San Juan Bautista City Council members heard an update on the plan to solve the city’s nitrate-contaminated water at Tuesday night’s regular meeting at City Hall.
It is the result of a California Water Resources Board, Division of Drinking Water, citation for failing to meet water well standards for nitrates.
The city, Tewes explained, will reimburse Edenbridge for developing the new well and be credited against its water connection fees.
Tewes said the new wells, while meeting drinking water standards, are not likely to meet secondary standards.
So an iron/manganese treatment system will be needed for both wells No.
The agreement, which must be approved by the City Council, calls for a swap of land.
San Juan Bautista will install well connections to allow Coke to use water from well No.
Will removal of private water softeners be required to meet the standards?
What are the costs to redesign, move, install and operate the pellet plant, and what are the costs to customers to remove private water softeners?
In other actions, the council approved naming Jim West was mayor and John Freeman as vice mayor for 2018.

As of Tuesday, the people of Flint, Mich., have been without clean water for 1,306 days.
U.S. District Judge David Lawson ordered representatives from the city of Flint, the City Council, the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality, the Genesee County Drain Commissioner, the Great Lakes Water Authority and the Karegnondi Water Authority into mediation for hours Monday according to MLive-Flint Journal.
The judge also stipulated that the Flint City Council would have until Tuesday night to vote on an amended 30-year water contract with Great Lakes Water Authority.
The new version of the 30-year agreement that the council will vote on includes a promise from Michigan Gov.
The contract also asks that the city be granted $750,000 for estimated water bill relief and that the $100 million in relief funds from the Water Infrastructure Improvements for the Nation Act be immediately released from the state to Flint.
The WIIN Act funds are the federal relief funds President Barack Obama authorized when he signed the continuing resolution over a year ago.
Additionally, the state of Michigan has requested that the General Motors Engine Plant return as a user of Flint’s water supply.
On Monday, the Michigan DEQ had gone to court to ask Judge Lawson to bypass the City Council and allow Flint Mayor Karen Weaver to sign the agreement.
Attorneys for the City Council called that move unconstitutional.
Winfrey said that the council had a lengthy series of closed and open meetings to go over the contract with various city, county and state officials.

Last night, city council members voted to extend Flint’s current temporary contract with the Great Lakes Water Authority by two years.
Flint’s mayor and state officials have been pushing for a 30-year contract with GLWA.
But city council members have balked at signing on to the deal.
They are concerned the contract does not prevent Flint’s already high water rates from rising even higher.
Last week, U.S. District Judge David Lawson gave the Flint city council until Monday to come up with a solution to the city’s long-term drinking water needs.
City councilman Herbert Winfrey believes the two-year deal will comply with the judge’s order.
The Flint city council also voted to put off consideration of the 30-year GLWA deal for another month.
But Judge Lawson may have something to say about that.
The judge is considering a motion by the city council to delay his order.
For at least two members of the council, it should have been their final meeting.

City Councilman: Mayor Henry’s actions towards environment are ‘overkill’.
(WANE) – Four Fort Wayne councilman are questioning whether Mayor Tom Henry’s recent push for environmental responsibility will stop new jobs from coming to Fort Wayne.
They asked whether his public disapproval of President Donald Trump pulling the U.S. out of the Paris Climate Accord, followed by him joining the Mayors National Climate Action Agenda (MNCAA) would “cease to welcome new jobs which have carbon footprints?” The councilmen say most businesses the city tries to recruit, such as manufacturers, have carbon footprints.
In the letter, they say they “appreciate the desire to be environmentally responsible,” but wonder how committed Henry plans to be to the MNCAA objectives.
So we had to counteract it because we wanted to make sure that people understood we’re going to be proactive for jobs in the community.
He told the councilmen that environmental responsibility does not discourage new jobs, but encourages them.
He named the $188 million dollar deep-rock tunnel as an example of a project that provides both environmental and economic benefits, citing that it will reduce sewer overflows by 90 percent, create jobs, and attract jobs.
Councilman Geoff Paddock, D-5th, agrees with the mayor and believes his colleagues are taking the Mayor’s intentions out of of context with the letter they wrote.
So I think that’s a very important statement to make and I think that’s what the mayor is saying.
If the federal government and President Trump decide they’re not going to show the lead, if the state of Indiana is going to perhaps take a step back, let’s show that the city of Fort Wayne is upfront, that we are proactive, hat we are taking steps on a voluntary basis.

Joe McComb will call to order his first city council meeting Tuesday as the newly elected mayor.
One of his top priorities, avoiding another water crisis.
On the agenda Tuesday, council members will hold public comment to the proposed changes to the drought contingency plan.
Under the new plan, stage 2 drought restrictions would not be put in place until the combined water supply levels of Lake Corpus Christi, Choke Canyon and Lake Texana drop to 40-percent capacity.
The goal of this plan is to avoid a situation where water may become stagnant in pipelines of the city, possibly leading to health issues.
This will be the first reading on the plan.
A second vote will need to happen for the plan to be put in place.
The city’s office of public works will present council members with the proposed speed limit change on Ocean Drive from Sand Dollar Boulevard to the NAS-Corpus Christi North Gate.
For this change to happen, council members will have to vote to change an ordinance that governs speed limits in urban districts.
The council meeting is set to begin at 11:30 a.m. at City Hall.

