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PRESENT: Annamarie Borgione, Chairman

Deborah Collinson, Trustee

Kent Jensen, Appointed Trustee

Keith Hanson, Gen. Mgr./Treasurer

Steve McIntosh, Systems Operator

Monica Lisenbee, Secretary/Clerk

Ms. Borgione called the meeting to order at 12:00 p.m.

Mr. Hanson presented to the Board of Trustees, Resolution 2009-1, a resolution appointing the position of trustee to the Salt Lake County Service Area #3-Board of Trustees. It is resolved by the Board of Trustees of Salt Lake County Service Area #3-Snowbird, Salt Lake County, State of Utah, that Kent N. Jensen fulfills the remainder of the 4 year term of trustee to the board of Salt Lake County Service Area #3. Ms. Borgione approved Resolution 2009-1 appointing Kent Jensen as trustee to Salt Lake County Service Area #3. Ms. Collinson seconded the motion and it pass unanimously.

Mr. Jensen was sworn in as trustee by the Service Area clerk, reciting the "Oath of Office".

Ms. Borgione moved that the minutes from the December 9^th, 2009 regularly scheduled board meeting be approved as written. Ms. Collinson seconded the motion and it passed unanimously.

Mr. Hanson reviewed rate and development policies #12 and #13 with the Board. Reflected in the 2009 Service Area budget are sewer and water rates increases. Rate increases are required, due to significant increases to our sewage treatment costs from Cottonwood Improvement District and water increases from Salt Lake City. The Service Area has not had water and sewer increases since July 1, 2007. Sewer rates will increase by 15% and water rates will increase by 8%, totaling an overall increase of 10%. Mr. Hanson stated that he calculated a 10% increase to our tiered rate overage fees. The clerk will be sending letter with annual payment information to all of our customers, calculating the first six months at the current rate and the remaining six months at the new rate, which begins July 1, 2009. Mr. Hanson would like to approve Resolution #13 at the February 17^th, 2009 board meeting and encourage trustees to review this information for discussion at the February 13^th, 2009 work session.

During the early morning of January 4, 2009, the telemetry system paged the operators alerting them of a 1000 gpm running through the Peruvian system. Because of an earlier event during the Christmas holidays of a frozen pipe at the Sugarplum Townhouses, Mr. Hanson was concerned that there was a broken pipe in a building or in the ground. The Alta Marshall and Station #113 fire fighters assisted the Service Area in locating the problem, until Mr. Hanson and Mr. McIntosh arrived. With the assistance of a Snowbird snow cat and Thomas Excavating, the Peruvian vault was exposed. It was determined that the liner inside the mag meter failed and leaked water into the electronics and therefore shorting the Peruvian meter. A new mag meter has been received and will be installed this week without causing a significant service disruption. Mr. Hanson will discuss this issue with Salt Lake City Water Corp as the Peruvian meter had no usage for nearly a two week period. The Siemens Company is replacing this mag meter and the Service Area may pay shipping only.

New water meters have been installed at the Mason, Scott and Ferrin residences in Superior Point. The remotes still need to be connected.

Mr. Hanson shared interesting information he received from Richard Fluehe regarding high iron content in the Superior Mine. Water tests the Service Area has submitted do not present high levels of iron. Mr. Hanson stated that because of our blending and averaging we are able to continue antimony compliance with the State and we are in no hurry to develop this area. The Service Area will continue to collect data from the Superior Mine.

The Service Area has received written authorization from Salt Lake County Mayor-Peter Corroon to maintain our Salt Lake County Service Area #3 name. According to Utah Code Sec. 17-50-103 (2) (b), authorizes us to keep the word County in our name.

Currently Snowbird has used 40 million gallons of water for snowmaking out of their 80 million allotment.

Mr. Hanson and Kate Black attended the Division of Drinking Water Board Meeting last week. The water board stated that they are pleased that the Town of Alta is installing a treatment facility to resolve antimony issues. Along with this Mr. Hanson will meet with State next week for approval to build a back wash retention tank within the mine. Mr. Hanson has met with the miners with Dynatech discussing this project. Mr. Hanson also mentioned that the Service Area will act as the owner contractor for the installation of the filter plant and will enter into negotiations with the Town of Alta and amending our current interlocal agreement.

Steve McIntosh and Kellie Hunsaker will be attending the annual Rural Water Association of Utah conference in St. George on March 2^nd thru March 6^th, 2009. Mr. Hanson will not be attending, as he is will be in Anchorage, Alaska for a USSA-Nordic Combined Ski Jumping Assignment.

Included in the Service Area #3 budget is a $25,000 capital purchase for a new Service Area truck. Rather than purchase a vehicle, Mr. Hanson would prefer to put these funds towards remote electronic valves in the treatment plant and elsewhere in our water system. Ms. Borgione asked Mr. Hanson if he has priced out the costs of valve upgrades. Mr. Hanson is in the process of doing so and will inform the board at to cost estimates.

Mr. Hanson met with Mr. Baker recently to discuss Snowbird’s plans for improvements to their snowmaking system and the impact on the Service Area.

Mr. Hanson has drafted some letters for Snowbird, verifying appropriate water and sewer capacity for the new 4 unit condominium development located at the junction of creek road /by-pass road, near Cliff Lodge. The present employee housing project will become a 14 condominium complex.

Mr. Hanson gave a brief overview for Mr. Jensen’s benefit of the current policies and procedures updates. Mark Anderson is continuing to review the appropriate sections and the Service Area looks forward to receiving a draft of this manual soon.

Mr. Hanson discussed safety issues for the Service Area, such as wearing seat belts at all times and using the appropriate equipment.

During the spring run-off this year, Mr. Hanson will have Cottonwood Improvement District TV the canyon sewer, checking for any infiltration.

The Service Area will be invoicing Greer Construction for water and sewer impacts fees on the new Cocoziello house, located on lot 9 of the Sugarplum 4,5 9 development.

A few weeks back, our phone system had a hard drive failure and proceeded to call the Snowbird switch board and guest rooms for 4 hours every 5 minutes with a bizarre failure message in English and then in Japanese. Pike Communications tested the lines and determined that our system was tagging our Salt Lake and 1340 line with an automated failure message. This system was purchased by Mr. Evans off the internet back in 1995. Mr. Hanson received board approval to purchase a new phone system from Pike Communications for $7,712.00, which UFA will pay a percentage of as well. Mr. Hanson stated that this added expense can be pulled from another area of the budget.

Mr. Hanson reviewed with the Board of Trustees, the Balance Sheet Previous Year Comparison report ending December 31, 2008, and the Profit and Loss Budget vs. Actual ending December 31, 2008, as prepared by Salt Lake County Service Area #3.

Ms. Borgione moved that the bills listed on the December 10^th, 2008 through January 20^th, 2009 payment registers, as presented by Mr. Hanson hereby be authorized and ratified to be paid by the manager. Ms. Collinson seconded the motion and it passed unanimously. Copies of the approved bills are attached to the minutes.

There being no further business to be discussed, a motion to adjourn was made, seconded and unanimously carried at 1:14 p.m.

Salt Lake County Service Area #3-Snowbird

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Annamarie Borgione/Chairman

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Monica L. Lisenbee/Clerk

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