Woodland Hills Sanitary
District
March 2020 Minutes
The
March meeting of the Woodland Hills Sanitary District board was called to order
at 6:35pm on Wednesday, March 11, 2020.
Roll
Call: President
Bobby Sadler established that a quorum existed to conduct the meeting. In attendance were Lois Lund, Ed Striebel
(Clearwater Consulting) and board members Garry Colosardo, Jim Stewart and
Peggy Severson.
Adoption
of Agenda: Bobby
presented the agenda to the board and it was unanimously adopted.
Secretary’s
Report: The
February minutes were reviewed and unanimously approved.
Income
Report:
For
February:
Net
income was $4,341
Gallons
pumped were 440,854.
Gallons
pumped a year ago 364,052.
Gallons pumped ten years ago:
558,000 (loss rate of 42%)
Among
the expenses was $1,168 for electrical repair in the well house. The damage seemed to coincide with a power
failure but we cannot determine for certain.
The
number of unpaid accounts jumped to seven in February.
Water
Report: Water losses for February were 30
percent. Ed has called on Mike Moeller
of the South Dakota Rural Water Association and scheduled a leak detection test
for April providing there's mild weather for the test.
A
water meter post was knocked over at 7200 Flicker. Jim will email the homeowner and determine if Ed should repair or
if the homeowner will pursue.
Road
Report: Tax income was $559.51 in
February. Snowplow expense was $1,080.
Old
Business: None
New
Business: A
date of June 23 was set for the board election. Two terms are coming to a close in July, Garry Colasardo and Jim
Stewart. April 14 and April 21 will be
the notice of vacancy publication dates in the Rapid City Journal. May 14 will be the first day to accept
nominating petitions. June 13 will be the
last day to accept petitions. June 3 is
the last day to register to vote in the election.
Jim
had sent out an email asking for suggestions to improve the board's web site
and one resident responded with 3 suggestions.
1)
Publish email addresses of the board members.
The resident was not certain that email sent to the webmaster address
was forwarded to the board members. The
board members decided they did not want their personal email addresses
published on the web site because of the possible "harvesting" effect
and getting overloaded with email spam.
Jim told the board members that outside of lost pet notices the email is
forwarded or brought to the board members at the subsequent board meeting.
2)
Create an annual budget for the road district.
All the board members agreed and Jim will put together a budget for the
next meeting. Also suggested was that
board should publish, in one place, last years board expenses with the current
proposed budget. This can be done as we
have a budget file with proposed and actual expense.
3)
The last request was to publish a list of major projects for both road and
water for the last several years. The resident said that it a person should not
have to search the minutes and income statements to find this information.
The
board debated this and decided the minutes and income statements were published
for this very reason. Searching each
individual file is a pain. So in
addition to the minutes and income statements being published individually they
will be grouped into one file that can be downloaded and searched on a PC.
Board
member comments: None.
Resident
comments: None
The
board adjourned the meeting at 7:10pm.
Carefully
transcribed and written up to the best of his ability by Jim Stewart