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SDWWA 2024 Annual Business Meeting
September 12, 2024
The Lodge at Deadwood
SDWWA 2024 Annual Business Meeting
September 12, 2024
The Lodge at Deadwood
Call to Order: By President Bill Thorson at 12:23 pm. Approximately 200 were in attendance.
Thorson thanked ISG for sponsoring the 2024 SDWWA Business Luncheon.
Agenda: The agenda had been provided to the attendees. Dustin Dale moved for approval of the agenda. Chris Schmit seconded. Motion passed.
Minutes: The minutes of the 2023 Business Meeting had been posted to web site. Phil Greenwood moved for approval. Tanya Miller seconded. Motion passed.
SDWWA Tuesday Board Meeting: Thorson reviewed the combined WEA/SDWWA/SD AWWA meeting and SDWWA Tuesday Board meeting for the attendees.
Old Business: There was a call for Old Business.
Officers for 2024-25: Thorson announced that Chris Robinson would be the 2024-25 President and Dustin Dale would be the President-Elect.
Vice-President: The candidate from the Board was Bryan Lipp. Thorson called for nominations from the floor. Rob Kittay moved that a unanimous ballot be cast. Dave Van Cleave seconded. Motion passed.
Outgoing Directors: Brian Lipp, Greg Simmermon, and Jon Hauge are the outgoing directors and were recognized.
New Directors for 2024-25: The candidates recommended by the Nominating Committee for the SDWWA Board were:
Greg Simmermon-T-M RWS Jon Hauge-Volga Cullen Kohles-Banner Associates
Thorson called for nominations from the floor. Rob Kittay moved for nominations to cease and to cast a unanimous ballot. Ryan Allen seconded. Motion passed.
The gavel was then passed to Robinson who gave Thorson the President’s Award.
Robinson introduced the entire Board.
New Business: The sites of the future conferences were announced as follows: 2025-Pierre Ramkota, 2026-Aberdeen Ramkota, 2027-The Lodge at Deadwood, 2028-SF Ramkota, and 2029-The Lodge at Deadwood.
Nominator’s Prize: Trevor Hohn who nominated Eric Witt for the Dornbush Award won the $50 prize.
Door Prizes: Ben Haescherl won the Conference Watch. Several other door prizes were given
Adjournment: Chris Schmit moved for adjournment. Jeremy Casteel seconded. Motion passed. Meeting adjourned at 12:35 pm.
9-21-2024
Rob Kittay Date
Thorson thanked ISG for sponsoring the 2024 SDWWA Business Luncheon.
Agenda: The agenda had been provided to the attendees. Dustin Dale moved for approval of the agenda. Chris Schmit seconded. Motion passed.
Minutes: The minutes of the 2023 Business Meeting had been posted to web site. Phil Greenwood moved for approval. Tanya Miller seconded. Motion passed.
SDWWA Tuesday Board Meeting: Thorson reviewed the combined WEA/SDWWA/SD AWWA meeting and SDWWA Tuesday Board meeting for the attendees.
Old Business: There was a call for Old Business.
Officers for 2024-25: Thorson announced that Chris Robinson would be the 2024-25 President and Dustin Dale would be the President-Elect.
Vice-President: The candidate from the Board was Bryan Lipp. Thorson called for nominations from the floor. Rob Kittay moved that a unanimous ballot be cast. Dave Van Cleave seconded. Motion passed.
Outgoing Directors: Brian Lipp, Greg Simmermon, and Jon Hauge are the outgoing directors and were recognized.
New Directors for 2024-25: The candidates recommended by the Nominating Committee for the SDWWA Board were:
Greg Simmermon-T-M RWS Jon Hauge-Volga Cullen Kohles-Banner Associates
Thorson called for nominations from the floor. Rob Kittay moved for nominations to cease and to cast a unanimous ballot. Ryan Allen seconded. Motion passed.
The gavel was then passed to Robinson who gave Thorson the President’s Award.
Robinson introduced the entire Board.
New Business: The sites of the future conferences were announced as follows: 2025-Pierre Ramkota, 2026-Aberdeen Ramkota, 2027-The Lodge at Deadwood, 2028-SF Ramkota, and 2029-The Lodge at Deadwood.
Nominator’s Prize: Trevor Hohn who nominated Eric Witt for the Dornbush Award won the $50 prize.
Door Prizes: Ben Haescherl won the Conference Watch. Several other door prizes were given
Adjournment: Chris Schmit moved for adjournment. Jeremy Casteel seconded. Motion passed. Meeting adjourned at 12:35 pm.
9-21-2024
Rob Kittay Date
Members Present: Bill Thorson, Tanya Miller, Dustin Dale, Chris Robinson, Chad Hanson, Ted Lewis, Michael Johnson, Bryan Lipp, Greg Simmermon, Jon Hauge, Ryan Allen, Jason Springer, Mark McIntire
Members Absent:
Others Present: Rob Kittay-Executive Director
Call to Order: Thorson called the meeting to order at 6:03 pm. A quorum was present.
Approval of Agenda: Miller moved for approval of the agenda. Dale seconded. Motion passed.
Minutes: The minutes were emailed by Kittay and were on web site. Robinson moved to approve the minutes. Allen seconded. Motion passed.
Old Business: There was none forthcoming.
Executive Director’s Report: Kittay reported that there were the following amounts in the various accounts-
$31,999.75 in the checkbook as of 8/19/2024
$15,967.34 in S2S account 7/31/2024
$41,384.73 in the Edward Jones Money Market Account-4.9% as of 8/29/24
$50,012.00 in the Edward Jones CD-5.1% as of 8/29/24-Will Mature on 11/14/2024 w/ interest paid of $637.50 for the last three months. There is also $22 cash w/ Edward Jones
A full report of the income and payments as well as an SDWWA Scholarship report was provided.
The SDSU/SDSMT scholarship checks were written on September 1 and will appear in the 2025 fiscal year.
Robinson moved to reinvest the maturing CD. Springer seconded. Motion passed.
Simmermon moved to accept report. Lipp seconded. Motion passed.
Auditing Committee: McIntire gave report-Mark McIntire, Bill Sarringar, and Jacob Wagoner were on the committee. A copy was given to those present. The audit was done in September, 2024. The books were in order. Dale moved to accept the report. Allen seconded. Motion passed.
Water Seminar: The seminar will be held in Mitchell on March 26-27.
Other Committees: No other reports were offered.
Source to Stream: Steever submitted a report. Kittay forwarded her report to the Board via email.
Publication Information:
1st qtr 2nd qtr 3rd qtr 4th qtr Total
Staff Expenses $875.00 $868.75 $793.75 $37.50 $2,575.00
Addressing $95.00 $95.00 $95.00 $285.00
Supplies/Postage/Mileage $686.83 $624.22 $682.31 $1,993.36
Printing $2,130.17 $1,882.27 $1,913.25 $5,925.69
Total $3,787.00 $3,470.24 $3,484.31 $37.50 $10,779.05 $10,779.05
pieces mailed: 990 891 906 2,787
Advertising Information:
Advertising sold Advertising paid Advertising reimbursements* Advertising income
$13,300 $7,650 -$750.00 $12,550
* Ad not submitted before deadline. Too many half-page color ads.
Budget Information:
Advertiser income Expenses Available Budget
$12,550 $10,754 $1,796
2024-25 Officers: Robinson will be president, Thorson will be past-president, and Dale will be President-Elect.
Nominations Committee: Lipp gave the report. The nomination for Vice President is Lipp.
The nominations for directors are-
Greg Simmermon-T-M RWS Jon Hauge-Volga Cullen Kohles-Banner
Miller moved to accept the slate to be presented at the Business Meeting. Allen seconded. Motion passed.
Strategic Planning: Miller gave a summary of actions. Little action has taken place. Sumption and Wayland reviewed the constitution and needs to be sent to a lawyer for a further review. Miller has the names of three lawyers that work with non-profits.
Scholarships: SDWWA-Thorson gave the report. There were ten applications; however, two were deemed not eligible. Dale moved to award six scholarships at $1000 each. Hauge seconded. Motion passed. McIntire moved that a person can only get the scholarship one time. Simmermon seconded. Motion passed. Thorson, Kyle Kampshoff, Gavin Graverson, and Jesse Christianson are on the committee. Dale moved to give eight scholarships at $1000 each. Lewis seconded. Motion passed.
SDSU/SDSMT Scholarships-The SDSU/SDSMT scholarship checks were written on September 1 and will appear in the 2025 fiscal year. Simmermon moved that $1000 be given each to SDSU and SDSMT to fund one scholarship at each school. Lipp seconded. Motion passed.
Awards: Kittay reviewed the awards for the current year.
50 Year Award: It has been mentioned that SDWWA should give out a 50 year award following in line with the 20/30/40 year awards. Kittay will develop some criteria and bring back to next meeting.
Other Business: Hanson stated there were 40 displayers. It was also asked about limiting presentations to 30 minutes. There is actually no limit.
Next Meeting: The proposed date of the next Board meeting is January 16, 2025 in Pierre just after the SDARWS ATC Conference. It was suggested that the meeting be moved up 10:30 am. Thorson will check on the exact schedule for ATC.
Miller moved for adjournment. Robinson seconded. Meeting adjourned at 7:12 pm.
September 21, 2024
Rob Kittay Date
Secretary
Members Absent:
Others Present: Rob Kittay-Executive Director
Call to Order: Thorson called the meeting to order at 6:03 pm. A quorum was present.
Approval of Agenda: Miller moved for approval of the agenda. Dale seconded. Motion passed.
Minutes: The minutes were emailed by Kittay and were on web site. Robinson moved to approve the minutes. Allen seconded. Motion passed.
Old Business: There was none forthcoming.
Executive Director’s Report: Kittay reported that there were the following amounts in the various accounts-
$31,999.75 in the checkbook as of 8/19/2024
$15,967.34 in S2S account 7/31/2024
$41,384.73 in the Edward Jones Money Market Account-4.9% as of 8/29/24
$50,012.00 in the Edward Jones CD-5.1% as of 8/29/24-Will Mature on 11/14/2024 w/ interest paid of $637.50 for the last three months. There is also $22 cash w/ Edward Jones
A full report of the income and payments as well as an SDWWA Scholarship report was provided.
The SDSU/SDSMT scholarship checks were written on September 1 and will appear in the 2025 fiscal year.
Robinson moved to reinvest the maturing CD. Springer seconded. Motion passed.
Simmermon moved to accept report. Lipp seconded. Motion passed.
Auditing Committee: McIntire gave report-Mark McIntire, Bill Sarringar, and Jacob Wagoner were on the committee. A copy was given to those present. The audit was done in September, 2024. The books were in order. Dale moved to accept the report. Allen seconded. Motion passed.
Water Seminar: The seminar will be held in Mitchell on March 26-27.
Other Committees: No other reports were offered.
Source to Stream: Steever submitted a report. Kittay forwarded her report to the Board via email.
Publication Information:
1st qtr 2nd qtr 3rd qtr 4th qtr Total
Staff Expenses $875.00 $868.75 $793.75 $37.50 $2,575.00
Addressing $95.00 $95.00 $95.00 $285.00
Supplies/Postage/Mileage $686.83 $624.22 $682.31 $1,993.36
Printing $2,130.17 $1,882.27 $1,913.25 $5,925.69
Total $3,787.00 $3,470.24 $3,484.31 $37.50 $10,779.05 $10,779.05
pieces mailed: 990 891 906 2,787
Advertising Information:
Advertising sold Advertising paid Advertising reimbursements* Advertising income
$13,300 $7,650 -$750.00 $12,550
* Ad not submitted before deadline. Too many half-page color ads.
Budget Information:
Advertiser income Expenses Available Budget
$12,550 $10,754 $1,796
2024-25 Officers: Robinson will be president, Thorson will be past-president, and Dale will be President-Elect.
Nominations Committee: Lipp gave the report. The nomination for Vice President is Lipp.
The nominations for directors are-
Greg Simmermon-T-M RWS Jon Hauge-Volga Cullen Kohles-Banner
Miller moved to accept the slate to be presented at the Business Meeting. Allen seconded. Motion passed.
Strategic Planning: Miller gave a summary of actions. Little action has taken place. Sumption and Wayland reviewed the constitution and needs to be sent to a lawyer for a further review. Miller has the names of three lawyers that work with non-profits.
Scholarships: SDWWA-Thorson gave the report. There were ten applications; however, two were deemed not eligible. Dale moved to award six scholarships at $1000 each. Hauge seconded. Motion passed. McIntire moved that a person can only get the scholarship one time. Simmermon seconded. Motion passed. Thorson, Kyle Kampshoff, Gavin Graverson, and Jesse Christianson are on the committee. Dale moved to give eight scholarships at $1000 each. Lewis seconded. Motion passed.
SDSU/SDSMT Scholarships-The SDSU/SDSMT scholarship checks were written on September 1 and will appear in the 2025 fiscal year. Simmermon moved that $1000 be given each to SDSU and SDSMT to fund one scholarship at each school. Lipp seconded. Motion passed.
Awards: Kittay reviewed the awards for the current year.
50 Year Award: It has been mentioned that SDWWA should give out a 50 year award following in line with the 20/30/40 year awards. Kittay will develop some criteria and bring back to next meeting.
Other Business: Hanson stated there were 40 displayers. It was also asked about limiting presentations to 30 minutes. There is actually no limit.
Next Meeting: The proposed date of the next Board meeting is January 16, 2025 in Pierre just after the SDARWS ATC Conference. It was suggested that the meeting be moved up 10:30 am. Thorson will check on the exact schedule for ATC.
Miller moved for adjournment. Robinson seconded. Meeting adjourned at 7:12 pm.
September 21, 2024
Rob Kittay Date
Secretary
Members Present: Tanya Miller, Bill Thorson, Chris Robinson, Dustin Dale, Bryan Lipp, Greg Simmermon, Jon Hauge, Mark McIntire, Jason Springer, Chad Hanson, Michael Johnson
Members Absent: Ryan Allen and Ted Lewis
Others Present: Rob Kittay-Executive Director
Call to Order: Thorson called the meeting to order at 11:36 am. A quorum was present. The Board introduced themselves.
Approval of Agenda: Simmermon moved for approval of the agenda. Dale seconded. Motion passed.
Minutes: The minutes from the September 2023 meeting had been emailed by Kittay and were on the web site. Lipp moved to approve the minutes. Hauge seconded. Motion passed.
Executive Director’s Report: Kittay reported that there were the following amounts in the various accounts-
$111,414.85 in the checkbook as of 12/18/2023
$22,674.75 in S2S account 12/19/2023
The checkbook still contains scholarship funds as Kittay has had problems getting a new CD. Wells-Fargo would not give SDWWA a new CD. On Tuesday, Kittay did arrange for a three-month CD with Edward Jones at 5.13%. That CD will mature around April 15, 2024. The amount that was invested was $49,000. Kittay furnished a written report on the scholarship.
Check #2884 to SDWEA for $1365 and check #2865 for the Nominator’s Prize for $50 have not been deposited.
The bulk of the renewals for CY2024 have come in and are just at a trickle now.
Simmermon moved to accept report. Robinson seconded. Motion passed.
Simmermon moved to have Kittay continue to invest the CD when it comes due. Springer seconded. McIntire mentioned that the next CD could be a six-month CD so that it would mature around conference time when the Board typically meets. Motion passed.
Kittay then discussed the possibility of setting up a money market fund that would also include a checking account. The people from Edward Jones said the money would earn an approximate 5% interest rate that is adjusted weekly. The only issue to this would be that Edward Jones cannot handle any cash. Kittay indicated that he would have to take any cash accepted at a conference or seminar and then write a check from his personal account for that amount to be deposited to the SDWWA money market account. As for cash to be used for change at any event, Kittay would again write a check from his personal account, put that money in the cash box, and then remove that same amount after the event. Board members said that while they have trust in Kittay, they still felt uneasy with those actions when an audit is done. McIntire moved that $40,000 be put into a money market account but still keep the First National Bank checking account for daily use. Robinson seconded. Motion passed.
Source-to-Stream Report: There was no report.
Wastewater Seminar: The seminar will be held at Red Rossa/Clubhouse in Pierre on April 17-18, 2024. Kittay reminded that the flyer should get out around March 1. The draft agenda should be prepared ASAP so it can get in the next edition of S2S.
Water Seminar: The Water Seminar is scheduled for April 3-4, 2024 at the Brookings Wilbert Events Center. Kittay reminded that the flyer should get out around February 1 and that the draft agenda should be prepared ASAP so it can get in the next edition of S2S.
SDWWA Committees for 2024: The committees were formed as follows-
AWARDS COORDINATOR
DUTIES : Order awards and plaques as needed by award committees
Determine presenters for all awards
Give nominating forms to Source-to-Stream staff for publication
Make summary sheet of award winners and presenters for Source-to-Stream for publication following Conference
Rob Kittay
WILLIAM AISENBREY AWARD (Formerly the NALCO Award)
DUTIES : Water operator of the year
LEADER : Bryan Lipp MEMBERS: Ryan Allen and Mark McIntire
WILLIAM BRINKER AWARD
DUTIES : Wastewater operator of the year
LEADER : Tanya Miller MEMBERS: Jon Hauge and Michael Johnson
PRICE-REES/SIGER BIES/ DORNBUSH/J.R. YDE AWARDS
DUTIES : Evaluate nominations for the Price-Rees/Siger Bies/Dornbush/J.R. Yde Awards. Committee will also aid in the selection of Honorary Members as outlined in the SDWWA By-laws. Committee is responsible to seek candidates.
LEADER : Del DeBoer MEMBERS : Chris Robinson and Dustin Dale
LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS COMMITTEE DUTIES
LEADER: To be determined
COMMERCIAL COMMITTEE
DUTIES :
LEADER : Chad Hanson
DAVENPORT COMMITTEE
DUTIES : The purpose of the award is to recognize a member of an SDWWA committee that contributed the most to the success of a particular project. The committee will be composed of the Water & Wastewater Committee Chairpersons and the SDWWA Executive Director
NOMINATIONS COMMITTEE
DUTIES : This committee will make three nominations to the Board for directors and one nomination for VP for the coming year.
Candidates for Director should be members of SDWWA. They need to attend 2-3 Board meetings per year. They should be able to function within a 14-person Board and express their ideas/thoughts.
Candidates for VP must have previously served on the Board. They must be capable of creating the Conference agenda while President-Elect. They must be able to perform their parts of the Annual Business Meeting and moderate a session of the Conference while both President-Elect and President. They must be able to conduct Board meetings while President.
LEADER : Greg Simmermon MEMBERS : Bryan Lipp and Ted Lewis
AUDITING COMMITTEE
DUTIES : This committee will audit the finances of the SDWWA prior to the Annual Conference.
LEADER : Mark McIntire MEMBERS : Bill Sarringar and Jacob Wagoner
Kittay gave the Longevity Committee the renewal notices from people that might be eligible for an award.
2024 Conference at the Lodge at Deadwood: Kittay had previously provided the Board with a skeleton agenda for the Conference. Robinson is in charge of the agenda with AWWA-SD Section and SDWEA forming the Thursday afternoon sessions. The dates are September 11-13, 2024. The Board was asked to provide possible presentation subjects. Numerous subjects were put forth as possible presentations-
Powder House Pass Tour PFAS
Fusible Poly/PVC Sturgis Well Project
Spearfish Well Project Rapid Valley Project
Mni Wiconi Project Cyber Security
Corrosion Control Cross Connections
Sustainability Rates
How to Attract Workers to Industry Looking for Ideas for Keynote
SDSMT Projects
Miller suggested that gifts be given to the speakers similar to what AWWA/SDWEA do for their speakers.
Strategic Planning: Miller reviewed the strategic planning items. Kittay will get further info on the SDWWA insurance policy. He also asked who might need form 1090’s. Miller will get some quotes for a lawyer. Thorson spoke about sustainability.
SF Water Festival: SDWWA gave $1000 to the SF Water Festival in 2023 and a number of previous years. They are asking for support again. Simmermon moved to give the Water Festival $1000 for 2024. Springer seconded. Motion passed.
Other Business: Kittay reminded the Board to determine a location for the 2030 Conference as SDWWA should stay six years ahead. Huron Crossroads has submitted info for 2030 already. The schedule for future years is as follows-
2024-The Lodge at Deadwood
2025-Ramkota-Pierre
2026-Ramkota-Aberdeen
2027-The Lodge at Deadwood
2028-Ramkota-Sioux Falls
2029-The Lodge at Deadwood
The Board suggested that Sioux Falls host the 2030 Conference. Miller suggested the downtown Holiday Inn.
The AWWA Section is working to establish a student section at SDSU. With the Water Seminar being held in Brookings, Kittay asked about a student rate at the Water Seminar for any SDSU or any other students. AWWA-SD would pay for any students to attend. It is estimated that there would be ten students at most. Simmermon moved to charge any students $30 for the Water Seminar. Hauge seconded. Motion passed.
Next Meeting: The proposed date of the next Board meeting will be September 10, 2024 at the Lodge at Deadwood. If need be, the Board will meet in May or June.
Robinson moved for adjournment. Simmermon seconded. Meeting adjourned at 1:49 pm.
January 14, 2024
Rob Kittay Date
Executive Director
Members Absent: Ryan Allen and Ted Lewis
Others Present: Rob Kittay-Executive Director
Call to Order: Thorson called the meeting to order at 11:36 am. A quorum was present. The Board introduced themselves.
Approval of Agenda: Simmermon moved for approval of the agenda. Dale seconded. Motion passed.
Minutes: The minutes from the September 2023 meeting had been emailed by Kittay and were on the web site. Lipp moved to approve the minutes. Hauge seconded. Motion passed.
Executive Director’s Report: Kittay reported that there were the following amounts in the various accounts-
$111,414.85 in the checkbook as of 12/18/2023
$22,674.75 in S2S account 12/19/2023
The checkbook still contains scholarship funds as Kittay has had problems getting a new CD. Wells-Fargo would not give SDWWA a new CD. On Tuesday, Kittay did arrange for a three-month CD with Edward Jones at 5.13%. That CD will mature around April 15, 2024. The amount that was invested was $49,000. Kittay furnished a written report on the scholarship.
Check #2884 to SDWEA for $1365 and check #2865 for the Nominator’s Prize for $50 have not been deposited.
The bulk of the renewals for CY2024 have come in and are just at a trickle now.
Simmermon moved to accept report. Robinson seconded. Motion passed.
Simmermon moved to have Kittay continue to invest the CD when it comes due. Springer seconded. McIntire mentioned that the next CD could be a six-month CD so that it would mature around conference time when the Board typically meets. Motion passed.
Kittay then discussed the possibility of setting up a money market fund that would also include a checking account. The people from Edward Jones said the money would earn an approximate 5% interest rate that is adjusted weekly. The only issue to this would be that Edward Jones cannot handle any cash. Kittay indicated that he would have to take any cash accepted at a conference or seminar and then write a check from his personal account for that amount to be deposited to the SDWWA money market account. As for cash to be used for change at any event, Kittay would again write a check from his personal account, put that money in the cash box, and then remove that same amount after the event. Board members said that while they have trust in Kittay, they still felt uneasy with those actions when an audit is done. McIntire moved that $40,000 be put into a money market account but still keep the First National Bank checking account for daily use. Robinson seconded. Motion passed.
Source-to-Stream Report: There was no report.
Wastewater Seminar: The seminar will be held at Red Rossa/Clubhouse in Pierre on April 17-18, 2024. Kittay reminded that the flyer should get out around March 1. The draft agenda should be prepared ASAP so it can get in the next edition of S2S.
Water Seminar: The Water Seminar is scheduled for April 3-4, 2024 at the Brookings Wilbert Events Center. Kittay reminded that the flyer should get out around February 1 and that the draft agenda should be prepared ASAP so it can get in the next edition of S2S.
SDWWA Committees for 2024: The committees were formed as follows-
AWARDS COORDINATOR
DUTIES : Order awards and plaques as needed by award committees
Determine presenters for all awards
Give nominating forms to Source-to-Stream staff for publication
Make summary sheet of award winners and presenters for Source-to-Stream for publication following Conference
Rob Kittay
WILLIAM AISENBREY AWARD (Formerly the NALCO Award)
DUTIES : Water operator of the year
LEADER : Bryan Lipp MEMBERS: Ryan Allen and Mark McIntire
WILLIAM BRINKER AWARD
DUTIES : Wastewater operator of the year
LEADER : Tanya Miller MEMBERS: Jon Hauge and Michael Johnson
PRICE-REES/SIGER BIES/ DORNBUSH/J.R. YDE AWARDS
DUTIES : Evaluate nominations for the Price-Rees/Siger Bies/Dornbush/J.R. Yde Awards. Committee will also aid in the selection of Honorary Members as outlined in the SDWWA By-laws. Committee is responsible to seek candidates.
LEADER : Del DeBoer MEMBERS : Chris Robinson and Dustin Dale
LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS COMMITTEE DUTIES
- Provide local on-site contact for Conference
- Arrange for Mayor or other local dignitary to give welcoming address on Wednesday at 1:00 pm
- Arrange for tours of wastewater/water/solid waste/etc plants for Wednesday morning including providing directions to plants (either poster at registration table or handouts), times of tours, etc.
- Obtain name tags, name tag holders, and local attraction packets from local chamber of commerce. Note-Prefer name tag cards that slip into holders-NOT stick-on labels. Name tag holders can be collected at conclusion of Conference to be returned to chamber.
- Notify any retired SDWWA members in area that they may attend the banquet at no charge.
- Purchase door prizes from local businesses w/ funds provided by SDWWA and conduct drawings thruout conference to give away door prizes
- Leader should obtain assistance from other local personnel
LEADER: To be determined
COMMERCIAL COMMITTEE
DUTIES :
- Arrange social hours with host motel (Wednesday nite keg/wine and Thursday cash bar [two drink tickets attendees are furnished with registration for Thursday cash bar])
- Arrange golf tourney
- Coordinate with motel on exhibitor session-Number of tables, arrangement, refreshments during exhibit, etc
- Assign tables to exhibitors on Wednesday nite of Conference
- Send flyers concerning table top displays to mailing list
- Provide final list of table top exhibitors to Secretary by September 1 for use at registration table
- Provide receipts and any other info for exhibitors if necessary. Info such as when they can setup tabletops, table assignments, etc is needed at Conference registration table for when exhibitors check in. Someone from committee should be available near registration table all Wednesday of Conference to answer questions from exhibitors.
LEADER : Chad Hanson
DAVENPORT COMMITTEE
DUTIES : The purpose of the award is to recognize a member of an SDWWA committee that contributed the most to the success of a particular project. The committee will be composed of the Water & Wastewater Committee Chairpersons and the SDWWA Executive Director
NOMINATIONS COMMITTEE
DUTIES : This committee will make three nominations to the Board for directors and one nomination for VP for the coming year.
Candidates for Director should be members of SDWWA. They need to attend 2-3 Board meetings per year. They should be able to function within a 14-person Board and express their ideas/thoughts.
Candidates for VP must have previously served on the Board. They must be capable of creating the Conference agenda while President-Elect. They must be able to perform their parts of the Annual Business Meeting and moderate a session of the Conference while both President-Elect and President. They must be able to conduct Board meetings while President.
LEADER : Greg Simmermon MEMBERS : Bryan Lipp and Ted Lewis
AUDITING COMMITTEE
DUTIES : This committee will audit the finances of the SDWWA prior to the Annual Conference.
LEADER : Mark McIntire MEMBERS : Bill Sarringar and Jacob Wagoner
Kittay gave the Longevity Committee the renewal notices from people that might be eligible for an award.
2024 Conference at the Lodge at Deadwood: Kittay had previously provided the Board with a skeleton agenda for the Conference. Robinson is in charge of the agenda with AWWA-SD Section and SDWEA forming the Thursday afternoon sessions. The dates are September 11-13, 2024. The Board was asked to provide possible presentation subjects. Numerous subjects were put forth as possible presentations-
Powder House Pass Tour PFAS
Fusible Poly/PVC Sturgis Well Project
Spearfish Well Project Rapid Valley Project
Mni Wiconi Project Cyber Security
Corrosion Control Cross Connections
Sustainability Rates
How to Attract Workers to Industry Looking for Ideas for Keynote
SDSMT Projects
Miller suggested that gifts be given to the speakers similar to what AWWA/SDWEA do for their speakers.
Strategic Planning: Miller reviewed the strategic planning items. Kittay will get further info on the SDWWA insurance policy. He also asked who might need form 1090’s. Miller will get some quotes for a lawyer. Thorson spoke about sustainability.
SF Water Festival: SDWWA gave $1000 to the SF Water Festival in 2023 and a number of previous years. They are asking for support again. Simmermon moved to give the Water Festival $1000 for 2024. Springer seconded. Motion passed.
Other Business: Kittay reminded the Board to determine a location for the 2030 Conference as SDWWA should stay six years ahead. Huron Crossroads has submitted info for 2030 already. The schedule for future years is as follows-
2024-The Lodge at Deadwood
2025-Ramkota-Pierre
2026-Ramkota-Aberdeen
2027-The Lodge at Deadwood
2028-Ramkota-Sioux Falls
2029-The Lodge at Deadwood
The Board suggested that Sioux Falls host the 2030 Conference. Miller suggested the downtown Holiday Inn.
The AWWA Section is working to establish a student section at SDSU. With the Water Seminar being held in Brookings, Kittay asked about a student rate at the Water Seminar for any SDSU or any other students. AWWA-SD would pay for any students to attend. It is estimated that there would be ten students at most. Simmermon moved to charge any students $30 for the Water Seminar. Hauge seconded. Motion passed.
Next Meeting: The proposed date of the next Board meeting will be September 10, 2024 at the Lodge at Deadwood. If need be, the Board will meet in May or June.
Robinson moved for adjournment. Simmermon seconded. Meeting adjourned at 1:49 pm.
January 14, 2024
Rob Kittay Date
Executive Director
Unapproved Minutes
SDWWA 2023 Annual Business Meeting
September 14, 2023
Holiday Inn-Spearfish
SDWWA 2023 Annual Business Meeting
September 14, 2023
Holiday Inn-Spearfish
Call to Order: By President Tanya Miller at 12:30 pm. Approximately 200 were in attendance.
Agenda: The agenda had been provided to the attendees. Greg Simmermon moved for approval of the amended agenda. Kyle Goodmanson seconded. Motion passed.
Minutes: The minutes of the 2022 Business Meeting had been posted to web site. Robin Dykstra moved for approval. Bill Sarringar seconded. Motion passed.
SDWWA Tuesday Board Meeting: Miller reviewed the combined WEA/SDWWA/SD AWWA meeting and SDWWA Tuesday Board meeting for the attendees.
Old Business: There was a call for Old Business.
Officers for 2023-24: Miller announced that Bill Thorson would be the 2023-24 President and Chris Robinson would be the President-Elect.
Vice-President: The candidate from the Board was Dustin Dale. Miller called for nominations from the floor. Mark Mayer moved that a unanimous ballot be cast. Sam Cotter seconded. Motion passed.
Outgoing Directors: Chad Hanson, Kyle Goodmanson, and Craig Mitchell are the outgoing directors and were recognized.
New Directors for 2023-24: The candidates recommended by the Nominating Committee/SDWWA Board were:
Ted Lewis-Sioux Falls-AWWA Position
Michael Johnson-HDR-SDWEA Position
Chad Hanson-Core & Main-Manufacturers’ Rep
Mark McIntire-DWP DANR-To complete the term of Dale
Miller called for nominations from the floor. Dale moved for nominations to cease and to cast a unanimous ballot. Jim Auen seconded. Motion passed.
The gavel was then passed to Thorson. Thorson gave Miller the President’s Award.
Thorson introduced the entire Board.
New Business: The sites of the future conferences were announced as follows: 2024-The Lodge at Deadwood, 2025-Pierre Ramkota, 2026-Aberdeen Ramkota, 2027-The Lodge at Deadwood, 2028-SF Ramkota, and 2029-The Lodge at Deadwood.
Door Prizes: Jeremiah Cano won the Conference Watch. Several other door prizes were given
Adjournment: Del DeBoer moved for adjournment. Goodmanson seconded. Motion passed. Meeting adjourned at 12:50 pm.
9-20-2023
Rob Kittay Date
Agenda: The agenda had been provided to the attendees. Greg Simmermon moved for approval of the amended agenda. Kyle Goodmanson seconded. Motion passed.
Minutes: The minutes of the 2022 Business Meeting had been posted to web site. Robin Dykstra moved for approval. Bill Sarringar seconded. Motion passed.
SDWWA Tuesday Board Meeting: Miller reviewed the combined WEA/SDWWA/SD AWWA meeting and SDWWA Tuesday Board meeting for the attendees.
Old Business: There was a call for Old Business.
Officers for 2023-24: Miller announced that Bill Thorson would be the 2023-24 President and Chris Robinson would be the President-Elect.
Vice-President: The candidate from the Board was Dustin Dale. Miller called for nominations from the floor. Mark Mayer moved that a unanimous ballot be cast. Sam Cotter seconded. Motion passed.
Outgoing Directors: Chad Hanson, Kyle Goodmanson, and Craig Mitchell are the outgoing directors and were recognized.
New Directors for 2023-24: The candidates recommended by the Nominating Committee/SDWWA Board were:
Ted Lewis-Sioux Falls-AWWA Position
Michael Johnson-HDR-SDWEA Position
Chad Hanson-Core & Main-Manufacturers’ Rep
Mark McIntire-DWP DANR-To complete the term of Dale
Miller called for nominations from the floor. Dale moved for nominations to cease and to cast a unanimous ballot. Jim Auen seconded. Motion passed.
The gavel was then passed to Thorson. Thorson gave Miller the President’s Award.
Thorson introduced the entire Board.
New Business: The sites of the future conferences were announced as follows: 2024-The Lodge at Deadwood, 2025-Pierre Ramkota, 2026-Aberdeen Ramkota, 2027-The Lodge at Deadwood, 2028-SF Ramkota, and 2029-The Lodge at Deadwood.
Door Prizes: Jeremiah Cano won the Conference Watch. Several other door prizes were given
Adjournment: Del DeBoer moved for adjournment. Goodmanson seconded. Motion passed. Meeting adjourned at 12:50 pm.
9-20-2023
Rob Kittay Date
Members Present: Bill Thorson, Tanya Miller, Kyle Goodmanson, Chad Hanson, Greg Simmermon, Jon Hauge, Chris Robinson, Ryan Allen, Dustin Dale, Jason Springer
Members Absent: Mitch Kannenberg, Bryan Lipp, Craig Mitchell
Others Present: Rob Kittay-Executive Director
Call to Order: Miller called the meeting to order at 6:12 pm. A quorum was present.
Approval of Agenda: Simmermon moved for approval of the agenda. Allen seconded. Motion passed.
Minutes: The minutes were emailed by Kittay and were on web site. Goodmanson moved to approve the minutes. Hauge seconded. Motion passed.
Old Business: There was none forthcoming.
Treasurer’s Report: Kittay reported that there were the following amounts in the various accounts-
$56,816.44 in the checkbook as of 8/21/2023
$20,341.72 in S2S account 7/31/2023
$47,558.23 in the Wells Fargo account as of 9/1/2023 (comes due September 2023)
A full report of the income and payments as well as an SDWWA Scholarship report was provided.
Kittay will look for a new CD when the Wells-Fargo comes due and inform board. Wells Fargo does have some 12-month CDs at about 4.5% interest.
The SDSU/SDSMT scholarship checks were written on September 1 and will appear in the 2024 fiscal year. The SDWWA scholarship check as not been sent. Kittay needs info on who and where to send that check.
Miller asked about a money market for some of the money from the checkbook. Simmermon suggested making the checkbook into an interest bearing account. Kittay will investigate.
Dale moved to accept report. Thorson seconded.
Auditing Committee: Bill Sarringar and Mark McIntire were on the committee. Kittay gave the report as submitted by the committee. A copy was given to those present. The audit was done in September, 2023. The books were in order. Goodmanson moved to accept the report. Dale seconded. Motion passed.
Wastewater Seminar: The seminar will be held in Pierre on 2nd or 3rd week of April 2024.
Water Seminar: Goodmanson reported. The seminar will be held in Brookings in March. They want to outreach to SDSU students/facility.
Other Committees: No other reports were offered.
Kampshoff indicated that there was a good pre-registration for trap shoot.
Kittay reported that there is no tour at Spearfish WW Plant due to an emergency.
Source to Stream: Miller reviewed Steever’s report from three group meeting held previously that day. A question to the membership is do they want a copy via electronic vs paper. There have been some printer issues on the time it takes to publish. They may change printers. Al Erickson is the SDWWA rep to the Editor Board. They need to take charge.
2023-24 Officers: Thorson will be president, Miller will be past-president, and Robinson will be President-Elect.
Nominations Committee: Goodmanson gave the report. The nomination for Vice President is Dustin Dale.
The nominations for directors are-
Mark McIntire-DWP-DANR will fill out Dustin Dale’s term.
Chad Hanson for Manufacturer’s Rep
Ted Lewis-Sioux Falls for the AWWA Position
WEA is still working on their rep
Goodmanson moved to accept the slate to be presented at the Business Meeting. Simmermon seconded. Motion passed.
Strategic Planning: Miller gave a summary of actions.
Scholarships: SDWWA-Kampshoff gave the report. There were four applicants. Dale moved to give two additional $1000 scholarships. These would be in addition to the two authorized at the September 2022 meeting. Hauge seconded. Motion passed. The winners have been determined for this year, and the check will be sent ASAP sent to each school.
SDSU/SDSMT Scholarships-The SDSU/SDSMT scholarship checks were written on September 1 and will appear in the 2024 fiscal year. Dale moved that $1000 be given each to SDSU and SDSMT to fund one scholarship at each school. Simmermon seconded. Motion passed.
Awards: Thorson reviewed the awards for the current year. Miller asked about honorary memberships.
Other Business: Thorson spoke about possibly safety equipment funding in conjunction with the other groups.
Goodmanson asked about having SDWWA S2S representative attend meetings.
Next Meeting: The proposed date of the next Board meeting is January 11, 2023 in Pierre just after the SDARWS ATC Conference.
Allen moved for adjournment. Springer seconded. Meeting adjourned at 7:15 pm.
September 15, 2023
Rob Kittay Date
Secretary
Members Absent: Mitch Kannenberg, Bryan Lipp, Craig Mitchell
Others Present: Rob Kittay-Executive Director
Call to Order: Miller called the meeting to order at 6:12 pm. A quorum was present.
Approval of Agenda: Simmermon moved for approval of the agenda. Allen seconded. Motion passed.
Minutes: The minutes were emailed by Kittay and were on web site. Goodmanson moved to approve the minutes. Hauge seconded. Motion passed.
Old Business: There was none forthcoming.
Treasurer’s Report: Kittay reported that there were the following amounts in the various accounts-
$56,816.44 in the checkbook as of 8/21/2023
$20,341.72 in S2S account 7/31/2023
$47,558.23 in the Wells Fargo account as of 9/1/2023 (comes due September 2023)
A full report of the income and payments as well as an SDWWA Scholarship report was provided.
Kittay will look for a new CD when the Wells-Fargo comes due and inform board. Wells Fargo does have some 12-month CDs at about 4.5% interest.
The SDSU/SDSMT scholarship checks were written on September 1 and will appear in the 2024 fiscal year. The SDWWA scholarship check as not been sent. Kittay needs info on who and where to send that check.
Miller asked about a money market for some of the money from the checkbook. Simmermon suggested making the checkbook into an interest bearing account. Kittay will investigate.
Dale moved to accept report. Thorson seconded.
Auditing Committee: Bill Sarringar and Mark McIntire were on the committee. Kittay gave the report as submitted by the committee. A copy was given to those present. The audit was done in September, 2023. The books were in order. Goodmanson moved to accept the report. Dale seconded. Motion passed.
Wastewater Seminar: The seminar will be held in Pierre on 2nd or 3rd week of April 2024.
Water Seminar: Goodmanson reported. The seminar will be held in Brookings in March. They want to outreach to SDSU students/facility.
Other Committees: No other reports were offered.
Kampshoff indicated that there was a good pre-registration for trap shoot.
Kittay reported that there is no tour at Spearfish WW Plant due to an emergency.
Source to Stream: Miller reviewed Steever’s report from three group meeting held previously that day. A question to the membership is do they want a copy via electronic vs paper. There have been some printer issues on the time it takes to publish. They may change printers. Al Erickson is the SDWWA rep to the Editor Board. They need to take charge.
2023-24 Officers: Thorson will be president, Miller will be past-president, and Robinson will be President-Elect.
Nominations Committee: Goodmanson gave the report. The nomination for Vice President is Dustin Dale.
The nominations for directors are-
Mark McIntire-DWP-DANR will fill out Dustin Dale’s term.
Chad Hanson for Manufacturer’s Rep
Ted Lewis-Sioux Falls for the AWWA Position
WEA is still working on their rep
Goodmanson moved to accept the slate to be presented at the Business Meeting. Simmermon seconded. Motion passed.
Strategic Planning: Miller gave a summary of actions.
Scholarships: SDWWA-Kampshoff gave the report. There were four applicants. Dale moved to give two additional $1000 scholarships. These would be in addition to the two authorized at the September 2022 meeting. Hauge seconded. Motion passed. The winners have been determined for this year, and the check will be sent ASAP sent to each school.
SDSU/SDSMT Scholarships-The SDSU/SDSMT scholarship checks were written on September 1 and will appear in the 2024 fiscal year. Dale moved that $1000 be given each to SDSU and SDSMT to fund one scholarship at each school. Simmermon seconded. Motion passed.
Awards: Thorson reviewed the awards for the current year. Miller asked about honorary memberships.
Other Business: Thorson spoke about possibly safety equipment funding in conjunction with the other groups.
Goodmanson asked about having SDWWA S2S representative attend meetings.
Next Meeting: The proposed date of the next Board meeting is January 11, 2023 in Pierre just after the SDARWS ATC Conference.
Allen moved for adjournment. Springer seconded. Meeting adjourned at 7:15 pm.
September 15, 2023
Rob Kittay Date
Secretary
Members Present: Tanya Miller, Kyle Goodmanson, Chad Hanson, Craig Mitchell, Bryan Lipp, Greg Simmermon, Dustin Dale, Bill Thorson, Jon Hauge
Members Absent: Mitch Kannenberg, Ryan Allen, Chris Robinson, Jason Springer
Others Present: Rob Kittay-Executive Director; Margaret Sumption-Sumption & Wyland; Erin Steever-S2S
Call to Order: Miller called the meeting to order at 11:00 am. A quorum was present.
Approval of Agenda: Thorson moved for approval of the agenda. Dale seconded. Motion passed.
Minutes: The minutes from the January 11 and March 28, 2023 meetings had been emailed by Kittay and were on web site. Hauge moved to approve the minutes. Thorson seconded. Motion passed.
Strategic Planning Report: Sumption gave a summary of the meeting. It was suggested that at each board meeting that there be an agenda item entitled “Status of Strategic Plan”. The Board should also document outcomes from the plan. If the Board is not meeting the set goals then they should change the goals. Work on strategic plan is over and above general activities of the Board Members. Discussion also centered over the by-laws versus a constitution issue.
Dale moved to approve the strategic plan on a page and summary. Goodmanson seconded. Motion passed.
Kittay will champion Section 3. Thorson will take Section 1. Goodmanson will take Section 2. Miller will take Section 4.
Goodmanson moved to allow the Board to explore a contract with Mr. Wyland for a constitution review. Thorson seconded. Motion passed.
Executive Director’s Report: Kittay reported that there were the following amounts in the various accounts-
$63,701.81 in the checkbook as of 6/16/2023
$22,916.83 in S2S account 6/30/2023
$47,441.85 in the Wells Fargo scholarship account as of 7/6/2023 (comes due 10/2023)
Kittay will check options for renewal of CD in October.
Source to Stream Report: Miller noted that discussion about an electronic S2S had occurred at the strategic planning session. Steever reported the current status of S2S. Deb Gaikowski has been added to staff. The second quarter issue is at the printer now. Kittay stressed that the Q3 issue needs to be out in early August due to the Conference. Other items to be discussed at Tuesday nite combined association meeting at Conference are-pay raise for staff, editorial board composition, and possible updated software.
Committee Reports: Kittay has been forwarding any award nominations and will forward scholarship applications.
2023 Conference at the Holiday Inn-Spearfish: Kittay is currently working on the draft flyer. It should be done on July 10. He is sending an updated timeline regularly. Thorson reported status. Keynote speaker would cost around $1100. Goodmanson moved to hire the keynote speaker for not more than $1200. Hauge seconded. Motion passed.
2029 Conference Site: Kittay asked the Board where they would like to hold conference and that he would contact that site. Lipp moved to hold the 2029 conference in Deadwood. Goodmanson seconded. Motion passed.
Other Business: Kittay asked the Nominations Committee if they had their candidates for three directors and the vice president. Goodmanson said yes.
Next Meeting: The next Board meeting will be on September 12, 2023 at the Spearfish Holiday Inn at 6:00 pm.
Simmermon moved for adjournment. Hauge seconded. Meeting adjourned at 12:27 pm.
July 10, 2023
Rob Kittay Date
Executive Director
Members Absent: Mitch Kannenberg, Ryan Allen, Chris Robinson, Jason Springer
Others Present: Rob Kittay-Executive Director; Margaret Sumption-Sumption & Wyland; Erin Steever-S2S
Call to Order: Miller called the meeting to order at 11:00 am. A quorum was present.
Approval of Agenda: Thorson moved for approval of the agenda. Dale seconded. Motion passed.
Minutes: The minutes from the January 11 and March 28, 2023 meetings had been emailed by Kittay and were on web site. Hauge moved to approve the minutes. Thorson seconded. Motion passed.
Strategic Planning Report: Sumption gave a summary of the meeting. It was suggested that at each board meeting that there be an agenda item entitled “Status of Strategic Plan”. The Board should also document outcomes from the plan. If the Board is not meeting the set goals then they should change the goals. Work on strategic plan is over and above general activities of the Board Members. Discussion also centered over the by-laws versus a constitution issue.
Dale moved to approve the strategic plan on a page and summary. Goodmanson seconded. Motion passed.
Kittay will champion Section 3. Thorson will take Section 1. Goodmanson will take Section 2. Miller will take Section 4.
Goodmanson moved to allow the Board to explore a contract with Mr. Wyland for a constitution review. Thorson seconded. Motion passed.
Executive Director’s Report: Kittay reported that there were the following amounts in the various accounts-
$63,701.81 in the checkbook as of 6/16/2023
$22,916.83 in S2S account 6/30/2023
$47,441.85 in the Wells Fargo scholarship account as of 7/6/2023 (comes due 10/2023)
Kittay will check options for renewal of CD in October.
Source to Stream Report: Miller noted that discussion about an electronic S2S had occurred at the strategic planning session. Steever reported the current status of S2S. Deb Gaikowski has been added to staff. The second quarter issue is at the printer now. Kittay stressed that the Q3 issue needs to be out in early August due to the Conference. Other items to be discussed at Tuesday nite combined association meeting at Conference are-pay raise for staff, editorial board composition, and possible updated software.
Committee Reports: Kittay has been forwarding any award nominations and will forward scholarship applications.
2023 Conference at the Holiday Inn-Spearfish: Kittay is currently working on the draft flyer. It should be done on July 10. He is sending an updated timeline regularly. Thorson reported status. Keynote speaker would cost around $1100. Goodmanson moved to hire the keynote speaker for not more than $1200. Hauge seconded. Motion passed.
2029 Conference Site: Kittay asked the Board where they would like to hold conference and that he would contact that site. Lipp moved to hold the 2029 conference in Deadwood. Goodmanson seconded. Motion passed.
Other Business: Kittay asked the Nominations Committee if they had their candidates for three directors and the vice president. Goodmanson said yes.
Next Meeting: The next Board meeting will be on September 12, 2023 at the Spearfish Holiday Inn at 6:00 pm.
Simmermon moved for adjournment. Hauge seconded. Meeting adjourned at 12:27 pm.
July 10, 2023
Rob Kittay Date
Executive Director
Members Present: Mitch Kannenberg, Tanya Miller, Chris Robinson, Chad Hanson, Greg Simmermon, Jon Hauge, Ryan Allen, Jason Springer, Dustin Dale, Bill Thorson, Bryan Lipp
Members Absent: Kyle Goodmanson, Craig Mitchell
Others Present: Rob Kittay-Executive Director
Call to Order: Miller called the meeting to order at 8:33 am. A quorum was present.
Approval of Agenda: Thorson moved to add discussion of Kittay working with AWWA. Hauge seconded. Motion passed to add to the agenda. Dale moved to approve the amended agenda. Thorson seconded. Motion passed.
Strategic Planning: Miller gave a brief summary of the applicants and led the discussion. Kittay asked what kind of result would be received. Miller stated we would get a product outlining tasks to be done to improve the organization such as updating the by-laws and perhaps a mission statement. Kannenberg moved Margaret Sumption as our primary choice with Angela Lammers being our second choice if the first did not work out. Thorson seconded. Motion passed. As far as actually meeting with the provider, Thorson suggested a mid-week meeting sometime this summer. Miller will contact the candidate to get their open dates and will get back to the Board with options. The meeting will probably take place in Chamberlain-either AmericInn or Cedar Shores.
Other Business: Kittay has been approached by the AWWA-SD Section to be their Section Manager. He wanted the Board to know this to discuss any potential conflicts. The Board did not see any major issues with this arrangement as both groups prime interest is to further education in the water field.
Thorson moved for adjournment. Allen seconded. Meeting adjourned at 8:55 am.
March 31, 2023
Rob Kittay Date
Executive Director
Members Absent: Kyle Goodmanson, Craig Mitchell
Others Present: Rob Kittay-Executive Director
Call to Order: Miller called the meeting to order at 8:33 am. A quorum was present.
Approval of Agenda: Thorson moved to add discussion of Kittay working with AWWA. Hauge seconded. Motion passed to add to the agenda. Dale moved to approve the amended agenda. Thorson seconded. Motion passed.
Strategic Planning: Miller gave a brief summary of the applicants and led the discussion. Kittay asked what kind of result would be received. Miller stated we would get a product outlining tasks to be done to improve the organization such as updating the by-laws and perhaps a mission statement. Kannenberg moved Margaret Sumption as our primary choice with Angela Lammers being our second choice if the first did not work out. Thorson seconded. Motion passed. As far as actually meeting with the provider, Thorson suggested a mid-week meeting sometime this summer. Miller will contact the candidate to get their open dates and will get back to the Board with options. The meeting will probably take place in Chamberlain-either AmericInn or Cedar Shores.
Other Business: Kittay has been approached by the AWWA-SD Section to be their Section Manager. He wanted the Board to know this to discuss any potential conflicts. The Board did not see any major issues with this arrangement as both groups prime interest is to further education in the water field.
Thorson moved for adjournment. Allen seconded. Meeting adjourned at 8:55 am.
March 31, 2023
Rob Kittay Date
Executive Director
Unapproved Minutes
SDWWA 2022 Annual Business Meeting
September 15, 2022
Ramkota Inn-Sioux Falls
SDWWA 2022 Annual Business Meeting
September 15, 2022
Ramkota Inn-Sioux Falls
Call to Order: By President-Elect Kannenberg at 12:26 pm. Approximately 200 were in attendance.
Agenda: The agenda had been provided to the attendees. Mark Mayer wanted to give out the 20-year drinking water awards at the luncheon. Goodmanson moved for approval of the amended agenda. Perkovich seconded. Motion passed.
Minutes: The minutes of the 2021 Business Meeting had been posted to web site. Dale moved for approval. Dykstra seconded. Motion passed.
SDWWA Tuesday Board Meeting: Kannenberg reviewed the combined WEA/SDWWA/SD AWWA meeting and SDWWA Tuesday Board meeting for the attendees.
Old Business: There was a call for Old Business. Kannenberg noted that Kittay retired from DANR and was hired as Association Manager.
Officers for 2022-23: Kannenberg announced that Tanya Miller would be the 2022-23 President and Bill Thorson would be the President-Elect.
New Directors for 2022-23: The three candidates recommended by the Nominating Committee/SDWWA Board were:
Jason Springer-DeSmet
Ryan Allen-Minnehaha RWS
Dustin Dale-AE2S
Kannenberg called for nominations from the floor. Yde moved for nominations to cease and to cast a unanimous ballot. Thorson seconded. Motion passed.
Vice-President: The candidate from the Board was Chris Robinson-HDR. Kannenberg called for nominations from the floor. Kittay moved that a unanimous ballot be cast. Thorson seconded. Motion passed.
Secretary/Treasurer: The Board has decided to leave this position vacant as Kittay has been hired to work for the SDWWA. An assessment will be made over the coming year.
Outgoing Directors: Kyle Kampshoff, Chris Robinson, and Jesse Christianson are the outgoing directors and were recognized.
The gavel was then passed to Miller. Miller gave Kannenberg the President’s Award.
Miller introduced the entire Board.
Honorary Member: On Tuesday nite, the Board recommended that Jim Zeck be bestowed the title of Honorary Member. Motion by Graverson. Second by Mayer. Motion passed. Zeck was at meeting and given his plaque.
