MID Board Report Archive

Modesto Irrigation District (MID) Board Meeting of Tuesday, December 19, 2006
Contact: MID Public Affairs Department, Maree Hawkins, 526-7390
The next MID Board meetings will be on Jan. 9 and 23, and Feb. 13 & 27, 2007.

Don Pedro Board of Control Report

Water Use Manager Joe Lima reported that the Don Pedro Board of Control had expenditures of $1,776,000 and revenue of $1,966,000 between Jan. 1 and Oct. 31, 2006. Reservations between Jan. 1 and Nov. 30 were 7,766, compared to 7,467 in the same time period the previous year.

Board action

The Board unanimously approved the following four items:

1. An open purchase order to Agriculture Priority Pollutants Laboratory, Inc. to analyze MID water samples for chemical residue as required by the Conditional Waiver of Waste Discharge (Ag Waiver) for discharges from agricultural lands.
2. The agreement for independent engineering evaluation for the Phase Two Expansion of the Modesto Regional Water Treatment Plant with R.W. Beck, Inc., in an amount not-toexceed $83,600. This report will provide the financial community with an independent opinion as to the viability of the project prior to the sale of bonds.
3. The Investment Policy Statement for the Retiree Medical Benefits Plan revised December 2006. Provides for the same asset allocation mix as the MID Basic Plan Investment Policy and allows the health care benefits assets to be invested in areas that are likely to achieve higher long-term earnings than are expected under the present investment policy.
4. Agreements between MID and SunGard Corbel LLC for Relius software licenses, support and consulting, as well as future incremental licenses, support, and upgrades to maintain software application continuity for the Relius product. This replaces the existing software that is 12 years old, no longer supported by the vendor, and can no longer meet the functional requirements needed for retirement record keeping.

Billing System

Update Assistant General Manager Lou Hampel, Finance, reported that billing system to-date expenditures have been $6.848 million, slightly under the $6.898 million budget (includes software, licenses, training, maintenance and hardware). He noted that while staff has allocated $5.8 million in time to the project since it began in 2003, no new staff members were hired for the project. He added that any system requires on-going staff time.