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 It is nine o'clock, Monday, March 23rd, and this regular meeting of the Public Utilities

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 Board of the City of Denton is now in session.

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 Do we have any presentations from members of the public?

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 There are none.

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 Moving on to the consent agenda.

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 Would anybody like to pull anything from the consent agenda?

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 No?

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 Then I'll entertain a motion to approve the consent agenda.

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 Is that a motion?

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 All in favor say aye.

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 I'm the same.

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 Passes unanimously.

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 Items for individual consideration, consider approval of the March 9th minutes.

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 So moved.

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 Item B, consider recommending an adoption of an ordinance in the City of Denton to execute

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 a contract with Acceleron US for turbo replacement parts and service for the Denton Energy Center.

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 In the amount of $9,520,000 for one year.

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 Option of four additional years, one extension, a total of five years.

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 Good morning, Chair, members of the PUP.

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 My name is Jose Gaitan, Executive Manager of Power Supply for DME.

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 I'm here to present the intricacies of this RFP that is for the turbo replacement parts

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 and services for the turbos at the Denton Energy Center.

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 So the background for this RFP is that the deck has 12 engines with two turbos each for

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 a total of 24 turbos.

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 So peak shaving operations at the Denton Energy Center causes stresses on these turbos.

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 Every cooling and heating cycle stresses the metals by expanding and contracting.

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 That expansion causes stresses on the metal, which can, over time, cause fractures.

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 So it is important that we have proper maintenance for these facilities, and as such, the OEM

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 is giving us a change in the maintenance schedule, which would basically have us look at the turbos

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 a little bit earlier, based on the number of start and stops, as they are seeing some

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 more fatigues out in the field on these turbos.

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 So inspections are critical for these turbos.

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 Again, our current engines have 13,500 hours of operations, and starts are anywhere between

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 3,500 and 4,000 start and stops.

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 It varies by engine, as we kind of vary how many hours of operations start and stop, so

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 we're not overhauling them all at the same time, so we can stagger the maintenance.

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 So based on the new service schedule that is being recommended, it's recommended that

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 you start looking at the turbos at the 16,000 hour mark, which is our normal recommendation

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 when the plant was built, or 2,500 starts.

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 So you can see that we're above that 2,500 start/stops.

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 So the manufacturer issued this bulletin in February of this year, or last year, excuse

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 me, to prevent a catastrophic failure, to catch it before it actually occurs.

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 So some of the maintenance tasks is to dismantle the turbo, check clearances, clean casings,

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 clean nozzles, and then assess the rotator bearing parts, which could fail.

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 And then make sure that the balancing is good for the turbos.

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 So here's some of the estimates.

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 So the average cost should a turbo be damaged, but repairable is 125,000 per turbo.

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 There are 24 of them, so we could have as much as $3 million worth of repairs.

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 However, a complete turbo replacement, average cost is 400,000.

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 So it's important that we get to those turbos serviced then before we reach a catastrophic

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 failure, which is what we're intending to do here.

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 However, as an estimate, we're expecting potentially up to 10 turbos that may need to be replaced

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 for a total of 4 million.

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 Again, that can change if we can get to them before we actually reach a catastrophic failure.

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 And so there in the pictures you see on the left-hand side is the turbine wheel, which

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 is one of the ones that gets the most amount of stress because it is on the exhaust side

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 of the turbo, and it has a more tendency to have stress fractures.

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 So this RFP is for parts and services.

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 Again, the ODM recommends checking the operation profile of the engine to verify if we have

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 reached those recommendations of at least 2,500 start stops or hours of operation.

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 Again, turbo overhauls will be performed by the ODM at their authorized workshop.

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 They will provide the field services on-site and then also provide travel and accommodations

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 for staff that are doing their work.

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 Turbo parts, components, spare parts and normal maintenance intervals, inventory checks, repairs

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 planned and unplanned is an estimated cost of $105,000 per unit for a five-year span

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 on 24 turbos for a total of $2.52 million.

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 So the summary of expenditure again is manufacturer and authorized repairs, restocking of critical

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 components, restocking critical components for unplanned maintenance, 24 turbos on 12

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 parts with an estimated potential complete repair or I guess a totaling of up to 10 turbos

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 during the life of this RFP for a total of $4 million and expected overhaul costs which

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 would capture all of the maintenance costs that would be needed to make sure that we

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 don't have a catastrophic failure for all 24 turbos.

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 That's $3 million, that's just regular preventative maintenance.

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 And then we have critical components for $2.52 million for a total of $9,520,000.

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 Of that, $2.5 million will be cash funded, the rest will be via 10-year bonds.