New Business: Mayer gave the 20 Year Drinking Water awards.
The sites of the future conferences were announced as follows: 2023-Spearfish Holiday Inn, 2024-The Lodge at Deadwood, 2025-Pierre Ramkota, 2026-Aberdeen Ramkota, 2027-The Lodge at Deadwood, and 2028-SF Ramkota.
Door Prizes: Kittay conducted the drawing for the prize for award nominators, conference watch, and door prizes. Stan Meyer won the Conference Watch, and Jon Brown won the Award Nominators Prize. Several other door prizes were given
Adjournment: Goodmanson moved for adjournment. Kampshoff seconded. Motion passed. Meeting adjourned at 12:59 pm.
9-28-2022
Rob Kittay Date
Agenda: The agenda had been provided to the attendees. Mark Mayer wanted to give out the 20-year drinking water awards at the luncheon. Goodmanson moved for approval of the amended agenda. Perkovich seconded. Motion passed.
Minutes: The minutes of the 2021 Business Meeting had been posted to web site. Dale moved for approval. Dykstra seconded. Motion passed.
SDWWA Tuesday Board Meeting: Kannenberg reviewed the combined WEA/SDWWA/SD AWWA meeting and SDWWA Tuesday Board meeting for the attendees.
Old Business: There was a call for Old Business. Kannenberg noted that Kittay retired from DANR and was hired as Association Manager.
Officers for 2022-23: Kannenberg announced that Tanya Miller would be the 2022-23 President and Bill Thorson would be the President-Elect.
New Directors for 2022-23: The three candidates recommended by the Nominating Committee/SDWWA Board were:
Jason Springer-DeSmet
Ryan Allen-Minnehaha RWS
Dustin Dale-AE2S
Kannenberg called for nominations from the floor. Yde moved for nominations to cease and to cast a unanimous ballot. Thorson seconded. Motion passed.
Vice-President: The candidate from the Board was Chris Robinson-HDR. Kannenberg called for nominations from the floor. Kittay moved that a unanimous ballot be cast. Thorson seconded. Motion passed.
Secretary/Treasurer: The Board has decided to leave this position vacant as Kittay has been hired to work for the SDWWA. An assessment will be made over the coming year.
Outgoing Directors: Kyle Kampshoff, Chris Robinson, and Jesse Christianson are the outgoing directors and were recognized.
The gavel was then passed to Miller. Miller gave Kannenberg the President’s Award.
Miller introduced the entire Board.
Honorary Member: On Tuesday nite, the Board recommended that Jim Zeck be bestowed the title of Honorary Member. Motion by Graverson. Second by Mayer. Motion passed. Zeck was at meeting and given his plaque.
New Business: Mayer gave the 20 Year Drinking Water awards.
The sites of the future conferences were announced as follows: 2023-Spearfish Holiday Inn, 2024-The Lodge at Deadwood, 2025-Pierre Ramkota, 2026-Aberdeen Ramkota, 2027-The Lodge at Deadwood, and 2028-SF Ramkota.
Door Prizes: Kittay conducted the drawing for the prize for award nominators, conference watch, and door prizes. Stan Meyer won the Conference Watch, and Jon Brown won the Award Nominators Prize. Several other door prizes were given
Adjournment: Goodmanson moved for adjournment. Kampshoff seconded. Motion passed. Meeting adjourned at 12:59 pm.
9-28-2022
Rob Kittay Date
Members Present: Mitch Kannenberg, Tanya Miller, Chris Robinson, Kyle Goodmanson, Chad Hanson, Craig Mitchell, Bryan Lipp, Greg Simmermon, Jon Hauge, Ryan Allen, Jason Springer, Dustin Dale
Members Absent: Bill Thorson
Others Present: Jesse Christianson, Rob Kittay-Executive Director and Erin Steever-S2S
Call to Order: Miller called the meeting to order at 11:52 am. A quorum was present.
Approval of Agenda: Goodmanson moved for approval of the agenda. Hauge seconded. Motion passed.
Minutes: The minutes had been emailed by Kittay and were on web site. Kannenberg moved to approve the minutes. Allen seconded. Motion passed.
Executive Director’s Report: Kittay reported that there were the following amounts in the various accounts-
$65,357.51 in the checkbook as of 12/19/2022
$23,737.51 in S2S account 12/30/2022
$46,777.32 in the Wells Fargo scholarship account as of 12/28/2022 (comes due 10/2023)
Check #2808 to SDWEA for $1365 (11/7/2022) has not been deposited.
Kittay presented his timesheet for September-December. There are communication issues w/ the Commercial Committee and getting their check for conference. Kittay and Hanson will follow up.
Simmermon moved to accept report. Lipp seconded. Motion passed.
Source to Stream Report: Steever reported. January 15 deadline for next edition. Advertising is getting taken care of for 2023. There a couple more people to help out w/ production.
2022 Conference Review: Room size at SF Ramkota was an issue. Goodmanson proposed to have the joint meeting w/ AWWA/SD WEA every year prior to conference. Christenson spoke about the gun rifle. Kittay suggested that they (Christianson and Kampshoff) just take care of it.
Wastewater Seminar: The seminar will be held at Red Rossa/Clubhouse in Pierre on April 19-20, 2023. Kittay reminded that the flyer should get out around March 1.
Water Seminar: The Water Seminar is scheduled for February 22-23, 2023 at the Kelly Inn-Yankton. The agenda and pre-registration form are on the web site.
SDWWA Committees for 2023: The committees were formed as follows-
AWARDS COORDINATOR
DUTIES : Order awards and plaques as needed by award committees
Determine presenters for all awards
Give nominating forms to Source-to-Stream staff for publication
Make summary sheet of award winners and presenters for Source-to-Stream for publication following Conference
Rob Kittay
WILLIAM AISENBREY AWARD (Formerly the NALCO Award)
DUTIES : Water operator of the year
Committee is responsible to seek candidates.
LEADER : Ryan Allen MEMBERS: Bryan Lipp and Mitch Kannenberg
WILLIAM BRINKER AWARD
DUTIES : Wastewater operator of the year
Committee is responsible to seek candidates.
LEADER : Craig Mitchell MEMBERS: Tanya Miller and Jon Hauge
PRICE-REES/SIGER BIES/ DORNBUSH/J.R. YDE AWARDS
DUTIES : Evaluate nominations for the Price-Rees/Siger Bies/Dornbush/J.R. Yde Awards. Committee will also aid in the selection of Honorary Members as outlined in the SDWWA By-laws. Committee is responsible to seek candidates.
LEADER : Del DeBoer MEMBERS : Chris Robinson and Dustin Dale
LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS COMMITTEE
COMMERCIAL COMMITTEE
DUTIES : Arrange social hours with host motel (Wednesday nite keg/wine and Thursday cash bar [two drink tickets attendees are furnished with registration for Thursday cash bar])
DAVENPORT COMMITTEE
DUTIES : The purpose of the award is to recognize a member of an SDWWA committee that contributed the most to the success of a particular project. The committee will be composed of the Water & Wastewater Committee Chairpersons and the SDWWA Secretary.
NOMINATIONS COMMITTEE
DUTIES : This committee will make three nominations to the Board for directors and one nomination for VP for the coming year. Candidates for Director should be members of SDWWA. They need to attend 2-3 Board meetings per year. They should be able to function within a 14-person Board and express their ideas/thoughts. Candidates for VP must have previously served on the Board. They must be capable of creating the Conference agenda while President-Elect. They must be able to perform their parts of the Annual Business Meeting and moderate a session of the Conference while both President-Elect and President. They must be able to conduct Board meetings while President.
LEADER : Kyle Goodmanson MEMBERS : Craig Mitchell and Chad Hanson
AUDITING COMMITTEE
DUTIES : This committee will audit the finances of the SDWWA prior to the Annual Conference.
LEADER : Mark McIntire MEMBERS : Andrea Griese and Bill Sarringar
2023 Conference at the Holiday Inn-Spearfish: Kittay had previously provided the Board with skeleton agendas for the Conference. Thorson is in charge of the agenda with AWWA and SDWEA forming the Thursday afternoon sessions. The dates are September 13-15, 2023. The Board was asked to provide possible presentation subjects. Numerous subjects were put forth as possible presentations-
GIS for Lead/Copper Inventory Engineering Student Presentations from SDSMT
DUNES Presentations Construction/Contractor Company Presentation
Water 2040 Pierre WTP
Powder House Pass Project West Dakota Regional Water Project
Madison Aquifer Mount Rushmore WW Plant
RC WW Expansion Summerset WW Project
PFOS Testing by State Cyber Security
Equipment/Chemical Procurement Procedure Pipeline Plastics/WL Tours
SF Water Festival: SDWWA gave $1000 to the SF Water Festival in 2022 and a number of previous years. They are asking for support again. Dale moved to give the Water Festival $1000 for 2023. Hauge seconded. Motion passed.
Board 2023 Tasks/Goals: Miller is asking if the Board wants to do some strategic planning, review the by-laws, outside audit, and succession planning. Kannenberg asked about the secretary/treasurer position. Miller is going to investigate the possibility of a strategic planning meeting.
Other Business: Goodmanson spoke about the Municipal League Conference to be held October 3-6 in RC. We had spoken about a joint presentation about the three groups.
Kittay reminded the Board to keep in mind a location for the 2029 Conference as SDWWA likes to stay six years ahead.
Next Meeting: The proposed date of the next Board meeting will be May to mid-June.
Allen moved for adjournment. Goodmanson seconded. Meeting adjourned at 1:14 pm.
January 18, 2023
Rob Kittay Date
Executive Director
Members Absent: Bill Thorson
Others Present: Jesse Christianson, Rob Kittay-Executive Director and Erin Steever-S2S
Call to Order: Miller called the meeting to order at 11:52 am. A quorum was present.
Approval of Agenda: Goodmanson moved for approval of the agenda. Hauge seconded. Motion passed.
Minutes: The minutes had been emailed by Kittay and were on web site. Kannenberg moved to approve the minutes. Allen seconded. Motion passed.
Executive Director’s Report: Kittay reported that there were the following amounts in the various accounts-
$65,357.51 in the checkbook as of 12/19/2022
$23,737.51 in S2S account 12/30/2022
$46,777.32 in the Wells Fargo scholarship account as of 12/28/2022 (comes due 10/2023)
Check #2808 to SDWEA for $1365 (11/7/2022) has not been deposited.
Kittay presented his timesheet for September-December. There are communication issues w/ the Commercial Committee and getting their check for conference. Kittay and Hanson will follow up.
Simmermon moved to accept report. Lipp seconded. Motion passed.
Source to Stream Report: Steever reported. January 15 deadline for next edition. Advertising is getting taken care of for 2023. There a couple more people to help out w/ production.
2022 Conference Review: Room size at SF Ramkota was an issue. Goodmanson proposed to have the joint meeting w/ AWWA/SD WEA every year prior to conference. Christenson spoke about the gun rifle. Kittay suggested that they (Christianson and Kampshoff) just take care of it.
Wastewater Seminar: The seminar will be held at Red Rossa/Clubhouse in Pierre on April 19-20, 2023. Kittay reminded that the flyer should get out around March 1.
Water Seminar: The Water Seminar is scheduled for February 22-23, 2023 at the Kelly Inn-Yankton. The agenda and pre-registration form are on the web site.
SDWWA Committees for 2023: The committees were formed as follows-
AWARDS COORDINATOR
DUTIES : Order awards and plaques as needed by award committees
Determine presenters for all awards
Give nominating forms to Source-to-Stream staff for publication
Make summary sheet of award winners and presenters for Source-to-Stream for publication following Conference
Rob Kittay
WILLIAM AISENBREY AWARD (Formerly the NALCO Award)
DUTIES : Water operator of the year
Committee is responsible to seek candidates.
LEADER : Ryan Allen MEMBERS: Bryan Lipp and Mitch Kannenberg
WILLIAM BRINKER AWARD
DUTIES : Wastewater operator of the year
Committee is responsible to seek candidates.
LEADER : Craig Mitchell MEMBERS: Tanya Miller and Jon Hauge
PRICE-REES/SIGER BIES/ DORNBUSH/J.R. YDE AWARDS
DUTIES : Evaluate nominations for the Price-Rees/Siger Bies/Dornbush/J.R. Yde Awards. Committee will also aid in the selection of Honorary Members as outlined in the SDWWA By-laws. Committee is responsible to seek candidates.
LEADER : Del DeBoer MEMBERS : Chris Robinson and Dustin Dale
LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS COMMITTEE
- Provide local on-site contact for Conference
- Arrange for Mayor or other local dignitary to give welcoming address on Wednesday at 1:00 pm
- Arrange for tours of wastewater/water/solid waste/etc plants for Wednesday morning including providing directions to plants (either poster at registration table or handouts), times of tours, etc.
- Obtain name tags, name tag holders, and local attraction packets from local chamber of commerce. Note-Prefer name tag cards that slip into holders-NOT stick-on labels. Name tag holders can be collected at conclusion of Conference to be returned to chamber.
- Purchase door prizes from local businesses w/ funds provided by SDWWA and conduct drawings thruout conference to give away door prizes
- Leader should obtain assistance from other local personnel
COMMERCIAL COMMITTEE
DUTIES : Arrange social hours with host motel (Wednesday nite keg/wine and Thursday cash bar [two drink tickets attendees are furnished with registration for Thursday cash bar])
- Arrange golf tourney
- Coordinate with motel on exhibitor session-Number of tables, arrangement, refreshments during exhibit, etc
- Assign tables to exhibitors on Wednesday nite of Conference
- Send flyers concerning table top displays to mailing list
- Provide final list of table top exhibitors to Secretary by September 1 for use at registration table
- Provide receipts and any other info for exhibitors if necessary. Info such as when they can setup tabletops, table assignments, etc is needed at Conference registration table for when exhibitors check in. Someone from committee should be available near registration table all Wednesday of Conference to answer questions from exhibitors.
DAVENPORT COMMITTEE
DUTIES : The purpose of the award is to recognize a member of an SDWWA committee that contributed the most to the success of a particular project. The committee will be composed of the Water & Wastewater Committee Chairpersons and the SDWWA Secretary.
NOMINATIONS COMMITTEE
DUTIES : This committee will make three nominations to the Board for directors and one nomination for VP for the coming year. Candidates for Director should be members of SDWWA. They need to attend 2-3 Board meetings per year. They should be able to function within a 14-person Board and express their ideas/thoughts. Candidates for VP must have previously served on the Board. They must be capable of creating the Conference agenda while President-Elect. They must be able to perform their parts of the Annual Business Meeting and moderate a session of the Conference while both President-Elect and President. They must be able to conduct Board meetings while President.
LEADER : Kyle Goodmanson MEMBERS : Craig Mitchell and Chad Hanson
AUDITING COMMITTEE
DUTIES : This committee will audit the finances of the SDWWA prior to the Annual Conference.
LEADER : Mark McIntire MEMBERS : Andrea Griese and Bill Sarringar
2023 Conference at the Holiday Inn-Spearfish: Kittay had previously provided the Board with skeleton agendas for the Conference. Thorson is in charge of the agenda with AWWA and SDWEA forming the Thursday afternoon sessions. The dates are September 13-15, 2023. The Board was asked to provide possible presentation subjects. Numerous subjects were put forth as possible presentations-
GIS for Lead/Copper Inventory Engineering Student Presentations from SDSMT
DUNES Presentations Construction/Contractor Company Presentation
Water 2040 Pierre WTP
Powder House Pass Project West Dakota Regional Water Project
Madison Aquifer Mount Rushmore WW Plant
RC WW Expansion Summerset WW Project
PFOS Testing by State Cyber Security
Equipment/Chemical Procurement Procedure Pipeline Plastics/WL Tours
SF Water Festival: SDWWA gave $1000 to the SF Water Festival in 2022 and a number of previous years. They are asking for support again. Dale moved to give the Water Festival $1000 for 2023. Hauge seconded. Motion passed.
Board 2023 Tasks/Goals: Miller is asking if the Board wants to do some strategic planning, review the by-laws, outside audit, and succession planning. Kannenberg asked about the secretary/treasurer position. Miller is going to investigate the possibility of a strategic planning meeting.
Other Business: Goodmanson spoke about the Municipal League Conference to be held October 3-6 in RC. We had spoken about a joint presentation about the three groups.
Kittay reminded the Board to keep in mind a location for the 2029 Conference as SDWWA likes to stay six years ahead.
Next Meeting: The proposed date of the next Board meeting will be May to mid-June.
Allen moved for adjournment. Goodmanson seconded. Meeting adjourned at 1:14 pm.
January 18, 2023
Rob Kittay Date
Executive Director
Members Present: Rob Kittay, Kevin Kuiper, Mitch Kannenberg, Bill Thorson, Tanya Miller, Kyle Kampshoff, Kyle Goodmanson, Chad Hanson, Bryan Lipp, Greg Simmermon, and Jon Hauge
Members Absent: Kevin Kuiper, Jesse Christianson, Chris Robinson, Craig Mitchell
Others Present: Erin Steever, Ryan Allen
Call to Order: Kannenberg called the meeting to order at 6:06 pm. A quorum was present.
Approval of Agenda: Simmermon moved for approval of the agenda. Miller seconded. Motion passed.
Minutes: The minutes were emailed by Kittay and were on web site. Goodmanson moved to approve the minutes. Simmermon seconded. Motion passed.
Old Business: There was none forthcoming.
Treasurer’s Report: Kittay reported that there were the following amounts in the various accounts-
$63,783.93 in the checkbook as of 8/15/2022
$30,431.73 in S2S account 7/29/2022
$28,159.34 In the BankWest CD as of 9/1/2022 (comes due on 11/8/2022)
$15,620.58 in the Wells Fargo account as of 9/1/2022 (comes due September 2023)
A full report of the income and payments was provided.
The SDSU/SDSMT scholarship checks were written on September 1 and will appear in the 2023 fiscal year. The SDWWA scholarship check as not been sent. Kittay needs info on who and where to send that check.
Kittay presented his timesheet for July-September.
The following checks have not been cashed and are being declared void-
#2757 Stockwell Engineers Conference Refund $130
#2775 City of RC Memberships Refunds $80
Goodmanson moved to accept report. Hauge seconded. Simmermon suggested a one year time period for the BankWest CD with the idea of combining it with the Wells-Fargo CD. Motion passed.
Auditing Committee: Andrea Griese and Mark McIntire were on the committee. Kittay gave the report as submitted by the committee. A copy was given to those present. The audit was done in September, 2022. The books were in order. Thorson moved to accept the report. Lipp seconded. Motion passed.
Wastewater Seminar: The seminar will be held in Pierre on April 19-20, 2023
Water Seminar: Goodmanson/Steever reported. The Water Seminar is scheduled for February in Mitchell or Watertown.
Other Committees: No other reports were offered.
Source to Stream: Erin Steever submitted a report. Advertising did not keep up with costs for the 4th quarter. The first quarter edition was 28 pages as opposed to the usual length of 24 pages. She is looking for a new co-editor position that is a paid position. Kannenberg reviewed that more articles are needed for S2S. Board members are encouraged to submit articles. Steever described content requirements for articles and pictures. Miller volunteered to send a Presidents Report for each edition. Kittay will coordinate. Deadlines for articles are January 15, April 30, June 30, and October 1.
2022-23 Officers: Miller will be president, Kannenberg will be past-president, and Thorson will be President-Elect.
Secretary-Treasurer: The Board has decided to leave the S/T position vacant as Kittay has been hired. An assessment will be made over the coming year.
Nominations Committee: Goodmanson gave the report. The nominations for directors are-
Ryan Allen-Minnehaha RWS
Dustin Dale-AE2S
Jason Springer-DeSmet
The nomination for Vice President is Chris Robinson-HDR.
Kittay moved to accept the slate to be presented at the Business Meeting. Simmermon seconded. Motion passed.
Scholarships: SDWWA-Thorson gave the report. The winner has been determined for this year, and the check will be sent ASAP sent to the school. Kampshoff moved to award $1000 for this year’s winner and two $1000 scholarships for 2023. Simmermon seconded. Motion passed.
SDSU/SDSMT Scholarships-The SDSU/SDSMT scholarship checks were written on September 1 and will appear in the 2023 fiscal year. Kittay moved that $1000 be given each to SDSU and SDSMT to fund one scholarship at each school. Goodmanson seconded. Motion passed.
Awards: Kittay reviewed the awards.
Honorary Member: Kannenberg reviewed the Honorary Membership procedure. Goodmanson moved that Jim Zeck be named as an Honorary Member. Hauge seconded. Motion passed.
Other Business: Kannenberg reviewed the joint meeting.
Simmermon moved that the 2028 Conference be held at the SF Ramkota. Kampshoff seconded. Motion Passed.
Next Meeting: The proposed date of the next Board meeting is January 10, 2022 in Pierre just prior to the SDARWS ATC Conference.
Goodmanson moved for adjournment. Simmermon seconded. Meeting adjourned at 7:49 pm.
September 28, 2022
Rob Kittay Date
Secretary
Members Absent: Kevin Kuiper, Jesse Christianson, Chris Robinson, Craig Mitchell
Others Present: Erin Steever, Ryan Allen
Call to Order: Kannenberg called the meeting to order at 6:06 pm. A quorum was present.
Approval of Agenda: Simmermon moved for approval of the agenda. Miller seconded. Motion passed.
Minutes: The minutes were emailed by Kittay and were on web site. Goodmanson moved to approve the minutes. Simmermon seconded. Motion passed.
Old Business: There was none forthcoming.
Treasurer’s Report: Kittay reported that there were the following amounts in the various accounts-
$63,783.93 in the checkbook as of 8/15/2022
$30,431.73 in S2S account 7/29/2022
$28,159.34 In the BankWest CD as of 9/1/2022 (comes due on 11/8/2022)
$15,620.58 in the Wells Fargo account as of 9/1/2022 (comes due September 2023)
A full report of the income and payments was provided.
The SDSU/SDSMT scholarship checks were written on September 1 and will appear in the 2023 fiscal year. The SDWWA scholarship check as not been sent. Kittay needs info on who and where to send that check.
Kittay presented his timesheet for July-September.
The following checks have not been cashed and are being declared void-
#2757 Stockwell Engineers Conference Refund $130
#2775 City of RC Memberships Refunds $80
Goodmanson moved to accept report. Hauge seconded. Simmermon suggested a one year time period for the BankWest CD with the idea of combining it with the Wells-Fargo CD. Motion passed.
Auditing Committee: Andrea Griese and Mark McIntire were on the committee. Kittay gave the report as submitted by the committee. A copy was given to those present. The audit was done in September, 2022. The books were in order. Thorson moved to accept the report. Lipp seconded. Motion passed.
Wastewater Seminar: The seminar will be held in Pierre on April 19-20, 2023
Water Seminar: Goodmanson/Steever reported. The Water Seminar is scheduled for February in Mitchell or Watertown.
Other Committees: No other reports were offered.
Source to Stream: Erin Steever submitted a report. Advertising did not keep up with costs for the 4th quarter. The first quarter edition was 28 pages as opposed to the usual length of 24 pages. She is looking for a new co-editor position that is a paid position. Kannenberg reviewed that more articles are needed for S2S. Board members are encouraged to submit articles. Steever described content requirements for articles and pictures. Miller volunteered to send a Presidents Report for each edition. Kittay will coordinate. Deadlines for articles are January 15, April 30, June 30, and October 1.
2022-23 Officers: Miller will be president, Kannenberg will be past-president, and Thorson will be President-Elect.
Secretary-Treasurer: The Board has decided to leave the S/T position vacant as Kittay has been hired. An assessment will be made over the coming year.
Nominations Committee: Goodmanson gave the report. The nominations for directors are-
Ryan Allen-Minnehaha RWS
Dustin Dale-AE2S
Jason Springer-DeSmet
The nomination for Vice President is Chris Robinson-HDR.
Kittay moved to accept the slate to be presented at the Business Meeting. Simmermon seconded. Motion passed.
Scholarships: SDWWA-Thorson gave the report. The winner has been determined for this year, and the check will be sent ASAP sent to the school. Kampshoff moved to award $1000 for this year’s winner and two $1000 scholarships for 2023. Simmermon seconded. Motion passed.
SDSU/SDSMT Scholarships-The SDSU/SDSMT scholarship checks were written on September 1 and will appear in the 2023 fiscal year. Kittay moved that $1000 be given each to SDSU and SDSMT to fund one scholarship at each school. Goodmanson seconded. Motion passed.
Awards: Kittay reviewed the awards.
Honorary Member: Kannenberg reviewed the Honorary Membership procedure. Goodmanson moved that Jim Zeck be named as an Honorary Member. Hauge seconded. Motion passed.
Other Business: Kannenberg reviewed the joint meeting.
Simmermon moved that the 2028 Conference be held at the SF Ramkota. Kampshoff seconded. Motion Passed.
Next Meeting: The proposed date of the next Board meeting is January 10, 2022 in Pierre just prior to the SDARWS ATC Conference.
Goodmanson moved for adjournment. Simmermon seconded. Meeting adjourned at 7:49 pm.
September 28, 2022
Rob Kittay Date
Secretary
Unapproved Minutes
SDWWA Board Meeting
July 13, 2022
Held via Zoom
SDWWA Board Meeting
July 13, 2022
Held via Zoom
Members Present: Mitch Kannenberg-President, Tanya Miller-President-Elect, Rob Kittay-Secretary-Treasurer, Jesse Christianson, Bryan Lipp, Greg Simmermon, Jon Hauge, Kyle Kampshoff, Kevin Kuiper-Past-President
Members Absent: Chris Robinson, Bill Thorson-Vice President, Kyle Goodmanson-AWWA, Craig Mitchell-SDWEA, Chad Hanson
Others Present: None
Call to Order: Kannenberg called the meeting to order at 8:48 am. A quorum was present. Introductions were made.
Approval of Agenda: Lipp moved for approval of the amended agenda. Miller seconded. Motion passed.
Minutes: The minutes were emailed by Kittay and were on web site. Hauge moved to approve minutes. Kuiper seconded. Motion passed.
Treasurer’s Report: Kittay reported the following balances in the various SDWWA accounts-
Checkbook $64,491.81 as of June 17, 2022
Source-to-Stream $27,031.73 as of May 31, 2022
BankWest CD for Scholarships $28,117.27 as of November 8, 2021
Wells Fargo $15,524.33 as of December 20, 2021
For the Wells Fargo account, a regular statement is not sent. Kittay called ten days ago to get a balance and that his not arrived yet.
Simmermon moved to accept report. Hauge seconded. Motion passed.
Contract with Kittay: Kittay is now retired and does not have State resources to support his activities with SDWWA. Kannenberg and he have been working on a contract to pay for his services. Kittay would now longer be the Secretary/Treasurer. That position would remain vacant for now. Kittay suggested that if that position was filled, it would run the checkbooks and do the minutes for Board meetings. Fiscal yr for renewal. Kuiper motioned to accept contract. Christianson seconded. Motion passed.
This contract will go thru this Conference then be renewed at each Conference.
2022 Conference at the Ramkota in Sioux Falls: There are a couple items that need to be discussed. Miller has proposed a keynote address for the Conference with two options for the presentation. The Board decided to go with the basic presentation.
Gun Raffle-Kampshoff filled the Board in on details of the gun raffle that would contribute to the scholarship fund. Christianson spoke on the Trap/Skeet Shoot.
Other items-Kittay indicated that all agenda items need thru Miller. A final agenda with presenters is needed by August 1 for the booklet. AWWA/WEA need to get a current list of officers to Kittay ASAP. Kittay will get Gavin Graverson a check for the purchase of door prizes.
2028 Conference Site: The Board wanted Kittay to explore possibilities of holding 2028 Conference at the Lodge at Deadwood. He has temporarily scheduled there pending Board approval. The dates would be September 13-15, 2028. The Board also has interests in holding the 2028 in Sioux Falls. This will be decided at next meeting.
Other Business: The Board has a candidate for a lifetime member award. Kittay asked about 2023 seminar dates and no dates had been determined.
Next Meeting: The next meeting will be on Tuesday September 13 at 6:00 pm in Sioux Falls.
Kittay moved for adjournment. Kampshoff seconded. Meeting adjourned at 10:00 am.
July 14, 2022
Rob Kittay Date
Secretary
Members Absent: Chris Robinson, Bill Thorson-Vice President, Kyle Goodmanson-AWWA, Craig Mitchell-SDWEA, Chad Hanson
Others Present: None
Call to Order: Kannenberg called the meeting to order at 8:48 am. A quorum was present. Introductions were made.
Approval of Agenda: Lipp moved for approval of the amended agenda. Miller seconded. Motion passed.
Minutes: The minutes were emailed by Kittay and were on web site. Hauge moved to approve minutes. Kuiper seconded. Motion passed.
Treasurer’s Report: Kittay reported the following balances in the various SDWWA accounts-
Checkbook $64,491.81 as of June 17, 2022
Source-to-Stream $27,031.73 as of May 31, 2022
BankWest CD for Scholarships $28,117.27 as of November 8, 2021
Wells Fargo $15,524.33 as of December 20, 2021
For the Wells Fargo account, a regular statement is not sent. Kittay called ten days ago to get a balance and that his not arrived yet.
Simmermon moved to accept report. Hauge seconded. Motion passed.
Contract with Kittay: Kittay is now retired and does not have State resources to support his activities with SDWWA. Kannenberg and he have been working on a contract to pay for his services. Kittay would now longer be the Secretary/Treasurer. That position would remain vacant for now. Kittay suggested that if that position was filled, it would run the checkbooks and do the minutes for Board meetings. Fiscal yr for renewal. Kuiper motioned to accept contract. Christianson seconded. Motion passed.
This contract will go thru this Conference then be renewed at each Conference.
2022 Conference at the Ramkota in Sioux Falls: There are a couple items that need to be discussed. Miller has proposed a keynote address for the Conference with two options for the presentation. The Board decided to go with the basic presentation.
Gun Raffle-Kampshoff filled the Board in on details of the gun raffle that would contribute to the scholarship fund. Christianson spoke on the Trap/Skeet Shoot.
Other items-Kittay indicated that all agenda items need thru Miller. A final agenda with presenters is needed by August 1 for the booklet. AWWA/WEA need to get a current list of officers to Kittay ASAP. Kittay will get Gavin Graverson a check for the purchase of door prizes.
2028 Conference Site: The Board wanted Kittay to explore possibilities of holding 2028 Conference at the Lodge at Deadwood. He has temporarily scheduled there pending Board approval. The dates would be September 13-15, 2028. The Board also has interests in holding the 2028 in Sioux Falls. This will be decided at next meeting.
Other Business: The Board has a candidate for a lifetime member award. Kittay asked about 2023 seminar dates and no dates had been determined.
Next Meeting: The next meeting will be on Tuesday September 13 at 6:00 pm in Sioux Falls.
Kittay moved for adjournment. Kampshoff seconded. Meeting adjourned at 10:00 am.
July 14, 2022
Rob Kittay Date
Secretary
Unapproved Minutes
SDWWA Board Meeting
January 13, 2022
Red Rossa - Pierre
SDWWA Board Meeting
January 13, 2022
Red Rossa - Pierre
Members Present: Mitch Kannenberg-President, Tanya Miller-President-Elect, Bill Thorson-Vice President, Rob Kittay-Secretary-Treasurer, Kyle Goodmanson-AWWA, Craig Mitchell-SDWEA, Chad Hanson, Kyle Kampshoff, Jesse Christianson, Bryan Lipp, Greg Simmermon, Jon Hauge
Members Absent: Chris Robinson, Kevin Kuiper-Past-President
Others Present:
Call to Order: Kannenberg called the meeting to order at 11:34 am. A quorum was present. Introductions were made.
Approval of Agenda: Kannenberg wanted to add strategic planning and web site phishing to agenda. Lipp wanted to add conference site discussion to agenda. Kittay moved for approval of the amended agenda. Simmermon seconded. Motion passed.
Minutes: The minutes were emailed by Kittay and were on web site. Lipp’s first name was spelled incorrectly. Kittay moved to approve minutes. Thorson seconded. Motion passed.
Treasurer’s Report: Kittay reported the following balances in the various SDWWA accounts-
Checkbook $49,894.09 as of December 20, 2021
Source-to-Stream $24,248.84 as of November 30, 2021
BankWest CD for Scholarships $28,117.27 as of November 8, 2021
Wells Fargo $15,524.33 as of December 20, 2021
Kittay explained how the Wells Fargo account had been forgotten about and that it was brought to his attention by them of its existence. The BankWest account came from ending the East River FCU account.
This is the time of year when membership renewal money is coming in as all of the renewal notices have been sent to all members that did not attend Conference.
Thorson moved to accept report. Hanson seconded. Motion passed.
Source to Stream: Erin Steever submitted a report that Kittay gave.
Advertising information for 2022 is trickling in. 2021 was a good year with advertising picking up near the end of the year (possibly due to a turn in the economy or the popularity of South Dakota in general). 2022 is looking promising as well. We have our 4 1/2 page color ads already spoken for. We actually have 5 1/2 page color ads spoken for - which I've allowed in the past since we do have available space so I will cap it at 5 this year as well. This extra color ad will assist in covering the higher paper costs that we were made aware of with the last issue. We did not raise advertising prices for 2022, but we'll have to consider this for next year if prices continue to rise.
We have nine returning advertisers that have become regular supporters of the Source to Stream and have indicated interest in 2022 by either an advertising contract, check or both (AE2S, Core & Main, Electric Pump, HDR, Treatment Resources, Muffin Monster, Bartlett & West, DGR, and HR Green). I'm pleased with the number of companies that responded with the first request email, as this is probably a record! I've reached out to three companies that typically advertise or have advertised in the past (Banner, S.E.H., and Clark Engineering) as I haven't received any word if they are interested in 2022 advertising. We do have two new advertisers and two that are returning after a few year's off (ISG, Stockwell; SPN, VESSCO).
In 2021 I sent out an email to our advertisers letting them know that we are always looking for good content and encouraged them to submit articles for consideration. I'm happy to say that we had several advertisers take advantage of this. I hope this continues to be a trend.
If you are aware of a business that was not mentioned earlier that might be interested in advertising, please send me their contact information. Also, continue to encourage those you know to send in content or to send in content yourself. The publication is nothing without engaging, interesting, up-to-date content. Deadlines are listed on page 5 in the lower right corner of each issue - Jan 15, April 30, June 30 and Oct 1.
Crystal Ehresmann continues to be our designer. She does a fabulous job of making an eye-catching issue! She is also available for ad development as an independent graphic designer.
Water/Wastewater Seminars: Water-Kyle Goodmanson gave report. The Seminar is scheduled for March 16-17 at the Lodge at Deadwood. Kittay indicated that the flyer needs to get out by February 1.
Wastewater-Craig Mitchell reported. The seminar is April 20-21 at the Red Rossa Italian Grill in Pierre. Kittay suggested that that flyer get out by March 1.
2022 SDWWA Committees: The committees were formed for the year. (See attachment)
2022 Conference at the Ramkota in Sioux Falls: Kittay had previously provided the Board with skeleton agendas for the Conference. Miller is in charge of the agenda with AWWA and SDWEA forming the Thursday afternoon sessions. The dates are September 14-16, 2022. The Board was asked to provide possible presentation subjects. Numerous subjects were put forth as possible presentations. The MN AWWA Conference will coincide w/ our conference again this year.
SF Water Festival: SDWWA gave $1000 to the Festival in 2021 and a number of previous years. They are asking for support again. Kittay moved to give the Water Festival $1000 for 2022. Kampshoff seconded. Motion passed.
Other Business: Kittay stated that he could be retiring sometime in 2022. It would not be before the two seminars. He wanted to know the Board’s thoughts on him being the S/T and not employed by DANR. He wants to continue in the position but would not have DANR support for items like travel, etc. He suggested that he could be a paid employee of SDWWA and still be S/T. Another thought was that he not be S/T but be in a separate paid position. The Board is in favor of keeping Kittay on after he might retire. Kannenberg appointed a Strategic Planning Committee with their first order to business would be to work out details on keeping Kittay involved with the Board. The committee will consist of Kannenberg, Miller, Thorson, and Simmermon. Lipp movbed to approve the committee. Hauge seconded. Motion passed.
Kittay also asked about Conference sites for 2028. Lipp indicated that he heard that people wanted The Lodge at Deadwood to be the permanent location for conference. The Conference is already scheduled thru 2027 at various locations thru out the state including 2024 and 2027 at Deadwood. Kittay said he would inquire about 2028 dates at the Lodge.
Minnesota AWWA’s conference is again conflicting with our conference. It mostly affects the vendors. Hanson said there is usually a decrease when there is a conflict. Kittay will try to get the dates of Mn’s conference for the future years. A decision on how to proceed could then be made.
Kampshoff asked about running a shooting competition to raise money for scholarships at the 2022 Conference on that Wednesday morning similar to what was done a few years ago at the Pierre Conference. The Board had no issues with this. He and Christianson have also been working on a possible gun raffle. A gun builder would do an engraving on a selected gun. Raffle tickets would be sold at the Conference, and the gun awarded at that time. The winner would then have to pickup the gun at Mitchell. Kittay moved to approve the gun raffle. Simmermon seconded. Motion passed.
Next Meeting: Kannenberg will decide if a meeting is necessary for the summer. Otherwise the next Board meeting would be Tuesday September 13 at 6:00 pm in Sioux Falls.
Simmermon moved for adjournment. Thorson seconded. Meeting adjourned at 1:33 pm.
January 14, 2022
Rob Kittay Date
Secretary
Members Absent: Chris Robinson, Kevin Kuiper-Past-President
Others Present:
Call to Order: Kannenberg called the meeting to order at 11:34 am. A quorum was present. Introductions were made.
Approval of Agenda: Kannenberg wanted to add strategic planning and web site phishing to agenda. Lipp wanted to add conference site discussion to agenda. Kittay moved for approval of the amended agenda. Simmermon seconded. Motion passed.
Minutes: The minutes were emailed by Kittay and were on web site. Lipp’s first name was spelled incorrectly. Kittay moved to approve minutes. Thorson seconded. Motion passed.
Treasurer’s Report: Kittay reported the following balances in the various SDWWA accounts-
Checkbook $49,894.09 as of December 20, 2021
Source-to-Stream $24,248.84 as of November 30, 2021
BankWest CD for Scholarships $28,117.27 as of November 8, 2021
Wells Fargo $15,524.33 as of December 20, 2021
Kittay explained how the Wells Fargo account had been forgotten about and that it was brought to his attention by them of its existence. The BankWest account came from ending the East River FCU account.
This is the time of year when membership renewal money is coming in as all of the renewal notices have been sent to all members that did not attend Conference.
Thorson moved to accept report. Hanson seconded. Motion passed.
Source to Stream: Erin Steever submitted a report that Kittay gave.
Advertising information for 2022 is trickling in. 2021 was a good year with advertising picking up near the end of the year (possibly due to a turn in the economy or the popularity of South Dakota in general). 2022 is looking promising as well. We have our 4 1/2 page color ads already spoken for. We actually have 5 1/2 page color ads spoken for - which I've allowed in the past since we do have available space so I will cap it at 5 this year as well. This extra color ad will assist in covering the higher paper costs that we were made aware of with the last issue. We did not raise advertising prices for 2022, but we'll have to consider this for next year if prices continue to rise.
We have nine returning advertisers that have become regular supporters of the Source to Stream and have indicated interest in 2022 by either an advertising contract, check or both (AE2S, Core & Main, Electric Pump, HDR, Treatment Resources, Muffin Monster, Bartlett & West, DGR, and HR Green). I'm pleased with the number of companies that responded with the first request email, as this is probably a record! I've reached out to three companies that typically advertise or have advertised in the past (Banner, S.E.H., and Clark Engineering) as I haven't received any word if they are interested in 2022 advertising. We do have two new advertisers and two that are returning after a few year's off (ISG, Stockwell; SPN, VESSCO).
In 2021 I sent out an email to our advertisers letting them know that we are always looking for good content and encouraged them to submit articles for consideration. I'm happy to say that we had several advertisers take advantage of this. I hope this continues to be a trend.
If you are aware of a business that was not mentioned earlier that might be interested in advertising, please send me their contact information. Also, continue to encourage those you know to send in content or to send in content yourself. The publication is nothing without engaging, interesting, up-to-date content. Deadlines are listed on page 5 in the lower right corner of each issue - Jan 15, April 30, June 30 and Oct 1.
Crystal Ehresmann continues to be our designer. She does a fabulous job of making an eye-catching issue! She is also available for ad development as an independent graphic designer.
Water/Wastewater Seminars: Water-Kyle Goodmanson gave report. The Seminar is scheduled for March 16-17 at the Lodge at Deadwood. Kittay indicated that the flyer needs to get out by February 1.
Wastewater-Craig Mitchell reported. The seminar is April 20-21 at the Red Rossa Italian Grill in Pierre. Kittay suggested that that flyer get out by March 1.
2022 SDWWA Committees: The committees were formed for the year. (See attachment)
2022 Conference at the Ramkota in Sioux Falls: Kittay had previously provided the Board with skeleton agendas for the Conference. Miller is in charge of the agenda with AWWA and SDWEA forming the Thursday afternoon sessions. The dates are September 14-16, 2022. The Board was asked to provide possible presentation subjects. Numerous subjects were put forth as possible presentations. The MN AWWA Conference will coincide w/ our conference again this year.
SF Water Festival: SDWWA gave $1000 to the Festival in 2021 and a number of previous years. They are asking for support again. Kittay moved to give the Water Festival $1000 for 2022. Kampshoff seconded. Motion passed.
Other Business: Kittay stated that he could be retiring sometime in 2022. It would not be before the two seminars. He wanted to know the Board’s thoughts on him being the S/T and not employed by DANR. He wants to continue in the position but would not have DANR support for items like travel, etc. He suggested that he could be a paid employee of SDWWA and still be S/T. Another thought was that he not be S/T but be in a separate paid position. The Board is in favor of keeping Kittay on after he might retire. Kannenberg appointed a Strategic Planning Committee with their first order to business would be to work out details on keeping Kittay involved with the Board. The committee will consist of Kannenberg, Miller, Thorson, and Simmermon. Lipp movbed to approve the committee. Hauge seconded. Motion passed.
Kittay also asked about Conference sites for 2028. Lipp indicated that he heard that people wanted The Lodge at Deadwood to be the permanent location for conference. The Conference is already scheduled thru 2027 at various locations thru out the state including 2024 and 2027 at Deadwood. Kittay said he would inquire about 2028 dates at the Lodge.
Minnesota AWWA’s conference is again conflicting with our conference. It mostly affects the vendors. Hanson said there is usually a decrease when there is a conflict. Kittay will try to get the dates of Mn’s conference for the future years. A decision on how to proceed could then be made.
Kampshoff asked about running a shooting competition to raise money for scholarships at the 2022 Conference on that Wednesday morning similar to what was done a few years ago at the Pierre Conference. The Board had no issues with this. He and Christianson have also been working on a possible gun raffle. A gun builder would do an engraving on a selected gun. Raffle tickets would be sold at the Conference, and the gun awarded at that time. The winner would then have to pickup the gun at Mitchell. Kittay moved to approve the gun raffle. Simmermon seconded. Motion passed.
Next Meeting: Kannenberg will decide if a meeting is necessary for the summer. Otherwise the next Board meeting would be Tuesday September 13 at 6:00 pm in Sioux Falls.
Simmermon moved for adjournment. Thorson seconded. Meeting adjourned at 1:33 pm.
January 14, 2022
Rob Kittay Date
Secretary
Unapproved Minutes
SDWWA 2021 Annual Business Meeting
September 16, 2021
Ramkota Inn-Rapid City
SDWWA 2021 Annual Business Meeting
September 16, 2021
Ramkota Inn-Rapid City
Call to Order: By President-Elect Kannenberg at 12:17 qm. Approximately 150 were in attendance.
Agenda: The agenda had been provided to the attendees. Schmit moved for approval of the agenda. Goodmanson seconded. Motion passed.
Minutes: The minutes of the 2020 Business Meeting had been posted to web site. Van Cleave moved for approval. Sarringar seconded. Motion passed.
SDWWA Board Meeting: Kannenbeg reviewed the Tuesday Board meeting for the attendees.
Old Business: There was a call for Old Business. There was none forthcoming.
Officers for 2021-22: Kannenberg announced that he would be the 2021-22 President and Tanya Miller would be the President-Elect.
New Directors for 2021-22: The three candidates recommended by the Nominating Committee/SDWWA Board were:
Brian Lipp-Banner Greg Simmermon-T-M RWS Jon Hauge-Volga
Kannenberg called for nominations from the floor. Kittay moved for nominations to cease and to cast a unanimous ballot. Christianson seconded. Motion passed.
Vice-President-The candidate from the Board was Bill Thorson. Kannberg called for nominations from the floor.
Secretary/Treasurer: The candidate from the Board was Rob Kittay. Kannenberg called for nominations from the floor. Ripley moved that nominations cease for VP and ST.
Outgoing Directors: Ryan Allen, Bill Thorson, and Richard Sternberg are the outgoing directors and were recognized.
Kannenberg introduced the entire Board.
DANR-DWP Awards: Mark Mayer announced the 20 Year Drinking Water Program Awards.
New Business: The sites of the future conferences were announced as follows: 2022-Sioux Falls Ramkota, 2023-Spearfish Holiday Inn, 2024-The Lodge at Deadwood, 2025-Pierre Ramkota, 2026-Aberdeen Ramkota, and 2027-The Lodge at Deadwood.
Door Prizes: Kittay conducted the drawing for the prize for award nominators, conference watch, and door prizes. Mark Kuchenmeister won the Conference Watch, and Aaron Moen won the Award Nominators Prize. Several other door prizes were given
Adjournment: Graverson moved for adjournment. Goodmanson seconded. Motion passed. Meeting adjourned at 12:46 pm.
9-22-2021
Rob Kittay Date
Secretary
Agenda: The agenda had been provided to the attendees. Schmit moved for approval of the agenda. Goodmanson seconded. Motion passed.
Minutes: The minutes of the 2020 Business Meeting had been posted to web site. Van Cleave moved for approval. Sarringar seconded. Motion passed.
SDWWA Board Meeting: Kannenbeg reviewed the Tuesday Board meeting for the attendees.
Old Business: There was a call for Old Business. There was none forthcoming.
Officers for 2021-22: Kannenberg announced that he would be the 2021-22 President and Tanya Miller would be the President-Elect.
New Directors for 2021-22: The three candidates recommended by the Nominating Committee/SDWWA Board were:
Brian Lipp-Banner Greg Simmermon-T-M RWS Jon Hauge-Volga
Kannenberg called for nominations from the floor. Kittay moved for nominations to cease and to cast a unanimous ballot. Christianson seconded. Motion passed.
Vice-President-The candidate from the Board was Bill Thorson. Kannberg called for nominations from the floor.
Secretary/Treasurer: The candidate from the Board was Rob Kittay. Kannenberg called for nominations from the floor. Ripley moved that nominations cease for VP and ST.
Outgoing Directors: Ryan Allen, Bill Thorson, and Richard Sternberg are the outgoing directors and were recognized.
Kannenberg introduced the entire Board.
DANR-DWP Awards: Mark Mayer announced the 20 Year Drinking Water Program Awards.
New Business: The sites of the future conferences were announced as follows: 2022-Sioux Falls Ramkota, 2023-Spearfish Holiday Inn, 2024-The Lodge at Deadwood, 2025-Pierre Ramkota, 2026-Aberdeen Ramkota, and 2027-The Lodge at Deadwood.
Door Prizes: Kittay conducted the drawing for the prize for award nominators, conference watch, and door prizes. Mark Kuchenmeister won the Conference Watch, and Aaron Moen won the Award Nominators Prize. Several other door prizes were given
Adjournment: Graverson moved for adjournment. Goodmanson seconded. Motion passed. Meeting adjourned at 12:46 pm.
9-22-2021
Rob Kittay Date
Secretary
Members Present: Rob Kittay, Del DeBoer, Kevin Kuiper, Mitch Kannenberg, Kyle Goodmanson, Chad Hanson, Ryan Allen, Bill Thorson, Richard Sternberg, Kyle Kampshoff, and Jesse Christianson
Members Absent: Chris Robinson, Tanya Miller, and Craig Mitchell
Others Present: Erin Steever, Brian Lipp, Greg Simmermon
Call to Order: Kuiper called the meeting to order at 6:18 pm. A quorum was present.
Approval of Agenda: Kittay wanted to add Mark Mayer to speak on Capacity Development Strategy Revison. Christianson moved for approval of the amended agenda. DeBoer seconded. Motion passed.
Minutes: The minutes were emailed by Kittay and were on web site. Kittay moved to approve the minutes. Sternberg seconded. Motion passed.
Old Business: There was none forthcoming.
Treasurer’s Report: Kittay reported that there were the following amounts in the various accounts-
$52,904.48 in the checkbook as of 8/16/2021
$25,934.66 in S2S account 7/30/2021
$27,958.33 and $1242.50 in the East River FCU accounts as of 6/30/2021
A full report of the income and payments was provided. Kittay noted that the ERFCU certificate is coming due on October 27, 2021.
Goodmanson moved to accept report. Thorson seconded. Motion passed.
Kittay volunteered to look into possible changes for the ERFCU certificate that comes due by October 27, 2021.
Auditing Committee: Andrea Griese, Mark McIntire, and Dane Brewer were on the committee. Kittay gave the report as submitted by the committee. A copy was given to those present. The audit was done in September, 2021. The books were in order. Kittay moved to accept the report. Goodmanson seconded. Motion passed.
Wastewater Seminar: No report
Water Seminar: Steever reported. The Water Seminar is scheduled for February in Deadwood. No specific date has been set pending the Rural Water training schedule.
Other Committees: No other reports were offered.
Source to Stream: Erin Steever submitted a report. Advertising is going well.
2021-22 Officers: Kannenberg will be president, Kuiper will be past-president, and Miller will be President-Elect.
Secretary-Treasurer: Christianson nominated Kittay with Allen seconding. Motion passed. Kittay will be the Board’s candidate for S/T.
Nominations Committee: Allen gave the report. The nominations for directors are-
Jon Hauge-Volga
Greg Simmermon-TM RWS
Brian Lipp-Banner Associates
The nomination for Vice President was Bill Thorson.
Kittay moved to accept the slate. DeBoer seconded. Motion passed.
Scholarships: SDWWA-Kittay gave the report. The winners have been determined for this year, and the checks have been sent to the school. He suggested that the scholarship program be continued. Kittay moved to award two $500 scholarships for 2022 using the funds in ERFCU. Allen seconded. Motion passed.
Zeck announced that he will be retiring, and a new leader for the SDWWA Scholarship is needed. Goodmanson moved Thorson, Kampshoff as the leader, and himself be on the committee. Motion passed.
SDSU/SDSMT Scholarships-Goodmanson moved that $1000 be given each to SDSU and SDSMT to fund one scholarship at each school. Kannenberg seconded. Motion passed.
Awards: DeBoer-The South Dakota shape plaques will not be available until October. He is willing to stay on Longevity Committee.
Other Business: Mark Mayer addressed the Board via cell phone. He discussed Capacity Development Strategy Revision required by EPA. Asset management must be integrated into the Capacity Development Program or some of the Drinking Water State Revolving Fund can be taken away by EPA. DeBoer offered that assessing the condition of some system components is useful for determining possible replacement.
Next Meeting: The proposed date of the next Board meeting is January 11, 2022 in Pierre just prior to the SDARWS ATC Conference.
Goodmanson moved for adjournment. Kampshoff seconded. Meeting adjourned at 8:01 pm.
September 22, 2021
Rob Kittay Date
Secretary
Members Absent: Chris Robinson, Tanya Miller, and Craig Mitchell
Others Present: Erin Steever, Brian Lipp, Greg Simmermon
Call to Order: Kuiper called the meeting to order at 6:18 pm. A quorum was present.
Approval of Agenda: Kittay wanted to add Mark Mayer to speak on Capacity Development Strategy Revison. Christianson moved for approval of the amended agenda. DeBoer seconded. Motion passed.
Minutes: The minutes were emailed by Kittay and were on web site. Kittay moved to approve the minutes. Sternberg seconded. Motion passed.
Old Business: There was none forthcoming.
Treasurer’s Report: Kittay reported that there were the following amounts in the various accounts-
$52,904.48 in the checkbook as of 8/16/2021
$25,934.66 in S2S account 7/30/2021
$27,958.33 and $1242.50 in the East River FCU accounts as of 6/30/2021
A full report of the income and payments was provided. Kittay noted that the ERFCU certificate is coming due on October 27, 2021.
Goodmanson moved to accept report. Thorson seconded. Motion passed.
Kittay volunteered to look into possible changes for the ERFCU certificate that comes due by October 27, 2021.
Auditing Committee: Andrea Griese, Mark McIntire, and Dane Brewer were on the committee. Kittay gave the report as submitted by the committee. A copy was given to those present. The audit was done in September, 2021. The books were in order. Kittay moved to accept the report. Goodmanson seconded. Motion passed.
Wastewater Seminar: No report
Water Seminar: Steever reported. The Water Seminar is scheduled for February in Deadwood. No specific date has been set pending the Rural Water training schedule.
Other Committees: No other reports were offered.
