Commission Meeting Minutes 7-25-19 with Attachments<\/a><\/p>\nTo read the minutes, please open or download the pdf from the link above, or you may see more below.<\/p>\n
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Brunswick-Glynn County Joint Water and Sewer Commission<\/strong><\/p>\n1703 Gloucester Street, Brunswick, GA 31520<\/strong><\/p>\nThursday, July 25, 2019 at 2:00 PM<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\nCOMMISSION MINUTES\u00a0<\/strong><\/h1>\nPRESENT: \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\nG. Ben Turnipseed, Chairman<\/strong><\/p>\nSteve Copeland, Vice-Chairman<\/strong><\/p>\nDonald Elliott, Commissioner<\/strong><\/p>\nBob Duncan, Commissioner<\/strong><\/p>\nALSO PRESENT:\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\nAndrew Burroughs, Interim Executive Director<\/strong><\/p>\nJacob P. Kitchen, Legal Counsel HBS<\/strong><\/p>\nTodd Kline, Director of Engineering<\/strong><\/p>\nPam Crosby, Director of Procurement<\/strong><\/p>\n\u00a0John D. Donaghy, Director of Finance<\/strong><\/p>\nJay Sellers, Director of Administration<\/strong><\/p>\nJanice Meridith, Exec. Commission Administrator<\/strong><\/p>\nABSENT:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\nWayne Neal, Commissioner<\/strong><\/p>\nTripp Stephens, Commissioner<\/strong><\/p>\nCornell L. Harvey, Commissioner<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\nMEDIA PRESENT:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\nTaylor Cooper, The Brunswick News<\/strong><\/p>\nPamela Permar Shierling, The Islander<\/strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\nChairman Turnipseed called the meeting to order at 2:05 PM.<\/p>\n
Chairman Turnipseed provided the invocation and Commissioner Copeland led the Pledge of Allegiance.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\nPUBLIC COMMENT PERIOD<\/strong><\/p>\nChairman Turnipseed opened the public comment period.<\/p>\n
There being no citizens for public comment, Chairman Turnipseed closed the public comment period.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\nEMPLOYEE RECOGNITION \u2013 B. Turnipseed\/C. Barnhart\/J. Donaghy<\/strong><\/p>\nRetirement Presentation<\/strong><\/p>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Laura Shiver \u2013 Retirement 20 Years of Service\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\nChairman Turnipseed presented Laura Shiver with a retirement plaque recognizing her 20 years of excellent service to the utility and the community.\u00a0 Chairman Turnipseed congratulated Ms. Shiver and wished her well. Director of Finance John Donaghy and Cindy Barnhart from Teamwork Services were alongside to congratulate Ms. Shiver and wish her well in her future endeavors.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\nCOMMITTEE UPDATES<\/strong><\/p>\nFacilities Committee<\/strong> \u2013 Chairman Turnipseed<\/p>\nChairman Turnipseed stated that the Facilities Committee had met on the previous day and approved the Pump Station 4105 Engineering Agreement to be moved forward to the full Commission for approval.<\/p>\n
Finance Committee<\/strong> \u2013 Commissioner Copeland<\/p>\nCommissioner Copeland advised that the Finance Committee had also met the previous day.\u00a0 Items approved to be moved forward to the full Commission were the Altama Avenue CIPP Project, Pump Station 4105\/4107 Basin Expansion Project, Academy Creek Roof Repair, and the disposition of five pieces of surplus equipment.\u00a0 Discussion items included the engagement of Mauldin & Jenkins Auditors, Bank Selection RFP, and financial statements for month ending June 30, 2019.\u00a0 Commissioner Copeland noted that the next Finance Committee Meeting will be held on August 21, 2019 at 1:00 p.m.<\/p>\n
Chairman Turnipseed stated that there will be an Emergency Preparedness Committee Meeting held on August 1, 2019 at 2:00 p.m.<\/p>\n
