BROOKTRAILS TOWNSHIP COMMUNITY SERVICES DISTRICT

Board of Directors Regular Meeting Agenda

Saturday, March 14, 2015

Annual Planning Meeting Part II Brooktrails Community Center

24850 Birch Street 10:00 AM to noon

A. Pledge of Allegiance

The Presiding Officer will lead Board members and the audience in the Pledge of Allegiance B. Roll Call

The Presiding Officer will call the meeting to order and call the roll of members to determine the presence of a quorum.

C. Additions/Adjustments to the Agenda/Report on Closed Session

1. The Presiding Officer will determine if Board members wish to add an item or make an adjustment to the agenda.

D. Minutes of Previous Meetings - None

E. Special Presentations:

2. Water-on-demand – Information only F. Public Hearings: None G. Reports:

From Directors: From District Counsel: From General Manager:

H. Public Comments

Audience members will be invited to speak regarding matters not on the Agenda. The Board cannot act on items brought up at this time. Speakers may be limited to five minutes.

I. Directors Response to Public Comments (Reponses will generally be brief; Directors may call upon General Manager to respond. Items may be placed on a future agenda for a more in-depth response)

J. Consent Calendar - None

K. Action Agenda 3. Review Utility Department Goals & Objectives for prior year and Develop Goals & Objectives for

2015-16 including discussion with Township Engineer about reviving short-and long-range capital improvement program

L. Adjournment

The Board will consider a motion to adjourn the regular meeting.

Board of Directors: President Rick Williams Vice-President Tim Ramming Director Tony Orth Director Ralph Santos Director George Skezas

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BROOKTRAILS TOWNSHIP COMMUNITY SERVICES DISTRICT

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TO: Board of Directors FROM: Denise Rose DATE: March 13, 2015 SUBJECT: Rain- on-Demand Project ———————————————————————————————————————————

As the Board may recall, at the January 27, 2015 meeting staff provided information concerning a ‘Rain-on-Demand’ project being conducted in California as a pilot to determine if the technology is viable. The members of the Board expressed interest in learning more about the project and its possible application in the real world. I have asked Ken Davlin, P.E. of Oscar Larson & Associates, who serves as the District’s consulting engineer to attend the planning meeting to discuss reestablishing capital improvement plan, as well as the Rain-on-Demand project. While Oscar Larson is not a participant in this project it has worked with some of the principals of the Rain-on-Demand project, on other projects. Mr. Davlin will be able to more fully discuss the project concept and will be able to answer Board questions regarding the project. The project itself has filled its slate of participants for the round one demonstration. However, it’s in the process of developing a round two demonstration project. I have attached the power point presentation concerning the pilot project, as well as two articles concerning the technology similar to the project’s technology. This information was previously provided at the January 27, 2015 meeting.

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Contact:Valentin Alexandrov p. 925-437-5288

val@tteinternational.comor Bernd Schaefers p. 323-493-4227

bs@bksenergy.com

BKS ENERGY LLC presents:

TM

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California’s reality: catastrophic draught and severe water shortage. “Drought worsens in California since last week; 33% of the state facing exceptional drought

conditions”, the National Weather Service said Thursday.Los Angeles Times, June 19, 2014:

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-drought-worsens-across-california-20140619-story.html

Given the level of crisis, all available scientific capabilities should be applied to the defense of the water, food, and livelihood of the people of North America West, including systems to influence and control the weather.

(“Expanding NAWAPA XI: Weather Modification To Stop Starvation”, Executive Intelligence Review, Aug 9, 2013) http://larouchepac.com/node/30858

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Weather modification, especially cloud seeding, has been practiced in the U.S. for many years, but mostly limited to using existing clouds during the winter months and averaging between 5% and 15 % increase of seasonal rain or snow.

Cloud seeding vs. ROD IonizationUse of Chemicals YES NO

Exhaust Emmissions YES NO

Harmful Radiation NO NO

Temperature Limitations YES NO

Precipitation Increase 8-15% 25-200%

A demonstration facility in Mexico produced an increase in rain from the annual average of 11 inches to 47-51 inches.(Executive Intelligence Review, Aug 9, 2013)l

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Natural Cloud Creationand Rainfall:

The sun’s heat evaporates the water from the planet’s water bodies and fluxes of galactic cosmic rays ionize the water vapor, most of it over the oceans, creating the global cloud coverage.

