ADMINISTRATOR’S REPORT

February 2011

 

 

 

            I just got back from the Safety Counseling Risk Management meeting in Las Cruces.  It demonstrated to me the need to review and rewrite our Personnel Rules.  I would like to ask that a committee be formed that includes someone from the staff, management and an elected official at the minimum.  We would begin the process of review and go from there.

I recently received the survey work for the Town Site Act.  The next step will be to meet with the Ski Valley Corporation to see if we can hammer out an agreement as to the best way to move forward.  Once done, I’ll forward the plan to the Forest Service and our elected officials in Washington.  Similarly, due to many issues, I haven’t got the groups together to work on a buried line up the canyon.  I’ll get going on that soon.

We are still working on the new bill format and I will present one at the meeting.  Once we have read the meters and inserted them into the billing software, we’ll start comparing amounts billed under the new system against the amounts billed under the old to see where we are heading.  This will give a few months’ results as we head into the budget cycle.

We have spent some time this month working with the Village core developers and trying to assess our infrastructure costs for the coming summer work period.   We are close to having it done.  We have identified what items we think are the developers’ responsibility, what is the responsibility of the Village as a whole and what we need done in the core Village.  We are putting numbers to those jobs and will get back to the Council if we need assessments to pay for anything.  

The Kachina tank project is moving along with a special warranty deed being drawn up.  Once that is done, we’ll draft the proposed contract and put it out to bid.  We are currently discussing whether the three water projects should be bid as one project or three separate projects.  They are: the construction of the tank, the water lines to the tank, and the chlorination station.  Traditionally, you get a greater bang for your buck in a large project, but it ends up taking longer and eliminates firms that cannot bond at the higher prices.  We’re still talking with the engineers about this.  We also want to do the lift station for sewer in Kachina and the lines associated with it, but that will be bid separately as one project.

Finally, February starts the budget cycle with department heads and others submitting their financial requests.  Committees are given notice that they should submit also.  The end of the month of February is the deadline for such submittals.
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