HomeMy WebLinkAboutMinutes - EVWD Board of Directors - 02/27/1967 Feb. 14 & Feb. 27, 1967 1231
for the organization of the County Water
Districts Association of San Bernardino County
and their opinion was that the delegate to the
organization should be a member of the Board
of Directors with an alternate to be a staff
member.
He also announced that there would be a $20.00
initial membership fee.
ii MOTION Upon motion by Director LeVesque, duly seconded
by Director Ditch and carried unanimously, the
$20.00 membership fee to the County Water
Districts Association of San Bernardino County
~i was authorized.
MOTION Upon motion by Director LeVesque, duly seconded
by Director Ditch and carried unanimo~sly,
Director Wall w~s appointed as the delegate to
represent this District to the County Water
Districts Association of San Bernardino County
and Manager Rickert was appointed as the alternate.
MEETING WITH It was suggested that the District should try to
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA get in touch with the Southern California Water
WATER COMPANY Company for further negotiations.
MOTION Upon motion by Director Forrest, duly seconded
by Director LeWasque and carried unanimously,
the General Manager was authorized to write to
Mr. Philip Welsh of the Southern California
Water Company to set up a luncheon meeting to
discuss negotiations toward the possible pur-
chase of the So'athern California Water Company.
ADJOURNMENT There being no further business to come before
the meeting, adjournment was declared at 12:10
a.m.
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Board of Directors
APPROVED:
~ W. Littleton, President~ii~l~i ~ .~, ~'"~'.~ ~ /~.? ~ ~
EAST SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY WATER DISTRICT
REGULAR MEETING FEBRUARY 27, 1967
CALL TO ORDER The President called the meeting to order at
7:30 p.m. stating the time was closed for
receiving any more bids.
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PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE All those present joined in the Pledge of
Allegiance to the Flag of the United States of
America.
ROLL CALL Directors Present: Ditch, Forrest, LeVesque,
Littleton and Wall.
Directors Absent: None.
Others Present: General Manager-Secretary Rickert;
Associate Engineer Cole; Auditor-
T:ceasurer Bishop; Assistant Office
Manager Lyons; Commercial Supervisor
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Isakson; Recording Secretary Dudley;
Attorney Farrell; Consulting
Engineer Rowe; John Franks of the
Free Press; Spencer Sparks of
Southern California Water Company;
Casimir Zyss and Wally Wilburn
of Browning Road; Contractors
Delbert J. Sare, Robert Berard, Ed
Meyers and Michael Mize.
MINUTES The President inquired if there were any
additions or corrections to the minutes of the
Regular Meeting of February 14, 1967 and the
Special Meeting of February 20, 1967.
MOTION There being none, motion was made by Director
LeVesque, duly seconded by Director Forrest and
carried unanimously, to approve the minutes of
both meetings as submitted.
BID OPENING - WATER The Secretary opened and read the sealed bids
TRANSMISSION MAIN for the installation of 12" water transmissioh
VICTORIA, CITRUS, main, Victoria Avenue, Citrus Avenue to Marshall
MARSHALL W-634 B.I. and Marshall, Victoria to Belvedere known as
Job W-634 B.~.as follows:
A. Wm. B. Long Constructors, Inc. $20,333.00
City of Industry
B. Montclair Sewer Construction
Company, Ontario 27,421.00
C. Moran-Howell, Inc. Montclair 16,752.00
D. Edmond J. Vadnais, Etiwanda 16,526.00
E. J. L. Scott Company, Anaheim 10,602.00
F. Highland Sewer Construction
Company, Highland 15,974.35
G. Michael C. Mize, San Bernardino 13,565.00
H. Sare's Pipeline Construction
Company, Corona 16,327.20
I. Royal Pipeline Construction
Company, E1 Monte 14,557.22
Engineer's Estimate $22,500.00
BID OPENING - WATER The Secretary opened and read the sealed bids
TRANSMISSION MAIN for the installation of 12" water transmission
ALONG BEAR VALLEY main along Bear Valley Ditch road from Palm
DITCH ROAD, PALM Avenue to Tract 7229(Stubblefield) known as
AVENUE TO TRACT 7229 Job W-643 B.I. as follows:
A. D. J. Hallgren, Rocklin, Calif. $3,620.00
B. Amick Construction Company
Ontario 7,451.00
C.. Montclair Sewer Construction
Company, Ontario 6,730.00
D. Moran-Howell, Inc. Montclair 5,590.00
E. J. L. Scott Company, Anaheim 5,980.00
F. Royal Pipeline Construction
Company, E1 Monte 8,983.00
G. Michael C. Mize, S. B. 10,556.00
Engineer's Estimate $10,000.00
MOTION Upon motion by Director LeVesque, duly seconded
by Director Wall and carried unanimously, all
bid proposals were referred to the engineers
for their check and recommendations.
