[1) Call to Order  ]
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          IT'S A 6 P.M. IT IS JANUARY 6TH, AND THIS IS THE CITY OF SHERWOOD WASTEWATER COMMITTEE MEETING FOR THE MONTH OF JANUARY. MISS SARAH BESHEARS HAS BEEN EXCUSED DUE TO AN INJURY, AND EARL WILLIAMS IS A FEW MINUTES OUT. AND YOU'VE GOT A MEMBER ON OUR WAY. YEP. HE'S PARKING AND WE ARE GOING TO GO AHEAD AND START. BEVERLY'S HERE. SUZANNE. STAIRS, HERE I AM HERE, 
          [3) Approval of October 2025 Minutes  ]
SCOTT'S HERE. AND WE'RE GOING TO GO AHEAD AND GET STARTED. HAS EVERYBODY HAD A CHANCE TO REVIEW THE MINUTES FROM THE LAST MEETING? YES. I MOVE THAT WE ACCEPT THE OCTOBER 2025 MEETING MINUTES. SECOND. ALL IN FAVOR? AYE, AYE. ANY OPPOSED? NO. HELLO, EARL. GOOD. THE 
          [4) Approval of September, October and November Operations Report  ]
MOTION PASSES. THE MINUTES HAVE BEEN APPROVED. HAS EVERYBODY BEEN ABLE TO REVIEW THE OPERATIONS REPORT THAT SCOTT SENT ALONG WITH THE PACKET FOR SEPTEMBER, OCTOBER AND NOVEMBER? IF ANYBODY HAS ANY QUESTIONS, JUST FEEL FREE TO ASK. I REVIEWED IT AND I DIDN'T FIND ANY PROBLEMS. EVERYTHING LOOKED GOOD TO ME. ONCE AGAIN, WE DIDN'T HAVE ANY WASTEWATER OVERFLOWS IN ANY OF THE COLLECTION SYSTEMS. NO VIOLATIONS. AND AS FAR AS I KNOW, NO COMPLAINTS WERE FILED. SO EVERYTHING LOOKED GREAT. OKAY, OLD BUSINESS. SCOTT, DO 
          [5) Old Business  ]
YOU HAVE ANY UPDATES ON THE INTERCEPTOR OR THE ARC LOAN? YES, WE WE HAVE A CONTRACT, A ENGINEER UNDER CONTRACT. IT WAS PASSED THE LAST CITY COUNCIL IT WAS. WE WENT WITH CHRIS ENGINEERING AND WE ACTUALLY GOT IT. 15,000 CHEAPER, THOUSAND DOLLARS CHEAPER THAN WHAT WAS ORIGINALLY GOING TO HAVE. AND IT INCLUDES A, A FLOW MONITORING WHERE WE'RE GOING TO MONITOR THE FLOWS COMING IN OUR SYSTEM AND LEAVING OUR SYSTEM SO WE KNOW EXACTLY HOW MUCH IS NORTH OF ROCKS AND HOW MUCH IS OURS. AND THAT'S DATA THAT WE DO NOT HAVE AND WE DO NEED IT. 
          AND THIS IS THE PERFECT TIME OF THE YEAR TO DO IT, BECAUSE THE RAIN SEASON IS GOING TO START IN THE SPRING. AND SO WE'LL KNOW FROM THE DRY WEATHER AND FROM WET WEATHER, WE CAN HAVE A SEE HOW MUCH DIFFERENCE, YOU KNOW, NORTH ROCK IS PUTTING ON US. YOU KNOW, BECAUSE WE KNOW NORTH LITTLE ROCK IS STILL HAVING ISSUES AND WE KNOW WE JUST WE JUST DIDN'T HAVE THE DATA TO BACK IT UP. AND THIS WILL DEFINITELY BACK IT UP. WHAT WE'VE BEEN SAYING ALL ALONG. SO WE'VE NEVER HAD THIS DATA. AND THAT'S THE GOOD THING ABOUT IT. WE HAVE NO HISTORICAL DATA TO LOOK AT RIGHT IN. LIKE THE ENGINEER POINTED OUT, THIS IS THE TIME TO DO IT BECAUSE YEAH, WE CAN REHAB THOSE LINES. BUT IF WE HAVE A VOLUME ISSUE, BESIDES, BESIDES THE INFILTRATION, THAT'S NOT GOING TO FIX OUR PROBLEM. SO IF WE HAVE A MORE WE'LL HAVE TO ADDRESS THAT. SO EITHER WITH A BIGGER PIPE OR, YOU KNOW, ADDITIONAL PIPE OR WHATEVER. SO SO