Roberta, do we have enough folks to begin the meeting? Yes, I believe we're only missing TAC members from Rohnert Park, Sonoma, and Marin Municipal Water District. Everyone else seems to be present. Now, Jack Gibson is here for Marin Municipal. Oh, sorry, Mr. Gibson. Okay. Roberta, are you and Gina ready if we start? Yes, we're ready. Okay. Then welcome everyone to our August 2nd, 2021 meeting. I'd like to remind the WAC members and TAC members to state their agency and name for roll call and when making comments. And also make sure that folks are on mute on their phones or microphones when they're not speaking. And with that, Secretary Atletha, could you please do a roll call for me? Yes, City of Cattadi. Yes, Susan Harvey here. City of Petaluma. Mike Healy, City of Petaluma. City of Rohnert Park. Willie Linares, City of Rohnert Park. City of Santa Rosa. Tom Schwedhelm, City of Santa Rosa. City of Sonoma. Jack Dean from the City of the Sonoma. North Moran Water District. Jack Baker, North Moran Water District. Town of Windsor. Sam Salmon, Town of Windsor. Valley of the Moonwater District. John Foreman, Valley of the Moonwater District. Moran Municipal Water District. Jack Gibson, Moran Municipal. And now the TAC members, City of Cattadi. Big Scott, City of Cattadi. City of Petaluma. Kent Carrother, City of Petaluma. City of Rohnert Park. City of Santa Rosa. Jennifer Burke, Santa Rosa Water. City of Sonoma. North Moran Water District. Peru Mackinser, North Moran Water District. Town of Windsor. Christina Goulart, Town of Windsor. Valley of the Moonwater District. Matt Holner, Valley of the Moonwater District. Moran Municipal Water District. Paul Selle, Moran Municipal. And as far as public attendees, we have, and staff, we have Barry Dugan, Brad Sherwood, Brenda Edelman, Brian Kaye, Claire Nordley, Colin Close, Jake Spalding, Jim Grossi, Larry Russell, Lynn Rosselli, Mark Milan, Paul Selsky, Peter Martin, Shannon Cthulah, Steven Hancock, and Tony Williams. Thank you for that. So welcome everyone. So we will move on to the next item, which is public comments. We are now taking public comments on non-agenda items. If you wish to make a comment via Zoom, please raise your hand. If you are dialing in via telephone, please dial star nine to raise your hand. Then Secretary Perez, are there any live public comments? I am not seeing any raised hands. I am not seeing any raised hands either. Then Drew, do you have any read or recorded public comments left via voicemail or email? I do not. You do not, okay. So we will end public comment. And with that, we will move on to item three, which is- Chair Harvey, I'm sorry to interrupt us. I have a hand that keeps coming up and going back down for Brenda Edelman. Let me see if she would like to speak. That would be fine. Thank you so much. Brenda, I've enabled your mic. Did you wish to speak under public comment? Yes, I do. Thank you, Brenda. Thanks. I want to make a few comments. I was looking at the various different websites to see how you were publicizing the very serious problems with Russian River water levels at this point in time. And I'd like to make a few comments about what I saw. I felt that many of the sites failed to convey the seriousness of the problem. And that in some cases, the public needs to go through two or three pages before getting to suggestions and descriptions of the seriousness of the problem. And a lot of times when you mention you're aiming for a percentage decrease, you don't say percentage of what. It's not really explained. There is need for some kind of header about the seriousness of the issue and how people can get information if it's not on the first page, not in all cases, but in several cases. And I don't want to call out specific entities at this point, but you know who you are. And there are a lot of sites that have best room for improvement. Mandatory doesn't mean much if you don't talk about some penalties. Lots of carrots and very few sticks in most cases. Generally the larger cities have better information and are better organized, which maybe is to be expected. But I would suggest that if the smaller entities aren't able to do a very sophisticated layout, they might have good links to those sites that are more informative. And that's pretty much it. Those are my suggestions and comments. And I just played with you to understand the river is about six inches deep at Monterey. You look at it from the bridge and it looks like there's lots of water there. But then you look at people and dogs in the water and it barely comes up to their ankles. So things are very serious. We're definitely running out of water and there's concerns about what'll happen if we don't get a lot of rain this winter. Thank you very much. Thank you for that, Brenda. And we have many of the TAC members for all the cities on here. And I'm sure they will take that information to heart and see where they can make improvements. Thank you. Roberta, are we seeing any other hands at this point? No, we're not seeing any other hands raised. Okay, then we will go ahead and move on. Thank you for that. Everyone has a recap of the May 3rd WAC-TAC meeting and the minutes. Are there any questions or concerns with those from the WAC members? Please raise your hand. I am not seeing any hands. Roberta, are you seeing any? I am not. Okay, so then we will take public comment on item three of the minutes. If you wish to make a comment via Zoom, please raise your hand. If you are dialing in via phone, please dial star nine to raise your hand. And Secretary Perez, are there any live comments about the minutes from May 3rd? There are no raised hands. Thank you for that. Then Drew, did you receive any pre-recorded or written comments? I did not. Okay. Then thank you for that. And I would be looking for a motion on the minutes. That's Marin, Jack Baker, move the minutes. Will Sam and from Windsor, or I'll second. Okay, we have a motion and a second. Roberta, did you get those? I believe Jack Baker made the motion and Sam, Sam and seconded. Okay. Then with that, could we have a roll call from the WAC members? Yes. City of Katadi? Yes. City of Petaluma? Yes. City of Rona Park? Yes. City of Santa Rosa? Yes. City of Sonoma? Yes. North Marin Water District? Yes. Town of Windsor? Yes. Valley of the Moonwater District? Yes. Thank you. So that sounds like we have a unanimous vote on the minutes and then we will move on to item four. And Drew, would you take this item? Yes, thank you, Chair Harvey. Okay, so these, this is for the approval of the TAC meeting minutes for the July 12th meeting. Again, this will be an action item for the TAC members. So again, the agenda or the meeting minutes have been out available for any review or comments. So I just like to ask TAC members, do you have any comments in the meeting minutes as presented? I don't see anybody raising their hand. So I'll go ahead and open this up for public comments. Again, this is agenda item number four, the July 12th TAC meeting minutes. If you have any comments on those meeting minutes, please raise your hand via Zoom or if you're calling in, press star nine on your phone. I'm seeing raised hands on this item. Gina, you said there are no raised hands on this item. That's correct. Okay, great. And then let the meeting minutes reflect that there are no pre-recorded public comments on this item. So I'll bring it back to the TAC for motion in a second. Matt Holner, document water district, I'll make a motion to approve. Jennifer Berks, I know it was a water second. It's been motion made by Valley of the Moons, seconded by Santa Rosa to approve the meeting minutes as presented. Let's see, Roberta, would you do a roll call, please? Yes, city of Cotate. Thanks, Scott. Cotate, yes. City of Petaluma. Kent Carrother, city of Petaluma, yes. City of Rohnert Park, city of Santa Rosa. Jennifer Berks, Santa Rosa Water, yes. City of Sonoma. Colleen Ferguson, city of Sonoma, yes. Northward and Water District. Drew McIntyre, Northward and Water District, yes. Town of Windsor. Christina Goullard, Town of Windsor, yes. Valley of the Moonwater District. Matt Holner, Valley of the Moonwater District, yes. Okay, meeting minutes are unanimously approved.  Okay, the Water Supply Coordination Council met on July 19th. Unfortunately, I was not able to attend that meeting, but the result is this agenda. I'm not sure, Drew, if you'd like to add anything to that since I wasn't there. No, I think we're gonna cover the items that we discussed as they were essentially added to this agenda item. So I think that will take care of it. Okay, thank you for that. So now we will take public comments on item five. If you wish to make a comment via Zoom, please raise your hand. If you're dialing in via telephone, please dial star nine to raise your hand. And then Secretary Perez, are there any live comments? I'm not seeing any raised hands. Okay, there are no live comments for item five and Drew, did you receive any written or verbal comments? I did not receive any pre-recorded public comments. Okay, thank you for that. Then we will move on to item number six, which is the Water Supply Conditions and Temporary Urgency Change Order. And I believe that Don Seymour, you're going to cover this for us. Yes, I am. Good morning, Chair Harvey and members of the TAC and WAC. So starting with the upper part of the watershed, Lake Mendocina is currently right at about 24,800 acre feet, which is 22% of the water supply pool for this time of year. And the current release is 115 CFS coming out of the reservoir and that's to meet the minimum stream flow requirement down at Healdsburg of 25 CFS. As many of you probably might be aware, the storage threshold that was set in the emergency regulation for August 1st, the reservoir dropped below that last week. So that activates or