
AND YOU MAY REMEMBER LORI BIBLE WHO USED TO COME TO THE MEETING, BUT SHE COULD, UM, TALK ANYBODY INTO AN EASE, BUT EVEN THOUGH IT MAY HAVE TAKEN A LONG TIME TO DO IT, UH, SO ALL THESE EFFORTS BRINGING US TO TODAY, WHEN WE WILL ASK THE BOARD TO CONSIDER APPROVAL OF CONSTRUCTION OF THIS LONG PLAN, DEEP WATER INTAKE.
NOW I'M GOING TO ASK AARON TO COME UP AND SUMMARIZE THE CONTRACTOR PROPOSAL SELECTION PROCESS.
I HAVE A PRETTY BRIEF SLIDE DECK, BUT I WANTED TO TELL YOU GUYS WHAT WE'VE BEEN WORKING ON FOR THE LAST TWO MONTHS.
WE'VE GONE THROUGH PROCUREMENT.
I WAS GOING TO DO THEM ONE AT A TIME.
OKAY, WELL, WE OPEN PROPOSALS, UH, BACK ON MARCH 22ND, AND WE RECEIVED A TOTAL OF SIX PROPOSALS.
UH, WE WERE DOING THIS AS A COMPETITIVE SEAL PROPOSAL PROCUREMENT PROCESS, NOT A TRADITIONAL LOW BID DELIVERY OF THOSE SIX PROPOSALS.
UM, ONE WAS DETERMINED TO BE NON-RESPONSIVE.
WE THEN TOOK THOSE PROPOSALS AND WE EVALUATED THEM ON A COMBINATION OF QUALIFICATIONS AND EX AN EXPERIENCE AND ALSO COST BROKEN ROUGHLY IN HALF 50% OF THE SCORING WENT TO COSTS AND 50% ONE TO QUALS AN EXPERIENCE WE RECEIVED IN THOSE FIVE RESPONSIVE BIDS COSTS RANGING FROM A LOW OF ABOUT 220 MILLION TO A HIGH OF ABOUT 360 MILLION.
AND I'LL TELL YOU, THAT'S ONE OF THE HIGHEST SPREADS I'VE EVER SEEN IN A PROJECT.
IT REALLY INDICATES TO ME HOW CONTRACTORS ARE STRUGGLING RIGHT NOW IN THESE ECONOMIC CONDITIONS TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO HANDLE THINGS LIKE, UH, LABOR SHORTAGES AND INFLATION AND ESCALATION AND SUPPLY CHAIN ISSUES.
EACH OF THEM KIND OF APPROACHED IT A VERY DIFFERENT WAY.
AND IN THAT SPREAD FROM 225 TO 360 MILLIONS, WE DIDN'T HAVE THE COSTS LUMPED ON ONE END OR THE OTHER.
THEY REALLY WERE KIND OF STAGGERED THROUGHOUT THAT ENTIRE RANGE.
THE, UH, THE COST PROPOSALS THAT WE RECEIVED FROM THOSE CONTRACTORS ALSO HAD SEPARATE PROPOSALS WITHIN THEM FOR PUMP PROCUREMENT, BECAUSE THOSE PUMPS ARE REALLY THE HEART OF THE PROJECT.
WE WANTED TO HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO LOOK AT PRICING AND QUALIFICATIONS FROM THE PUMP PROVIDER, NOT JUST THE CONTRACTOR AND WITH ALL OF THE PROPOSALS THAT WE RECEIVED.
THE, UH, THE PUMP PROPOSER THAT THE MANUFACTURER THAT WE SELECTED WAS ENDAR FROM SPAIN, WHICH IS A FACILITY THAT WE WENT BACK AND VISITED A FEW YEARS AGO TO CONFIRM THAT THEY HAD THE PRODUCTION CAPABILITIES FOR THE PROJECT, THE HIGHEST RANK PROPOSER.
ONCE WE WENT THROUGH THE REVIEW PROCESS, WHICH TOOK A LOT OF TIME AND A LOT OF ENERGY WITH THE TEAM IS THE FAIL S A K JOINT VENTURE, TWO SEPARATE COMPANIES COMING TOGETHER TO FORM A JV.