MAKE SURE I'M TO MAKE SURE I UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU'RE SAYING, SCOTT. YOU'RE SAYING WHERE YOU'RE LOOKING AT HAVING THIS BECAUSE YOU'RE SAYING, WELL, NO, WHAT'S NORTH LITTLE ROCK'S ISSUE AND WHAT'S SHERWOOD'S ISSUE? ARE YOU SAYING THAT THEY'RE COMING IN AT TWO DIFFERENT JUNCTIONS SO THAT WE CAN MEASURE EACH ONE SEPARATELY? WELL, NORTH LITTLE ROCK FLOWS INTO OUR SYSTEM, I KNOW THAT. OKAY. SEE, WE'RE GOING TO PUT A METER THERE AT THAT JUNCTURE WHERE THEY COME TOGETHER. RIGHT. THAT'S WHAT I WANT TO MAKE SURE. YEAH. AND SEE HOW MUCH BEFORE BEFORE THE, BEFORE THE FIRST SHERWOOD CUSTOMER HITS OUR LINE. WE WANT TO KNOW HOW MUCH FLOW DO WE ALREADY HAVE ON TOP OF THAT. AND AT THE END WHEN WHEN OURS GOES BACK INTO NORTH LITTLE ROCK, WE'RE GOING TO MEASURE THAT AND SEE HOW MUCH AND AND THEY'LL, THEY'LL FIGURE OUT THE DIFFERENCE. OKAY. SO LET ME ASK YOU THE QUESTION. SO THAT LINE IS I'M TALKING ABOUT PROPRIETY. WHO OWNS IT. THOSE ARE OUR LINES THAT ARE SERVING NORTH ARE JUST THE NORTH. ROCK FLOW IS COMING INTO OUR LINES TO GO TO THE FIVE MILE CREEK. WELL, YES, I THOUGHT IT WAS. 
          OURS WAS GOING INTO NORTH LITTLE ROCK TO GO TO FIVE MILE CREEK. WELL, IT GOES BOTH WAYS OKAY, OKAY. SO BECAUSE, BECAUSE, BECAUSE WE'RE RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE, WE GOT NORTH FLOWING INTO US AND THEN WE GOT US. THEN WE FLOW RIGHT BACK INTO NORTH LITTLE ROCK. SO WE'RE KIND OF LIKE RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE. SO WE'RE TALKING AT THE BEGINNING END OF THE FLOW, NOT AT THE END WHEN WE DUMP INTO NORTH LITTLE ROCK. WELL, WE'RE GOING TO DO BOTH OKAY. THAT'S ALL RIGHT. THAT'S SO I NEED TO HEAR THAT OKAY. SO WE HAVE THE COMPARISON. YES OKAY. THE STATUS OF THE INTERCEPTOR UPDATE AND THE LOAN. YES. WELL THE LOAN, YOU KNOW, WILL BE FINALIZED OR CLOSED BY THE SUMMER, BY MAY OR JUNE. BUT WE'RE GOING TO START WITH THE ENGINEERING THING. SO. SO WE GOT CHRIS ENGINEERING, YOU KNOW, AND IN FACT WE GOT A MEETING A KICK OFF MEETING TOMORROW AFTERNOON WITH CHRIS ON THIS PROJECT. SO SO WE'RE SO WE'RE 
          [00:05:06]
BASICALLY YEAH, WE'RE WE'RE STARTING THE ENGINEERING PART ANYWAY. HAVE THEY GIVEN YOU AN APPROXIMATE TIME FRAME AS TO THE ENGINEERING SERVICE PART OF IT? PROBABLY IT'S GOING TO BE IF I REMEMBER IT'S GOING TO BE ABOUT SIX MONTHS TO A YEAR OR SO OR BETTER, OKAY, TO DO THE ENGINEERING. WELL BECAUSE WE GOT TO DO THE FLOW REPORT, WE GOT TO DO THE FLOW MONITORING. 
          AND WE, YOU KNOW, WE GOT ALL THAT. BUT YOU KNOW, IT'S GOING TO TAKE IT'S GOING TO TAKE A FEW MONTHS OKAY. YOU KNOW TO GET EVERYTHING TOGETHER. AND AFTER THEY GET ALL THE ENGINEERING PART DONE THEN WE START THE BID. YEAH. RIGHT. AND PERFECT. YEAH. THEN WE'LL START THE BIDDING PROCESS. EXACTLY. SO ALL RIGHT, ANY OTHER OLD BUSINESS? OKAY. NEW BUSINESS. 
