the item A under items for individual consideration and
take care of that item
first before we go into the consent agenda and that is
receive nominations
and hold an election for the chair and vice chair of the
public utilities board
do we have any nominations I was just curious why we are
nominating
and electing a new vice chair since we still have a vice
chair I mean I don't
know what the procedures are for that but Larry chair first
yes so first we need to elect a chair
got it okay so first we'll take nominations for chair I
think we should
nominate you as our chairperson okay then we have a motion
and a second all in
favor aye opposed okay now have nominations for vice chair
I don't have
a nomination but I'd be happy to serve as vice chair if
nobody else wants to do
it I would nominate Brandon okay we have a motion in the
second all in favor say
aye opposed all right we have a chair and a vice chair I
would like to bring
up the just one it's gonna be silly y'all are gonna think
it's silly I think
our charter says that we have a secretary and I was the
secretary I know
it was just some kind of something I did to maybe be quiet
about why wasn't there
a secretary do we need to it's not on the agenda I guess
and I think we brought
that up about four months ago - and yeah I don't think we
can do so Larry's
coming back up we vote to eliminate the position of
secretary short of being
posted we would need to discuss that okay okay all right
thank you all right so
then we'll move into our regular meeting the consent agenda
to any members of the
board wish to pull any items a through H I'd like to pull a
and I would like to pull G and H okay any others all right
do we have a motion
to approve B through F motion second we have a motion and a
second all in favor
say aye aye opposed all right item a
morning board members my name is Ken banks on the general
manager of utilities
I'd be happy to answer any question I made I was just
curious about the exact contract terms that
we couldn't come to an agreement with praxar about I don't
know the specifics
about the contractual agreement Larry I'm not I don't know
if you're familiar
with it that's typically handled through our purchasing
department and so I don't
know the details of that of that particular issue but I'm
certain we can
we can get that to you if you'd like to see it I'm just on
my learning curve and
I wanted to know what the conditions the usual conditions
of a city contract
where right right okay we can get that to you thanks do you
want to move
approval or you want to
can I move well move approval on condition or that would
prevent them
from moving forward all right I'll move approval in a
second okay all in favor
item G consider recommending adoption of an ordinance of
the city of Denton
Texas and authorizing the city manager execute professional
service agreements
with our PS infrastructure good morning my name is Lee
Perry I'm the project
manager with the capital projects department on this
project so just to
the expense there I was wondering if you could just spend a
few moments just
telling us what it's for okay so we're gonna widen Bonnie
Bray from 380 all the
way to loop 288 from the existing it's kind of four and
then two lanes out to
four lanes with the ultimate concept of being six lanes
sometime in the future
and the the I guess the reason for that is the high school
is going to be going
in up on the west side of Bonnie Bray between Windsor and R
iney Road and so we
the initial scope was to just go to Windsor then when the
high school came
in we have been working with cog to try to secure some
additional funding for
construction to get it all the way to 288 right for that
and so a part of the
scope between 380 and Windsor we have some water and
wastewater utilities in
there that could possibly need to be relocated or replaced
with this with
these improvements of the road or a storm drain and and
then we're also
gonna lay out a concept plan which is on our master plan
for water from Windsor
all the way to 77 for a water line in there okay okay and
this is for this is
just specifically for design this is just for design this
is we were able to
get funding for design all the way to you get it ready to
bid and then once we
get ready to bid we're gonna come back and amend the
contract for bid phase and
construction phase services okay thank you thank you move
approval yes
specific this is for the water and sewer portion of this
project yeah for
today okay we're gonna be on council next week for the but
that's got nothing
to do with this fund the water and sewers is what the
utilities are paying
for correct correct okay yeah I think we have approximately
about fifty
thousand dollars in this fee in the two million for the
water and wastewater
design okay what do you just it's probably in here I'm
sorry what do you
estimate that cost to be for the water and sewer
approximately fifty thousand
for the design out of this two million thirty one thousand
for the design
contract mm-hmm approximately fifty thousand of that is for
those is for
water utilities is not paying the full two million dollars
correct okay no we
have a portion coming out of water fund and a portion
coming out of wastewater
these funds will be paid largely from bond proceeds from
the 2014 bond
procedures in this design work needs to get done in order
for us to submit
funding requesting the cog this right now we're estimating
the projects
somewhere in the neighborhood of 40 to 45 million dollars
correct thank you
all right I think we had a motion motion motion approved
second second any
further discussion all in favor item H consider
recommending adoption of
ordinance of the city of Denton Texas and accepting
competitive bids and
awarding a contract for the supply of electric utility
overhead and
underground distribution transformers kind of the same
thing I was just curious
what we were doing I knew because of the dollar amount was
a little bit high it
does cover five years I went ahead and threw together just
a few slides just in
case it got pulled I'd be happy to go through those if that
's okay I'm Brian
Heath executive manager for energy delivery and this is for
distribution
transformers these are some pictures of what the
distribution transformers look
like we did break the purchasing bid up into three
different categories on your
left-hand side you'll see an overhead pole mount
transformer that we mount on
top of poles and in the middle of the page you'll see a
single phase pad mount
transformer one thing I might point out you always hear the
word single phase
and three phase a lot you'll see on a single phase
transformer it has a single
wire that can go into a single position and that's all it
takes to energize this
transformer we do use loop feed transformers we can loop
through the
transformer where you come up on that left side you loop
