[00:00] Speaker 1: Good afternoon.
[00:00] Speaker 2: Good afternoon.
[00:03] Speaker 1: Oh, make sure my—
[00:05] Speaker 2: today is Thursday, November 5th, and it is 2:30, and I'm going to call the meeting to order. My name is Florence Weddington, and I'm the president of the board, and I will be leading today's meeting.
[00:21] Speaker 3: Katie, can you take roll call?
[00:23] Speaker 4: Member Kuznik?
[00:25] Speaker 5: Here.
[00:25] Speaker 4: Member Hockett?
[00:26] Speaker 6: Here.
[00:26] Speaker 4: Member McGil?
[00:27] Speaker 7: Here.
[00:27] Speaker 4: Member Palecki?
[00:28] Speaker 8: Here.
[00:28] Speaker 4: President Weddington?
[00:29] Speaker 2: Here.
[00:29] Speaker 3: Um, Pledge of Allegiance.
[00:32] Speaker 4: Katie, can you lead us? I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
[00:46] Speaker 3: Okay, um, at this time I'll take any public comments. That are for matters that are not on the agenda. Do we have any public comments?
[00:58] Speaker 5: We have none.
[00:59] Speaker 2: All right. Are there any requests to consider matters out of order?
[01:04] Speaker 7: There's none.
[01:05] Speaker 3: All right. That brings us to the consent calendar. Can I get a motion to approve the consent calendar?
[01:18] Speaker 2: I'll move approval. I need one second.
[01:21] Speaker 5: I can second that.
[01:22] Speaker 3: Okay. Katie, can you take a roll call vote?
[01:26] Speaker 4: Member Kuznik?
[01:28] Speaker 6: Yes.
[01:28] Speaker 5: Member Hockett?
[01:29] Speaker 6: Yes.
[01:29] Speaker 4: Member McGill?
[01:29] Speaker 7: Yes.
[01:30] Speaker 4: Member Palchik?
[01:31] Speaker 8: Yes.
[01:31] Speaker 4: President Weddington?
[01:32] Speaker 2: Yes.
[01:33] Speaker 4: Motion passes 5-0.
[01:34] Speaker 1: So that brings us to item 14, to consider the adoption of board policy number BP054, disruption of remote access to public meetings.
[01:49] Speaker 4: So this item was actually brought to a previous meeting on 10/1. There was a clerical error and the wrong policy was added without the changes that were made by the administration committee about when a meeting does come back on, what happens. So we re-added the correct form.
[02:11] Speaker 5: So you'll see both in the agenda packet, and we just ask that you approve the correct one.
[02:15] Speaker 7: Thank you.
[02:16] Speaker 4: That is redlined.
[02:17] Speaker 2: Are there any questions or comments? If not, can I get a motion to approve?
[02:24] Speaker 7: So moved.
[02:25] Speaker 3: A second?
[02:27] Speaker 2: All right, Katie, roll call please.
[02:28] Speaker 4: Member Kuznik?
[02:29] Speaker 6: Yes.
[02:29] Speaker 5: Member Hockett?
[02:30] Speaker 1: Yes.
[02:30] Speaker 4: Member McGill?
[02:31] Speaker 7: Yes.
[02:31] Speaker 4: Member Palacki?
[02:32] Speaker 2: Yes.
[02:32] Speaker 4: President Weddington?
[02:33] Speaker 2: Yes.
[02:34] Speaker 4: Motion passes 5-0.
[02:35] Speaker 3: OK, that brings us to item 15, general manager reports.
[02:42] Speaker 2: This is regarding the annual status report on the biennial review of board policies. Are there any questions or comments? Okay, seeing none, we have received the report. Item 16, general manager announcements.
[03:01] Speaker 3: Roger, do you have any additional announcements?
[03:04] Speaker 5: No, I don't.
[03:04] Speaker 2: All right, that brings us to We will now move on to the financial reports, items 17 and 18. Were there any questions or comments on the receive— on the expenditures and the budget to actual expenditures?
[03:22] Speaker 3: Nope.
[03:25] Speaker 2: Seeing none, we have received those reports. Council for the District, do you have anything that you'd like to report?