Rain-on-DemandTM (ROD TM) follows the Natural Water Cycle:Our proprietary technology enhances the natural air ionization process and increases the formation of nuclei in moist air to form water drops and, subsequently, the rainfall.

Rain-on-DemandTM copies Mother Nature

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• Ions are good centers of water vapor condensation, growing embryos create clouds

• High energy rays ionize the air molecules

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Small droplets

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First, we initiate rainfall in designated coastal areas, where there is enough moisture in the atmosphere (min. humidity is 30%).

Then, through a chain of ionizer tower arrays, we pull moisture and clouds further inland and induce the rain for up to 100 miles from the coast.

Ionizer Tower Arrays

Ion clusters

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The Task: Identify and lease a site of about 10 acres, preferably with access roads and electricity, with statistical certainty of moisture of a minimum of 30% in the atmosphere over certain periods of time during the year, preferably within 5 miles from the ocean. Identify the expected boundaries of the increased rainfall, communicate with local private and public stakeholders

The Challenge: Inform and work with government agencies to support expeditious permitting

Basic Information: The project is funded for equipment installation and one year of operations with data collection for proof of efficiency and environmental benefits

Step 1: Identify and lease a site, apply for and obatain permits

Step 2: Installation of electrical equipment for the ionization of atmospheric moisture to induce cloud creation and rainfall; Voltage: up to 100,000 Volt, 5 kW power supply

Land area needed: 10 acres, flat to some sloping

Actual footprint of equipment: central tower (100 ft height) 20 sq ft, central tower guy wires 80 , 10 satellite anchors for high voltage wires with 20 sq. ft each, total actual footprint 300 sq ft.

Expected area of rainfall: within a radius of 10 miles

Preferred location of first unit: within up to 10 miles from the coast for marine moisture

Step 3: Operate the facility for initially one year to collect data and calibrate equipment to atmospheric conditions

Step 4: After successful operations and further permitting, extend the rainfall area by installing a series of ionization units up to 100 miles inland

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Schematic drawing of a typical ionization unit

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System

Components:

Operating Mode: - Initiation time – about 72 hours - Coverage – 10-15 miles radius for a single installation- Shutdown time – rain stops approximately one hour after deactivation

Operational Safety:

Ionizer Effect on Humans (See Appendix 1) Preliminary Permit Application Drawings (See Appendix 2)

EPRI Comments on the IEEE Standard for Safety Levels With Respect to Human Exposure to Electromagnetic Fields, 0 to 3 kHz (2002) ; https://www.osha.gov/SLTC/elfradiation/epri-ieee1-03d.pdf

Encyclopedia of Occupational Health and Safety, International Labor Organization http://www.ilo.org/oshenc/part-vi/radiation-non-ionizing/item/659-static-electric-and-magnetic-fields

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Claims of Manmade Rain Clouds Spark Skepticism

Camels and trucks travel on a main desert road in Abu Dhabi while rain descends in the background.

PHOTOGRAPH BY JAMES DAVIS PHOTOGRAPHY, ALAMY

By Brian Handwerk

for National Geographic News

PUBLISHED JANUARY 18, 2011

In arid lands, the ability to create freshwater out of thin air

would be priceless.

Now a Swiss company, Meteo Systems, is poised to earn a

pretty penny in Abu Dhabi with a controversial weather

modification system said to be responsible for dozens of rain

showers in the desert last summer.

The claim is difficult to verify but certainly has raised a storm

of skepticism among many leading weather modification

experts.

“As far as I’m concerned I don’t believe these claims,” said Roelof Bruintjes,

who heads the National Center for Atmospheric Research’s international

weather modification programs. “There’s no scientific basis for this; the

physics doesn’t support it.”

(Related: “Planes Create Weird Clouds—And Snow, Rain Fall Out.”)