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RECOMMENDATION OF The Engineers reported that all bid proposals
ENGINEERS ON VICTORIA were fQund to b~ correct and recommended the
& MARSHALL acceptance of tlhe low bid of J. L. Scott
TRANSMISSION MAINS Company of Anaheim in the amount of $10,602.00
subject to the approval of Legal Counsel.
MOTION Upon motion by Director LeVesque, duly seconded
by Director Forrest and carried unanimously,
the bid was awarded to J. L. Scott on their low
bid subject to the approval of Legal Counsel.
ENGINEERS The engineers r.~ported all bids were figured
RECOMMENDATION BEAR correctly except Amiek>Construction Company
VALLEY DITCH MAIN which should be $7,461.00, a ten dollar error,
TO TRACT 7229 however, they r.~commended the acceptance of the
low bid of D. J. Hallgren of Rocklin, California
in the amount of $3,620.00 subject to the
approval of Legal Counsel and recommended hold-
ing the next two low bids of Moran-Howell, Inc.
and J. L. Scott Company.
MOTION Upon motion by Director LeVesque, duly seconded
by Director Forrest and carried unanimously,
the contract was awarded to D. J. Hallgren on his
low bid and the next two low bids are to be held
until the Contract is signed, all subject to the
approval of Legal Counsel.
BROWNING ROAD The President noted Mr. Zyss representing the
DECISION Browning Road residents was in attendance,
therefore asked if the residents of Browning
Road had come to any decision regarding water
supply for their area.
Mr. Zyss reported they had held a meeting at
which 7 out of ~3 property owners were present.
They again discussed the propositions and the
letter which Mr. Rickert had mailed to each of
the people who originally signed the request
for annexation. The 7 voted unanimously to
accept Southern California Water Company's
offer,
MOTION Upon motion by ]Director Forrest, duly seconded
by Director LeVesque and carried unanimously,
the Browning Road main extension matter is to be
tabled indefinitely but made a part of the
record through these minutes.
MR. JIM CANNING OWNER The President called upon Mr. Jim Canning, owner
OF EMPIRE DODGE MOTORS of Empire Dodge Motors who explained 'that an
PP. ESENT error had been made in submitting their bid
as the freight charge had not been included in
the figures of the bid which should make their
price $153.00 higher. He offered to absorb the
$53.00 if the District would pay the extra $100.
This, however, would not leave him low bidder
as he understood. He did not want to sell the
Dodge truck that badly. A purchase order had
been issued to i~is company for the purchase of
the truck which is as binding as an official
contract. Legal Counsel advised that legally
Empire Dodge contracted to supply the truck for
$1,874.44 and a letter from them previously
acknowledged the purchase and accepted it. The
matter was discussed at great length and finally
MOTION a motion was made by Director Forrest, duly
seconded by Director Disch, that Empire Dodge
Motors be required to furnish to the ]District
the Dodge Pick-'~p truck as specified and at the
price quoted, $1,874.44.
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The motion carried by the following roll call
vote:
AYES, Directors: Disch, Forrest and LeVesque
NOES, Directors: Littleton and Wall.
ABSENT, Directors: None.
MOTION Upon motion by Director Forrest, duly seconded
by Director LeVesque and carried unanimously,
whenever we call for bids on moving vehicles
and manufactured articles, that we have
specifications drawn up and sent to prospective
bidders by Registered letter to avoid problems.
Director Forrest also suggested that the staff
check with other entities to learn their pro~
cedures for obtaining bids and their specifi-
cations.
CHANGE ORDER NO. 2 The General Manager presented Change Order No.
COUGHLIN COMPANY 2 on the Coughl±n Company contract for the in-
CONTRACT WATER MAIN stallation of water transmission main along
TRANSMISSION ALONG Bear Valley Ditch from Orange Street to Palm,
BEAR VALLEY DITCH replacing Change Order No. 1 approved by Board
FROM ORANGE STREET action February 14, 1967 as there was an error
TO PALM of $50.23, making the correct amount of the
Chan~e Order $419.10 instead of $469.33.
