NOTICE OF THE MEETING OF THE CLEARWATER UNDERGROUND WATER CONSERVATION DISTRICT

January 12, 2022

Notice is hereby given that the above-named Board will hold a Workshop and Board meeting on Wednesday, January 12, 2022 beginning at 1:30 p.m., in the Clearwater UWCD Board Room located at 700 Kennedy Court, Belton, Texas.  The following items of business will be discussed¹.

Workshop:

1. Receive annual report from Texas AgriLife 4-H Water Ambassador Program.
2. Receive updates related to the 2021 Bell County Water Symposium.
3. Receive information related to Bell/Coryell Karst Coalition RHCP.
4. Receive information related to the 5 Year Strategic Plan.
5. Receive information related to Texas Alliance of Groundwater Districts GCD Boot Camp Feb. 8, 2022.
6. Receive information related to Groundwater Management Area 8, per the Joint Planning and Development of the Round 3 Desired Future Conditions.

Board Meeting:

1. Invocation and Pledge of Allegiance.
2. Public comment².
3. Approve minutes of December 8, 2021 Board meeting.
4. Discuss, consider, and take appropriate action if necessary, to accept the monthly financial report for December 2021 (FY22) as presented.
5. Discuss, consider, and take appropriate action if necessary, to accept the monthly investment fund account report for December 2021 (FY22) as presented.
6. Discuss, consider, and take appropriate action if necessary, to accept the Quarterly Deferred Compensation Employee Retirement Program account report as presented.
7. Discuss, consider, and take appropriate action if necessary, to approve the FY22 line-item budget amendments as requested.
8. Discuss, consider, and take appropriate action if necessary, to extend the professional services agreement with Mike Keester, Principal Hydrogeologist, RW Hardin & Associates.
9. Discuss, consider, and take appropriate action if necessary, to approve the sponsorship level of the Texas 4-H Water Ambassador Program.
10. Discuss, consider, and take appropriate action if necessary, to approve CUWCD/Bell County ILA related to rural plats and groundwater availability studies.
11. Discuss, consider, and take appropriate action if necessary, to authorize the General Manager to work with the Texas A&M School of Law Environmental and Natural Resources Systems Law Clinic.
12. Discuss, consider, and take appropriate action if necessary, to review and adopt the District investment policy by resolution for the calendar year 2022.
13. Discuss, consider, and take appropriate action if necessary, to set the District calendar dates for 2022.
14. Discuss, consider, and take appropriate action if necessary, to approve the employment contract with District General Manager.
15. Discuss, consider, and take appropriate action if necessary, to elect officers of the Board for the calendar year 2022, per District Bylaws, Article VI (Sec. 1 & 2).
16. Continue Public Hearing on the following application:
    a) Discuss, consider, and take appropriate action if necessary, on a proposed operating permit for 2 existing wells for Whitley 20 Stillman Valley, LLC. Well # 1 (N2-20-008P) authorizing an operating permit to serve 8 homes not to exceed 2.6 ac-feet/yr. or 855,414 gallons per year, and Well #2 (N2-20-009P) authorizing an operating permit to serve 7 homes not to exceed 2.3 ac-feet/yr. or 748,487 gallons per year. Wells are completed in the Hosston Layer of the Trinity Aquifer and equipped with a submersible pump rate not to exceed 17-gpm on a 43.435-acre tract located on the corner of Stillman Valley Road and Firefly Road, Florence, Texas.
17. General Manager’s report concerning office management and staffing related to District Management Plan³.
18. Receive monthly staff report and possible consideration and Board action on the following³:
    1. Drought Status reports
    2. Education Outreach update
    3. Monitoring Well reports
    4. Rainfall report
    5. Well Registration update
    6. Aquifer Status and Non-exempt Monthly Well Production reports
19. Director comments and reports³.
20. Discuss agenda items for next meeting.
21. Set time and place for next meeting.
22. Adjourn.

Dated the   7th   day of    January 2022       

Leland Gersbach, Board President

By: Click here for original signed document

Dirk Aaron, Asst. Secretary

Agenda items may be considered, deliberated and/or acted upon in a different order than set forth above.

The Clearwater Underground Water Conservation District is committed to compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).  Reasonable accommodations and equal opportunity for effective communications will be provided upon request.  Please contact the District office at 254-933-0120 at least 24 hours in advance if accommodation is needed.

¹During the meeting, the Board reserves the right to go into executive session for any of the purposes authorized under Chapter 551 of the Texas Government Code, for any item on the above agenda or as otherwise authorized by law. 

²Citizens who desire to address the Board on any matter may sign up to do so prior to this meeting.  Public comments will be received during this portion of the meeting.  Please limit comments to 3 minutes.  No discussion or final action will be taken by the Board except as authorized by section 551.042 of the Government Code.

³No formal action will be taken by the Board on these agenda items.  These items are on the agenda to provide the District’s staff, Public Task Force Committees, and Directors with an opportunity to bring to the public’s and each other’s attention important activities and issues pertinent to the management of groundwater within the District, including, but not limited to, current events in the District involving groundwater, wells, or District permittees, state or regional developments related to water management, and activities of the staff, Public Advisory Committee, and Directors.  Substantive deliberation and formal action on any of these issues will be conducted pursuant to a specific item on a future agenda.