While typical weather modification efforts—which began in the mid-20th

century and continue in nations from the United States to China—make use of

natural clouds and attempt to “seed” them to produce precipitation, Meteo

Systems purports to create the clouds themselves.

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Their system uses arrays of 33-foot (10-meter) electric towers that produce

negatively charged ions, according to the company. These ions bind with tiny

solid and liquid particles, supercharging the particles’ ability to form clouds

and precipitation.

Joseph Golden, a weather modification expert who once chaired the

now-defunct Atmospheric Modification Program at the National Oceanic and

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), also has serious doubts that the

technique could work.

“This method is inherently incapable of producing clouds out of thin air,”

Golden said.

(Related: “China’s Rain-Free Olympics Plan Met With Skepticism.”)

A Long History of Ionization

The Technical University of Munich’s Peter Wilderer, winner of the 2003

Stockholm Water Prize, said people have been attempting ionization techniques

for decades.

"The ionization technology was first mentioned in 1890 by [Nikola] Tesla. In

1946 General Electric executed some field trials under the leadership of

[Bernard] Vonnegut [brother of novelist Kurt Vonnegut]. Later the technology

was used for military purposes in the former Soviet Union."

Wilder added that reviews of radar images suggested to him that ionization

could possibly have some effect, under proper meteorological conditions.

Despite press reports to the contrary, he has never personally witnessed any

rainfall events produced by Meteo Systems.

Show Me the Data

NOAA’s Golden is interested in hearing much more from the scientists trying

to make it rain in the desert.

“I put out a challenge to any of those that are involved in this project and

making these claims. Show me the data,” he said.

There may be little chance of such transparency in the near-term, however, as

Meteo Systems is closely guarding the secrets of the potentially valuable

technology the company has dubbed “WEATHERTEC.”

Meteo Systems did not respond to calls and emails from National Geographic

News.

The directors of the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, who have been

erroneously linked to the project via media reports, released a statement

expressing “distress” that the scientific organization had been associated in any

way with the work of Meteo Systems. They added that rainstorms were part of

unusual weather patterns in the Middle East last summer.

“Our institute has no connection whatsoever to this work, nor have we been

privy to the underlying evidence that the company is using to support its

claims,” the statement said.

“We also note that many people have a financial stake in seeing these claims

being credibly reported by the media, and that to the extent rain showers in the

region were unusual this summer, they accompanied rather unusual weather

patterns over the broader region, which certainly had nothing to do with the

very localized experiments in Abu Dhabi. One only needs to be reminded of

the terrible flooding over neighboring Pakistan.”

Playing God

NCAR’s Bruintjes noted that the UN-based World Meteorological

Organization’s expert team on weather modification research met in Abu Dhabi

in March 2010, and issued a report on the state of the science that cautioned

against just this type of technology.

“The energy involved in weather systems is so large that it is impossible to

create cloud systems that rain,” the WMO report read. “Weather modification

technologies that claim to achieve such large-scale or dramatic effects do not

have sound scientific basis (e.g. hail cannons, ionization methods) and should

be treated with suspicion.”

Golden said people who are simply desperate to fool Mother Nature often pay

for modification techniques that are unproven at best, including the hail

cannons mentioned in the WMO report. “Farmers invest thousands of dollars

in those cannons to suppress hail even though the scientific evidence is that

they don’t work,” he said.

Bruintjes put his point bluntly: “The rotation of the Earth, the energy of the

sun, and moisture from the oceans cause these things. None of us can change

that, and it’s actually good that none of us can change that because we’d likely

make a mess of it.”

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From at least the early 1940s to the end of the 20th century, it always rained more in the state of Jalisco, in central Mexico, than in its neighbor Aguascalientes. But in 2000,

on a patch of parched pasture in Aguascalientes, workers from Mexico City-based Electrificación Local de la Atmósfera Terrestre SA (ELAT) erected a peculiar field of

interconnected metal poles and wires somewhat resembling the skeleton of a carnival tent. Since then, about as much rain has fallen on the plains of Aguascalientes as on its

more lush neighbor.

