August 31, 2017 at 9:30 AM - Executive Committtee Meeting
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1. UNFINISHED BUSINESS
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1.A. Off Site Water Table Concerns Near Sand Creek
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1.B. Ourada Lawsuit
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2. MEETINGS
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2.A. Pending
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2.A.1. UNL Annual Water Symposium
Rationale:
The 2017 Annual Water Symposium will be held October 26-27 in Lincoln. |
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2.A.2. NARD Fall Conference
Rationale:
The NARD Annual Fall Conference will be held September 24-26 in Kearney. See attachment for details.
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2.B. Reports
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3. MANAGEMENT ITEMS
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3.A. Directors Absence
Rationale:
Attached to the Executive Committee Minutes find Director Sabatka and Clausen's excuse of absence requests from the August Board Meeting.
Recommended Motion(s):
To approve Direcotors Sabatka and Clausen's excuse of absence requests from the August Board Meeting Passed with a motion by Board Member #1 and a second by Board Member #2.
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3.B. Monthly Education Program
Rationale:
Mike Sotak FYRA Engineering will update the Board on the Lake Wanahoo Lake Level issues. |
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3.C. NARD FY 2018 Dues
Rationale:
Attached to the Executive Committee Agenda are the FY2017-18 NARD Membership Dues in the amount of $25,744.83.
Recommended Motion(s):
to pay NARD $25,744.83 for our fiscal year 2017-2018 membership dues Passed with a motion by Board Member #1 and a second by Board Member #2.
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3.D. Water Strategies Report and Bill
Rationale:
Attached find the Monthly Water Strategies bill.
Recommended Motion(s):
to approve the monthly bill from Water Strategies for $4,800 and bill Papio and Lower Platte South NRD's for their share Passed with a motion by Board Member #1 and a second by Board Member #2.
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3.E. Directors Resignation Letters
Rationale:
Attached to the Executive Committee Agenda find resigation letters submitted by Directors Folsom and Clausen.
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3.F. Election of new Board Secretary
Rationale:
Due to Secretary Clausen's resignation letter there will need to be a new Board Secretary elected. |
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3.G. November Board Meeting
Rationale:
We normally have our November Board Meeting in Newman Grove to accommodate the Newman Grove Shell Creek Watershed Group. Director Seier is suggesting the following schedule. 3:15 p.m. Presentation from Shell Creek Group 3:45 p.m Start Board Meeting 6:00 p.m. Eat Dinner and everyone can head home
Recommended Motion(s):
To hold our November Board Meeting in Newman Grove at the Newman Grove Hight School with a presentation from the Shell Creek Group at 3:15 p.m. and Board Meeting Starting at 3:45 p.m. Passed with a motion by Board Member #1 and a second by Board Member #2.
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3.H. NARD Resolutions
Rationale:
Attached find two draft resolutions that will be discussed at the NARD Fall Conference.
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3.I. NRD Tenant
Rationale:
Attached find a letter that will be sent to NRD Tenant Harvey Brabec.
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3.J. Paul Gifford Global Settlement Agreement and Release
Rationale:
Legal Counsel Lausterer will give an update. |
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4. EQUIPMENT
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5. PERSONNEL
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5.A. Projects/Rural Water Manager
Rationale:
We received eleven resumes for the Projects/Rural Water Manager position. Gottschalk and Mountford along with staff will be interviewing five applicants on Thursday, August 31st and Friday, September 1st. We are planning to have a candidate selected and ready for a Board motion to hire the selected candidate at the September 11th Board Meeting. |
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5.B. Discussion on Banking Hours
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Gottschalk will discuss plans to develop procedure to allow employees to request and use "banked" comp hours towards a specific need. |
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6. FINANCE
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6.A. Approval of Financial Reports
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Approval of the June and July Financial Statements will take place after adjusting entries are received from the Audit Firm. |
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6.B. Approval of Managers Time and Expense Sheets
Recommended Motion(s):
Motion to approve Managers Time and Expense Sheets- Attachment Passed with a motion by Board Member #1 and a second by Board Member #2.
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6.C. Accounts over 90 Days
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6.D. Budget and Set Property Tax Rate
Rationale:
Valuations have been received from our seven counties with a summary table attached. At 5:00 p.m. on September 11 the LPNNRD Tax Levy Hearing will be held. Last month the FY18 budget was approved with the Property Tax Rate to be set in September. With the new valuations a property tax rate of .037181 needs to be set for FY18. For information purposes a summary of our past six budgets is attached. The summary shows that for the past six budget years our property tax asking is virtually the same (decrease of less than 1%) and our property tax levy has decreased 47.6%.
Recommended Motion(s):
To approve the LPNNRD FY18 Property Tax Levy Rate of .037181 Passed with a motion by Board Member #1 and a second by Board Member #2.
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