12/13/1977 - Minutes Tigard Water District
12-77 Regular Meeting
December 13 , 1977
PRESENT: Hugh A. Brown, Chairman
Clarence F. Nicoli, Treasurer
Jerald R. Heater, Secretary
R. Verne Wheelwright
Robert E. Santee, Administrator
John P. Miller, Foreman
Dennis H. Quade, Attorney
VISITORS: Gilbert R. Meigs , ST&R Engineers
Ray Pirkl, Metzger Water District
Carl Jonasson, Metzger Water District
Dick Holmes, Metzger Water District
Roger Ross, Metzger Water District
John Norton, Metzger Water District
Jesse O. Lowman, Mgr. , Metzger Water District
James L. Savage, Coopers & Lybrand
The meeting was called to order by Chairman Brown
at 7: 35 p.m.
*ow Motion was made and seconded to approve the minutes
of the last meeting. Motion carried unanimously.
James Savage discussed the audit report for the Fiscal
year ended June 30, 1977. Motion was made by Jerald
Heater and seconded by Verne Wheelwright to accept the
audit report as presented. Motion carried unanimously.
Motion was made and seconded to pay the vouchers.
Motion carried unanimously.
Gilbert R. Meigs, Senior Vice President, Stevens,
Thompson & Runyan, Inc. , was requested to make an informal
presentation about the feasibility of developing the
Willamette River at Wilsonville with a smaller group of
governmental bodies; namely: Metzger, Tigard, Tualatin,
and Wilsonville. (A transcribed copy of his comments are
attached hereto) .
Verne Wheelwright stated that this meeting tonight in
which Board members of the Metzger Water District were
invited to discuss the Willamette River was in no way
intended to circumvent the efforts of the Willamette River
group with whom we have been meeting, including Beaverton
and Wolf Creek, but, at this point in time, Metzger and
4401,. Tigard have indicated a very strong interest in going ahead
with the project at an early date. The information that
Gil Meigs has presented is all the up-to-date data that
would include a project as we would see it now. If the
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others do decide to go ahead in the full group, then
that is our basic intent to go with the full group,
but I do not believe we can wait another year for them
to decide. So, this is kind of contingency planning,
but, in no way, does it subvert the mission of the steer-
ing committee of the whole group.
Jerald Heater recommended that the districts move
ahead on both avenues, and not drop either one, because
of possible "foot-dragging" along the way by other enti-
ties and we cannot afford to wait two years for others
to tell us what they want to do.
Alternate days for the proposed common bond election
were discussed, including August 8th and September 19th,
special election dates.
John Norton suggested a time schedule be established
(working backwards) as to when specific actions should be
accomplished, such as obtaining water rights, bonding
approval from attorneys, bond counsel preparation, publi-
city, advertising, etc.
Chairman Brown suggested that the Administrator pre-
`r'" pare a time table with an August 8th special election date
(working backwards) , and have it available for discussion
by both Boards at their next regularly scheduled meetings
(in January) , and that we encourage both Boards , if they
are so minded, to adopt that time table, and to inform the
steering committee that that is the direction we are going,
and that we sure welcome "all-aboard" , but that we cannot
risk indeterminate delays. Everyone present concurred with
this suggestion and it was so ordered. However, it was
hoped that this time table would be available by the January
3rd meeting of the steering committee.
John Norton questioned whether, under the concept
described, if Metzger would be required to pay the entire
cost to extend the transmission main between Tigard and
Metzger or would this be shared by all participants. Bob
Santee advised that he envisioned this being a legitimate
cost to be shared by all the entities who would jointly
own all facilities, including the pipelines, to provide
wholesale water to each retail water purveyor. This, in
effect, would reduce the unit cost to all retail users
because of the high consumption rates of the northerly
entities. It was the opinion of the Board members of the
Metzger Water District that we were building a wholesale
water system and not a system in which each entity, indi-
vidually, connected to the system by extending a pipeline
at its expense.
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Chairman Brown stated that he envisioned no problem
in this between Metzger and Tigard, but if one introduced
Wilsonville into it, he was not sure how they would feel
about contributing to the extra 50 , 000 (+) feet of pipeline
to get water to Tigard and Metzger in order to participate
in the wholesale entity. Ray Pirkl stated that he thought
the matter should be addressed at an early date because of
the vast difference in total cost for each entity partici-
pating.
Chairman Brown concluded this discussion by stating
that we would certainly agree with the points made by the
Metzger members that the details and concept should be
settled early so that there are no misunderstandings.
Also, Chairman Brown wanted to assure the Metzger members
(and he assumed that it was reciprocal) that whatever the
structure of the joint venture, it would be the desire of
this (Tigard' s) Board that it be eminently fair to the
patrons of both Metzger and Tigard Water Districts. He
continued to say that we may have some different viewpoints
on what is fair, but that you can be assured that our
"best foot" will be forward and we will attempt to make it
as sensible to Metzger as it is to us in every respect.
- Motion was made to adjourn at 9 : 44 p.m. Motion
carried unanimously.
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