Sep 24, 2018 Public Utilities Board on 2018-09-24 6:00 PM

Utility board city of Denton. My name is Lily a binem and I 'd like to call the meeting to order and the first item on the agenda today is to elect a Chair a chair pro tem for the meeting in the absence of Susan and Brendan who are out of town today So if I could have any nominations The chair pro tem, excuse me I'll second All in favor. All right any discussion Okay, all right then we move forward All Right, we'd like to start the The evening with moving a couple of items. We'd like to move the closed meeting to the end of the agenda and Bring forward the items on the consent agenda first So if we could move on to that Are there any questions about any of the items on the consent agenda either a or B that we would like to pull back like to pull item a Anyone else All right, well so we'll go forward and Pull item a And item a is Charlie would you like a do you have a question? Yeah, I have a question We have an existing contract with this firm. We did and I guess my question is why are we not amending that as opposed to? awarding a new contract I Think procedurally this is the way we would handle a situation like this where we still have Work that is required to be completed. These are professional engineers that it would be very difficult for others to step in so their contract has expired and We're looking to just Almost expire to carry it forward until we can go out with another competitive book here man and replace them I Know this is not your question, but Chuck brought some show -and-tell I guess the other question is how much have we expanded on this contract already? We've expended two million three hundred and six thousand one hundred eighty eight dollars and nineteen cents That's all the questions All right, well then we would like to call for a motion with the kids consent agenda items of Charlie's okay with moving forward Oh The majority of this cost is transmission cost There is some distribution because when we do check out in substations, we check out the distribution as well as the transmission That's commissioning when we build a new station or whatever Or when we do periodic testing, we also test the distribution. So there's some cost in there But the large majority of pardon there's some costs that won't be covered under T costs. That's correct But it's a pretty small percentage probably in the under 10 % Okay, thank you any other questions regarding number a All right, so I'd like to See if I could get a motion to approve consent agenda items a and B So moved second second any discussion All right, so motion carries motion carries Sorry All right. So to vote say aye if you agree. I May same sign All right, so the motion carries and we will move into closed session We choose myself from a since it's the UNT, thank you. I appreciate that. Yes. So do we have a quorum new? Do we have a core? All right, we're back for Items for individual consideration and If you will take a look at number a consider approval of the Public Utility Board meeting minutes of September the 10th 2018 There's some people who want to be in here Yeah, I didn't see any out there Okay, all right, thanks Billy All right. So we'd like to consider approval of the Public Utility Board minutes of September 10th 2018 Any Changes or anything that needs to be made to the minutes well in the version I'm reading item H in the consent agenda The introductory portion of that is incorrect To recopy of item G instead of the correct item H Because I wasn't here I had to read that All right, any other changes all right, can I have an a move for approval Move to be approval as amended as amended. Mm-hmm All in favor say aye Any opposed same sign? All right, they are approved and then we'll move on to B which is to consider recommending adoption of an ordinance of the City of Denton authorizing the city manager or designee to execute a physical gas Transaction confirmation for the purchase of natural gas under the terms and conditions of base contract for the purchase and sale of natural gas with enterprise products operating LLC Providing for the expenditure of funds and providing for an effective date Thank you. Good evening George Morrow general manager of DM E. I'm before you tonight Asking for a recommendation to approve and consider a proposed natural gas contract for the Denton Energy Center The background is our current gas supply contract expires September 30th and Staff has negotiated a new business arrangement to replace this expiring deal that contract will be with Enterprise products operating Inc as as the chair indicated and It's designed to be Seamless to move from one arrangement to the other The contract is made pursuant to a naysbees agreement that has was previously approved with Enterprise the naysbee agreement provides the boilerplate for for the transaction with What we're asking you to approve today is what's called a confirmation agreement. It's just the business terms for the exact transaction And Open for questions. I I'm limited in what I can say tonight Any questions All right without any questions would like to move for approval Make a motion to approve. Excuse me. Thank you All right Any discussion All right then All in favor say aye Any dissent same sign Motion carries. Thank you very much All right, and now we'll move on to the ACM update from Kenny The first item is the an item for the 2018 EPA CMOM conference Those the CMOM stands for capacity management operation and maintenance This was held on August 20th the 21st in Austin and it was one of two cities It was featured in an indicated presentation as a good example of how these systems are put together So wanted to share that it was it was a good honor to to be Charged of that sort of thing for the city of Denton That is done through PS Aurora shop on the wastewater side There are a number of employees that are involved with the with the system Tyler Dawson is one of the one of the key players as well and it's basically just a type of asset management system that allows us to have a better sense of how our Wastewater system operates the true condition of the pie The the the true condition of the of the pipes and through camera technology instead of just through age of asset So it's a it's a way to kind of optimize our system that minimizes risk and it doesn't is intended to prevent us from expending capital just based on a lifecycle asset only so some some you know lifecycle assets are typically averages and And some assets you can get a much longer life out of some you can't get as much So we're just trying to right-size the capital so to speak through that program The the second item is the liquid oxygen Proposal information that mr. Vinnie and asked for the last time the the exceptions are mainly related to The inability to come to terms on liquidated damages and indemnification So I wanted to provide that item And the future other two items are just the future public utility board agenda item I would encourage everyone to look forward to the October 8 solid weights waste rate correction strategy discussion That's going to be a good one Policy decisions to be made on that and then the only other item that I have is the public utility board new business item both of the items that remain on the list are Coming from solid waste that miss Parker's request and we 've got intentions to cover those in fall of 2018 So they'll be coming up in the next couple of months And that's all I have All right, I would like to see it would like to know if there are any concluding items I Seen none. I'd like to ask for a motion to adjourn second so All right, I'd like to have a motion to vote Okay, all right All those in favor of adjourning say aye Any opposed all right, so we're adjourned. Thank you