The brainchild of a fractious group of Russian émigrés, the poles and wires are in fact a network of conductors meant to ionize the air. If the technique is done properly, the

thinking goes, the natural current between the earth and the ionosphere is amplified, leading--through a mechanism that is not fully understood--to rainfall. There are now 17

such installations in six states in Mexico, and in January, federal government agencies decided to back construction and operation of 19 more by 2006, potentially altering the

weather in much of parched north and central Mexico. Meanwhile, by May, ELAT's competitor Earthwise Technologies Inc., of Mexico City and Dallas, could win the right to

establish ionization stations in southwest Texas's water-starved Webb County, which would make it the first such installation in the United States.

STORM CLOUDS GATHER: Scientists and authorities differ over whether ionizing the air canbring on big weather changes.But some atmospheric scientists aren't so sure the Russians aren't selling snake oil. "[Ionization] is highly unconventional and in my realm of experience, I have seen no

concrete evidence published in a refereed journal, nor have I seen sufficient credible eyewitness verification that the technology works as touted," says George Bomar, the

meteorologist charged by the Texas government with licensing the state's weather modification projects [see photograph, "Storm Clouds Gather"].

Ionization technology, called alternatively IOLA (ionization of the local atmosphere) by Earthwise and ELAT (electrification of the atmosphere) by the company ELAT,

washed ashore in the New World with a group of Russian scientists, who left for Mexico after the Soviet Union's collapse. The scientists had already formed a company called

ELAT in Moscow, but soon "a less than amicable split" occurred, according to Earthwise CEO Steven C. Howard. The last Soviet ambassador to Mexico, Oleg Darusenkov, now

a businessman and adviser to Earthwise, put the contingent led by Serguei Komarov in touch with that company's executives. Meanwhile, Komarov's former colleague Lev

Pokhmelnykh formed ELAT by joining with another Darusenkov associate, the Mexican astronomer and scientific establishment insider Gianfranco Bissiachi. Each company

believes it holds key patents.

IOLA and ELAT compete with conventional cloud seeding, which--though it also remains scientifically unproven--is used in more than 24 countries and 10 U.S. states. Cloud

seeding usually involves dispersing a chemical agent such as silver iodide into cloud formations, which helps ice crystals form, leading, it is thought, to bigger clouds and more

precipitation than without seeding. The ionization approach, according to Bissiachi, now ELAT's vice president of R and D and operations, does a similar job but twice over.

Ions attract water in the atmosphere, creating the aerosol that produces clouds, and they also charge the dust already in the air, making particles become more attractive

nuclei for water droplets, which coalesce and fall to the ground as rain.

The ion technology's backers think their idea beats cloud seeding for a number of reasons. It produces more rainfall, and it doesn't need clouds to be in the area to work. Also,

it should be less expensive, because it doesn't require aircraft to spread chemicals, the usual method. Further, they believe that changing the polarity and quantity of the ions

could reduce rainfall where it's too plentiful, prevent hail, and even break up fog at airports. To these claims, Earthwise adds that its technology reduced air pollution in trials

in Mexico City and Salamanca, because the condensation it caused warmed the air, creating an updraft that carried away pollution.

Earthwise's installations are structures about 7 meters high, shaped like short open-topped air-traffic control towers, that house proprietary ion generators and blowers to lift

the ions. Separate antennas amplify the ionization by manipulating the local electric and electromagnetic fields. ELAT's installations work in the same manner but are more

primitive in appearance, consisting of a 37-meter high central tower surrounded by 8-meter posts arranged hexagonally at a distance of 150 meters. The tower and posts are

interconnected by wires, which when set to a high dc voltage by a 2-kilowatt generator, ionize air molecules such as nitrogen and oxygen. According to Bissiachi, as the ions

waft upward, they produce about 1 milliampere of current. This current swamps the Earth's natural current--about 1 picoampere--and can affect the weather up to 200

kilometers from the station, he says.

Summing up all its tests from 2000 to 2002, ELAT and its U.S. and Canadian counterpart Ionogenics, in Marblehead, Mass., claim that ionization led to about double the

average historical precipitation--stimulating, among other things, a 61 percent increase in bean production in Mexico's central basin in the last three years. Cloud seeding, in

comparison, typically claims only a 10-15 percent improvement in rainfall.