it activates the emergency regulations, division of water rights will start moving forward with all the actions that are authorized under the emergency regulation. So that means curtailment notices will go out to everybody on the upper Russian River, basically telling that the only reasonable use of water on the upper Russian River is to meet human health and safety needs and minimum stream flow requirements. It does still allow the Mendocina County Select Control District to continue their contractors to continue diverting for both agricultural and municipal needs also. On the lower Russian River, it's being handled a little bit differently. They've done a water availability analysis and they will be issuing based on priority of a permittees water right issuing curtailments for folks if water is not available. So those notices will likely be going out in the next week or so. I just want to point out, remind everybody that we had snow water really had had a goal while we were working with the state board staff of maintaining a storage of 20,000 acre feet as of October 1. We're observing reach losses that are much higher than we can't reach losses that are occurring that are resulting in these necessary high releases that are really taxing the reservoir. Lake Mendocina right now will likely be well below 20,000 acre feet on September 1, let alone on October 1. And if the projection keeps going out, we'll see a storage level of less than 12,000 acre feet in Lake Mendocino on October 1. So these numbers are really concerning. We're really not seeing the reductions that are necessary to maintain storage. I think we could only hope that the actions taken by the state board will have a bit more of a bite and we'll see some relief and build or reduce our releases. But right now things are looking pretty dire on the upper rushing river. For Lake Sonoma, the current storage is just over 122,000 acre feet. That's just under 50% of the water supply pool for the reservoir. It's really tracking exactly on the projection we had made based on reducing the minimum stream flow requirement down to 35 CFS on the lower Russian river. And the contractors meeting that 20% reduction in diversions from the Russian river. So we're really on track in what we hope to accomplish. However, if things remain dry, the reservoir will likely drop below 100,000 acre feet sometime in November if we don't see some early rains. And I say, when I talk, when we start thinking about the precipitation that's gonna be necessary to see significant runoff, generally in a normal year, we have to see six to seven inches of precipitation before we start seeing noticeable runoff. And then after two years of drought right now, that number is probably much higher. We're probably talking eight to 10 inches of precipitation before we're gonna start seeing some significant natural flow in the system and runoff into the reservoirs. So that I'd be happy to answer any questions. With that, are there any questions from any of the WAC or TAC members? I am not seeing any hands from the WAC or TAC. So then we will now take public comments on item six. If you wish to make a comment via Zoom, please raise your hand. If you are dialing in via phone, please dial star nine to raise your hand. And Secretary Perez, it looks like there's one hand out there. That's correct. I'm going to allow Ms. Edelman to speak. Okay, thank you. Yes, Brenda. Okay, thank you. I have one question and that is, I was looking at the yearly water sales for the contractors and I would like to know why the most recently year showed a significant greater amount of water sales than the year before. I don't have the number right in front of me, but it was. I'd be happy to try to take a shot at that and maybe Pamela and Ms. Ellen would like to chime in, but so a few of the contractors were, when there was still natural flow in the system, we're taking greater amounts of water when it wouldn't impact Lake Sonoma. And so for example, Roman Park was taking greater water and not leaning on their local groundwater supplies and then cut way back on Russian River, their needs for Russian River water are now leaning on the groundwater supply. So there was a strategy, some folks had a strategy of using water when it was available, when it wouldn't impact Lake Sonoma. And in addition, we're in the second year of a really dry year, so there was probably some greater water use earlier in the spring for landscape irrigation. May I say one thing quickly? Yes, but that doesn't indicate to me that there's a serious attempt to save water. Okay, thank you for that. I am not seeing any other hands. Gina or Roberta, are you seeing any? There are no other hands raised. There are no other hands, okay. Thank you for that. We'll just continue to keep working with folks and hope that we get rain. That's really at this point. We're kind of at the mercy of nature and we will continue moving forward with trying to impress upon folks that they need to conserve and help them with those efforts. Drew, did you have any written or verbal comments on this item? I did not. I did not, okay. Then we will move on to the Sonoma Wren Savings Partnership and Drew, are you going to take this? Yes, I am, Chair Harvey. So I'll be handling just coordinating the next this agenda item seven. So there are three parts to a seven A, B and C. We'll start off with seven A first, which is our regular Sonoma Wren Savings Water Partnership Tracking and related overall, total water deliveries related to the 2013 benchmark. You can see for the month of June, the overall water usage is down 23%. And then one thing I would like to point out is in the chart, if you can just scroll down, Gina or Roberta, yeah, chart one, just look at that. The blue is this year's actual deliveries. The gray was, again, the 2013 basher. You can see there just in the months of April, May and June, just how the deliveries have been pretty flat as we transition from the low water demand periods to high summer demand. So you could see that the contractors as a group are in fact having it, the message is getting out, customers are reducing their outside water use and conserving. So I, and just scroll down to chart two. This is again, just looking at historical water use since the 1995 from a comparison, just to show that overall water use is much lower, not only looking at 2013, but going back even greater reduction of percentages compared to 1995. So with that, I'll go ahead and just open it up to the WAC first to see if there's any questions at all on this summation of water use and attack. Mike Healy, I see you have a question raised. Yeah, so I'm just curious. Remind me why we're using 2013 as a benchmark as opposed to a more recent year that seems to be a rather low bar. We're actually, good question, Mr. Healy. We're actually just starting to transition with these reports so that we will sync, we will also report based upon our temporary agency change order that's effective July one. So the agency will not actually have the actual data until the meters are all read in total this week. So the next month is when we'll start having that data reported and tracking for the order. I do have, when we get to agenda item seven B, I do have some initial reporting on that as well. Any other questions on this agenda item? This is Susan, no question, but really just a comment. I know it comes up often about population growth and it is interesting to note in your chart too that while the population growth has continued to rise even with that growth in population, the water usage is still running a lot lower. So typically you would, a lot of comments are made about population growth and new population coming on seems to be doing their fair share in ensuring that we can serve water. Good point, Chair Harvey. Any other questions from the WAC or TAC? Drew, this is Paul Piazzitz in the water. I was hoping just to provide one other clarification for Mr. Healy's question. Yes. Just wanted to respond that the 2013 benchmark was actually selected by the State Water Resources Control Board during the last drought and is still a metric that they're referring to in the monthly conservation reports that all of our partners are required to report on to the State Board each month. You recall that in early July, the Governor issued an executive order calling for a voluntary 15% reduction in water use statewide and it's likely that the benchmark for that monthly reporting will get retargeted to meet that 15% reduction goal and could change again to the further we get into the summer, but it was just to clarify that that benchmark was set by the State for us and continues to be the metric that they require us to report towards for our monthly conservation reporting. Thank you, Paul. Any other questions, comments from the WAC or TAC? This is on agenda item 7a. Okay, we'll open this up now for a public comment. If you wish to make a comment via Zoom, please raise your hand or if you're participating via telephone dial star nine. I'm not seeing any raised hands for this item. Thank you, Gina and let the meeting minutes reflect that there are no prerecorded comments on this agenda item as well. So let's move on to agenda item number 7b and this is directly in an effort to address Supervisor or Council Member Haley's comments just as far as how are we doing with respect to the temporary change order. As I indicated earlier that we'll have some more actual definitive reporting once the monthly records are tallied up. But this is just showing what the agency is tracking just with some process meters that they have through the system. It's not on actual billing data yet that will occur just right around the beginning of August. But it's showing here that our 2020 diversions there and the yellow line and then