ADMINISTRATOR’S REPORT

March 2011

 

 

 

            Some changes were being made on the Town Site Act survey work and I hope to get the proposal out by next week.  It was just a matter of identifying the parcels to make the proposal easier to read.  We should also be putting the Kachina Tank and associated water projects out to bid this month.  Don is in Denver going over some last minute details on the plans.  I’ll be meeting with Peter Talty and associates on the 11^th and should then have the deed and easements in hand.  Depending on the weather, I will be notifying Parker Excavation to finish the tank chlorination and the lines soon.  Late snow will delay it some.

We have been working on the budget and keeping a close eye on the GRT and the water and sewer bills.  Our schedule calls for us to have a workshop with you on the 5^th of April and we should be able to meet that schedule.  We have had some comments on our new rates, but mostly from those who did not respond to our request for information to help us to determine their EQRs.  We have tried to explain the way it works, but some don’t want to listen. 

We have signed up for PERA and will start deducting on the next payroll.  I think that most of the employees are happy with the move to PERA.  We’ll work on the Retiree Health Care next. 

Early in February, we received a summons that we were being sued as a member of the Regional Land Fill Board.  After reviewing the file in the Town of Taos, I called the attorney for Parker Excavating, who agreed to drop us from the suit.  I received copies of the documents last week and we are no longer in that lawsuit.

We have an entry level position to fill at the treatment plant.   We had discussed the possibility of splitting the job with a suitably qualified professional to help on our projects, but felt that if we were more careful on our bid award on the new projects, the extra effort we had to put in last summer would not be repeated.  The funding for this position will stay at the entry level.

We have spent some time on the land needed for the chlorination station, including research at the County Clerk’s office.  I found the deed transferring the property to Taos Ski Valley, Inc. from the Pattisons.  They reserved a right to install water pipelines and other utilities.  Several years later, the Pattisons transferred that right to the District who then subsequently transferred it to the Village.  We were told that the Forest Service may claim the land based upon a survey that mistakenly identified the stream border of the Forest Service land as being the East Fork of the South Fork of the Rio Hondo.  Just in case that claim has merit, we will also include a request to acquire any right the Forest Service has to that land in our Town Site Act request. 

Other items worked on are agenda items.
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