Source to Stream: Erin Steever submitted a report. Advertising is going well.
2021-22 Officers: Kannenberg will be president, Kuiper will be past-president, and Miller will be President-Elect.
Secretary-Treasurer: Christianson nominated Kittay with Allen seconding. Motion passed. Kittay will be the Board’s candidate for S/T.
Nominations Committee: Allen gave the report. The nominations for directors are-
Jon Hauge-Volga
Greg Simmermon-TM RWS
Brian Lipp-Banner Associates
The nomination for Vice President was Bill Thorson.
Kittay moved to accept the slate. DeBoer seconded. Motion passed.
Scholarships: SDWWA-Kittay gave the report. The winners have been determined for this year, and the checks have been sent to the school. He suggested that the scholarship program be continued. Kittay moved to award two $500 scholarships for 2022 using the funds in ERFCU. Allen seconded. Motion passed.
Zeck announced that he will be retiring, and a new leader for the SDWWA Scholarship is needed. Goodmanson moved Thorson, Kampshoff as the leader, and himself be on the committee. Motion passed.
SDSU/SDSMT Scholarships-Goodmanson moved that $1000 be given each to SDSU and SDSMT to fund one scholarship at each school. Kannenberg seconded. Motion passed.
Awards: DeBoer-The South Dakota shape plaques will not be available until October. He is willing to stay on Longevity Committee.
Other Business: Mark Mayer addressed the Board via cell phone. He discussed Capacity Development Strategy Revision required by EPA. Asset management must be integrated into the Capacity Development Program or some of the Drinking Water State Revolving Fund can be taken away by EPA. DeBoer offered that assessing the condition of some system components is useful for determining possible replacement.
Next Meeting: The proposed date of the next Board meeting is January 11, 2022 in Pierre just prior to the SDARWS ATC Conference.
Goodmanson moved for adjournment. Kampshoff seconded. Meeting adjourned at 8:01 pm.
September 22, 2021
Rob Kittay Date
Secretary
Unapproved Minutes
SDWWA Board Meeting
June 2, 2021
Al’s Oasis-Oacoma
SDWWA Board Meeting
June 2, 2021
Al’s Oasis-Oacoma
Members Present: Del DeBoer-Past-President, Kevin Kuiper-President, Rob Kittay-Secretary-Treasurer, Mitch Kannenberg-President Elect, Tanya Miller-VP, Chad Hanson, Kyle Goodmanson-AWWA, Richard Sternberg, Kyle Kampshoff, Jesse Christianson, Ryan Allen
Members Absent: Chris Robinson, Bill Thorson, Craig Mitchell-SDWEA
Others Present:
Call to Order: Kuiper called the meeting to order at 11:47 am. A quorum was present. Introductions were made.
Approval of Agenda: DeBoer moved for approval of the agenda. Christianson seconded. Motion passed.
Minutes: The minutes were emailed by Kittay and were on web site. Kannenberg moved to approve minutes. Sternberg seconded. Motion passed.
Treasurer’s Report: Kittay reported the following balances in the various SDWWA accounts-
Checkbook $49,822.85 as of April 19, 2021
Source-to-Stream $25,837.83 as of April 30, 2021
East River FCU for Scholarships-$1242.36 and $27,837.39 as of March 31, 2021
With the two seminars having been cancelled, there has not been much activity other than membership renewal.
Kampshoff moved to accept report. Miller seconded. Motion passed.
Committee Reports: DeBoer reported that quite a few longevity awards might be given and was wondering about logistics of giving the awards at the conference and costs. The awards could be given at either the luncheon or banquet depending on numbers. The Board had no problem with the cost.
Allen said that he had sent out inquiries for the Aisenbrey Award and had gotten no response.
The Nominations Committee has their three director candidates.
There are three candidates for the William Brinker Award.
Miller moved to accept the committee reports. Allen seconded. Motion passed.
2021 Conference at the Ramkota in RC: The dates are September 15-17, 2021. Covid cases are down, and a vaccine is readily available. Numerous water/WW systems have indicated that they would like to attend an “in-person” conference. Kittay moved to hold an “in person” conference. Goodmanson seconded. Kannenberg asked about a hybrid option. DeBoer was concerned about display space. Kittay will send a “save the date” email. Motion passed.
Topics for Conference: Additional topics were proposed-Covid issues. Demographic issues. Mental health. Cybersecurity. Work force and wages.
2027 Conference Site Selection: The dates for this conference are September 15-17, 2027. The Board is interested in having this conference in Deadwood. Kittay will contact The Lodge.
Other Business: None was forthcoming.
Next Meeting: The next meeting will be at the Conference on September 14, 2021 at 6:00 pm MT.
Kampshoff moved for adjournment. Millder seconded. Meeting adjourned at 1:00 pm.
June 3, 2021
Rob Kittay Date
Secretary
Members Absent: Chris Robinson, Bill Thorson, Craig Mitchell-SDWEA
Others Present:
Call to Order: Kuiper called the meeting to order at 11:47 am. A quorum was present. Introductions were made.
Approval of Agenda: DeBoer moved for approval of the agenda. Christianson seconded. Motion passed.
Minutes: The minutes were emailed by Kittay and were on web site. Kannenberg moved to approve minutes. Sternberg seconded. Motion passed.
Treasurer’s Report: Kittay reported the following balances in the various SDWWA accounts-
Checkbook $49,822.85 as of April 19, 2021
Source-to-Stream $25,837.83 as of April 30, 2021
East River FCU for Scholarships-$1242.36 and $27,837.39 as of March 31, 2021
With the two seminars having been cancelled, there has not been much activity other than membership renewal.
Kampshoff moved to accept report. Miller seconded. Motion passed.
Committee Reports: DeBoer reported that quite a few longevity awards might be given and was wondering about logistics of giving the awards at the conference and costs. The awards could be given at either the luncheon or banquet depending on numbers. The Board had no problem with the cost.
Allen said that he had sent out inquiries for the Aisenbrey Award and had gotten no response.
The Nominations Committee has their three director candidates.
There are three candidates for the William Brinker Award.
Miller moved to accept the committee reports. Allen seconded. Motion passed.
2021 Conference at the Ramkota in RC: The dates are September 15-17, 2021. Covid cases are down, and a vaccine is readily available. Numerous water/WW systems have indicated that they would like to attend an “in-person” conference. Kittay moved to hold an “in person” conference. Goodmanson seconded. Kannenberg asked about a hybrid option. DeBoer was concerned about display space. Kittay will send a “save the date” email. Motion passed.
Topics for Conference: Additional topics were proposed-Covid issues. Demographic issues. Mental health. Cybersecurity. Work force and wages.
2027 Conference Site Selection: The dates for this conference are September 15-17, 2027. The Board is interested in having this conference in Deadwood. Kittay will contact The Lodge.
Other Business: None was forthcoming.
Next Meeting: The next meeting will be at the Conference on September 14, 2021 at 6:00 pm MT.
Kampshoff moved for adjournment. Millder seconded. Meeting adjourned at 1:00 pm.
June 3, 2021
Rob Kittay Date
Secretary
Unapproved Minutes
SDWWA Board Meeting
January 12, 2021
Meeting Held Via Teams
SDWWA Board Meeting
January 12, 2021
Meeting Held Via Teams
Members Present: Del DeBoer-Past-President, Kevin Kuiper-President, Rob Kittay-Secretary-
Treasurer, Mitch Kannenberg-President Elect, Tanya Miller-VP, Chad Hanson, Kyle Goodmanson-
AWWA, Craig Mitchell-SDWEA, Bill Thorson, Richard Sternberg, Kyle Kampshoff, Jesse
Christianson,
Members Absent: Chris Robinson, Ryan Allen
Others Present: Jim Zeck
Call to Order: Kuiper called the meeting to order at 11:36 am. A quorum was present. Introductions
were made.
Approval of Agenda: Kampshoff moved for approval of the agenda. Sternberg seconded. Motion
passed.
Minutes: The minutes were emailed by Kittay and were on web site. Kannenberg moved to approve
minutes. Thorson seconded. Motion passed.
Treasurer’s Report: Kittay reported the following balances in the various SDWWA accounts-
Checkbook $48,649.47 as of December 21, 2020
Source-to-Stream $18,958.49 as of December 31, 2020
East River FCU for Scholarships-$1242.06 and $27,597.09 as of September 30, 2020
This is the time of year when membership renewal money is coming in as all of the renewal notices
have been sent to all members as there were no renewals associated w/ Conference attendance.
Christianson moved to accept report. Miller seconded. Motion passed.
Water/Wastewater Seminars: Water-Kyle Goodmanson gave report. The AWWA Section is leaning
towards going virtual and wanted an OK from the Board. Kittay moved to allow AWWA to have a
virtual seminar with details to be worked out. Kannenberg seconded. Motion passed.
Wastewater-Craig Mitchell reported. The seminar is April 21-22, 2021 at the Red Rossa Italian Grill in
Pierre. It needs to be worked if seminar will be held in-person.
(Please note that both seminars have been cancelled due to COVID.)
2021 SDWWA Committees: The committees were formed for the year. (See attachment)
2021 Conference at the Ramkota in RC: Kittay had previously provided the Board with skeleton
agendas for the Conference. Kannenberg is in charge of the agenda with AWWA and SDWEA
forming the Thursday afternoon sessions. The dates are September 15-17, 20210. The Board was
asked to provide possible presentation subjects. Numerous subjects were put forth as possible
presentations. The Board will make a final decision in July as to the status of the conference.
SF Water Festival: SDWWA gave $1000 to the Festival in 2020, and they are asking for support
again. Kittay moved to give the Water Festival $1000 for 2021. Kannenberg seconded. Motion
passed.
Other Business: Kittay will be getting info for the selection of the 2027 Conference site to the next
meeting.
Next Meeting: The next meeting will be in July to decide on status of Conference and then on
September 14, 2021.
Thorson moved for adjournment. Miller seconded. Meeting adjourned at 12:24 pm.
February 3, 2021
Rob Kittay Date
Secretary
Treasurer, Mitch Kannenberg-President Elect, Tanya Miller-VP, Chad Hanson, Kyle Goodmanson-
AWWA, Craig Mitchell-SDWEA, Bill Thorson, Richard Sternberg, Kyle Kampshoff, Jesse
Christianson,
Members Absent: Chris Robinson, Ryan Allen
Others Present: Jim Zeck
Call to Order: Kuiper called the meeting to order at 11:36 am. A quorum was present. Introductions
were made.
Approval of Agenda: Kampshoff moved for approval of the agenda. Sternberg seconded. Motion
passed.
Minutes: The minutes were emailed by Kittay and were on web site. Kannenberg moved to approve
minutes. Thorson seconded. Motion passed.
Treasurer’s Report: Kittay reported the following balances in the various SDWWA accounts-
Checkbook $48,649.47 as of December 21, 2020
Source-to-Stream $18,958.49 as of December 31, 2020
East River FCU for Scholarships-$1242.06 and $27,597.09 as of September 30, 2020
This is the time of year when membership renewal money is coming in as all of the renewal notices
have been sent to all members as there were no renewals associated w/ Conference attendance.
Christianson moved to accept report. Miller seconded. Motion passed.
Water/Wastewater Seminars: Water-Kyle Goodmanson gave report. The AWWA Section is leaning
towards going virtual and wanted an OK from the Board. Kittay moved to allow AWWA to have a
virtual seminar with details to be worked out. Kannenberg seconded. Motion passed.
Wastewater-Craig Mitchell reported. The seminar is April 21-22, 2021 at the Red Rossa Italian Grill in
Pierre. It needs to be worked if seminar will be held in-person.
(Please note that both seminars have been cancelled due to COVID.)
2021 SDWWA Committees: The committees were formed for the year. (See attachment)
2021 Conference at the Ramkota in RC: Kittay had previously provided the Board with skeleton
agendas for the Conference. Kannenberg is in charge of the agenda with AWWA and SDWEA
forming the Thursday afternoon sessions. The dates are September 15-17, 20210. The Board was
asked to provide possible presentation subjects. Numerous subjects were put forth as possible
presentations. The Board will make a final decision in July as to the status of the conference.
SF Water Festival: SDWWA gave $1000 to the Festival in 2020, and they are asking for support
again. Kittay moved to give the Water Festival $1000 for 2021. Kannenberg seconded. Motion
passed.
Other Business: Kittay will be getting info for the selection of the 2027 Conference site to the next
meeting.
Next Meeting: The next meeting will be in July to decide on status of Conference and then on
September 14, 2021.
Thorson moved for adjournment. Miller seconded. Meeting adjourned at 12:24 pm.
February 3, 2021
Rob Kittay Date
Secretary
Unapproved Minutes
SDWWA 2020 Annual Business Meeting
September 17, 2020
Held via Microsoft Teams
SDWWA 2020 Annual Business Meeting
September 17, 2020
Held via Microsoft Teams
Call to Order: By President DeBoer at 11:30 pm. Approximately 26 were in attendance.
Agenda: The agenda had been provided to the attendees. Thorson moved for approval of the amended agenda. Miller seconded. Motion passed.
Minutes: The minutes of the 2019 Business Meeting had been posted to web site. Allen moved for approval. Christianson seconded. Motion passed.
SDWWA Board Meeting: DeBoer reviewed the Wednesday Board meeting for the attendees.
Old Business: There was a call for Old Business. There was none forth coming.
Officers for 2020-21: DeBoer announced that Kevin Kuiper would be the 2020-21 President, and Mitch Kannenberg would be the President-Elect.
Secretary/Treasurer: The candidate from the Board was Rob Kittay. DeBoer called for nominations from the floor. None were forthcoming. An election was held and Kittay prevailed.
Vice-President-The candidate from the Board was Tanya Miller. DeBoer called for nominations from the floor. Kittay moved that nominations cease, and a unanimous ballot be cast for the candidate. Allen seconded. Motion passed.
Outgoing Directors: Tanya Miller, Dawn Zahn, and Chad Hanson are the outgoing directors and were recognized.
New Directors for 2020-21: The three candidates recommended by the Nominating Committee were:
Kyle Goodmanson from Yankton-AWWA Rep
Craig Mitchell from Watertown-SDWEA Rep
Chad Hanson-Manufacturers’ Rep
DeBoer called for nominations from the floor. Kittay moved to accept the candidates. Christianson seconded. Motion passed.
DeBoer thanked the Association for allowing him to serve as President.
New Business: The sites of the future conferences were announced as follows: 2021-Rapid City Ramkota, 2022-Sioux Falls Ramkota, 2023-Spearfish Holiday Inn, 2024-The Lodge at Deadwood, 2025-Pierre Ramkota, and 2026-Aberdeen Ramkota.
Door Prizes: Kittay conducted the drawing for the prize for award nominators. The winner was Jeff Crockett of Rapid City.
Adjournment: Zahn moved for adjournment. Peters seconded. Motion passed. Meeting adjourned at 11:54 am.
9-17-2020
Rob Kittay Date
Secretary
Agenda: The agenda had been provided to the attendees. Thorson moved for approval of the amended agenda. Miller seconded. Motion passed.
Minutes: The minutes of the 2019 Business Meeting had been posted to web site. Allen moved for approval. Christianson seconded. Motion passed.
SDWWA Board Meeting: DeBoer reviewed the Wednesday Board meeting for the attendees.
Old Business: There was a call for Old Business. There was none forth coming.
Officers for 2020-21: DeBoer announced that Kevin Kuiper would be the 2020-21 President, and Mitch Kannenberg would be the President-Elect.
Secretary/Treasurer: The candidate from the Board was Rob Kittay. DeBoer called for nominations from the floor. None were forthcoming. An election was held and Kittay prevailed.
Vice-President-The candidate from the Board was Tanya Miller. DeBoer called for nominations from the floor. Kittay moved that nominations cease, and a unanimous ballot be cast for the candidate. Allen seconded. Motion passed.
Outgoing Directors: Tanya Miller, Dawn Zahn, and Chad Hanson are the outgoing directors and were recognized.
New Directors for 2020-21: The three candidates recommended by the Nominating Committee were:
Kyle Goodmanson from Yankton-AWWA Rep
Craig Mitchell from Watertown-SDWEA Rep
Chad Hanson-Manufacturers’ Rep
DeBoer called for nominations from the floor. Kittay moved to accept the candidates. Christianson seconded. Motion passed.
DeBoer thanked the Association for allowing him to serve as President.
New Business: The sites of the future conferences were announced as follows: 2021-Rapid City Ramkota, 2022-Sioux Falls Ramkota, 2023-Spearfish Holiday Inn, 2024-The Lodge at Deadwood, 2025-Pierre Ramkota, and 2026-Aberdeen Ramkota.
Door Prizes: Kittay conducted the drawing for the prize for award nominators. The winner was Jeff Crockett of Rapid City.
Adjournment: Zahn moved for adjournment. Peters seconded. Motion passed. Meeting adjourned at 11:54 am.
9-17-2020
Rob Kittay Date
Secretary
Members Present: Rob Kittay, Del DeBoer, Kevin Kuiper, Mitch Kannenberg, DelRon Peters, Jesse Christianson, Chris Robinson, Dawn Zahn, Tanya Miller, Chad Hanson, Ryan Allen, Richard Sternberg
Members Absent: Kyle Kampshoff and Bill Thorson
Others Present: Jim Zeck and Erin Steever
Call to Order: DeBoer called the meeting to order at 1:06 pm. A quorum was present.
Approval of Agenda: Allen moved for approval. Kuiper seconded. Motion passed.
Minutes: The minutes were emailed by Kittay and were on web site. Kittay moved to approve the minutes. Christianson seconded. Motion passed.
Old Business: There was none forth coming.
Treasurer’s Report: Kittay reported that there were the following amounts in the various accounts-
$49,532.01in the checkbook as of 8/17/2020
$21,793.35 in S2S account 7/31/2020
$27,476.42 and $1241.74 in the East River FCU accounts as of 6/30/2020
A full report of the income and payments was provided.
Kannenberg moved to accept report. Miller seconded. Motion passed.
Auditing Committee: Andrea Griese, Dane Brewer, and Bill Sarringar were on the committee. Kittay gave the report as submitted by the committee. A copy was given to those present. The audit was done in September 2020. The books were in order. Allen moved to accept the report. Kittay seconded. Motion passed.
Wastewater Seminar: Zahn reported. The SDWEA held their annual meeting earlier today. The WW Seminar is planned for the Red Rossa in Pierre on April 21-22, 2021. Craig Mitchell will be SDWEA rep on the SDWWA Board.
Water Seminar: Miller reported. The Section is currently focused on the webinars right now. The Water Seminar is scheduled for February and will either be virtual or held at the SF Ramkota. Kyle Goodmanson will be AWWA’s rep to the Board.
Other Committees: There was discussion on how awards should be given. The awards will be given out as people may get to an awardee’s system and will also be recognized at next year’s conference in Rapid City.
Kittay announced the annual awards that SDWWA presents-
Price-Rees Award (20 years in field)
Tyler Fode-Rapid City
Kelly Wilkins-Rapid City
Roy Todd Martin-Rapid City
David Gabert-Rapid City
Richard Birnbaum-Rapid City
Lorin Johnson-Mid-Dakota RWS
Scott Manning-Mid-Dakota RWS
Siger Bies Award (30 years in field)
Chip Petrik-Rapid City
Ron Ramsey-Mid-Dakota RWS
Bill Sarringar-Mid-Dakota RWS
JR Yde Award (40 years in field)
Richard Dewald-Yankton
Delvin DeBoer-AE2S
Dean Schilling-Mobridge
Rob Kittay-SD DENR
William Aisenbrey Award (Water)
Scott Manning-Mid-Dakota RWS
William Brinker Award (Wastewater)
Dustin Sulzle-Marion
Past-President Award
Del DeBoer-AE2S
Source to Stream: Erin Steever gave the report-
Our printer, Western Commercial Printing, has just been acquired by Panther Premier Printing Solutions. Our account manager is being switched to Randy, who said they are trying to keep pricing consistent with what we have seen in the past but hasn't given me any quotes or changes. We're working through printing the Q3 issue with them right now so I will most likely have a better idea by the end of this week if there will be any changes. One issue generally costs $2,300, we have $2,400 on average per issue for advertising this year. There have been many road bumps slowing this issue down, but it will be out soon, and I hope to be back on our regular schedule for Q4.
Crystal continues to do a superb job at putting together our issues and making it look great! She's efficient, available, and does a really nice job. She makes my life easier, although I can say my schedule just doesn't seem to be slowing down any. I'll make another plug for volunteers - there is an opportunity to bring someone else into the publication to assist me. Give me a call and we can discuss the opportunities.
Advertisers are pretty much on par with past years. We've been fairly consistent with only a few businesses not renewing and a few new or returning advertisers.
We have 11 members receiving electronic issues only and just over 900 receiving a printed copy. This number generally jumps up for Q3 but without the conference this year we may not see some of our membership renewals to bump that closer to 950.
Content is a challenge this year as we are not getting conference content that typically fills our pages. Plant spotlights would be a welcome filler if someone could rekindle them :). AWWA Board reports may also be a bit spotty. If there are any ideas to revamp the issue with new content or ideas, please let me know. I'll remind you, I am here to coordinate assembly of the issue, not to dictate content. The content is up to WWA, WEA and AWWA.
If there are any questions, please let me know ([email protected]).
2020-21 Officers: Kuiper will be president, DeBoer will be past-president, and Kannenberg will be President-Elect.
Secretary-Treasurer: Peters nominated Kittay with Kuiper seconding. Motion passed. Kittay will be the Board’s candidate for S/T.
Nominations Committee: Peters gave the report.
The nominations for directors are-
Kyle Goodmanson as AWWA-SD Section Rep
Chad Hanson as the Manufacturers’ Rep
Craig Mitchell as the SD WEA Rep
The nomination for Vice President was Tanya Miller.
Kittay moved to accept the slate. Christianson seconded. Motion passed.
Scholarships: SDWWA-Zeck gave the report. The winners (Ben Titus/Kenna Nighbert) have been determined for this year, and the checks have been sent to the school. He suggested that the scholarship program be continued. Kittay moved to award two $500 scholarships for 2021 using the funds in ERFCU. Sternberg seconded. Motion passed.
SDSU/SDSMT Scholarships-Kannenberg moved that $1000 be given each to SDSU and SDSMT to fund one scholarship at each school. Kuiper seconded. Motion passed.
Other Business: DeBoer reviewed the agenda for the Business Meeting.
Next Meeting: The proposed date of the next Board meeting is January 12, 2021 in Pierre just prior to the SDARWS ATC Conference. Zeck indicated that SDARWS will decide in November as to the status of the ATC-in-person or virtual.
Miller moved for adjournment. Allen seconded. Meeting adjourned at 1:57 pm.
September 17, 2020
Rob Kittay Date
Secretary
Members Absent: Kyle Kampshoff and Bill Thorson
Others Present: Jim Zeck and Erin Steever
Call to Order: DeBoer called the meeting to order at 1:06 pm. A quorum was present.
Approval of Agenda: Allen moved for approval. Kuiper seconded. Motion passed.
Minutes: The minutes were emailed by Kittay and were on web site. Kittay moved to approve the minutes. Christianson seconded. Motion passed.
Old Business: There was none forth coming.
Treasurer’s Report: Kittay reported that there were the following amounts in the various accounts-
$49,532.01in the checkbook as of 8/17/2020
$21,793.35 in S2S account 7/31/2020
$27,476.42 and $1241.74 in the East River FCU accounts as of 6/30/2020
A full report of the income and payments was provided.
Kannenberg moved to accept report. Miller seconded. Motion passed.
Auditing Committee: Andrea Griese, Dane Brewer, and Bill Sarringar were on the committee. Kittay gave the report as submitted by the committee. A copy was given to those present. The audit was done in September 2020. The books were in order. Allen moved to accept the report. Kittay seconded. Motion passed.
Wastewater Seminar: Zahn reported. The SDWEA held their annual meeting earlier today. The WW Seminar is planned for the Red Rossa in Pierre on April 21-22, 2021. Craig Mitchell will be SDWEA rep on the SDWWA Board.
Water Seminar: Miller reported. The Section is currently focused on the webinars right now. The Water Seminar is scheduled for February and will either be virtual or held at the SF Ramkota. Kyle Goodmanson will be AWWA’s rep to the Board.
Other Committees: There was discussion on how awards should be given. The awards will be given out as people may get to an awardee’s system and will also be recognized at next year’s conference in Rapid City.
Kittay announced the annual awards that SDWWA presents-
Price-Rees Award (20 years in field)
Tyler Fode-Rapid City
Kelly Wilkins-Rapid City
Roy Todd Martin-Rapid City
David Gabert-Rapid City
Richard Birnbaum-Rapid City
Lorin Johnson-Mid-Dakota RWS
Scott Manning-Mid-Dakota RWS
Siger Bies Award (30 years in field)
Chip Petrik-Rapid City
Ron Ramsey-Mid-Dakota RWS
Bill Sarringar-Mid-Dakota RWS
JR Yde Award (40 years in field)
Richard Dewald-Yankton
Delvin DeBoer-AE2S
Dean Schilling-Mobridge
Rob Kittay-SD DENR
William Aisenbrey Award (Water)
Scott Manning-Mid-Dakota RWS
William Brinker Award (Wastewater)
Dustin Sulzle-Marion
Past-President Award
Del DeBoer-AE2S
Source to Stream: Erin Steever gave the report-
Our printer, Western Commercial Printing, has just been acquired by Panther Premier Printing Solutions. Our account manager is being switched to Randy, who said they are trying to keep pricing consistent with what we have seen in the past but hasn't given me any quotes or changes. We're working through printing the Q3 issue with them right now so I will most likely have a better idea by the end of this week if there will be any changes. One issue generally costs $2,300, we have $2,400 on average per issue for advertising this year. There have been many road bumps slowing this issue down, but it will be out soon, and I hope to be back on our regular schedule for Q4.
Crystal continues to do a superb job at putting together our issues and making it look great! She's efficient, available, and does a really nice job. She makes my life easier, although I can say my schedule just doesn't seem to be slowing down any. I'll make another plug for volunteers - there is an opportunity to bring someone else into the publication to assist me. Give me a call and we can discuss the opportunities.
Advertisers are pretty much on par with past years. We've been fairly consistent with only a few businesses not renewing and a few new or returning advertisers.
We have 11 members receiving electronic issues only and just over 900 receiving a printed copy. This number generally jumps up for Q3 but without the conference this year we may not see some of our membership renewals to bump that closer to 950.
Content is a challenge this year as we are not getting conference content that typically fills our pages. Plant spotlights would be a welcome filler if someone could rekindle them :). AWWA Board reports may also be a bit spotty. If there are any ideas to revamp the issue with new content or ideas, please let me know. I'll remind you, I am here to coordinate assembly of the issue, not to dictate content. The content is up to WWA, WEA and AWWA.
If there are any questions, please let me know ([email protected]).
2020-21 Officers: Kuiper will be president, DeBoer will be past-president, and Kannenberg will be President-Elect.
Secretary-Treasurer: Peters nominated Kittay with Kuiper seconding. Motion passed. Kittay will be the Board’s candidate for S/T.
Nominations Committee: Peters gave the report.
The nominations for directors are-
Kyle Goodmanson as AWWA-SD Section Rep
Chad Hanson as the Manufacturers’ Rep
Craig Mitchell as the SD WEA Rep
The nomination for Vice President was Tanya Miller.
Kittay moved to accept the slate. Christianson seconded. Motion passed.
Scholarships: SDWWA-Zeck gave the report. The winners (Ben Titus/Kenna Nighbert) have been determined for this year, and the checks have been sent to the school. He suggested that the scholarship program be continued. Kittay moved to award two $500 scholarships for 2021 using the funds in ERFCU. Sternberg seconded. Motion passed.
SDSU/SDSMT Scholarships-Kannenberg moved that $1000 be given each to SDSU and SDSMT to fund one scholarship at each school. Kuiper seconded. Motion passed.
Other Business: DeBoer reviewed the agenda for the Business Meeting.
Next Meeting: The proposed date of the next Board meeting is January 12, 2021 in Pierre just prior to the SDARWS ATC Conference. Zeck indicated that SDARWS will decide in November as to the status of the ATC-in-person or virtual.
Miller moved for adjournment. Allen seconded. Meeting adjourned at 1:57 pm.
September 17, 2020
Rob Kittay Date
Secretary
Unapproved Minutes
SDWWA Board Meeting
July 15, 2020
Meeting Held Via Zoom
SDWWA Board Meeting
July 15, 2020
Meeting Held Via Zoom
Members Present: Del DeBoer-President, Kevin Kuiper-President-Elect, Rob Kittay-Secretary-Treasurer, Tanya Miller (AWWA), Chad Hanson, Ryan Allen, Bill Thorson, Richard Sternberg, Kyle Kampshoff, Jesse Christianson, Chris Robinson, Dawn Zahn (SD WEA), DelRon Peters-Past-President
Members Absent: Mitch Kannenberg-Vice-President
Others Present: Jim Jones-MAP
Call to Order: DeBoer called the meeting to order at 2:00 pm. A quorum was present.
Approval of Agenda: Kuiper moved for approval of the agenda. Kampshoff seconded. Motion passed.
Minutes: The minutes were emailed by Kittay and were on web site. Allen moved to approve minutes. Sternberg seconded. Motion passed.
2020 Conference at the Ramkota in Aberdeen: The current pandemic has caused many conferences to be cancelled. Kittay previously had emailed to numerous firms, systems, organizations, etc. a survey to determine their ability to attend a conference in September. DeBoer presented the results of that survey. Kittay summarized numerous emails with the Aberdeen Ramkota on the practicality of holding the conference. He also spoke about the Operator Certification Program status on contact hours for operators. Hanson summarized information received from the vendors. Kuiper discussed the status of the speakers for the Wednesday afternoon and Friday morning sessions. Zahn and Miller discussed the AWWA/SD WEA viewpoints. WEA recommends to not have the Conference. A virtual event would be possible. AWWA felt the trend was to not have the Conference. Kittay mentioned concerns with vendor display area, room setup, meals, liability, hospitality rooms, registration area, and breaks.
Kittay moved that SDWWA not hold the 2020 Conference due to the pandemic and award the 2026 Conference to the Aberdeen Ramkota. Robinson seconded. Motion passed w/ all voting for the motion.
DeBoer will create an announcement to inform all parties.
DeBoer will contact the groups to form a committee to discuss a webinar.
Kittay offered that the awards should be given this year by each group, and they could formally be recognized at the 2021 Conference.
SDWWA will have to have a virtual annual business meeting.
Other Business: None was mentioned.
Next Meeting: The next meeting will be determined by Kittay and DeBoer.
Thorson moved for adjournment. Christenson seconded. Meeting adjourned at 3:15 pm.
July 15, 2020
Rob Kittay Date
Secretary
Members Absent: Mitch Kannenberg-Vice-President
Others Present: Jim Jones-MAP
Call to Order: DeBoer called the meeting to order at 2:00 pm. A quorum was present.
Approval of Agenda: Kuiper moved for approval of the agenda. Kampshoff seconded. Motion passed.
Minutes: The minutes were emailed by Kittay and were on web site. Allen moved to approve minutes. Sternberg seconded. Motion passed.
2020 Conference at the Ramkota in Aberdeen: The current pandemic has caused many conferences to be cancelled. Kittay previously had emailed to numerous firms, systems, organizations, etc. a survey to determine their ability to attend a conference in September. DeBoer presented the results of that survey. Kittay summarized numerous emails with the Aberdeen Ramkota on the practicality of holding the conference. He also spoke about the Operator Certification Program status on contact hours for operators. Hanson summarized information received from the vendors. Kuiper discussed the status of the speakers for the Wednesday afternoon and Friday morning sessions. Zahn and Miller discussed the AWWA/SD WEA viewpoints. WEA recommends to not have the Conference. A virtual event would be possible. AWWA felt the trend was to not have the Conference. Kittay mentioned concerns with vendor display area, room setup, meals, liability, hospitality rooms, registration area, and breaks.
Kittay moved that SDWWA not hold the 2020 Conference due to the pandemic and award the 2026 Conference to the Aberdeen Ramkota. Robinson seconded. Motion passed w/ all voting for the motion.
DeBoer will create an announcement to inform all parties.
DeBoer will contact the groups to form a committee to discuss a webinar.
Kittay offered that the awards should be given this year by each group, and they could formally be recognized at the 2021 Conference.
SDWWA will have to have a virtual annual business meeting.
Other Business: None was mentioned.
Next Meeting: The next meeting will be determined by Kittay and DeBoer.
Thorson moved for adjournment. Christenson seconded. Meeting adjourned at 3:15 pm.
July 15, 2020
Rob Kittay Date
Secretary
Unapproved Minutes
SDWWA Board Meeting
January 14, 2020
Red Rossa-Pierre SD
SDWWA Board Meeting
January 14, 2020
Red Rossa-Pierre SD
Members Present: Del DeBoer-President, Kevin Kuiper-President-Elect, Rob Kittay-Secretary-Treasurer, Tanya Miller (AWWA), Chad Hanson, Ryan Allen, Bill Thorson, Richard Sternberg, Kyle Kampshoff, Jesse Christianson, Chris Robinson
Members Absent: Dawn Zahn (SD WPCA), DelRon Peters-Past-President
Others Present: Greg Schmit-Minnehaha RWS
Call to Order: DeBoer called the meeting to order at 11:04 am. A quorum was present. Introductions were made.
Approval of Agenda: Thorson moved for approval of the agenda. Allen seconded. Motion passed.
Minutes: The minutes were emailed by Kittay and were on web site. Kuiper moved to approve minutes. Sternberg seconded. Motion passed.
Old Business: There was none.
Treasurer’s Report: Kittay reported the following balances in the various SDWWA accounts-
Checkbook $49,839.88 as of December 16, 2019
Source-to-Stream $17,960.26 as of December 31, 2019
East River FCU for Scholarships-$1241.11 and $27,239.23 as of December 31, 2019
This is the time of year when membership renewal money is coming in as all of the renewal notices have been sent to members that did not attend the 2019 Conference. Bills for the Conference have been paid. Kittay was concerned about the amount of money in checkbook.
Christianson moved to accept report. Thorson seconded. Motion passed.
Source to Stream: Steever supplied a report. Revenues are holding. Report follows these minutes below.
Water/Wastewater Seminars: Water-Miller gave the report. The seminar is being held on February 12-13, 2020 at The Lodge at Deadwood. A mass email of the agenda with registration info has been done.
Wastewater-Kittay gave the report. The seminar is April 15-16, 2020 at the Red Rossa Italian Grill in Pierre. He stated that draft agenda is needed by March 1 to get advertising out. SDWEA is working on agenda.
Vice President Selection: DeBoer gave a summary of the situation. A person had been nominated at the Conference unbeknownst to him but was not interested in serving. He submitted a resignation. DeBoer nominated Mitch Kannenberg as VP. Kittay seconded. Motion passed.
2020 SDWWA Committees: The committees were formed for the year. See roster below.
2019 Conference Review: DeBoer stated then attendance numbers were medium. Kittay thought the Conference went well from his view point on working with the Pierre Ramkota. There was another conference held at same time that caused some confusion amongst the attendees.
2020 Conference at the Ramkota in Aberdeen: Kittay had previously provided the Board with skeleton agendas for the Conference. Kuiper is in charge of the agenda with AWWA Section and SDWEA forming the Thursday afternoon sessions. The dates are September 16-18, 2020. Kittay will check with Ramkota on what rooms we have and if there is another conference being held at the same time. The Board was asked to provide possible presentation subjects. About fifteen presentation ideas were given.
SF Water Festival: SDWWA has given funds for a number of years to support the festival and they are asking for support again. Kittay moved to give the Water Festival $1000 for 2020. Kampshoff seconded. Motion passed.
Other Business: None was mentioned.
Next Meeting: The next meeting will be prior to the Conference on September 15, 2020 at 6:00 pm at the Aberdeen Ramkota.
Christianson moved for adjournment. Robinson seconded. Meeting adjourned at 12:46 pm.
January 17, 2020
Rob Kittay Date
Secretary
Members Absent: Dawn Zahn (SD WPCA), DelRon Peters-Past-President
Others Present: Greg Schmit-Minnehaha RWS
Call to Order: DeBoer called the meeting to order at 11:04 am. A quorum was present. Introductions were made.
Approval of Agenda: Thorson moved for approval of the agenda. Allen seconded. Motion passed.
Minutes: The minutes were emailed by Kittay and were on web site. Kuiper moved to approve minutes. Sternberg seconded. Motion passed.
Old Business: There was none.
Treasurer’s Report: Kittay reported the following balances in the various SDWWA accounts-
Checkbook $49,839.88 as of December 16, 2019
Source-to-Stream $17,960.26 as of December 31, 2019
East River FCU for Scholarships-$1241.11 and $27,239.23 as of December 31, 2019
This is the time of year when membership renewal money is coming in as all of the renewal notices have been sent to members that did not attend the 2019 Conference. Bills for the Conference have been paid. Kittay was concerned about the amount of money in checkbook.
Christianson moved to accept report. Thorson seconded. Motion passed.
Source to Stream: Steever supplied a report. Revenues are holding. Report follows these minutes below.
Water/Wastewater Seminars: Water-Miller gave the report. The seminar is being held on February 12-13, 2020 at The Lodge at Deadwood. A mass email of the agenda with registration info has been done.
Wastewater-Kittay gave the report. The seminar is April 15-16, 2020 at the Red Rossa Italian Grill in Pierre. He stated that draft agenda is needed by March 1 to get advertising out. SDWEA is working on agenda.
Vice President Selection: DeBoer gave a summary of the situation. A person had been nominated at the Conference unbeknownst to him but was not interested in serving. He submitted a resignation. DeBoer nominated Mitch Kannenberg as VP. Kittay seconded. Motion passed.
2020 SDWWA Committees: The committees were formed for the year. See roster below.
2019 Conference Review: DeBoer stated then attendance numbers were medium. Kittay thought the Conference went well from his view point on working with the Pierre Ramkota. There was another conference held at same time that caused some confusion amongst the attendees.
2020 Conference at the Ramkota in Aberdeen: Kittay had previously provided the Board with skeleton agendas for the Conference. Kuiper is in charge of the agenda with AWWA Section and SDWEA forming the Thursday afternoon sessions. The dates are September 16-18, 2020. Kittay will check with Ramkota on what rooms we have and if there is another conference being held at the same time. The Board was asked to provide possible presentation subjects. About fifteen presentation ideas were given.
SF Water Festival: SDWWA has given funds for a number of years to support the festival and they are asking for support again. Kittay moved to give the Water Festival $1000 for 2020. Kampshoff seconded. Motion passed.
Other Business: None was mentioned.
Next Meeting: The next meeting will be prior to the Conference on September 15, 2020 at 6:00 pm at the Aberdeen Ramkota.
Christianson moved for adjournment. Robinson seconded. Meeting adjourned at 12:46 pm.
January 17, 2020
Rob Kittay Date
Secretary
Members Present: Rob Kittay, Jim Auen, DelRon Peters, Del DeBoer, Kevin Kuiper, Kyle Kampshoff, Jesse Christianson, Dustin Fuhrmann, Dawn Zahn, Clint Hay, Tanya Miller, Richard Sternberg,
Members Absent: Bill Thorson and Ryan Allen
Others Present: Jim Zeck, Erin Steever, and Jan Kittay
Call to Order: Peters called the meeting to order at 6:45 pm. A quorum was present.
Approval of Agenda: Christianson moved for approval. Miller seconded. Motion passed.
Minutes: The minutes were emailed by Kittay and were on web site. Kuiper moved to approve the minutes. Zahn seconded. Motion passed.
Old Business: 2025 Conference site- Kittay investigated Brookings site. It was not finished so no tour could be done. He spoke to a booking person for 30 minutes on a possible conference in 2025. No-one followed up from the facility with Kittay. He recommended using another site.
Kampshoff moved that the 2025 Conference be held at the Pierre Ramkota. DeBoer seconded. Motion passed.
Treasurer’s Report: Kittay reported that there were the following amounts in the various accounts-
$42,192.36 in the checkbook as of 8/19/19
$16,281.44 in S2S account 8/30/19
$490.61/$27,110.80 in the East River FCU accounts
A full report of the income and payments was provided. Kampshoff moved to disburse $3000 to each group (AWWA-SD, SDWWA, and SDWEA) from the S2S checkbook. Hay seconded. Motion passed.
Kampshoff moved to accept report. Christianson seconded. Motion passed.
Auditing Committee: Andrea Griese, Mark McIntire, and Nathan McCombs were on the committee. Kittay gave the report as submitted by the committee. A copy was given to those present. The audit was done in September 2019. The books were in order. Kittay moved to accept the report. Zahn seconded. Motion passed.
Wastewater Seminar: Zahn stated that the seminar will be on April 15-16, 2020 at Red Rossa in Pierre. Agenda is yet to be determined.
Water Seminar: Initial planning is being done. The seminar will be held February 12-13, 2020 at The Lodge at Deadwood. Ninety-five attended the seminar in Sioux Falls in 2019.
Other Committees: Zahn mentioned some issues with the awards.
Source to Stream: Erin Steever submitted a report.
2019-20 Officers: DeBoer will be president, Peters will be past-president, and Kuiper will be President-Elect.
Secretary-Treasurer: Zahn nominated Kittay with Miller seconding. Kittay will be the Board’s candidate for S/T.
Nominations Committee: Kampshoff gave the report. The nominations for directors were Chris Robinson form HDR, Jesse Christianson from B-D RWS, and Kyle Kampshoff from Alexandria.
VP-No nomination was made. A search for a candidate will be made during the conference prior to the Thursday Business Meeting.
Kittay moved to accept the slate. Sternberg seconded. Motion passed.
Clint Hay resigning from the Board and nominated Chad Hanson as his replacement. Christianson seconded. Motion passed.
Scholarships: SDWWA-Zeck gave the report. The winners have been determined for this year, and the checks have been sent to the school. The winners will be announced at the banquet. The CD coming due in Oct 2019. Peters moved that two scholarships at $500 each be awarded again during 2020. DeBoer seconded. Motion passed.
SDSU/SDSMT Scholarships-Kittay moved that $1000 be given each to SDSU and SDSMT to fund one scholarship at each school. Christianson seconded. Motion passed.
2019 Conference Concerns: Kittay indicated there were 130 pre-registrants excluding displayers. Square/credit cards were used for about 40 registrations and 12 booths. SDWWA collected a convenience charge on all credit card transactions. Hay said there were about 50 vendors. DeBoer said agenda was good.
Other Business: Some had concern about small system operators and small numbers registered.
There was discussion on the S/T honorarium. DeBoer moved to increase the honorarium to $1000. Kampshoff seconded. Motion passed.
Next Meeting: The proposed date of the next Board meeting is January 14, 2020 at the Red Rossa in Pierre just prior to the SDARWS Conference.
Kittay moved for adjournment. Zahn seconded. Meeting adjourned at 8:23 pm.
Date: January 9, 2020
Rob Kittay
Secretary
Members Absent: Bill Thorson and Ryan Allen
Others Present: Jim Zeck, Erin Steever, and Jan Kittay
Call to Order: Peters called the meeting to order at 6:45 pm. A quorum was present.
Approval of Agenda: Christianson moved for approval. Miller seconded. Motion passed.
Minutes: The minutes were emailed by Kittay and were on web site. Kuiper moved to approve the minutes. Zahn seconded. Motion passed.
Old Business: 2025 Conference site- Kittay investigated Brookings site. It was not finished so no tour could be done. He spoke to a booking person for 30 minutes on a possible conference in 2025. No-one followed up from the facility with Kittay. He recommended using another site.
Kampshoff moved that the 2025 Conference be held at the Pierre Ramkota. DeBoer seconded. Motion passed.
Treasurer’s Report: Kittay reported that there were the following amounts in the various accounts-
$42,192.36 in the checkbook as of 8/19/19
$16,281.44 in S2S account 8/30/19
$490.61/$27,110.80 in the East River FCU accounts
A full report of the income and payments was provided. Kampshoff moved to disburse $3000 to each group (AWWA-SD, SDWWA, and SDWEA) from the S2S checkbook. Hay seconded. Motion passed.
Kampshoff moved to accept report. Christianson seconded. Motion passed.
Auditing Committee: Andrea Griese, Mark McIntire, and Nathan McCombs were on the committee. Kittay gave the report as submitted by the committee. A copy was given to those present. The audit was done in September 2019. The books were in order. Kittay moved to accept the report. Zahn seconded. Motion passed.
Wastewater Seminar: Zahn stated that the seminar will be on April 15-16, 2020 at Red Rossa in Pierre. Agenda is yet to be determined.
Water Seminar: Initial planning is being done. The seminar will be held February 12-13, 2020 at The Lodge at Deadwood. Ninety-five attended the seminar in Sioux Falls in 2019.
Other Committees: Zahn mentioned some issues with the awards.
Source to Stream: Erin Steever submitted a report.
2019-20 Officers: DeBoer will be president, Peters will be past-president, and Kuiper will be President-Elect.
Secretary-Treasurer: Zahn nominated Kittay with Miller seconding. Kittay will be the Board’s candidate for S/T.
Nominations Committee: Kampshoff gave the report. The nominations for directors were Chris Robinson form HDR, Jesse Christianson from B-D RWS, and Kyle Kampshoff from Alexandria.
VP-No nomination was made. A search for a candidate will be made during the conference prior to the Thursday Business Meeting.
Kittay moved to accept the slate. Sternberg seconded. Motion passed.
Clint Hay resigning from the Board and nominated Chad Hanson as his replacement. Christianson seconded. Motion passed.
Scholarships: SDWWA-Zeck gave the report. The winners have been determined for this year, and the checks have been sent to the school. The winners will be announced at the banquet. The CD coming due in Oct 2019. Peters moved that two scholarships at $500 each be awarded again during 2020. DeBoer seconded. Motion passed.
SDSU/SDSMT Scholarships-Kittay moved that $1000 be given each to SDSU and SDSMT to fund one scholarship at each school. Christianson seconded. Motion passed.
2019 Conference Concerns: Kittay indicated there were 130 pre-registrants excluding displayers. Square/credit cards were used for about 40 registrations and 12 booths. SDWWA collected a convenience charge on all credit card transactions. Hay said there were about 50 vendors. DeBoer said agenda was good.
Other Business: Some had concern about small system operators and small numbers registered.
There was discussion on the S/T honorarium. DeBoer moved to increase the honorarium to $1000. Kampshoff seconded. Motion passed.
Next Meeting: The proposed date of the next Board meeting is January 14, 2020 at the Red Rossa in Pierre just prior to the SDARWS Conference.
Kittay moved for adjournment. Zahn seconded. Meeting adjourned at 8:23 pm.
Date: January 9, 2020
Rob Kittay
Secretary
Unapproved Minutes
SDWWA 2019 Annual Business Meeting
September 12, 2019
Ramkota Inn-Pierre SD
SDWWA 2019 Annual Business Meeting
September 12, 2019
Ramkota Inn-Pierre SD
Call to Order: By President Peters at 12:34 pm. Approximately 200 were in attendance.
Peters thanked Dane Brewer-Local Arrangements Committee, Ramkota Staff, Clint Hay/Commercial Committee, WEA, and AWWA Section for their work on the Conference.
Minutes: The minutes of the 2018 Business Meeting had been posted to web site. Chris Schmit moved for approval. Robin Dykstra seconded. Motion passed.
Board Meeting: Peters reviewed the Tuesday nite Board meeting for the attendees.
Old Business: There was a call for Old Business. There was none forthcoming.
Officers for 2019-20: Peters announced that Del DeBoer would be the 2019-20 President and Kevin Kuiper would be the President-Elect.
Vice-President-The candidate from the Board was Dustin Sulzle from Marion. Peters called for nominations from the floor. Kittay moved that nominations cease, and a unanimous ballot be cast for the candidate. Jeff Deville seconded. Motion passed.
Secretary/Treasurer: The candidate from the Board was Rob Kittay. Peters called for nominations from the floor. None were forthcoming. Peggi Badten moved that nominations cease, and a unanimous ballot be cast. Rollin Sieveke seconded. Motion passed.
Outgoing Directors: Jesse Christianson, Dustin Fuhrmann, and Kyle Kampshoff are the outgoing directors and were recognized. Chad Hanson will replace Clint Hay on an interim basis until September 2020.
New Directors for 2019-20: The three candidates recommended by the Nominating Committee were:
Kyle Kampshoff-Alexandria Jesse Christianson-B-D RWS Chris Robinson-HDR
Peters called for nominations from the floor. Dave Van Cleave moved to accept the candidates. Jim Jones seconded. Motion passed.
Peters thanked the Association for allowing him to serve as President. The ceremonial passing of the gavel to 2020 President DeBoer took place.
DeBoer introduced the entire SDWWA Board.
New Business: The sites of the future conferences were announced as follows: 2020-Aberdeen Ramkota, 2021-Rapid City, 2022-Sioux Falls, 2023-Spearfish, 2024-Deadwood, 2025-Tentatively Pierre.
Jeff Deville announced the results of the “Shoot Out” from Wednesday morning.
Peters thanked Dane Brewer-Local Arrangements Committee, Ramkota Staff, Clint Hay/Commercial Committee, WEA, and AWWA Section for their work on the Conference.
Minutes: The minutes of the 2018 Business Meeting had been posted to web site. Chris Schmit moved for approval. Robin Dykstra seconded. Motion passed.
Board Meeting: Peters reviewed the Tuesday nite Board meeting for the attendees.
Old Business: There was a call for Old Business. There was none forthcoming.
Officers for 2019-20: Peters announced that Del DeBoer would be the 2019-20 President and Kevin Kuiper would be the President-Elect.
Vice-President-The candidate from the Board was Dustin Sulzle from Marion. Peters called for nominations from the floor. Kittay moved that nominations cease, and a unanimous ballot be cast for the candidate. Jeff Deville seconded. Motion passed.
Secretary/Treasurer: The candidate from the Board was Rob Kittay. Peters called for nominations from the floor. None were forthcoming. Peggi Badten moved that nominations cease, and a unanimous ballot be cast. Rollin Sieveke seconded. Motion passed.
Outgoing Directors: Jesse Christianson, Dustin Fuhrmann, and Kyle Kampshoff are the outgoing directors and were recognized. Chad Hanson will replace Clint Hay on an interim basis until September 2020.
New Directors for 2019-20: The three candidates recommended by the Nominating Committee were:
Kyle Kampshoff-Alexandria Jesse Christianson-B-D RWS Chris Robinson-HDR
Peters called for nominations from the floor. Dave Van Cleave moved to accept the candidates. Jim Jones seconded. Motion passed.
Peters thanked the Association for allowing him to serve as President. The ceremonial passing of the gavel to 2020 President DeBoer took place.
DeBoer introduced the entire SDWWA Board.
New Business: The sites of the future conferences were announced as follows: 2020-Aberdeen Ramkota, 2021-Rapid City, 2022-Sioux Falls, 2023-Spearfish, 2024-Deadwood, 2025-Tentatively Pierre.
Jeff Deville announced the results of the “Shoot Out” from Wednesday morning.
Unapproved Minutes
SDWWA Board Meeting
January 8, 2019
Red Rossa-Pierre SD
Members Present: DelRon Peters-President, Del DeBoer-President-Elect, Kevin Kuiper-VP, Jim Auen-Past President, Rob Kittay-Secretary-Treasurer, Kyle Kampshoff (Small Systems), Jesse Christianson, Dustin Fuhrmann, Dawn Zahn (SD WPCA), Clint Hay, Ryan Allen, Bill Thorson, Tanya Miller (AWWA)
Members Absent: Richard Sternberg (Small Systems)
Others Present: Dave Fox-Minnehaha RWS
Call to Order: Peters called the meeting to order at 11:40 am. A quorum was present. Introductions were made.
Approval of Agenda: Kittay moved for approval of the agenda. DeBoer seconded. Motion passed.
Minutes: The minutes were emailed by Kittay and were on web site. Zahn moved to approve minutes. Allen seconded. Motion passed.
Old Business: 2024/25 Conference Sites-There was discussion concerning a new convention center in Brookings. Not enough information was available to make a complete decision about using it for a conference. Kittay said he would try to get there in the very near future to check on it. Christianson moved to hold the 2024 conference in Deadwood and the 2025 conference in Brookings if the new convention center checked out. Motion passed.
Treasurer’s Report: Kittay reported the following balances in the various SDWWA accounts-
Checkbook $36,576.78 as of December 17, 2018
Source-to-Stream $18,842.05 as of December 31, 2018
This is the time of year when membership renewal money is coming in as all of the renewal notices have been sent to members that did not attend the 2018 Conference. Bills for the Conference have been paid.
Source to Stream: No report
Water/Wastewater Seminars: Water-Miller gave the report. The seminar is being held on February 13-14, 2019 at the Sioux Falls Ramkota. A mass email of the agenda has been done. The agenda is about 90% done.
Wastewater-Zahn gave the report. The seminar is April 10-11, 2019 at the Red Rossa Italian Grill in Pierre. Kittay stated that draft agenda is needed by March 1 to get advertising out.
2019 SDWWA Committees: The committees were formed for the year. Miller noted that the committees need to work hard to find candidates. Kittay moved to approve the slate of candidates. Zahn seconded. Motion passed. (Slate of candidates attached.)