the actual since July one diversions of this year and shows that right now the percent reduction is 24%. So we're meeting and exceeding the 20% order requirements and we'll continue to track that obviously as we go through the summer and we'll have that in a monthly reporting to the TAC and the WAC moving forward. Any questions from the WAC or TAC on this? Okay, I'll move it up open to the public. Any comments from the public? If you wish to make a comment via Zoom please raise your hand or dial star nine. I'm not seeing any raised hands for this item. Thank you, Secretary Perez and let the meeting minutes reflect that there are no pre-recorded public comments on agenda item seven B as well. So that'll take us to agenda seven, agenda seven C which is update on a drought outreach messaging and temporary emergency change order reporting. Paul Piazza is going to provide this report. Paul. Great, thank you, Drew. So the partnership outreach is continuing. We've had a very successful event that occurred on June 12th which is the regional drought drop by event. There is one correction here mentions 10,000 drought kits. That's just an error in my part. We were ordering 10,000 additional and that number was in my head. So it was 5,300 roughly drought kits that were distributed through the partnership and an additional 750 kits that were funded through Cinema Water about 500 of which were distributed to the Yuccaia area for the Upper Russian River and about 250 for Forestville Water District for lower river customer.  The drought kits included water saving devices, shower heads, faucet aerators, self-closing hose nozzles and then additional tools such as toilet leak detection dye tablets and shower timers to help people both achieve direct water savings but also included a good deal of information about tips to help people save. As I mentioned, we're planning another couple of these drop by events for August 21st and again in October 9th. The August 21st event will be similar in approach. It'll be offered through Moran, Sonoma and Mendocino counties. Essentially all the same agencies that participated in the June 12th event. And then the October 9th event will be just a little bit more limited in scope. We got a lot of good press, press release led to some television coverage of that event. We also had a lot of community groups that helped support the distribution of the kits and we're also taking video of those events at the day of and posting them to their agency sites. So a lot of good coverage and information was shared throughout the region on the need to conserve water. The partnership has also launched a saving water challenge and other opportunity for folks to become greater aware and to find information on ways to save. On the partnerships website, there's a series of water saving tips provided and then a great list of prizes that we're offering for those that are willing to take a pledge to save water. That event was envisioned to run through the end of July and we're in discussion to extend that potentially throughout the summer, just to continue to drive folks to that website and information, recognizing that that's a great way to get people encouraged and interested in saving water this summer. We have a number of other outreach projects that we're working on. We have a trusted messenger video project that's very close to launch. The filming of those videos is now complete and in the editing phase, which features a list of community members and others from throughout the area that have businesses or are champions at saving water. And are willing to go on record to talk about what they're doing with their businesses and at their homes to encourage folks to meet these savings goals. And those are bilingual Spanish and English similar to all the information that we're pushing out to the community. We're also going to the Sonoma County fair, summer fun fest with some marketing for the drought outreach, including we have lawn signs throughout the site. And then we have water saving tips, information throughout the restaurant facilities at the fair. So the summer fun fest is kind of fair light. It's running from now through August 8th. So we're hoping that will generate some additional outreach opportunity for the partnership. We have a significant amount of lawn signs that have been distributed. That include the drought is here, save water message. Those have gone out to the partners that wish to receive them and we're making them available to the public as interest comes to us. So that's another opportunity to get the message out and then shifting on to the temporary urgency change order. This is in regard to the term nine that was included in the previous order, which required monthly water conservation reports to the state board. Just submitted as of October 1st, the fifth report of that term. There is a final report due at the end of this month, August that will be reaching out to the partnership to coalesce the final reporting metrics for that. To date, the term of the order savings due to the outreach activities or the rather the programmatic savings metrics is about 14 and a half million gallons. And just to clarify again, that's just for the term of the order. So roughly five months into the six month term for this reporting period. And then I wanted to make sure to share some pictures of some of the work that's been done by the partnership which was included in this attachment. This is of the June 12th drop by event. Hopefully you've had a chance to go through some of these. I'm not gonna take the time to run through all of them. There's a few examples of some of the outreach messaging that is occurring for the current saving water challenge. And then a significant amount of pictures that show the level of effort that was put together by staff both here at Cinema Water and throughout the partnership agencies to pull together what was a pretty amazing event. Just the materials procurement alone is a concerted effort that takes staff assembling into a location where our partners can easily access it. Staff time to break out the bulk purchased order into allocations so that when our partners do arrive at the site, it makes it easy for them to load up and head back to their agency. There was not only materials itself but staffing needs by all the partners on the day of. For that we had directional signage that had to be created and banners. Here's a little example of what was in the kit. And then after a number of days of work to get ready and stage the day of the event was very successful at Santa Rosa, the exit off of 12 leading to the fairgrounds where this picture is was a line that went all the way back to the freeway exit. They had their whole staff with a bunch of volunteers set up where they could handle three to four cars at a time. And they went through all of their materials that day. This is just a picture of the city of Katahdi outside their offices. We can go ahead and continue to scroll through these quickly, but at the city of Soma Plaza. They had people showing up right at about 730 or 745 a.m. and we're airing to pick up kits. North Marin was a very busy morning. I happened to stop by that morning and they had a line of cars for several hours working through their turnaround and keeping their staff of five or six very busy. Fortunately, the train schedule was very light that day. So people having to navigate in and out of the site had an easy go of it. Lucezi Center in Petaluma, Chelsea and Danielle did a great job with the busy morning. I did stop by there also to help out for a brief while. We had some interesting folks show up. As you know, we went with a theme of a drop-by rather than a drive-up to try and encourage folks to take alternate modes of transportation. So this is an example of one of those. Valley of the Moon Water District had a site on Soma Valley at their corporation yard. They also sold out of all of their kits that morning. Similarly with the town of Windsor, I think they distributed all but four of their kits. There were a cross from Windsor High School at their corporation yard. A lot of positive comments coming from staff there about people really appreciative of the effort to provide opportunities for them to save at their home. We had Forestville Water District participating as well up at El Molina High School. I think this picture was taken bright and earlys. They did get very busy later in the day and did go through all of their kits as well. City of Cloverdale was our newest member of the partnership as of the 1st of July. Had a great turnout up in their area. So they were set up on their plaza where they host the Friday Night Music. And they had some help from our Skype staff here at Soma County as well to distribute kits up there. And then of course, a couple of sites up in the Ukiah area to support some of the work that the Mendocino County Russian River Flood Control and Water Conservation District is doing. And lastly, Marin's style. If you weren't showing up in a bright, shiny Ferrari, you turned away that morning as unworthy. Any case, there was again, news coverage. I know you can't see the link the way these news links work. Often when you click on them a few days after the event, they kind of get buried in the background due to current events. But there was great news coverage on KPX and also some community event videos that were shared widely on their Facebook pages. So all in all, just want to say thanks to all the many hands that went into making this a successful day. And also to look forward to a similar successful event in August 21st and later in October. So that's it for me. I'm happy to take any questions, Drew. Thank you, Paul. Yeah, I think we're all looking forward to our next event and expect that there'll be similar interest