AGENDA
EUGENE WATER & ELECTRIC BOARD
EWEB BOARD ROOM
500 E. 4 TH AVENUE
EUGENE, OR
OCTOBER 24, 2006

WORK SESSION
5:30-7:30 P.M

 

1. Letter of Support for Mayor’s Sustainable Business Initiative – Deborrah Brewer, Intergovernmental Affairs Coordinator

Start

5:30

Length

15 min.

2. Post Retirement Benefits – GASB Impact – Cathy Bloom, Assistant Treasurer, Jim Origliosso, Treasurer and Pete Neuwirth, Actuary 5:45 60 min.
3. Public Employees Retirement System (PERS) – Valuation Analysis/Employer Task Force membership – Cathy Bloom, Jim Origliosso, and Pete Neuwirth 6:45 45 min.


REGULAR BOARD MEETING
7:30 P.M.

 

1. Agenda Check (President Bishop) 

Start

7:30

Length

5 min.

2. Public Input 7:35 5 min.

3. Approval of Consent Calendar (Items will be approved by one motion and without discussion. If discussion is required, specific items will be removed from the Consent Calendar and considered separately.)

7:40 5 min.
4. Items from Board Members 7:45 10 min.
5. Correspondence 7:55 5 min.
6. Board Agendas 8:00 5 min.
7. PERS Employer Membership Task Force – Jim Origliosso, Treasurer  and Cathy Bloom, Assistant Treasurer (Action) 8:05 5 min.
8. Resolution No. 0629 – Carmen Smith License – Gale Banry (Project Manager) (Action) 8:10 75 min.
9. Business Service Agreement with IGI Resources, Inc. – Purchase of Natural Gas for Steam Plant – Tom Buckhouse Director of Water & Steam Division - $4,200,000. (Action) 9:25 5 min.
10. Items removed from Consent Calendar 9:30  
     

 

Consent Calendar
October 24, 2006


MINUTES

1. Minutes of the September 19, 2006, Work Session and Regular Board Meeting, and October 3, 2006, Work Session


BUSINESS SERVICE AGREEMENTS

2. MARSH USA, Inc. – Commercial Insurance Broker Services – Financial Services Division - $317,282. Contact person is Ed Case, 484-2411 ext. 3272.

    
3. Stantec Consulting, Inc. – Backwash System Upgrade & Finish Water Pumps Abandonment at Hayden Bridge – Water Division - $49,231. Contact person is Ron Wilson, 484-2411 ext. 3224.    


RESOLUTION

4. Resolution No. 0628 – Sale of Trojan Substation Property Sale. Contact Ken Beeson, Energy Resource Project Manager, 484-2411 ext. 3772 (see memo backgrounder).

    
5. Resolution No. 0630 – Post Retirement Medical Benefits Plan Trust (see backgrounder in Work Session, Item 2).    
6. Resolution No. 0631 – Transfer $7.2 million from the pension reserve to PERS to pay down the unfunded actuarial liability and the latest actuarial valuation and to seek approval to join the PERS Alliance (see backgrounder in Work Session, Item 3).    


LETTER OF SUPPORT

7. Letter of support for the Sustainable Business Initiative Task Force Report and Recommendation, August 2006 (see letter in Work Session, Item 1).