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February 11, 2020

WOODROW-OSCEOLA WATER SUPPLY CORPORATION

REGULAR BOARD MEETING

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

 

 Item 1: Call Meeting To Order

President Thomas Bills called the Regular Board Meeting to order at 6:30 P.M., February 11, 2020. All Directors were present with the exception of Dottie Sulak. Also, Manager Rodney Votaw and Teena Worbington were present.

 

Item 5: Evelyn Pareya 2018-2019 Audit

Item 5 was moved next on the agenda and Evelyn Pareya passed out the 2018-2019 audit report. Ms. Pareya discussed each item of the favorable 2018-2019 audit. John Milburn made a motion to accept the 2018-2019 audit. Linda Hasselstrom seconded. Vote was unanimous.

 

Item 2: Approve Minutes

Due to low Director Attendance for the December and January Regular Board Meetings, both had to be canceled. Johnnie Bankston read the minutes from the November 12, 2019 Regular Board Meeting. Linda Hasselstrom made a motion to accept the minutes as read. Sandra Chilcutt seconded. Vote was unanimous.

 

Item 3: Directors Source and Application of Funds

After the Board reviewed the Source and Application of Funds for the months of December and January a motion was made to accept by Charles Jones. John Milburn seconded. Vote was unanimous. Teena Worbington presented the Source and Application of Funds for February. Charles Jones made a motion to accept as presented and John Milburn seconded. Vote was unanimous.

 

Item 4: Membership Changes

Linda Hasselstrom made a motion for December to accept New memberships-2, Transfers-3, Sellbacks-None and Revokes-None, for January New Memberships-5, Transfers-3, Sellbacks-None and Revokes-None and February New Memberships-3, Transfers-4, Sellbacks-Daniel & Alicia Dean #1004 and Revokes-Pedro & Delmy Moreno #686 and #1462 . Charles Jones seconded. Vote was unanimous.

 

Item 6: Blue Cross Blue Shield 2020 Rates

Rodney Votaw discussed with the Board the decrease in premium for employees insurance for 2020 and the contribution the employees make. Linda Hasselstrom made a motion the employee contribution remain the same. Pam Fletcher seconded. Vote was unanimous.

 

Item 7: Public Comment

None

 

Item 8: Directors and Manager Comments

Linda Hasselstrom said, we must be doing okay because we don’t have any complaints and we have a good group of employees. Johnnie Bankston told the Board the building had been reserved at Woodbury for the Annual Meeting April 4, 2020, Bunkhouse BBQ would be catering, we were still trying to appoint someone for the vacancy on the Board and the letter will be ready after the application cut-off date February 14, 2020. Rodney Votaw discussed with the Board $5,000 spent on a water study for surface water and he showed us a map of a large area other than our system that had to be in agreement in order to possibly get surface water from Files Valley. He said, we do have the ability to appeal the rules Prairie Ground Water have in place because we have the two water well loans and that could give us the ability to dig 2 more water wells. He continued, by saying he has been working with Ben Shanklin and plans to continue. Rodney said, he hired a new field employee, Tracy Eilers and thinks he will be a good fit.

 

Item 9: Executive Session

None

 

Item 10: Adjourn

Charles Jones made a motion to adjourn at 8:20 P.M. Sandra Chilcutt seconded. Vote was unanimous.

 

Respectfully Submitted,

  __________________________

Johnnie Bankston

Secretary/Treasurer