Hondius Water Users Project Committee – 12/15/15 Meeting Minutes

Present: Jim Redman, Tony Burroughs, Don Piepgras, Bill Rawsky, Beth Coulson, Brandy Flanagan

Also attending were the Larimer County Representative and the Engineer hired to prepare the Preliminary Engineering Study

Previous Meeting Minutes

Minutes from the November 19th meeting were approved and Jim will have them posted to the website.

Town Meeting Update

The Town is taking a much more proactive position with respect to water projects such as ours. There are currently four projects that the Town is working on, including ours and the Park Entrance project, which is also off High Drive. In a meeting on December 13th with the Town Trustees, that Jim also attended, the Town personnel presented their proposal to the Town Trustees, and the Trustees seemed very supportive of the Town’s proposal which focused on the following objective:

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Hondius Water Users Project Committee – 11/19/15 Meeting Minutes

Present: Jim Redman, Tony Burroughs, Don Piepgras, Bill Rawsky, Beth Coulson

Town Meeting Update

Committee members met with representatives of the Town of Estes Park earlier this month. Meeting was to discuss the Town’s recommendation that the project have a storage tank (as presented in the October 2^nd public meeting), in an effort to determine if the estimated project cost can be reduced. The Town representatives indicated that the Town would be willing to share in some of the costs as they would propose a location for the tank that would benefit more than just those benefited from the Hondius water replacement project. Unfortunately, the representative from the Town who could discuss the Town’s proposed allocation of the costs of the tank between the Town and the Hondius water replacement project was not present.

Our original estimated cost for a pump only system increased from 2.7 million to 3.1 million largely due to the Town’s assessed need for more pump capacity and an additional line if the tank were not included in the system design. The recommended tank and pump system was originally estimated to cost 3.3 million (as presented in the October public meeting) prior to any cost allocation participation by the Town. As a result, the costs of these alternatives are quite similar now, and with participation by the Town in the costs of the tank option, this may actually be the least costly of the alternatives now. Also with the tank system, there would likely be no need for a generator.

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Hondius Water Users Project Committee – 8/5/15 Meeting Minutes

Present: Jim Redman, Tim Breiding, Brandy Flanagan, Beth Coulson, Bill Rawsky, and Don Piepgras

The meeting was called to order at 6:08 PM MDT.

Jim reported on the meeting held August 3rd with the Engineer, and County and Town officials. There were five representatives from the Town of Estes Park. Together, the group went through a list of issues.

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Hondius Water Users Project Committee – 7/2/15 Meeting Minutes

Present: Jim Redman, Tony Burroughs, Don Piepgras, Bill Rawsky, Beth Coulson

Absent: Brandy Flanagan, Vi Burroughs, Ernie Dietrich, Thurmond Williamson.

Previous Meeting Minutes. Approved.

Project Update.

Results of the June 22 conference call of available committee members and engineers was reported. The engineer reported that the meeting with representatives from the Town of Estes could not occur until after July 4th due to the people needing to attend not being available until then. The committee submitted questions to be presented at that meeting. They include questions regarding service lines and water pump/reservoir requirements. Due to the delay, the engineer report is not expected to be received until at least the end of July.

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Hondius Water Users Project Committee – 6/4/15 Meeting Minutes

Present: Jim Redman, Tim Breiding, Tony & Vi Burroughs, Don Piepgras, Bill Rawsky, Brandy Flanagan

Absent: Beth Coulson, Ernie Dietrich, Thurmond Williamson.

Previous Meeting Minutes. Approved.

Project Update.

Jim reported on a discussion between him and two representatives from Larimer County regarding development of a local approval district. They identified the best option is to offer those individuals not on the Hondius system be allowed to participate if desired.

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Hondius Water Users Project Committee 5/7/15 Meeting Minutes

The Meeting was called to Order at 7:09PM Central time.

Previous Meeting Minutes.

The Committee approved the minutes from the April meeting. Jim will forward for posting onto the website.

In attendance: Jim Redman, Don Piepgras, Tim Breiding, Beth Coulson from the Committee, Ed Schemm from Larimer County, and Rod Harr from Landmark Engineering.

The meeting began with questions and answers with Rod Harr from Landmark Engineering about the project and the needs identified by committee members. These included questions as to:

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Hondius Water Users Project Committee 4/2/15 Meeting Minutes

Present: Jim Redman, Tim Breiding, Beth Coulson, Bill Rawsky, Brandy Flanagan.

Absent: Tony & Vi Burroughs, Don Piepgras, Ernie Dietrich, Thurmond Williamson.

Previous Meeting Minutes.

The Committee approved the minutes from the March meeting. Jim will forward for posting onto the website.

Update on Project Timing and Process.

Jim reported on the meeting he attended on March 23rd in Denver with representatives of the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment. See attached letter from Richard Markovich, the CDPHE Project Manager summarizing the meeting. The attendees at the meeting were well versed in the project and while pointing out matters that would need to be completed, gave the impression that the project could be accomplished from their standpoint. The terms of the loan if obtained in 2015 would be a 2% loan with pay back over 20 years.

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