Talmont Resort Improvement District
Wednesday, March 5th, 2025, 8:30 A.M.
Howard J. Perry Maintenance Station, 2010 Silvertip Drive

CALL TO ORDER
Meeting was called to order at 8:32 by President Ilano
Directors Present – Eileen Ilano, Mike Towne, Jonathan Jochem, Nelson Rudolph and Kristen Anderson
Other’s Present – Bugg Vokel, Willie Dodge, Bill Bate & Rick Dewante by phone

ADDITIONS/DELETIONS TO AGENDA – None

PUBLIC COMMENT
Service’s with high water use was brought up, Roberts Rules was brought up for public comment and how often does Placer County come to the community for snow removal.

CONSENT CALENDAR
4.1 Motion to Approve January 14th 2025 board meeting minutes was approved by all.
4.2 Motion to Approve Paid Bills was approved by all.

NEW BUSINESS
5.1 Discussion on FY25/26 Proposed Budget – Board found electricity bills are going way up and discussion to investigate renewable energy for our pump stations will be on the next board agenda. Board is looking at a new accounting company to oversee our next audit.

5.2 Discussion on Long term water and snow management – Current water manager Rick Dewante is looking at retirement and is looking for possible options for hiring on a new water manager for the future. Our pump telemetry has been an ongoing struggle but Rick is getting close to a radio solution to be our main source of communication and bringing are phones to a backup role.

Willie our Snow manager has no intention of retirement and has been doing a great job.

UNFINISHED BUSINESS
6.1 Discussion of Fire prevention around TRID buildings – We are up to CA fire standards but could always do more to harden our pump stations in case of a wild fire. Action was taken to create a fire prevention committee consisting of Kristen Anderson and Jonathan Jochem.

6.2 Discussion of Water station telemetry – Our pump telemetry has been an ongoing struggle but Rick is getting close to a radio solution to be our main source of communication and bringing are phones to a backup role.

6.3 Continued communication with board of supervisors – Next communication with Placer County Board of Supervisors will be an invitation to one of our coming up Board meetings.

ADMINISTRATIVE REPORT
Update on new meter reading software and hardware – it’s been a slow process but we are finally moving forward and are working with Pace staff to have our new system by the 2nd quarter reads.

Paperless billing update – We have set up our billing software to handle email bills and are looking forward to implementing this next billing cycle with about 12% of our community signed up so far.

WATER MANAGERS REPORT
Few power outages and light snow have made this season run smooth. We received our State lead/copper report and it was very favorable. Additionally we will perform more testing for contaminates per state requirements including asbestos and PFAS.

SNOW REMOVAL REPORT
Everything going well, new tires and chains were put on our grader and a hydraulic pump was repaired.

CORRESPONDENCE & DIRECTORS COMMENT’s – None

EXECUTIVE SESSION
Board went into executive session at 10:04am

11.1 Closed Session Pursuant to Government Code Section 54956.9(d)(2), “Conference with Legal Counsel” – Threat of Litigation, One Case.

REGULAR SESSION
Regular session resumed at 11:10am

In closed session there was a motion made by President Eileen Ilano to reject the claim that is timely and deny application for the late claim. Followed by a 2nd from Mike Towne.

Votes were as follows:
Eileen Ilano voted Yes
Mike Towne voted Yes
Jonathan Jochem voted Yes
Kristen Anderson voted to abstain
Nelson Rudolph was absent

The Motion was approved by a vote of 3 – 0

ADJOURNMENT
Meeting was adjourned at 11:35am

The site for the meeting is wheelchair accessible.

By: ____________________________________
Bugg Vokel, Administrative Supervisor

2010 Silvertip Dr., Tahoe City, California 96145
Phone: (530) 583-8743
www.talmontrid.org