in, and I think we all are a little bit better prepared with supplies to try to make sure we don't run out. So any questions from the WAC or the TAC on Paul's presentation? This is agenda item seven C. We'll see any questions from the WAC or TAC. So I'll open this up to public comment. If you wish to make a comment via Zoom, please raise your hand or if you're participating via phone dial star nine. I do not see any raised hands for this item. Thank you, Secretary Perez. Let the meeting minutes reflect that there were no prerecorded public comments on this agenda item as well. Okay, Chair Harvey, the next item, I'll turn it back over to you for controlling the agenda here, but it is a report by me just on the water shortage allocation methodology. So I'll go ahead and start on that if you're okay. Yes, I just would like to make one comment. I wanna thank Paul for that wonderful presentation and I wanna thank all of the folks that helped with those events. I heard from quite a few people that they were very grateful to receive those items and I know that it takes a lot of work to put on those kinds of events. So the work is extremely well appreciated by all. So thank you for that. And with that, we can move on to the item eight, water storage allocation methodology update and you're on, Drew. Thank you. If the WAC will recall, back in April, we had a similar update on just the water shortage allocation methodology. Again, just wanna reiterate that the agency does have an allocation model in place. Unfortunately, it's old. It was adopted in 2006. It doesn't have features that we've been trying to include in an updated allocation methodology back in 2014, the WAC did approve an updated allocation methodology that included provisions for addressing local supplies. It was better established or set up to determine monthly allocations rather than annual allocations. It had an allotment for fire flows for all the contractors that also had water loss allocation as well. So various improvements. The 2014 allocation model did sunset in 2016 and we've been trying to work since that time to have a unanimously approved allocation model submitted by the WAC that would replace the agency's John Nelson 2006 model for use. We have been working since the April 8th or April 5th update to the WAC. We being the TAC members and agency staff on the allocation model, trying to answer some additional questions that individual water contractors have. We had hoped to bring an updated model to this meeting for approval, but we're not there yet. We're close, we're continuing to work collaboratively. And so what the TAC leadership is requesting right now is that we have a special WAC meeting added to our regularly scheduled September 13 TAC meeting with the hopes that we could have an agenda item then in September on voting to approve a water shortage allocation methodology. It would be unanimous by the water contractor. So again, we're getting there, but we need some more time. So I'd be happy to answer any questions that the WAC or TAC has on this item. I don't see any hands being raised. Nor do I, Drew. So Chair Harvey, you can go ahead and open it up for public comment. Okay, then we are now taking public comment on item eight. If you wish to make a comment via Zoom, please raise your hand. If you are dialing in via phone, please dial star nine, raise your hand. Secretary Perez, are there any comments from the public? I am not seeing any hands. Nor am I. Okay, then I will bring it back. And Drew, do we have any verbal or written pre-recorded public comments? We do not. Okay. Well, thank you very much for that information looks like everybody should be penciling in September 13th for a special meeting for that. And with that, we will move on to item nine, the Santa Rosa Plain Drop Resiliency Project. And I'm not sure whether Grant or Jay is going to take this. So I'll let you two duke it out. No need to duke it out. Good morning, Chair. I'm covering this for Jay who is not able to join today, but Jay put a rather exhaustive memo together to Drew in preparation for the WAC meeting. And so anything I don't cover here is, will be in that memo plus the draft Q&A that was provided. So I'm not going to great detail on this because most members have been aware of what it's taken to get to this point. But essentially back in May led by Director Rabbit, we were able to secure about $400,000 from the County of Sonoma in order to investigate bringing in, bringing online a Todd Road old production well that was built in the last major drought in 76, 77. The entire effort is well underway. We've taken the direction from the board and been able to secure Jalati construction to move forward on this well. It's going very smoothly. Jay's been leading up a team throughout the water agency of planners, Wendy and Kent primarily on behalf of the agency have been putting these together. But essentially come early September, we're online to bring a well back that will be public drinking channels up to 100,000 gallons a day that will be used primarily to ensure that the city of Petaluma is able to respond in a coordinated manner on the life Scott needs that are been well reported. It's important to note though that allowing to meet that legitimate need, there is going to be additional water made available for helping to meet the mandate that we have under our temporary urgency change order. So that's making sure that we as contractors and as an agency are able to reduce our usage by 20% diversion out of the Russian River, which so far you've heard earlier, we're well on our way. We're about 24% reduced diversions over last year. So please report that. I guess what I'd like to focus on quickly is just the importance. There are three wells that were brought online during the 76, 77 drought. They have been run during times of need and we've needed to build a chlorine contact process to bring this up to compliance. And that is what we're hard at work carrying out the materials. The large 36 inch pipes have been brought onto both sites, not just the Todd Road well, but also the Sebastopol Road site. And that is because we're hoping long term, once phase one, which is this ultimate 200,000 to 500,000 delivery comes online in September, we'll be able to also be well enough along with plans and designs to seek competitively drought funding from the state of California in order to put one of those wells or a couple potentially into a active recharge component. So that will take funding from the state and collectively are securing those funds. But the idea is to replace what's been taken out of the Santa Rosa Plain Wells and create a recharge opportunity that will actually improve the groundwater sustainability of the Santa Rosa Plain and create an opportunity for us to be doing active conjunctive use and management for awkward storage and recharge. So that's a high priority for us. I think as a region, it's gonna make us more secure, more resilient. These wells have been activated before, but now that we're building the chlorination component, we're hoping that they'll actively work for the future and we'll be successful in getting state funding to help achieve that. So I wanna definitely thank staff. I also wanna thank Leadership Director Rabbit for securing these funds from the county. I think it's safe to say that I can't recall the last time we've secured that type of funding from the county for just about anything to Sonoma water. It's usually the reverse where we're actually helping contribute toward other county objectives. So with that, I think I will just allow the memo to speak for itself and thank staff and contractors for helping us facilitate getting this online. Thank you for that Grant. Wacker-Tack members, do you have any questions about this report? Please raise your hand. Chair Harvey. Yes, would you like to speak? Yes, I would like to just again, follow up with some of the things that Grant said for the group. If you're not aware that these groundwater production wells as Grant indicated have been part of their water supply portfolio for many years and have been used regularly in earlier droughts. Going back through the records that I see to the tune of about four to five million gallons per day. I'm really happy to see these wells moving forward to become active again and an important part this time around. Again, I just want to reiterate is that Grant's comments is looking at not only being able to pump the groundwater out but actually put surplus water back in which is part of the aquifer storage and recovery for conjunctive use, which is a big plus. This go around with activating the wells. So all in all, a really important project that I think from a groundwater sustainability element too is improved with the efforts with the recharge and recovery component. So I just wanted to just reiterate those components. Thank you for that, Drew. Yes, I concur. I think that that's going to be very helpful to us with our other groundwater sustainability efforts. So I'm glad to see that that water will hopefully work going both ways. So I think that's a great use. So with that, I am not, is there another hand here? Yes. Oh, thank you very much. I just want to say again, thank you to all the staff that has been working on this. Jay Jasper has been doing a great job as usual to grant for your support. I'm very much appreciated. I think it's obviously, you know, we're all in this together in the drought, making sure that we have a plan going forward. It is an important aspect to make sure that that water is delivered, especially to the vital economic engines that both, really both Western Marin and West Sonoma have. To that extent, I've been meeting a couple of times now. We've had morning Zoom meetings with Dennis Rodoni, supervisor, Marin County to