Chairman Turnipseed advised that there was not a quorum present and approval items would not be addressed or have any motions made on.\u00a0 He asked Mr. Burroughs to provide a brief description of the projects.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\nAltama Avenue CIPP Project<\/u><\/strong> – Mr. Burroughs advised that this project includes some gravity sewer lines that run under Altama Avenue from Fairway Oaks all the way to MLK Blvd.\u00a0 These include clay and ductile iron crossings that need to be repaired.\u00a0 These lines will be CIPP repaired trenchlessly so that the roadways will not be shut down during the work, and some of the lines parallel to Altama Avenue will be repaired also while crews are in the area.<\/p>\nPump Station 4105 Basin Expansion Project<\/u><\/strong> \u2013 Mr. Burroughs stated that the purpose of this project is to increase pumping capacity at two pump stations in the north mainland on Cate Road.\u00a0 This will allow for continued commercial and residential development in that area as well as provide an additional 200 to 300 REU\u2019s.<\/p>\nAcademy Creek Roof Repair<\/u><\/strong> \u2013 Mr. Burroughs provided that the existing operations building at Academy Creek which houses SP&M and warehouse inventory has leaks in the roof which has already been repaired, yet unsuccessfully.\u00a0 Staff is seeking approval for a roof replacement.<\/p>\nChairman Turnipseed requested Mr. Burroughs to also update on the upgrade for Pump Station 4021 located by Sonic on Altama Avenue, as well as the \u201cSmart Ball\u201d presentation for the evaluation of the force main running from Pump Station 4003 to the Academy Creek plant.<\/p>\n
Pump Station 4021<\/u><\/strong> \u2013 Mr. Burroughs noted that Pump Station 4021 is an existing pump station that is currently over capacity and has held up some development in the Atlama corridor.\u00a0 With a plan in place taps are being allowed to be sold for that pump station and upstream from there.\u00a0 Staff has been determining whether to go with a duplex or a triplex station, and has decided to go with a duplex station and expects to have it ready to go out for bid next month.\u00a0 Construction is hopeful to begin in the fall of 2019.<\/p>\nPS4003 \u201cSmart Ball\u201d<\/u><\/strong> \u2013 Mr. Burroughs explained that JWSC contracted a company to insert a \u201cSmart Ball\u201d inside the force main from PS 4002 and PS4003 which manifold together.\u00a0 The \u201cSmart Ball\u201d provides an interior look at what is going on inside the force main to determine if there are air pockets or a deterioration of the line.\u00a0 A report should be available in the next four weeks. \u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\nEXECUTIVE DIRECTOR\u2019S UPDATE<\/strong><\/p>\nMr. Burroughs reported that the kickoff meeting for the SPLOST North Mainland Downstream Repair Project was held the Tuesday before.\u00a0 Safety Stand Down Day will be held on July 31st<\/sup> and Mr. Burroughs invited the Commissioners to attend.\u00a0 He noted that the pilot program for paperless billing would be started on August 1, 2019 and anyone wishing to be a part of that pilot program can speak to customer service to be included.\u00a0 Also to begin on August 1st<\/sup> is the pilot for auto-drafting payments from customers\u2019 checking accounts.\u00a0 Lastly Mr. Burroughs provided that notification from the EPD was received on this same day (July 25, 2019) advising the granting of the termination of the existing EPD Consent Order of which JWSC entered into in November 2014 due to the collection systems issues system-wide and some efforts that needed to be accomplished, of which the conditions of that Order have now all been satisfied.\u00a0 This took a lot of hard work by JWSC staff including a good amount of project work and shows the level of improvements that have been made over the past five years.\u00a0 He noted that staff is continuing to make those improvements as we move forward.<\/p>\nCHAIRMAN\u2019S UPDATE <\/strong><\/p>\nChairman Turnipseed advised that the Academy Creek Plant will be moving forward also. \u00a0Not only are repairs to be made, but also making sure JWSC is providing capacity throughout the system.\u00a0 With a limited amount of money JWSC needs to be good stewards of that and want to ensure that all projects come in at under budget.\u00a0 All treatment plants have been operating within permit levels throughout the entire year of 2019.<\/p>\n
EXECUTIVE SESSION<\/strong><\/p>\nThere was no Executive Session.<\/p>\n
There being no additional business to bring before the Commission, Chairman Turnipseed adjourned the meeting at 2:18 p.m.<\/p>\n
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