7.13.2023 Watuppa Water Board

okay having reached you point an hour I'm going to call this meeting of the watopa water board to uh to order um first off uh this hearing will be conducted as a virtual guarantee uh the meetings uh will be available for viewing on Comcast uh cable channel 18 and Fall River pursuant to the open meeting one any person may make an audio or video recording of this public meeting and may

transmit the meeting through any medium attendees are here uh therefore advised that such recordings or Transmissions are being made and whether perceived or unperceived by those frozen are deemed to acknowledged and permissible we can move to item number one on the agenda it's like if there's coins of all the roles in material uh present number columns present I'm in Pereira is not president at this time

um so uh here are City Hall uh in president Ontario myself the administrative Community utilities Paul Ferlin uh project manager owner career and uh the director of the water Administration division Tom Tai um as this is a virtual meeting all uh all votes will be called for roll holding thank you Mr Clark item number one citizen input seeing none we will move to item number two item

number two is the diamond high school proposal for right away licensed this was tabled at the April 4th 2023 meeting I will turn this over to Mr Berlin would like to lift it from the table we have having reviewed uh the revocable license agreement uh the chair would entertain a boat uh to accept the license plate yes the second dude do you want just an explanation of what the placement is for

well I we I reviewed it but Paul if you want to highlight some of the stuff or um give Mr Bailey an opportunity to talk that's fine yeah definitely thank you like to you know just make sure everybody's aware of what this is so this is a revocable license agreement that's being issued to Diamond uh they requested during the construction of their school uh that they uh are able to uh walk across Water

Department property uh at the rear of their fields uh over to Talbot skills that you they're using for uh the sport program um this does not give them any words of ownership or easements or anything like that again it was structured as a revocable license which allows them for a certain period of time during certain hours uh to be able to use this so they'll be using it in the spring

session uh in the fall session uh they did also request the winter session and um you know some discussion uh and then think that was the best of those times to be done it would be 2 30 to 6 P.M Monday through Friday um that they using it um there's uh uh they will need to provide us uh additional Insurance on an insurance policy no motorized vehicles will be able to uh to Traverse this path

uh there will be Gates on either side of this path uh that will have a lock-in key um so when they use it they will go down unlock the gate walk over to Talbot I'll walk back lock the gates when they're when they're done at the end of the day the gate should be locked anytime or they don't have people over on the Talbot side the students should be accompanied by Diamond Personnel when

they're traversing this area and they will be they'll be required for maintenance in the past keeping the area safe and walking back and forth and that's kind of uh a brief overview this will be just for the term while they're uh while they're working on the construction of their school um you know naturally one of the concerns that we always have is one of the topic is that is restricted area

that will uh that they will be walking through uh it's just up the hill from the 1873 Pump Station uh the 1873 Pump Station we do have uh almost weekly issues available on that building again that's that's saying that these kids would do anything like that but uh we do have those issues we just don't like that attractive nuisance to be publicized um you know uh for people so again uh if

there is uh any guided students found um that uh is doing anything outside of this agreement uh in this agreement Diamond uh agrees to take uh appropriate uh disciplinary action against that student so it's kind of my rundown of the agreement uh Bobby Bailey from uh diamonds Athletic program is here uh if the board has any questions or Bobby excuse me daily if there's anything that you'd like to add

yeah it um I think you pretty much covered everything um as far as um anything that goes on we would take ownership anything disciplinary um myself along with the superintendents would take that under any student um athlete that's Crossing would have to be accompanied outside of that Gates would be locked on both sides um yeah so that's nothing nothing much outside of that as far as um you know

injured athletes all of that stuff would um if they had to be transported transported from the tablet Fields they would not cross that area as well um they would be um obviously either taken around if they spin the ankle and if there was severe then obviously an ambulance with most of our Sports being off campus um it's really nothing we can do as far as between you know transporting students back and forth

um I know it's a uh it's a transition you know and something that we're going to have to work on in terms of um you know worrying about those things but we're going to take all the safety precautions that we can um to make sure we abide by um this Contracting and also make sure we put our students in the safest positions possible so um Mr furl and the only question that I

had is have them in here from 2 30 to 6.