coordinate efforts, make sure that we're staying on top of things, working forward. And I appreciate Drew and Grant for joining those as well. I do think that there's additional benefit as we go forward and as we move into the implementation of all of our GSAs in terms of groundwater banking. Banking, that this investment in this way can help us get further along that path in a quicker manner. So very much appreciated of everyone's support on this project and just wanted to make sure that you all knew that once again. So thank you. Thank you for that, David. Absolutely agree. We're all in this, whether it's a drought or whether we have water that we need to bank in the future, we've got to make sure that we have a sustainable water supply. So glad to see that we're working from multiple ends. So any other lack or tack comments? David, is that a residual hand you have up still? Okay, so with that, if there are no other lack or tack comments, I will open this up for public comment on item nine. If you wish to make a comment via Zoom, please raise your hand. If you are dialing in via telephone, please dial star nine to raise your hand. Secretary Perez, do we have any public comment? I am not seeing any hands. I don't see any raised hands. Okay, then I will bring it back, Drew. Did we have any written or verbal comments on this item? We did not. We did not. Okay, well, thank you for that and thank you for the wonderful information. And thank you, Grant, for taking that item for us while Jay is out and about. Then we will move on to item 10, the biological opinion status update. And I believe that Pam Jean is going to take this for us, Pam. Pam, thank you. And thank you whoever just put the update up. Hopefully everybody has seen the report that was included with your agenda for today. I'm gonna briefly go through it, try to hit the highlights and things that have changed since I last reported to you. So starting at the top with the fish flow project, there really are no changes here. We continue to do a lot of modeling work to get us to the point where we have a new draft of the EIR to have our board consider. So that's where we're at right now. On the Dry Creek Habitat Enhancement Project, which is the next item down. We do have some construction going on this summer. Hanford ARC, who has been our contractor on several of these leeches of our projects is out there again this summer. Working on phase three project elements. They have a couple of pieces of the project go on the west side and the east side of the creek that are moving forward. They've essentially already completed a portion of the project on the west side of the creek, which is a backwater feature. And now they're working on the east side of the creek. And there's a good description in here of how they're going to go about that work. They do expect to complete construction of this last piece of this phase of the project, in about September or so, and be out of the creek by the deadline of October 15th, which is what our permits allow. There is a photograph that's on the screen right now, although it is hard to see. We were pleased to see that one of our bank repair projects, a family of foxes decided to create a den. In that space. So this is a bank repair project that was done in 2020. So it's nice to see the habitats. You know, it wasn't really intended for this, but nonetheless, the bank repair has provided some habitat for some land-based animals for us too. Habitat monitoring and maintenance. Habitat monitoring and maintenance. Our environmental staff continues to do physical and biological surveys on constructed projects out there in order to quantify habitat areas and identify needs for maintenance and changes to the projects. There's a nice description in here of what it is that they're doing, but sort of bottom line is that monitoring in 2020 indicated that the greatest amount of habitat or optimal habitat is in the off-channel enhancement sites that they've been installing and alcove habitat units. So these are not in the main portion of the channel, the flowing portion of the channel, but kind of off to the side, which I think was expected. So phase three of the sites below the site of the Westside Bridge that we had some issues with deposition in 2019 are being worked on and there's some concepts that are being worked on in order to provide a design and hopefully get out there in 2022 to repair the deposition issue that we've had out in these locations. And we also will be funding that work through the same funding mechanisms for phases two and three, which is the Warm Springs Dam Fund. So phases four through six, Interflue has completed the big documents for phase four. That'll be the first phase that gets constructed and by the core of engineers and they're still working our right-of-way agreements and some changes that have been requested by property owners and due to the time associated with that relook at those right-of-way agreements, we don't expect to get out there while we're not going to get out there this summer for construction, but we do expect to be out there next year in 2022. ESA has completed the 99% design for phase five of the construction work, which is scheduled to begin in 2023. And we continue to advance right-of-way agreements, working with owners and addressing comments, of course, on the right-of-way similar comments to what we've had on the phase four work. Phase six of the project is also at a 99% design phase and that project would start construction in 2024. And again, the right-of-way work is one of the hardest things and the thing that's being worked on the most at this point. ESA, who worked on phases three and five for us, is also looking at a site immediately upstream of a phase three site. They have about a 30% design package ready for that. And this is being done, this work is being done in case we need a bit more mileage, so to speak, to fully meet our six mile requirement associated with biological opinion. So there's a description here of what it is that they're doing there if anybody wants to read it. As far as fish monitoring goes, we do have a lot of work going on with regards to fish monitoring this summer because of the drought. And we've undertaken a lot of monitoring associated with how the change this year and flows is impacting fish populations as well as their habitat in the main stem and in the estuary. There's also related water quality monitoring both in the Russian River and in Lake Mendocino. So collectively we're monitoring fish populations at five sites. We have water quality monitoring going on at 23 sites and physical conditions or habitat, fish habitat, condition monitoring going on at eight sites this summer. We do have a number of locations where we have real-time monitoring going on, in other words, constant monitoring going on, using data sands as well as we do some grab sampling associated with these. And the physical monitoring is conducted bi-weekly. All of this information is being collected and reported to the resource agencies weekly. And hopefully folks have found that information on our website that tends to be located at our www.cinemawater.org slash T-U-C-P which stands for temporary urgency change petition. So folks should be able to find that information there. As far as the Russian River Estuary Management Project goes, the mouth of the river is open at this point. We are doing baseline weekly peniped monitoring and water quality and biological monitoring as we normally do at this time of year. And again, that water quality monitoring data can be viewed at that site that I just spoke to and it's listed here on the document if folks want to go there. And Don already spoke about interim flow changes. So I will not repeat what he said. And I'm happy to answer any questions if there are any. Thank you for that very thorough report Pam. A lot of stuff is going on. Any of the Whacker-Tac have any questions on this report? I am not sure. Chair Harvey. Yes, Drew, I see your hand. Right. Yeah, thanks Pam. Just a quick question, Pam, related to the sediment buildup on the Habitat Monitoring and Maintenance Report, you talked about the Westside Road Bridge that there is still some sediment deposits there that need to continue to be worked on. Was that area last summer, was that area worked on? And it's just kind of an ongoing thing for multiple years or was this an area that wasn't looked at last summer? Yeah, I don't think we fully addressed it last summer. So this is sort of an outstanding maintenance issue right now. Okay, all right, thank you. That was my only question. Thank you for that. Any other questions for Pam? I am not seeing any other hands. So I will open this up to public comment on item 10. If you wish to make a comment via Zoom, please raise your hand. If you're dialing in via phone, please dial star nine to raise your hand. Gina, are we, or a reporter, are we seeing any hands? I do not. I'm not seeing any raised hands for this item. Thank you for that. And Drew, did we have any written or verbal comments received? We did not. You did not, okay. So then thank you again, Pam, for the very thorough report. And I particularly love seeing that we have additional habitat for other critters. I think that's pretty awesome. An intended habitat. That's all right. Sometimes that happens. Yeah, it works, yeah. So with that, we will move on to item 11, the Potter Valley project relicensing update. And I think, Pam, you're on to this one also. Yeah, that's me too. And Grant, feel free to chime in if I missed something. So we have the partnership for the Potter Valley project relicensing is, has a due date in mid-September for a filing with Burke. We are not going to probably be filing what's due, in accordance with that filing schedule that we have, but we are