Despite the claimed successes, ionization has its critics. Atmospheric scientists contacted for this article noted that even the four years of testing was too brief a period to

prove that the effects seen were not due to some sort of extraordinary variability in the local weather. Bissiachi claims that the criticism goes to a deeper prejudice.

"Meteorologists are not used to thinking that electrical phenomena could be important to the normal hydrodynamic model," he says.

Weather modification technology has always had a hard time standing up to rigorous scientific scrutiny. Ross N. Hoffman, a vice president at Atmospheric and Environmental

Research Inc. in Lexington, Mass., helped complete a scientific review of cloud seeding, which was released by the U.S. National Research Council, Washington, D.C., in

November 2003. It found that even after more than 50 years of use, cloud seeding remained unproven from a scientific standpoint. "[Ionization] faces the same problems

cloud seeding does," he says. Among those are uncertainty about the natural variability of precipitation, the inability to accurately measure rainfall, and the need to randomize

and replicate experiments. The last is particularly troublesome, since weather modification companies are typically hired to induce rain whenever they can. Randomly turning

on or off the system to prove a point is not in the customer's interest, Hoffman notes.

Ionization also suffers doubts about its basic plausibility. Brian A. Tinsley, a physicist at the University of Texas, Dallas, and an expert on the effects of ions and current in the

atmosphere, points out that the ionosphere is about 250 000 volts positive compared with the ground. But the effect of the resulting current, and changes to it from cosmic

rays and other phenomena, on droplet formation and precipitation is "relatively small" and restricted to certain types of clouds in specific locations, he says. Considering the

size of the natural voltage and the modesty of its impact on rainfall, effective weather modification using ionization, he believes, would require enormous power input and

hundreds of square kilometers of antenna arrays.

But some atmospheric scientists are enthusiastic. Arquimedes Ruiz, a meteorologist who evaluates cloud seeding for the West Texas Weather Modification Association in San

Angelo, says he is optimistic about ionization's chances. "In Texas, there are small droplets, so clouds tend to coagulate slowly and dissipate," he notes. He thinks ionization

could at least help form the clouds that conventional seeding could then manipulate.

Although ELAT and Ionogenics have the advantage in terms of the amount of data they have collected, it is Earthwise that may end up penetrating the U.S. market first. In

November the company signed a US $1.2 million contract to build up to six ionization stations in the region around Webb County and boost rainfall there by 50 percent over

the average for the prior 20 years.

However, county commissioners quickly suspended the project following an uproar in the local press, critical of the terms of the contract and the unorthodox technology.

Earthwise's Howard is confident that the deal will move forward again in May if he can secure grant money for the project from the Mexican government, which would also be

in the affected zone.

"We know how controversial this is," says Howard. "But we've done five projects to date. All were successful. All were outside the United States. We've got to get it here so

[U.S.] scientists will evaluate the efficacy of the technology before it can really begin to become commercialized." Howard thinks it could take more than 10 more years of data

accumulation to satisfy the technology's critics. But success, he says, is "a question of when, not if."

Photo: MacDuff Everton/Corbis

Department of Utilities

The Department’s mission is to produce and distribute the highest quality drinking water and to collect wastewater created by Brooktrails citizens for treatment at the lowest possible cost, while ensuring the protection of the natural and built environment.

Water Division Brooktrails stores surface water in two reservoirs totaling 400 acre feet on Willits Creek and a tributary. Lake Emily feeds Lake Ada Rose before transferring

