Utility Advisory Committee

City Hall Meeting Minutes 601 4th Avenue E Olympia, WA 98501 Utility Advisory Committee Contact: Jesse Barham 360.753.8164 Thursday, April 6, 2023 5:30 PM City Hall, Room 207 1. CALL TO ORDER Chair Dennis Bloom called the meeting to order at 5:30 p.m. 1.A ROLL CALL Present: 8 - Chair Dennis Bloom, Vice Chair Kristin Lamson, Committee member Sherry Chilcutt, Committee member Dani Clark, Committee member Donald Krug, Committee member Arland Schneider, Committee member Virginia Towne and Committee member Eleanor (Pat) Vernon Absent: 1 - Committee member JP Anderson 1.B. STAFF PRESENT Water Resources Director/Staff Liaison Jesse Barham Waste ReSources Director Gary Franks Interim Drinking Water Utility Director Susan Clark Drinking Water Quality Supervisor Mike Vessey Drinking Water Quality Specialist Cheri Reimers Administrative Specialist Lindsay Walker 2. APPROVAL OF AGENDA The agenda was approved. 3. APPROVAL OF MINUTES 23-0312 Approval of March 2, 2023 Meeting Minutes The minutes were approved. 4. PUBLIC COMMENT - None 5. ANNOUNCEMENTS FROM UAC AND STAFF Chair Bloom welcomed new UAC members Sherry Chilcutt and Virginia Towne. New Committee member JP Anderson had a conflict and was not able to attend the meeting tonight. City of Olympia Page 1 Utility Advisory Committee Meeting Minutes April 6, 2023 Vice Chair Lamson noted she will not be at the May UAC meeting. Chair Bloom noted the email the UAC was cc'd on from Mr. Terry Ballard was sent to the City's risk management staff regarding a stormwater damage claim on a property within City limits. Chair Bloom and Mr. Barham attended the Community Livability and Public Safety (CLPS) meeting on March 22 for the annual meeting with advisory committee chairs and staff liaisons. Each advisory committee Chair gave a brief overview of the Committee's 2023-2024 work plan and the 2022 accomplishments. UAC members expressed an interest in having volunteers from each committee to form another committee to share ideas. Staff noted there is potential for something similar to this idea for the City's Comprehensive Plan update. Mr. Barham noted the UAC's 2023-2024 work plan was approved by City Council on March 28. LOTT Clean Water Alliance staff requested to remove from the UAC work plan the rate item scheduled in September. LOTT is on a bi-annual budget cycle, so there's no information to provide in 2023. Staff will keep this as a placeholder and ask LOTT at a later date if they have any other topics to present to the UAC. Susan Clark announced the State Department of Health sent the City a letter extending their review period to 90 more days for the City's Water System Plan. If the City gets comments back from the State, City staff will address those comments. Staff plans to return to the UAC most likely August to request UAC support for the Plan. Mr. Franks informed the UAC the Waste ReSources Plan is scheduled for final adoption by the City Council on April 11. 6. BUSINESS ITEMS 23-0313 General Facility Charges for Solid Waste Mr. Franks provided the briefing. The City determined they have no statutory authority to assess waste management GFCs and OMC 13.12.210 and should be repealed as part of a more comprehensive update to OMC Title 13. Staff are tentatively scheduled in May to propose changes to OMC’s related to waste management which will include the repeal of OMC 13.12.210. The information was provided. 23-0314 Drinking Water Quality Program Update Mr. Vessey and Ms. Reimers provided the briefing. Committee members asked staff clarifying questions and discussed information provided in the presentation. The UAC thanked staff for the briefing. City of Olympia Page 2 Utility Advisory Committee Meeting Minutes April 6, 2023 The report was received. 7. ADJOURNMENT Chair Bloom adjourned the meeting at 6:58 p.m. City of Olympia Page 3