2018 Conference Review: Kittay thought the Conference went well from his view point on working with the Lodge at Deadwood. It was a new venue for the Conference. He had many positive comments about the location including that we should go back. There were concerns about the displays being in the main hallway. Some thought that they should be in a main room. More chairs were needed for the Thursday afternoon sessions.
2019 Conference at the Ramkota in Pierre: Kittay had previously provided the Board with skeleton agendas for the Conference. DeBoer is in charge of the agenda with AWWA and SDWEA forming the Thursday afternoon sessions. The dates are September 11-13, 2019. The Board was asked to provide possible presentation subjects. There may be a possible a third session on Thursday afternoon that would be a “hands on”/demonstrations session if enough topics can be found. Hay will work with Ramkota on the display setup.
SF Water Festival: SDWWA has given $500 for a number of years to support the festival and they are asking for support again. Auen moved to give the Water Festival $500 for 2019. Kampshoff seconded. Motion passed.
Other Business: Peters mentioned the possible necessity of an operator voice/industry advocate to the public/media on treating wastewater and NPDES permits.
Next Meeting: The next meeting will prior to the Conference on September 10, 2019 at 6:00 pm at the Cattlemen’s Steakhouse in Pierre.
Kittay moved for adjournment. Auen seconded. Meeting adjourned at 1:35 pm.
January 8, 2019
Rob Kittay Date
Secretary
SDWWA 2019 COMMITTEES
The SDWWA Executive Board formed the Association Committees for 2019. If you do not wish to serve on your committee, please contact the committee leader.
Please note that all award nominations must be made by July 15, and the awardee is to be named by that committee by August 15. The award winner’s name must be then given to Awards Coordinator so that plaque can be made in time for Conference. The qualifications for all awards may be found at www.sdwwa.org
AWARDS COORDINATOR
DUTIES : Order awards and plaques as needed by award committees
Determine presenters for all awards
Give nominating forms to Source-to-Stream staff for publication
Make summary sheet of award winners and presenters for Source-to-Stream for publication following Conference
Robin Dykstra
WILLIAM AISENBREY AWARD (Formerly the NALCO Award)
DUTIES : Water operator of the year
Committee is responsible to seek candidates.
LEADER : Tanya Miller
MEMBERS: Ryan Allen and Jim Auen
WILLIAM BRINKER AWARD
DUTIES : Wastewater operator of the year
Committee is responsible to seek candidates.
LEADER : Dawn Zahn
MEMBERS: Kevin Kuiper and Bill Thorson
PRICE-REES/SIGER BIES/ DORNBUSH/J.R. YDE AWARDS
DUTIES : Evaluate nominations for the Price-Rees/Siger Bies/Dornbush/J.R. Yde Awards. Committee will also aid in the selection of Honorary Members as outlined in the SDWWA By-laws. Committee is responsible to seek candidates.
LEADER : DelRon Peters
MEMBERS : Jesse Christianson
LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS COMMITTEE DUTIES
§ Provide local on-site contact for Conference
§ Arrange for Mayor or other local dignitary to give welcoming address on Wednesday at 1:00 pm
§ Arrange for tours of wastewater/water/solid waste/etc plants for Wednesday morning including providing directions to plants (either poster at registration table or handouts), times of tours, etc.
§ Obtain name tags, name tag holders, and local attraction packets from local chamber of commerce. Note-Prefer name tag cards that slip into holders-NOT stick-on labels. Name tag holders can be collected at conclusion of Conference to be returned to chamber.
§ Purchase door prizes from local businesses w/ funds provided by SDWWA and conduct drawings thruout conference to give away door prizes
§ Leader should obtain assistance from other local personnel
LEADER: Dane Brewer-Pierre
COMMERCIAL COMMITTEE
DUTIES : Arrange Manufacturers luncheon/meeting if desired
§ Arrange social hours with host motel (Wednesday nite keg/wine and Thursday cash bar [two drink tickets attendees are furnished with registration for Thursday cash bar])
§ Arrange golf tourney with Tim Monsonn
§ Coordinate with motel on exhibitor session-Number of tables, arrangement, refreshments during exhibit, etc
§ Assign tables to exhibitors on Wednesday nite of Conference
§ Send flyers concerning table top displays to mailing list
§ Provide final list of table top exhibitors to Secretary by September 1 for use at registration table
§ Provide receipts and any other info for exhibitors if necessary. Info such as when they can setup tabletops, table assignments, etc is needed at Conference registration table for when exhibitors check in. Someone from committee should be available near registration table all Wednesday of Conference to answer questions from exhibitors.
LEADER : Clint Hay
MEMBERS :
DAVENPORT COMMITTEE
DUTIES : The purpose of the award is to recognize a member of an SDWWA committee that contributed the most to the success of a particular project. The committee will be composed of the Water & Wastewater Committee Chairpersons and the SDWWA Secretary
NOMINATIONS COMMITTEE
DUTIES : This committee will make three nominations to the Board for directors and one nomination for VP for the coming year.
LEADER : Kyle Kampshoof
MEMBERS : Jim Auen and Dustin Fuhrmann
AUDITING COMMITTEE
DUTIES : This committee will audit the finances of the SDWWA prior to the Annual Conference.
LEADER : Andrea Griese-EPA
MEMBERS : Mark McIntire-DENR and Nathan McCombs-Pierre
Unapproved Minutes
SDWWA 2018 Annual Business Meeting
September 13, 2018
The Lodge at Deadwood-Deadwood SD
Call to Order: By President Auen at 12:20 pm. Approximately 200 were in attendance.
Agenda: The agenda had been provided to the attendees. Kittay wanted to add the conference watch drawing and a drawing for award nominators. Chris Schmit moved for approval of the amended agenda. Bill Sarringar seconded. Motion passed.
Auen thanked Rollin Sieveke, Lodge Staff, Clint Hay/Commercial Committee, SDWEA, and AWWA Section for their work on the Conference.
Minutes: The minutes of the 2017 Business Meeting had been posted to web site. Robin Dykstra moved for approval. Dustin Sulzle seconded. Motion passed.
Board Meeting: Auen reviewed the Tuesday nite Board meeting for the attendees.
Old Business: There was a call for Old Business. There was none forthcoming.
Officers for 2018-19: Auen announced that DelRon Peters would be the 2018-19 President and Del DeBoer would be the President-Elect.
Vice-President-The candidate from the Board was Kevin Kuiper from Platte. Auen called for nominations from the floor. Kittay moved that nominations cease and a unanimous ballot be cast for the candidate. Donovan Schoon seconded. Motion passed.
Secretary/Treasurer: The candidate from the Board was Rob Kittay. Auen called for nominations from the floor. None were forthcoming. Donovan Schoon moved that nominations cease, and a unanimous ballot be cast. Brad Lawrence seconded. Motion passed.
Outgoing Directors: Grant Groos, Dustin Sulzle, and Kevin Kuiper are the outgoing directors and were recognized.
New Directors for 2018-19: The three candidates recommended by the Nominating Committee were:
Richard Sternberg-Platte
Ryan Allen-Minnehaha RWS
Bill Thorson-SDARWS
Auen called for nominations from the floor. Jim Zeck moved to accept the candidates. Kittay seconded. Motion passed.
Auen thanked the Association for allowing him to serve as President. The ceremonial passing of the gavel to 2019 President Peters took place.
Peters introduced the entire SDWWA Board.
New Business: Peters indicated that the Board wanted to be able to give out the Longevity Awards in a better fashion and wanted to generate a list of years of service for the operators. The first method would be to have a place on the conference/seminar registration forms for length of service in the water/wastewater field.
The sites of the future conferences were announced as follows: 2019-Pierre Ramkota, 2020-Aberdeen Ramkota, 2021-Rapid City Ramkota, 2022-Sioux Falls Ramkota, and 2023-Spearfish Holiday Inn
Door Prizes: Kittay, Al Erickson, and Schoon conducted the drawings including the newly reinstated Conference Watch and the prize for award nominators.
Adjournment: Kittay moved for adjournment. Schoon seconded. Motion passed. Meeting adjourned at 12:45 pm.
9-17-2018
Rob Kittay, Secretary
Unapproved Minutes
SDWWA Board Meeting
September 11, 2018
The Lodge at Deadwood-Deadwood SD
Members Present: Tim Monson, Rob Kittay, Jim Auen, DelRon Peters, Del DeBoer, Grant Groos, Dustin Sulzle, Kevin Kuiper, Kyle Kampshoff, Jesse Christianson, Dustin Fuhrmann, Dawn Horner, Clint Hay, Tanya Miller
Members Absent:
Others Present: Jim Zeck and Jan Kittay
Call to Order: Auen called the meeting to order at 6:10 pm. A quorum was present.
Approval of Agenda: DeBoer moved for approval. Sulzle seconded. Motion passed.
Minutes: The minutes were emailed by Kittay and were on web site. Horner moved to approve the minutes. Kuiper seconded. Motion passed.
Old Business: There was no old business forthcoming.
Treasurer’s Report: Kittay reported that there were the following amounts in the various accounts-
$34,843.30 in the SDWWA checkbook as of 8/20/18
$20,745.84 in S2S account
$26,975.61/$475.04 in the East River FCU accounts
A full report of the income and payments was provided. Kittay also noted that the Conference Watch was reinstated last year and will be drawn at Thursday luncheon. The drawing for the award nominators will also be done at luncheon. Christianson moved to accept report. Groos seconded. Motion passed.
Auditing Committee: Andrea Griese, Bill Sarringar, and Dane Brewer were on the committee. Kittay gave the report as submitted by the committee. A copy was given to those present. The audit was done in September, 2018. The books were in order. Kittay moved to accept the report. Hay seconded. Motion passed.
Wastewater Seminar: Horner gave the report. The Seminar will be held at the Pierre Red Rossa on April 10-11, 2019. They received good comments on last year’s agenda.
Water Seminar: Miller gave the report. Date and location will be determined at the conference.
Other Committees: There were not many award submissions. DeBoer gave report of Longevity Awards. Kuiper mentioned that not many city officials know about the awards. An idea is to ask for an attendee’s start date on registration form for the conference and the two seminars. Also this fact needs to be mentioned at the banquet. Kittay suggested getting the Municipal League to put it in their monthly magazine even if it takes a monetary ad.
Source to Stream: Erin Steever submitted a report. Copy is attached to these minutes.
2018-2019 Officers: Peters will be president, Auen will be past-president, and DeBoer will be President-Elect.
Secretary-Treasurer: Auen nominated Kittay with Monson seconding. Motion passed. Kittay will be the Board’s candidate for S/T.
Nominations Committee: Monson gave the report. The committee’s nominations for the directors’ positions and Vice President are-
Richard Sternberg-Platte as director
Bill Thorson-SDARWS as director
Ryan Allen-Minnehaha RWS as director
Kevin Kuiper-Platte as Vice President
Monson moved to accept the slate. Sulzle seconded. Motion passed.
Scholarships: SDWWA-Zeck gave the report. The winners have been determined for this year, and the checks have been sent to the school. The winners will be announced at the banquet.
The interest bearing CD at the credit union is due on 9/23/18. A 2% interest rate is now available. Sulzle moved to use the interest accumulated (approximately $475) plus have the general check book subsidize up to a total of $1000 for two $500 scholarships for 2019. DeBoer seconded. Motion passed. Zeck will work with the credit union on the CD.
SDSU/SDSMT Scholarships-Kittay moved that $1000 be given each to SDSU and SDSMT to fund one scholarship at each school for 2019. Fuhrman seconded. Motion passed.
2018 Conference Concerns: Kittay indicated there were 170 pre-registrants plus approximately 70 displayers registered with the Commercial Committee. This is a large increase in pre-registration. Only about 20 people registered at the door last year. He was also concerned with meal numbers given to motel.
Other Business: 2024/25 Conference Sites-Hay mentioned that the Days Inn in Brookings has been remodeled. Kittay asked if the footprint is the same or if all the meeting space is the same size. Hay and DeBoer will examine the site for a possible future conference. The Board would like to make some determinations at the January meeting.
Next Meeting: The proposed date of the next Board meeting is January 8, 2019 at 11:30 am at the Red Rossa in Pierre just prior to the SDARWS Conference.
Groos moved for adjournment. Monson seconded. Meeting adjourned at 7:20 pm.
September 18, 2018
Rob Kittay
Secretary
Source to Stream Report
Source to Stream is sitting financially stable again for 2018 with a current income of $10,225 from advertisement sales, and current expense of $6,150.79 with one quarterly issue remaining. Each issue costs roughly $2,000 to produce and mail to our membership, therefore we expect an ending balance of just under $2,000 in 2018.
See the attached summary of our advertisers for 2018. One ad check is in route, and the rest have been paid and deposited into the bank account.
One significant change to our content this year has been the addition of the "Plant Spotlight" submitted by WEA. We weren't able to fit one in to Q2 due to historically printed content needs, however we have one slated for Q4 and will carry the additional article over for Q1 in 2019. We hope these will continue in future issues. AWWA has continued to submit a Director's Report, and Chair Report, and one article developed by a predesignated board member, as well as periodic YP Group highlights. WWA supplies state funding highlights, as well as advocacy and national updates as they come up.
Crystal continues to compile the newsletter using software the Source to Stream purchased for her soon after she began working with us, and I continue to work with the advertisers, compile and organize content submitted by the boards, and finalize the mailing list. Seven members have requested to receive only electronic copies of the publication, and our membership is currently around 865 members between the three organizations.
If there are any comments, suggestions or volunteers willing to assist, please let me know!
Sincerely,
Erin Steever, PE
Publication Manager
Unapproved Minutes
SDWWA Board Meeting
January 9, 2018
Red Rossa-Pierre SD
Members Present: Tim Monson-Past-President, Jim Auen-President, Del DeBoer-Vice-President, Rob Kittay-Secretary-Treasurer, Dustin Sulzle (Small Systems), Kevin Kuiper (Small Systems), Kyle Kampshoff (Small Systems), Jesse Christianson, Dustin Fuhrmann, Tanya Miller (AWWA-SD Section), Dawn Horner (SD WPCA), Clint Hay
Members Absent: Grant Groos
Others Present: None
Call to Order: Auen called the meeting to order at 11:58 am. A quorum was present. Introductions were made.
Approval of Agenda: DeBoer moved for approval of the agenda. Kampshoff seconded. Motion passed.
Minutes: The minutes were emailed by Kittay and were on web site. Miller moved to approve minutes. Sulzle seconded. Motion passed.
Old Business: President-Elect—Monson reported that DelRon Peters is willing to serve as the SDWWA President-Elect. Sulzle moved the Peters be elected as President-Elect. Kuiper seconded. Motion passed
Treasurer’s Report: Kittay reported the following balances in the various SDWWA accounts-
Checkbook $25,843.69
Source-to-Stream $15,937.39
This is the time of year when membership renewal money is coming in as all of the renewal notices have been sent to members that did not attend the 2017 Conference. Bills for the Conference have been paid.
Hay moved to accept report. Christianson seconded. Motion passed.
Source to Stream: Kittay relayed Erin Steever’s report. The editors are in the process of gathering ads for the upcoming year. Kittay moved to accept the report. Horner seconded. Motion passed.
Water/Wastewater Seminars: Water-Miller gave the report. The Water Seminar will be held on February 21-22, 2018 at the Arrowhead Cedar Shore at Oacoma. A mass email of the agenda has been done.
Wastewater-Horner gave the report. The seminar is April 11-12, 2018 at the Red Rossa Italian Grill in Pierre. Kittay stated that draft agenda is needed by March 1 to get advertising out. Dave VanCleave is the new president of SDWEA.
2018 SDWWA Committees: The committees were formed for the year.
2017 Conference Review: Kittay thought the Conference went well from his view point on working with the Crossroads in Huron. Some other comments were also added. Having the Conference is very inexpensive in Huron when compared with some of the other venues.
2018 Conference at The Lodge in Deadwood: The President-Elect is in charge of the agenda with AWWA and SDWEA forming the Thursday afternoon sessions. Cathodic protection, safety, control valves, Jim Plahn-metering, Grinder pumps, lagoon use/troubleshooting, Pb/Cu rule, service line replacement, rates, how to work w/ engineers/venders (panel discussion), grants/funding-how to apply, how specify bids, motivation, LDSD new plant, case study topics, SDSMT topics were some of the suggested topics.
SF Water Festival: SDWWA has given $500 for a number of years to support the festival, and they are asking for support again. Kampshoff moved to give the Water Festival $500 for 2018. Sulzle seconded. Motion passed.
Other Business: There was none forth coming.
Next Meeting: The next meeting will prior to the Conference.
Sulzle moved for adjournment. Kampshoff seconded. Meeting adjourned at 1:10 pm.
July 30, 2018
Rob Kittay Date
Secretary
Unapproved Minutes
SDWWA 2017 Annual Business Meeting
September 14, 2017
Crossroads/Events Center-Huron SD
Call to Order: By President Monson at 12:26 pm. Approximately 200 were in attendance.
Agenda: The agenda had been provided to the attendees. Cindy Swanson moved for approval. Randi Isaacson seconded. Motion passed.
Monson thanked Vince Juelfs/LAC, Robin Dykstra, Crossroads Staff, Clint Hay/Commercial Committee, WEA, and AWWA Section for their work on the Conference.
Minutes: The minutes of the 2016 Business Meeting had been posted to web site. Robin Dykstra moved for approval. Chris Schmit seconded. Motion passed.
Board Meeting: Monson reviewed the Tuesday nite Board meeting for the attendees. Zeck reviewed the reinstatement of the Conference Watch. In order to possibly increase nominations for SDWWA awards, the association will hold a drawing for award nominators for a $50 gift certificate.
Old Business: There was a call for Old Business. There was none forthcoming.
Officers for 2017-18: Monson announced that Jim Auen would be the 2017-18 President.
As Fred Snoderly has moved out of state, the office of Vice President was vacant. The Nominations Committee did not have a candidate for replacing Snoderly as the 2017-18 President-Elect. Monson called for nominations from the floor, and there were none forthcoming. Monson will be the interim President-Elect.
Vice-President-The Nominations Committee was unable to find a candidate for Vice-President. Monson called for nominations from the floor. Morgan Falcone nominated Del DeBoer. Kannenberg seconded. Kittay moved that nominations cease and a unanimous ballot be cast for the candidate. Swanson seconded. Motion passed.
Secretary/Treasurer: The candidate from the Board was Rob Kittay. Monson called for nominations from the floor. None were forthcoming. Hemeyer moved that nominations cease, and a unanimous ballot be cast. Auen seconded. Motion passed.
Outgoing Directors: Al Erickson, Dawn Horner, and Clint Hay are the outgoing directors and were recognized.
New Directors for 2017-18: The three candidates recommended by the Nominating Committee were:
Tanya Miller-AWWA SD Section Rep
Clint Hay-Manufacturers’ Rep
Dawn Horner-SD WEA Rep
Monson called for nominations from the floor. Hemeyer moved to accept the candidates. Kittay seconded. Motion passed.
Monson announced that Kevin Kuiper will be replacing Joe Barrett as a director. That term ends in September 2018.
Monson thanked the Association for allowing him to serve as President. The ceremonial passing of the gavel to 2018 President Auen took place.
Auen introduced the entire SDWWA Board.
New Business: The sites of the future conferences were announced as follows: 2018-The Lodge at Deadwood, 2019-Pierre Ramkota, 2020-Aberdeen Ramkota, 2021-Rapid City, 2022-Sioux Falls, and Spearfish-2023
Door Prizes: Kittay, Monson, and Auen conducted the drawings.
Adjournment: Mark Mayer moved for adjournment. Tim Monson seconded. Motion passed. Meeting adjourned at 12:48 pm.
9-18-2017
Rob Kittay, Secretary
Unapproved Minutes
SDWWA Board Meeting
September 12, 2017
Crossroads/Events Center-Huron SD
Members Present: Steph Kapfenstein, Tim Monson, Rob Kittay, Jim Auen, Dawn Horner, Clint Hay, Al Erickson, Grant Groos, Dustin Sulzle, Kyle Kampshoff, Jesse Christianson, Dustin Fuhrmann Members Absent: Joe Barrett Others Present: Jim Zeck-SDARWS, Jan Kittay, and Joan Hawley-WEF
Call to Order: Monson called the meeting to order at 7:00 pm. A quorum was present. Approval of Agenda: Kapfenstein moved for approval of the agenda. Sulzle seconded. Motion passed. Minutes: The minutes were emailed previously by Kittay and were on web site. Sulzle moved to approve the minutes. Auen seconded. Motion passed.
Old Business: There was none forthcoming.
Treasurer’s Report: Kittay reported that there were the following amounts in the various accounts- $20,019.51 General Account checkbook as of 8/21/17 $17,607.83 Source to Stream Checkbook as of 8/31/17 $26,561.01 East River Account as of 6/30/17 (endowment for scholarship) A full report of the income and payments was provided. There was some discussion of buying municipal bonds to increase the income over interest income. Auen moved to accept report. Hay seconded. Motion passed.
Auditing Committee: Andrea Griese, Bill Sarringar, and Vern Thorson were on the committee. Kittay gave the report as submitted by the committee. A copy was given to those present. The audit was done on August 31, 2017. The books were in order. Christianson moved to accept the report. Horner seconded. Motion passed.
Wastewater Seminar: Horner gave the report. The Seminar will be held in Pierre on April 11-12, 2018. Water Seminar: Erickson gave the report. The Water Seminar will be held at the Cedar Shores in Oacoma on February 21-22, 2018.
Other Committees: Erickson gave a report from the AWWA Section. Mitch Kannenberg has been approached about running for AWWA President. The Section has had a 55% retention. The library is on web site. The Section gets $600 each year from National AWWA to spend in the AWWA bookstore. If anyone has some ideas on books to purchase, let the Section know.
Source to Stream: Erin Steever submitted a report. Copy is attached to these minutes.
2017-2018 Officers: Auen will be president and Monson will be past-president. Monson will be contacting candidates for VP and to replace Snoderly as President-Elect. Secretary-Treasurer: Horner nominated Kittay with Sulzle seconding. Kittay will be the Board’s candidate for S/T. Nominations Committee: Monson gave the report for the committee. The committee put forth as directors: Dawn Horner-SDWEA Rep Tanya Miller-AWWA SD Section Rep Clint Hay-Manufacturers’ Rep Kevin Kuiper of Platte will replace Joe Barrett as a director until September 2018. Kittay moved to accept the slate. Groos seconded. Motion passed.
Scholarships: SDWWA-Zeck gave the report. The winners have been determined for this year, and the checks have been sent to the schools. The winners will be announced at the banquet. Sulzle moved to have two-$500 for each of the next two years. Kittay seconded. Motion passed. SDSU/SDSMT Scholarships-Kittay moved that $1000 be given each to SDSU and SDSMT to fund one scholarship at each school. Kapfenstein seconded.
Motion passed. 2017 Conference Concerns: Kittay indicated there were 132 pre-registrants excluding displayers. This is less than last year’s pre-registration. Square/credit cards were used for about 40 registrations and 12 booths. SDWWA collected a convenience charge on all credit card transactions. There are only about 37 booths compared to last year’s 55. There is a lack of motel rooms this year due to car races in Huron. Kittay did not hear about this conflict until a month ago. He also noted that Minnesota AWWA Section is having their conference this week which is attracting many of our vendors. MN seems to keep moving their conference around during September while we always start nine days after Labor Day. During 2018-2020, they will not conflict with our conference but will do so again in 2021.
Other Business: 2023 Conference Site-Kittay has inquired for space at the Spearfish Holiday Inn for 2023. Monson moved to hold 2023 Conference in Spearfish. Auen seconded. Motion passed.
Price-Rees and Siger Bies Awards-These awards are named for individuals involved with SDWWA many years ago. Kittay asked if these awards should be renamed for someone of more recent times. There was no motion for any action of these awards.
Zeck spoke about reinstating the Conference Watch. Sulzle moved that the Watch be reinstated under the old rules and that $100 be given to the winner. Fuhrmann seconded. Motion passed.
There was discussion about the lack of nominations for the SDWWA Awards. Auen moved that a drawing be held amongst the award nominators for a $50 gift certificate. Sulzle seconded. Motion passed.
Next Meeting: The proposed date of the next Board meeting is January 9, 2018 at the Red Rossa in Pierre just prior to the SDARWS Conference. Hay moved for adjournment. Erickson seconded. Meeting adjourned at 8:20 pm.
September 18, 2017
Rob Kittay, Secretary
Unapproved Minutes
SDWWA Board Meeting
January 10, 2017
Red Rossa-Pierre SD
Members Present: Tim Monson-President, Jim Auen-President-Elect, Steph Kapfenstein-Past President, Rob Kittay-Secretary-Treasurer, Al Erickson (SD AWWA), Dawn Horner (SD WPCA), Grant Groos (Small Systems), Dustin Sulzle (Small Systems), Joe Barrett, Kyle Kampshoff (Small Systems), Jesse Christianson, Dustin Fuhrmann
Members Absent: Clint Hay (Manu Rep), Joe Barrett, Fred Snoderly-Vice-President
Others Present: Chad Hanson
Call to Order: Monson called the meeting to order at 11:45 am. A quorum was present. Introductions were made.
Approval of Agenda: Kittay noted an error in the agenda. “Review of the 2017 Conference” should be “Review of the 2016 Conference”. Kittay moved for approval of the revised agenda. Horner seconded. Motion passed.
Minutes: The minutes were emailed by Kittay and were on web site. Sulzle moved to approve minutes. Kapfenstein seconded. Motion passed.
Treasurer’s Report: Kittay reported the following balances in the various SDWWA accounts-
Checkbook $19,913.50 as of 11/21/16
Source-to-Stream $18,748.40 as of 12/30/16
The registration fee was raised for the 2016 Conference. The Well-Fargo account has been closed by actions of this Board at the September 2016 meeting. The monthly service fee of $10 was eating away at the account as so little interest money from the East River FCU account was going in.
This is the time of year when membership renewal money is coming in as all of the renewal notices have been sent to members that did not attend the 2016 Conference. Bills for the Conference have been paid. The scholarship money has been taken out of the checkbook and moved to the East River FCU account.
Auen moved to accept report. Christianson seconded. Motion passed.
Source to Stream: Kittay relayed Erin Steever’s report. The editors are in the process of gathering ads for the upcoming year. Kittay moved to accept the report. Kampshoff seconded. Motion passed.
Water/Wastewater Seminars: Water-The seminar is being held on February 8-9, 2017 at the Rapid City Ramkota. A mass email on motel room availability has been done but not an agenda email.
Wastewater-The seminar is April 19-20, 2017 at the Red Rossa Italian Grill in Pierre. Kittay stated that draft agenda is needed by March 1 to get advertising out.
2017 SDWWA Committees: The committees were formed for the year.
Note for the Nominations Committee—The directors leaving the Board this year are the AWWA, SDWEA, and Manufacturers’ Reps. Those groups generally nominate someone to represent their groups. The primary work for the Committee will be to find a Vice-President.
2016 Conference Review: Kittay thought the Conference went well from his view point on working with the Ramkota Inn in Sioux Falls.
2017 Conference in Huron: Auen is in charge of the agenda with AWWA and SDWEA forming the Thursday afternoon sessions. Some ideas were mentioned-Operator issues, hydrants, trench safety, traffic safety, motivational speaker, millennials, GenX, etc.
SF Water Festival: SDWWA has given $500 for a number of years to support the festival and they are asking for support again. Kittay moved to give the Water Festival $500 for 2017. Sulzle seconded. Motion passed.
Other Business: Erickson gave a report on AWWA activities.
Monson said he would check on Barrett’s status on the Board
Kapfenstein will no longer be the SDWWA rep on the SD WARN Board. A new rep is needed.
Next Meeting: The next meeting will prior to the Conference.
Kittay moved for adjournment. Auen seconded. Meeting adjourned at 2:15 pm.
July 31, 2017
Rob Kittay, Secretary
Unapproved Minutes
SDWWA 2016 Annual Business Meeting
September 15, 2016
Ramkota Inn-Sioux Falls SD
Call to Order: By President Akers at 12:31 pm. Approximately 204 were in attendance.
Agenda: The agenda had been provided to the attendees. Jim Auen moved for approval. Dave Van Cleave seconded. Motion passed.
Akers thanked Gavin Graverson/Local Arrangements Committee, Robin Dykstra, Clint Hay/Commercial Committee, WEA, and AWWA Section for their work on the Conference.
Minutes: The minutes of the 2015 Business Meeting had been posted to web site. Verhey moved for approval. Schmit seconded. Motion passed.
Old Business: Akers called for Old Business. There was none forthcoming.
Tuesday Nite Board Meeting: Akers reviewed the Tuesday SDWWA Board meeting including the formation of the JR Yde 40 year award for anyone involved in the filed for forty years, the scholarships, and awarding SDWARN $500 for their budget.
Officers for 2016-17: Akers announced that Tim Monson would be the 2017 President and Jim Auen would be the President-Elect.
Vice-President: There was no candidate from the Board. Akers called for nominations from the floor. Verhey nominated Fred Snoderly from Madison as a candidate for VP. Kittay moved that nominations cease and a unanimous ballot be cast for the candidate. Deboer seconded. Motion passed.
Secretary/Treasurer: The candidate from the Board was Rob Kittay. Akers called for nominations from the floor. None were forthcoming. Van Cleave moved that nominations cease, and a unanimous ballot be cast. Mark Mayer seconded. Motion passed.
Outgoing Directors: Heath Thompson, Fred Snoderly, and Jake Fitzgerald are the outgoing directors and were recognized.
New Directors for 2016-17: The three candidates recommended by the Nominating Committee for full three year terms were:
Kyle Kampshoff-Alexandria
Jesse Christensen-Brookings-Deuel RWS
Dustin Fuhrmann-SDEDA
Grant Groos was nominated to complete the term of Greg Stack
Akers called for nominations from the floor. Verhey moved to accept the candidates. Auen seconded. Motion passed.
Akers thanked the Association for allowing her to serve as President. The ceremonial passing of the gavel to 2017 President Monson took place.
Monson introduced the entire SDWWA Board.
New Business: The sites of the future conferences were announced as follows: 2017-Huron Crossroads, 2018-The Lodge at Deadwood, 2019-Pierre Ramkota, 2020-Aberdeen Ramkota, 2021-Rapid City, and 2022-Sioux Falls.
Door Prizes: Kittay and Graverson conducted the drawings.
Adjournment: Kittay moved for adjournment. Graverson seconded. Motion passed. Meeting adjourned at 12:52 pm.
9-26-2016
Rob Kittay
Secretary
Unapproved Minutes
SDWWA Board Meeting
September 13, 2016
Spezia’s-Sioux Falls SD
Members Present: Dan Graber, Steph Akers, Tom Monson, Rob Kittay, Jim Auen, Dawn Horner, Clint Hay, Al Erickson, Dustin Sulzle, Heath Thompson, Fred Snoderly
Members Absent: Jake Fitzgerald, Joe Barrett, Fred Snoderly
Others Present: Jim Zeck-SDARWS and Claus Homann-WEF
Call to Order: Akers called the meeting to order at 6:40 pm. A quorum was present.
Approval of Agenda: Thompson moved for approval. Auen seconded. Motion passed.
Minutes: The minutes were emailed by Kittay and were on web site. Graber moved to approve the minutes. Sulzle seconded. Motion passed.
Old Business: Kittay and Sulzle reported on the 40 year award. Kittay suggested that they use the Dornbush criteria except change it to 40 years. It was also suggested that the award be named for JR Yde. Kittay moved that this award be finalized. Graber seconded. Motion passed.
Treasurer’s Report: Kittay reported that there were the following amounts in the various accounts-
$7938.35 in the checkbook as of 8/16/16
$148.05 Wells Fargo account as of 8/31/16
$20,804.58 Source-to-Stream as of 8/31/16
$23,585.36 East River FCU as of 6/30/16
A full report of the income and payments was provided. The Wells-Fargo account now has a $10 monthly service charge while only $5 per month is going into the account from the FCU account. This account will be closed and used for part of this year’s scholarship payment.
Sulzle moved to accept report. Auen seconded. Motion passed.
Auditing Committee: Andrea Griese, Jake Fitzgerald, and Mark McIntire were on the committee. Kittay gave the report as submitted by the committee. A copy was given to those present. The audit was done in September, 2016. The books were in order. Monson moved to accept the report. Hay seconded. Motion passed.
Other Committees: SD WARN submitted a letter asking for $500 for their budget. Akers is the SDWWA member on the WARN Committee. Graber moved to give SD WARN $500 for 2016-17. Horner seconded. Motion passed.
Wastewater Seminar: Horner gave the report. The 2017 WW Seminar will be at the Pierre Red Rossa in April 2017. The exact dates are to be determined. In 2016, there were 70 attendees. A bean bag tourney was conducted with money going to the SDWWA Scholarship.
Water Seminar: Erickson gave the report. The Water Seminar will be held February 8-9, 2017 at the RC Ramkota.
Source to Stream: Erin Steever submitted a report. Copy is attached to these minutes. The SDWWA Board believes a payment should be made to each of the three entities w/ $3000 going to each group. The S2S Board will need to make a final determination on this.
2016-2017 Officers: Monson will be president, Akers will be past-president, and Auen will become president-elect.
Secretary-Treasurer: Graber nominated Kittay. Auen seconded. Kittay will be the Board’s candidate for S/T.
Nominations Committee: The committee put forth Dustin Fuhrmann-SDEDA, Jesse Christensen-BD RWS, and Kyle Kampshoff-Alexandria as directors with their terms ending in 2019. They also put forth Grant Groos of Colman to replace Greg Stack who moved out of state. There was no vice president candidate. Kittay moved to accept the slate. Sulzle seconded. Motion passed.
Scholarships: SDWWA-Zeck gave the report. The winners have been determined for this year, and the checks will be sent to the schools. The winners will be announced at the banquet. As there is only about $150 in Wells-Fargo account, the SDWWA general fund will cover the other $850. Chuck Kuecker will be honoree. Graber moved to have two $500 scholarships for 2017. Thompson seconded. Motion passed.
SDSU/SDSMT Scholarships-Kittay moved that $1000 be given each to SDSU and SDSMT to fund one scholarship at each school. Graber seconded. Motion passed.
Future Conferences: Kittay wanted some direction from the Board for the 2021 and 2022 Conference sites. The Board suggested Rapid City for 2021 and Sioux Falls for 2022. Kittay will finalize the sites.
2016 Conference Concerns: Kittay indicated there were 177 pre-registrants excluding displayers. Pre-registrants in the SF area will not get meal tickets unless they come to registration desk and get tickets for meals they will actually eat. Past experience has shown that locals have other commitments and miss some of the meals. This also applies for exhibitors registering w/ Hay. Square/credit cards were used for about 40 registrations and ten booths. SDWWA collected a convenience charge on all credit card transactions.
Other Business: There was discussion about some kind of SDWWA membership utility rate for large systems. Many members on the Board felt that the $10 per year currently charged for member is so low that a group rate is not warranted.
Akers mention that another SDWWA Warn representative is needed to replace her.
Erickson gave the AWWA Liason Report. Mitch Kannenberg is now an AWWA VP. The SD Section assessment went thru. There are currently 240 members. Jan Kittay is stepping down as their Treasurer.
Next Meeting: The date of the next Board meeting is January 10, 2016 at 11:30 am the Red Rossa in Pierre just prior to the SDARWS Conference.
Kittay moved for adjournment. Graber seconded. Meeting adjourned at 8:19 pm.
September 26, 2016
Rob Kittay Date
Secretary
Source-to-Stream Report
The Source to Stream publication is operating with expected $1,400 balance in 2016. I want to thank our 2016 advertisers:
1/2 page color ads: ACIPCO ADIP, Bartlett & West, Engineering America, HDR, and RWL Water/VanBergen & Markson
1/2 page black and white ads: AE2S, Banner Associates, DN Tanks, HD Supply, HR Green, Hydro-Klean, and SEH
1/4 page black and white ads: Maguire Iron, and SPN
Our adverting dollars are down this year with several advertisers not renewing their contract in 2016. We haven't adjusted advertisement rates in many years due to our steady profit, which is given back to the three associations periodically. We are a “not-for-profit” publication/associations; however, the additional dollars raised by the publication do help our member associations with operating expenses. The publication is operating in the black; however, is there cause for concern?
No matter your response, it is always receive constructive feedback. Please discuss with your boards their opinions, possible changes, and general feel of the publication. Some conversation starters may be content, value to the reader/advertisers, accessibility of contact information to the readers, use of digital copies and archives, timing of advertisement requests, interest in publication, what is done well or on the flip side what might be missing over other publications, effects from the economy, etc. Please relay all comments, suggestions, and thoughts back to me. I will forward these on to the Source to Stream Board (Al Erickson, Jeff DeVille and Peggi Badten) for discussion, contemplation and consideration. Your feedback is strongly encouraged!
This is our second year with Crystal Ehresmann developing the publication. She is a freelance graphic designer. I enjoy her eye for balance and her quick turn around, she does a fabulous job. My role is to take care of advertising, and coordinate and organizing content with the help of AWWA, WEA and WWA.
I'm hoping to bring on an additional water professional to the group for proofing the issue, etc. Jeff Heins was the latest proof reader. With his recent retirement this position is now open again. I'll remind you that this is where I started my involvement in the publication, if you have any suggestions for YPs or more seasoned professionals in the water industry that would be a good fit, please let me know.
Something new this year is offering on-line version of the publication instead of a printed/mailed copy. There have been a couple individuals that have taken advantage of this opportunity. All are welcome to visit the AWWA website (www.sdawwa.org) for archived publications. We're falling behind on the WWA site but we'll work on this too (http://www.sdwwa.org/). I've also been posting several featured training's/events/etc. from each publication on the sdawwa website - if you haven't visited the website in a while you'll want to take a look!
Please direct any questions you have to me either before or after your board meetings.
Sincerely,
Erin Steever, PE
Publication Manager
SDWWA Board Meeting
January 12, 2016
Red Rossa-Pierre SD
Members Present: Steph Akers-President, Tim Monson-President-Elect, Jim Auen-Vice-President, Rob Kittay-Secretary-Treasurer, Dawn Horner (SD WPCA), Clint Hay (Manu Rep), Dustin Sulzle (Small Systems), Fred Snoderly, Heath Thompson
Members Absent: Dan Graber, Al Erickson, Joe Barrett, Jake Fitzgerald, Greg Stack
Others Present: Jan Kittay
Call to Order: Akers called the meeting to order at 11:42 am. A quorum was present. Introductions were made.
Approval of Agenda: Snoderly moved for approval. Monson seconded. Motion passed.
Minutes: The minutes were emailed by Kittay and were on web site. Thompson moved to approve minutes. Hay seconded. Motion passed.
Treasurer’s Report: Kittay reported the following balances in the various SDWWA accounts-y
Checkbook $ 8,261.20 as of 12/21/15
Source-to-Stream $20,917.45 as of 11/30/15
Wells-Fargo $ 157.66 as of 11/30/15
This is the time of year when membership renewal money is coming in. The S2S account is high because fees have been collected for the 2016 advertising which will be spent down over the course of the year. The checkbook ran a negative balance for a while after the conference as the scholarship money was taken out and the Spearfish Holiday Inn was paid.
Auen moved to accept report. Sulzle seconded. Motion passed.
Source to Stream: Kittay relayed Erin Steever’s report. The editors are in the process of gathering ads for the upcoming year. Kittay moved to approve the report. Hay seconded. Motion passed.
Water/Wastewater Seminars: Water-Jan Kittay gave the report. It will be held at the Sioux Falls Ramkota Inn on February 3-4, 2016. Erin Steever is the committee leader. Rob Kittay said that a mass email has already been sent and registrations are starting to come in. The agenda is close to being finalized.
Wastewater-Horner gave the report. The seminar is April 20-21, 2016 at the Red Rossa Italian Grill in Pierre. Kittay stated that draft agenda is needed by March 1 to get advertising out.
2016 SDWWA Committees: The committees were formed.
2015 Conference Review: Kittay thought the Conference went well from his view point on working with the Spearfish Holiday Inn. It was pointed out that the MN AWWA Conference was on the same dates and may have taken away from the number of vendors we had.
AWWA Report: Jan Kittay gave report
Replace Board Member: Greg Stack is moving to North Dakota and will be resigning from the Board.
SF Water Festival: SDWWA has given $500 for a number of years to support the festival. Kittay moved to donate $500 again this year. Auen seconded. Motion passed.
Other Business: Akers is SDWWA’s rep on SD WARN and gave a report of the meeting she attended. WARN has joined RW Center to be able to accept donations such as excess equipment. WARN may be looking for funds for storage, repairs, etc.
John Hatch has suggested that a 40 year award be created. Sulzle moved to create this award. Kittay seconded. Motion passed. Kittay and Sulzle volunteered to develop a set of eligibility criteria for this award and bring this back to the Board.
Next Meeting: May 2016 to gather presentation ideas for Conference.
Kittay moved for adjournment. Snoderly seconded. Meeting adjourned at 1:05 pm.
Rob Kittay, Secretary
February 19, 2016
Unapproved Minutes
SDWWA 2015 Annual Business Meeting
September 17, 2015
Holiday Inn-Spearfish SD
Call to Order: By President Graber at 12:26 pm. Approximately 160 were in attendance.
Agenda: The agenda had been provided to the attendees. Auen moved for approval. Snoderly seconded. Motion passed.
Graber thanked Tom Callaway/Local Arrangements Committee, City of Spearfish, Robin Dykstra, Holiday Inn Staff, Clint Hay/Commercial Committee, WEA, and AWWA Section for their work on the Conference.
Minutes: The minutes of the 2014 Business Meeting had been posted to web site. Swanson moved for approval. Boerger seconded. Motion passed.
Old Business: Graber called for Old Business. There was none forthcoming.
Graber reviewed the SDWWA Tuesday nite board meeting for the attendees: Scholarships/Cost of Conference to rise due to costs/Credit Cards are now being taken for conference and seminar registration/S2S funds disbursement/SD WARN volunteer.
Officers for 2015-16: Graber announced that Steph Akers would be the 2016 President and Tim Monson would be the President-Elect.
Vice-President: The candidate from the Board was Jim Auen from Lewis & Clark RWS. Graber called for nominations from the floor. Kittay moved that nominations cease, and a unanimous ballot be cast for the candidate. Boerger seconded. Motion passed.
Secretary/Treasurer: The candidate from the Board was Rob Kittay. Graber called for nominations from the floor. None were forthcoming. Van Cleave moved that nominations cease, and a unanimous ballot be cast. Boerger seconded. Motion passed.
Outgoing Directors: Thorson/Auen/Sulzle are the outgoing directors and were recognized.
New Directors for 2015-16: The three candidates recommended by the Nominating Committee were:
Dustin Sulzle-Marion Greg Stack-Lennox Joe Barrett-Lead-Deadwood Sanitary District
Graber called for nominations from the floor. Robin Dykstra moved to accept the candidates. Zeck seconded. Motion passed.
Graber thanked the Association for allowing him to serve as President. The ceremonial passing of the gavel to 2016 President Akers took place.
Akers introduced the entire SDWWA Board.
New Business: Erikson suggested that anyone interested in getting involved or being on a committee should talk to a board member.
The sites of the future conferences were announced as follows: 2016-Sioux Falls Ramkota, 2017-Huron Crossroads, 2018-The Lodge at Deadwood, 2019-Pierre Ramkota, and 2020-Aberdeen Ramkota.
Door Prizes: Kittay conducted the drawings.
Adjournment: Faris moved for adjournment. Graber seconded. Motion passed. Meeting adjourned at 12:50 pm.
9-22-2015
Rob Kittay, Secretary
Unapproved Minutes
SDWWA Board Meeting
September 15, 2015
Holiday Inn-Spearfish SD
Members Present: Dan Graber, Steph Akers, Tom Monson, Rob Kittay, Gavin Graverson, Jim Auen, Dustin Sulzle, Heath Thompson, Jake Fitzgerald, Fred Snoderly, Dawn Horner, Clint Hay, Al Erickson
Members Absent: Vern Thorson
Others Present: Jim Zeck
Call to Order: Graber called the meeting to order at 6:10 pm. A quorum was present.
Approval of Agenda: Kittay moved for approval. Thompson seconded. Motion passed.
Minutes: The minutes were emailed by Kittay and were on web site. Auen moved to approve the minutes. Snoderly seconded. Motion passed.
Old Business: There was no old business.
Treasurer’s Report: Kittay reported that there were the following amounts in the various accounts-
$27,335.85 as of August 17, 2015 $28353.26 in the checkbook-2014
$641.59 as of June 30, 2015 $610.35 Wells Fargo account-2014
$23,904.19 as of July 31 2015 $18852.50 S2S-2014
A full report of the income and payments was provided. Hay moved to accept report. Auen seconded. Motion passed.
Auditing Committee: Andrea Griese, Vern Thorson, and Jake Fitzgerald were on the committee. A report was submitted by the committee. The audit was done in September, 2015. The books were in order.
Commercial Committee: Hay gave the report. Everything is in order for the displays. There are 47 vendor tables and three are now not showing.
Wastewater Seminar: 2015 Seminar was well attended. A preliminary date for the 2016 Seminar is April 20-21 again at the Pierre Red Rossa.
Water Seminar: It will be held at the SF Ramkota Feb 3-4, 2016. Spearfish attendance was a little down for the 2015 Seminar.
Source to Stream: Steever submitted a written report. Deadlines in S2S for 2015 will be January 15, April 30, June 30, and October 1. As the S2S account is doing well, Graber moved to recommend to the S2S editorial committee that a dispersal of $3000 to each of the three groups be made. Auen seconded. Motion passed.
Article assignments for the 2016 S2S were made as follows-
January-Graber/Kittay/Monson
April-Auen/Akers/Hay
June-Thompson/Horner/Erickson
October-The three new directors
2015-2016 Officers: Akers will be president, Graber will be past-president, and Monson will become the president-elect.
Secretary-Treasurer: Fitzgerald nominated Kittay with Snoderly seconding. Motion passed. Kittay will be the Board’s candidate for S/T.
Nominations Committee: Graber gave the report for the committee. Auen, Sulzle, and Thorson are the directors going off of the Board. The committee put forth the following candidates:
Vice President-Auen
Directors-Greg Stack-Lennox/Joe Barrett-Lead-Deadwood Sanitary District/Dustin Sulzle-Marion
Kittay moved to accept the slate. Thompson seconded. Motion passed.
Scholarships: SDWWA-Zeck gave the report. The winners have been determined for this year, and the checks will be sent to the school. The winners will be announced at the banquet. These will be paid for with $500 from the Wells-Fargo account and $500 from SDWWA checkbook. Erickson noted that the endowment contributions are slowing down. Thompson moved to continue to give two scholarships for the next two years. Sulzle seconded. Motion passed.
SDSU/SDSMT Scholarships-Kittay moved that $2000 be given each to SDSU and SDSMT to fund two scholarships at each school. Sulzle seconded. Motion passed.
2015 Conference: Kittay indicated there were about 240 pre-registrants including displayers. There was some discussion about the fees charged for the conference. Erickson suggested that conference fees be raised by $20. Thompson moved to raise conference registration by $20 and that $5.00 each be given to the AWWA Section and SDWEA from each conference registration. Auen seconded. Motion passed.
SD WARN: That group wanted to have SDWWA have a non-voting volunteer be on its committee. Akers offered to take that position.
Other Business: Kittay indicated that he had purchased a credit card reader from Square and that SDWWA can accept credit cards for conference and seminar registration. Of each credit card swipe, 2.5% went to Square. SDWWA would add a convenience fee to each registration using a credit card.
Next Meeting: The proposed date of the next Board meeting is January 12, 2016 at the Red Rossa in Pierre just prior to the SDARWS Conference.
Kittay moved for adjournment. Akers seconded. Meeting adjourned at 7:49 pm.
September 22, 2015
Rob Kittay
Secretary
Unapproved Minutes
SDWWA Board Meeting
January 13, 2015
Red Rossa-Pierre SD
Members Present: Dan Graber-President, Steph Akers-President Elect, Tim Monson-Vice President, Gavin Graverson-Past President, Rob Kittay-Secretary-Treasurer, Jim Auen, Vern Thorson (Small Systems), Jake Fitzgerald, Fred Snoderly, Heath Thompson, Al Erickson (AWWA-SD Section), Dawn Horner (SD WPCA), Clint Hay (Manu Rep)
Members Absent: Dustin Sulzle (Small Systems)
Others Present: None
Call to Order: Graber called the meeting to order at 11:45 am. A quorum was present, and introductions were made.
Approval of Agenda: Hay moved for approval of the agenda. Akers seconded. Motion passed.
Minutes: The minutes were emailed by Kittay and were on web site. Auen moved to approve minutes. Snoderly seconded. Motion passed.
Treasurer’s Report: Kittay reported the following balances in the various SDWWA accounts-
Checkbook $36,099.91 as of 12/15/14
Source-to-Stream $25,726.79 as of 1/13/15
Wells-Fargo $ 619.86 as of 11/30/14
This is the time of year when membership renewal money is coming in. The Watertown Ramkota has not been paid for the Conference as a bill has not been sent. Kittay contacted them a while ago concerning this, and they said that it would be sent. The S2S account is high because fees have been collected for the 2015 advertising which will be spent down over the course of the year.
Fitzgerald moved to accept report. Thompson seconded. Motion passed.
Source to Stream: Kittay relayed Erin Steever’s report along with an accounting of the advertising for the last few years. For CY2015, advertising has brought in $8350 in comparison to $11,200, $9250, and $11,050 for the three years. There are two more ads expected for the Q1-2015 edition that have not been paid for. Comments were made to make a dispersion of the funds. Akers moved to accept the report. Monson seconded. Motion passed.
Water/Wastewater Seminars: Water-Erickson gave the report. It will be held at the Spearfish Holiday Inn on February 18-19, 2015. Adam Norman is the committee leader. Kittay said that a mass email has already been sent and registrations are starting to come in. The agenda is close to being finalized.
Wastewater-Horner gave the report. The seminar is April 29-30, 2015 at the Red Rossa Italian Grill in Pierre. Kittay stated that draft agenda is needed by March 15 to get advertising out.
Kittay moved to accept the reports. Auen seconded. Motion passed.
2015 SDWWA Committees: The committees for this year were formed.
2014 Conference Review: Kittay thought the Conference went well from his view point on working with the Watertown Ramkota. There is the question of the number of rooms there and the distance to the other motels in Watertown. Some requested that a small system session be done. The AWWA awards seemed to run long.
2015 Conference in Spearfish: Some ideas were mentioned-
Student presentations by SDSMT.
AWWA/WEF presentations by national reps need to be shortened.
Possibility of 3rd session on Thursday would be dependent on number of total presentations
Keynote speaker.
Gimmicks & Gadgets.
2020 Conference Site: The Aberdeen Ramkota has submitted info for this Conference. The dates would be September 16-18, 2020. There were a few issues with the last conference at Aberdeen. There were some new employees hired just prior to the Conference. There were discussions at the Ramkota over these issues that were pointed out to management, and they agreed that these indeed should not have happened. Kittay moved to hold the 2020 Conference at the Aberdeen Ramkota. Akers seconded. Motion passed.
Other Business: There was discussion of the SDWWA Awards especially the NALCO Award since it has been a long time since this company participated in the SDWWA. Thompson moved to change the name of this award to the William Aisenbrey Award. Thorson seconded. Motion passed.
Next Meeting: The next meeting will be on September 15, 2015 at Spearfish at 6:00 pm MT.
Monson moved for adjournment. Fitzgerald seconded. Meeting adjourned at 1:03 pm.
Rob Kittay, Secretary
July 8, 2015
Unapproved Minutes
SDWWA 2014 Annual Business Meeting
September 18, 2014
Ramkota Inn/Events Center-Watertown SD
Call to Order: By President Graverson at 12:15 pm. Approximately 200 were in attendance.
Agenda: The agenda had been provided to the attendees. Wagner moved for approval. Schoon seconded. Motion passed.
Graverson thanked the Commercial Committee, WEA, and AWWA Section for their work on the Conference. He also reviewed the Tuesday nite Board meeting for the attendees.
Minutes: The minutes of the 2013 Business Meeting had been posted to web site. Scheltens moved for approval. Graber seconded. Motion passed.
Old Business: Graverson called for Old Business. There was none forthcoming.
Officers for 2014-15: Graverson announced that Dan Graber would be the 2014-15 President and Stephanie Akers would be the President-Elect.
Vice-President: The candidate from the Board was Tim Monson. Graverson called for nominations from the floor. Hemeyer moved that nominations cease, and a unanimous ballot be cast for the candidate. Kittay seconded. Motion passed.
Secretary/Treasurer: The candidate from the Board was Rob Kittay. Graverson called for nominations from the floor. None were forthcoming. Schoon moved that nominations cease, and a unanimous ballot be cast. Snoderly seconded. Motion passed.
Outgoing Directors: Kannenberg, Peters, and Macdonald are the outgoing directors and were recognized.