MOTION Upon motion by Director Wall, duly seconded by
Director LeVesque and carried unanimously, the
corrected Change Order No. 2 was accepted.
PRESENTATION OF Auditor-Treasurer Bishop was called upon to
FINANCIAL STATEMENT offer any explanations or comments regarding
FOR MONTH OF JANUARY the Financial Statement of the Water and Sewer
1967 WATER AND Divisions for the month of January, 1967.
SEWER DIVISIONS
APPROVAL OF The following warrants were submitted for the
WARRANTS scrutiny and approval of the Directors: WATER DIVISION
#1136 - 1273 (General) $112,118.32
9627 - 696 (Payroll) 15,224.37 $127,342.69
SEWER DIVISION
# 93 - #107 $85,637.35
BOND FUND
#265 $19,073.26
MOTION Upon motion by Director LeVesque, duly seconded
by Director Forrest and carried unanimously,
the warrants were approved as submitted.
DISCUSSION PRADO A letter was read from Attorney Green stating
REGIONAL PARK PLAN the new Prado Regional Park Plan should have
the endorsement of the East San Bernardino
County Water District.
A letter from the San Bernardino County Regional
Parks director enclosed an eleven page Prado
Regional Park Water Use and Treatment folder
which will be duplicated and sent to all di-
rectors.
MOTION Upon motion by Director LeVesque, duly seconded
by Director Disch and carried unanimously,
authorization was ~iven:for a Resolution to be
drawn up and presented at the March 13th Board
Meeting for this District's endorsement of the
new Prado Regional Park Plan.
GENERAL WATER DISCUSSION -
LETTER - ATTORNEY
WILSON A letter from Attorney Wilson was read regard-
ing the money market and he sent two enclosures
Feb. 27, 1967
which he felt would be interesting. They will
be duplicated and mailed to each director.
BROCHURE ON AWWA 87th A brochure was passed around for the Directors
ANNUAL CONFERENCE to see regarding the 87th Annual Conference
JUNE 4-9, 1967 of the American Water Works Association to be
ATLANTIC CIT~ held in Atlantic City, New Jersey June 4th
through 9th, 1967.
MOTION Upon motion by Director Forrest, duly seconded
by Director LeVesque and carried unanimously,
authorization was given for any director and the
Manager to attend if desired.
LETTER CALIFORNIA A letter was read from the office of the District
DIVISION OF HIGHWAYS Engineer of the State Department of Public Works,
Division of Highways, District 8, announcing a
Public Hearing to discuss the proposed freeway
alignment of Route 18 between Route 30 and
Interstate 10 to be held at 1 p.m. on Monday,
March 20 in the Pacific High School Auditorium,
1020 Pacific Avenue, San Bernardino. Copies of
the map will be made and sent to directors for
reference.
LETTER WAYNE E. ARNOLD A letter was read from Mr. Wayne E. Arnold
REFUND REQUEST FOR stating that freeway routing(Crosstown) will
DEPOSITS absorb six of his lots on which he paid for
sewer connection and permit fee, water meter and
service deposits. He asks for refund of the
amounts paid. Since it was determined that it
will be several years before the Freeway work
will begin in his area, it was moved by Director
MOTION LeVesque, duly seconded by Director Wall and
carried unanimously, the District denies any
action on this matter at this time as it is
too previous.
LETTER SANTA ANA RIVER A letter was read from the Santa Ana River
BASIN REGIONAL WATER Regional Water Quality Control Board announcing
QUALITY CONTROL BOARD a meeting or Public Briefing on Salt Balance
Investigation Upper Santa Aha River Basin at
9:30 a.m. February 28, 1967 in the Riverside
City Public Library Auditorium in Riverside.
This was for information only in case anyone should
wish to attend.
CORRESPONDENCE - GARNER A letter was read from Garner, Tee, Tracadas &
TEE, TRACADAS & TROY Troy, asking for a water letter to be presented
WATER LETTER REQUEST to the Planning Commission for Tract 7386, on
TRACT 7386 LaPraix Street south of Pacific Street. The
General Manager pointed out it would require
considerable extension of both water mains and
sewer lines to serve the tract.