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IN THE TABLE BELOW FOR THE DIFFERENT CATEGORIES THAT WE HAD ARRANGED COST AT 50%, THEIR TEAM STRUCTURE AND ORGANIZATION AT 15%, THEIR EXPERIENCE AND THEIR REFERENCES AT 20%, AND THEN ANOTHER 15% FOR THEIR PROJECT APPROACH.UM, WE DID AFTER COMPLETING THIS SCORING EVALUATION SCHEDULED AND CONDUCTED A NEGOTIATION WITH LSA, KAY, AND I HAVE A FINAL NEGOTIATED PROPOSAL AMOUNT OF $224,786,835.
SO LET ME TELL YOU GUYS KIND OF WHERE WE GO FROM HERE, BECAUSE WE'RE QUICKLY MOVING THROUGH THE AWARD PROCESS.
UM, FIRST THE FUNDING FOR THE CONTRACT, AS YOU GUYS MAY REMEMBER, COMES FROM THE 20, 21 SWIFT LOANS, AS WELL AS CASH FUNDS THAT ROUNDROCK IS PROVIDING THE LEANDER CITY COUNCIL WILL CONSIDER THIS CONSTRUCTION CONTRACT TOMORROW, UH, I GUESS IN THIS FACILITY AND THEN CEDAR PARK AND ROUND ROCK COUNSELORS WILL MEET THE FOLLOWING THURSDAY ON MAY 26 TO CONSIDER THE CONSTRUCTION CONTRACT.
ONCE WE GET THROUGH THOSE THREE MEETINGS, WE THEN NEED TO GO THROUGH A FINAL STEP WITH THE TEXAS WATER DEVELOPMENT BOARD TO GET THEIR APPROVAL AS OUR FUNDING.
UH, AND ONCE WE GET THAT APPROVAL FROM THEM, WE CAN ISSUE A NOTICE TO PROCEED TO THE CONTRACTOR, WHICH WE ANTICIPATE OCCURRING ROUGHLY IN THE MID JUNE TIME PERIOD.
WE'LL START WORKING ON SCHEDULING A PRE-CONSTRUCTION CONFERENCE AND NTP, UM, WITHIN THE NEXT COUPLE OF WEEKS.
ANY QUESTIONS ON THE PROCUREMENT PROCESS? OH, SORRY.
ARE YOU DONE? OR YOU HAVE MORE TO, TO, TO PRESENT? I I'M DONE.
SO, UM, SO YOUR, TO YOUR COMMENT ABOUT, YOU KNOW, IT'S TOUGH FOR THE SPREAD AND THE DELTA AND THE BIDS, YOU KNOW, AND, AND IT'S, YOU KNOW, WHAT A, WHAT A VARIANCE WAS.
I MEAN, HOW DO WE AS A BOARD, HOW DO YOU AS A DOING YOUR PART, YOU KNOW, HOW DID WE BUILD IN CONTINGENCIES INTO THAT NUMBER? CAN YOU AT LEAST ADDRESS THAT TO THE, FOR THE GENERAL PUBLIC? AND THEN PERHAPS WOULD WE EXPECT TO SEE MY COST OVER RUNS, BUT COST OVER RUNS IN THE FORM OF JUST CHANGE ORDERS IN THE FUTURE.
AND DO WE HAVE A NUMBER OF WHAT WE THINK IS GOING TO BE, I MEAN, IT'S SO HARD TO PREDICT, RIGHT? THERE'S NO CRYSTAL BALL, BUT CAN YOU AT LEAST ADDRESS SOME OF THOSE THOUGHTS HOW, HOW YOU GUYS APPROACHED IT? ABSOLUTELY.
SO FROM THE CONTRACTOR'S PERSPECTIVE IS THEY'RE PUTTING TOGETHER THEIR BID NUMBERS.
THEY'RE LOOKING AT A NUMBER OF FACTORS, UH, A FAIRLY UNIQUE THING ABOUT THE LSA K JOINT VENTURE, WHICH I THINK ALLOWED THEM TO DELIVER THE PROJECT AT A LOWER COST IS THAT THEY'VE GOT LARGE PROJECTS OCCURRING RIGHT NOW, UH, FAIL IN THE CITY OF ROUND ROCK.
AND THEN SAIK THE OTHER ARM OF THEIR JOINT VENTURE IN SAN ANTONIO WITH BOTH OF THOSE PROJECTS WRAPPING UP AT THE TIME THAT THIS PROJECT STARTS.