New Directors for 2014-15: The three candidates recommended by the Nominating Committee were:
Al Erickson-AWWA Rep/Dawn Horner-WEA Rep/Clint Hay-Manufacturers Rep
Graverson called for nominations from the floor. Kittay moved to accept the candidates. Snoderly seconded. Motion passed.
Graverson thanked the Association for allowing him to serve as President. The ceremonial passing of the gavel to 2014-15 President Graber took place.
Graber introduced the entire SDWWA Board.
New Business: The sites of the future conferences were announced as follows: 2015-Spearfish Holiday Inn, 2016-Sioux Falls Ramkota, 2017-Huron Crossroads, 2018-The Lodge at Deadwood, and 2019-Pierre Ramkota.
Door Prizes: Kittay conducted the drawings.
Matt Odekoeven announced results of Water for People bean bag tourney that took place Wednesday nite.
Adjournment: Walters moved for adjournment. Mayer seconded. Motion passed. Meeting adjourned at 12:45 pm.
9-22-2014
Rob Kittay, Secretary
Unapproved Minutes
SDWWA Board Meeting
September 16, 2014
Ramkota Inn/Events Center-Watertown SD
Members Present: Heath Thompson, Mitch Kannenberg, Dave Van Cleave, Gavin Graverson, Dan Graber, Rob Kittay, DelRon Peters, Steph Akers, Jim Auen, Jake Fitzgerald, Fred Snoderly
Members Absent: Malcolm MacDonald, Dustin Sulzle, Vern Thorson
Others Present: Jim Zeck, Tyler Smith, Erin Steever, Mark Mayer
Call to Order: Graverson called the meeting to order at 6:10 pm. A quorum was present.
Approval of Agenda: Graber moved for approval of the agenda. Snoderly seconded. Motion passed.
Minutes: The minutes had been emailed by Kittay and were on web site. Kannenberg moved to approve the minutes. Fitzgerald seconded. Motion passed.
Old Business: There was none forthcoming.
Treasurer’s Report: Kittay reported that there were the following amounts in the various accounts-
$28,353.26 SDWWA checkbook
$610.35 Wells Fargo account
$18,852.50 Source-to-Stream checkbook
A full report of the income and payments was provided and discussed. Graber moved to accept report. Auen seconded. Motion passed.
Auditing Committee: Andrea Griese, Vern Thorson, and Mark McIntire were on the committee. A report was submitted by the committee. The audit was done in September, 2014. The books were in order. Thompson moved to accept the report. Peters seconded. Motion passed.
Other Committees: Commercial Committee: 56 vendors had signed up to attend this year’s conference. Graber gave some info on the awardees.
2015 Water Seminar: The committee met this afternoon and developed an agenda. It will be held at the Spearfish Holiday Inn on February 18-19, 2015. Kittay would like the agenda by January 1. Topics were discussed. Adam Norman is in charge.
2015 Wastewater Seminar: The seminar will be held at the Pierre Clubhouse Suites/Red Rossa on April 29-30, 2015. Topics were gathered.
Source to Stream: Steever submitted a written report. Deadlines in S2S for 2015 will be January 15, April 30, June 30, and October 1. There is some problem with incorrect addresses. There is a need for new co-editor. With the current balance in the S2S checkbook, there was discussion on a dispersal of funds. There is also a software update needed that can could range $400-$1400.
2014-2015 Officers: Graber will be president, Graverson will be past-president, and Akers will become president-elect.
Secretary-Treasurer: Van Cleave nominated Kittay for Secretary/Treasurer with Auen seconding. Motion passed. Kittay will be the Board’s candidate for S/T.
Nominations Committee: Peters gave the report for the committee. The committee put forth:
AWWA Rep-Al Erickson SD WEA Rep-Dawn Horner
Manufacturers’ Rep-Clint Hay VP-Tim Monson
Peters, Macdonald, and Kannenberg will be going off of the Board. Kittay moved to accept the slate. Graber seconded. Motion passed.
Scholarships: SDWWA-Zeck gave the report. The winners have been determined for this year, and the checks sent to the school. The winners will be announced at the luncheon. Ray Birchem and Blaine B Barker will be honored this year for the SDWWA Scholarships.
SDSU/SDSMT Scholarships-Kittay moved that $2000 be given each to SDSU and SDSMT to fund two scholarships at each school. Kannenberg seconded. Motion passed.
2014 Conference: Kittay indicated there were 238 pre-registrants including displayers. It was stated by some that there is a room issue with the Watertown Ramkota with only 101 sleeping rooms and most other motels on the other end of town. Kittay indicated that the Board will have to make a decision if they want to hold a conference at Watertown Ramkota in the future.
Other Business: DENR Fluoride Rule-mark Mayer gave a brief review of DENR’s intent to revise the fluoride regulations. DENR has been waiting for CDC to make some recommendations; however, they have not done so as of yet. He would like input on the draft rules. He also went thru the regulation adoption procedure.
Water Festival-Graverson spoke about the festival. Auen moved to give $600 to the Sioux Falls water Festival. Peters seconded. Motion passed.
Lifetime Achievement Award-A proposal was submitted by an SDWWA member for a 40 yr award.
Next Meeting: The date of the next Board meeting is January 13, 2015 at the Red Rossa in Pierre just prior to the SDARWS Conference. Arrangements have already been made with Red Rossa.
Kittay moved for adjournment. Graber seconded. Meeting adjourned at 7:59 pm.
September 22, 2014
Rob Kittay, Secretary
SDWWA Board Meeting
January 14, 2014
Red Rossa-Pierre SD
Members Present: Dave Van Cleave, Gavin Graverson, Dan Graber, Rob Kittay, DelRon Peters, Steph Akers, Jim Auen, Vern Thorson, Jake Fitzgerald, Fred Snoderly
Members Absent: Dustin Sulzle, Heath Thompson, Mitch Kannenberg, Malcolm MacDonald
Call to Order: Graverson called the meeting to order at 11:55 am. A quorum was present.
Approval of Agenda: Akers moved for approval of the agenda. Snodderly seconded. Motion passed.
Minutes: The minutes were emailed by Kittay and were on web site. Kittay moved to approve minutes. Peters seconded. Motion passed.
Treasurer’s Report: Kittay reported the following balances in the various SDWWA accounts-
Checkbook $21,024.95
Source-to-Stream $20,662.60
Wells-Fargo $ 586.90
UBS $ 2171.74
The UBS account was charged $245 in fees last year. Kittay suggested that this account be closed as it is losing balance levels. Graber moved to accept report and the UBS close account. Auen seconded. Motion passed.
Source to Stream: Kittay relayed Erin Steever’s report (see attached). Graber moved that we purchase the software. Auen seconded. Motion passed.
Water Seminar: Graverson relayed Kannenberg’s report. It will be held at the SF Ramkota on February 5-6, 2014. Kittay added that a mass email has already been sent and registrations are starting to come in. Adam Norman is the leader and the agenda has been finalized.
WW Seminar: Peters reported that the seminar will be held on April 30-May 1 at the Red Rossa Italian Grill in Pierre. There is some work left to be done with a few agenda items to be finalized. The draft agenda is needed by March 15 to be sent to systems.
2014 Committees: These committees were formed.
2013 Conf: The 2013 Conference was reviewed. It was mentioned that desserts at the banquet would be nice.
2014 Conf: The 2014 Conference will be a week later due to a problem with the Watertown Ramkota. The AWWA/WEF national reps will be given 15 min to speak during the Wednesday general session. All speakers need to be kept on time by the session moderators. Ideas were given for presentations.
Other Business: There was a request from the Sioux Empire Water Festival for funding. SDWWA has given $500 for last few years. Kttay moved to donate $500 to the 2014 Sioux Empire Water Festival. Peters seconded. Motion passed.
Next Meeting: The next meeting date will be left open for now in case a meeting is needed to work on the Conference. This could possibly be by conference call. There will be a meeting at 6:00 pm on September 16, 2014 at the Watertown Ramkota.
Van Cleave moved for adjournment. Fitzgerald seconded. Meeting adjourned at 1:12.
Rob Kittay
Secretary
Date- M23, 2014
Source-to-Stream Report
The Source to Stream brought in $9,200 in 2013. We continue to see a decrease in our income, however it has been adequate to balance the budget. Last year I worked with the printer to reduce our printing costs by decreasing the paper thickness of the entire issue. In 2013, the printing was $1.63/issue. In 2012, it was $1.76/issue for printing. We average 920 copies per issue. So far for 2014 we are at $8,300 from advertisements. On average, each issue takes roughly $300 in staff fees, $350 in postage, and $1,400 in printing/mailing.
Stephanie and I (Erin) continue to share editorial tasks. She takes care of assembling, proofing, and delivering the issue to the printer. She's been working in a few updates to the overall look, one example is pulling text boxes out to highlight a statement or two in the articles. I work with managerial like advertisement correspondence, keeping up with email account, and putting together the Q&A as well as the calendar (based off the Rural Water and DENR on-line calendars). I also proof the issue and provide content advise while Stephanie is developing each issue. The mailing list is based off WWA, WEA and AWWA membership records obtained from Rob Kittay, Dennis Rebelein, and Jodi Johanson. Rob takes care of the checkbook. I send all checks received for advertising his way to deposit into the account.
Stephanie is currently using a version of In-Design that is not compatible with the older version of In-Design that Source to Stream purchased a few years ago. HDR allows Stephanie to use her copy of In-Design software at work for Source to Stream use. She is due for another upgrade in her software this year; at that time we would like to also purchase a new copy for Source to Stream so that Erin can also jump in to the program to make minor edits, print PDFs for website links, etc. Currently, Erin has no access to In-Design files that have been opened using the updated software. Please advise if the purchase of new In-Design software in 2014 is acceptable to the board.
I want to extend a big Thank You to Jan Kittay for volunteering to put together a master schedule for the 2014 year. At the same time she was putting together the calendar, I was getting the advertisement letters out in the mail much earlier than they have been in the past. This was in an effort to get ad contracts and art back in time for the first quarter issue to be printed in February. To date, we have payment for all contracts that we've received for 2014, and are only waiting on new ad art from two companies. We are sitting very well compared to last year at this time, however we still need a few more ads to keep us comfortably in the black for the year.
Something new for 2014, I will be sending out reminders to all those who are supposed to be submitting articles for the upcoming issues. Calendar reminders will be sent out using ANYVITE.COM, which is a free calendar notice that bridges several different calendar formats (eg. Outlook, Google, etc.). It was implemented for January 15th Q1 deadline, however only one response from the Q1 issue was received. It seems most of the e-vites, including mine, was removed by the spam/junk filter. I will send out another email from the Google account with information from ANYVITE.COM. Please add it to your safe list if you receive the mentioned email. If you'd like to be added to the calendar for due date reminders and do not see an email, please inquire by sending an email to [email protected] and I'll get you on the list.
Q4 of 2013 had some great original articles, but as I look back the past few years, our content has been less original than I would like (filler material from EPA is not considered original). Please take the time to provide original, timely, informative, and interesting content for your fellow water professionals. It is your articles that make the publication! If you would like to discuss content of the issues, have an idea for something new, or just want to discuss the overall feel of the issue please give me a call (see page 3 of each issue for my contact information). I promise not to volunteer you for anything, and we want you to know that your opinion is important and appreciated!
Lastly, please see the attached PDF for the summary of advertisers for 2014 and previous years. If you know of anyone that might be interested in advertising in the Source to Stream, please contact them or let me know and I can get a hold of them.
Thanks,
Erin
Stephanie Logue and Erin Steever
Source to Stream Editors
[email protected]
Unapproved Minutes
SDWWA 2013 Annual Business Meeting
September 12, 2013
Ramkota Inn-Aberdeen SD
Call to Order: By President Van Cleave at 12:24 pm. Approximately 200 were in attendance.
Agenda: The agenda had been provided to the attendees. Chris Schmit moved for approval. Ed Royalty seconded. Motion passed.
Van Cleave thanked the Commercial Committee, WEA, and AWWA Section for their work on the Conference. He also reviewed the Tuesday nite Board meeting for the attendees.
Minutes: The minutes of the 2012 Business Meeting had been posted to web site. Jim Auen moved for approval. Peggi Badten seconded. Motion passed.
Old Business: Van Cleave called for Old Business. There was none forthcoming.
Officers for 2013-14: Van Cleave announced that Gavin Graverson would be the 2013-14 President and Dan Graber would be the President-Elect.
Vice-President: The candidate from the Board was Stephanie Akers. Van Cleave called for nominations from the floor. Rob Kittay moved that nominations cease, and a unanimous ballot be cast for Akers. Kim Verhey seconded. Motion passed.
Secretary/Treasurer: The candidate from the Board was Rob Kittay. Van Cleave called for nominations from the floor. None were forthcoming. Royalty moved that nominations cease, and a unanimous ballot be cast. Mark Mayer seconded. Motion passed.
Outgoing Directors: Aker, Thompson, and Adler are the outgoing directors and were recognized.
New Directors for 2013-14: The three candidates recommended by the Nominating Committee were:
Jake Fitzgerald-WR LJ RWS
Heath Thompson-Sioux RWS (was filling an unexpired term)
Fred Snoderly-Madison
Van Cleave called for nominations from the floor. Bob Kappel moved to accept the candidates. Dan Graber seconded. Motion passed.
Van Cleave thanked the Association for allowing him to serve as President. The ceremonial passing of the gavel to 2013-14 President Graverson took place.
Graverson introduced the entire SDWWA Board.
New Business: Graverson made the following announcements-
YPers are currently conducting a twitter contest.
There is a “get well” card for Morris Elcock being circulated.
The sites of the future conferences were announced as follows: 2014-Watertown Ramkota, 2015-Spearfish Holiday Inn, 2016-Sioux Falls Ramkota, 2017-Huron Crossroads, 2018-The Lodge at Deadwood, and 2019-Pierre Ramkota.
Door Prizes: Kittay conducted the drawings.
Adjournment: Greg Merrigan moved for adjournment. John Wookey seconded. Motion passed. Meeting adjourned at 12:40 pm.
9-18-2013
Rob Kittay, Secretary
Unapproved Minutes
SDWWA Board Meeting
September 10, 2013
Ramkota Inn-Aberdeen SD
Members Present: Rob Kittay, Dan Fink, Dave Van Cleave, DelRon Peters, Dan Graber, Steph Akers, Jerry Adler, Gavin Graverson, Mitch Kannenberg, Heath Thompson, Dustin Sulzle, Jim Auen, Malcolm MacDonald
Members Absent: Vern Thorson
Others Present: Jan Kittay
Call to Order: Van Cleave called the meeting to order at 6:06 pm. A quorum was present.
Approval of Agenda: Thompson moved for approval. Akers seconded. Motion passed.
Minutes: The minutes were emailed by Kittay and were on web site. Kittay moved to approve the minutes. Fink seconded. Motion passed.
Old Business: Adler spoke about efforts to get on SD Municipal League agenda for October annual meeting about operator importance. He was unsuccessful in getting on the 2013 conference agenda.
Graber had some contact with SD American Public Works Association (APWA). He received a lukewarm reception as to their group meeting at our conferences. He will go Municipal League meeting and see if there is any interest for APWA.
Treasurer’s Report: Kittay reported that there were the following amounts in the various accounts-
$30,934.42 in the checkbook
$2416.70 in the UBS account (July 31, 2013)
$1018.24 Wells Fargo account
$16,973.51 Source to Stream account
A full report of the income and payments was provided. Adler moved to accept report. Graverson seconded. Motion passed.
Auditing Committee: Andrea Griese, Vern Thorson, and Mark McIntire were on the committee. A report was submitted by the committee. The audit was done in September, 2013. The books were in order. Macdonal moved to accept the report. Adler seconded. Motion passed.
Commercial Committee: Macdonald reported that some vendors were lost to MN AWWA Conference that was being held at the same time as this conference. MN had changed the dates of their conference sometime during 2013.
2014 Water Seminar: The committee met this afternoon and developed an agenda. It will be held at the SF Ramkota on February 5-6, 2014. Kittay would like the agenda by January 1 for the flyer. Topics were discussed.
2014 Wastewater Seminar: The seminar will be held at the Pierre Clubhouse Suites/Red Rossa on April 30-May 1, 2014. Topics were gathered.
Source to Stream: Steever submitted a written report. Editors need to be more aggressive in reminding people for articles. The deadlines for article submission need to be made known to all. Jan Kittay said that she would be willing to round up articles.
Article assignments were made for CY2014 as follows:
1st-Kittay, Van Cleave, Macdonald, Peters
2nd-Kannenberg, Graverson, Graber, Sulzle
3rd-New Vice-President, Thorson, Auen
4th-Three new directors
2013-2014 Officers: Graverson will be president, Van Cleave will be past-president, and Graber will become president-elect.
Secretary-Treasurer: Adler nominated Kittay with Thompson seconding. Motion passed. Kittay will be the Board’s candidate for S/T.
Nominations Committee: Adler gave the report for the committee. The committee put forth:
Jake Fitzgrald-WR LJ RWS
Fred Snoderly-Madison
Heath Thompson-Sioux RWS (He had been previously filling out the term of a director that retired.)
Kittay moved to approve. Kannenberg seconded. Motion passed.
Fink nominated Akers as VP. Thompson seconded. Motion passed.
Scholarships: SDWWA-Zeck gave the report. The winners have been determined for this year. The winners will be announced at the luncheon. Bill Aisenbrey and Blaine B Barker will be honored this year for the SDWWA Scholarships. The committee is checking on reinvestment possibilities as two of the funds are maturing. Kannenberg moved that two scholarships at $500 each be given for the next two years. Kittay seconded. Motion passed.
SDSU/SDSMT Scholarships-Thompson moved that $2000 be given each to SDSU and SDSMT to fund two scholarships at each school. Adler seconded. Motion passed.
2019 SDWWA Conference Site: Kittay had done some inquiries with the Pierre Ramkota. They are interested in holding the 2019 Conference. Kittay moved to hold 2019 Conference in Pierre. Graber seconded. Motion passed.
2013 Conference: The Aberdeen mayor backed out; however, Janel Ellingsen will be filling in. Wastewater portion also had a speaker drop out with DENR filling in.
Other Business: Water Festival-No specific date or info was available. SDWWA has donated to the SF Water Festival in the past. Graverson will find more information.
Next Meeting: The proposed date of the next Board meeting is January 14, 2014 at Red Rossa just prior to the SDARWS Conference.
Adler asked about getting more operators involved. Contact hours are not the only reason to come to conferences and seminars.
Adler moved for adjournment. Sulzle seconded. Meeting adjourned at 8:08 pm.
October 1, 2013
Rob Kittay, Secretary
Unapproved Minutes
SDWWA Board Meeting
May 31, 2013
Red Rossa-Pierre SD
Members Present: Dave Van Cleave, Gavin Graverson, Dan Graber, Rob Kittay, Dan Fink,
DelRon Peters, Steph Akers, Heath Thompson, Jim Auen, Vern Thorson, Dustin Sulzle and Jerry Adler
Member Absent: Mitch Kannenberg and Malcolm MacDonald
Others Present:
Call to Order: Van Cleave called the meeting to order at 11:37 am. A quorum was present.
Approval of Agenda: Kittay moved for approval. Akers seconded. Motion passed.
Minutes: The minutes were emailed by Kittay and were on web site. Adler’s name needs to be deleted from a motion. Adler moved to approve the amended minutes. Auen seconded. Motion passed.
Old Business: The Board had left off on the Brinker/Dornbush issue. There has been no contact with Ewing for years. Kittay moved to change the Ewing Award to the William Brinker Award. Peters seconded. Motion passed. There was then talk about the other awards.
Treasurer’s Report: Kittay reported the following balances in the various SDWWA funds-
Checkbook $37,336.22
UBS Account $ 2,416.70
Well Fargo Account $ 779.04
He also reported that-
AWWA SD Section and SD WEA have been paid their shares of the seminars and 2012 Conference.
He will begin work with the Aberdeen Ramkota for 2013 Conference arrangements
He has contacted the Pierre Ramkota about dates for the 2019 Conference (September 11-13, 2019)
Thompson moved to accept report. Fink seconded. Motion passed.
Committees: Various reports were given. Graber moved to approve. Kittay seconded. Motion passed.
2013 Conference: Kannenberg was not able to attend meeting but emailed the following information-
The AWWA T&E Council, chaired by Brett Runge (and ably assisted by Gavin Graverson & others) has developed the following draft agenda for the drinking water portion of the annual conference.
Thursday Afternoon DRAFT Agenda:
1:00 - 1:30 Crystalline Waterproofing, Chris Krage with Xypex
1:30 - 2:30 Panel Discussion – “The Pains of Startup”-Mid-Dakota,Clark RW, Lewis & Clark RW, Watertown, and Sioux City
2:30 - 2:45 BREAK
2:45 - 3:00 SD DENR Regulator Update
3:00 - 3:30 Yankton Intake Case Study
3:30 - 4:00 TWO OPTIONS: Pigging & Cleaning Transmission Lines
Tim Monson Presentation
If you have questions, Gavin should be able to fill you in on some of the details.
Also, T&E Committee is planning a valve workshop, to be held in Pierre on August 8
They have the Singer Control Valve trailer reserved for the workshop.
MacDonald also was not able to attend meeting and emailed the following information-
Contact has been made with Aberdeen Ramkota
Currently reviewing the arrangements for Wednesday Night Buffet and Thursday Social Hour.
The exhibitor form is available on the website and is ready to mail.
Mailing will go out on June 3, 2013.
Doug Herron has been contacted for information on the Golf Tournament to send along.
Jim Zeck has been contacted about the WFP letter.
I may have to shorten the deadline on the exhibitors to meet the August 1st requirement to be printed in Conference Program.
Gavin Graverson has inquired about some outside display trailers being present at the conference. I have contacted a few displayers, and we may have up to half a dozen set-up in parking area as an outside display.
Graverson indicated that he has a good number of presentations. Coach Don Meyer will speak on Wednesday afternoon. Graverson will work on the specific topic with him.
Kittay indicated that the preliminary Conference program needs to be done by July 15 with the final agenda with presenters/moderators/AV assistants’ names done by August 1.
Other Business: Van Cleave asked about ways to spend down checking account. Local government education was mentioned to enhance the appreciation of water/wastewater operations specialists. Adler will ask Vansco and Peters will talk to Municipal League about getting on program at Conference. A Public Outreach Committee will be formed. Auen moved to form the committee. Adler seconded. Motion passed.
Graber asked about including American Public Works in this group. He will talk to Dan Bjerke about any cooperative efforts that could be done.
Next Meeting: Will be at 6:00 pm in Aberdeen at either the Ramkota or a local restaurant if there is one suited to hold a dinner meeting.
Graber moved for adjournment. Fink seconded. Meeting adjourned at 1:11 pm.
August 13, 2013
Rob Kittay
Secretary
Unapproved Minutes
SDWWA Board Meeting
January 8, 2013
Red Rossa/Clubhouse Suites-Pierre SD
Members Present: Dave Van Cleave, Gavin Graverson, Dan Graber, Rob Kittay, Dan Fink,
Mitch Kannenberg, DelRon Peters, Malcolm MacDonald, Steph Akers, Heath Thompson, Jim Auen, Vern Thorson
Member Absent: Dustin Sulzle and Jerry Adler
Others Present:
Call to Order: Van Cleave called the meeting to order at 11:40 am. A quorum was present.
Approval of Agenda: Graber moved for approval. MacDonald seconded. Motion passed.
Minutes: The minutes were emailed by Kittay and were on web site. Kittay moved to approve minutes. Peters seconded. Motion passed.
Treasurer’s Report: Kittay reported that there was $32,677.72 in the checkbook plus $2416.70 in the UBS account. Fink moved to accept report. Auen seconded. Motion passed.
Committees: Van Cleave reviewed awards that had been given at conference. Graber mentioned about larger breakout rooms at conf. MacDonald discussed Commercial Committee concerns.
Source to Stream: Kittay relayed Erin Steever’s report. Thompson moved for approval. Graber seconded. Motion passed.
Water Seminar: Kannenberg gave the report. It will be held at the RC Ramkota on February 13-14, 2013. Brett Runge is the head of the committee. Kittay added that a mass email has already been sent and registrations are starting to come in.
WW Seminar: Peters reported that the seminar will be held on May 1-2 at the Red Rossa Italian Grill in Pierre. A few agenda items need to be finalized. Kittay added that committee should get dates a year in advance and that draft agenda was needed by March 10. MacDonald moved for approval. Akers seconded. Motion passed.
2013 Committees: The establishment of a budget committee was discussed. Graber volunteered to lead this. Kannenberg moved to establish this committee. Graverson seconded. Motion passed.
Bill Brinker/James Dornbush: These two gentlemen passed away recently. There was discussion on how to recognize these two long-time SDWWA members. There is already a Dornbush Award. Graber moved to give the SDWWA Scholarship in Brinker’s name this year. Adler seconded. Motion passed. There was more discussion for a more permanent recognition. Members were asked to think about this and bring more ideas to next meeting.
2012 Conference: Van Cleave thanked the Board for holding 2012 Conference in RC. Kittaythought some of the topics were getting off of the water/wastewater track. It is OK for one or two presentations but the focus needed to be narrowed. Other comments included keeping program on time which is one of the moderators’ functions and that all speakers should use a microphone.
2013 Conference: One contact from Van Cleave was passed on to Graverson. It may be possible to get Coach Don Meyer to speak. VJ Smith from Brookings was also mentioned.
Other Business: Graber wanted to discuss the giving of the Conference Watch. This was very old tradition of SDWWA. Auen moved to discontinue this effort. Kittay seconded. Motion passed.
Next Meeting: The Board proposed to meet in May in Chamberlain or Pierre. Kittay will make arrangements.
Fink moved for adjournment. Kittay seconded. Meeting adjourned at 1:12 pm.
May 28, 2013
Rob Kittay
Secretary
Unapproved Minutes
SDWWA 2012 Annual Business Meeting
September 13, 2012
Ramkota Inn-Rapid City SD
Call to Order: By President Fink at 1:21 pm. Approximately 210 were in attendance.
Agenda: The agenda had been provided to the attendees. Raysor moved for approval. Verhey seconded. Motion passed.
Fink thanked the Commercial Committee, WEA, and AWWA Section for their work on the Conference. He also reviewed the Tuesday nite Board meeting for the attendees.
Minutes: The minutes of the 2011 Business Meeting had been posted to the web site. Kittay moved for approval. Felton seconded. Motion passed.
Old Business: Fink called for Old Business. There was none forthcoming.
Officers for 2012-13: Fink announced that Dave VanCleave would be the 2012-13 President and Gavin Graverson would be the President-Elect.
Vice-President: The candidate from the Board was Dan Graber. Fink called for nominations from the floor. Hemyer moved that nominations cease and a unanimous ballot be cast for Graber. Kittay seconded. Motion passed.
Secretary/Treasurer: The candidate from the Board was Rob Kittay. Fink called for nominations from the floor. None were forthcoming. Swanson moved that nominations cease, and a unanimous ballot be cast. Harris seconded. Motion passed.
Outgoing Directors: William, Kuiper, and Clark are the outgoing directors and were recognized.
New Directors for 2012-13: The three candidates recommended by the Nominating Committee were:
Jim Auen-L&C RWS Dustin Sulzle-Marion Vern Thorson-Fort Pierre
Fink called for nominations from the floor. Hemeyer moved to accept the candidates. Kittay seconded. Motion passed.
Fink thanked the Association for allowing him to serve as President. The ceremonial passing of the gavel to 2012-13 President VanCleave took place.
VanCleave introduced the entire SDWWA Board.
Constitutional Changes: Kittay reviewed the current constitution and suggested some changes to better reflect the practices that are currently in place. The changes had been placed on the web site and passed out at the luncheon. Vansco moved. Graber seconded. Motion passed.
Dr James Dornbush Award: Delvin DeBoer was given his award as he had to leave the Conference before the Thursday nite banquet.
Honorary Membership: The Board had approved an Honorary Membership for Delvin DeBoer at the Tuesday nite meeting which then needed approval from the membership. Kittay moved for Honorary Membership status for DeBoer. VanCleave seconded. Motion passed. DeBoer was given his plaque.
SDWWA Scholarship: Zeck gave a brief life history of JR Yde whose name the scholarships were given. Dane Yde, JR’s son, also made a few comments. Tia Miles and Brady Aldrich who are both at SDSU were the recipients.
New Business: The sites of the future conferences were announced as follows: 2013-Aberdeen Ramkota, 2014-Watertown Ramkota, 2015-Spearfish Holiday Inn, 2016-Sioux Falls Ramkota, 2017-Huron Crossroads, 2018-The Lodge at Deadwood.
Conference Watch: Kittay conducted the drawing. Waterland won the watch.
Adjournment: Hemeyer moved for adjournment. Kittay seconded. Motion passed. Meeting adjourned at 1:53 pm.
Rob Kittay
Secretary
9-18-2012
Unapproved Minutes
SDWWA Board Meeting
September 11, 2012
Ramkota Inn-Rapid City SD
Members Present: Rob Kittay, Robin Dykstra, Dan Fink, Jeff Clark, Steph Akers, Jerry Adler, Gavin Graverson, Mitch Kannenberg, Heath Thompson
Member Absent: DelRon Peters, Randy William, Kevin Kuiper, Dave Van Cleave, Malcolm MacDonald
Others Present: Jan Kittay, Kim Verhey, Ms Dykstra, Mark Mayer-DENR, George Vansco-SDARWS, Bob Kappel-SF WW
Call to Order: Fink called the meeting to order at 7:17 pm. A quorum was present.
Approval of Agenda: Dykstra moved for approval. Clark seconded. Motion passed.
Minutes: The minutes were emailed by Kittay and were on web site. Graverson moved to approve the minutes. Kittay seconded. Motion passed.
Old Business: None
Treasurer’s Report: Kittay reported that there was $ in the checkbook plus $2661.70 in the UBS account (July 31, 2012). A full report of the income and payments was provided. Kittay indicated that the account should be lowered. The checkbook has $5720.31 that has been donated for the scholarship during 2012 and should be moved out of checkbook to the scholarship account. The 2012 AWWA/WEA payments had been made after the checkbook had been closed out for the year. Adler moved to accept report. Kannenberg seconded. Motion passed.
Auditing Committee: Andrea Griese and Randy Hilding were on the committee. The audit was done in September, 2012. The books were in order. Thompson moved to accept the report. Clark seconded. Motion passed.
Other Committees: Graverson gave a report on conference preparations.
Water Seminar: Kannenberg gave the report. The committee met this afternoon and developed an agenda. It will be held at the RC Ramkota on February 13-14, 2013. Brett Runge is the head of the committee. Kittay would like the agenda by January 1.
WW Seminar: No report.
Honorary Membership: Kittay moved that Honorary Membership be bestowed on Delvin DeBoer. Kannenberg seconded. Motion approved. This nomination must now be approved by the membership at the Business Meeting.
Source to Stream: Steever submitted a written report (Attachment 1). Fink thanked the editors for their work. Jan Kittay stressed that articles need to be submitted. Article assignments were made for CY2013 as follows:
1st-Kittay, MacDonald, Fink, VanCleave
2nd-Akers, Graverson, Peters
3rd-Kannenberg, Adler, Thompson, New Vice-President
4th-Three new directors
2012-2013 Officers: VanCleave will be president, Fink will be past-president, and Graverson will become president-elect.
Secretary-Treasurer: Adler nominated Kittay with Clark seconding. Motion passed. Kittay will be the Board’s candidate for S/T.
Nominations Committee: Fink gave the report for the committee. The committee put forth:
Dustin Sulzle-Marion
Jim Auen-Lewis & Clark RWS
Vern Thorson-Fort Pierre
Kittay moved to accept the nominations. Graverson seconded. Motion passed.
Dan Graber of HDR was nominated as VP. Kittay moved for acceptance. Dykstra seconded. Motion passed.
Scholarships: SDWWA-Zeck gave the report. $?? total for SDWWA Scholarship. $15,000 has been invested with Wells Fargo. The committee is to meet during conference. The winners have been determined for this year, and the checks sent to the school. The winners will be announced at the luncheon. How money can be invested depends on what kind of non-profit corporations SDWWA is. Kittay will investigate this. Municipal bonds are a possibility. Kittay asked about the $5720.31 that was collected last year. Kittay moved to deposit this money in a 6 month CD. Clark seconded. Motion passed.
SDSU/SDSMT scholarships-Kittay moved that $2000 be given each to SDSU and SDSMT to fund two scholarships at each school. Adler seconded. Motion passed.
Constitution Changes: Kittay reviewed the current constitution (Attachment 2) and suggested some changes to better reflect the practices that are currently in place. Graverson moved to adopt the changes. Akers seconded. Motion passed. These changes now need to go in front of the membership at Business Meeting.
Resolution: Vansco gave a report. NRWA is advocating more professionalism in the water/wastewater industry. One of their objectives is for all groups to use the terms “Water System Operations Specialist” and “Wastewater System Operations Specialist”. Vansco would like the Board to adopt a resolution promoting this. Adler moved to adopt the following resolution-
South Dakota Water & Wastewater Association Draft Resolution
Advocate the Value of Professional Careers in Water & Wastewater
WHEREAS: The South Dakota Water & Wastewater Association (SDWWA) desires to promote the skills, knowledge and expertise in today’s water and wastewater industry workforce, and;
WHEREAS: This workforce is a critical link to protect public health and the environmental protection of our waterways, and;
WHEREAS: The skills, knowledge and expertise embedded in the industry should be respected for its complexity and critical infrastructure responsibilities, and;
WHEREAS: It is desired that these workforce positions be viewed as a professional career path for the next generation, and;
WHEREAS: Our organization continues to provide leadership and continuous communication to the industry, agencies and the public, thus;
THEREFORE: From this day henceforth, the SDWWA will endeavor to project the workforce position of operations personnel as:
WATER SYSTEM OPERATIONS SPECIALISTS
and as
WASTEWATER SYSTEM OPERATIONS SPECIALISTS
in publications, reports and verbal communications.
Kittay seconded. Motion passed.
Other Business: Mark Mayer appeared for DENR. The department is preparing for the 2013 Legislative Session. They are in the process of eliminating outdated regulations/statutes as part of the Better Government Initiative. This was just to notify the Board that some of the statutes to be eliminated dealt with water and wastewater and were no longer needed.
Water Festival-Graverson gave some information on the 2013 Water Festival on March 12-13 in Sioux Falls. SDWWA donated $500 last year. Kittay moved to donate $500 again this year. Akers seconded. Motion passed.
Computer-Kittay indicated that the current computer was getting hung up, and he is currently using his own printer. Adler moved to allow Kittay to purchase a new computer and printer. Clark seconded. Motion passed.
Next Meeting: Proposed date of January 8, 2013 just prior to the SDARWS Conference in Pierre.
Fink thanked board and said that their work is appreciated by Fink
Graverson moved for adjournment. Kittay seconded. Meeting adjourned at 8:16 pm.
September 30, 2012
Rob Kittay, Secretary
Attachment 1
Subject: Source to Stream - Financial Update
Good afternoon, everyone. I hope you are enjoying this gorgeous weekend weather we are having! With the Annual Meeting coming up next week I've been asked to prepare a financial status update for the board meetings. Please see the attached PDF for the number and types of ads under contract for this year and the previous years, for comparison. I've also attached a summary of the expenses from this year to date. We are expecting to have some surplus at the end of the year, which is always our goal. We were able to update the look of the issue in the first issue, and we've also been placing a PDF copy on the SD AWWA website.
For those of you who don't know, we are looking for a second editor again. Jan's work load was unexpectedly increased this year and she is unable to fulfill her obligations to co-edit the Source to Stream. She brought a lot of energy and ideas to the table and I appreciate the work that she was able to provide for the first two issues of 2012. I have had a few people inquire about the editor position opening, however, none of the inquiries were looking to fill the position. They were only curious about what was going on. Al, I know that you have a potential in Rapid City that I think would be a good fit. Could you send me her contact information and I can get in touch with her about the opening? If anyone else has someone in mind for the position, I'd also welcome you to send me some information about them.
I would like to point out that we have not be receiving as many articles as I would like to see for each issue this year. Please stress to your board members to get articles in as assigned. The deadlines for each issue can be found on page 3 on the lower right hand column of the publication.
If there is anything else you'd like to see, please let me know and I'll do my best to get your questions answered before the board meetings. As always, constructive feedback is always welcome. If you have new ideas you'd like to run by me, things you might want to see changed, etc. please let me know.
Thanks,
Erin
Attachment 2
October 2008 September 2012
CONSTITUTION OF THE SOUTH DAKOTA WATER AND WASTEWATER ASSOCIATION (SDWWA)
ARTICLE I
Name
The name of this body shall be “The South Dakota Water and Wastewater Association”, hereinafter designated as the Association.
ARTICLE II
Object
The objectives of the Association shall be:
Membership
Section 1. Members of this association may either be Honorary Members or Active Members.
Section 2. An Honorary Member shall be a person who has rendered loyal and dedicated service to the Association. Election to this grade of membership shall be recommended by the Executive Committee and approved by majority vote of the members at the annual business meeting. The number of living Honorary Members at any one time shall not exceed 4% (four percent) of the Association membership at the time of election.
Section 3. A member shall be anyone with an interest in the water and/or wastewater field.
ARTICLE IV
Fees and Dues and Fiscal Year
Section 1. Each Active member shall pay annual dues of ten dollars. Honorary Members shall pay no annual dues.
Section 2. The fiscal year of the association shall begin on September 1 of each year.
ARTICLE V
Executive Committee
Section 1. There shall be an Executive Committee in which the government of the Association shall be vested. It shall consist of the Association President, President-Elect, Vice-President, Past-President, Secretary-Treasurer, and nine Directors.
The Directors will be designated as follows:
One AWWA-SD Section designated representative
One SDWEA designated representative
One manufacturers’ representative
Two people representing water and/or wastewater systems that serve less than 3300 people
Four at-large directors
The Officers of the Association shall be the Officers of the Executive Committee.
Section 2. The Officers of the Association shall be a President, President-Elect, Vice-President, and Secretary-Treasurer. All Officers shall be members of the Association and shall reside within the geographical boundaries of the State of South Dakota. The Officers of the Association shall be the Officers of the Executive Committee.
The office of President shall be filled by the previous year’s President-Elect.
The office of President-Elect shall be filled by the previous year’s Vice-President.
The position of Past-President shall be filled by the previous year’s President.
The election of officers shall take place during the annual business meeting. Prior to the annual business meeting, the Executive Committee shall select the nominees for any vacated offices being filled by interim officers and for the offices of Vice-President and Secretary-Treasurer, to be balloted on by the membership-at-large. Following the report of the Executive Committee to the membership-at-large members present at the annual business meeting, the President shall call for any additional nominations from the floor. Eligible voting members Members present may place in nomination additional qualified members for each office, the same being balloted on by the membership-at-large. These terms shall begin immediately following the conclusion of the annual business meeting. The Vice-President shall have served on the Executive Committee. All nominees shall have signified their willingness to serve.
The election of the Directors shall take place during the annual business meeting. A nomination committee, consisting of three active members of the Association appointed by the Executive Committee, shall place before the membership-at-large attending members present at the annual business meeting nominations for three Directors. Following the report of the Nominating Committee to the membership-at-large, the President shall call for any additional nominations from the floor. Eligible voting members Members present may place in nomination additional members of the Association, the same being balloted on by the membership-at-large. All nominees for Director shall be members of the Association. The terms of the Directors so elected shall be for three years. No director shall be elected to more than one consecutive three-year-term. All nominees shall have signified their willingness to serve. These terms shall begin immediately following the conclusion of the annual business meeting.
If only one (1) name is placed in nomination for any office and/or only three (3) names are placed in nomination for Directors, the nominee for that office or the nominees for the director positions shall be declared as elected.
If more than one (1) name is placed in nomination for any office or more than three (3) names are placed in nomination for Directors, an Election Committee shall be named and an election shall take place at the annual business meeting. Voting voting shall be by ballot by those present at the annual business meeting and the names of the nominees receiving the greatest number of votes cast shall be declared elected.
The terms of the officers and directors so elected shall begin immediately following the conclusion of the annual business meeting.
Section 3. If it becomes necessary for an officer to reside outside of the State of South Dakota, said officer shall relinquish the office held immediately, constituting a vacancy. In the event that a director or officer vacancy occurs for any reason in any office, the Executive Committee shall elect an interim officer or director.
The interim officer shall be a present member of their body the Executive Committee or any past Director or Officer and shall be elected by majority vote to fill the vacated office for the balance of its term. Upon completion of the term of the vacated office, the interim officer shall be relieved of further duty with regard to the normal progression of offices but shall be eligible to serve as director for the balance of his/her previous elected term on the Executive Committee. If the interim officer was a Director with an expired term on the Executive Committee he/she may exercise his/her eligibility to be elected again to office or for Director on the Executive Committee.
An interim director shall serve out the remainder of the term of the vacating director. An interim director may then be elected as a director thru the process described in Section 2 of this article.
ARTICLE VI
Duties of the Executive Committee
Section 1. The President shall have general supervision of the affairs of the Association.
Section 2. The President-Elect shall be responsible for the coordination of the annual conference. In the absence of the
President, he/she shall perform the duties of the President.
Section 3. The Vice-President shall assist the President-Elect as required in the coordination of the annual conference.
Section 4. The Secretary-Treasurer shall have charge of the funds of the Association, shall pay bills against the Association and shall make a report of the expenditures of the funds of the Association at the annual business meeting. It shall be his/her or a duly authorized representative's duty to attend all meetings of the Association and of the Executive Committee; prepare the business agenda for all official meetings and record the proceedings thereof. He/she shall conduct the correspondence of the Association and keep a full record of the same. He/she shall act as parliamentarian at all official sessions of the Executive Committee.
Section 5. Those officers or directors responsible for the coordination of both water and wastewater seminars shall beappointed and approved by the Executive Committee. They shall participate in the program planning of the annual conference. They shall be willing to offer their support to the Association as needed.
Section 6. The Executive Committee shall have the authority to appoint committees to carry out special activities of the Association and shall be the legal representative of the Association and as such, shall have full control of the management of the affairs of the Association or to invest funds of the same, but must not incur indebtedness beyond the funds in the custody of the Secretary-Treasurer. The Executive Committee shall have the power to prepare and enforce, for the conduct of the business of the association, by-laws not in conflict with this Constitution. It shall hold a meeting at least one hour before the opening session of the annual business meeting. Other meetings shall be held at the call of the President or of any three members of the Executive Committee.
All questions in the Executive Committee shall be decided by a majority vote. Fifty percent of the Executive Committee plus one Five members shall constitute a quorum at any meeting of the Executive Committee. The Executive Committee may vote by letter ballot upon questions submitted by letter from the President and Secretary-Treasurer.
ARTICLE VII
Annual Business Meeting
This Association shall hold an annual business meeting. The place will be selected and the time set by the Executive Committee.
Section 1. The Secretary-Treasurer shall make available an agenda to all members of the Association at least ten days before the annual business meeting.
Section 2. Amendments to this Constitution may be proposed by a majority of the Executive Committee, or through it, on petition of ten (10) percent of the eligible voting members. Amendments to this Constitution must first be adopted by the Executive Committee prior to being voted upon by the membership present at the annual business meeting. If adopted by the Executive Committee, written notice of the proposed amendments shall be made available to the members prior to the annual business meeting. A two-thirds vote of the members present at the annual business meeting shall be necessary for ratification.
Section 3. An amendment approved by the Association membership shall take effect immediately.
Current as of 2008 2012 Annual Business Meeting in Pierre Rapid City.
Approved Minutes
SDWWA Board Meeting
April 27, 2012
Oacoma, SD
Members Present: Rob Kittay, Robin Dykstra, Gary Englund, Dan Fink, Rudy William, Kevin Kuiper, , Jeff Clark, Steph Akers, Dave Van Cleave, Jerry Adler, Gavin Graverson, Mitch Kannenberg, Heath Thompson, DelRon Peters
Member Absent:
Others Present: Jim Zeck, Chris Van Cleave
Call to Order: Van Cleave called the meeting to order at 11:47 am. A quorum was present.
Approval of Agenda: Van Cleave moved for approval. Clark seconded. Motion passed.
Minutes: The minutes were emailed by Kittay and were on web site. Kittay moved to approve minutes. Dykstra seconded. Motion passed.
Board membership: Chad Johnson will not be able to fulfill his term on the Board. MacDonald is willing to fill the manufacturers position on Board. Kittay moved to have MacDonald join the Board as the Manufacturers’ Rep. Dykstra seconded. Motion passed.
Treasurer’s Report: Kittay reported that there was $37,512.27 in the checkbook plus $2906.70 in the UBS account plus $1002.70 in the Wells Fargo account. Water Seminar bill has not been paid. Akers
moved to accept report. Clark seconded. Motion passed.
Budget Committee: Van Cleave gave a report and has a plan to get a budget developed.
2012 Conference: Kannenberg gave a report of what AWWA Section has been developing for their section of program. They have more than enough topics so some of the extras could be used for Wednesday or Friday. Kittay will contact SDSMT to see if there are any student reports that could be given. Kittay wants a completed program of topics by July 1, and a final program with names by August 1. MacDonald will work on table tops. Fink/Adler/Kuiper will organize the small system section for Thursday afternoon. WEA will be meeting on Monday to develop their portion of program.
Scholarships: Zeck had information on the scholarship. Fink asked if a permanent name should be given to the scholarship. The committee will discuss this. The scholarship is given in a different name each year. Zeck will check w/ Verhey on where money from credit union interest is going. Kittay moved to have the committee investigate investing in municipal bonds. Dykstra seconded. Motion passed.
A drawing was done for the scholarship so that the submitter can be confirmed as a member of SDWWA.
Other Business:
Next Meeting: Proposed date of September 11, 2012 just prior to the SDWWA Conference in RC.
Kittay moved for adjournment. Clark seconded. Meeting adjourned at 1:17 pm.
Rob Kittay, Secretary
Date- May 17, 2012
Unapproved Minutes
SDWWA Board Meeting
January 10, 2012
Pierre, SD
Directors Present: Dan Fink, Robin Dykstra, Gavin Graverson, Dave VanCleave, Delron Peters, Kevin Kuiper, Heath Thompson, Jeff Clark, Jerry Adler, Stephanie Akers, Mitch Kannenberg
Directors Absent: Chad Johnson, Rob Kittay, Randy William
Others in Attendance: Malcolm MacDonald
Call to Order: Dan Fink called the meeting to order at 11:40 am. A quorum was present.
Opening Discussion:
Gavin Graverson indicated he had received email from Rob Kittay indicating Rob could not be present at meeting.
Gavin indicated that Rob Kittay’s email listed the following date and locations for the Annual Conference:
Sioux Falls – 2016
Huron – 2017
Deadwood – 2018
Approval of Agenda: Jerry Adler moved to accept the Meeting Agenda. Robin Dysktra seconded. Motion passed.
Minutes: There were no minutes from the previous meeting available.
Old Business: None
Treasurer’s Report: Gavin Graverson read the following from an email from Rob Kittay:
Balances as of December 19, 2011:
Checkbook: $30.205.53
Wells Fargo: $824.34
UBS: $2,906.70
Robin Dysktra moved to approve Treasurer’s Report. Jeff Clark seconded. Motion passed.
Committee Reports: None
“Source to Stream”: There was no Source to Stream Report, and no-one present knew the Article Assignments. Stephanie Akers indicated that Article Submission deadlines are as follows: January 30, April 30, July 1, and October 1. It was indicated that Article Submission assignments will be emailed to everyone at a later date.
Board Meeting Suspended for Lunch: 11:54 am to 12:17 pm
Formed 2012 SDWWA Committees:
There was some discussion regarding the Budget Committee. It was decided to at this time to leave the committee unchanged from the 2011 Budget Committee. The 2011 Budget Committee Members are Dan Graber, Del DeBoer, Rob Kittay and Dave VanCleave. The remaining 2012 committees are as shown in the attached document titled “SDWWA 2012 Committees.”
Review of 2011 Conference: Dan Fink reviewed previous email communication, indicating that each session at conference must have a moderator and an audio-visual (AV) person. Also, speakers should be reminded that they must fill their allotted time on the agenda – finishing early can cause problems with timing. Some members had indicated that the Banquet got a little long. Discussed potential ideas for shortening the Banquet. One suggestion was to pre-draw the Water for People prizes (rather than doing the drawing at the banquet). Then, the winners would simply be announced by Jim Zeck during his presentation of the winners, and acknowledgement of the firms donating the items. Also, it would be advantageous to encourage pre-registration for the conference as this greatly facilitates meal planning, etc.
Preliminary 2012 Conference Arrangements
Pre-Registration
In order to encourage pre-registration (see above), it was moved by Delron Peters that a $10.00 surcharge be added to both member and non-member conference registration fees for those attendees who do not pre-register. Seconded by Dave VanCleave. Discussion – for example, it conference fees are left as they were in 2011, Fees would be as follows:
Member Pre-registration: $60.00
Member No Pre-registration: $70.00
Non-Member Pre-registration: $80.00
Non-Member No Pre-registration: $90.00
Motion passed;
Conference Agenda
Some discussion on what acceptable amount for speaker fees is? General consensus is that this has generally been decided on a case-specific basis.
Some potential general session topics were discussed, including Sid Goss (SDSM&T Professor) South Dakota Demographics, or perhaps US Forest Service on Pine Beetle Infestation of the Black Hills.
There was discussion on whether or not the Conference should have a theme, such as suistainability, or some other theme. No theme was selected, will give it further consideration.
Dan Fink, Kevin Kuiper, and Jerry Adler will develop Small Systems Session
SD AWWA T&E Committee will develop drinking water session
SD WEA will develop wastewater session.
Specific topic suggestions should be ready by next board meeting so that agenda can be finalized by end of July.
Other Conference Items
Must have AV operators & Moderators selected no later than 2-weeks in advance of conference – Mitch Kannenberg to assist Dave VanCleave with AV operator issues.
Discussed potential plant tours, Rapid City’s new water plant will be well underway by then, also some discussion about other tours that may be of interest to a wider audience. Rapid City has a downtown trolley tour. Dave VanCleave will further review potential tours.
Other Business: Gavin Graverson had been contacted by Jesse Neyens (Sioux Falls Environmental) to request, on behalf of the Region 8 Pretreatment Association, a donation to help this industrial wastewater pretreatment group fund meals, etc. at a Conference they are holding in Deadwood in May. This is a national conference focusing on wastewater pretreatment, and historically different groups and associations from the host state have donated funds to offset meal costs, etc. Discussion for making a donation included supporting local wastewater operators who may want to attend and to encourage groups like this to hold conferences in South Dakota. Jerry Adler moved that $500 be donated to the Region 8 Pretreatment Association, Heath Thompson seconded. Motion passed.
Water Festival donation amounts were discussed. It has been previously decided by the Budget Committee that a maximum of $1000 be donated for Water Festivals, with a maximum amount of $500 per festival. No board action was needed or taken on this topic.
Dan Fink asked the Board to consider the potential benefits of SDWWA having a booth at the SDARWS Technical Conference. He indicated that he often sees many operators at the SDARWS Conference that he doesn’t see at other conferences, and a booth there may be a way to reach out to new members. The SDWWA does not have a booth at this time. No board action taken at this time.
There was some discussion regarding potentially re-naming the scholarship award to memorialize JR Yde. It was suggested to invite Jim Zeck to attend the next SDWWA Board meeting to further discuss.
Next Board Meeting: The next board meeting was scheduled for 11:30 am, on Friday, April 27, 2012, at Al’s Oasis in Chamberlain.
Adjournment: Kevin Kuiper moved to adjourn the meeting. Robin Dysktra seconded. Motion passed. Meeting adjourned at 1:15 pm.
Unapproved Minutes
SDWWA 2011 Annual Business Meeting
September 15, 2011
Huron, SD
Call to Order: By President Dykstra at 12:22 pm. Approximately 175 were in attendance.
Agenda-The agenda had been provided to the attendees. Graber moved for approval. Verhey seconded. Motion passed.
Dykstra thanked the Commercial Committee, WEA, and AWWA Section for their work on the Conference. He also reviewed the Tuesday nite Board meeting for the attendees.
Minutes: The minutes of the 2010 Business Meeting were distributed. Swanson moved for approval. Graber seconded. Motion passed.
Old Business: Dykstra called for Old Business. There was none forthcoming.
Officers for 2011-12: Dykstra announced that Dan Fink would be the 2011-12 President and Dave Van Cleave would be the President-Elect.
Vice-President: The candidate from the Board was Gavin Graverson. Dykstra called for nominations from the floor. Zeck moved that nominations cease, and a unanimous ballot be cast for Graverson. Swanson seconded. Motion passed.
Secretary/Treasurer: The candidate from the Board was Rob Kittay. Dykstra called for nominations from the floor. None were forthcoming. Zeck moved that nominations cease, and a unanimous ballot be cast. Kappel seconded. Motion passed.
Outgoing Directors: Bisgard, Graber, and Monson are the outgoing directors and were recognized.
New Directors for 2011-12: The three directors recommended by the Nominating Committee were Chad Johnson for the Manufacturers Rep position, Mitch Kannenberg for the AWWA position, and DelRon Peters for the WEA position. Dykstra called for nominations from the floor. Kittay moved to accept the candidates. Schmit seconded. Motion passed. Heath Thompson from Howard was nominated to fill Graverson’s director position. Kittay moved that nominations cease and a unanimous vote be cast. Kannenberg seconded. Motion passed.