going to be filing something. And we are working on that filing right now. So the partners are working together to get that done and make sure that we get to our boards in time and get to Burke by mid-September. So there's some negotiation going on with regards to what that filing is going to look like at this point. I also wanted to mention though, with regards to actual operation of the Potter Valley project, that the project continues to operate under a variance that was issued because of the drought for the project this year. And that order, that variance order runs out. I'm trying to remember the exact date and I don't remember exactly, it's early August. So within the next couple of weeks. And it's not clear what Burke is going to do in association with that. So we're not sure what's going to happen, whether they're going to go back to their normal operational mode or if a variance is going to, the variance is going to be extended. It's already been extended once, but hasn't, we haven't heard yet exactly what they're going to do. So anyways, I just wanted to make sure folks were aware of that because that's an operational issue this year up there. Just as we are dry, they are dry also. So, and I'm happy to answer any questions. Does anyone on the Wacker Talk have any questions? Drew, do you have any questions? I do not. Oh gee. Grant, did you want to add anything before I opened up for public comment? No, I think Pam did a really good job about where we are. I do just want to remind folks though that Snow Water, Pam and the team have been briefing TAC members throughout this entire process and keeping our electeds up to speed. It's definitely entering into a very important timeframe with needing to get to FERC by the 14th. So as we're going through that, it's never an easy road with this project. So I've appreciated the tax involvement and our efforts to communicate and expect to continue doing that regardless. Thank you, Grant. Yeah, I think it's a little difficult. There's a lot of balls up in the air with, you know, what's going on with the groundwater and the drought and this and, you know, there's a lot of things up in the air. So it's kind of hard to keep all the balls up in the air, especially since we're dealing with some unprecedented times at this point. So with that, I will open this up for public comment on IM11. If you wish to make a comment via Zoom, please raise your hand. If you're dialing in, please dial star nine. Sheena, I am not seeing any hands. Are you? I don't see any raised hands. You're doing it. Okay. So since there's no more public comment, I will bring it back. Drew, do you have any written or verbal comments that you received? There were no prerecorded comments. Okay, thank you for that. And we will move on to the next item, the Snowm Counting Water Agency Capital Improvement Projects Update, the Inflatable Dam and Railroad Crossing, Carlos Diaz. I believe it's going to take this item. Yes, thank you, Chair Harvey, and thanks to the track and WAC members for the opportunity to present today. I'm filling in for Kent Guilfee, who wasn't able to attend today. Here to present a couple of our Capital Improvement Projects current along the Russian River, primarily at our Waller-Mirabell Facilities ongoing construction this summer. The first project is a seismic reliability project to protect the Russian River Katadi Intertype Pipeline as it crosses underneath the Russian River. This is not a new project. I believe Kent or others from Sonoma Water have presented to the committee before on this project. It's been in the works with FEMA now for nearly a decade. They and we've been wrestling with environmental right-of-way and primarily the funding hurdles for years now. Finally received notice that the project was awarded and we were really able to hit the ground running the complete design last year. So I'll be presenting on that. The second project involves the Mirabell Rubber Dam and replacement of the rubber fabric due to it being at the end of its life. If you could go back a couple of slides there to slide two, please that'd be great. Thank you. So here's starting with the Russian River Crossing. We have an aerial of the project area, the Russian River kind of doing its U-turn around our Mirabell ponds, kind of on the north or the upper left portion of the slide. The green highlighted sections reflect work areas that are currently under construction as part of the Russian River Crossing project. The orange area is a similar project. That's the Mark West Creek Crossing project and that will be going to construction next summer. As I mentioned that the main purpose of the Russian River Crossing project is to address risk of seismically induced liquid faction and lateral spread that could damage that pipeline and interfere with our ability to provide water. Due to liquefiable soils there in the vicinity of the Russian River. Next slide please. So here's just a couple of pictures from the original construction. You can see what is kind of like a trapezoidal section of pipe with the bottom portion underneath the river and then the two side portions coming up each bank. What was found through some studies was that those kind of riser portions of the pipe and also some of the pipe that's laid more horizontally on either side of the bank were actually in a soil horizon that was vulnerable to lateral spread a process whereby that land would essentially slump into the Russian River since there's nothing holding it back. And so we found that there was a high potential for that pipeline to rupture that 48 inch aqueduct in those kind of orange sandy layers which tend to be more vulnerable to lateral spread. You can see these kind of red lines. I apologize for the graininess of the photo but I'm going to try to speak through it. These red lines that kind of extend from the ground surface down into the lower portions of the river are essentially kind of failure planes by which we would expect that land to have the potential to fall into the river and essentially we're trying to get that pipeline that aqueduct outside of those failure planes. Next slide, please. So here's the project essentially in plan view. We have our Mirabelle ponds on the left side of the slide. The rest in river kind of flowing down, if you will. So the project we're replacing and lowering the profile of the aqueduct on either side of the river approximately 800 feet on the north side of the river or the left side of the plan view drawing here and about 500 feet on the south side. Somewhat ironically, we're not replacing the pipe that actually crosses under the river but with that slide I presented to you before that portion underneath the river was not found to be susceptible to any kind of failure mechanism due to seismically induced motions in the area. So we're strictly focused on getting the pipe on both sides of the river outside of those failure planes. Next slide, please. Kind of the basis, some of the basis for that determination was some finite element analyses, essentially stress and strain modeling that was done on the aqueduct, very detailed geotechnical assessment, kind of really digging into those permanent ground deformation potentials out there in the surrounding soils. These efforts resulted in refined determinations of necessary and changing cylinder thicknesses for the steep pipe line. So we were able to actually model where we needed thicker sections of steel aqueduct. And one of the other main features that came out of this was this S curve design on the north side of the river. It's a key element that is kind of introducing some additional resiliency for that pipeline to be able to accommodate any anticipated ground motions in the area. Next slide, please. Digging into the construction a little bit. So we issued a notice to proceed in February. The contractor began mobilizing to the site in mid-May, following some RFIs and submittals. We did find some challenging nesting birds at the project site, which delayed initial activities for some time. And we have another permit constraint out there which is working below ordinary high water. We were not allowed to do that prior to June 15th. And so we've been trying to accommodate and work around some of those issues. Essentially, the contractor since May has really been focused on clearing operations. And then there is some considerable mass excavation occurring out there to remove some overburden, particularly on the south side of the aqueduct. We have very deep pipelines, approximately 40 feet in depth. And so the contractor's been over-excavating approximately 20 feet, laying back those slopes, at which point we'll be able to do more traditional kind of trench coupled with some vertical shoring to conduct the actual pipe installation. Next slide, please. We've also been conducting some pot-holing activities to confirm the location of the existing pipe. The left picture shows one of the potholes adjacent to the river. That man standing down there is standing on our aqueduct. We did discover through the active location, locating these pipes that they weren't exactly where we thought they were according to our record dry. So it appears that that trapezoidal section our best indication is that it might have rolled a little bit during the initial installation back in the 1970s. And so it was offset several feet horizontally and a foot or two vertically as well, which did lead to some kind of rapid redesigns and working with the contractor to avoid any further delays. And we've been successful in doing that. We've also been driving sheet piles out at the site for stabilization and water control. There will be several dewatering wells that are installed around those sheet piles to allow for ultimate tie-ins at the river's edge on both sides of the