SO THEY'VE GOT LARGE SPECIALIZED LOCAL CREWS THAT CAN MOVE OVER TO THIS PROJECT WITH THE TIMING BEING JUST RIGHT.
AND THAT WAS A MAJOR FACTOR, I THINK, IN THOSE GUYS, BEING ABLE TO WORK ON THEIR COSTS NOW, FROM OUR PERSPECTIVE, UH, WHEN WE LAST PUT TOGETHER AN ENGINEER'S OPINION OF PROBABLE CONSTRUCTION COSTS, WHICH OCCURRED ABOUT A YEAR AGO, I MEAN THE WHOLE WORLD KIND OF TURNED UPSIDE DOWN.
WE HAD THOUGHT THAT PROJECT WOULD COME IN CLOSER TO $200 MILLION, BUT OF COURSE, BETWEEN THE ESCALATION ALONE, ALL THE DISRUPTIONS FROM COVID THINGS HAPPENING IN UKRAINE, WHICH HAVE IMPACTED THE PROJECT IN UNUSUAL WAYS, LIKE NOT BEING ABLE TO EVEN PLACE AN ORDER FOR STAINLESS STEEL.
AND WE'VE GOT A LOT OF STAINLESS STEEL ON THE PROJECT, ALL OF THOSE THINGS, UH, BROUGHT CONSTRUCTION COST UP.
AND I WAS ACTUALLY PRETTY DELIGHTED WHEN WE STARTED OPENING PROPOSALS TO SEE THAT WE HAD SOME CONTRACTS DOWN IN THE $220 MILLION RANGE BECAUSE THEY COULD'VE COME IN HIGHER.
OF COURSE, THERE'S A LOT OF RISKS THAT THE CONTRACTORS HAD TO LOOK AT AND FIGURE OUT HOW TO HANDLE IN THEIR BID NOW BECAUSE THE CONTRACT HAS COME IN HIGHER THAN WE ESTIMATED FOR THE ENGINEER'S COST ESTIMATE.
IN WHAT WE ORIGINALLY TALKED ABOUT WITH OUR FUNDING APPLICATION THAT WE SUBMITTED, UH, 20 AT THE VERY BEGINNING OF 2021.
SO ABOUT A YEAR AND A HALF AGO, WE ARE AT A PLACE WHERE I THINK WE'RE GOING TO HAVE A CONVERSATION ABOUT REPLENISHING SOME CONTINGENCY MONEY BECAUSE ON A PROJECT LIKE THIS OVER HALF OF THE PROJECT IS BEING CONSTRUCTED UNDERGROUND WITH UNDERGROUND TUNNEL CONSTRUCTION.
IT'S VERY EASY OF COURSE, TO ENCOUNTER DIFFERING SITE CONDITIONS.
WE GO THROUGH IN OUR DESIGN PHASE AND TRY TO DETERMINE WHAT WE THINK THE UNDERGROUND IS GOING TO LOOK LIKE AND ESTABLISH A BASELINE FOR THE CONTRACTOR TO WORK
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FROM.BUT WE'RE OUT THERE PUTTING LITTLE HOLES IN THE GROUND, DETERMINING WHAT THE SUB SURFACE LOOKS LIKE.
IT LOCATIONS THOUSANDS OF FEET APART, AND THINGS CAN BE DIFFERENT UNDERGROUND WHEN THEY START THAT WORK.
SO I DO BELIEVE YOU GET INTO A LARGE CONSTRUCTION CONTRACT LIKE THIS AND CHANGE ORDERS ARE, ARE PART OF THE PROJECT, ESPECIALLY FOR A PROJECT THAT HAS UNDERGROUND WORK ASSOCIATED WITH IT.
SO WE DO WANT TO CARRY SOME CONTINGENCY AND THAT'S A CONVERSATION WE'RE HAVING, TRYING TO DETERMINE KIND OF HOW MUCH CONTINGENCY WE WANT TO CARRY AT THIS POINT.
IF I CAN PIGGYBACK ON THAT QUESTION, WHEN WE LOOK AT THESE DIFFERENT PRICE, UH, PROPOSALS, ARE WE COMPARING APPLES TO APPLES? IN OTHER WORDS, ARE THE, THE LEVELS OF CONTINGENCIES THAT THEY BUILT IN OR, OR, OR THE PRICING THAT THEY BUILT AND COMPARABLE TO EACH OTHER.