Dothan City Commission Agenda for May 16, 2017.
The Dothan City Commission will meet at 10 a.m. on Tuesday, May 16, at the Dothan Opera House.
Establishing the hours for which the polls will be open for voting in the Municipal Election to be held on Aug. 1, and the Run-Off Election, if necessary, to be held on Sept. 12.
Entering into a Ground Lease Agreement with the Boys and Girls Club of the Wiregrass for lease of property at 402 Sonesta Street (Young Junior Park).
2-1, Depositories for City funds designated; treasurer required to deposit all City funds therein, of the City of Dothan Code of Ordinances by adding Ameris Bank, Dothan, Alabama as a depository.
Amending Chapter 94, Taxation, Division 4, Sales and Use Tax Exemption, Sec.
82, Exempted from paying city sales and use tax of the Code of Ordinances of the City of Dothan (changing date for back-to-school purchases to period beginning at 12:01 a.m. on the third Friday in July of each year and ending at twelve midnight the following Sunday).
Declaring certain properties which are overgrown with weeds, scrub, wild bushes, grass and other vegetable growth as injurious to the health, safety and welfare of the community as nuisances and calling for a public hearing to be held on the matter during the regularly scheduled commission meeting on June 20.
Awarding the bid, entering into a contract, and issuing a Notice to Proceed, and other related documents to Construction Labor Services, Inc. for Selective Weed Control for Sewer and Electric Utility Lines Maintenance-of-Way for the sum of $38,116.60.
Acceptance of a temporary construction easement from Sharon Ann Watford Baxter for replacing sewer main and sewer lines on South Oates Street (Highway 231 South).

BEMIDJI—Bemidji residents will have time at Monday’s City Council meeting to make comments and ask questions about the town’s stormwater system.
The program was created to address water pollution by regulating point sources that discharge pollutants into waters.
Along with complying with this requirement, Monday’s meeting will also include a presentation on standards the city met in 2016.
According to city documents, operations by the city to meet program standards included: • Completion of 13 commercial site plan reviews within the city to make sure they were in compliance with city and state runoff treatment and runoff requirements.
• Inspecting the condition of 24 of the city’s storm water sewer outlets and 32 storm water ponds.
• 27 manholes and catch basins had minor repairs completed.
Last summer, the city learned that its application was selected for funding to construct an outdoor classroom, pavilion and interpretive signage at the park.
Recommendations have been included to authorize the purchasing of the equipment.
In total, the park remodel project is estimated at $63,858 and the Outdoor Recreation Grant is funding 50 percent, or $31,900.
According to documents, the parking lot, alley and sidewalks around City Hall are in need of repair because of poor pavement condition and drainage issues.

Chico >> It’s city budget season again.
The City Council will hear the first budget presentation for the 2017-2018 fiscal year on Tuesday.
City Manager Mark Orme will provide an overview of the General Fund and budgets for police, fire, city manager, city clerk, city attorney and administrative services/finance departments.
However, council members may have questions or topics they would like city staff to consider or prepare before the final budget is presented for review on June 6.
The meeting starts 6 p.m. in the City Council Chambers, 421 Main St.
Oxidation pond access Also at the meeting, bird-watching enthusiasts may have a chance to regain access to the holding ponds, also known as the oxidation ponds, at the Water Pollution Control Plant.
Fencing was deemed too costly by city staff with a $143,000 price tag and other priority projects.
City Public Works Operations and Maintenance Director Erik Gustafson is recommending the city work with Altacal Audubon Society and seek state approval for occasional restricted public access for bird viewing activity.
Rare birds, fowl that are only spotted every five to 20 years, are often spotted at the ponds.
About the Author Ashiah Scharaga covers general news and government in Chico.

The Shawnee County Commission will meet at 9 a.m. Monday in its chambers in Room B-11 of the county courthouse, 200 S.E.
The city’s governing body, consisting of the nine council members and Mayor Larry Wolgast, plans to consider adopting interim city manager Doug Gerber’s proposed 2018-2020 Capital Improvement Budget and 2018-2027 Capital Improvement Plan.
The governing body each year adopts a CIB, which lists capital improvements the city may consider in the next three years, and a CIP.
The CIP once listed priorities for improvements to be carried out in each of the next five years, but the governing body voted last year to double that to 10.
Expenses in the proposed CIP would total nearly $720.26 million over 10 years.
Governing body members also plan Tuesday to: Consider authorizing the issuance of revenue bonds to carry out water, water pollution and stormwater projects identified in the CIB.
Consider authorizing the city engineer to determine what private property interests the city needs to condemn using eminent domain to enable it to build a pump station on vacant property at N.W.
Williams and Eugene.
Hear an update about the city’s property maintenance code enforcement division.
County commissioners on Monday will consider applying for a grant from the Kansas Health Foundation as part of the “Healthy Community Initiative: Improving Health Equity in Kansas.” Allison Alejos, the county’s health department director, told commissioners in a recent memo that the $75,000 grant would enable the county to hire a full-time community health planner who could work with the local Heartland Healthy Neighborhoods coalition to identify disparities affecting the health of babies and access to healthy foods.