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 And so again, the recommendation from staff is for PEB to provide the City Council recommendation

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 to approve the RFP to a Celeron USA Incorporated to execute a five-year contract for the turbochargers

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 at the Dension Energy Center.

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 Again, the DEC was commissioned in 2018 June, so we're starting to approach the 10-year

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 mark so it's, you know, we don't know if we're going to see any more, you know, the

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 preventative maintenance is there to capture any further failures, but they are issuing

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 this bulletin to start the servicing sooner rather than later, which is why we're bringing

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 it now as opposed to at the 16,000 hour mark, which is supposed to be in about another year

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 and a half, two years.

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 So we're coming to prevent a catastrophic failure.

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 So every five years, we're going to start issuing this out again.

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 Was that common for them to come back and say, I mean, you've got, what was it, 3,500

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 to 4,000 hours is what your original S was?

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 And now they're saying, "Well, they're not as good as we thought they were," or...

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 So those, it is just a recommendation by the ODM based on what they've been seeing out

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 in the field, right?

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 And so these things can last as much as 30,000 hours, right?

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 Well, 16, it leaves, right?

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 Exactly, yes.

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 So it's important that we start the preventative maintenance now to prevent any failures that

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 will lead to a catastrophic failure, which is a higher cost.

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 So the maintenance will hopefully prevent us from having bigger expenditures later.

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 What was our original budget for that?

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 So the original budget was in the CIP for two years from now.

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 So we're accelerating the maintenance to prevent, again, those catastrophic failures before

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 So it was part of the CIP budget.

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 If you get a flat tire before you've planned on having a flat tire, you replace the flat

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 We've budgeted this money now for probably at least five or seven years.

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 We've had it in the CIP, and this is in conjunction with another project that will be coming to

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 But the total amount that we had was for fiscal year '29-'30, it was about $15 million total.

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 But now we're looking at a little bit more than that.

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 If I may, Acceleron, is this an extension of a contract we already have with them, or

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 is this a brand new thing?

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 Arthur, do we have a current contract with them?

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 Can you come up here?

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 So this is Arthur Pando, the new plant manager at the DEC.

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 Arthur Pando, plant manager at the DIN Ninja Center.

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 I can help answer any questions you all may have.

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 So Acceleron, do we have an existing contract besides the OME or whoever it was that brought

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 it to our attention, is this a brand new contract with them, or have we used them for this particular

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 Could you get slide three for me?

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 You may have alluded to some of this, but what do we...

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 Theory wise, what are we looking at as far as an expected lifetime of timeframe for these

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 Is it by the hour?

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 So we like to plan for by the hour, yes.

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 But based on the inspections, it can deem turbochargers to be overhauled sooner.

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 So main priority first is getting them inspected, checking for the damage, what the condition

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 is of the turbos and these rotating components, and thus then determines the life.

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 We've had these now, as Jose mentioned, going on almost nearing 10 years.

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 Original plan was probably making it to the 15, 12 year mark.

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 That's still what we expect.

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 We just need to capture it and make sure we extend the life of.

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 Level wise, they can go as long as up to 60,000 hours based on the service intervals happening

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 Who have we used before this request?

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 Has it been in house?

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 It's all, yes.

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 All the current maintenance inspections and repairs have all been in house by plant personnel.

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 And so we're accelerating preventive maintenance by, forgive me, forget the hours, can we kind

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 of do it with something I would recognize like years?

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 We're accelerating the intervals by about two years.

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 And that's just based on the ODM recommendation that was previously been provided to us.

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 And they got that from what?

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 They got that from their own in-house inspections and then what their field service guys out

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 So the contract now, how large it is based on the amount we're having to perform is why

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 we're bringing it to contract, just the manpower we do not have to do all 24 with the staff

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 If I may, could you go to slide five?

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 So where's the location of their workshop?

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 They are located in Florida, I believe.

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 They have multiple locations throughout.

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 I'm just curious on that 2.5, 2 million, is that, would that be thought of as the extra

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 expense from what we had originally budgeted because of starting early or am I putting

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 that number in the wrong pigeon hole?

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 I'm sorry, repeat that.

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 So you're asking where that number stems from?

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 From our old way of doing our maintenance, is that this 2.5, is that the extra that we

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 small maintenance intervals, so a couple sensors, maybe cleaning some oil pipes, some O rings

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 When we creep into the higher hours of the intervals, you start getting into the major

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 components, nozzle rings, casings, and bearings.

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 And if I could go page six.

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 And Rob, just so, so we've been budgeting about $15, $17 million at the exact number

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 in these turbos and these overhauls projects, now we're looking closer to $20 million.

