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