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HomeMy WebLinkAboutMN-SJC-2010-01-13 SJC MEETING January 13, 2010 SJC Members Staff Wade Wykstra, Chair Supervisor MaryAnn Sumner Supervisor Herb Engman Pat Leary Ellen McCollister Joel Zumoff Rich DePaolo Eric Whitney Bill Gray Scott Gibson Steve Thayer Dan Ramer Absent Mayor Carolyn Peterson Guests Wade called the meeting to order at 12:35PM. Introductions were made around the table as Ellen McCollister joined the committee as the replacement for Mary Tomlan. Approval of November and December 2009 minutes – The minutes were passed without dissent. Election of Chairperson – The SJC agreement states that a member can serve for 2 consecutive terms. A discussion with Susan Brock (Attorney for the SJC) determined that the board can suspend this portion of the agreement for a period of one year and re-elect Wade as chairperson. Pat nominated Wade to continue as chair person. Moved by Pat, and seconded by MaryAnn, the motion passed without dissent. Engineering/Operations Report Summary – Dan Ramer and Scott Gibson Notifier of New York has completed the majority of the work to install our new fire alarm system. Some issues have arisen that will require additional funding. Some of our existing equipment is outdated and causing problems with the new equipment and therefore must be replaced. A change order has been received which will add $11,099 to the original cost of the project. MRB Consultants are still awaiting results from Cornell on the hydrolysate to complete the headworks loading study. The data collected from the original and supplemental sampling yielded no outstanding concerns. Staff met with Cornell personnel, Paul Jennette and David Frostclapp to review their progress with acceptance testing on the steam hydrolysis unit. We are still awaiting their results. The plant is in need of two replacement pumps which feed sludge to the digesters. These one of a kind pumps would be purchased from The Penn Valley Pump Company who would qualify as a sole source for this specific pump. 1 2 JCI has been taking contractors through the plant to get price quotes for each of the Facility Improvement Measures that have been identified. We are also evaluating another grant opportunity. The NYSEG access license has been implemented and they have started sampling. A NYSEG sampling plan is attached for review. A press release and legal notice regarding the Emerson enforcement were published in December. Litigation Updates - Wade gave a brief description of the litigation items of Crane Hogan and NYSEG Coal Tar for the benefit of newcomer Ellen McCollister. Financial Report – Steve Thayer Steve distributed the current financial activity for the past month and the preliminary 2009 year end activity. He noted that there will be final adjustments as we continue to receive items from 2009. This could take one to two months. Revenues in septage service have caught up to the budget. We received $90,000 in settlement fees from the Emerson enforcement which is included in the 2770 account. We incurred $45,000 in legal expenses also listed in that account. We had some accounts go over budget and some are under which will be adjusted to make up the differences. The only active capital project for the last month is the Miscellaneous Plant Improvements which saw $101,695 in expenses. We have closed out the construction phase of this project. On a motion, the meeting adjourned. The next meeting is scheduled for February 10, 2009 at 12:30PM.