Dykstra thanked the Association for allowing him to serve as President. The ceremonial passing of the gavel to 2011-12 President Fink took place.
Zeck announced that raffle tickets were still for sale.
Conference Watch: Kittay/Juelfs conducted the drawing. Walter Bauer of Aberdeen won the watch.
New Business: The sites of the future conferences were announced as follows: 2012-RC Ramkota, 2013-Aberdeen Ramkota, 2014-Watertown Ramkota, 2015-Spearfish.
Pipe Tapping Results were given.
Adjournment: Van Cleave moved for adjournment. Merrigan seconded. Motion passed. Meeting adjourned at 12:45 pm.
Rob Kittay
Date 9-18-2011
Secretary
Unapproved Minutes
SDWWA Board Meeting
September 13, 2011
Huron, SD
Members Present: Rob Kittay, Robin Dykstra, Gary Englund, Dan Fink, Dan Graber, Rudy William, Kevin Kuiper, Kirsten Bisgard, Tim Monson, Jeff Clark, Steph Akers, Dave Van Cleave, Jerry Adler,Gavin Graverson
Member Absent:
Others Present: Jan Kittay, Kim Verhey,
Call to Order: Dykstra called the meeting to order at 6:07 pm. A quorum was present.
Approval of Agenda: England moved for approval. Clark seconded. Motion passed.
Minutes: The minutes were emailed by Kittay and were on web site. Kittay moved to approve minutes. Fink seconded. Motion passed.
Old Business: None
Treasurer’s Report: Kittay reported that there was $37,512.27 in the checkbook plus $2906.70 in the UBS account. A full report of the income and payments was provided. Kittay indicated that the account should be lowered. A check for $10,000 had been written in March for the SDWWA Scholarship but that committee ran into problems with the investment. That check has been voided and the committee will start over on that issue. Adler moved to accept report. Akers seconded. Motion passed.
Auditing Committee: Andrea Griese and Randy Hilding were on the committee. The audit was done in August, 2011. The books were in order. Fink moved to accept the report. William seconded. Motion passed.
Nominations Committee: R Dykstra gave the report for the committee. The committee put forth DelRon Peters for the WEA position, Mitch Kannenberg for the AWWA position, and Chad Johnson as the Manufacturers Rep as directors. Gavin Graverson was nominated as VP. Heath Thompson was nominated to take Graverson’s director position. Van Cleave moved for acceptance. Kittay seconded. Motion passed.
Other Committees: There were no reports.
Water Seminar: The committee met this afternoon and developed an agenda. It will be held at the SF Ramkota on February 22-23, 2012.
WW Seminar: Englund reported that the seminar will be held on the first week of May at the SF Ramkota.
2011-2012 Officers: Fink will be president, Dykstra will be past-president, and Van Cleave will become president-elect.
Secretary-Treasurer: Kuiper nominated Kittay with Graverson seconding. Motion passed. Kittay will be the Board’s candidate for S/T.
Scholarships: SDWWA-Verhey gave the report. $25,927 total for SDWWA Scholarship. $15,000 has been invested with Wells Fargo. The committee is to meet during conference. The winner has been determined for this year and the check sent to the school. Fink wanted to supplement the SDWWA scholarship w/ more money. Kittay moved to have the original $15,000 fund a $500 scholarship with the excess going to a second scholarship. The $10,000 interest would also go to the second scholarship. The SDWWA will then makeup whatever money is needed to make the second scholarship in $500. Clarke seconded. Motion passed.
Graber entered meeting.
Jim Zeck will become the new chairperson for the scholarship committee with Verhey staying on as a member.
SDSU/SDSMT scholarships-Kittay moved that $2000 be given each to SDSU and SDSMT to fund two scholarships at each school. Englund seconded. Motion passed.
Sioux Empire Water Festival: Englund moved that $1000 festival w/ $500 maximum to any one festival with January 30 as an application deadline. Clarke seconded. Motion passed.
2011 Conference Concerns: There was discussion about the lack of rooms in Huron for Conference. Kittay explained that SDWWA had the Crossroads reserved for at least four years for the Conference. A racing group had decided w/in the last year to hold races at the same time. There had been plenty of time for people to have gotten their room arrangements taken care of and not wait until the last few weeks before Conference.
S2S article assignments-1st qtr- Dykstra Kuiper William
2nd-Akers Kittay Gavin Fink
3rd-Van Cleave Thompson Clarke Adler
4th-Peters Kannenberg Johnson
Other Business: Mailing Permit #19-The permit was formerly used for Clarifier but now S2S is mailed out of Sioux Falls. In the past year, it was used only for the renewals as flyers for the conference and seminars were not sent. The only notification of these was thru the web site and Kittay’s email list of 100’s of water/wastewater systems.
Next Meeting: Proposed date of January 10, 2012 just prior to the SDARWS Conference in Pierre.
Adler moved for adjournment. Graverson seconded. Meeting adjourned at 7:58 pm.
September 18, 2011
Rob Kittay
Secretary
Unapproved Minutes
SDWWA Board Meeting
June 10, 2011
Oacoma, SD
Members Present: Rob Kittay, Robin Dykstra, Dan Fink, Kevin Kuiper, Stephanie Akers, Jerry Adler, Dave Van Cleave, Gary Englund
Member Absent: Kirsten Bisgard, Tim Monson, Jeff Clark, Dan Graber, Rudy William, Gavin Graverson
Others Present: None
Call to Order: Dykstra called the meeting to order at 12:24. A quorum was present. The Board introduced themselves.
Approval of Agenda: Van Cleave moved for approval. Fink seconded. Motion passed.
Minutes: The minutes were passed out by Kittay. Judy Krege was misidentified on minutes. Englund moved to approve amended minutes. Adler seconded. Motion passed.
Old Business: 30 Year Longevity Award-Dykstra explained the thoughts behind the creation of a new award for 30 year water/wastewater personnel that are not certified. The Siger Bies Award is a 30 year award that only certified water/wastewater operators are eligible for. Englund moved to approve the new award. Adler seconded. Motion passed with Kittay abstaining.
Treasurer’s Report: Kittay reported on the following accounts-
SDWWA checkbook-$45,059.38 as of 5/16/2011
UBS Account-$2906.70 as of 4/29/2011
Wells-Fargo Low Activity Checking Account (Scholarship)-$345.95 as of 4/30/2011
The additional money authorized to be put into SDWWA Scholarship has not been moved yet. Kittay has contacted Verhey about this. The SDSU/SDSMT scholarships, Conference disbursement, and seminar profit checks were written since this bank statement.
Adler moved to accept report. Akers seconded. Motion passed.
Budget Committee: Van Cleave gave the report that Graber had put together. Kittay suggested that a calendar year be used. A few ideas were suggested to spend some of the association funds. Kittay moved to approve that proposed budget. Englund seconded. Motion passed.
Seminars: Englund reported on the WW seminar. There were 72 people in attendance and there were many good presentations. Kittay asked about the DENR awards. Englund stated that by knowing who was at seminar that was receiving the awards, it ran much better. The seminar netted about $1900.
“Source to Stream” (S2S): Kittay reported that Therese Hanson was moving to Omaha and will not be an editor any longer. This is an issue for the S2S board to handle.
2011 Committees: The Board formed committees for the coming year. It should be noted that the AWWA and SDWEA reps’ terms are expiring this year as well as the Manufacturers’ Rep. Englund moved to accept the committees as formed. Van Cleave seconded. Motion passed.
2011 Conference Concerns: Kittay reported on the basic structure of conference. AWWA/WEA will keep their spots on agenda as assigned for the past few years. Numerous topics for presentations were given.
Other Business: There was no other business.
Kittay moved for adjournment. Englund seconded. Meeting adjourned at 2:13 pm.
June 14, 2011
Rob Kittay, Secretary
Unapproved Minutes
SDWWA 2010 Annual Business Meeting
September 16, 2010
Sioux Falls, SD
Call to Order: By President Englund at 12:26 pm. Approximately 200 were in attendance.
Agenda-The agenda had been provided to the attendees. Felton moved for approval. Odens seconded. Motion passed.
Englund thanked the Commercial Committee, WEA, and AWWA Section for their work on the Conference. He also reviewed the Tuesday nite Board meeting for the attendees.
Minutes: The minutes of the 2009 Business Meeting were distributed. Merrigan moved for approval. Graber seconded. Motion passed.
Old Business: Englund called for Old Business. There was none forthcoming.
Officers for 2010-11: Englund announced that Robin Dykstra would be the 2010-11 President and Dan Fink would be the President-Elect.
Vice-President: The candidate from the Board was Dave Van Cleave. Englund called for nominations from the floor. Kittay moved that nominations cease, and a unanimous ballot be cast for Van Cleave. Odens seconded. Motion passed.
Secretary/Treasurer: The candidate from the Board was Rob Kittay. Englund called for nominations from the floor. None were forthcoming. Felton moved that nominations cease, and a unanimous ballot be cast. Schmit seconded. Motion passed.
Outgoing Directors: Del DeBoer, Doug Dykstra, and Bill Selland are the outgoing directors and were recognized.
New Directors for 2010-11: The three directors recommended by the Nominating Committee were Stephanie Akers from Hot Springs, Jerry Adler from Howard, and Gavin Graverson from Sioux Falls. Englund called for nominations from the floor. Kittay moved to accept the candidates. Badten seconded. Motion passed.
Englund thanked the Association for allowing him to serve as President. The ceremonial passing of the gavel to 2010-11 President Dykstra took place.
Conference Watch: Hilding conducted the drawing. Dean Schilling won the watch.
New Business: The sites of the future conferences were announced as follows: 2011-Huron Crossroads Inn, 2012-RC Ramkota, 2013-Aberdeen Ramkota, 2014-Watertown Ramkota, 2015-Spearfish.
Adjournment: Kittay moved for adjournment. Sarringar seconded. Motion passed. Meeting adjourned at 12:50 pm.
Rob Kittay, Secretary
9-18-2010
Unapproved Minutes
SDWWA Board Meeting
May 14, 2010
Oacoma, SD
Members Present: Rob Kittay, Robin Dykstra, Gary Englund, Dan Fink, Del DeBoer, Dan Graber, Rudy William, Kevin Kuiper
Member Absent: Kirsten Bisgard, Tim Monson, Jeff Clark, Wayne Fletcher, Bill Selland, Doug Dykstra
Others Present: John Cloud and Jeff Hines-AWWA
Call to Order: Englund called the meeting to order at 11:45 am. A quorum was present.
Approval of Agenda: Englund wanted to discuss funding requests & compensation for speakers. Kittay moved to accept the amended agenda. Graber seconded. Motion passed.
Minutes: The minutes were emailed by Kittay. R Dykstra moved to approve amended minutes. Kittay seconded. Motion passed.
Old Business: None
Treasurer’s Report: Kittay reported the following balances on accounts-
SDWWA Checkbook $48,102.95 as of April statement
Source to Stream 17,380.09 as of April 30, 2010
Wells Fargo Checking 130.44 as of April 30, 2010
UBS Account 3151.60 as of April 30, 2010
For the Wells Fargo account, this is just the interest earned from the $15,000 in the SDWWA Scholarship account. The AWWA and WEF shares of seminars and yearly allotments have not been paid while the checks for the SDSU/SDSMT scholarships ($1000 each) were just written. Kittay also just received the Ramkota Inn bill for the Water Seminar.
Graber moved to accept report. R Dykstra seconded. Motion passed.
“Source to Stream”: Kittay reminded board members to submit their annual articles to S2S.
Committees: The Award Committees were formed. Kittay will send an email to systems and Muni League.
2015 Conference: Kittay moved to have the 2015 Conference at the Spearfish Holiday Inn. R Dykstra seconded. Motion passed.
2010 Conference: Kittay had previously emailed a skeleton agenda for conference. The Board offered suggestions for topics. Schedule with topics needs to be done by July 15 for the conference flyer with speakers confirmed by August 1. Kittay will do a preliminary email on the conference attaching last year’s flyer to show a general flavor of the conference.
Other Business: Englund spoke about the Sioux Empire Water Festival and the Haiti Earthquake relief. DeBoer suggested that a budget line item be established. Kittay moved that $500 be given to the Sioux Empire 2010 Water Festival. R Dykstra seconded. Kittay amended the motion to have money go to 2011 Festival. R Dykstra seconded. Motion passed.
DeBoer suggested that SDWWA establish a budget each year. Graber spoke in favor of this. Kittay move to form a Budget Committee. DeBoer seconded. Motion passed. Englund appointed Kittay, DeBoer, Graber, and himself on the committee.
Englund spoke about paying for speakers again. It was confirmed that SDWWA would pay for motivational type speakers only-Not technical speakers. R Dykstra will pursue a speaker for Conference.
Fink spoke about establishing a stipend/scholarship for operators to attend the conference. This effort will be dealt with by the Budget Committee.
R Dykstra moved for adjournment. Graber seconded. Meeting adjourned at 1:45 pm.
May 19, 2010
Rob Kittay
Secretary
Unapproved Minutes
SDWWA 2009 Annual Business Meeting
September 17, 2009
Spearfish, SD
Call to Order: By President Fletcher at 12:26 pm. Approximately 200 were in attendance.
Agenda-The agenda had been provided to the attendees. Schmit moved for approval. Swanson seconded. Motion passed.
Fletcher thanked the Commercial Committee, Gary Englund, WEA, and AWWA Section for their work on the Conference. He also reviewed the Tuesday nite Board meeting for the attendees. Minutes: The minutes of the 2008 Business Meeting had been published on the SDWWA web site. Raysor moved for approval. Doug Dykstra seconded. Motion passed.
Old Business: Fletcher called for Old Business. There was none forthcoming.
Officers for 2009-10: Fletcher announced that Gary Englund would be the 2009-10 President and Robin Dykstra would be the President-Elect.
Vice-President: The candidate from the Board was Dan Fink. Fletcher called for nominations from the floor. Kittay moved that nominations cease, and a unanimous ballot be cast for Fink. Odens seconded. Motion passed.
Secretary/Treasurer: The candidate from the Board was Rob Kittay. Fletcher called for nominations from the floor. None were forthcoming. Kittay moved that nominations cease, and a unanimous ballot be cast. Swanson seconded. Motion passed.
Outgoing Directors: Dan Fink, John Cloud, and Vince Juelfs are the outgoing directors and were recognized.
New Directors for 2009-10: The three directors recommended by the Nominating Committee were Jeff Clark from Wall, Kevin Kuiper from Platte, and Randy William form the Lead-Deadwood Sanitary District. Fletcher called for nominations from the floor. Kittay moved to accept the candidates. Selland seconded. Motion passed.
Honorary Members: Fletcher announced that the Board had voted to bestow Honorary Membership upon Al Erickson of HDR and Pete Hesla of Aberdeen for their loyal service to the Association. A vote of the Association is needed to affirm this action. Kittay moved to have Hesla and Erickson be Honorary Members. Brinker seconded. Motion passed.
Fletcher thanked the Association for allowing him to serve as President. The ceremonial passing of the gavel to 2009-10 President Englund took place.
Conference Watch: As tradition dictates, Kittay read the conference watch rules, and Hilding conducted the drawing. Joe Munson won the watch.
New Business: The sites of the future conferences were announced as follows: 2010-Sioux Falls Ramkota, 2011-Huron Crossroads Inn, 2012-RC Ramkota, 2013-Aberdeen Ramkota, and 2014-Watertown Ramkota.
Deb Houshell of WEF presented the Bedell Award to Chris Schmit.
Morris Elcock presented an award to Brad Lawrence for his work with SD WARN.
Adjournment: Brinker moved for adjournment. Stockert seconded. Motion passed. Meeting adjourned at 12:50 pm.
Rob Kittay, Secretary
9-10-2010
Unapproved Minutes
SDWWA Board Meeting
September 15, 2009
Spearfish, SD
Members Present: Rob Kittay, Jim Raysor, John Cloud, Dan Fink, Wayne Fletcher, Robin Dykstra, Gary Englund, Doug Dykstra, Bill Selland, Del DeBoer, Dan Graber, Kristin Bisgard, Tim Monson
Member Absent: Vince Juelfs
Others Present: Kim Verhey, Cindy Raysor
Call to Order: Fletcher called the meeting to order at 7:22 pm. A quorum was present. The Board introduced themselves.
Approval of Agenda: DeBoer moved to accept the agenda. Graber seconded. Motion passed.
Minutes: The minutes were emailed by Kittay and were on web site. Fink moved to approve minutes. Raysor seconded. Motion passed.
Old Business: None
Treasurer’s Report: Kittay reported that there was $36,184.50 in the checkbook plus the CD. A full report of the income and payments was provided. R Dykstra moved to accept report. Raysor seconded. Motion passed.
Auditing Committee: Andrea Griese and Gayleen Lowe were on the committee. The audit was done on September 3, 2009. The fiscal year end balance was $36,184.50 with $3376.38 in the CD. The books were in order. Fink moved to accept the report. Graber seconded. Motion passed.
Nominations Committee: R Dykstra gave the report for the committee. The committee put forth Kevin Kuiper-Platte, Jeff Clark-Wall, and Rudy William-Lead-Deadwood Sanitary District as directors. Dan Fink was nominated as VP. Kittay moved for acceptance. Graber seconded. Motion passed.
Honorary Members: Kittay moved that Al Erickson of Sioux Falls and Pete Hesla of Aberdeen be nominated for Honorary Membership. Raysor seconded. Motion passed.
WW Seminar: The seminar will be held in Rapid City. March 23-24-25 are the possible dates. The committee has met and gathered topics.
“Source to Stream”:
Article assignments-
November-Kittay, R Dykstra, Graber, Monson
February-Bisgard, DeBoer, D Dykstra, Englund
April-Graber, Fletcher, Fink
July-New directors
2009-2010 Officers: Englund will be president, Fletcher will be past-president, and R Dykstra will become president-elect.
Secretary-Treasurer: Raysor nominated Kittay with Graber seconding. Motion passed. Kittay will be the Board’s candidate for S/T.
Scholarships: DeBoer gave a report. $1000 per yr can be a stand alone scholarship. A memorandum of Understanding (MOU) was presented. Raysor moved to accept. D Dykstra seconded. Motion passed. Bisgard moved that $1000 be given each to SDSU and SDSMT scholarships. Monson seconded. Motion passed.
Verhey spoke about the SDWWA scholarship. There is $17,075 total in scholarship fund with $2270 in checkbook. This year, $500 will go to the scholarship winner with the check being written out to the school. The announcement will be done at the banquet. Don Wessel is the name sake of the scholarship for this year. Raysor moved to add $1000 to scholarship. He also spoke about getting money from membership to get up to $20,000. R Dykstra seconded. Motion passed.
2014/2015 Conferences: Englund reported that the Brookings Days Inn should be taken out of the running for the Conference. Kittay investigated the Watertown Ramkota, and they have room in 2014. Some people wanted to get info on the Lodge at Deadwood for the 2015 Conference. Kittay moved to have the 2014 Conference at the Watertown Ramkota/Events Center. D Dykstra seconded. Motion passed.
2009 Conference Concerns: Englund said that an American flag was needed for meeting room. The National Anthem and flag entry need to be coordinated. The ceremonial passing of the gavel will occur at the luncheon business meeting.
Other Business: None
Selland moved for adjournment. Raysor seconded. Meeting adjourned at 8:30 pm.
Rob Kittay
Secretary
September 18, 2009
Unapproved Minutes
SDWWA Board Meeting
May 15, 2009
Oacoma, SD
Members Present: Rob Kittay, Jim Raysor, Robin Dykstra, Wayne Fletcher, Gary Englund, Doug Dykstra, Del DeBoer, Dan Graber
Member Absent: Vince Juelfs, Bill Selland, John Cloud, Kirsten Bisgard, Tim Monson, Dan Fink
Others Present: Tanya Miller
Call to Order: Fletcher called the meeting to order at 11:54 am. A quorum was present.
Approval of Agenda: DeBoer wanted to talk about scholarships. R Dykstra would like to discuss the passing of the gavel. Kittay moved to accept the amended agenda. D Dykstra seconded. Motion passed.
Minutes: The minutes were emailed by Kittay. Raysor moved to approve amended minutes. DeBoer seconded. Motion passed.
Old Business: None
Treasurer’s Report: Kittay reported the following balances on accounts-
SDWWA Checkbook $41,410.34
Source to Stream 17,107.44
Wells Fargo Checking 414.92
UBS Account 3376.14
There is approximately $2700 of SDWWA Scholarship contained within the SDWWA account. The AWWA and WEF shares of seminars and yearly allotments have not been paid. Kittay noted that were was quite a bit of money in SDWWA account. Keynote speakers for conference/seminars, more scholarship money, and lower conference costs were ideas presented to reduce this amount of money.
Graber moved to accept report. D Dykstra seconded. Motion passed.
Scholarship: DeBoer presented a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) on the SDWWA Scholarship for Environmental Engineering Studies at SDSU (SDWWA Scholarship). This pertains to the money that is currently given each year. The Dornbush Scholarship is fully funded and gives a scholarship with the interest earned. These are two separate scholarships. Raysor suggested that the recipient of the SDWWA Scholarship be a member of the Student Chapter of WEF/AWWA. Raysor moved to approve amended agreement. R Dykstra seconded. Motion passed. DeBoer will come back with a final version of the MOA.
“Source to Stream”: Kittay reviewed the email received from Erin Steever. R Dykstra moved to accept report. D Dykstra seconded. Motion passed.
Committees: The Award Committees were formed. An email should be sent to South Dakota Municipal League to advertise the awards.
New Computer for SDWWA: Kittay explained that the current laptop is seven years old, has old software, and locks up on occasion. He said that a new computer is desired. DeBoer moved to buy a new computer/printer/software with a limit of $2500. R Dykstra seconded. Motion passed.
Future Conferences: Kittay moved to have the 2013 Conference at the Aberdeen Ramkota. R Dykstra seconded. Motion passed. Discussion centered around the status of Brookings Days inn being able to hold conference in 2014. Englund and DeBoer will investigate the Days Inn. Raysor will look into Deadwood Ramkota being able to hold 2015 Conference. It was noted that Al Erickson had investigated that facility for the 2012 Conference; however, the room rates were too high. Raysor will also look into a restaurant for the Tuesday nite board meeting.
2009 Conference: Kittay passed out a skeleton agenda for conference. The Board offered suggestions for topics.
Other Business: Kittay moved to eliminate watch drawing at the Annual Conference. Englund seconded. Motion failed.
It was asked if anyone saw “Liquid Assets”-a PBS production that SDWWA contributed to so that it would be shown in SD. A couple members saw it and thought it was good.
Raysor asked about setting up a bus to go to Deadwood during Conference. The concensus was that it would be OK; however, it would not be noted in program.
DeBoer moved for adjournment. D Dykstra seconded. Meeting adjourned at 2:45 pm.
Rob Kittay
Secretary
May 19, 2009
Unapproved Minutes
SDWWA 2008 Annual Business Meeting
September 11, 2008
Pierre, SD
Call to Order: By President Raysor at 12:33 pm. Approximately 200 were in attendance.
Raysor thanked the Commercial Committee, Wayne Fletcher, WEA, and AWWA Section for their work on the Conference. He also reviewed the Tuesday night Board meeting for the attendees.
Minutes: The minutes of the 2007 Business Meeting had been published on the SDWWA web site. Royalty moved for approval. Swanson seconded. Motion passed.
Old Business: Raysor called for Old Business and none was forthcoming.
Constitutional Amendments: The Board passed numerous constitutional amendments that must now be approved by the membership. Copies were made available at registration desk and were passed out to those in attendance. Raysor explained the changes. Verhey moved that the changes be adopted all together. Stefanich seconded. Motion passed.
Officers for 2008-09: Raysor announced that Wayne Fletcher would be the 2008-09 President and Gary Englund would be the President-Elect.
Vice-President: The candidate from the Board was Robin Dykstra. Raysor called for nominations from the floor. Kittay moved that nominations cease, and a unanimous ballot be cast for Dykstra. Yde seconded. Motion passed.
Secretary/Treasurer: The candidate from the Board was Rob Kittay. Raysor called for nominations from the floor. None were forthcoming. Swanson moved that nominations cease, and a unanimous ballot be cast. Clark seconded. Motion passed.
Outgoing Directors: Tyler Smith, Robin Dykstra, and Thad Konrad are the outgoing directors and were recognized.
New Directors for 2008-09: The three directors recommended by the Nominating Committee were Dan Graber from WEA, Kristin Bisgard from AWWA, and Tim Monson for Manufacturers’ Group. Raysor called for nominations from the floor. Kittay moved to accept the candidates. Royalty seconded. Motion passed.
Raysor thanked the Association for allowing him to serve as President. The ceremonial passing of the gavel to 2008-09 President Fletcher took place. Fletcher introduced the entire board.
Meter Competition: Joe Honner gave the results.
Conference Watch: As tradition dictates, Kittay read the conference watch rules, and Hilding conducted the drawing. Craig Mitchell won the watch.
New Business: The sites of the future conferences were announced as follows: 2009-Spearfish, 2010-Sioux Falls, 2011-Huron, and 2012-RC.
Adjournment: Zeck moved for adjournment. Yde seconded. Motion passed. Meeting adjourned at 12:52 pm.
9-18-2008
Rob Kittay, Secretary
Unapproved Minutes
SDWWA Board Meeting
September 9, 2008
Pierre, SD
Members Present: Rob Kittay, Vince Juelfs, Jim Raysor, John Cloud, Dan Fink, Wayne Fletcher, Robin Dykstra, Gary Englund, Doug Dykstra, Bill Selland, Del DeBoer
Member Absent: Peggi Badten, Thad Konrad, Tyler Smith
Others Present: Jan Kittay
Call to Order: Raysor called the meeting to order at 7:23 pm. A quorum was present. The Board introduced themselves.
Approval of Agenda: R Dykstra moved to accept the amended agenda. DeBoer seconded. Motion passed.
Minutes: The minutes were emailed by Kittay and were on web site. Juelfs moved to approve minutes. Fink seconded. Motion passed.
Old Business: None
Treasurer’s Report: Kittay reported that there was $44,007.19 in the checkbook plus the CD ($3494.28). A full report of the income and payments was provided. Raysor explained what is going to be happening with the scholarship money. Selland moved to accept report. R Dykstra seconded. Motion passed.
Auditing Committee: Raysor gave the report. Andrea Griese, Carl Johnson, and Mark McIntire were on the committee. The audit was done on September 3, 2008. The fiscal year end balance was $43,987.19, $3494.28 in the CD, and the books were in order. Fink moved to accept the report. Englund seconded. Motion passed. Englund moved that the secretary/treasurer honorarium be issued. Fink seconded. Motion passed. DeBoer asked for an accounting of the S2S. Kittay stated that he would follow-up on that.
Nominations Committee: There are pending changes to the Constitution that effect the makeup of the Board with AWWA and WEA getting designated slots this year. The AWWA/WEA reps will ne in charge of the respective seminars and for their associations’ portions of the conference agenda. Englund gave the report for the committee. The committee put forth Kristin Bisgard-AWWA, Dan Graber-WEA, and Tim Monson as directors. Robin Dykstra was nominated as VP. Kittay moved for acceptance of the report. D Dykstra seconded. Motion passed.
Wastewater Seminar-Englund reported that the committee had met that afternoon. The seminar will be held around the end of March in either Mitchell or Sioux Falls.
Water Seminar- DeBoer reported that the program had been competed. It will be held at the RC Ramkota on February 11-12. R Dykstra moved that the seminar reports be accepted. Englund seconded. Motion passed.
“Source to Stream”:
Article assignments-
November-Cloud, DeBoer, D Dykstra
February-R Dykstra, Englund, Fink
April-Fletcher, Juelfs, Kittay, Raysor
July-New directors, Selland
2008-2009 Officers: Fletcher will be president, Raysor will be past-president, and Englund will become president-elect.
Secretary-Treasurer-Raysor nominated Kittay with Englund seconding. Motion passed. Kittay will be the Board’s candidate for S/T.
Scholarships: Kittay gave a brief description of previous years’ scholarship program. Kittay moved to continue scholarship program for 2008-2009 in the amount of $1000 to each school. DeBoer stated that funding at $1000 at SDSU could be a stand-alone scholarship. Englund seconded. Motion passed.
Verhey spoke about the SDWWA scholarship. There will be awards made to the donators at the banquet. The funds will be invested w/ Edward D Jones.
Fink moved to put $3000 from the SDWWA General Funds be put into SDWWA scholarship for this year. Raysor seconded. DeBoer suggested that the scholarship award be made by April 30 of each year. DeBoer will also be on committee. Motion passed.
Paying for Speakers: The current policy is to not pay for technical speakers. DeBoer moved to maintain that policy except for motivational/personal development speakers. Englund seconded. AWWA/WEF pay for their national reps. Motion passed.
2008 Conference Concerns: Doug Dykstra asked about credit card usage. Kittay stated that with only three events it would be not cost effective and currently we are not set up to do so.
Raysor suggested that “core beliefs” (policies) be setup for SDWWA similar to what is done by the SD Municipal League.
Other Business: None
Kittay moved for adjournment. D Dykstra seconded. Meeting adjourned at 8:17 pm.
September 18, 2008
Rob Kittay, Secretary
Unapproved Minutes
SDWWA Board Meeting
May 29, 2008Oacoma, SD
Members Present: Rob Kittay, Jim Raysor, Dan Fink, Robin Dykstra, Wayne Fletcher, Gary Englund, Doug Dykstra, Thad Konrad,
Member Absent: Del DeBoer, Tyler Smith, Vince Juelfs, Bill Selland, Peggi Badten, John Cloud
Others Present: Mitch Kannenberg-AWWA
Call to Order: Raysor called the meeting to order at 11:40 am. A quorum was present.
Approval of Agenda: Fletcher moved to accept the amended agenda. Englund seconded. Motion passed.
Minutes: The minutes were emailed by Kittay. Fink moved to approve amended minutes. Robin Dykstra seconded. Motion passed.
Old Business: None
Treasurer’s Report: Kittay reported that, as of April 17, 2008, there was $50,356.19 in the checkbook plus the UBS account has $3475.66 as of April 30, 2008. There is approximately $12,000 for SDWWA Scholarship contained within the SDWWA account. Kittay would like that money moved out. Raysor will talk to Verhey about doing such. Robin Dykstra moved to accept report. Doug Dykstra seconded. Motion passed.
Committee Reports: None
“Source to Stream”: Kittay noted that there were only two articles in the May S2S-One from DENR and one from the Lake Traverse Reservation. Everything else was reports from AWWA, award descriptions, or a reprint from the SDARWS publication. Board members need to submit articles. The editors (Steever/Purchase) are to publish what they are given—not necessarily looking for or writing articles. Kittay reviewed article assignments-
Article assignments-
November-Kittay, Dykstra, Fink
February-Badten, Konrad, Juelfs
April-Raysor, Smith, Fletcher, Cloud
July-New directors, Englund
AWWA/WEA/SDWWA Combined Meeting: Raysor gave a review of discussions. Kittay spoke about some possible amendments to Constitution to reflect the items discussed at meeting. There was also discussion on revenue sharing from the seminars. Kittay moved for a 50% share of Water Seminar profit/loss go to AWWA-SD Section and a 50% share of Wastewater Seminar profit/loss go to SD WEA. Raysor seconded. Motion passed.
Each section of the Constitution Amendments was handled separately-
Article II
Object
The objectives of the Association shall be:
(a) …
(b) …
(c) The cooperation with, and promotion of, the South Dakota Section of the American Water Works Association (AWWA) and the South Dakota Association of the Water Pollution Control Federation (WPCF) Water Environment Association (WEA).
(d) The encouragement for social intercourse among its members of a friendly exchange of information and experience amongst its members
Article II-Fletcher moved. Doug Dyksta seconded. Motion passed.
Article III
Membership
Section 1 …
Section 2 …
Section 3. A member shall be anyone with an interest in the water and/or wastewater field. (Delete rest of Section 3 referring to whom may be a member of SDWWA)
Article III-Englund moved. Fink seconded. Motion passed.
Article IV
Fees and Dues
Section 1. Each Active Member shall pay annual dues of ten dollars. Honorary Members shall pay no dues.
(Delete rest of Section 1 referring to dispersion of membership dues)
Article IV-Fink moved. Doug Dykstra seconded. Motion passed.
Article V
Executive Committee
Section 1. There shall be an Executive Committee in which the government of the Association shall be vested. It shall consist of the Association President, President-Elect, Vice-President, Past-President, Secretary-Treasurer, and nine Directors. At least one member of the Executive Committee shall be a manufacturer’s representative.
The Directors will be designated as follows:
One AWWA-SD Section designated representative
One SDWEA designated representative
One manufacturers’ representative
Two people representing water and/or wastewater systems that serve less than 3300 people
Four at-large directors
The Officers of the Association shall be the Officers of the Executive Committee.
Article V-Robin Dykstra moved. Fletcher seconded. Motion passed.
Article VI
Duties of the Executive Committee
Section 6 …
All questions in the Executive Committee shall be decided by a majority vote. Five Eight members shall constitute a quorum. The Executive Committee may vote by letter ballot upon questions submitted by letter from the President and Secretray-Treasurer.
Article VI-Kittay moved. Konrad seconded. Motion passed.
Article VIII
Annual Business Meeting
This Association shall hold an annual business meeting. The place will be selected and the time set by the Executive Committee.
Section 1. The Secretary-Treasurer shall make available an agenda send notice to all members of the Association at least ten days before the annual business meeting, giving titles of papers to be read and mentioning any special business to be considered at said meeting.
Section 2. Amendments to this Constitution may be proposed by a majority of the Executive Committee, or through it, on a petition of ten (10) percent of the eligible voting members. Amendments to this Constitution must first be adopted by the Executive Committee prior to being voted upon by the membership at-large present at the annual business meeting. If adopted by the Executive Committee, written notice of the proposed amendments shall be made available given to the members at the time of their registration for any regular prior to the annual business meeting. A two-thirds vote of the members present at the annual business meeting shall be necessary for ratification.
Article VIII-Fink moved. Robin Dykstra seconded. Motion passed.
These amendments will now be voted upon at the next business meeting.
2008 Conference: Kittay passed out a skeleton agenda for conference. SD WARN would like to hold their annual meeting on Thursday of the Conference. Randy Hilding will be coordinating a split session for small systems on Thursday afternoon with AWWA and WEA coordinating the other two sessions on Thursday afternoon. Fletcher suggested that a breakfast buffet be scheduled for Friday morning. It was also suggested that an ad be placed in the SD Municipal League magazine. Kittay noted that the conference topics were needed by July 10 for the flyer and presenter names by August 15 for the conference program. Kittay will also look into having the Wednesday nite picnic at Steamboat Park where it was held during the last conference in Pierre.
Other Business: None
Fletcher moved for adjournment. Doug Dykstra seconded. Meeting adjourned at 1:30 pm.
May 30, 2008
Rob Kittay, Secretary
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SDWWA Board Meeting
January 9, 2008
Pierre, SD
Members Present: Rob Kittay, Vince Juelfs, Jim Raysor, Dan Fink, Robin Dykstra, Tyler Smith, Wayne Fletcher, Gary Englund, Doug Dykstra, Del DeBoer, Bill Selland
Member Absent: Peggi Badten, Thad Konrad, John Cloud
Others Present: Randy Hilding, Dan Graber, Jeff DeVille, Mitch Kannenberg, Chris Schmit
Call to Order: Raysor called the meeting to order at 11:38. A quorum was present. The Board introduced themselves.
Approval of Agenda: Fink moved to accept the amended agenda. Fletcher seconded. Motion passed.
Minutes: The minutes were emailed by Kittay and were on web site. Kittay stated that Petrik’s name was noted twice while Fletcher’s name had been omitted. DeBoer moved to approve amended minutes. Fletcher seconded. Motion passed.
Old Business: None
Treasurer’s Report: Kittay reported that, as of 12-17-2007, there was $31,003.87 in the checkbook plus the CD of around $3600. Several thousand dollars in checking account are designated for SDWWA Scholarship. Renewal notices have been sent and several hundred have been processed. They are now trickling in after the initial big rush. Raysor has been speaking to Verhey, and the scholarship fund is near $10,000. DeBoer moved to accept report. Englund seconded. Motion passed.
W/WW Seminar Reports: Graber represented the WW Seminar. The preliminary agenda is done. He will get agenda to Kittay by Feb 1 for flyer.
DeBoer spoke for the Water Seminar. All is done except perhaps one speaker is being sought. The flyers have been sent.
Raysor spoke about AWWA/WEF sharing revenue from seminars. Graber spoke about WEF perspective. Schmit added a few comments also. The OpCert topic was mentioned because of higher training and contact hour requirements. It is felt that the three groups need to get together to achieve some common goals. It was suggested that they should have a common meeting to get a direction. Schmit suggested a possible concept for the conference of a six member committee made up of all three groups. Perhaps a facilitator for the joint meeting would be needed. Kittay moved that a large group meeting be held. Selland seconded. Motion passed. Raysor asked Kittay to get a date at Oacoma in April for the meeting.
Other Committee Reports: None
“Source to Stream”: Kittay reviewed article assignments-
Article assignments-
November-Kittay, Dykstra, Fink
February-Badten, Konrad, Juelfs
April-Raysor, Smith, Fletcher, Cloud
July-New directors, Englund
2008 Committee Formation: The Board formed the committees.
2007 Conference Review: There were a few comments.
Kittay moved for adjournment. Englund seconded. Meeting adjourned at 1:05 pm.
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January 10, 2008
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SDWWA 2007 Annual Business Meeting
September 13, 2007
Watertown, SD
Call to Order: By President Badten at 12:39 pm. Approximately 175 were in attendance.
Badten thanked Jim Raysor, WEA, and AWWA Section for their work on the Conference. She also reviewed the Tuesday nite Board meeting for the attendees.
Minutes: The minutes of the 2006 Business Meeting had been published on the SDWWA web site. Royalty moved for approval. Fletcher seconded. Motion passed.
Old Business: Badten called for Old Business. Verhey spoke about the SDWWA Scholarship for members’ children.
Officers for 2007-08: Badten announced that Jim Raysor would be the 2007-08 President and Wayne Fletcher would be the President-Elect.
Vice-President: The candidate from the Board was Gary Englund from Brookings. Badten called for nominations from the floor. Verhey moved that nominations cease, and a unanimous ballot be cast for Fletcher. Beoerger seconded. Motion passed.
Secretary/Treasurer: The candidate from the Board was Rob Kittay. Badten called for nominations from the floor. None were forthcoming. Merrigan moved that nominations cease, and a unanimous ballot be cast. Clark seconded. Motion passed.
Outgoing Directors: Chip Petrik, Vern Johnson, and Craig Wagner are the outgoing directors and were recognized.
New Directors for 2007-08: The three directors recommended by the Nominating Committee were Del DeBoer from SDSU, Doug Dykstra from Sioux Falls, and Bill Selland from Salem. Badten called for nominations from the floor. Kittay moved to accept the candidates. Hilding seconded. Motion passed.
Badten thanked the Association for allowing her to serve as President. The ceremonial passing of the gavel to 2007-2008 President Raysor took place.
Conference Watch: As tradition dictates, Kittay read the conference watch rules, and Hilding conducted the drawing. Ron Barber won the watch.
New Business: The sites of the future conferences were announced as follows: 2008-Pierre, 2009-Spearfish, 2010-Sioux Falls, 2011-Huron, and 2012-RC.
Adjournment: Merrigan moved for adjournment. Skinner seconded. Motion passed. Meeting adjourned at 12:52 pm.
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SDWWA Board Meeting
September 11, 2007
Watertown, SD
Members Present: Rob Kittay, Vern Johnson, Chip Petrik, Peggi Badten, Craig Wagner, Chip Petrik, Thad Konrad, Vince Juelfs, Jim Raysor, John Cloud, Dan Fink
Member Absent: Robin Dykstra, Tyler Smith, Malcolm MacDonald
Others Present: Randy Hilding, Mrs John Cloud
Call to Order: Badten called the meeting to order at 6:07. A quorum was present. The Board introduced themselves.
Approval of Agenda: Fletcher moved to accept the amended agenda. Wagner seconded. Motion passed.
Minutes: The minutes were emailed by Kittay and were on web site. Johnson moved to approve minutes. Fink seconded. Motion passed.
Old Business: None
Treasurer’s Report: Kittay reported that there was $33,776.87 in the checkbook plus the CD ($3521.13). A full report of the income and payments was provided. Fletcher moved to accept report. Fink seconded. Motion passed.
Auditing Committee: Badten gave the report. Andrea Griese and Kevin Espeland were on the committee. The audit was done on September 5, 2007. There was $33,776.87 in checkbook, $3521.13 in the CD, and the books were in order. Kittay moved to accept the report. Johnson seconded. Motion passed.
Fink moved to increase the sec/treasurer honorium to $700. Wagner seconded. Motion passed.
Nominations Committee: Badten gave the report for the committee. The committee put forth Bill Selland from Salem, Doug Dykstra from Sioux Falls, and Del DeBoer from SDSU as directors. Gary Englund was nominated as VP. Kittay moved for acceptance. Petrik seconded. Motion passed.
“Source to Stream”: There were no problems, and it is fiscally solvent.
Article assignments-
November-Kittay, Dykstra, Fink
February-Badten, Konrad, Juelfs
April-Raysor, Smith, Fletcher, Cloud
July-New directors, Englund
2007-2008 Officers: Raysor will be president, Badten will be past-president, and Fletcher will become president-elect.
Secretary-Treasurer-Johnson nominated Kittay with Petrik seconding. Motion passed. Kittay will be the Board’s candidate for S/T.
Scholarships: Kittay gave a brief description of previous years’ scholarship program. Kittay moved to continue scholarship program for 2007-2008 in the amount of $1000 to each school. JR seconded. Raysor spoke about possibly giving some money to a vo-tech. Motion passed.
Kittay moved to put $2000 into SDWWA scholarship. Raysor seconded. Motion passed.
2012 Conference: Kittay had made inquiries with RC Ramkota for the 2012 Conference. Petrik moved to accept this location. Wagner seconded. Motion passed.
2007 Conference Concerns: Badten asked about the Dakota Pump reception. Angello had been in contact with Kittay a number of times.
Other Business: Badten stated that SD AWWA and WEA asked about seminar setup and perhaps getting a share of the profits. Raysor indicated that SDWWA should meet in November and have the two groups state what they wanted.
Raysor moved for adjournment. Johnson seconded. Meeting adjourned at 8:00 pm.
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September 18, 2006
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SDWWA Board Meeting
April 20, 2007
Oacoma, SD
Members Present: Peggi Badten, Jim Raysor, Wayne Fletcher, Rob Kittay, Vern Johnson, Chip Petrik, Craig Wagner, Tyler Smith, Thad Konrad, John Cloud, Vince Juelfs, Dan Fink
Member Absent: Robin Dykstra, Malcolm MacDonald,
Others Present:
Call to Order: Badten called the meeting to order at 11:40. A quorum was present. The Board introduced themselves.
Approval of Agenda: Kittay moved to accept the amended agenda. Raysor seconded. Motion passed.
Minutes: The minutes were emailed by Kittay and were on web site. Johnson moved to approve minutes. Cloud seconded. Motion passed.
Old Business: Some money is being collected for the SDWWA Scholarship. Verhey is looking for a way to invest this money.
Treasurer’s Report: Kittay reported that there was $36,486.03 (4/17/07) in the checkbook plus the CD with UBS of $3466.03 (3/30/07). Kittay just bought a new battery for computer and paid AWWA/WEF their allotments for 2007. The WW Seminar bill and the SDSU/SDSMT Scholarships have not been paid. Fletcher moved to accept report. Johnson seconded. Motion passed.
Water & WW Seminar Reports: Kittay indicated that the WW Seminar needed to get moving sooner. The WW Committee will be meeting during the Conference. A date and place needs to be determined ASAP.
Other Committee Reports: None
“Source to Stream”: Badten gave the report. Kittay is now in charge of check book. Kittay asked about the submittal dates and publishing dates.
2007 Committees: The Board formed committees for the year.
2007 Conference: The Conference is to be held in Watertown at the Ramkota on September 12-13-14. Smith will be getting the tabletop info out in June. The Board suggested ideas for possible presentations. The presentation ideas are needed by July 1 for the mailed flyers and presentation topics w/ names by July 20 for the program.
Other Business: Fink asked about prior t-shirt sales and what happened w/ it. Raysor said it could be a scholarship raising idea.
Fletcher moved for adjournment. Kittay seconded. Meeting adjourned at 1:02 pm.
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SDWWA 2006 Annual Business Meeting
September 14, 2006
Rapid City, SD
Call to Order: By President MacDonald at 12:31 pm. Approximately 175 were in attendance.
MacDonald thanked the WEA, AWWA Section, Local Arrangements Committee, and Commercial Committee for their work on the Conference. He also reviewed the Tuesday nite Board meeting for the attendees. Board is working on scholarship for children of SDWWA members. Also ads on web site may be possible.
Minutes: The minutes of the 2005 Business Meeting had been published in the SDWWA web site and provided at this meeting. Vansco moved for approval. Graber seconded. Motion passed.
Old Business: MacDonald called for Old Business, and there was none.
MacDonald announced that Peggi Badten would be the 2006-07 President and Jim Raysor would be the President-Elect.
Vice-President: The candidate from the Board was Wayne Fletcher from Brandon. MacDonald called for nominations from the floor. Kittay moved that nominations cease, and a unanimous ballot be cast for Fletcher. Dave Johnson seconded. Motion passed.
Secretary/Treasurer: The candidate from the Board was Rob Kittay. MacDonald called for nominations from the floor. None were forthcoming. Diez moved that nominations cease, and a unanimous ballot be cast. Raysor seconded. Motion passed.
Outgoing Directors: Gavin Graverson, Gayleen Lowe, and Gary Englund are the out going directors and were recognized.
Directors: The three directors recommended by the Nominating Committee were John Cloud from Lake Traverse, Dan Fink from Harrisburg, and Vince Juelfs from Huron. MacDonald called for nominations from the floor. Lowe moved to accept the candidates. Fletcher seconded. Motion passed.
MacDonald thanked the Association for allowing him to serve as President. The ceremonial passing of the gavel to 2006-2007 President Badten took place.
Honorary Member: Badten announced that Kim Verhey was approved by the Board as an Honorary Member. Yde moved to approve the nomination. Kittay seconded. Motion passed.
Conference Watch: As tradition dictates, Kittay read the conference watch rules, and Hilding conducted the drawing. Doug Byers of Sioux Falls was the winner.
New Business: The sites of the future conferences were announced as follows: 2007-Watertown; 2008-Pierre, 2009-Spearfish, 2010-Sioux Falls, and 2011-Huron.
The AWWA Young Professionals announced the results of the meter assembly competition.
Adjournment: Graber moved for adjournment. Van Cleave seconded. Motion passed. Meeting adjourned at 12:52 pm.
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SDWWA Board Meeting
September 12, 2006
Rapid City, SD
Members Present: Rob Kittay, Gavin Graverson, Malcolm MacDonald, Al Erickson, Gayleen Lowe, Vern Johnson, Chip Petrik, Peggi Badten, Robin Dykstra, Tyler Smith, Craig Wagner, Chip Petrik, and Gary Englund
Member Absent: Thad Konrad
Others Present: Kim Verhey, Randy Hilding, Cindy Raysor, Pete Hesla, Mrs. Vern Johnson
Call to Order: MacDonald called the meeting to order at 6:01. A quorum was present. The Board introduced themselves.
Approval of Agenda: Englund would like to add a “clearinghouse of spare parts” to agenda. Dykstra moved to accept the amended agenda. Graverson seconded. Motion passed.
Minutes: The minutes were emailed by Kittay and were on web site. Raysor moved to approve minutes. Badten seconded. Motion passed.
Old Business: Kim Verhey had suggested a scholarship for SDWWA member children. He gave a presentation for some ideas that he had been working on. He suggested a number of methods to raise the money to establish an annuity. The plan would be to then use the interest every year for the scholarship. Raysor moved to appoint a committee to explore moving forward with this project. Wagner seconded. Motion passed. Wagner suggested that Verhey be chairperson for the committee. Raysor, Lowe, Smith, and Erickson volunteered to be on the committee.
Treasurer’s Report: Kittay reported that there was $27,718.86 in the checkbook plus the CD ($3360.87). A full report of the income and payments was provided. Lowe moved to accept report. Raysor seconded. Motion passed.
Auditing Committee: Kittay gave the report. Mark McIntire and Ron Ramsey were on committee. The audit was done on September 7, 2006. There was $25,714.55 in checkbook, $3360.87 in the CD, and the books were in order. Johnson moved to accept the report. Lowe seconded. Motion passed.
Nominations Committee: MacDonald gave the report for the committee. The committee put forth Dan Fink of Harrisburg and Vince Juelfs of Huron as directors. Wayne Fletcher was nominated as VP. Kittay moved for acceptance. Petrik seconded. Motion passed. The committee will contact John Cloud as another possible candidate.
Other Committee Reports: Lowe reported on the PR/SB Award. There was some disconcern from an SDWWA member on awards. Erickson said that it is the duty of someone to be nominated even if they do it themselves.
WW Seminar: Dan Graber will head the committee. A site and date needs to be picked.
“Source to Stream”: Erickson gave the report. Jan Kittay has resigned from all matters on magazine. A copy of the report was provided. A definition of what the Editorial Board is was made.
Article assignments-
November-Kittay, Johnson, Dykstra
February-MacDonald, Badten, Konrad
April-Raysor, Wagner, Smith, Petrik
July-New directors, Fletcher
2006-2007 Officers: Badten will be president, MacDonald will be past-president, and Raysor will become president-elect.
Secretary-Treasurer-Graverson nominated Kittay with Badten seconding. Motion passed. Kittay will be the Board’s candidate for S/T.
Scholarships: Kittay gave a brief description of previous years’ scholarship program. Kittay moved to continue scholarship program for 2006-2007. Badten seconded. Motion passed.
2010/2011 Conferences: Kittay had investigated some future sites-Sioux Falls 2010 and Huron 2011. Petrik moved to accept these locations. Badten seconded. Motion passed with three dissenting votes.
2006 Conference Concerns: Petrik stated that the door prizes were taken care of. Badten asked about AV equipment. There will be enough AV equipment.
Other Business: Englund spoke about an idea to get rid of spare parts from various systems. There was also talk about a question-and-answer email group. Kittay maintains an extensive email list of W/WW systems that could be used.
Verhey spoke about the web site. There is a possible advertiser. Verhey wanted to know if the Board wanted to allow ads. Badten moved that ads for website be $50 per year. Raysor seconded. Motion passed.
Graverson moved for adjournment. MacDonald seconded. Meeting adjourned at 8:00 pm.
September 18, 2006
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SDWWA Board Meeting
May 16, 2006
Oacoma, SD
Members Present: Rob Kittay, Gavin Graverson, Malcolm Macdonald, Al Erickson, Gayleen Lowe, Vern Johnson, Chip Petrik, Jim Raysor, Peggi Badten, Craig Wagner, Thad Konrad, Robin Dykstra, and Gary Englund
Member Absent: Tyler Smith
Others Present: Jeff DeVille-AWWA-SD Section Representative
Call to Order: Macdonald called the meeting to order at 11:35 am. A quorum was present. The Board introduced themselves.
Approval of Agenda: Englund moved to accept the agenda with the deletion of scholarship agenda item. Badten seconded. Motion passed.
Minutes: The minutes were emailed by Kittay and were on web site. Kittay moved to approve minutes. Erickson seconded. Motion passed.
Old Business: Kittay notified the Board that the PA system had been purchased ($425). The Sewerage and Water Board of New Orleans (SWBNO) sent a reply for the $1000 contribution that the Board approved during the September meeting.
Treasurer’s Report-Kittay gave the report. There is $3324.96 in the Piper Jaffray account and $31,139.42 in the checking account. He also indicated what was recently paid and recent deposits. Lowe moved to accept the report. Johnson seconded. Motion passed.
Water Seminar Report-Erickson gave the report of the seminar. All items with the seminar went well. There were 105 attendees. The 2007 will be held during the same week at the RC Ramkota. The committee will meet prior to the 2006 Conference.
Wastewater Seminar Report-Badten mentioned a few items. The seminar went well. The Awards Dinner was a success also.
There were no other committee reports.
Raysor entered meeting at 11:51 am.
2006 Committee Formation-MacDonald mentioned about the Siger Bies/Price-Rees Committee should select Honorary Members if there are any deserving members. Committees were formed. See attachment.
Conference Program Ideas-Badten is in charge of conference program. Ideas were offered by the board members. A program for the flyer and Source to Stream is needed by July 1. Final program is needed by August 10.
Adjournment-Graverson moved for adjournment. Dykstra seconded. Motion Passed. Meeting adjourned at 1:10 pm.
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SDWWA 2005 Annual Business Meeting
September 15, 2005
Brookings, SD
Call to Order: By President Erickson at 12:30 pm. Approximately 175 were in attendance.