I MEAN, WHERE'S THE GAP COMING IN? IS IT LABOR PRICES, MOBILIZATION PRICES LIKE YOU TALKED ABOUT BECAUSE I AT, I GUESS THAT'S THE ONE THAT I HAD IN MY MIND IS IF, IF BERNARD FOR EXAMPLE, BUILT IN MORE CONTINGENCIES AND WE'RE GOING TO SEE MORE CHANGE ORDERS FOR FAST SIK.
I WAS JUST CURIOUS IF WE'RE LOOKING AT APPLES.
YEAH, THAT, THAT'S A REALLY GOOD QUESTION.
SO THE DIFFERENCE THAT YOU'RE SEEING IN THIS SPREAD OF COST IS REALLY HOW THE CONTRACTORS ARE HANDLING THE WAY THAT THEY HANDLE RISK BARNARD.
FOR AN EXAMPLE, TAKING THE OPPOSITE END OF THE SPECTRUM ON THE COST THAT WE OPENED, LOOKED AT A LOT OF THE RISKS LIKE ESCALATION, OUR GENERAL CONDITIONS IN THE CONTRACT DON'T ALLOW THE CONTRACTOR TO COME IN AND SAY, I'VE BEEN HIT WITH ESCALATION.
SO THE CONTRACTOR HAD TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO HANDLE ESCALATION WITHIN THEIR BID PRICING.
THEY BOTH BID THE EXACT SAME WORK, BUT BARNARD LOOKED AT THAT AND SAID, THERE'S MORE RISK THERE THAN I WANT TO CARRY.
SO I'M GOING TO COVER MY ESCALATION WITH ADDITIONAL CONTINGENCY ON MY BID AND KEEP ALL OF THAT IN THE CONTRACT WHERE ANOTHER CONTRACTOR DECIDED THEY WANTED TO HANDLE ESCALATION A DIFFERENT WAY WITHIN THEIR BID AND GET MORE AGGRESSIVE WITH IT.
BUT AT THE END OF THE DAY, EVERYBODY BID THE EXACT SAME PROJECT.
IT'S JUST THE WAY THAT THEY HANDLED THEIR OWN INTERNAL RISK.
ERIN, TALK ABOUT YOUR CONSTRUCTION PHASE SERVICES THAT WE'RE PLANNING TO ADDRESS THIS.
SO ONE ITEM THAT YOU GUYS, I THINK WE'LL SEE NEXT MONTH IS OUR PROPOSAL TO DO CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT.
ACTUALLY IT'LL BE A PAIR OF CONTRACTS.
ONE THERE'LL BE CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT SERVICES FROM THE ENGINEERING AND CONSTRUCTION TEAM.
AND THE OTHER WILL BE A CONTRACT FROM A MATERIALS TESTING FIRM THAT DOES QUALITY CONTROL ON THE PROJECT.
AND WHEN WE PUT TOGETHER OUR CONSTRUCTION SERVICES PLAN, WE ACTUALLY HAD THE BENEFIT.
NOW I'VE KIND OF UNDERSTANDING THE CONTRACTOR THAT'S COMING TO COMPLETE THIS WORK AND WHAT LEVEL OF OVERSIGHT WE WANT TO BRING INTO THAT PROCESS TO WATCH THE PROJECT BE CONSTRUCTED, HOW AGGRESSIVE WE THINK THAT THEY'RE AIMING TO COMPLETE IT BASED ON SCHEDULES THAT THEY SUBMITTED.
SO IT WAS VERY USEFUL FOR US TO KIND OF DELAY PUTTING TOGETHER OUR WORK EFFORT AND THE FOLKS THAT WE WANT TO HAVE ON THE GROUND, OUT AT THAT SITE, BEING, BEING A PART OF THAT CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT AND OVERSIGHT, KNOWING REALLY HOW THESE GUYS WANT TO COMPLETE THEIR WORK.
AND SO THE LSA K IS FULLY QUALIFIED TO COMPLETE THE PROJECT.
AND WE'VE ASSEMBLED A TEAM OF INDIVIDUALS THAT WE THINK IS THE RIGHT TEAM AND THE RIGHT LEVEL OF EFFORT TO BE OUT THERE, MONITORING THAT WORK THE WAY THAT THEY WANT TO COMPLETE IT.
