"Providing Hometown Reliability"
The Board of Public Works convened the regular session at 8:30 a.m. at the Marshall Municipal Utilities Business Office. Board members present were Jim Heinzler, President; Spencer Fricke, Vice President; Charles Hird, Secretary; and Ken Bryant, member. Also present was Councilman Ron Duvall.
The Board approved the agenda as presented.
General Manager Kyle Gibbs reviewed the safety briefing. The minutes of the previous meeting were approved as printed on a motion by Mr. Bryant, seconded by Mr. Fricke.
Underground Facilities Director Monty Chase updated the Board on several projects they are working on. Fox Creek Villas is 90% complete and will continue when the soil conditions dry. Slater Street Water Main Replacement has had all but two services changed over to the new main. There have been some issues with the GPS coordinates on the Natural Gas Line relocation being done for CMA. Rain is causing many problems to the work schedule, but the pump stations are working well given that they were not designed to handle the amount of rain the area has received.
Electric Distribution Director Jeff Bergstrom updated the Board on the Re-conductor Feeder project. They are ready to pull wire, just waiting on dryer weather to continue further. The storms that came through on Thursday, June 25, caused a few outages with one transformer to go bad and a couple of fuses blown. There was water in the fiber building at the A Substation, but it caused no issues. The crew worked until 1:30a.m. Friday, June 26. A call from Independence, MO for Mutual Aid was received. A few linemen were sent to assist in restoring electricity on Saturday, June 27, staying through until Tuesday, June 30.
Electric Production Director Jim Johnson reported to the Board the Unit #6 Generator repairs are complete; it has been tested and is operating well.
Environmental Services Director Ginny Ismay informed the Board that everything ran well despite all the weather and the amount of water that was at the wastewater plant. There were a few alarms in the headworks building where the float was bobbing up and down as the water fluctuated.
Administrative Services Director Ken Gieringer provided the Board with a list of bad debts that were written off. He also discussed the Project Status Report that was provided. There will be some carry-over to the next fiscal year due to the weather delaying work and also work being done on the CMA project. The insurance company has paid approximately $800,000 on Unit #6 Generator repairs. It will be two to three months before that is completely settled. There have been lots of calls coming in to the office in regards to water damage and misconceptions of the lift stations not working.
General Manager Kyle Gibbs reported MC Power has completed all their financial commitments with Macon, MO and Trenton, MO and have submitted a contract for the Interconnect Agreement as well as the Power Purchase Agreement at MJMEUC and Land Lease Agreement for the City. General Manager Gibbs will ask Attorney Margaret McDaniel to review the Interconnect Agreement. MC Power wants to start construction by Mid-August. USDI has asked for a change order to add some additional feet to the Natural Gas Line relocation for CMA. Also in regard to the CMA project there is an ordinance being brought to the City Council asking for a quit claim deed to be drafted giving CMA ownership of the property. In a motion made by Ken Bryant, seconded by Spencer Fricke, recommending the City of Marshall, MO to authorize the transfer of the property in exchange for an easement over said property. General Manager Gibbs also informed the Board that he met with the Office of Administration and Senator Pearce in Jefferson City regarding the Hab Center property. The State is willing to make concessions to work with the City of Marshall on taking over the property.
On a motion by Mr. Fricke, seconded by Mr. Bryant, accounts payable were approved and warrants ordered issued from the following funds:
WATER OPERATING FUND $181,415.74 ELECTRIC OPERATING FUND $379,135.77 SEWER REVENUE FUND $113,683.81 INTERNET OPERATING FUND $39,526.13 NATURAL GAS OPERATING FUND $27.696.04
The next Board meeting will be Thursday, July 16, 2015.
The Board voted unanimously to adjourn the regular meeting at 9:05 a.m. to go into executive session to discuss matters under RSMo Section 610.021(Supp. 2009) [1] legal, confidential or privileged information.
Roll call vote:
Mr. Fricke, yes
Mr. Bryant, yes
Mr. Hird, yes
Mr. Heinzler, yes