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 That $2.5 million, just as a reminder, during Yuri, after Yuri, if you remember, Brazos

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 didn't pay their bill and there was a settlement, that's where that 2.5 million is coming from.

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 We've been holding onto that 2.5 million for these projects and our hope is to continue

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 to add additional cash into that pot and try to minimize how much debt we're issuing for

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 And then if I may ask, because that leads to my question on the original amount of let's

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 say $15 million or such, what time period was that to cover?

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 But that number was, the thought was a 10-year type of use.

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 experiences that have been seen with these types of engines and other plans, right?

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 They're going to have to come in and look at these specific engines and then give us

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 those recommendations, but we're planning for the worst, right?

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 So then my last question, well, probably not, but I'm going to ask this one.

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 possibly shortened the time frame to five years, let's say, versus six or seven years

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 for regular maintenance, and I don't want to hold you to those numbers, but I'm looking

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 at ... We're looking at a five-year increment on all of this, even though we're doing these

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 extensions one year at a time?

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 Correct.

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 The one-year increment is kind of offset, so yes, we will perform the services to get

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 them inspected and such, and then year two, year three is the planned and unplanned maintenance

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 scope of it.

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 So now we're just upkeeping the stuff that we can perform in-house with, and then around

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 year three, yeah, about in three, four is when we would do the second.

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 So then that's why the cost would go up to around 20 million you're talking about.

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 Well, and the turbos aren't going to all be done all at once, right?

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 They're going to be phased in over that period of time, and it may take longer.

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 And that's why it's a five-year type term.

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 And so we're paying that nine million whether they're replacing turbos or not within that

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 period, but they're doing inspections?

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 Is that what we're saying?

255
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 Sure.

256
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 No.

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 We won't be paying the nine million whether they do or don't.

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 It's all based on...

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 If it's needed.

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 If it's needed.

261
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 Correct.

262
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 Thank you for your information.

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 So basically, this whole budgetary thing is based on, yeah, it hadn't happened yet, but

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 they're telling us to look a little earlier now.

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 Yes, sir.

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 And we'd like to keep replacing motors, of course, or they would.

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 And not all the costs are going to hit all at once.

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 So we've tried to...I've asked Arthur to look at it as crystal ball and tell me, hey, if

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 you can cash flow this, how can you cash flow this over five years so that I'm not issuing

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 everything all at once, and it could potentially give us time to look at revenue funding some

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 of this.

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 You know, not to get ahead of Matt, but there'll be some financial policy recommendations

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 that are going to be coming to you, and we're going to be targeting some amount annually

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 that we're going to cash fund in our CIP, and this is one of the projects that we would

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 look at, cash funding versus debt funding.

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 Yeah, good.

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 Just based on my ignorance of the plant and how it operates, do these motors, are they

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 pretty even in the amount of hours?

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 I mean, they all run at the same time, right?

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 Correct.

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 You start one, you start them all.

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 In terms of dispatch, they are dispatched by aggregate.

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 So we could start, and each aggregate consists of three units per aggregate.

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 So aggregate A is one, two, three, B is four, five, six, so on and so on.

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 So there is times that, yes, that we could be called upon and say, hey, start aggregates

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 only, A and B is one through six, seven through 12 will stay down.

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 You just roll them?

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 Yes.

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 Yeah, we try and keep them.

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 So you don't, one is not start every time, it may be six that starts again.

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 Correct.

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 Okay.

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 So the EMO tries to start up one aggregate, see if the price holds.

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 If the price holds, then we bring up the next one, and then we just keep adding them in

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 until we make sure that the price is going to hold.

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 That way we avoid a start and stop unneeded and avoids this type of premature wear and

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 tear type of thing.

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 So we do try to vary the hours by aggregate.

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 Okay.

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 Got it.

301
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 I just have a question more on the 10-year bond of this.

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 So we're financing 10 years worth, or we're financing five years of service over 10 years.

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 What happens after the five years?

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 Do we take out another bond for another five years?

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 Well, I think ideally, one, so anything that is maintenance related, and that's what he's

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 identified here, right?

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 So we're targeting that two and a half million for critical components of normal maintenance

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 to be the cash funding component, then we're only funding the major capital assets with

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 10-year bonds.

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 Now, the idea would be is that, you know, that you do this five years, it doesn't come

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 around in another five, maybe 10 years, right?

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 So you're staggering.

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 So why 10 years, right?

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 10 years, what we're trying to do, at least this is kind of the intent, is we issued bonds

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 for the DEC in 2017, right?

