AGENDA

EUGENE WATER & ELECTRIC BOARD
WORK SESSION
EWEB BOARD ROOM
MAY 17, 2005
5:30 P.M.

  1. First Quarter 2005 Budget and Financial Performance ñ Cathy Bloom, Assistant Treasurer (Presentation ñ 15 min./Discussion ñ 15 min./Information)
  2. General Manager’s Goal Status for First Quarter 2005 – Randy Berggren, General Manager (Presentation – 20 min./Discussion – 40 min./Information)
    a. OPM’s and Strategic Update
    b. Carmen-Smith Funding Strategy Check-in

REGULAR BOARD MEETING
7:30 P.M.

  1. Agenda Check (President Farmer)
  2. Public Input
  3. Approval of Consent Calendar (Items will be approved by one motion and without discussion. If discussion is required, specific items will be removed from the Consent Calendar and considered separately.)
  4. Items from Board Members
  5. Correspondence
  6. Board Agendas
  7. Master Plan Update and WBGS Contract Amendment - Mel Damewood, Master Plan Project Manager (Presentation ñ 20 min./Discussion ñ 40 min./Action)
  8. Board Governance ñ Board Bylaws Amendment ñ Debra Smith, Assistant to the General Manger (Presentation ñ 5 min./Discussion ñ 10 min.)
  9. Public Hearing on Board Bylaws changes
  10. Board Bylaws (Discussion ñ 10 min./Action)
  11. Items Removed from Consent Calendar

Consent Calendar
May 17, 2005

MINUTES

  1. Minutes of the March 1, 2005 Executive Session and Regular Board Meeting

    BUSINESS SERVICE AGREEMENTS
  2. Bring Recycling Center ñ Donation for New Recycling Center ñ General Managerís Division - $10,000. Contact person is Randy Berggren, 484-2411, ext. 3751 (see backgrounder)

  3. SelecTemp ñ Temporary Services ñ Information Services ñ Corporate Services - $54,800. Contact person is Patty Brown-Gierga, 484-2411, ext. 3348
  4. Kanner & Associates ñ Support for FERC Licensing of Hydropower Project ñ Public Affairs ñ Corporate Services - $36,090.72. Contact person is Marty Douglass, 484‑2411, ext. 3303
  5. Caprine Restoration Services ñ Vegetation and Brush Control/Goat Treatment ñ Electric Division - $93,500 (for a five-year period, or $18,700 per year). Contact person is Allen Dannen, 484-2411, ext. 3428
  6. Sensus Metering Systems ñ Sensus Water Meters ñ Water Construction - Water Division ñ $650,930. Contact person is Brian Rigwood, 484-2411, ext. 3930
  7. Groundwater Solutions, Inc. – Technical & Engineering Services in support of Water Rights for the Confluence Well Field – Water Engineering – Water Division - $35,000. Contact person is Jay Bozievich – 484-2411, ext. 3237
  8. USDA Forest Service ñ Willamette Forest ñ Collection Agreement ñ Bull Trout Population ñ Environmental Management ñ Corporate Services - $28,500. Contact person is Steve Newcomb, 484-2411, ext. 3313

    PRIEST RAPIDS/WANAPUM POWER PURCHASE CONTRACTS
  9. Amendment No. 2 to the Priest Rapids Project Product Sales Contract and Termination of Additional Product Sales Agreement. In December 2001, the Board approved renewal of EWEBís long-term purchase contracts from the Priest Rapids and Wanapum Hydroelectric projects. Grant County PUD currently holds the FERC licenses for these projects, and expects to receive a new license for these projects when current licenses expire in 2005 and 2009. (See Board backgrounder)

    BOARD POLICIES (ongoing)
  10. Continued Policy approval for your Board Governance Policy Review
    a.      GP8 – Meetings and Executive Sessions
    b.      BL1 – Global Board-General Manager Linkage
    c.       BL6 – Board-Staff Working Relationship
    d.      SD3 - Customer Service Policy
    e.       SD7 - Purchasing Policies
    f.        SD10- Power Cost Recovery Policies
    g.       EL3 – Public Requests for Board Expenditures