ANY OTHER QUESTIONS OR ANY OTHER QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS? OKAY.
I REMEMBER THAT WE APPROVED THE RESOLUTION, AUTHORIZING THE PRESIDENT TO EXECUTE A CONSTRUCTION CONTRACT WITH DALE SAC JOINT VENTURE FOR THE PHASE TWO ROCK WATER DELIVERY SYSTEM PROJECT.
MY SECOND, UM, ALL THOSE IN FAVOR, SAY AYE.
ANY OPPOSED? MOTION CARRIES NOW WE'LL MOVE TO, UM, DIRECTOR COMMENTS, VICE PRESIDENT DUFFY.
I WOULD JUST THANK YOU TO EVERYONE AND ALWAYS TO THE OSI AND DAN FOR YOUR, ALL YOUR WORK, GETTING TO THIS POINT THAT SOME OF US, WHEN KAREN TALKS ABOUT THE HISTORY, SOME OF US HAVE BEEN HERE A WHILE.
SO IT'S NICE TO SEE SOME OF THIS STUFF COMING TO FRUITION.
SO THE WORK IS VERY APPRECIATED.
THANK YOU, SECRETARY FLORES, SIMILAR COMMENTS.
I MEAN, I KNOW IT'S TAKEN A LONG TIME TO GET HERE, BUT CONGRATULATIONS.
DO, UH, DO YOU, KAREN, ON, ON, ON YOUR TEAM'S EFFORTS, THE ENGINEERS, HE SEES A LOT OF TIME AND EFFORT AND, AND, UH, MANY YEARS, 19 87, 19 97, 87 97,
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WHAT'D YOU SAY? 87, A LONG TIME.UM, BUT, UH, ANYWAY, CONGRATULATIONS AND I'M LOOK FORWARD TO, TO A, TO A GOOD PROJECT AND GOOD TIMING AND, UM, CERTAINLY WELL NEEDED, UH, FOR NOW AND IN THE FUTURE.
CAN I, THANK YOU, DIRECTOR KIRKLAND.
JUST WANT TO THANK YOU EVERYBODY.
UM, JUST WANT TO THANK EVERYBODY FOR, FOR, UM, YOU KNOW, THEIR WORK ON THIS PROJECT.
IT PUTS US IN A POSITION FOR ALL OF OUR GROWTH FOR THE NEXT 20 OR 30 YEARS.
UM, YES, THE, YOU KNOW, UH, THERE'S BEEN SO MUCH EFFORT IN THIS, THIS PROCESS APPRECIATE ALL, ALL THREE CITIES FOR THEIR INVOLVEMENT AND THEIR CONTINUOUS ENGAGEMENT AND PARTICIPATION.
AND, UH, UM, EVERYBODY HAVE A NICE EVENING AND DIRECTOR BAKERY, UH, SAME COMMENTS.
I WANT TO THANK THE STAFF FOR DOING A GOOD JOB AND ALL THE CONSULTANTS, UH, Y'ALL ARE THE SMART ONES HERE, BUT, UH, THANK YOU FOR KEEPING US ON THE STRAIGHT AND NARROW PATH.
UM, AND TO THE PARTNER CITIES, THIS, THESE PROJECTS TAKE A LONG TIME AND, AND WE COME AND GO A LOT FASTER THAN THESE PROJECTS TAKE.
AND SO I'M GLAD TO BE HERE, UH, TO, TO WITNESS THIS COMING TO FRUITION AND, AND, UH, WE HAD SOME STUMBLES ALONG THE WAY, BUT AT THE END OF THE DAY, WE'VE GOT IT DONE AND WE'RE GOING TO GET IT DONE.
SO, UM, CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL THE CITIES.
THIS IS A, THIS IS A BIG MOMENT IN, THIS WILL BE A BIG HELP TO OUR REGION FOR A LONG TIME.
AND LAST ONE, THAT LEAST THAT'S ME, BUT I ECHO EVERYTHING.
EVERYONE HAS SAID NOT TO BELABOR THE POINT.
SO THANK YOU ALL FOR YOUR EFFORT AND YOUR TIME.
UM, I'M THANKFUL FOR THE PARTNER CITIES AND I GET TO BE ON THE END OF IT IF IT'S COMING TO FLOURISH AND WHILE I'M HERE.