Erickson thanked the Local Arrangements Committee and Commercial Committee for their work. He noted that the SDWWA Executive Board voted to donate $1000 to the Katrina Relief work.
Minutes: The minutes of the 2004 Business Meeting had been published in the SDWWA web site. Hesla moved for approval. Royalty seconded. Motion passed.
Erickson called for Old Business, and there was none.
Erickson announced that Malcolm MacDonald would be the 2005-06 President and Peggi Badten would be the President-Elect.
Vice-President: The candidate from the Board was Jim Raysor from Deadwood. Erickson called for nominations from the floor. Kittay moved that nominations cease and a unanimous ballot be cast for Raysor. Odens seconded. Motion passed.
Secretary/Treasurer: The candidate from the Board was Rob Kittay. Erickson called for nominations from the floor. None were forthcoming. Van Cleave moved that nominations cease and a unanimous ballot be cast. England seconded. Motion passed.
Directors: The three directors recommended by the Nominating Committee were Thad Konrad from Tea, Robin Dykstra from Parker, and Tyler Smith as the manufacturers’ rep. Erickson called for nominations from the floor. BB moved to accept the candidates. Royalty seconded. Motion passed.
Erickson thanked the Association for allowing him to serve as President. The ceremonial passing of the gavel to 2005-2006 President MacDonald took place.
Conference Watch: As tradition dictates, Kittay read the conference watch rules, and Hilding conducted the drawing. Chancy Shrake of DENR was the winner. Busby and Mince also won prizes.
New Business: The sites of the future conferences were announced as follows: 2006-Rapid City; 2007-Watertown; and 2008-Pierre.
The AWWA Young Professionals announced the results of the meter assembly competition.
Adjournment: Kittay moved for adjournment. Erickson seconded. Motion passed. Meeting adjourned at 12:53 pm.
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SDWWA Board Meeting
September 13, 2005
Brookings , SD
Members Present: Rob Kittay, Sue Hargens, Gavin Graverson, Malcolm Macdonald, Wayne Fletcher, Tim Monson, Jeff Clark, Al Erickson, Gayleen Lowe, Vern Johnson, Chip Petrik, Peggi Badten, Craig Wagner, and Gary Englund
Member Absent: Tim Monson and Sue Hargens
Others Present: Sheila Fletcher and Mrs Gary Englund
Call to Order: Erickson called the meeting to order at 6:13 . A quorum was present. The Board introduced themselves.
Approval of Agenda: MacDonald moved to accept the agenda. Clark seconded. Motion passed.
Minutes: The minutes were emailed by Kittay and were on web site. Kittay moved to approve minutes. Badten seconded. Motion passed.
Old Business: Kim Verhey had suggested a scholarship for SDWWA children. A committee was formed. No action was taken.
Portable PA system-No action taken. MacDonald moved to purchase the system. Badten seconded. Motion passed.
Treasurer’s Report: Kittay reported that there was $19,475.23 in the checkbook plus the CD ($3230.84). A full report of the income and payments was provided. Englund moved to accept report. Clark seconded. Motion passed.
Auditing Committee: Kittay gave the report. Andrea Griese, Mark McIntire, and Bill Sarringar were on committee. The audit was done on September 7, 2005 . There was $22,473.23 in checkbook, $3230.84 in the CD, and the books were in order. Fletcher moved to accept the report. Johnson seconded. Motion passed.
Nominations Committee: Mac Donald gave the report for the committee. The committee put forth Robin Dykstra from Parker, Thad Konrad from Tea, and Tyler Smith from DSG. Jim Raysor from Deadwood was nominated as VP. Kittay moved for acceptance. Lowe seconded. Motion passed.
Other Committee Reports: Lowe spoke about the Price-Rees Award committee.
Water/WW Seminar: Water Seminar committee had met. Topics were found. Dan Graber and Aaron Moen are going to work with SD WEA and help with Wastewater Seminar program.
2005-2006 Officers: MacDonald will be president, Erickson will be past-president, and Badten will become president-elect.
Secretary-Treasurer-Graverson nominated Kittay with Clark seconding. Motion passed. Kittay will be the Board’s candidate for S/T.
Scholarships: Kittay gave a brief description of previous years’ scholarship program. Kittay moved to continue scholarship program for 2005-2006. Englund seconded. Motion passed.
2009 Conference: Erickson spoke to owners group of the proposed Deadwood Ramkota. MacDonald will talk to Spearfish Holiday Inn about 2009 Conference.
Newsletter: Kittay explained the concept of a new combined newsletter with AWWA and WEA. Badten said articles had been submitted and not published. Badten moved to approve this new concept for the newsletter. Clark seconded. Motion passed. Kittay/Erickson will speak to other groups. Badten will bring up the topic at the WEA meeting.
Board members were assigned to submit articles for the newsletter as follows-
November-Kittay/Johnson/Petrik/Badten
Feb-Lowe/Graverson/Wagner
April-MacDonald/Erickson/Englund/Raysor
July-New board members
2005 Conference Concerns: Erickson was concerned w/ the Thursday night program for the banquet. He will develop a program.
Other Business: Mike Reed, WEF President, stopped in to say hi and see what was going on at meeting.
Kittay suggested a Katrina Relief donation to help rebuilding there. Badten moved to donate $1000 to relief in the affected area. Graverson seconded. Motion passed. Badten/MacDonald will investigate and decide the specific group to receive the donation.
Kittay moved for adjournment. Badten seconded. Meeting adjourned at 8:03 pm .
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SDWWA Board Meeting
May 13, 2005
Oacoma , SD
Members Present: Rob Kittay, Sue Hargens, Randy Hilding, Gavin Graverson, Malcolm Macdonald, Wayne Fletcher, Al Erickson, Gayleen Lowe, Vern Johnson, Chip Petrik, Craig Wagner, and Gary Englund
Member Absent: Tim Munson, Jeff Clark, Peggi Badten
Others Present:
Call to Order: Erickson called the meeting to order at 12:48 . A quorum was present. The Board introduced themselves.
Approval of Agenda: Hargens moved to accept the agenda. Johnson seconded. Motion passed.
Minutes: The minutes were emailed by Kittay and were on web site. MacDonald moved to approve minutes. Lowe seconded. Motion passed.
Old Business: Kittay reported on LCD projector purchase. Kittay moved to accept the report. Graverson seconded. Motion passed.
Treasurer’s Report: Kittay reported that there was $30,098.77 in the checkbook plus the CD ($3300). Some items haven’t been paid. Fletcher moved to accept report. Englund seconded. Motion passed.
Seminar Reports-Erickson gave water report for Water Seminar. There were technical problems-computer problems and versions of Powerpoint that were not up-to-date. It was suggested that a person be assigned for technical issues for each session of seminar. Also, presentations should be sent prior to seminar to coordinator so that they can be loaded to computer and any problems could be ironed out before seminar. Next year-Sioux Falls Ramkota February 8-9, 2006 .
Dave Van Cleave submitted a written report for the Wastewater Seminar. The Award Banquet had 92 in attendance. VanCleave is willing to run the seminar again. He wants to go a central location (Pierre or Oacoma) for 2006. Kittay moved for acceptance of the reports. Hargens seconded. Motion passed.
Committees for 2005-These committees were formed. Englund moved to accept the committees. MacDonald seconded. Motion passed.
2009-2010 Conference Sites-MacDonald suggested that the Ramkota will have a facility in Deadwood. Kittay stated that a firm reservation for the 2009 Conference should be obtained July 1. Kittay had spoken to SF Ramkota for 2010. Kittay moved to accept these Conference sites. Englund seconded. Motion passed.
2005 Conference Organization-Kittay provided a skeleton for Conference. Brookings Inn will be able to hold Business Luncheon on Thursday afternoon. There will be a WEF meeting during displays. Some concern on part of a vendor that there were not supposed to be meetings during displays.
Presentations for 2005 Conference-The Board suggested topics for Conference. MacDonald collected the ideas and will form the program.
Other Business: Fletcher reported there were some hearing problems at some motels during meetings. He did a search on projection equipment. He will do some more checking on it.
Erickson reported that Deb Callahan from SF asked about a Water Festival donation. There are held in SF and a number of other cities. There was no motion forth coming on this issue.
Kim Verhey suggested that an SDWWA Scholarship be set up for children of SDWWA members. Kittay moved that Verhey head a committee with Hargens/Erickson to give a $500 scholarship. Englund seconded. Motion passed.
Hargens moved for adjournment. Fletcher seconded. Meeting adjourned at 2:53 pm .
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SDWWA 2004 Annual Business Meeting
September 16, 2004
Aberdeen, SD
Call to Order: By President Hargens at 12:37 am. Approximately 150 were in attendance.
Hargens thanked the Local Arrangements Committee and Commercial Committee for their work.
Minutes: The minutes of the 2003 Business Meeting had been published in the SDWWA web site. Hemeyer moved for approval. Yde seconded. Motion passed.
Hargens called for Old Business, and there was none.
Hargens announced that Al Erickson would be the 2004-05 President and Malcolm MacDonald would be the President-Elect.
Vice-President: The candidate from the Board was Peggi Badten from Aberdeen. Hargens called for nominations from the floor. Kittay moved that nominations cease and a unanimous ballot be cast for Badten. Yde seconded. Motion passed.
Secretary/Treasurer: The candidate from the Board was Rob Kittay. Hargens called for nominations from the floor. None were forthcoming. Zeck moved that nominations cease and a unanimous ballot be cast. Merrigan seconded. Motion passed.
Sarringar, Erikson, and Hauger are the out-going directors.
Directors: The three directors recommended by the Nominating Committee were Vern Johnson from Alcester, Chip Petrik from Rapid City, and Craig Wagner from Hartford. Swanson called for nominations from the floor. Swanson moved to accept the candidates. Yde seconded. Motion passed.
Hargens thanked the Association for allowing her to serve as President. The ceremonial passing of the gavel to 2004-2005 President Erickson took place.
Conference Watch: As tradition dictates, Kittay read the conference watch rules, and Hilding conducted the drawing. Sid Munson from SDARWS was the winner. Jerry Adler and Jerry Hemyer also won prizes.
New Business: The sites of the future conferences were announced as follows: 2005-Brookings; 2006-Rapid City; 2007-Watertown; and 2008-Pierre. Two AWWA classes were also noted.
Adjournment: Yde moved for adjournment. Harris seconded. Motion passed. Meeting adjourned at 12:52 pm.
Rob Kittay, Secretary
Date- September 17, 2004
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SDWWA Board Meeting
September 14, 2004
Aberdeen, SD
Members Present: Rob Kittay, Sue Hargens, Randy Hilding, Gavin Graverson, Bill Sarringar, Roger Hauger, Ray Erikson, Malcolm Macdonald, Wayne Fletcher, Tim Monson, Jeff Clark, Dave Van Cleave, Al Erickson, Gayleen Lowe, and Gary Englund
Member Absent: None
Others Present: Steve Diez, Randy Hilding, Pete Hesla
Call to Order: Hargens called the meeting to order at 6:17. A quorum was present. The Board introduced themselves.
Approval of Agenda: Englund moved to accept the agenda. Fletcher seconded. Motion passed.
Minutes: The minutes were emailed by Kittay and were on web site. Hauger moved to approve minutes. Erikson seconded. Motion passed.
Old Business: There was none.
Treasurer’s Report: Kittay reported that there was $19,343.23 in the checkbook plus the CD ($3189.65). A full report of the income and payments was provided. Sarringar moved to accept report. Graverson seconded. Motion passed.
Auditing Committee: Steve Diez gave the report. Andrea Griese, Steve Diez and Gayleen Lowe were on committee. The audit was done on September 3, 2004. There was $14,035.25 in checkbook and the books were in order. MacDonald moved to accept the report. Clark seconded. Motion passed.
Nominations Committee: Van Cleave gave the report for the committee. The committee put forth Vern Johnson from Alcester, Stan Petrik from Rapid City, and Craig Wagner from Hartford. Peggi Badten from Aberdeen was nominated as VP. Sarringar moved for acceptance. Kittay seconded. Motion passed.
Other Committee Reports: There were none.
WW Seminar: Dave Van Cleave volunteered to chair this committee. Al Erickson will ask a co-worker if he would help Dave.
2004-2005 Officers: Erickson will be president, Hargens will be past-president, and MacDonald will become president-elect.
Secretary-Treasurer-Erickson nominated Kittay with Graverson seconding. Sarringar moved that nominations cease. Graverson seconded. Motion passed. Kittay will be the Board’s candidate for S/T.
Scholarships: Kittay gave a brief description of previous years’ scholarship program. Kittay moved to continue scholarship program for 2004-2005. Clark seconded. Motion passed.
2004 Conference Concerns: Monson reports that there are 44 tabletops. Hesla would like to speak to the Executive Officers.
Other Business: Kittay brought a catalog that had with LCD projectors and inquired of the committee as to interest in purchasing a projector. Monson moved to purchase an LCD projector. Clark seconded. Kittay will check how powerful the DENR projector is. Motion passed.
Englund moved for adjournment. Hauger seconded. Meeting adjourned at 7:14 pm.
Rob Kittay, Secretary
Date- September 20, 2004
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SDWWA Board Meeting
May 13, 2004
Oacoma, SD
Members Present: Rob Kittay, Sue Hargens, Gavin Graverson, Roger Hauger, Ray Erikson, Malcolm Macdonald, Wayne Fletcher, Tim Monson, Al Erickson, Gary Englund, Gayleen Lowe
Member Absent: Dave Van Cleave, Jeff Clark, Bill Sarringar
Call to Order: Hargens called the meeting to order at 11:42. A quorum was present. The Board introduced themselves.
Approval of Agenda: Kittay wanted to add Committee Formation to the agenda. Fletcher moved to accept the agenda. Hauger seconded. Motion passed.
Minutes: The minutes were emailed by Kittay. Van Cleave should be replaced by Kittay for ceasing nominations for Secretary/Treasurer. Erickson moved to approve minutes as corrected. Macdonald seconded. Motion passed.
Treasurer’s Report: Kittay reported that there was $20,744.87 in the checkbook plus the CD (approx $3200). Erikson moved to accept report. Graverson seconded. Motion passed.
Other Committee Reports: There were none.
Committee Formation: The Board formed committees for the upcoming year. Macdonald moved for approval of the committees. Erickson seconded. Motion passed.
2004 W/WW Seminars: Erickson will be heading up the Water Seminar with help from JR Yde. The Seminar will be held in February in RC Ramkota. The Wastewater Seminar leadership is still up in the air. Several names were suggested. Hargens will pursue this.
2004 Conference Ideas: Some general ideas for the conference schedule were discussed. Specific presentation ideas were given. Erickson is in charge of the program from SDWWA. AWWA-SD Section has volunteered to take care of one of the Thursday afternoon sessions. WEF has not responded as to their role.
Other Business: Kittay reminded the Board members that each one needs to submit an article for the Clarifier during the year.
Kittay moved for adjournment. Englund seconded. Meeting adjourned at 1:40 pm.
Rob Kittay
Secretary
Date- May 14, 2004
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SDWWA 2003 Annual Business Meeting
September 11, 2003
Spearfish, SD
Call to Order: By President Hilding at 11:50 am. Approximately 140 were in attendance.
Hilding thanked the Local Arrangements Committee and Commercial Committee for their work.
Minutes: The minutes of the 2002 Business Meeting had been published in the SDWWA web site. Elcock moved for approval. DeBoer seconded. Motion passed.
Hilding called for Old Business, and there was none.
Hilding announced that Hargens would be the 2003-04 President and Erickson would be the President-Elect.
Vice-President: The candidate from the Board was Malcolm Macdonald from SDARWS. Hilding called for nominations from the floor. Swanson moved that nominations cease and a unanimous ballot be cast for Macdonald. Toscano seconded. Motion passed.
Secretary/Treasurer: The candidate from the Board was Rob Kittay. Hilding called for nominations from the floor. None were forthcoming. Swanson moved that nominations cease and a unanimous ballot be cast. Hughes seconded. Motion passed
Hilding thanked the Association for allowing him to serve as President. The ceremonial passing of the gavel to 2003-2004 President Sue Hargens took place.
Directors: The three directors recommended by the Nominating Committee were Garg Englund from Brookings, Gavin Graverson from Sioux Falls, and Gayleen Lowe from DENR-Pierre. Van Cleave called for nominations from the floor. Kittay moved that nominations cease and a unanimous ballot be cast. Buscher seconded. Motion passed. Hilding introduced the entire Board.
Conference Watch: As tradition dictates, Kittay read the conference watch rules, and Hilding conducted the drawing. Connie Silva from Madison was the winner. Senn, Back, Burtzlaff, and Bisgard also won prizes.
New Business: The sites of the future conferences were announced as follows: 2004-Aberdeen; 2005-Brookings; and 2006-Rapid City.
Adjournment: DeBoer moved for adjournment. Kittay seconded. Motion passed. Meeting adjourned at 1:07 pm.
Rob Kittay
Secretary
Date 8-30-2004
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SDWWA Board Meeting
September 9, 2003
Spearfish, SD
Members Present: Rob Kittay, Sue Hargens, Randy Hilding, Shane Torgrude, Gavin Graverson, Bill Sarringar, Roger Hauger, Ray Erikson, Malcolm Macdonald, Wayne Fletcher, Tim Monson
Member Absent: Al Erickson, Dave Van Cleave, Jeff Clark
Others Present: Jan Frederick-Kittay
Call to Order: Hilding called the meeting to order at 7:12. A quorum was present. The Board introduced themselves.
Approval of Agenda: Sarringer moved to accept the agenda. Graverson seconded. Motion passed.
Minutes: The minutes were emailed by Kittay and were on web site. Fletcher moved to approve minutes as corrected. Monson seconded. Motion passed.
Old Business: There was none.
Treasurer’s Report: Kittay reported that there was $14,035.25 in the checkbook plus the CD ($3180.69). A full report of the income and payments was provided. Erikson moved to accept report. Macdonald seconded. Motion passed.
Auditing Committee: Sarringer gave the report. Andrea Griese, Bill Sarringer and Fred Snodderly were on committee. The audit was done on September 3, 2003. There was $14,035.25 in checkbook and the books were in order. Honorarium was not paid in 2002 and should be paid during September of each year. Hargens moved to accept the report. Graverson seconded. Motion passed.
Nominations Committee: Hilding gave the report for the committee. The committee put forth Gayleen Lowe from DENR, Gavin Graverson from Sioux Falls, and Gary Englund from Brookings Municipal Utilities. Graverson is actually filling in a term presently. Monson will become the Manufacturers’ Rep. Kittay moved for acceptance. Sarringer seconded. Motion passed.
Other Committee Reports: There were none.
2003-2004 Officers: Hargens will be president, Van Cleave will be past-president, and Erickson will become president-elect.
Secretary-Treasurer-The committee nominated Kittay with Hilding seconding. Van Cleave moved that nominations cease. Macdonald seconded. Motion passed. Kittay will be the Board’s candidate for S/T.
Vice-President-The committee nominated Macdonald and Graverson seconded. Erikson moved that nominations cease. Kittay seconded. Motion passed. Macdonald will be the Board’s candidate for VP.
Scholarships: Kittay gave a brief description of previous years’ scholarship program. Kittay moved to continue scholarship program for 2003-2004. Fletcher seconded. Motion passed.
2003 Conference Concerns: Hilding will have a moment of silence for 9/11.
Other Business: SDARWS wants to remove their phone number from Conference flyer.
Fletcher moved for adjournment. Hilding seconded. Meeting adjourned at 7:44 pm.
October 16, 2003
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SDWWA Board Meeting
April 25, 2003
Pierre, SD
Members Present: Rob Kittay, Sue Hargens, Randy Hilding, Shane Torgrude, Gavin Graverson, Bill Sarringar, Roger Hauger, Ray Erikson, Malcolm MacDonald, Wayne Fletcher, Tim Monson
Member Absent: Jeff Clark, Dave Van Cleave
Call to Order: Hilding called the meeting to order at 12:05. A quorum was present. The Board introduced themselves.
Approval of Agenda: Hargens moved to accept the agenda. Kittay seconded. Motion passed.
Minutes: The minutes were emailed by Kittay. Four "miniscule" corrections were made. Fletcher leave moved to approve minutes as corrected. Hargens seconded. Motion passed.
Treasurer’s Report: Kittay reported that there was $13,405.09 in the checkbook plus the CD ($3171.10). Scholarships and payments to SD AWWA and SD WEA still have to be made. Sarringar moved to accept report. Erikson seconded. Motion passed.
Committee Formation: The Board formed committees for the coming year. People will be informed by email and Clarifier.
2004 W/WW Seminars: Hilding clarified the Water Seminar leadership situation. Al Erickson of HDR will head-up the Water Seminar. Yde will be assisting Erickson. Hilding will speak to Jim Zeck to clarify the Wastewater Seminar situation.
2002 Conference Wrap-up: Torgrude indicated that the manufacturers’ tabletop displays were a little cramped. It was somewhat hard to hear at pool during Business Meeting.
2007/2008 Conferences: Kittay had done some preliminary work for future conferences. He moved that Watertown Ramkota hold the 2007 Conference and Pierre Ramkota hold the 2008 Conference. Erikson seconded. Motion passed.
Vice President: The Association needs to fill the VP position as the person nominated never wanted the position. Hargens nominated Al Erickson. Graverson seconded. RKittay moved that nominations cease and cast a unanimous ballot for Erickson. Macdonald seconded. Motion passed.
2003 Conference: The Business Meeting will be held at noon Thursday with luncheon. AWWA meeting will be held at 6:00 pm Tuesday and 4:30 pm Thursday. There again will be no spouses program. AWWA/WEA will form the Thursday afternoon programs. Ideas for presentations were given by the Board.
Other Business: Macdonald indicated that SDARWS is going to hold an advanced distribution workshop. He was looking for possible participation by SDWWA. He will bring a concrete proposal to the next Board meeting. There was no other business forthcoming.
The next meeting will be planned for the Conference.
WF moved for adjournment. RH seconded. Meeting adjourned at 7:44 pm.
Rob Kittay
Secretary
April 16, 2003
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SDWWA 2002 Annual Business Meeting
September 11, 2002
Huron, SD
Call to Order: By President Hilding at 7:04 pm. Approximately 140 were in attendance.
Hilding thanked the Local Arrangements Committee and Commercial Committee for their work.
Minutes: The minutes of the 2001 Business Meeting had been published in Clarifier and the SDWWA web site. Bjerke moved for approval. Elcock seconded. Motion passed.
Auditing Committee Report: The report was given Andrea Griese. All balances were in proper order as of August 21, 2001. Bill Nelson moved for acceptance of the report. Barber seconded. Motion passed.
Hilding called for Old Business, and there was none.
Hilding thanked the Association for allowing him to serve as President. The ceremonial passing of the gavel to 2002-2003 President-Elect Dave Van Cleave took place.
It was announced that Mike Peterson, Lowell Corbin, and Vince Juelfs were the directors that would be leaving the Board.
Vice-President: The candidate from the Board was Kim Verhey from Kingbrook RWS. Van Cleave called for nominations from the floor. Back nominated Chuck Larson from Rapid City. Royalty seconded. Kittay moved that nominations cease. Clark seconded. Motion passed. An election was conducted and it was announced that Verhey was the VP.
Secretary/Treasurer: The candidate from the Board was Rob Kittay. Van Cleave called for nominations from the floor. None were forthcoming. Hilding moved that nominations cease and a unanimous ballot be cast. Barber seconded. Motion passed
Directors: The three directors recommended by the Nominating Committee were Jeff Clark from Wall, Tim Monson from Sioux Pipe, and Wayne Fletcher from Brandon. Van Cleave called for nominations from the floor. Zeck moved that nominations cease and a unanimous ballot be cast. Phalen seconded. Motion passed. Van Cleave introduced the entire Board.
Conference Watch: Kittay read the rules and Hilding conducted the drawing. Andre was the winner.
New Business: The sites of the future conferences were announced as follows: 2003-Spearfish; 2004-Aberdeen; 2005-Brookings; and 2006-Rapid City.
Adjournment: Elcock moved for adjournment. Yde seconded. Motion passed. Meeting adjourned at 7:22.
Rob Kittay
Secretary
8-13-2003
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SDWWA Board Meeting
September 10, 2002
Huron, SD
Members Present: Rob Kittay, Sue Hargens, Randy Hilding, Cindy Swanson, Shane Torgrude, Gavin Graverson, Dave Van Cleave, Lowell Corbin, Mike Peterson, Vince Juelfs, Bill Sarringer, Roger Hauger, Ray Erickson
Member Absent: Malcolm MacDonald
Others Present: Jan Frederick-Kittay
Call to Order: Hilding called the meeting to order at 6:10. A quorum was present. The Board introduced themselves.
Approval of Agenda: Swanson moved to accept the revised agenda. Hargens seconded. Motion passed.
Minutes: The minutes were emailed by Kittay. Van Cleave moved to approve minutes as corrected. Peterson seconded. Motion passed.
Old Business: There was none.
Treasurer’s Report: Kittay reported that there was $6794.36 in the checkbook plus the CD ($3154.29). A full report of the income and payments was provided. Hilding moved to accept report. Corbin seconded. Motion passed.
Auditing Committee: Sarringer gave the report. Andrea Griese, Bill Sarringer and Fred Snodderly were on committee. The audit was done on August 21, 2001. There was $3095.06 in checkbook and the books were in order. Swanson moved to accept the report. Van Cleave seconded. Motion passed.
Nominations Committee: Swanson gave the report for the committee. The committee put forth Jeff Clark from Wall, Tim Munson from Sioux Pipe, and Wayne Fletcher from Beresford. Kittay moved for acceptance. Sarringer seconded. Motion passed.
2002-2003 Officers: Van Cleave will be president, Hilding will be past-president, and Hargens will become president-elect.
Secretary-Treasurer-Swanson nominated Kittay with Hilding seconding. Van Cleave moved that nominations cease. Mutual seconded. Motion passed. Kittay will be the Board’s candidate for S/T.
Vice-President-Corbin nominated Kim Verhey of Madison and Peterson seconded. Erickson moved that nominations cease. Kittay seconded. Motion passed. Verhey will be the Board’s candidate for VP.
Scholarships: Kittay gave a brief description of previous years’ scholarship program. Swanson moved to continue scholarship program for 2002-2003. Peterson seconded. Motion passed.
2002 Conference: Van Cleave indicated that one speaker will not be showing up for the WW session. Hilding will have a moment of silence for 9/11.
New Computer: The screen is going bad on the SDWWA laptop. Kittay asked for permission to spend $2000. Sarringer moved to allow association to spend $2000 for a new laptop. Hargens seconded. Motion passed
Kittay moved for adjournment. Swanson seconded. Meeting adjourned at 7:44 pm.Rob Kittay
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SDWWA Board Meeting
April 26, 2002
Oacoma, SD
Members Present: Rob Kittay, Randy Hilding, Cindy Swanson, Shane Torgrude, Dave Van Cleave, Lowell Corbin, Vince Juelfs, Roger Hauger, Malcolm MacDonald, Ray Erikson
Member Absent: Mike Peterson, Sue Hargens, Bill Sarringer
Call to Order: Hilding called the meeting to order at 12:15. A quorum was present. The Board introduced themselves.
Approval of Agenda: Kittay wanted to add Clarifier to the agenda. Kittay moved to accept the revised agenda. MacDonald seconded. Motion passed.
Minutes: The minutes were emailed by Kittay. Swanson moved to approve minutes as corrected. Corbin seconded. Motion passed.
Treasurer's Report: Kittay reported that there was about $6797.26 in the checkbook plus the CD-$3140.80. Van Cleave moved to accept report. Hilding seconded. Motion passed.
Reports from Standing Committees-No reports
Clarifier-No articles have been submitted for Clarifier by Board. Each Board member needs to submit by May 10 or July 1. Kittay asked about pictures in Clarifier.
2002 Committee Formation-The Board filled out names for each of the SDWWA 2002 Committees.
Water and Wastewater Seminars-JR Yde has resigned as Water Seminar Chairperson. Hilding will look into the leadership of each seminar.
2001 Conference Review-Kittay summarized conference. Conference and speakers were good in consideration of events of September 11, 2001. Some manufactures' reps wanted more time for displays. Some were switching spots without permission. Torgrude will do a reconnaissance of Crossroads for setup for tabletop displays.
2005 Conference Site-Kittay move for Brookings Inn. Swanson seconded. Motion passed.
Resignation of Greg Anderson-MacDonald to accept the resignation. Corbin seconded. Motion passed. Kittay moved for Gavin Graverson of Sioux Falls. Van Cleave seconded. Motion passed.
Conference Ideas-The Board gave ideas to Van Cleave for possible presentations for Conference. He will coordinate w/ AWWA and WEA on subjects and will develop a schedule for Conference.
Other Business-There was none.
Next Meeting-The next Board meeting will be held on September 10, 2002 at 6:00 pm at the Huron Crossroads.
Kittay moved for adjournment. MacDonald seconded.
Meeting adjourned at 1:49.
Rob Kittay
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July 26, 2002
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September 12, 2001
Yankton, SD
SDWWA Annual Business Meeting
Call to Order: By President Swanson at 7:10 pm. Approximately 140 were in attendance.
Swanson thanked the Local Arrangements Committee and Commercial Committee for their work.
Minutes: The minutes of the 2000 Business Meeting had been published in Clarifier and the SDWWA web site. Elcock moved for approval. Harts seconded. Motion passed.
Auditing Committee Report: The report was given by Ray Birchem. Andrea Griese and Bill Sarringer were also on the committee. All balances were in proper order as of August 21, 2001. Checkbook balance was $3023.40, and there was $3095.06 was in the Piper Jaffrey account. Dennis Sparks moved for acceptance of the report. Linda Harris seconded. Motion passed. This was Ray Birchem's last report as part of the Auditing Committee as he will be retiring.
Swanson called for Old Business, and there was none.
Swanson thanked the Association for allowing her to serve as President. The ceremonial passing of the gavel to 2001-2002 President-Elect Randy Hilding took place.
It was announced that Mike Boerger, Randy William, and Sue Hargens were the directors that would be leaving the Board.
Vice-President: The candidate from the Board was Sue Hargens from Mid-Dakota RWS. Hilding called for nominations from the floor. None were forthcoming. Rob Kittay moved that nominations cease and a unanimous ballot be cast. JR Yde seconded. Motion passed.
Directors: The three directors recommended by the Nominating Committee were Bill Sarringar-Mid-Dakota RWS, Roger Hauger-Vermillion, and Ray Erikson-Murdo. Hilding called for nominations from the floor. Yde moved that nominations cease and a unanimous ballot be cast. Dave Odens seconded. Motion passed. Hilding introduced the entire Board.
Conference Watch: Kittay read the rules and Hilding conducted the drawing. Craig Nussbaum was the winner.
New Business: The sites of the future conferences were announced as follows: 2002-Huron; 2003-Spearfish; 2004-Aberdeen; 2005-Brookings; and 2006-Rapid City.
Adjournment: Kittay moved for adjournment. Yde seconded. Motion passed.
Meeting adjourned at 7:40.
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SDWWA Board Meeting
September 11, 2001
Yankton, SD
Members Present: Rob Kittay, Sue Hargens, Randy Hilding, Cindy Swanson, Mike Boerger, Greg Anderson, Shane Torgrude
Member Absent: Randy William, Malcolm MacDonald, Jim Zeck, Dave Van Cleave, Lowell Corbin, Mike Peterson
Others Present: Jan Frederick, Ray Birchem, Ron Back
Call to Order: Swanson called the meeting to order at 6:44. A quorum was present. The Board introduced themselves.
Approval of Agenda: Kittay wanted to add Bob Carr’s resignation to agenda. Hargens moved to accept the revised agenda. Hilding seconded. Motion passed.
Bob Carr Resignation from Board: Vince Juelfs name was put into nomination as a replacement. Kittay moved for acceptance of Juelfs. Boerger seconded. Motion passed.
Minutes: The minutes were emailed by Kittay. Anderson moved to approve minutes as corrected. Boerger seconded. Motion passed.
Treasurer’s Report: Kittay reported that there was about $3434.40 in the checkbook plus the CD. Anderson moved to accept report. Torgrude seconded. Motion passed.
Auditing Committee: Birchem gave the report. Bill Sarringer and Andrea Griese were on committee. The audit was done on August 21, 2001. There was $3095.06 in checkbook and the books were in order. Boerger moved to accept the report. Anderson seconded. Motion passed.
Nominations Committee: Hargens gave the report for the committee. The committee put forth Paul Brunick of Vermillion, Bill Sarringer of Mid-Dakota RWS, and Ray Erikson of Murdo. Hargens moved for acceptance. Boerger seconded. Motion passed.
2001-2002 Officers: Hilding will be president, Swanson will be past-president, and Van Cleave will become president-elect.
Secretary-Treasurer-Boerger nominated Kittay with Swanson seconding. Anderson moved that nominations cease. Torgrude seconded. Motion passed. Kittay will be the Board’s candidate for S/T.
Vice-President-Swanson nominated Hargens and Boerger seconded. Kittay moved that nominations cease. Hilding seconded. Motion passed. Hargens will be the Board’s condidate for VP.
Scholarships: Kittay gave a brief description of previous years’ scholarship program. Swanson moved to continue scholarship program for 2001-2002. Kittay seconded. Motion passed.
Other Business: Water Seminar-Doug Anderson said that the SD AWWA Section would be willing to ramrod the seminar. Hargens moved to allow them to do so. Boerger seconded. Motion passed.
2001 Conference-Hilding will adjust program as necessary and speak to caterer concerning possible attendance problems due the events of the day.
Kittay moved for adjournment. Torgrude seconded. Meeting adjourned at 7:44 pm.
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SDWWA Board Meeting
Pierre, SD
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Members Present: Rob Kittay, Jim Zeck, Mike Peterson, Sue Hargens, Randy Hilding, Cindy Swanson, Lowell Corbin, Mike Boerger, Greg Anderson, Dave Van Cleave
Member Absent: Bob Carr, Randy William, Malcolm MacDonald
Others Present: Del DeBoer and Doug Anderson
Call to Order: Swanson called the meeting to order at 12:08. A quorum was present. The Board introduced themselves.
Approval of Agenda: Kittay wanted to add Bob Carr’s resignation to agenda. Boerger moved to accept the revised agenda. Kittay seconded. Motion passed.
Bob Carr Resignation from Board: Carr sent a letter to the Board indicating he was resigning as he did not have the time to devote to the Board. Van Cleave moved to accept the resignation. Kittay seconded. Motion passed. The position will be filled at the next meeting.
Minutes: The minutes were emailed by Kittay. Hilding moved to approve minutes as corrected. Boerger seconded. Motion passed.
Treasurer’s Report: Kittay reported that there was about $14,761.08 in the checkbook plus the CD. Torgrude moved to accept report. Boerger seconded. Motion passed.
Web Site Review: Kittay said to delay putting Clarifier on web by a quarter each time. Advertisers would not be put in. Power point presentations can be put out there. Award applications are there now.
Clarifier: Swanson indicated that the next issue deadline is July 15 and which Board members needed to supply articles. Up-to-date exam dates were needed for the Clarifier.
Committee Reports: Wastewater Seminar report by Zeck-He would like to work w/ a co-leader for next year’s seminar. Peterson said he would assist w/ this. He spoke about state rates & Mitchell Holiday Inn. Date & place of next year’s seminar will be determined by committee.
Nominations Committee-Zeck gave some information from this committee. Kittay said to let this committee determine the replacement for Carr.
2001 Conference: The general format for the conference was discussed. Hilding led discussion as he is in charge of the program. The business luncheon cannot be held on Thursday afternoon as was done last year. Zeck moved to have business meeting on Wednesday evening. Hargens seconded. It was suggested that Hilding figure out the logistics of having this meeting on Wednesday. Motion passed.
Del DeBoer and Doug Anderson proposed that AWWA-SD Section set up the Thursday afternoon water session and would then have the AWWA business meeting after that session. DeBoer also indicated some proposed topics. Torgrude indicated that 8:00-noon on Thursday for tabletop displays was again desired. Van Cleave would like WEF to plan the Thursday wastewater session.
Kittay moved to allow WEF to coordinate the Thursday wastewater session. Hilding seconded. Motion passed.
Presentation ideas for the conference were given by the Board.
Other Business: There was none.
Next Meeting: The next Board meeting will be on September 11 at 6:00 pm at Yankton Kelly Inn prior to conference.
Adjournment: Hargens moved for adjournment. Anderson seconded. Motion passed. Meeting adjourned at 2:04 pm.
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SDWWA Board Meeting
Pierre, SD
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Members Present: Rob Kittay, Jim Zeck, Mike Peterson, Sue Hargens, Randy Hilding, Randy William, Cindy Swanson, Lowell Corbin, Mike Boerger, Malcolm MacDonald
Member Absent: Bob Carr, Greg Anderson, Dave Van Cleave
Others Present: Kevin Paulson
Call to Order: Swanson called the meeting to order at 12:08. A quorum was present. The Board introduced themselves.
Approval of Agenda: Peterson moved to approve agenda. Kittay seconded. Motion passed.
Minutes: The minutes were passed out by Kittay. Zeck moved to approve minutes as corrected. Hargens seconded. Motion passed.
Treasurer's Report: Kittay reported that there was about $1354.28 in the checkbook plus the CD. William moved to accept report. MacDonald seconded.
Web Site Review: Kim Verhey has set up a web site for SDWWA. Kittay was to have minutes added.
Clarifier: Swanson spoke about the Clarifier. Kristy Ward from AWWA asked about changing editors.
2001 Conference Preparation: Spouses Program-It was felt that the spouses program is not worth doing because of low attendance and the amount of effort to do such. Swanson moved and Hargens seconded to not have a spouses program. Motion passed. Hilding spoke about his inspection of Kelly Inn. The luncheon will not be able to be held on Thursday.
Committee Formation: The Board proceeded to make committee assignments.
Committee Reports: Zeck-Wastewater Seminar-The seminar will be held in Mitchell March 29-30. Zeck will checking w/ Stack on progress. Talk centered about rotating chairpersons for these seminar committees. Chairs should draw up items that need to be handled for each seminar.
Kittay delivered info for Yde about water seminar.
Other Business: Swanson asked about money given to AWWA from SDWWA.
Next Meeting: The next Board meeting will be in April or May in Oacoma. The specific day will be set by President.
Kittay gave new email address of [email protected]
Adjournment: Zeck moved for adjournment. Boerger seconded. Motion passed.
Meeting adjourned at 1:03 pm.
Rob Kittay
Secretary
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September 14, 2000
SDWWA 2000 Annual Business Meeting
Rapid City, SD
Unapproved Minutes
Call to Order: By President Jim Zeck at 12:36 pm. Approximately 139 were in attendance.
Zeck thanked the Local Arrangements Committee for their work to prepare for Conference and Doug Herron for arranging the golf tournament.
Minutes: The minutes of the 1999 Business Meeting had been published in Clarifier. Yde moved for approval. Elcock seconded. Motion passed.
Auditing Committee Report: The report was given by Ray Birchem. September 8, 2000 was date of audit. Vern Thorson & Bill Sarringer were also on the committee. All balances were in proper order. Checkbook balance was $5745.98 and there was $2938.79 was in the Piper Jaffrey account. Cindy Swanson moved for acceptance of the report. Dave Van Cleave seconded. Motion passed.
The ceremonial passing of the gavel to 2000-2001 President-Elect Swanson took place.
Vice-President: The candidate from the Board was Dave Van Cleave from Rapid City. Swanson called for nominations from the floor. None were forthcoming. Kim Verhey moved that nominations cease and a unanimous ballot be cast. John Scheltens seconded. Motion passed.
Secretary/Treasurer: The candidate from the Board was Rob Kittay. Swanson called for nominations from the floor. None were forthcoming. Van Cleave moved that nominations cease and a unanimous ballot be cast. Randy Hilding seconded. Motion passed.
Directors: The three directors recommended by the Nominating Committee were Malcolm MacDonald-SDARWS, Greg Anderson-Sioux Falls, and Shane Torgrude-Dakota Supply Group. Swanson called for nominations from the floor. Eldon Christians moved that nominations cease and a unanimous ballot be cast. Dave Odens seconded. Motion passed. Swanson introduced the entire Board.
HDR Engineering held a drawing to give away a putter. The winner was Brenda Frost.
Conference Watch: Kittay read the rules and Hilding conducted the drawing. Mark Perry was the winner.
New Business: The sites of the future conferences were announced as follows: 2001-Yankton; 2002-Huron; 2003-Spearfish; 2004-Aberdeen; 2005-Brookings; and 2006-Rapid City.
Adjournment: Birchem moved for adjournment. George Vansco seconded. Motion passed. Meeting adjourned at 12:53.
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Secretary
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SDWWA Board Meeting
January 8, 2019
Red Rossa-Pierre SD
Members Present: DelRon Peters-President, Del DeBoer-President-Elect, Kevin Kuiper-VP, Jim Auen-Past President, Rob Kittay-Secretary-Treasurer, Kyle Kampshoff (Small Systems), Jesse Christianson, Dustin Fuhrmann, Dawn Zahn (SD WPCA), Clint Hay, Ryan Allen, Bill Thorson, Tanya Miller (AWWA)
Members Absent: Richard Sternberg (Small Systems)
Others Present: Dave Fox-Minnehaha RWS
Call to Order: Peters called the meeting to order at 11:40 am. A quorum was present. Introductions were made.
Approval of Agenda: Kittay moved for approval of the agenda. DeBoer seconded. Motion passed.
Minutes: The minutes were emailed by Kittay and were on web site. Zahn moved to approve minutes. Allen seconded. Motion passed.
Old Business: 2024/25 Conference Sites-There was discussion concerning a new convention center in Brookings. Not enough information was available to make a complete decision about using it for a conference. Kittay said he would try to get there in the very near future to check on it. Christianson moved to hold the 2024 conference in Deadwood and the 2025 conference in Brookings if the new convention center checked out. Motion passed.
Treasurer’s Report: Kittay reported the following balances in the various SDWWA accounts-
Checkbook $36,576.78 as of December 17, 2018
Source-to-Stream $18,842.05 as of December 31, 2018
This is the time of year when membership renewal money is coming in as all of the renewal notices have been sent to members that did not attend the 2018 Conference. Bills for the Conference have been paid.
Source to Stream: No report
Water/Wastewater Seminars: Water-Miller gave the report. The seminar is being held on February 13-14, 2019 at the Sioux Falls Ramkota. A mass email of the agenda has been done. The agenda is about 90% done.
Wastewater-Zahn gave the report. The seminar is April 10-11, 2019 at the Red Rossa Italian Grill in Pierre. Kittay stated that draft agenda is needed by March 1 to get advertising out.
2019 SDWWA Committees: The committees were formed for the year. Miller noted that the committees need to work hard to find candidates. Kittay moved to approve the slate of candidates. Zahn seconded. Motion passed. (Slate of candidates attached.)
2018 Conference Review: Kittay thought the Conference went well from his view point on working with the Lodge at Deadwood. It was a new venue for the Conference. He had many positive comments about the location including that we should go back. There were concerns about the displays being in the main hallway. Some thought that they should be in a main room. More chairs were needed for the Thursday afternoon sessions.
2019 Conference at the Ramkota in Pierre: Kittay had previously provided the Board with skeleton agendas for the Conference. DeBoer is in charge of the agenda with AWWA and SDWEA forming the Thursday afternoon sessions. The dates are September 11-13, 2019. The Board was asked to provide possible presentation subjects. There may be a possible a third session on Thursday afternoon that would be a “hands on”/demonstrations session if enough topics can be found. Hay will work with Ramkota on the display setup.
SF Water Festival: SDWWA has given $500 for a number of years to support the festival and they are asking for support again. Auen moved to give the Water Festival $500 for 2019. Kampshoff seconded. Motion passed.
Other Business: Peters mentioned the possible necessity of an operator voice/industry advocate to the public/media on treating wastewater and NPDES permits.
Next Meeting: The next meeting will prior to the Conference on September 10, 2019 at 6:00 pm at the Cattlemen’s Steakhouse in Pierre.
Kittay moved for adjournment. Auen seconded. Meeting adjourned at 1:35 pm.
January 8, 2019
Rob Kittay Date
Secretary
SDWWA 2019 COMMITTEES
The SDWWA Executive Board formed the Association Committees for 2019. If you do not wish to serve on your committee, please contact the committee leader.
Please note that all award nominations must be made by July 15, and the awardee is to be named by that committee by August 15. The award winner’s name must be then given to Awards Coordinator so that plaque can be made in time for Conference. The qualifications for all awards may be found at www.sdwwa.org
AWARDS COORDINATOR
DUTIES : Order awards and plaques as needed by award committees
Determine presenters for all awards
Give nominating forms to Source-to-Stream staff for publication
Make summary sheet of award winners and presenters for Source-to-Stream for publication following Conference
Robin Dykstra
WILLIAM AISENBREY AWARD (Formerly the NALCO Award)
DUTIES : Water operator of the year
Committee is responsible to seek candidates.
LEADER : Tanya Miller
MEMBERS: Ryan Allen and Jim Auen
WILLIAM BRINKER AWARD
DUTIES : Wastewater operator of the year
Committee is responsible to seek candidates.
LEADER : Dawn Zahn
MEMBERS: Kevin Kuiper and Bill Thorson
PRICE-REES/SIGER BIES/ DORNBUSH/J.R. YDE AWARDS
DUTIES : Evaluate nominations for the Price-Rees/Siger Bies/Dornbush/J.R. Yde Awards. Committee will also aid in the selection of Honorary Members as outlined in the SDWWA By-laws. Committee is responsible to seek candidates.
LEADER : DelRon Peters
MEMBERS : Jesse Christianson
LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS COMMITTEE DUTIES
§ Provide local on-site contact for Conference
§ Arrange for Mayor or other local dignitary to give welcoming address on Wednesday at 1:00 pm
§ Arrange for tours of wastewater/water/solid waste/etc plants for Wednesday morning including providing directions to plants (either poster at registration table or handouts), times of tours, etc.
§ Obtain name tags, name tag holders, and local attraction packets from local chamber of commerce. Note-Prefer name tag cards that slip into holders-NOT stick-on labels. Name tag holders can be collected at conclusion of Conference to be returned to chamber.
§ Purchase door prizes from local businesses w/ funds provided by SDWWA and conduct drawings thruout conference to give away door prizes
§ Leader should obtain assistance from other local personnel
LEADER: Dane Brewer-Pierre
COMMERCIAL COMMITTEE
DUTIES : Arrange Manufacturers luncheon/meeting if desired
§ Arrange social hours with host motel (Wednesday nite keg/wine and Thursday cash bar [two drink tickets attendees are furnished with registration for Thursday cash bar])
§ Arrange golf tourney with Tim Monsonn
§ Coordinate with motel on exhibitor session-Number of tables, arrangement, refreshments during exhibit, etc
§ Assign tables to exhibitors on Wednesday nite of Conference
§ Send flyers concerning table top displays to mailing list
§ Provide final list of table top exhibitors to Secretary by September 1 for use at registration table
§ Provide receipts and any other info for exhibitors if necessary. Info such as when they can setup tabletops, table assignments, etc is needed at Conference registration table for when exhibitors check in. Someone from committee should be available near registration table all Wednesday of Conference to answer questions from exhibitors.
LEADER : Clint Hay
MEMBERS :
DAVENPORT COMMITTEE
DUTIES : The purpose of the award is to recognize a member of an SDWWA committee that contributed the most to the success of a particular project. The committee will be composed of the Water & Wastewater Committee Chairpersons and the SDWWA Secretary
NOMINATIONS COMMITTEE
DUTIES : This committee will make three nominations to the Board for directors and one nomination for VP for the coming year.
LEADER : Kyle Kampshoof
MEMBERS : Jim Auen and Dustin Fuhrmann
AUDITING COMMITTEE
DUTIES : This committee will audit the finances of the SDWWA prior to the Annual Conference.
LEADER : Andrea Griese-EPA
MEMBERS : Mark McIntire-DENR and Nathan McCombs-Pierre
Unapproved Minutes
SDWWA 2018 Annual Business Meeting
September 13, 2018
The Lodge at Deadwood-Deadwood SD
Call to Order: By President Auen at 12:20 pm. Approximately 200 were in attendance.
Agenda: The agenda had been provided to the attendees. Kittay wanted to add the conference watch drawing and a drawing for award nominators. Chris Schmit moved for approval of the amended agenda. Bill Sarringar seconded. Motion passed.
Auen thanked Rollin Sieveke, Lodge Staff, Clint Hay/Commercial Committee, SDWEA, and AWWA Section for their work on the Conference.
Minutes: The minutes of the 2017 Business Meeting had been posted to web site. Robin Dykstra moved for approval. Dustin Sulzle seconded. Motion passed.
Board Meeting: Auen reviewed the Tuesday nite Board meeting for the attendees.
Old Business: There was a call for Old Business. There was none forthcoming.
Officers for 2018-19: Auen announced that DelRon Peters would be the 2018-19 President and Del DeBoer would be the President-Elect.
Vice-President-The candidate from the Board was Kevin Kuiper from Platte. Auen called for nominations from the floor. Kittay moved that nominations cease and a unanimous ballot be cast for the candidate. Donovan Schoon seconded. Motion passed.
Secretary/Treasurer: The candidate from the Board was Rob Kittay. Auen called for nominations from the floor. None were forthcoming. Donovan Schoon moved that nominations cease, and a unanimous ballot be cast. Brad Lawrence seconded. Motion passed.
Outgoing Directors: Grant Groos, Dustin Sulzle, and Kevin Kuiper are the outgoing directors and were recognized.
New Directors for 2018-19: The three candidates recommended by the Nominating Committee were:
Richard Sternberg-Platte
Ryan Allen-Minnehaha RWS
Bill Thorson-SDARWS
Auen called for nominations from the floor. Jim Zeck moved to accept the candidates. Kittay seconded. Motion passed.
Auen thanked the Association for allowing him to serve as President. The ceremonial passing of the gavel to 2019 President Peters took place.
Peters introduced the entire SDWWA Board.
New Business: Peters indicated that the Board wanted to be able to give out the Longevity Awards in a better fashion and wanted to generate a list of years of service for the operators. The first method would be to have a place on the conference/seminar registration forms for length of service in the water/wastewater field.
The sites of the future conferences were announced as follows: 2019-Pierre Ramkota, 2020-Aberdeen Ramkota, 2021-Rapid City Ramkota, 2022-Sioux Falls Ramkota, and 2023-Spearfish Holiday Inn
Door Prizes: Kittay, Al Erickson, and Schoon conducted the drawings including the newly reinstated Conference Watch and the prize for award nominators.
Adjournment: Kittay moved for adjournment. Schoon seconded. Motion passed. Meeting adjourned at 12:45 pm.
9-17-2018
Rob Kittay, Secretary
Unapproved Minutes
SDWWA Board Meeting
September 11, 2018
The Lodge at Deadwood-Deadwood SD
Members Present: Tim Monson, Rob Kittay, Jim Auen, DelRon Peters, Del DeBoer, Grant Groos, Dustin Sulzle, Kevin Kuiper, Kyle Kampshoff, Jesse Christianson, Dustin Fuhrmann, Dawn Horner, Clint Hay, Tanya Miller
Members Absent:
Others Present: Jim Zeck and Jan Kittay
Call to Order: Auen called the meeting to order at 6:10 pm. A quorum was present.
Approval of Agenda: DeBoer moved for approval. Sulzle seconded. Motion passed.
Minutes: The minutes were emailed by Kittay and were on web site. Horner moved to approve the minutes. Kuiper seconded. Motion passed.
Old Business: There was no old business forthcoming.
Treasurer’s Report: Kittay reported that there were the following amounts in the various accounts-
$34,843.30 in the SDWWA checkbook as of 8/20/18
$20,745.84 in S2S account
$26,975.61/$475.04 in the East River FCU accounts
A full report of the income and payments was provided. Kittay also noted that the Conference Watch was reinstated last year and will be drawn at Thursday luncheon. The drawing for the award nominators will also be done at luncheon. Christianson moved to accept report. Groos seconded. Motion passed.
Auditing Committee: Andrea Griese, Bill Sarringar, and Dane Brewer were on the committee. Kittay gave the report as submitted by the committee. A copy was given to those present. The audit was done in September, 2018. The books were in order. Kittay moved to accept the report. Hay seconded. Motion passed.
Wastewater Seminar: Horner gave the report. The Seminar will be held at the Pierre Red Rossa on April 10-11, 2019. They received good comments on last year’s agenda.
Water Seminar: Miller gave the report. Date and location will be determined at the conference.
Other Committees: There were not many award submissions. DeBoer gave report of Longevity Awards. Kuiper mentioned that not many city officials know about the awards. An idea is to ask for an attendee’s start date on registration form for the conference and the two seminars. Also this fact needs to be mentioned at the banquet. Kittay suggested getting the Municipal League to put it in their monthly magazine even if it takes a monetary ad.
Source to Stream: Erin Steever submitted a report. Copy is attached to these minutes.
2018-2019 Officers: Peters will be president, Auen will be past-president, and DeBoer will be President-Elect.
Secretary-Treasurer: Auen nominated Kittay with Monson seconding. Motion passed. Kittay will be the Board’s candidate for S/T.