river. Next slide, please. So just a quick summary of the project as I indicated in January 2020, FEMA obligated $2.9 million in funding toward the project cost. You'll see a total contract amount of 7.35 million there. That FEMA grant is a three-year process to complete the project along with Mark West Creek project. So those were both obligated concurrently. I mentioned Mark West Creek project will be advancing to construction next summer. We awarded a contract to Mountain Cascade in January of this year, our board awarded that contract in the amount of 7.35 million. All work adjacent to the river's required to be completed by October 15th under the terms of our permits and substantial completion scheduled for mid-December. Any delays could potentially change that date and we're working diligently with the contractor to avoid that. We do anticipate some shutdowns as part of the tie-ins there at the river's edges. We anticipate three shutdowns in total along various segments of the project. Under the current contract terms, we allow the contractor three days for each shutdown. This is obviously important to all our water contractors and we'll be working very closely with you. We do not anticipate any service disruption as we have other pipelines that'll be able to continue feeding the aqueduct that we would advise water contractors topping off any tanks ahead of each shutdown. Those shutdowns had initially been scheduled for early August, mid-September and early October, given the delays up until now. We've had to reshuffle some activities and those dates are still to be determined and we will be providing those with our next schedule updates. I believe we've been providing updates at our water contractor's operators coordination meeting in May, June and July. We'll continue communicating on the status of the project and we plan to use that as a forum for updating on a monthly basis. In addition to those meetings, we also intend to communicate specifically to the operators of each of the water contractors in advance of scheduled shutdowns as part of the daily water production reports. Garrett and our staff is putting those out to the water contractor operators due to the ongoing drought that we've been having. So we'll be communicating regularly, both as part of those daily water production reports and also as part of the water contractor's operators coordination meetings. Next slide, please. So that does it for the Russian River Katadi Intertide Crossing project. I'm going to speak now to our inflatable dam fabric replacement project. The purpose of this project is to replace the armored rubber fabric or bladder inflatable dam at Maribel. The inflatable dam serves as a critical part of our production facilities on the river, allowing us to divert river flows into our infiltration basins and impounding water in the river channel to aid in recharge of groundwater from which to collect our wells of pump water into our transmission system. Next slide, please. So here's some photos of the original construction back in the 1970s. You see on the left there the foundation of the river dam itself and on the right side actual installation of the river bladder. The fabric was last replaced in 1995 to 1997 after approximately 20 years of service. And so we are pushing about 25 years now on that project and it's due to be replaced. Next slide, please. We identified that need as part of a detailed assessment of the fabric that we conducted back in 2016. And as part of that assessment, it was determined that the existing river dam was, in fact, nearing the end of its useful life and recommended replacement by 2021. So we're squeaking in there on the one shoulder of that replacement recommendation there. We had hoped to replace it last year in 2020 but ended up rejecting bids due to concerns over delivery of the fabric in time with COVID and disruptions of materials delivery. We did purchase the rubber fabric and do have that on hand now. It was delivered last year. And so that's what we'll be advancing here in the coming weeks and months. Just real brief kind of overview of this plan view that you're seeing on your screen. You can see the rubber dam extending kind of left to right across the Russian river. We have our river, our fish ladder on the left side of the screen along with a couple of coffer dams that are shown kind of as these squiggly lines. Again, apologize for the lack of clarity here. Sort of difficult. I don't know if you guys can actually see my pointer or not. But we have a rubber dam, essentially. It's like an aqua dam on the south side of the river, our downstream side of the river, and on the upstream north side of the river, it's a sheet pile coffer dam that's essentially diverting existing Russian river flows through our fish ladder facility, allowing for that work area to be dewatered and for replacement of that rubber dam to commence. Within that dewatered area on the south side of the river, there's also a gravel bar that has formed over the years and is kind of steering flows and causing some kind of changes in flow conditions over the rubber dam. So as part of the project, we'll also be removing that gravel bar and vegetation on that gravel bar to get more consistent flows across the dam face itself. Next slide, please. So here's a section view of the dam itself, showing it laying on its foundation and the anchorage of that dam itself to the foundation. The concrete slab that the dam is sitting on is approximately 20 feet wide. It's also resting on concrete piles for additional structural stability. The rubber dam itself, the water-filled bladder, is approximately 11 feet high when we fully inflate it during dry months in order to recharge that groundwater aid and the production of our waller facilities and recharging those infiltration basins as well. And the rubber dam folds down during high-flow periods, typically during the winter and those shoulder seasons as well. The next slide shows a picture of the dam fabric itself. It's approximately 5 eighth inch thick slab of rubber. This is the old fabric, so just to lay any fears there. This is the old fabric. It's approximately 5 eighth inches thick. We'll be replacing it with very similar fabric. It has a woven nylon reinforcement inside of the rubber and also contains ceramic chips to armor against any vandalism. So no switch blades would be able to get through that fabric due to that ceramic chip there. The next slide shows a delivery of the fabric that we purchased last year. We've been storing that fabric at our waller yard for the last several months awaiting construction. And that photo is that that fabric rolled up there and being hoisted onto its storage site. Next slide shows some of our active construction out there at the site. You could see the contractor mobilized during the month of July in preparation of the removal of the existing dam. They've been installing these coffer dams. I mentioned this aqua dam on the downstream side of the river. And you can see actually a heavy piece of machinery there actively clearing that gravel bar that I had mentioned that was forming kind of some an eddy and some hydraulics that we're trying to avoid. And on the right picture shows the actual upstream coffer dam, sheep pile coffer dam that the crane has been installing from the south side of the dam actually across the rubber dam itself. Next slide please. So the removal of the existing gravel bar that's accumulated immediately downstream of the dam highlighted that. Here's just some additional photos there of what it looked like prior and kind of what we're getting to now. We've also with the coffer dams in place, squaw some of our biologists and environmental resources folks, fisheries folks have been conducting fish rescues within that area. And the contractor will be performing some slope stabilization along a portion of the stream bank just downstream of the dam. Just some other activities that are ongoing out there. And in conclusion, as I mentioned we've rebid the project this year and in April our Board of Supervisors awarded a $1.88 million contract to powers engineering out of Oakland to perform the installation. We issued a notice to proceed in May. Similar to the first project I presented on work schedule is constrained by permit conditions for this project. We're only allowed to work in the river from June 15th to October 31st. So we have just over four months to get all of this work done and completed. We do not anticipate any shutdowns of the transmission system and we do not anticipate any service disruption as part of this project. We plan to use the water contractors operators coordination meetings to continue providing updates regarding the project on a monthly basis. And if there were to be any unanticipated impacts to our water supply we would obviously be communicating that through the daily water production reports referenced earlier. But as I mentioned we don't anticipate any disruptions to our service throughout the project and aiming to achieve substantial final completion in November 2021. And that concludes my presentation. I'd like to open up the floor to any questions that folks may have. Thank you so much, Carlos, for the very, very thorough report and thank you for stepping in for Kent and his unavailability. And with that are there any questions from the whack-or-tack on this presentation? Madam Chair. Drew? Yes? Yeah. Thank you, Carlos. Just a quick question on the actual rubber bladder itself when it was procured. Are there multiple vendors for that or did it end up being just one supplier? They provided a bid? You know I believe we did put out a bid for that fabric and ended up settling on one supplier but it is limited supply and I believe came from all the way from China. So that was part of the concern