Board staff summarized the water system status and flagged a set of infrastructure items that may require follow-up work and funding decisions. New pumps at both pump houses include redundant units and spares on-site, staff said. The Forest Service Spring was singled out as a concern: one speaker said only one of three feeder lines was producing water at about 10 gallons per minute and that the spring development was leaking above its liner and leaking into surface drainage rather than into the collection piping.

Board members agreed to pursue hydrology analysis and to ask Sunrise (the engineering contractor) to evaluate whether the spring can remain productive through the winter. The speaker recommended hydrology surveys to confirm flow and determine options before the board commits additional funds.

Staff also walked the board through the remaining loan account balances tied to earlier improvement projects — roughly $912,000 in the main loan account and $132,000 in the special-assessment account — and explained those sums represent cash left to be deployed against outstanding invoices. The original project budget was approximately $4,000,000, and staff said about $3,000,000 has already been deployed against invoices.

Separately, the new remote meters include leak-detection alerts: staff described recent examples where the meter system sent emails when high flow was detected in a building, helping to detect leaks and prompting targeted repairs. Board members suggested an owner outreach email explaining meter benefits and that meters can save property owners money by detecting leaks early. The board also discussed an ~$1,500 cost to separate two units so the building could be individually metered; members debated whether the district, an HOA or building owners should pay.

No formal allocation was made at the meeting; staff was directed to obtain hydrology input and finalize contractor pay requests and retainage calculations for the next meeting.