June 27, 2019 at 9:30 AM - Executive Committee Meeting

Rationale:  Attached find a report from the GMDA Summer Meeting held June 6-7, 2019.

Rationale:  Attached find absence requests from Director Hilger, Baiely and Seier from the June Board Meeting.

Rationale:  Attached find our final audit worksheet and final audit invoice from LARM for the 2017-2018 Pool Year. Amount due to LARM for Workers Compensation is $2,119.43

Rationale:  The Dodge County Treasurer notified us that the Dodge County Board of Equalization approved a Tax Roll Correction for East Central Health Department.  The total amount due from NRD is $547.46.  The County Treasurer is requesting the Board to send a letter allowing them to deduct these fund from our account. See attached documents for details.

Rationale:  Attached find HBE360 Engagement Letter to prepare financial statements and statement of activities for the years ending June 30, 2020 and June 30, 2021.

Rationale:  Attached find a memo from NARD about the Hall of Fame candidates and background information on the candidates.

Rationale:  Attached find a report from the NARD on actions of the June 10th NARD Risk Pool and NARD Board Meeting.

Rationale:  Carter Hubbard, Olsson, contacted us about a potential study to look at reducing Salt Creek flood impacts north of Ashland that includes our fuse plug component of the Western Sarpy/Clear Creek Project (located on US Army Guard Camp property).  Olsson has been asked by the Lincoln Well Field to look at opportunities and grant funding to reduce flood impacts in this area and to their well field.  
The potential project would involve the following measures:

• Replace fuse plug with permanent gate structure
• Modify profile of County Road A to increase overflow capacity for Salt Creek overflows to the Platte River and decrease or eliminate overflows to the north.
• Grading of area between Salt Creek and Platte River on the upstream side of Hwy 6/BNSF RR to provide flood storage, and accommodate Salt Creek overflows to the Platte
• Reduce flood elevations of Salt Creek upstream of Hwy 6/BNSF RR  

LPNNRD is not being asked to sponsor or commit financially (others will fund the study) but have asked to support Lincoln Well Field's (LWF) effort on taking the lead to move forward. The study is intended to evaluate costs, benefits, and how the funding split might work if a project moves forward and an Hazard Mitigation Grant Program (HMGP) application was submitted.  Once the study is done, information would be presented to potential partners to then decide who may participate in an HMGP application. The fuse plug was destroyed by the March flooding and will be replaced later this year. The plug is an ongoing LPNNRD responsibility that we share with LPSNRD. 

At this time we have submitted our support of LWF moving forward with a  study with no financial commitment or obligation from LPNNRD.





 

Rationale:  Our current shared contract with Water Strategies (LPN,Papio,LPS) expires at the end of this month.  Kris Polly, President, Water Strategies has proposed a two year renewal of our existing contract with the following rate increases:
$ 5,400 per month effective 7-1-19 through 6-30-20 ($1,800 each) and $ 5,700 per month effective 7-1-20 through 6-30-21.

Staff believes Water Strategies continues to provide high quality representation and service for our Districts in Washington D.C. and are always provide excellent communication with us as needed.

Rationale:  The attached agreement was produced by Jovan for our use as we move forward with our Wanahoo Education building rental.

Rationale:  -Camping revenue to date: Approx. $ 33,750
-Park Permit revenue to date:  $ 
-Wanahoo building interior walls are up and ready for electrical rough-in
-Pork Chop Island is 95% complete and we are ready to open it for reservations
Channel 8 (Lincoln) came out and filmed a segment called "Trip on a Tank" at Pork Chop Island.
-Wahoo's July 4th Fireworks will be held at the lake this year.  We will be offering free access to the East side of the rec area for the entire day and have been working closely with Saunders County Sheriff's department to develop a traffic plan.  We will have food vendor(s) on site for the day, there will be an old-time baseball game played in the evening and we have developed temporary parking areas to accommodate the expected demand for parking.
-Our staff continues to do an amazing job mowing, weed-eating, cleaning and keeping the park looking as good as ever.  If you have time, please stop by, drive through and stop and talk to our staff.

Rationale:  Director Birkel suggested that if we are going to put this land up for auction, we should get some drone shots of the property.  

Rationale:  Annual staff evaluations have been completed and we have met with all staff individually to review and discuss.  Board has approved $26,000 total salary budget increase and that amount was broken down into the following annual pay raises:
$ 1,000 - "Fully Satisfactory" (2)
$ 1,200 - "Commendable"     (5)
$ 1,500 - "Outstanding"         (10)

Total annual increase equals $ 23,750 - $ 24,250
 

Rationale:  Will Brueggemann was hired as a Water Technician.  Over the past two years his responsibilities have grown and he continues to perform at a very high level.  The main difference between technician and specialist is the responsibility of administering programs, Will administers our NeRain program, the Phoenix data base program and our Phase Reporting program. 

Rationale:  Attached are the May Financial Statements. Grant will be available for a conference call today.

Rationale:  Attached find Gottschalk's time and expense sheets.

Rationale:  If we plan to have a budget workshop we need to set the data and time.  We normally hold it before August Board Meeting.  A tentative date of Wednesday, August 7th was discussed at Executive Committee. 

Rationale:  We normally hold our budget hearing one hour prior to our August Board Meeting and our levy hearing one hour prior to our September Board Meeting.