excuse my ignorance but like is will that be Pride these will these Gates will be locked prior to Sunset correct okay all right that was yeah so so the reason why the reason why I um requested to 230 is that gives students time to get out and give to coaches time as soon as we get out to get there so we can get out um to six o'clock um what we asked for the extended to six

is because we'll be out well before then I mean that's a four hour gap we've I mean it's illegal to even have a four hour practice but just so I can make sure that so it's just so I can get kids kids out of there um I've already told my coaches um you know once we're across and I want kids out of there before before 5 30. um I think that's even too late

um but that just gives a buffer in case I got to come back and make sure everything is is good on my end but yeah we'll be out well before then typically our practices don't even run that late um in a day but I would I would like I said I would rather just get over there as soon as I can and get out as soon as we can that was my only question I um

I had one concern um commissioner Collins and it has been addressed um that Additionally the licensee shall provide adequate signage and appropriate graphics and warning signs to inform Personnel or public of the crossing of the road itself while it is a private road I think it's it's it's a good idea to have it look like a regular approved school crossing um and that's been included in here and

that was my only big concern the other concerns have been addressed on Mr Berlin pointed out the you know the old pump station which is on the national register of historic places as well as the new maintenance facility which is going to return um have new security fencing up at the top selling keeping the gates locked when not in use are going to be very very much an important part of this I have no other questions

commissioner Collins no no no all right on the motion made by commissioner Collins and uh seconded um voting in favor to approve the license agreement commissioner conference aye yes

questions make a motion to lift it from the table for another vote of motion made second all in favor yes yes

excuse me now we can have motion to approve thank you and I apologize that he's getting to me now we'll take Council commissioner Collins's motion to approve so me second good all in favor in the comments yes versus Ontario yes thank you thank you thank you good luck on a successful season uh Mr Bailey we appreciate uh you guys being good neighbors thank you appreciate it am I on you

still I don't think you know I think I'm all okay thank you thank you Bobby okay item number three proposed leak abatements we um having reviewed the league abatements uh we have a total of 7 813.69 are there any questions can we can you explain just just because the Morton Street one is like forty two hundred dollars can can you give me a just a quick explanation of how these are figured

um I would really appreciate it yeah no definitely um yeah I looked into that myself yeah that is that is that is an extremely logical so how the abatement policy uh instruction to be able to issue a credit to somebody um is what we do we take an average of actual bills so actual readings uh so you'll see uh in this the uh spreadsheet provided for this uh for the Morton Street one

there's an area where on the top three of them are boxed out and then down towards the bottom one from his box down so we get four quarters of normal usage uh and we take the uh average of those qualities once we get the average of those quarters we figure that that's his normal average bill we subtract that from the high bill um then whatever the balance is over that so whatever is above your average bill

we issue a credit of 50 of that overage so specifically looking at this one uh normal Bill amounts would be uh 1200 500 right 45 470 and then 231. so those break down to an average and we actually do it in uh in CCF so we're not taking the actual monetary value so the average historical CCF in 28 um the CCF per day uh the high bill is 10.7 uh CCF per day

so you take that 0.8 subtract it from the 10.7 which gives you the 9.88 CCF um you divide that up into the number of days and then uh by the applicable rate of whatever that bill was billed at whatever the combined water or silver rate and then we give the credit is 50 of that usage so will will they have the opportunity to come back and try to get abatements

on the uh the other dates around that the 9 8 and uh 22 and the 3 9 22. so there can only be one abatement within a five-year period okay all right thank you yeah I had called the office of commissioner Collins and I've gone through this with Mr Ferlin and uh with the clerical team and uh it was uh explained to me and I I agree with this

way of doing it um I think that it's a fairer way of assessing something at all moments in this case an extremely large Credit in like the form the bill was an extremely large bill which was paid as well yeah I no I appreciate the clarification I just figured I'd ask thank you that was that was all I had thank you thank you so uh if there are no other questions the chair would

entertain a motion to approve the um Community utility uh abatements in the amount of 7 813.69 so moved second all in favor um yes president area yes uh any other business to come before the board hearing none I'd like to thank commissioner Collins for your time this afternoon uh the chair would entertain a motion to adjourn don't move secondary localhost remember Collins yes yes thank you bye guys thank you