[03:36] Speaker 6: Yeah.
[03:37] Speaker 1: Okay. Nothing to report.
[03:39] Speaker 2: Okay.
[03:41] Speaker 1: Katie, Secretary of the District, do you have anything?
[03:44] Speaker 5: Yes, we have a bunch of meetings coming up. On Monday, November 9th at 9:00 AM, we'll have the ad hoc meeting between CentralSan and Mountain View Sanitary District. On Tuesday, November 10th at 9:00 AM, we have a special REAP meeting. Wednesday, the 11th of November, the district will be closed for Veterans Day. And then the following week, we have Administration Committee at 9:00 AM on November 17th, followed by Finance Committee on November 18th at 9:00 AM. And then we'll have our regularly scheduled board meeting on November 19th at 2:30.
[04:24] Speaker 2: All right.
[04:25] Speaker 3: Thank you, Katie.
[04:26] Speaker 2: That brings us to board members' Committee minutes. We have 4 sets of minutes here, 2 from admin, 1 from REAP, and 1 from the Finance Committee. Are there any questions or comments on any of those minutes? All right, seeing none—
[04:43] Speaker 9: But you know what, I would just like to say thank you to whomever wrote them because they were incredibly well done and comprehensive.
[04:52] Speaker 1: Thank you.
[04:56] Speaker 2: All right, thank you for that comment. We've received the committee minutes. That brings us to board member reports and announcements.
[05:05] Speaker 1: So I will start with Jean.
[05:09] Speaker 6: So I just want to say that yesterday was a special meeting of LAFCO in which they took roll, Pledge of Allegiance, and then went to closed session. presumably came out later, but I was there. I did walk through the town. It's a lovely day.
[05:30] Speaker 2: All right, Barbara, anything?
[05:32] Speaker 1: No.
[05:33] Speaker 3: Um, Tad?
[05:34] Speaker 8: Uh, yes, I'm on next Tuesday, November 10th, gonna attend the Industrial, uh, Association. Uh, that's their annual Board of Supervisors forum. So keep planning on doing that.
[05:48] Speaker 3: All right, thanks. And Mike?
[05:51] Speaker 7: Yeah, I have a handful of things. On October 16th, I attended the East Bay Leadership Council board meeting. On October 20th to 23rd, I attended the annual CALAFCO conference. On October 26th, I attended the Orinda Chamber board meeting. On October 27th, I had a meeting with Local 1. On the executive committee. On October 22nd, I had a LAFCO subcommittee meeting, and this coming Saturday we have about 100 students coming out from Martinez. And so we're hoping maybe Tad will want to come out and help at the farm.
[06:36] Speaker 8: Farm? Okay, when's that?
[06:38] Speaker 7: 9 to 1. Anybody else is welcome to come out too.
[06:44] Speaker 2: Thank you. Um, so I don't have any reports, but I would like to congratulate Mike on a successful campaign and 4 more years on the board.
[06:58] Speaker 7: Thank you, and thank you for all your support.
[07:01] Speaker 4: Yes.
[07:03] Speaker 2: All right, um, are there any Any requests for stipends or reimbursements or conference attendance? All right. Any emergency situations?
[07:16] Speaker 3: There's none.
[07:17] Speaker 2: Requests for future agenda items? Okay.
[07:25] Speaker 1: With that, I will have Leah announce our closed session.
[07:32] Speaker 10: Yes, we have 2 closed sessions. The first is conference with legal counsel, significant exposure to litigation, pursuant to Government Code 549569.92 for one case. The second is conference with labor negotiators pursuant to Government Code 54957.6. The district negotiators are the general manager, the deputy general manager for administration, the deputy general manager for engineering, the human resources and organizational development manager, and the labor negotiator from Liebert Cassidy. The employee organizations are Local 1, All right, thank you, Leah.
[08:09] Speaker 2: With that, we will recess to closed session. How about we reconvene at 2:45, and then after that we will adjourn to our November 19th meeting.
[08:24] Speaker 1: This meeting is adjourned at this time.
[08:25] Speaker 3: Thank you.