over whether we were going to be able to receive that material in time for construction last year. Okay, thank you. Any other questions? Yeah, I had one. In the past when this when the bladder has been infrequently replaced I believe it came from whatever the company was in Japan. I think maybe two or three times is no Japanese firm in that business anymore? Yeah, Jack, the last bladder that was put into place which was in the late 90s came from Bridgestone, the tire company, in Japan and we've only replaced it that one time and this is the second replacement. So okay and they do not manufacture them anymore. Okay, it's not a big market I understand. No, there's no. Do you know are there several or other water agencies or what else could be used for that uses? Are we the only one in the world that do this sort of thing? No, there actually are quite a few agencies that use the Malmeda County Water District down in the Bay Area uses them. There's quite a few but the ability or the number of companies manufacturing them has really gotten much smaller. Yeah, I have a worry that sometime in the future as there's so infrequently replaced, we'll find nobody does it anymore. Hopefully it doesn't happen but I know you'll be retired by then. Yeah, I hope you're wrong. Thank you. Yeah, that's a really good point. It makes it kind of hard when it's something that is only replaced every 20 years or so. It doesn't help the market at all but I would imagine that you know as they become scarcer and scarcer it's going to be one of those things where you kind of have to put it in an order years in advance so that they have the lead time to be able to produce them. So great question. Thank you. Other questions? I am not seeing any other hands or anyone else jumping forward so with that I will open this up for public comments. We are taking public comment on both projects for item 12. If you wish to make a comment via Zoom please raise your hand. If you're dialing in via phone please dial star nine to raise your hand. And Secretary Perez, do I am not seeing any hands are you? Or do I? Or do I? Okay, Drew, did you receive any verbal or written comments on item 12? I did not. Okay with that thank you again Carlos for that very detailed presentation and look forward to seeing that dam in place. So that'll be awesome to be able to have a visit to see that. So thank you for that. With that we will move on to item 13, the integrated regional water management plan update and I believe Grant that you're going to take this item. Very briefly, Chair, I continue to urge the water supply coordination council members and our water contractors to stay on top and abreast of the two functioning areas because they've been very successful over the years but so briefly would just say that earlier last month the North Coast Resource Partnership which can be accessed as northcoastresourcepartnership.org held a meeting. They've got a very active and involved governance structure that includes supervisors from the seven counties as well as tribal interests and it's what's been allowing them to attract a lot of funding and commitment for resources and as we've got drought funding that's currently being negotiated up in Sacramento I would just urge us to stay involved and aware and looking for opportunities to work with the partnership to secure our priorities as a region. Secondly down in the Bay Area as you know we've been managing a multi-year contract one of the biggest regional contracts the Bay Area has done which is is for AQPI which is Advanced Quantitative Precipitation Information. The challenge is to put high tech radar, expand radars throughout the Bay Area. I think there are seven locations right now including efforts down in the Santa Cruz Monterey Bay Area but this is our commitment to get I know it's hard to imagine thinking about water supply we're in the middle of the drought but this is as you remember our activities to get these radars up and running for both fire and water and flood and they will provide much more granular information to resource managers and emergency responders on where we're going to experience likely flooding in the near term so through this project we've been building the One Rain Network and Carlos who you heard earlier today has been instrumental in helping that happen so I'm just calling attention to the WAC members that these are two regional forums that require us and and call us to continue to participate and to be active in to be bringing state resources into our region which we need to carry out some of the projects that were discussed earlier today and that's my update. Thank you very much Grant. Any questions about Grant's report? I'm not seeing any hands raised so I will open this up for public comment we're now taking public comment on item 13 just to make a comment via zoom please raise your hand if you're dialing in via telephone please dial star nine to raise your hand and I am not seeing any hands raised Gina are you seeing any? I do not either. Okay thank you for that. Drew have you received any verbal or written public comments on this item? I have not. Okay well thank you thank you again Grant for that report and everybody needs to kind of keep their eyes and ears open on this as we move forward I think Grant stated it very well there's a lot of projects going on and I think we you know need that support from the state so with that I will move on to item 14 items for the next agenda are there any items that people would like to put forward for our meeting on September 13th please raise your hand I am not seeing any hands being raised. Chair Harvey yes I just want to make it clear that one one item will definitely be the the special WAC meeting on the and we have September 13th and we hope that you will all meet to be able to finalize that item I know you guys have been working really hard and I I have faith that you will be done for us on September 13th and with that then you will open this item up for public comment on item 14 if you wish to make a comment via zoom please raise your hand if you're dialing in via telephone please dial star 9 to raise your hand and are there any public comments on this item Gina I am not seeing any hands I don't have any raised hands okay thank you very much for that Drew did you have any verbal or written comments on this item I did not okay well um any other last comments from anyone before we adjourn this meeting this is your last chance and I am not seeing anybody jump forward thank you again Roberta and Gina and Easter for helping out it's always greatly appreciated and with that we'll adjourn this meeting and we will all get together again on September 13th thank you very much thank you sir Harvey see you again


So, I now find myself back in the old place, piles of stuff everywhere as I move back in and try to improve the situation here, try to make this the best home, the best living environment that I can. And there's so many different pieces, so many different things and the to-do list has just exploded and this is even a relatively simple thing. I mean I'm just fixing up basic things, moving in. Our to-do lists can get so complicated, there's so many things to do even for simple life but then we add complications, awkward situations, challenging situations and the list of things to do can become so big that we don't even know where to start and that can be a difficult position where we can feel that something needs to be improved, something's off but not sure where to start because it seems like so many things. Now, one approach is just to say do something and that always has some value to it because if you have a big mess, a big problem, a big list of things to do you can simply start taking out little pieces.  You can simply begin by removing some pieces around the edge of the mess, just pick them up and do something with them. So just randomly starting whatever comes to mind is I think a viable strategy for this but when we're looking for the best way to approach these things, the best way to sort out our mess and simplify our situation, I like to think of some old advice that is given in chess. So in the game of chess, you have 16 pieces and you choose which to move. It's like you're trying to improve the configuration of the board, the situation and you have a chance to make one move and I think that metaphor can be applied to the things we're doing. Yes, we have many different things to do but we can only do one thing at a time and maybe the pick a random piece and just move it, that doesn't really work for chess as it might for cleaning up a mess. But finding the best way to start, of course there's a whole world of strategy in chess and so many things that the metaphor really gets strained for actually doing things in life in general. I'm not playing against an opponent and trying to control a board or checkmate anything but just the idea of having multiple pieces that I can move and trying to decide which one to move first and the simple classic advice is to move your worst piece.  If we just imagine our life is having so many different things going on but if we just keep working on the bottom end, we keep working on those worst things and moving them up. Gradually our life will improve, our situation will improve as those worst things get improved then maybe next week there will be slightly less bad things that are the worst thing and then they can be improved so there will be this gradual movement upwards. And of course new surprises can always show up and new worst things always show up and they have to be dealt with but this is a simple question that we can ask to help to decide what is the priority for each day, each hour, each moment. What needs the most attention right now? Simple old message but I like to call it to mind.