Location: Deborah Rawson Library meeting room.

Attendees: Fred Lavenberg, Drew Bulfer, Brian Stevens, Chris Laskowski, Ann Lerner-Kroll, Jeffrey Earl, Charlie Windisch

Meeting was called to order at 7:11 pm.

  1. Minutes from the January 2023 meeting were approved.
  2. Bill collector report (Marilyn Marshall): 6 January payments have not yet been received. Late notices have been sent out.
  3. Autopay option thru Community Bank: 9 households have signed up. With this option, future water bills can be paid with an automatic deduction from your Community Bank account. You don’t have to write a check/mail it in, and you will never be late. This also makes the bill collector’s job that much easier.
  4. Financial status: Brian reports our financial standing is good. We have roughly $29K in our account. $15K remains to be paid to Culligan for the greensand filter replacement last summer. 
  5. The $60K bond (loan) from the State drinking water revolving fund is hung up in the sam.gov website. We are not the only ones in this position – it has become a known problem that other fire districts are trying to deal with. The committee is working with the state employee who handled our application to try to resolve (hopefully soon).
  6. The communication between the reservoir and the pump house is still somewhat marginal. The antenna was supposed to have been replaced (not sure this happened). Jeff to check on this.
  7. Asset Management Plan (AMP) – Drew to fill out the application with the state. The water engineer (Tyler Billingsly/East Engineering) has agreed to provide his services. This program will give JFD #1 priority in the event dollars are needed in the future for upgrades/repairs.

Meeting adjourned at 7:44pm.