through it and you
can go to daisy chain and hit a second transformer this
would be a single phase
transformer and on the right hand side is a three phase
transformers and just
like the single phase having a single wire come up a three
phase transformer
has positions for three wires to come up so just a little
bit of show-and-tell on
what the transformers look like transformers are used to
help step down
our primary voltage of our distribution system from 13,200
votes to 7,620
votes the 13,200 votes is phase to phase that's between two
of the top wires on a
cross arm the 7,620 votes is from one of those
wires to a ground level of voltage and so we need to step
that vote is down to
what can be used by our customers typically 122 40 single
phase for
residential customers are 120 208 grounded why for a three
phase commercial
industrial customer are some some of the larger ones use 27
7 480 those are some
typical ones we do have other voltages and these transform
ers are used to
service any new or existing customers that we have we have
over 9,000
transformers in our distribution system I went ahead and
gave a split out about
3,100 overhead transformers in our system 4,700 single
phase pad mounts and
about 1,100 three phase pad mounts the purchasing bid go
did go out to 249
perspective bidders we did receive two bids back they were
evaluated for the
lowest cost bid and what was the most efficient units that
we could purchase
for the lowest cost and to give you a range of the cost of
these bids on the
lowest bid a the smallest transform we use is half kva that
's used to service
like power up a small capacitor bank or maybe a streetlight
and that's all it
can serve that's eight hundred and six dollars and that is
the lowest bid we
got back our most expensive transformer for distribution
system is a three
thousand kva three phase pad mount and it's sixty three
thousand for just that
one unit so we're seeking recommendation to award this IFB
this
bid six seven seven eight to the lowest evaluated bidder
for five years in a
total amount not to exceed eleven million dollars I'd be
happy to answer
any questions I have one question what is why I mean why is
a configuration in
opposite of that it's called Delta configuration and there
's a hundred
real word there's a hundred and twenty degrees between the
phases of a Y system
so three times 120 360 have a full circle and it's just the
way that we
refer to electrical properties thank you and so this
contract is a five-year
kind of unit price contracts it's gonna allow you to buy
the transformers when
you need them without having to go back to yes that is
correct and they want to
be used as projects come and that we need to purchase okay
thank you do we
have a motion I move approval okay any further discussion
all in favor say aye
any opposed thank you thank you all right we'll move into
items for
individual consideration since we already handled item a we
'll go into
item B the approval of the minutes over the last board
meeting we have any
corrections or changes Billy wasn't here so I wouldn't hear
do we have a motion to
approve so moved and a second second all in favor opposed
motion carries all
right ACM update yes good morning madam chair members of
the board I believe on
Friday Kim Makin may have sent you all under a separate
email an update from
our chief technology officer regarding some questions that
were brought up a
few meetings ago on how we deal with hackers and those
those folks that try
to infiltrate our city's infrastructure information systems
because the email
was sent I believe after the agenda was posted what we'll
do is we'll include
that that informal staff report in your subsequent agenda
so that it's
memorialized online for the public to see of kind of the
city's actions so I
just wanted to make you aware of that besides that I have
no further no
further items to report and I did request that item so I
appreciate how
quickly it came out and I did read it over the weekend it
was raining what
else do I have to do and we'd like to recognize our new
member Billy cheek
and I know when Karen came on we normally say tell us a
little bit about
yourself and we didn't give you that opportunity Karen so
maybe we'll let
you do that first and then we'll go to Billy well I'm Karen
Vinnie I've been on
a bunch of boards first off was HLC for a long time and I
did that in order to
help get our neighborhood landmarked I live on West Oak I
've been on traffic
safety I've been on various other boards and commissions in
my paying job as a
book editor at UNT UNT Press publishes a lot of Texas
history and things like
that I'm wondering if I should recuse myself from UNT
things yes yeah I moved
down here from Ann Arbor Michigan with my husband when he
got a job at UNT he's
faculty etc still at UNT English Department and I've been
working at the
press since about 99 and got a couple of kids they're out
of the house so we're
converting their rooms to TV rooms and music rooms great do
it quickly yeah
before they come back I think that's all you need okay and
Billy
raise here parents met here in college and civil rights
advocates did a lot of
marching when I was a little kid didn't know what I was
doing at the time but it
was kind of cool looking back at it I was on the public
utility board for 14
years before I'm still a representative Denton for the TMPA
Mayor Watson I do
that trying to get that done if you ever want the updates
on that I'll be happy
to do that as well we have a meeting this Wednesday or
Thursday I think
something that the 13th whoever that is okay it's video
luckily we're video
conferencing now TMPA's don't have to go drive down to
Brian every time for a
meeting lots of lots of nonprofits really enjoy that part
of my life my
non-paying jobs I'm the vice president of Jago Public
Company which believe it
or not I do not own people keep thinking that but it's an
employee owned company
it's run by a trust we've got a another office of an Amar
illo happy but happy
to be back hopefully I can give some institutional
knowledge having worked
around the city for my entire career welcome okay then I
guess we'll move on
to concluding items this is the section where anybody who
wants to have
something brought up on the do I have to read this whole
thing Larry no any items
that you want to have have added to either our future
agenda items or
business matrix all right then I guess we move for approval
to adjourn I'm
looking at you Brandon look at how efficiently I ran this I
have one more
oh yes just congratulations to Susan and Brandon for
accepting the positions they
were nominated and Brandon for nominating for volunteering
well if there's no nothing else move we adjourned this
meeting I think it's a
record-breaking meeting yes yes hopefully you'll have this
impact I did
make a motion second all in favor nobody wants to stay