Woodland Hills Sanitary District

August 2024 Minutes

Roll Call: The August 12, 2024 meeting was called to order at 6:34pm. In attendance at the meeting were board members Garry Colasardo, Jared Nooney and Jim Stewart. Also attending was Lois Lund.

Adoption of Agenda: The agenda was read and approved.

Secretary’s Report: N/A, no quorum last month.

Income Report

July highlights:

• Total revenue was $7,776.55
• Net income was -$2,358.52

The leak repair near pump-house #2 was the major expense for July at $7,313.

There were 4 unpaid accounts in July and 3 past due from June.

Water Report: A lightning strike shorted out a transducer at the Lark Lane tanks. Dakota Pump replaced it. A couple of transducers have been replaced in the last year because of lightning. There's a surge protection device that could protect the transducers. But the surge protection would have to be replaced after each strike and the replacement cost is equal to the price of a transducer. However, Dakota Pump believes the transducer might be electrically isolated by a plastic mount and that could offer protection from a strike. The board agreed and Clearwater will ask Dakota Pump to proceed with the idea.

Water Loss Statistics	Gallons Pumped	Gallons Sold	Loss Rate
July 2024	812,499	746,800	8.1%
July 2023	525,114	442,600	15.7%
July 2019	486,009	395,000	18.7%
July 2014	474,900	396,729	28.1%
July 2009	1,020,600	487,751	39.0%

Old Business: None.

New Business: The election deadline passed with no nominating petitions submitted. Due to the lack of board nominees for the last several election cycles Jim Stewart made a motion to reduce the number of board members from five to three. The motion carried on a 3-0 vote. Now a meeting quorum can be established with two members present.

The current board members will be:

• Garry Colasardo - President
• Jared Nooney - Vice President
• Jim Stewart - Secretary (and web site upkeep and disrepair)

Lois Lund remains as the district bookkeeper and Dylan Striebel will be our representative from Clearwater Consulting, our water system operator.

Road Report: No road expense or income. The board is getting estimates for patches on Woodland Drive between Lark Lane and the top of the road along with resurfacing the approaches for Nuthatch, Robin Court and Tanager Lane. In addition the estimate will include the price of a chip seal from Lark Lane to the end of the Woodland Drive.

Board member comments: None.

Resident comments: None

The meeting was adjourned at 7:10pm This report was prepared by Jim Stewart, Secretary WHSD.