water to the Water Treatment Plant. Brooktrails water system (the "System") facilities include a water treatment plant with the design capacity of 1.2 million gallons per day (MGD), 60 miles of water mains, 24 water tanks with 1.7 million gallons of storage and 18 pump stations. The average daily demand on the System is 297,000 gallons per day. The Department provides service to approximately 1553 connections. Division Recommended Project Goals FY2014-15 Explore and develop secondary water source – Grant received for exploration Replace end line blow offs Replace and/or add Fire Hydrants – ongoing Install Radio Read Meters – 180 installed Replace Water Valves in streets – on-going FY2015-16 Update SCADA system Replace filter media with green sand Re-build five pump houses Replace end line blow offs Replace and/or add Fire Hydrants – ongoing Install Radio Read Meters Replace Water Valves in streets FY2016-17 Replace water treatment filters Replace end line blow offs Replace and/or add Fire Hydrants – ongoing Install Radio Read Meters Replace Water Valves in streets FY2017-18 Replace Tank Two – 90,000 gallon redwood Replace Tank three – 60,000 gallon redwood FY 2018-19 Build Second Clarifier Replace end line blow offs Replace and/or add Fire Hydrants – ongoing Install Radio Read Meters Replace Water Valves in streets FY 2020-21 Upgrade Water Treatment Plant New Tank for Airport Side of Township

Sewer Division Brooktrails operates and maintains three sewer lift stations at various elevations, as well as 65 miles of sewer lines throughout the collection system which transport waste via the trunk line to the Wastewater Treatment Plant in the City of Willits. Township crews have completed a smoke test of the entire Brooktrails sewer system to locate and remove sources of unauthorized inflow into our system and are engaged in an ongoing inspection of the system for infiltration from cracked pipes and displacement due to ground shifting. Accomplishments FY2014-15 Collection System jet spray maintenance on-going Continued installing manhole covers to reduce surface inflow as needed Inspection of collection system continues with telemetry camera equipment Replaced section of trunk line Performed sewer lateral inspections Significantly reduced number of SSOs Division Recommended Project Goals FY2015-16 Replace Madrone Lift Station Generator Add 12 New Manholes FY2016-17 Begin program to install manhole SCADA system Rehabilitate 1000 manholes FY2017-18 Implement Infiltration Electric Scan System Backup line for Madrone lift station FY2018-19 Replace and move Primrose Lift Station FY2020-21 Replace main line FY2022-23 Replace 14” sewer main to Willits

WATER SYSTEM Long-Range Projects* Maintain existing system infrastructure - Start reserves for tank liners,

replacement tanks, etc. Upgrade water system as required - Investigate funding sources to meet

State mandates - New clarifier for water plant - New Airport side water tank

No leaks - Develop replacement plan of system (single map) - Water line replacement as possible - Review infrastructure (pipes) - 6” saddle replacement program – ongoing

Upgrade telemetry system Ongoing Pursue alternative water sources - Maintain backwash ponds and return

well at Lake Emily for water recycling - Investigate purchase of property with ground water. Investigate acquiring interest in ground water wells (existing) for emergency water needs Explore for Ground Water on District Property,

- Lake Ada Rose - Sonic algae removal - Lake Ada Rose expansion project - Maintain water rights application

- Monitor costs expended for reimbursement if successful 218 election - May be combined with dredging Lake Emily/check dams Seek grant funding

Dredging Lake Emily as a stand-alone project (may include sedimentation check dam or other sedimentation controls)

- Investigate environmental feasibility as separate project 2021-22 Seek grant funding

SEWER SYSTEM Maintain system Ongoing

No leaks Ongoing

- Plan for line replacements as possible - Develop replacement plan (single map)

Community satisfaction with facilities Maintain financial stability - Adjust rates and fees as needed Infiltration & Inflow - Smoke-testing – ongoing

- Manhole sealing – ongoing - Installation of Smart Manhole Covers – ongoing

Investigate programs to reduce flows – grant dependent

Ongoing - subsidize low flow or composting toilets replacement - gray water systems for laundry - Pre-treatment of Waste Water and reuse of for golf course

Coordinate planning for future growth system requirements beyond 2,200 developed lots

- Include future growth requirements in Specific Plan Update - Include future growth requirements in Prop. 218 election - Investigate need for Willits plant expansion - Consider options other than Willits plant expansion

Add sewer lines to airport side Pursue grant funding Lilac Road lift station SCADA system Poppy Drive repair future lift station Agreement with City of Willits - Amend agreement to reflect changes

agreed to in Committee - Investigate formation of joint powers agency

*Projects may be moved to short-range should funding become available.