Sunny Meadows Missoula County Water and Sewer District

Meeting Minutes

January 25th, 2024 06:00 PM at East Missoula Fire Department

Roll Call: Dusty Deschamps, Cyndie Winchell, Paula Niccum, Meggan Quigley, Michael Bushey.  Tom Walter and Julissa Hensel also in attendance.

As per contract, Julissa met with the board to touch base and answer questions.  The board asked her to speak with us first and then resumed regular order for the rest of the meeting.

Approval of Minutes:  Dusty made a motion to approve the minutes as posted on the website and Michael seconded.  The motion carried and minutes were approved.

Financial Information: Meggan read the December financial reports received by the county.  Dusty made a motion to approve and Paula seconded.  The motion carried and financial report was approved.  

Public Input: None.

Old Business: 

Project update- Cyndie received multiple calls about the alarm flashing outside the well lot building.  She worked with contractors and Andy to resolve the problem.   

Project Engineer Amy Deitchler came to inspect the project.  She met with Cyndie, Paula and Neely Electric to address questions and concerns, and with Trenchless Solutions to determine a final list of items for completion of their part of the project.    Cyndie, Paula and Amy went over budgets and system improvements.  Once all tasks are completed, Cyndie will have all of the locks re-keyed and signs posted on the fence. 

 

Mike Lilley is working to update.  The update is needed and can be funded by the project ARPA grant.

Solar panels and a generator are under future consideration.

Andy Mefford, our water system operator has made some suggestions for improvement and should be coming to a meeting soon so we can discuss in more detail.

Water Ordinance Update- work is ongoing.

 

Board Elections:

3 of the 5 Board member/directors have terms that expire this year- Paula, Michael and Meggan.  All board members are encouraged to consider serving on the board.  We have 5 directors now, we can have up to 8.  Board members get compensated $30.00 per meeting attended.

 

New Business:

Work continues on the SOW for our bookkeeper position.

SMS contact list for cell phone numbers- The board needs a cell number for each household in the system to notify households of meetings and to inform all users about issues which may be occuring with the system.  Board members will be canvassing the neighborhood in the near future to request these numbers. 

Resolution 2024-1 ARPA Draw #12- partial payment to Great West Engineering and Trenchless Solutions.

Dusty made a motion to pay the resolution, Paula seconded, motion carried and resolution approved.

 

Adjournment:  Paula made a motion to adjourn, Meggan seconded & meeting adjourned.

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• District Website: http://www.sunnymeadowswater.com/
• Respectfully submitted by Paula Niccum