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 Those were 20-year bonds.

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 They pay off in 2037 by limiting the life of the new bonds that we issue, we're trying

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 not to expand the outstanding debt for the DEC beyond 2037, right?

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 That's kind of the intent.

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 So if we had to come back here again in five years, we'd likely be looking at five-year

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 debt, not 10-year debt, if that was even possible.

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 But I think given some of the financial strategies, what we're actually talking about, at least

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 internally at DME, is, hey, can we build some type of cash fund that's just for capital

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 and minimize how much debt we're issuing for the DEC?

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 Yes.

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 I mean, and that's fundamentally what I'm thinking, is I don't want to pay 10 years

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 for something that I've got five years of life out of.

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 It just doesn't make sense that way for us, for taxpayers to continually pay interest

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 on a bond for an asset that's fully depreciated and no longer in use.

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 Now, we're talking about components of the DEC, in total, the plan has more of a 30-to-50-year

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 life on it, right?

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 And so the reason we do these things is to continue to expand the life of the overall

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 facility.

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 So we don't anticipate another five years financing another X million dollars for 10

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 more years?

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 No, probably not.

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 I mean, I'd have to go back and look at our CFP where we program it, but that's probably

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 outside of that next 10-year window.

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 Okay.

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 Thank you.

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 I do have one question.

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 The original recommendation was 16,000 hours and 2,500 cycles.

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 We're only at 13,000 hours and 3,500 cycles, our cycles are way up.

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 Now that we have this experience, moving forward, do we have strategies to try to limit all

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 that uptime down time?

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 I guess that's when the components are that susceptible, right?

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 Getting hot, cooling off and things like that, or is it just is what it is and that's the

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 way it's going to be?

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 I mean, Arthur's job out in the plant and the guy's plant is to be ready to go whenever

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 we need them, right?

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 So whenever we get that price single, it needs to be ready to go, right?

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 And so we put a lot of pressure, unfortunately, on those guys out there.

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 But yeah, so the goal is to try to have this facility ready to go at a moment's notice.

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 And so following those bulletins, if they've changed, it's part of that strategy, right?

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 And so we were based on hours.

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 Now there's these hours and this 2,500 measure that it was before, 3,500.

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 And so now of the two, which one's going to have this plan ready to go sooner?

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 One more question, if I may.

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 So was the Acceleron, was that the lowest bidder?

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 Or do we use the bidding process for something like this?

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 Yes, we did use the bidding process.

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 They were the lowest.

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 How many bids did we ask?

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 I believe we had three come in.

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 Was it two?

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 Uh-oh.

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 Lori Hill, Purchasing Manager.

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 They evaluated two vendors for this.

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 Familiar with both of them?

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 Yes.

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 Yes, they were.

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 And this was the only vendor that actually bid all lines and could provide all products.

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 Thank you.

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 That's what I was going to say.

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 When I looked at the evaluation, the other one didn't really fill it out.

376
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 Thank you, Mr. Chair.

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 Any other comments?

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 Do you want to undertake a motion?

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 We have a motion and a second.

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 All in favor?

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 Aye.

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 Any opposed?

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 Passes.

384
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 With that, we'll move on to Item C, Tony, Management Reports.

385
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 Yes, sir, Mr. Chair.

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 I'm a member of the PB, so I don't have a lot for you.

387
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 No changes to the future agenda items.

388
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 Obviously, I'm going to keep just talking about reminding you about budget items.

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 Budget items are those that are going to be coming to you.

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 Make sure you make note of those specific dates.

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 And then for new business action items, you know, we hope to provide the right information

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 that was requested at your next meeting in April.

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 I think given the fact that we had our Chair and Vice Chair out today, that probably makes

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 sense for that.

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 So it was not planned that way, but certainly worked out that way.

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 And the Water Wastewater Department on April 13th will also be bringing to you a work session

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 item.

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 And the only thing that I'll mention as well, DME is also looking at maybe adding some type

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 of quarterly type of update for you as well, kind of the way that the Water Wastewater

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 has done this.

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 We're still kind of working through that internally, but my hope is that by the next meeting, we'll

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 add that to your calendar as well and just, you know, bring you information on items that

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 may be of interest.

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 So if you have thoughts on things that you want to know about within DME or even Solid

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 Waste, please let us know.

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 We can try to get those items scheduled.

407
00:27:14,640 --> 00:27:15,640
 Fantastic.

408
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 Appreciate your help on that.

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 I know that getting those updates is going to be important.

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 I think we've all been looking forward to it.

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 And with that, we're adjourned.

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 So it shall be.

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 We are adjourned.