MOTION Upon motion by Director LeVesque, duly seconded
by Director Forrest and carried unanimously,
the letter is to be answered in the affirmative,
giving authorization.
RESOLUTION NO. 982 - Resolution No. 982 was presented for acceptance
ACCEPTING CONVEYANCE OF A Conveyance of Pipeline Easement from the
OF PIPELINE EASEMENT San Bernardino Unified School District for water
FOR JENNIE NOYES main extension at the Jennie Noyes ThomPson
THOMPSON ELEMENTARY Elementary School.
MOTION Upon motion by Director LeVesque, duly seconded
by Director Forrest and carried unanimously,
Resolution No. 982 was adopted.
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RESOLUTION NO. 983 Resolution No. 983 was presented for acceptance
CERTIFICATE OF of a Certificate of Completion from Campbell
COMPLETION BY TRI & Miller and W. P. Rowe & Son of the sewer
CITY HIGHLAND SEWERS collection line installed in the alley south of
Highland Avenue east of Elmwood Road by Tri-City
Highland Sewers and the President and Secretary were
authorized to execute and file Notice of
Completion.
MOTION Upon motion by Director LeVesque, duly
seconded by Director Wall and carried unani- ~
mously, Resolution No. 983 was adopted.
GENERAL SEWER DISCUSSION
CORRESPONDENCE - A letter was read from the State of California
SANTA ANA RIVER Resources Agency, the Santa Ana River Basin
REGIONAL WATER Regional Water Quality Control Board advising
QUALITY CONTROL potential applicants of Federal Construction
Grants for Water Pollution Control Facilities,
1967-68 Grant Applications. This was presented
for information only.
APPLICATION OF CITY An Application of the City of San Bernardino for
OF SAN BERN~RDINO FOR Technical Assistance under Section 301 of Public
TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE Law 89-136 to Economic Development Commission
UNDER SECTION 301 OF accompanied by a Feasibility, Planning and
PUBLIC LAW 89-136 TO Developmental Study of Potential Sewerage
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT Systems in the San Bernardino area was presented
COMMISSION and discussed at some length. The District has
its own master sewer plan and it was felt that
it would be duplication for their study to come
into the East San Bernardino County Water
District. 'It was also suggested that possibly
the District should meet with them to see what
their objectives are and see if this District
could apply for some of the government money "~
for updating their master sewer plan. Maybe
the District's master plan should be made
available to them.
MOTION Upon motion by Director Forrest, duly seconded
by Director LeVesqu~, the District was not to
participate in this. The following roll call
vote lost the motion:
AYES, Directors: Forrest and LeVesque
NOES, Directors: Disch, Littleton and Wall.
ABSENT, Directors: None.
It was then suggested that the General Manager
find out what the City's plan is and then
determine what District should do.
MOTION Upon motion by Director Disch, duly seconded
by Director Wall and carried unanimously, the
staff and any board members available were
authorized to investigate further from the
City of San Bernardino regarding the proposed
study and that we inform them of our study
made in 1956 along with any other pertinent
information and report back to the Board on ~"~
March 27th.
REPORT ON SERVICE AREA Mr. Merle Davidson dropped in to the Board
NO. 58 FIRE Meeting to report on the hearing before the
PROTECTION County Supervisors on the County Service area
58 in connection with the Fire Protection for
the east portion of the valley. The Supervisors
have called for an election on May 16 and that
all information should be in by March 14th.
He reported that the budget for operation would
be approximately $134,000.00, well within the
40 cent tax base. No action required or taken.
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LETTER - KEN JOHNSON A letter from ~[r. Ken Johnson was read, ex-
REGARDING SEWER plaining sewer lateral damage at 6380 Denair,
LATERAL DAMAGE damaged during the installation of the water
mains in Stubb]efield's Mountain Shadows de-
velopment, Tract 7233. After thorough
investigationi it appears the repair bills are
the responsibility of the District. The damage
was repaired by Mr. Johnson at a cost of $200.92.
The General Manager recommended reimbursement to
Mr. Johnson.
MOTION Upon motion by Director LeVesque, duly seconded
by Director Forrest and carried unanimously,
the District will reimburse Mr. Johnson $200.92
for the repair.