          [6) New Business]
DO WE HAVE ANY NEW BUSINESS TO DISCUSS? JUST FOR IT CAME TO MY ATTENTION TODAY. THIS IS JUST A COURTESY THING TO OUR RESIDENTS. I GUESS THAT SOME PEOPLE HAVE MADE SOME COMMENTS ABOUT SOME SOME OF THEIR BILLS. AND, YOU KNOW, LOOK AT, I THINK IN THE NEWSLETTER THAT THE MAYOR PUT OUT, IT SAID, YOU KNOW, LOOK AT YOUR WATER BILL TO SEE WHAT IT IS. BUT THERE WERE SOME CHARGES THAT WERE VERY LARGE. BUT THAT'S COMING NOT FROM US, THAT'S COMING FROM FROM SOME PLACE ELSE. AND SO THEY NEED TO CONTACT THEIR PROVIDER ON THAT COULD BE SANITATION. IT COULD BE WATER, COULD BE SEWER. YES. YEAH. THEY JUST NEED TO LOOK AT IT AND SEE WHERE THERE'S SOME PEOPLE THAT HAVE SAID THAT THEIR BILLS WERE VERY HIGH. AND THAT CAME TO OUR ATTENTION TODAY AT SOME AT A LUNCH MEETING, AND WE JUST WERE TELLING THEM TO GO BACK AND LOOK AT THEIR BILLS IF THEY HAVE, IF IT'S AND DEAL WITH THAT PROVIDERS BECAUSE WE DON'T, YOU KNOW, AND IF IT'S US AND WE'LL HAVE TO LOOK AT IT AS WELL. SO. RIGHT. YEAH. WELL IF THE SEWER BILL IS HIGH IT'S PROBABLY THE WATER. THEY MIGHT WANT TO LOOK UP THE WATER. YEAH BECAUSE IT'S ON THEIR WATER BILL. SO THEY NEED TO LOOK AT THOSE. YEAH. BECAUSE IF THEY HAVE A LEAK OR SOMETHING AND THEY HAVE A REAL HIGH NUMBER. YES. IT'S GOING TO AFFECT SEWER BILL TOO. THERE'S A COUPLE OF PEOPLE THAT MADE A COMMENT TODAY AT THE LUNCH MEETING. ANYW BUSINESS. WELL, YEAH. YOU HAD MR. MICHAEL LESTER OR MR. HEISTER. GOOD EVENING. MY NAME IS MICHAEL HEISTER. I'M THE LOCAL ATTORNEY WITH PORTLAND, OREGON. POOL. YEAH. OKAY. 
          PEOPLE CAN SEE YOU, MICHAEL. YEP. THERE'S A CAMERA SOMEWHERE SHOOTING AT YOU. I'M REGRETTABLY USED TO IT. I'LL JUST REPEAT MYSELF BRIEFLY. GOOD EVENING. MY NAME IS MICHAEL HEISTER. I'M AN ATTORNEY WITH QUATTLEBAUM GROOMS AND TOLL. AND, YOU KNOW, I'VE BEEN ASKED BY, YOU KNOW, MR. COBB AND THE MAYOR TO HELP ASSIST YOU ALL WITH RESPECT TO SOME OF THE KIND OF LEGAL AGREEMENTS THAT THE CITY HAS ENTERED INTO NOW WELL OVER 30 YEARS AGO. BUT THE THEY REMAIN, YOU KNOW, THE LANGUAGE REMAINS THE SAME. AND I KNOW THERE'S BEEN SOME CORRESPONDENCE WITH YOUR, YOUR, YOUR PARTNER, THE CITY OF NORTH LITTLE ROCK, ABOUT HOW TO MOVE FORWARD. AND I'M HERE TO HELP ASSIST ALL OF Y'ALL IN KIND OF DOING THAT IN A MANNER THAT IS KIND, CONSISTENT AND INFORMED BY KIND OF WHAT YOU'RE OBLIGATED TO DO AS OPPOSED TO KIND OF WHAT YOU MAY CHOOSE TO DO. AND LIKE I SAID, HOPEFULLY WE CAN MOVE THAT PROCESS FORWARD QUICKLY AND EFFICIENTLY SO EVERYONE IS SATISFIED THAT YOU'VE ACCOMPLISHED THE BEST OUTCOME THAT YOU CAN FOR THE PEOPLE OF SHERWOOD. OKAY. SO WELL, THANK YOU SO MUCH AND WELCOME ABOARD. THANK YOU. GLAD TO HAVE YOU. OKAY. IF THERE'S NO MORE NEW BUSINESS, I'LL TAKE A MOTION TO ADJOURN THE MEETING. SO MOVED. DO I HEAR A SECOND? SECOND. 
          OKAY. ALL IN FAVOR, SAY AYE. AYE. ALL
* This transcript was compiled from uncorrected Closed Captioning.