Carbondale Reporter

City of Carterville Water & Sewer Board met May 3.

Here is the minutes provided by the Board:

Called to Order: 6:00 p.m.

Present at the meeting were: Carl Sisk and John Geiselman, Water and Sewer Board Commissioners; Curtis Oetjen, Council Representative; Garry Wiggs; Public Works Director; Marc Buatte; Sewer Superintendent Janice McConnaughy, H R Specialist, Russell Harris and Amy Simpson, Board Secretary.

Delinquent accounts were discussed (282 accounts delinquent in the amount of $22,989.28). Cut offs will occur on Tuesday, May 8th, 2018 unless payment or payment arrangements are made prior to the cut off date.

The Rend Lake bill for April 2018. 11,326,180 gallons sold in March. We purchased 12,706,848 from Rend Lake

Motion 1: Geiselman moved and Sisk seconded to approve the minutes of the April 5th, 2018 regular Meeting as submitted by the Secretary. All voted yea and the Secretary declared the motion carried.

Motion 2: Geiselman moved and Sisk seconded to approve the minutes of the April 19th, 2018 Special Meeting as submitted by the Secretary. All voted yea and the Secretary declared the motion carried.

Motion 3: Geiselman moved and Sisk seconded to approve the Treasurer’s Report for the month of April 2018. A roll call vote was taken, and all present voted yea. The Secretary declared the motion carried.

Guest: Russell Harris read his letter requesting the ticket he received for turning his water on to be waived. The ticket was written incorrectly by the Police Officer. Harris was in violation of section C of the city code but was written for the violation in section B.

Motion 4: Geiselman moved and Sisk seconded to approve to waive Harris ticket be null and void. A roll call vote was taken, and all present voted yea. The Secretary declared the motion carried

Motion 5: Geiselman moved and Sisk seconded to approve payment of the monthly bills as submitted by the Secretary. A roll call vote was taken, and all present voted yea. The Secretary declared the motion carried.

Garry Wiggs Report -

Electronic Water Meters – Councilman Oetjen addressed the board about the financing for the new meter reading system. First payment would be one year after signing contract. With interest rate approximately 3.895% for 10 years with a payment of $107,316.42. If we raise inside $3.25 for inside meters and $5.00 for outside meters will give us $110,280.00 per year and at the end of the 10 years we would have an additional $30,000 for a maintenance fund.

Jerry Hampton Report

Jerry Hampton absent; Garry gave a complete run down of all the leaks and taps completed this past month. Jerry loves the new truck.

Marc Buatte Report

Arbor Drive Lift Station Arbor Drive lift station has a pump that is locked up Marc believes from rags. Both pumps are rebuilt and the originals, we do have one rebuilt pump on hand and would like to purchase another pump along with base along with guide rails and down pipe.

Motion 6: Geiselman moved and Sisk seconded to purchase pump, base, guide rail and down pipe in the amount of $9,000.00. A roll call vote was taken, and all present voted yea. The Secretary declared the motion carried.

Lining of Manholes: Spectra Tech will be in our area again. The last time they were here Spectra Tech lined 3 manholes and lines for $9,025.00. Councilman Oetjen recommends that we wait for a while to line 5 new manholes since we just spent the money on it. It had been considered to do this once a year.

Aerator Rotor #2 Update- 6 rows of blades and by the end of the month get it installed. Geiselman asked about how the aerators are actually performing. He is concerned with summer coming. Marc said he is hoping by having both aerators working it will tell him if the ditch is where it should be. If not, Marc wants to take the second ditch and run it in series not in parallel. Which means aerator one ditch run it to the second ditch aerator it again then to the clarifiers.

Amy explained the water leak credit for John Gooden at 901 Taft Baker Dr. Gooden had a leak back in January (Month that we estimated) and was found when they did meter readings in February. 247,430 gallons went thru his meter. Amy explained the two different leak credit figures: one was normal leak credit process and

one at Rend Lake cost. After normal leak credit the bill would be $897.46; after Rend Lake credit bill would be $533.41. Mayor Robinson recommended that we use the Rend Lake credit.

Motion 7: Geiselman moved and Sisk seconded to approve the following leak credits:

Leak Credits:

12-7601 Chethana Sharath; 1301 Whippoorwill Rd $ 121.56

02-1531 Shanna Pinston; 122 Kate St $ 167.80

14-4380 Sue Speers; 908 N. Division $ 184.96

05-2970 Rose Ann Rector; 406 California $ 21.05

15-5022 Aloffo; 121 Weisbrook $ 65.04

08-1480 Martha Dillow: 610 Willow $ 9.14

05-3781 John Gooden; 901 Taft Baker Dr $1,316.55

09-2130 Michael Enzenberger; 406 Pennsylvania

$ 47.79 $1,933.89

A roll call vote was taken, and all present voted yea. The Secretary declared the motion carried.

Crawford and Associates Report: Rodney Potts No Report (Rodney Potts not in attendance)

Revised Reconnect Agreement: Update with Mayor Robinson working with attorney

Rend Lake Rate Increase - Rend Lake cost is 2.5% increase per year for 5 years. Councilman Oetjen recommends covering just the actual cost with no extra.

Republic Rate Increase - Republic rate increase is $.34 and a chart of the dumpster raises.

Lake Logan Apartments Councilman Oetjen review Lake Logan rates. Current billing is based on 80% occupancy. 12 units at each building plus one laundry mat. Councilman Oetjen recommends that they need to pay the same as everyone else in town. (Water, Sewer and Debt)

Mel Having Mr. Having received misinformation from the Water office and hired Drainmaster to figure out his sewer problem. Mr. Having had no problem on his side; City had a blocked man hole. Mr. Having paid $255.00 bill and asked board to reconsider and refund his bill back on his account.

Motion 8: Geiselmann moved and Sisk seconded to refund $255.00 back on his account. A roll call vote was taken, and all present voted yea. The Secretary declared the motion carried.

New Employee Hire

Employee Raises:

Motion 9: Geiselmann moved and Sisk seconded to go into Executive Session. A roll call vote was taken, and all present voted yea. The Secretary declared the motion carried.

Motion 11: Geiselman moved and Sisk seconded to come back into regular meeting from Executive Session at 7:26 pm. All voted yea and the Secretary declared the motion carried

Motion 12: Geiselmann moved and Sisk seconded to follow employee raises as what the City decides. All voted yea and the Secretary declared the motion carried.

Motion 13: Geiselman moved and Sisk seconded to adjourn. All voted yea and the meeting was dismissed at 7:28 p.m.

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