MANAGER'S REPORT -
REPORT ON PANTZER The General Manager reported that the Pantzer's
ANNEXATION CORWIN are interested in annexing 7.18 acres at the
WELL IRRIGATION BY southwest corner of Pacific and LaPraix approxi-
AGREEMENT mately 5 acres on Base Line between LaPraix and
Boulder Avenue for future development and service
of water and sewer from the District. They will
dedicate enough shares of stock in the Corwin
Well to meet the District's water formula. The
District would then purchase the balance of their
water stock in the Corwin well and pay them for
the water shares over and above the water formula
requirement and then serve irrigation water to
them by Agreement such as we have used in other
similar cases. If we acquire and purchase this
water stock, it will give us 23 out of 30 days
in the Corwin Well.
NOTICE OF ELECTION A notice was read stating there will be an
ASSOCIATION OF SAN election of officers of the Association of San
BERNARDINO COUNTY Bernardino County Water Districts at a meeting
WATER DISTRICTS to be held March 6, 1967 at the Holiday Inn,
San Bernardino at 11:30 a.m. A copy of the
minutes of the last meeting is to be imade for .~
Director Wall who is the delegate for this
District.
RESOLUTION NO. 984 Resolution No. 984 was presented for acceptance
CERTIFICATE OF of a Certificate of Completion submitted by
COMPLETION SEWER Campbell & Miller and W. P. Rowe & So~n for the
COLLECTION RELOCATION completion of the relocation of sewer collection
WEST OF DEL ROSA line in Crosstown Freeway right of way west of
AVENUE Del Rosa Avenue by Robert Simon, Contractor, and
authorization was requested for execution of
Notice of Completion by President and Secretary
for recording.
MOTION Upon motion by Director LeVesque, dully seconded
by Director Wall and carried unanimously,
Resolution No. 984 was adopted.
NEED FOR 12" WATER The General Manager and Associate Engineer ex-
MAIN IN HIGHLAND plained the need for a 12" water transmission
AVENUE FROM STERLING main in Highland Avenue west from Sterling to
TO DEL ROSA AVENUE Merito on the north side, then crossing to the
south side alon~ Highland Avenue to Del Rosa
Avenue. The estimated cost is $16,000.00.
This line was considered under the Water Revenue
Bond projects. Approval was asked to design the
line described.
MOTION Upon motion by Director Wall, duly seconded by
Director Disch and carried unanimously, approval
Feb. 27 and Mar. 13, 1967
was given for the engineers to design the above
described project and present plans for Board
approval March 27, 1967.
T.V. RECEPTORS ASKING The General Manager reported that T.V. Receptors
TO SET TWO 20 FOOT have asked permission to set 2 poles 20 feet
POLES FOR PART OF above ground on the southwest side of the
TttEIR CABLE District property. The District previously
indicated by Board action that the lines
should be carried underground and this is
still recommended. Since that action had
already been taken, no further action is
necessary and the lines are to be underground.
B&PWC USE OF DISTRICT The General Manager reported that Recording
OFFICE FOR NOMINATING Secretary Dudley asked permission for the
COMMITTEE WORK Nominating Committee of the San Bernardino
Business & Professional Women's Club of which she
is Chairman, to use the District office and
phones the evening of Thursday, March 2nd.
MOTION Upon motion by Director Disch, duly seconded
by Director Wall and carried unanimously,
permission was given for the use of the office
and phones by the Business & Professional
Women's Club Nominating Committee Thursday
evening, March 2nd.
ADJOURNMENT There being no further business to come before
the meeting, adjournment was declared at
10:55 p.m.
/ Harold G./Rickert~ Secretary
Board of'Directors
APPROVED:
n W. Littleton, President
EAST SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY WATER DISTRICT
REGULAR MEETING MARCH 13, 1967
CALLLTO ORDER ~he President called the meeting to order at
7[:3~ p.m. and declared the time closed for
receiving bids.
PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE All those present joined in the Pledge of
Allegiance to the Flag of the United States
of America.
ROLL CALL Directors Present: Disch, Forrest, LeVesque,
Littleton and Wall.
Directors Absent: None.
Others Present: GeneralManager-Secretary Rickert;
Associate Engineer Cole; Auditor-
Treasurer Bishop; Assistant Office
Manager Lyons; Commercial Super-
visor Isakson; Recording Secretary
Dudley; Attorney Farrell; Con-
sulting Engineers Rowe and Miller;
Mr. M. T. Baxter with Penetryn
Western; John Franks of the Free