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 So let's call to order the September 23rd public utilities board meeting for the city of Denton. We have a brief agenda today

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 Consent items a B and C

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 Does any board member wish to pull one of the items? I have a question on B and B. Okay, and I have a question on C

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 How about item a do we have a motion to approve

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 Second all in favor say aye. Aye motion carries. Okay. I am B

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 This is the question I had was those the of all the tasks that are enumerated here on this list

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 There's a city of Denton engineering staff ever do those tasks

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 No

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 mostly because of capacity within the

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 Not that they don't have the the ability and the training to do that because of the capacity and the work that they're currently working on now

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 There's no free free time to be able to do that

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 And since it's already been pulled I just had a question is out of 750 solicitations for bids you only had

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 14 responses. Is that typical actually only at we had 15 responses and one actually removed their

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 Submission prior to today. So it's not atypical Wow, okay. Yeah, I

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 Mean

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 They don't want the work. Well, I'll give you an explanation what a lot of times happens is

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 Businesses want to do business with the city and so they'll sign up to be notified of all

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 solicitations, so it may be Carmen it could be anybody and so

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 So when these go out, it'll go out to hundreds, but it may not be anywhere near in the business in which they do. So a

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 Lot of times they're just not responsive because it's not in there

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 But they just want to be notified of any and all good solicitations at the city

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 And it's an electronic bidding system. It's electronic. So it's just goes to spam. Oh, okay. Yeah

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 All right

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 Do we have a motion to approve item B I move

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 Second all in favor say aye. Aye that carries item C

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 Charlie pulled see I didn't see my question is pretty brief. I just wanted if you could review

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 The total feet that are involved and how that compares to just putting in a new sewer line

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 Okay. Good evening board members Kenny bangs general manager of utilities

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 the the overall

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 Believe where we were at about 1800 square feet

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 it was the bulk of the entirety of the project would be done by pipe bursting and then there was a small segment that was there towards the

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 generally aligned with the

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 The alignment of the

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 access road for i-35 where that piece that was pipe burst will actually connect with a 15 go across that area and then

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 Link up with another 15 that we have over near the tech stop property. That's right there beside i-35

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 So does that answer your question or well?

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 I mean, I guess the second part so you're talking about

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 1800 ish

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 Lineal fee that's correct. Okay, and how does that compare in cost to simply laying new sewer pipe?

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 It's it tends to be quite a bit cheaper because you're not having to unearth it

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 And so there's two two issues that are involved there one is the physical disturbance of having to actually unearth the old pipe

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 Physically remove that pipe and then put new pipe in place

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 Particularly with this area that that would be a pretty tall task. It goes by a hospital a drainage ditch

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 There's a lot of pavement that's over

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 Areas there. We've got a few small buildings that have been built in the easement

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 So from a practical standpoint, it would be difficult to do it with a standard just unearthing and then bedding the pipe

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 Secondly, it tends to be cheaper just because you don't have all of the equipment mobilization

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 Excavators things of that nature that you need to actually

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 Expose the pipe and then pull it out of the ground

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 The way this process works is it's simply got a large device that goes into the pipe that is designed to

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 Basically put pressure on the pipe. It has a large air compressor that acts almost like it

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 For lack of a better word like an impact wrench and it basically will will break the pipe as it goes through

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 It's guided by a cable

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 We work manhole to manhole and then basically they pull the larger piece of pipe in behind it

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 So it's it's pretty much an in situ

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 Replacement you do have to on occasion

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 Expose an area near the manholes just simply to give you access to be able to get the cable out

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 But other than that, it's it's pretty non-invasive. So

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 Generally, you're going to find that it's going to be much cheaper

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 Particularly in a situation like this where you have a lot of pavement over the easement

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 Thank you. Sure. I'll move approval

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 All in favor say aye aye motion carries

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 Okay items for individual consideration that prove approval of the minutes of September 9th

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 Does anyone have any corrections or comments? Yeah, do you have a correction?

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 These are fairly minor, but it's in reading this I hesitated to even bring it up and I thought no

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 I need to correct this because

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 Someone would would read that as it's written and say what idiot asked that question

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 The first item is pub 19 - 165 when we're talking about the

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 The dewatering equipment for the sludge

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 The question I ask this is attributed to me is if there were

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 acceptance criteria for the engineering of

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 that new facility and it got translated as

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 Reception of criteria

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 Yes, so that was

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 I can give you the exact wording here. Yeah, and

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 The answer we got was yes, there is acceptance criteria for the third put acceptance. Yes

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 And also for the desired moisture content that you want to end up with

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 That was one thing and then on page four the top of page four the first line

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 I

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 Asked if there was a process for noting the actual location of buried lines

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 on existing drawings

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 Whenever a project is executed that involved digging in an area known to have buried utility lines

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 that got translated as

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 Asking asking how to identify utility drawings. Oh, yes

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 And it's not quite the same so we can make those changes. Yeah. All right

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 Then

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 Do we need a motion to approve with those changes?

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 Okay, do we have a motion to approve minutes with the changes suggested by mr. Baffert

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 Barbara second all in favor say aye aye motion carries

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 Assistant city manager update. Yes, make it fast

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 You already blew my record

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 Just a few things to report

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 We will be coming next month to bring you some information about the energy center just updates on that along with a multifamily recycling

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 One of the things that's coming in towards the end of October October 23rd, and I believe can make it if she hasn't already

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 She will be reaching out to board members of the pub to see if you're interested in you doing any facility tours orientation

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 So if she's done that that'd be great and love to have you all out come out to see our facilities and give a quick

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 Orientation of kind of what all we do with your utilities and so

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 October 23rd is that time and if there's some for some reason that we you all can do that

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 Well, we can find off an alternative date too as well if we need to just wanted to pass that information on

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 I have nothing else to report

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 Which brings us to concluding items. Is there any items that a board member would like to have brought forward on the agenda in the future?

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 I

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 Do have one. I want to know the metrics of how many people view our meetings

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 Sure, we can do that. We can bring some information to the next meeting. Okay

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 Anybody else I

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 Think this is a record. Do we have a motion to adjourn so we adjourn

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 And you said okay, we're adjourned