Nominations Committee: Monson gave the report. The committee’s nominations for the directors’ positions and Vice President are-
Richard Sternberg-Platte as director
Bill Thorson-SDARWS as director
Ryan Allen-Minnehaha RWS as director
Kevin Kuiper-Platte as Vice President
Monson moved to accept the slate. Sulzle seconded. Motion passed.
Scholarships: SDWWA-Zeck gave the report. The winners have been determined for this year, and the checks have been sent to the school. The winners will be announced at the banquet.
The interest bearing CD at the credit union is due on 9/23/18. A 2% interest rate is now available. Sulzle moved to use the interest accumulated (approximately $475) plus have the general check book subsidize up to a total of $1000 for two $500 scholarships for 2019. DeBoer seconded. Motion passed. Zeck will work with the credit union on the CD.
SDSU/SDSMT Scholarships-Kittay moved that $1000 be given each to SDSU and SDSMT to fund one scholarship at each school for 2019. Fuhrman seconded. Motion passed.
2018 Conference Concerns: Kittay indicated there were 170 pre-registrants plus approximately 70 displayers registered with the Commercial Committee. This is a large increase in pre-registration. Only about 20 people registered at the door last year. He was also concerned with meal numbers given to motel.
Other Business: 2024/25 Conference Sites-Hay mentioned that the Days Inn in Brookings has been remodeled. Kittay asked if the footprint is the same or if all the meeting space is the same size. Hay and DeBoer will examine the site for a possible future conference. The Board would like to make some determinations at the January meeting.
Next Meeting: The proposed date of the next Board meeting is January 8, 2019 at 11:30 am at the Red Rossa in Pierre just prior to the SDARWS Conference.
Groos moved for adjournment. Monson seconded. Meeting adjourned at 7:20 pm.
September 18, 2018
Rob Kittay
Secretary
Source to Stream Report
Source to Stream is sitting financially stable again for 2018 with a current income of $10,225 from advertisement sales, and current expense of $6,150.79 with one quarterly issue remaining. Each issue costs roughly $2,000 to produce and mail to our membership, therefore we expect an ending balance of just under $2,000 in 2018.
See the attached summary of our advertisers for 2018. One ad check is in route, and the rest have been paid and deposited into the bank account.
One significant change to our content this year has been the addition of the "Plant Spotlight" submitted by WEA. We weren't able to fit one in to Q2 due to historically printed content needs, however we have one slated for Q4 and will carry the additional article over for Q1 in 2019. We hope these will continue in future issues. AWWA has continued to submit a Director's Report, and Chair Report, and one article developed by a predesignated board member, as well as periodic YP Group highlights. WWA supplies state funding highlights, as well as advocacy and national updates as they come up.
Crystal continues to compile the newsletter using software the Source to Stream purchased for her soon after she began working with us, and I continue to work with the advertisers, compile and organize content submitted by the boards, and finalize the mailing list. Seven members have requested to receive only electronic copies of the publication, and our membership is currently around 865 members between the three organizations.
If there are any comments, suggestions or volunteers willing to assist, please let me know!
Sincerely,
Erin Steever, PE
Publication Manager
Unapproved Minutes
SDWWA Board Meeting
January 9, 2018
Red Rossa-Pierre SD
Members Present: Tim Monson-Past-President, Jim Auen-President, Del DeBoer-Vice-President, Rob Kittay-Secretary-Treasurer, Dustin Sulzle (Small Systems), Kevin Kuiper (Small Systems), Kyle Kampshoff (Small Systems), Jesse Christianson, Dustin Fuhrmann, Tanya Miller (AWWA-SD Section), Dawn Horner (SD WPCA), Clint Hay
Members Absent: Grant Groos
Others Present: None
Call to Order: Auen called the meeting to order at 11:58 am. A quorum was present. Introductions were made.
Approval of Agenda: DeBoer moved for approval of the agenda. Kampshoff seconded. Motion passed.
Minutes: The minutes were emailed by Kittay and were on web site. Miller moved to approve minutes. Sulzle seconded. Motion passed.
Old Business: President-Elect—Monson reported that DelRon Peters is willing to serve as the SDWWA President-Elect. Sulzle moved the Peters be elected as President-Elect. Kuiper seconded. Motion passed
Treasurer’s Report: Kittay reported the following balances in the various SDWWA accounts-
Checkbook $25,843.69
Source-to-Stream $15,937.39
This is the time of year when membership renewal money is coming in as all of the renewal notices have been sent to members that did not attend the 2017 Conference. Bills for the Conference have been paid.
Hay moved to accept report. Christianson seconded. Motion passed.
Source to Stream: Kittay relayed Erin Steever’s report. The editors are in the process of gathering ads for the upcoming year. Kittay moved to accept the report. Horner seconded. Motion passed.
Water/Wastewater Seminars: Water-Miller gave the report. The Water Seminar will be held on February 21-22, 2018 at the Arrowhead Cedar Shore at Oacoma. A mass email of the agenda has been done.
Wastewater-Horner gave the report. The seminar is April 11-12, 2018 at the Red Rossa Italian Grill in Pierre. Kittay stated that draft agenda is needed by March 1 to get advertising out. Dave VanCleave is the new president of SDWEA.
2018 SDWWA Committees: The committees were formed for the year.
2017 Conference Review: Kittay thought the Conference went well from his view point on working with the Crossroads in Huron. Some other comments were also added. Having the Conference is very inexpensive in Huron when compared with some of the other venues.
2018 Conference at The Lodge in Deadwood: The President-Elect is in charge of the agenda with AWWA and SDWEA forming the Thursday afternoon sessions. Cathodic protection, safety, control valves, Jim Plahn-metering, Grinder pumps, lagoon use/troubleshooting, Pb/Cu rule, service line replacement, rates, how to work w/ engineers/venders (panel discussion), grants/funding-how to apply, how specify bids, motivation, LDSD new plant, case study topics, SDSMT topics were some of the suggested topics.
SF Water Festival: SDWWA has given $500 for a number of years to support the festival, and they are asking for support again. Kampshoff moved to give the Water Festival $500 for 2018. Sulzle seconded. Motion passed.
Other Business: There was none forth coming.
Next Meeting: The next meeting will prior to the Conference.
Sulzle moved for adjournment. Kampshoff seconded. Meeting adjourned at 1:10 pm.
July 30, 2018
Rob Kittay Date
Secretary
Unapproved Minutes
SDWWA 2017 Annual Business Meeting
September 14, 2017
Crossroads/Events Center-Huron SD
Call to Order: By President Monson at 12:26 pm. Approximately 200 were in attendance.
Agenda: The agenda had been provided to the attendees. Cindy Swanson moved for approval. Randi Isaacson seconded. Motion passed.
Monson thanked Vince Juelfs/LAC, Robin Dykstra, Crossroads Staff, Clint Hay/Commercial Committee, WEA, and AWWA Section for their work on the Conference.
Minutes: The minutes of the 2016 Business Meeting had been posted to web site. Robin Dykstra moved for approval. Chris Schmit seconded. Motion passed.
Board Meeting: Monson reviewed the Tuesday nite Board meeting for the attendees. Zeck reviewed the reinstatement of the Conference Watch. In order to possibly increase nominations for SDWWA awards, the association will hold a drawing for award nominators for a $50 gift certificate.
Old Business: There was a call for Old Business. There was none forthcoming.
Officers for 2017-18: Monson announced that Jim Auen would be the 2017-18 President.
As Fred Snoderly has moved out of state, the office of Vice President was vacant. The Nominations Committee did not have a candidate for replacing Snoderly as the 2017-18 President-Elect. Monson called for nominations from the floor, and there were none forthcoming. Monson will be the interim President-Elect.
Vice-President-The Nominations Committee was unable to find a candidate for Vice-President. Monson called for nominations from the floor. Morgan Falcone nominated Del DeBoer. Kannenberg seconded. Kittay moved that nominations cease and a unanimous ballot be cast for the candidate. Swanson seconded. Motion passed.
Secretary/Treasurer: The candidate from the Board was Rob Kittay. Monson called for nominations from the floor. None were forthcoming. Hemeyer moved that nominations cease, and a unanimous ballot be cast. Auen seconded. Motion passed.
Outgoing Directors: Al Erickson, Dawn Horner, and Clint Hay are the outgoing directors and were recognized.
New Directors for 2017-18: The three candidates recommended by the Nominating Committee were:
Tanya Miller-AWWA SD Section Rep
Clint Hay-Manufacturers’ Rep
Dawn Horner-SD WEA Rep
Monson called for nominations from the floor. Hemeyer moved to accept the candidates. Kittay seconded. Motion passed.
Monson announced that Kevin Kuiper will be replacing Joe Barrett as a director. That term ends in September 2018.
Monson thanked the Association for allowing him to serve as President. The ceremonial passing of the gavel to 2018 President Auen took place.
Auen introduced the entire SDWWA Board.
New Business: The sites of the future conferences were announced as follows: 2018-The Lodge at Deadwood, 2019-Pierre Ramkota, 2020-Aberdeen Ramkota, 2021-Rapid City, 2022-Sioux Falls, and Spearfish-2023
Door Prizes: Kittay, Monson, and Auen conducted the drawings.
Adjournment: Mark Mayer moved for adjournment. Tim Monson seconded. Motion passed. Meeting adjourned at 12:48 pm.
9-18-2017
Rob Kittay, Secretary
Unapproved Minutes
SDWWA Board Meeting
September 12, 2017
Crossroads/Events Center-Huron SD
Members Present: Steph Kapfenstein, Tim Monson, Rob Kittay, Jim Auen, Dawn Horner, Clint Hay, Al Erickson, Grant Groos, Dustin Sulzle, Kyle Kampshoff, Jesse Christianson, Dustin Fuhrmann Members Absent: Joe Barrett Others Present: Jim Zeck-SDARWS, Jan Kittay, and Joan Hawley-WEF
Call to Order: Monson called the meeting to order at 7:00 pm. A quorum was present. Approval of Agenda: Kapfenstein moved for approval of the agenda. Sulzle seconded. Motion passed. Minutes: The minutes were emailed previously by Kittay and were on web site. Sulzle moved to approve the minutes. Auen seconded. Motion passed.
Old Business: There was none forthcoming.
Treasurer’s Report: Kittay reported that there were the following amounts in the various accounts- $20,019.51 General Account checkbook as of 8/21/17 $17,607.83 Source to Stream Checkbook as of 8/31/17 $26,561.01 East River Account as of 6/30/17 (endowment for scholarship) A full report of the income and payments was provided. There was some discussion of buying municipal bonds to increase the income over interest income. Auen moved to accept report. Hay seconded. Motion passed.
Auditing Committee: Andrea Griese, Bill Sarringar, and Vern Thorson were on the committee. Kittay gave the report as submitted by the committee. A copy was given to those present. The audit was done on August 31, 2017. The books were in order. Christianson moved to accept the report. Horner seconded. Motion passed.
Wastewater Seminar: Horner gave the report. The Seminar will be held in Pierre on April 11-12, 2018. Water Seminar: Erickson gave the report. The Water Seminar will be held at the Cedar Shores in Oacoma on February 21-22, 2018.
Other Committees: Erickson gave a report from the AWWA Section. Mitch Kannenberg has been approached about running for AWWA President. The Section has had a 55% retention. The library is on web site. The Section gets $600 each year from National AWWA to spend in the AWWA bookstore. If anyone has some ideas on books to purchase, let the Section know.
Source to Stream: Erin Steever submitted a report. Copy is attached to these minutes.
2017-2018 Officers: Auen will be president and Monson will be past-president. Monson will be contacting candidates for VP and to replace Snoderly as President-Elect. Secretary-Treasurer: Horner nominated Kittay with Sulzle seconding. Kittay will be the Board’s candidate for S/T. Nominations Committee: Monson gave the report for the committee. The committee put forth as directors: Dawn Horner-SDWEA Rep Tanya Miller-AWWA SD Section Rep Clint Hay-Manufacturers’ Rep Kevin Kuiper of Platte will replace Joe Barrett as a director until September 2018. Kittay moved to accept the slate. Groos seconded. Motion passed.
Scholarships: SDWWA-Zeck gave the report. The winners have been determined for this year, and the checks have been sent to the schools. The winners will be announced at the banquet. Sulzle moved to have two-$500 for each of the next two years. Kittay seconded. Motion passed. SDSU/SDSMT Scholarships-Kittay moved that $1000 be given each to SDSU and SDSMT to fund one scholarship at each school. Kapfenstein seconded.
Motion passed. 2017 Conference Concerns: Kittay indicated there were 132 pre-registrants excluding displayers. This is less than last year’s pre-registration. Square/credit cards were used for about 40 registrations and 12 booths. SDWWA collected a convenience charge on all credit card transactions. There are only about 37 booths compared to last year’s 55. There is a lack of motel rooms this year due to car races in Huron. Kittay did not hear about this conflict until a month ago. He also noted that Minnesota AWWA Section is having their conference this week which is attracting many of our vendors. MN seems to keep moving their conference around during September while we always start nine days after Labor Day. During 2018-2020, they will not conflict with our conference but will do so again in 2021.
Other Business: 2023 Conference Site-Kittay has inquired for space at the Spearfish Holiday Inn for 2023. Monson moved to hold 2023 Conference in Spearfish. Auen seconded. Motion passed.
Price-Rees and Siger Bies Awards-These awards are named for individuals involved with SDWWA many years ago. Kittay asked if these awards should be renamed for someone of more recent times. There was no motion for any action of these awards.
Zeck spoke about reinstating the Conference Watch. Sulzle moved that the Watch be reinstated under the old rules and that $100 be given to the winner. Fuhrmann seconded. Motion passed.
There was discussion about the lack of nominations for the SDWWA Awards. Auen moved that a drawing be held amongst the award nominators for a $50 gift certificate. Sulzle seconded. Motion passed.
Next Meeting: The proposed date of the next Board meeting is January 9, 2018 at the Red Rossa in Pierre just prior to the SDARWS Conference. Hay moved for adjournment. Erickson seconded. Meeting adjourned at 8:20 pm.
September 18, 2017
Rob Kittay, Secretary
Unapproved Minutes
SDWWA Board Meeting
January 10, 2017
Red Rossa-Pierre SD
Members Present: Tim Monson-President, Jim Auen-President-Elect, Steph Kapfenstein-Past President, Rob Kittay-Secretary-Treasurer, Al Erickson (SD AWWA), Dawn Horner (SD WPCA), Grant Groos (Small Systems), Dustin Sulzle (Small Systems), Joe Barrett, Kyle Kampshoff (Small Systems), Jesse Christianson, Dustin Fuhrmann
Members Absent: Clint Hay (Manu Rep), Joe Barrett, Fred Snoderly-Vice-President
Others Present: Chad Hanson
Call to Order: Monson called the meeting to order at 11:45 am. A quorum was present. Introductions were made.
Approval of Agenda: Kittay noted an error in the agenda. “Review of the 2017 Conference” should be “Review of the 2016 Conference”. Kittay moved for approval of the revised agenda. Horner seconded. Motion passed.
Minutes: The minutes were emailed by Kittay and were on web site. Sulzle moved to approve minutes. Kapfenstein seconded. Motion passed.
Treasurer’s Report: Kittay reported the following balances in the various SDWWA accounts-
Checkbook $19,913.50 as of 11/21/16
Source-to-Stream $18,748.40 as of 12/30/16
The registration fee was raised for the 2016 Conference. The Well-Fargo account has been closed by actions of this Board at the September 2016 meeting. The monthly service fee of $10 was eating away at the account as so little interest money from the East River FCU account was going in.
This is the time of year when membership renewal money is coming in as all of the renewal notices have been sent to members that did not attend the 2016 Conference. Bills for the Conference have been paid. The scholarship money has been taken out of the checkbook and moved to the East River FCU account.
Auen moved to accept report. Christianson seconded. Motion passed.
Source to Stream: Kittay relayed Erin Steever’s report. The editors are in the process of gathering ads for the upcoming year. Kittay moved to accept the report. Kampshoff seconded. Motion passed.
Water/Wastewater Seminars: Water-The seminar is being held on February 8-9, 2017 at the Rapid City Ramkota. A mass email on motel room availability has been done but not an agenda email.
Wastewater-The seminar is April 19-20, 2017 at the Red Rossa Italian Grill in Pierre. Kittay stated that draft agenda is needed by March 1 to get advertising out.
2017 SDWWA Committees: The committees were formed for the year.
Note for the Nominations Committee—The directors leaving the Board this year are the AWWA, SDWEA, and Manufacturers’ Reps. Those groups generally nominate someone to represent their groups. The primary work for the Committee will be to find a Vice-President.
2016 Conference Review: Kittay thought the Conference went well from his view point on working with the Ramkota Inn in Sioux Falls.
2017 Conference in Huron: Auen is in charge of the agenda with AWWA and SDWEA forming the Thursday afternoon sessions. Some ideas were mentioned-Operator issues, hydrants, trench safety, traffic safety, motivational speaker, millennials, GenX, etc.
SF Water Festival: SDWWA has given $500 for a number of years to support the festival and they are asking for support again. Kittay moved to give the Water Festival $500 for 2017. Sulzle seconded. Motion passed.
Other Business: Erickson gave a report on AWWA activities.
Monson said he would check on Barrett’s status on the Board
Kapfenstein will no longer be the SDWWA rep on the SD WARN Board. A new rep is needed.
Next Meeting: The next meeting will prior to the Conference.
Kittay moved for adjournment. Auen seconded. Meeting adjourned at 2:15 pm.
July 31, 2017
Rob Kittay, Secretary
Unapproved Minutes
SDWWA 2016 Annual Business Meeting
September 15, 2016
Ramkota Inn-Sioux Falls SD
Call to Order: By President Akers at 12:31 pm. Approximately 204 were in attendance.
Agenda: The agenda had been provided to the attendees. Jim Auen moved for approval. Dave Van Cleave seconded. Motion passed.
Akers thanked Gavin Graverson/Local Arrangements Committee, Robin Dykstra, Clint Hay/Commercial Committee, WEA, and AWWA Section for their work on the Conference.
Minutes: The minutes of the 2015 Business Meeting had been posted to web site. Verhey moved for approval. Schmit seconded. Motion passed.
Old Business: Akers called for Old Business. There was none forthcoming.
Tuesday Nite Board Meeting: Akers reviewed the Tuesday SDWWA Board meeting including the formation of the JR Yde 40 year award for anyone involved in the filed for forty years, the scholarships, and awarding SDWARN $500 for their budget.
Officers for 2016-17: Akers announced that Tim Monson would be the 2017 President and Jim Auen would be the President-Elect.
Vice-President: There was no candidate from the Board. Akers called for nominations from the floor. Verhey nominated Fred Snoderly from Madison as a candidate for VP. Kittay moved that nominations cease and a unanimous ballot be cast for the candidate. Deboer seconded. Motion passed.
Secretary/Treasurer: The candidate from the Board was Rob Kittay. Akers called for nominations from the floor. None were forthcoming. Van Cleave moved that nominations cease, and a unanimous ballot be cast. Mark Mayer seconded. Motion passed.
Outgoing Directors: Heath Thompson, Fred Snoderly, and Jake Fitzgerald are the outgoing directors and were recognized.
New Directors for 2016-17: The three candidates recommended by the Nominating Committee for full three year terms were:
Kyle Kampshoff-Alexandria
Jesse Christensen-Brookings-Deuel RWS
Dustin Fuhrmann-SDEDA
Grant Groos was nominated to complete the term of Greg Stack
Akers called for nominations from the floor. Verhey moved to accept the candidates. Auen seconded. Motion passed.
Akers thanked the Association for allowing her to serve as President. The ceremonial passing of the gavel to 2017 President Monson took place.
Monson introduced the entire SDWWA Board.
New Business: The sites of the future conferences were announced as follows: 2017-Huron Crossroads, 2018-The Lodge at Deadwood, 2019-Pierre Ramkota, 2020-Aberdeen Ramkota, 2021-Rapid City, and 2022-Sioux Falls.
Door Prizes: Kittay and Graverson conducted the drawings.
Adjournment: Kittay moved for adjournment. Graverson seconded. Motion passed. Meeting adjourned at 12:52 pm.
9-26-2016
Rob Kittay
Secretary
Unapproved Minutes
SDWWA Board Meeting
September 13, 2016
Spezia’s-Sioux Falls SD
Members Present: Dan Graber, Steph Akers, Tom Monson, Rob Kittay, Jim Auen, Dawn Horner, Clint Hay, Al Erickson, Dustin Sulzle, Heath Thompson, Fred Snoderly
Members Absent: Jake Fitzgerald, Joe Barrett, Fred Snoderly
Others Present: Jim Zeck-SDARWS and Claus Homann-WEF
Call to Order: Akers called the meeting to order at 6:40 pm. A quorum was present.
Approval of Agenda: Thompson moved for approval. Auen seconded. Motion passed.
Minutes: The minutes were emailed by Kittay and were on web site. Graber moved to approve the minutes. Sulzle seconded. Motion passed.
Old Business: Kittay and Sulzle reported on the 40 year award. Kittay suggested that they use the Dornbush criteria except change it to 40 years. It was also suggested that the award be named for JR Yde. Kittay moved that this award be finalized. Graber seconded. Motion passed.
Treasurer’s Report: Kittay reported that there were the following amounts in the various accounts-
$7938.35 in the checkbook as of 8/16/16
$148.05 Wells Fargo account as of 8/31/16
$20,804.58 Source-to-Stream as of 8/31/16
$23,585.36 East River FCU as of 6/30/16
A full report of the income and payments was provided. The Wells-Fargo account now has a $10 monthly service charge while only $5 per month is going into the account from the FCU account. This account will be closed and used for part of this year’s scholarship payment.
Sulzle moved to accept report. Auen seconded. Motion passed.
Auditing Committee: Andrea Griese, Jake Fitzgerald, and Mark McIntire were on the committee. Kittay gave the report as submitted by the committee. A copy was given to those present. The audit was done in September, 2016. The books were in order. Monson moved to accept the report. Hay seconded. Motion passed.
Other Committees: SD WARN submitted a letter asking for $500 for their budget. Akers is the SDWWA member on the WARN Committee. Graber moved to give SD WARN $500 for 2016-17. Horner seconded. Motion passed.
Wastewater Seminar: Horner gave the report. The 2017 WW Seminar will be at the Pierre Red Rossa in April 2017. The exact dates are to be determined. In 2016, there were 70 attendees. A bean bag tourney was conducted with money going to the SDWWA Scholarship.
Water Seminar: Erickson gave the report. The Water Seminar will be held February 8-9, 2017 at the RC Ramkota.
Source to Stream: Erin Steever submitted a report. Copy is attached to these minutes. The SDWWA Board believes a payment should be made to each of the three entities w/ $3000 going to each group. The S2S Board will need to make a final determination on this.
2016-2017 Officers: Monson will be president, Akers will be past-president, and Auen will become president-elect.
Secretary-Treasurer: Graber nominated Kittay. Auen seconded. Kittay will be the Board’s candidate for S/T.
Nominations Committee: The committee put forth Dustin Fuhrmann-SDEDA, Jesse Christensen-BD RWS, and Kyle Kampshoff-Alexandria as directors with their terms ending in 2019. They also put forth Grant Groos of Colman to replace Greg Stack who moved out of state. There was no vice president candidate. Kittay moved to accept the slate. Sulzle seconded. Motion passed.
Scholarships: SDWWA-Zeck gave the report. The winners have been determined for this year, and the checks will be sent to the schools. The winners will be announced at the banquet. As there is only about $150 in Wells-Fargo account, the SDWWA general fund will cover the other $850. Chuck Kuecker will be honoree. Graber moved to have two $500 scholarships for 2017. Thompson seconded. Motion passed.
SDSU/SDSMT Scholarships-Kittay moved that $1000 be given each to SDSU and SDSMT to fund one scholarship at each school. Graber seconded. Motion passed.
Future Conferences: Kittay wanted some direction from the Board for the 2021 and 2022 Conference sites. The Board suggested Rapid City for 2021 and Sioux Falls for 2022. Kittay will finalize the sites.
2016 Conference Concerns: Kittay indicated there were 177 pre-registrants excluding displayers. Pre-registrants in the SF area will not get meal tickets unless they come to registration desk and get tickets for meals they will actually eat. Past experience has shown that locals have other commitments and miss some of the meals. This also applies for exhibitors registering w/ Hay. Square/credit cards were used for about 40 registrations and ten booths. SDWWA collected a convenience charge on all credit card transactions.
Other Business: There was discussion about some kind of SDWWA membership utility rate for large systems. Many members on the Board felt that the $10 per year currently charged for member is so low that a group rate is not warranted.
Akers mention that another SDWWA Warn representative is needed to replace her.
Erickson gave the AWWA Liason Report. Mitch Kannenberg is now an AWWA VP. The SD Section assessment went thru. There are currently 240 members. Jan Kittay is stepping down as their Treasurer.
Next Meeting: The date of the next Board meeting is January 10, 2016 at 11:30 am the Red Rossa in Pierre just prior to the SDARWS Conference.
Kittay moved for adjournment. Graber seconded. Meeting adjourned at 8:19 pm.
September 26, 2016
Rob Kittay Date
Secretary
Source-to-Stream Report
The Source to Stream publication is operating with expected $1,400 balance in 2016. I want to thank our 2016 advertisers:
1/2 page color ads: ACIPCO ADIP, Bartlett & West, Engineering America, HDR, and RWL Water/VanBergen & Markson
1/2 page black and white ads: AE2S, Banner Associates, DN Tanks, HD Supply, HR Green, Hydro-Klean, and SEH
1/4 page black and white ads: Maguire Iron, and SPN
Our adverting dollars are down this year with several advertisers not renewing their contract in 2016. We haven't adjusted advertisement rates in many years due to our steady profit, which is given back to the three associations periodically. We are a “not-for-profit” publication/associations; however, the additional dollars raised by the publication do help our member associations with operating expenses. The publication is operating in the black; however, is there cause for concern?
No matter your response, it is always receive constructive feedback. Please discuss with your boards their opinions, possible changes, and general feel of the publication. Some conversation starters may be content, value to the reader/advertisers, accessibility of contact information to the readers, use of digital copies and archives, timing of advertisement requests, interest in publication, what is done well or on the flip side what might be missing over other publications, effects from the economy, etc. Please relay all comments, suggestions, and thoughts back to me. I will forward these on to the Source to Stream Board (Al Erickson, Jeff DeVille and Peggi Badten) for discussion, contemplation and consideration. Your feedback is strongly encouraged!
This is our second year with Crystal Ehresmann developing the publication. She is a freelance graphic designer. I enjoy her eye for balance and her quick turn around, she does a fabulous job. My role is to take care of advertising, and coordinate and organizing content with the help of AWWA, WEA and WWA.
I'm hoping to bring on an additional water professional to the group for proofing the issue, etc. Jeff Heins was the latest proof reader. With his recent retirement this position is now open again. I'll remind you that this is where I started my involvement in the publication, if you have any suggestions for YPs or more seasoned professionals in the water industry that would be a good fit, please let me know.
Something new this year is offering on-line version of the publication instead of a printed/mailed copy. There have been a couple individuals that have taken advantage of this opportunity. All are welcome to visit the AWWA website (www.sdawwa.org) for archived publications. We're falling behind on the WWA site but we'll work on this too (http://www.sdwwa.org/). I've also been posting several featured training's/events/etc. from each publication on the sdawwa website - if you haven't visited the website in a while you'll want to take a look!
Please direct any questions you have to me either before or after your board meetings.
Sincerely,
Erin Steever, PE
Publication Manager
SDWWA Board Meeting
January 12, 2016
Red Rossa-Pierre SD
Members Present: Steph Akers-President, Tim Monson-President-Elect, Jim Auen-Vice-President, Rob Kittay-Secretary-Treasurer, Dawn Horner (SD WPCA), Clint Hay (Manu Rep), Dustin Sulzle (Small Systems), Fred Snoderly, Heath Thompson
Members Absent: Dan Graber, Al Erickson, Joe Barrett, Jake Fitzgerald, Greg Stack
Others Present: Jan Kittay
Call to Order: Akers called the meeting to order at 11:42 am. A quorum was present. Introductions were made.
Approval of Agenda: Snoderly moved for approval. Monson seconded. Motion passed.
Minutes: The minutes were emailed by Kittay and were on web site. Thompson moved to approve minutes. Hay seconded. Motion passed.
Treasurer’s Report: Kittay reported the following balances in the various SDWWA accounts-y
Checkbook $ 8,261.20 as of 12/21/15
Source-to-Stream $20,917.45 as of 11/30/15
Wells-Fargo $ 157.66 as of 11/30/15
This is the time of year when membership renewal money is coming in. The S2S account is high because fees have been collected for the 2016 advertising which will be spent down over the course of the year. The checkbook ran a negative balance for a while after the conference as the scholarship money was taken out and the Spearfish Holiday Inn was paid.
Auen moved to accept report. Sulzle seconded. Motion passed.
Source to Stream: Kittay relayed Erin Steever’s report. The editors are in the process of gathering ads for the upcoming year. Kittay moved to approve the report. Hay seconded. Motion passed.
Water/Wastewater Seminars: Water-Jan Kittay gave the report. It will be held at the Sioux Falls Ramkota Inn on February 3-4, 2016. Erin Steever is the committee leader. Rob Kittay said that a mass email has already been sent and registrations are starting to come in. The agenda is close to being finalized.
Wastewater-Horner gave the report. The seminar is April 20-21, 2016 at the Red Rossa Italian Grill in Pierre. Kittay stated that draft agenda is needed by March 1 to get advertising out.
2016 SDWWA Committees: The committees were formed.
2015 Conference Review: Kittay thought the Conference went well from his view point on working with the Spearfish Holiday Inn. It was pointed out that the MN AWWA Conference was on the same dates and may have taken away from the number of vendors we had.
AWWA Report: Jan Kittay gave report
Replace Board Member: Greg Stack is moving to North Dakota and will be resigning from the Board.
SF Water Festival: SDWWA has given $500 for a number of years to support the festival. Kittay moved to donate $500 again this year. Auen seconded. Motion passed.
Other Business: Akers is SDWWA’s rep on SD WARN and gave a report of the meeting she attended. WARN has joined RW Center to be able to accept donations such as excess equipment. WARN may be looking for funds for storage, repairs, etc.
John Hatch has suggested that a 40 year award be created. Sulzle moved to create this award. Kittay seconded. Motion passed. Kittay and Sulzle volunteered to develop a set of eligibility criteria for this award and bring this back to the Board.
Next Meeting: May 2016 to gather presentation ideas for Conference.
Kittay moved for adjournment. Snoderly seconded. Meeting adjourned at 1:05 pm.
Rob Kittay, Secretary
February 19, 2016
Unapproved Minutes
SDWWA 2015 Annual Business Meeting
September 17, 2015
Holiday Inn-Spearfish SD
Call to Order: By President Graber at 12:26 pm. Approximately 160 were in attendance.
Agenda: The agenda had been provided to the attendees. Auen moved for approval. Snoderly seconded. Motion passed.
Graber thanked Tom Callaway/Local Arrangements Committee, City of Spearfish, Robin Dykstra, Holiday Inn Staff, Clint Hay/Commercial Committee, WEA, and AWWA Section for their work on the Conference.
Minutes: The minutes of the 2014 Business Meeting had been posted to web site. Swanson moved for approval. Boerger seconded. Motion passed.
Old Business: Graber called for Old Business. There was none forthcoming.
Graber reviewed the SDWWA Tuesday nite board meeting for the attendees: Scholarships/Cost of Conference to rise due to costs/Credit Cards are now being taken for conference and seminar registration/S2S funds disbursement/SD WARN volunteer.
Officers for 2015-16: Graber announced that Steph Akers would be the 2016 President and Tim Monson would be the President-Elect.
Vice-President: The candidate from the Board was Jim Auen from Lewis & Clark RWS. Graber called for nominations from the floor. Kittay moved that nominations cease, and a unanimous ballot be cast for the candidate. Boerger seconded. Motion passed.
Secretary/Treasurer: The candidate from the Board was Rob Kittay. Graber called for nominations from the floor. None were forthcoming. Van Cleave moved that nominations cease, and a unanimous ballot be cast. Boerger seconded. Motion passed.
Outgoing Directors: Thorson/Auen/Sulzle are the outgoing directors and were recognized.
New Directors for 2015-16: The three candidates recommended by the Nominating Committee were:
Dustin Sulzle-Marion Greg Stack-Lennox Joe Barrett-Lead-Deadwood Sanitary District
Graber called for nominations from the floor. Robin Dykstra moved to accept the candidates. Zeck seconded. Motion passed.
Graber thanked the Association for allowing him to serve as President. The ceremonial passing of the gavel to 2016 President Akers took place.
Akers introduced the entire SDWWA Board.
New Business: Erikson suggested that anyone interested in getting involved or being on a committee should talk to a board member.
The sites of the future conferences were announced as follows: 2016-Sioux Falls Ramkota, 2017-Huron Crossroads, 2018-The Lodge at Deadwood, 2019-Pierre Ramkota, and 2020-Aberdeen Ramkota.
Door Prizes: Kittay conducted the drawings.
Adjournment: Faris moved for adjournment. Graber seconded. Motion passed. Meeting adjourned at 12:50 pm.
9-22-2015
Rob Kittay, Secretary
Unapproved Minutes
SDWWA Board Meeting
September 15, 2015
Holiday Inn-Spearfish SD
Members Present: Dan Graber, Steph Akers, Tom Monson, Rob Kittay, Gavin Graverson, Jim Auen, Dustin Sulzle, Heath Thompson, Jake Fitzgerald, Fred Snoderly, Dawn Horner, Clint Hay, Al Erickson
Members Absent: Vern Thorson
Others Present: Jim Zeck
Call to Order: Graber called the meeting to order at 6:10 pm. A quorum was present.
Approval of Agenda: Kittay moved for approval. Thompson seconded. Motion passed.
Minutes: The minutes were emailed by Kittay and were on web site. Auen moved to approve the minutes. Snoderly seconded. Motion passed.
Old Business: There was no old business.
Treasurer’s Report: Kittay reported that there were the following amounts in the various accounts-
$27,335.85 as of August 17, 2015 $28353.26 in the checkbook-2014
$641.59 as of June 30, 2015 $610.35 Wells Fargo account-2014
$23,904.19 as of July 31 2015 $18852.50 S2S-2014
A full report of the income and payments was provided. Hay moved to accept report. Auen seconded. Motion passed.
Auditing Committee: Andrea Griese, Vern Thorson, and Jake Fitzgerald were on the committee. A report was submitted by the committee. The audit was done in September, 2015. The books were in order.
Commercial Committee: Hay gave the report. Everything is in order for the displays. There are 47 vendor tables and three are now not showing.
Wastewater Seminar: 2015 Seminar was well attended. A preliminary date for the 2016 Seminar is April 20-21 again at the Pierre Red Rossa.
Water Seminar: It will be held at the SF Ramkota Feb 3-4, 2016. Spearfish attendance was a little down for the 2015 Seminar.
Source to Stream: Steever submitted a written report. Deadlines in S2S for 2015 will be January 15, April 30, June 30, and October 1. As the S2S account is doing well, Graber moved to recommend to the S2S editorial committee that a dispersal of $3000 to each of the three groups be made. Auen seconded. Motion passed.
Article assignments for the 2016 S2S were made as follows-
January-Graber/Kittay/Monson
April-Auen/Akers/Hay
June-Thompson/Horner/Erickson
October-The three new directors
2015-2016 Officers: Akers will be president, Graber will be past-president, and Monson will become the president-elect.
Secretary-Treasurer: Fitzgerald nominated Kittay with Snoderly seconding. Motion passed. Kittay will be the Board’s candidate for S/T.
Nominations Committee: Graber gave the report for the committee. Auen, Sulzle, and Thorson are the directors going off of the Board. The committee put forth the following candidates:
Vice President-Auen
Directors-Greg Stack-Lennox/Joe Barrett-Lead-Deadwood Sanitary District/Dustin Sulzle-Marion
Kittay moved to accept the slate. Thompson seconded. Motion passed.
Scholarships: SDWWA-Zeck gave the report. The winners have been determined for this year, and the checks will be sent to the school. The winners will be announced at the banquet. These will be paid for with $500 from the Wells-Fargo account and $500 from SDWWA checkbook. Erickson noted that the endowment contributions are slowing down. Thompson moved to continue to give two scholarships for the next two years. Sulzle seconded. Motion passed.
SDSU/SDSMT Scholarships-Kittay moved that $2000 be given each to SDSU and SDSMT to fund two scholarships at each school. Sulzle seconded. Motion passed.
2015 Conference: Kittay indicated there were about 240 pre-registrants including displayers. There was some discussion about the fees charged for the conference. Erickson suggested that conference fees be raised by $20. Thompson moved to raise conference registration by $20 and that $5.00 each be given to the AWWA Section and SDWEA from each conference registration. Auen seconded. Motion passed.
SD WARN: That group wanted to have SDWWA have a non-voting volunteer be on its committee. Akers offered to take that position.
Other Business: Kittay indicated that he had purchased a credit card reader from Square and that SDWWA can accept credit cards for conference and seminar registration. Of each credit card swipe, 2.5% went to Square. SDWWA would add a convenience fee to each registration using a credit card.
Next Meeting: The proposed date of the next Board meeting is January 12, 2016 at the Red Rossa in Pierre just prior to the SDARWS Conference.
Kittay moved for adjournment. Akers seconded. Meeting adjourned at 7:49 pm.
September 22, 2015
Rob Kittay
Secretary
Unapproved Minutes
SDWWA Board Meeting
January 13, 2015
Red Rossa-Pierre SD
Members Present: Dan Graber-President, Steph Akers-President Elect, Tim Monson-Vice President, Gavin Graverson-Past President, Rob Kittay-Secretary-Treasurer, Jim Auen, Vern Thorson (Small Systems), Jake Fitzgerald, Fred Snoderly, Heath Thompson, Al Erickson (AWWA-SD Section), Dawn Horner (SD WPCA), Clint Hay (Manu Rep)
Members Absent: Dustin Sulzle (Small Systems)
Others Present: None
Call to Order: Graber called the meeting to order at 11:45 am. A quorum was present, and introductions were made.
Approval of Agenda: Hay moved for approval of the agenda. Akers seconded. Motion passed.
Minutes: The minutes were emailed by Kittay and were on web site. Auen moved to approve minutes. Snoderly seconded. Motion passed.
Treasurer’s Report: Kittay reported the following balances in the various SDWWA accounts-
Checkbook $36,099.91 as of 12/15/14
Source-to-Stream $25,726.79 as of 1/13/15
Wells-Fargo $ 619.86 as of 11/30/14
This is the time of year when membership renewal money is coming in. The Watertown Ramkota has not been paid for the Conference as a bill has not been sent. Kittay contacted them a while ago concerning this, and they said that it would be sent. The S2S account is high because fees have been collected for the 2015 advertising which will be spent down over the course of the year.
Fitzgerald moved to accept report. Thompson seconded. Motion passed.
Source to Stream: Kittay relayed Erin Steever’s report along with an accounting of the advertising for the last few years. For CY2015, advertising has brought in $8350 in comparison to $11,200, $9250, and $11,050 for the three years. There are two more ads expected for the Q1-2015 edition that have not been paid for. Comments were made to make a dispersion of the funds. Akers moved to accept the report. Monson seconded. Motion passed.
Water/Wastewater Seminars: Water-Erickson gave the report. It will be held at the Spearfish Holiday Inn on February 18-19, 2015. Adam Norman is the committee leader. Kittay said that a mass email has already been sent and registrations are starting to come in. The agenda is close to being finalized.
Wastewater-Horner gave the report. The seminar is April 29-30, 2015 at the Red Rossa Italian Grill in Pierre. Kittay stated that draft agenda is needed by March 15 to get advertising out.
Kittay moved to accept the reports. Auen seconded. Motion passed.
2015 SDWWA Committees: The committees for this year were formed.
2014 Conference Review: Kittay thought the Conference went well from his view point on working with the Watertown Ramkota. There is the question of the number of rooms there and the distance to the other motels in Watertown. Some requested that a small system session be done. The AWWA awards seemed to run long.
2015 Conference in Spearfish: Some ideas were mentioned-
Student presentations by SDSMT.
AWWA/WEF presentations by national reps need to be shortened.
Possibility of 3rd session on Thursday would be dependent on number of total presentations
Keynote speaker.
Gimmicks & Gadgets.
2020 Conference Site: The Aberdeen Ramkota has submitted info for this Conference. The dates would be September 16-18, 2020. There were a few issues with the last conference at Aberdeen. There were some new employees hired just prior to the Conference. There were discussions at the Ramkota over these issues that were pointed out to management, and they agreed that these indeed should not have happened. Kittay moved to hold the 2020 Conference at the Aberdeen Ramkota. Akers seconded. Motion passed.
Other Business: There was discussion of the SDWWA Awards especially the NALCO Award since it has been a long time since this company participated in the SDWWA. Thompson moved to change the name of this award to the William Aisenbrey Award. Thorson seconded. Motion passed.
Next Meeting: The next meeting will be on September 15, 2015 at Spearfish at 6:00 pm MT.
Monson moved for adjournment. Fitzgerald seconded. Meeting adjourned at 1:03 pm.
Rob Kittay, Secretary
July 8, 2015
Unapproved Minutes
SDWWA 2014 Annual Business Meeting
September 18, 2014
Ramkota Inn/Events Center-Watertown SD
Call to Order: By President Graverson at 12:15 pm. Approximately 200 were in attendance.
Agenda: The agenda had been provided to the attendees. Wagner moved for approval. Schoon seconded. Motion passed.
Graverson thanked the Commercial Committee, WEA, and AWWA Section for their work on the Conference. He also reviewed the Tuesday nite Board meeting for the attendees.
Minutes: The minutes of the 2013 Business Meeting had been posted to web site. Scheltens moved for approval. Graber seconded. Motion passed.
Old Business: Graverson called for Old Business. There was none forthcoming.
Officers for 2014-15: Graverson announced that Dan Graber would be the 2014-15 President and Stephanie Akers would be the President-Elect.
Vice-President: The candidate from the Board was Tim Monson. Graverson called for nominations from the floor. Hemeyer moved that nominations cease, and a unanimous ballot be cast for the candidate. Kittay seconded. Motion passed.
Secretary/Treasurer: The candidate from the Board was Rob Kittay. Graverson called for nominations from the floor. None were forthcoming. Schoon moved that nominations cease, and a unanimous ballot be cast. Snoderly seconded. Motion passed.
Outgoing Directors: Kannenberg, Peters, and Macdonald are the outgoing directors and were recognized.
New Directors for 2014-15: The three candidates recommended by the Nominating Committee were:
Al Erickson-AWWA Rep/Dawn Horner-WEA Rep/Clint Hay-Manufacturers Rep
Graverson called for nominations from the floor. Kittay moved to accept the candidates. Snoderly seconded. Motion passed.
Graverson thanked the Association for allowing him to serve as President. The ceremonial passing of the gavel to 2014-15 President Graber took place.
Graber introduced the entire SDWWA Board.
New Business: The sites of the future conferences were announced as follows: 2015-Spearfish Holiday Inn, 2016-Sioux Falls Ramkota, 2017-Huron Crossroads, 2018-The Lodge at Deadwood, and 2019-Pierre Ramkota.
Door Prizes: Kittay conducted the drawings.
Matt Odekoeven announced results of Water for People bean bag tourney that took place Wednesday nite.
Adjournment: Walters moved for adjournment. Mayer seconded. Motion passed. Meeting adjourned at 12:45 pm.
9-22-2014
Rob Kittay, Secretary
Unapproved Minutes
SDWWA Board Meeting
September 16, 2014
Ramkota Inn/Events Center-Watertown SD
Members Present: Heath Thompson, Mitch Kannenberg, Dave Van Cleave, Gavin Graverson, Dan Graber, Rob Kittay, DelRon Peters, Steph Akers, Jim Auen, Jake Fitzgerald, Fred Snoderly
Members Absent: Malcolm MacDonald, Dustin Sulzle, Vern Thorson
Others Present: Jim Zeck, Tyler Smith, Erin Steever, Mark Mayer
Call to Order: Graverson called the meeting to order at 6:10 pm. A quorum was present.
Approval of Agenda: Graber moved for approval of the agenda. Snoderly seconded. Motion passed.
Minutes: The minutes had been emailed by Kittay and were on web site. Kannenberg moved to approve the minutes. Fitzgerald seconded. Motion passed.
Old Business: There was none forthcoming.
Treasurer’s Report: Kittay reported that there were the following amounts in the various accounts-
$28,353.26 SDWWA checkbook
$610.35 Wells Fargo account
$18,852.50 Source-to-Stream checkbook
A full report of the income and payments was provided and discussed. Graber moved to accept report. Auen seconded. Motion passed.
Auditing Committee: Andrea Griese, Vern Thorson, and Mark McIntire were on the committee. A report was submitted by the committee. The audit was done in September, 2014. The books were in order. Thompson moved to accept the report. Peters seconded. Motion passed.
Other Committees: Commercial Committee: 56 vendors had signed up to attend this year’s conference. Graber gave some info on the awardees.
2015 Water Seminar: The committee met this afternoon and developed an agenda. It will be held at the Spearfish Holiday Inn on February 18-19, 2015. Kittay would like the agenda by January 1. Topics were discussed. Adam Norman is in charge.
2015 Wastewater Seminar: The seminar will be held at the Pierre Clubhouse Suites/Red Rossa on April 29-30, 2015. Topics were gathered.
Source to Stream: Steever submitted a written report. Deadlines in S2S for 2015 will be January 15, April 30, June 30, and October 1. There is some problem with incorrect addresses. There is a need for new co-editor. With the current balance in the S2S checkbook, there was discussion on a dispersal of funds. There is also a software update needed that can could range $400-$1400.
2014-2015 Officers: Graber will be president, Graverson will be past-president, and Akers will become president-elect.
Secretary-Treasurer: Van Cleave nominated Kittay for Secretary/Treasurer with Auen seconding. Motion passed. Kittay will be the Board’s candidate for S/T.
Nominations Committee: Peters gave the report for the committee. The committee put forth:
AWWA Rep-Al Erickson SD WEA Rep-Dawn Horner
Manufacturers’ Rep-Clint Hay VP-Tim Monson
Peters, Macdonald, and Kannenberg will be going off of the Board. Kittay moved to accept the slate. Graber seconded. Motion passed.
Scholarships: SDWWA-Zeck gave the report. The winners have been determined for this year, and the checks sent to the school. The winners will be announced at the luncheon. Ray Birchem and Blaine B Barker will be honored this year for the SDWWA Scholarships.
SDSU/SDSMT Scholarships-Kittay moved that $2000 be given each to SDSU and SDSMT to fund two scholarships at each school. Kannenberg seconded. Motion passed.
2014 Conference: Kittay indicated there were 238 pre-registrants including displayers. It was stated by some that there is a room issue with the Watertown Ramkota with only 101 sleeping rooms and most other motels on the other end of town. Kittay indicated that the Board will have to make a decision if they want to hold a conference at Watertown Ramkota in the future.
Other Business: DENR Fluoride Rule-mark Mayer gave a brief review of DENR’s intent to revise the fluoride regulations. DENR has been waiting for CDC to make some recommendations; however, they have not done so as of yet. He would like input on the draft rules. He also went thru the regulation adoption procedure.
Water Festival-Graverson spoke about the festival. Auen moved to give $600 to the Sioux Falls water Festival. Peters seconded. Motion passed.
Lifetime Achievement Award-A proposal was submitted by an SDWWA member for a 40 yr award.
Next Meeting: The date of the next Board meeting is January 13, 2015 at the Red Rossa in Pierre just prior to the SDARWS Conference. Arrangements have already been made with Red Rossa.
Kittay moved for adjournment. Graber seconded. Meeting adjourned at 7:59 pm.
September 22, 2014
Rob Kittay, Secretary
SDWWA Board Meeting
January 14, 2014
Red Rossa-Pierre SD
Members Present: Dave Van Cleave, Gavin Graverson, Dan Graber, Rob Kittay, DelRon Peters, Steph Akers, Jim Auen, Vern Thorson, Jake Fitzgerald, Fred Snoderly
Members Absent: Dustin Sulzle, Heath Thompson, Mitch Kannenberg, Malcolm MacDonald
Call to Order: Graverson called the meeting to order at 11:55 am. A quorum was present.
Approval of Agenda: Akers moved for approval of the agenda. Snodderly seconded. Motion passed.
Minutes: The minutes were emailed by Kittay and were on web site. Kittay moved to approve minutes. Peters seconded. Motion passed.
Treasurer’s Report: Kittay reported the following balances in the various SDWWA accounts-
Checkbook $21,024.95
Source-to-Stream $20,662.60
Wells-Fargo $ 586.90
UBS $ 2171.74
The UBS account was charged $245 in fees last year. Kittay suggested that this account be closed as it is losing balance levels. Graber moved to accept report and the UBS close account. Auen seconded. Motion passed.
Source to Stream: Kittay relayed Erin Steever’s report (see attached). Graber moved that we purchase the software. Auen seconded. Motion passed.
Water Seminar: Graverson relayed Kannenberg’s report. It will be held at the SF Ramkota on February 5-6, 2014. Kittay added that a mass email has already been sent and registrations are starting to come in. Adam Norman is the leader and the agenda has been finalized.
WW Seminar: Peters reported that the seminar will be held on April 30-May 1 at the Red Rossa Italian Grill in Pierre. There is some work left to be done with a few agenda items to be finalized. The draft agenda is needed by March 15 to be sent to systems.
2014 Committees: These committees were formed.
2013 Conf: The 2013 Conference was reviewed. It was mentioned that desserts at the banquet would be nice.
2014 Conf: The 2014 Conference will be a week later due to a problem with the Watertown Ramkota. The AWWA/WEF national reps will be given 15 min to speak during the Wednesday general session. All speakers need to be kept on time by the session moderators. Ideas were given for presentations.
Other Business: There was a request from the Sioux Empire Water Festival for funding. SDWWA has given $500 for last few years. Kttay moved to donate $500 to the 2014 Sioux Empire Water Festival. Peters seconded. Motion passed.
Next Meeting: The next meeting date will be left open for now in case a meeting is needed to work on the Conference. This could possibly be by conference call. There will be a meeting at 6:00 pm on September 16, 2014 at the Watertown Ramkota.
Van Cleave moved for adjournment. Fitzgerald seconded. Meeting adjourned at 1:12.
Rob Kittay
Secretary
Date- M23, 2014
Source-to-Stream Report
The Source to Stream brought in $9,200 in 2013. We continue to see a decrease in our income, however it has been adequate to balance the budget. Last year I worked with the printer to reduce our printing costs by decreasing the paper thickness of the entire issue. In 2013, the printing was $1.63/issue. In 2012, it was $1.76/issue for printing. We average 920 copies per issue. So far for 2014 we are at $8,300 from advertisements. On average, each issue takes roughly $300 in staff fees, $350 in postage, and $1,400 in printing/mailing.
Stephanie and I (Erin) continue to share editorial tasks. She takes care of assembling, proofing, and delivering the issue to the printer. She's been working in a few updates to the overall look, one example is pulling text boxes out to highlight a statement or two in the articles. I work with managerial like advertisement correspondence, keeping up with email account, and putting together the Q&A as well as the calendar (based off the Rural Water and DENR on-line calendars). I also proof the issue and provide content advise while Stephanie is developing each issue. The mailing list is based off WWA, WEA and AWWA membership records obtained from Rob Kittay, Dennis Rebelein, and Jodi Johanson. Rob takes care of the checkbook. I send all checks received for advertising his way to deposit into the account.
Stephanie is currently using a version of In-Design that is not compatible with the older version of In-Design that Source to Stream purchased a few years ago. HDR allows Stephanie to use her copy of In-Design software at work for Source to Stream use. She is due for another upgrade in her software this year; at that time we would like to also purchase a new copy for Source to Stream so that Erin can also jump in to the program to make minor edits, print PDFs for website links, etc. Currently, Erin has no access to In-Design files that have been opened using the updated software. Please advise if the purchase of new In-Design software in 2014 is acceptable to the board.
I want to extend a big Thank You to Jan Kittay for volunteering to put together a master schedule for the 2014 year. At the same time she was putting together the calendar, I was getting the advertisement letters out in the mail much earlier than they have been in the past. This was in an effort to get ad contracts and art back in time for the first quarter issue to be printed in February. To date, we have payment for all contracts that we've received for 2014, and are only waiting on new ad art from two companies. We are sitting very well compared to last year at this time, however we still need a few more ads to keep us comfortably in the black for the year.
Something new for 2014, I will be sending out reminders to all those who are supposed to be submitting articles for the upcoming issues. Calendar reminders will be sent out using ANYVITE.COM, which is a free calendar notice that bridges several different calendar formats (eg. Outlook, Google, etc.). It was implemented for January 15th Q1 deadline, however only one response from the Q1 issue was received. It seems most of the e-vites, including mine, was removed by the spam/junk filter. I will send out another email from the Google account with information from ANYVITE.COM. Please add it to your safe list if you receive the mentioned email. If you'd like to be added to the calendar for due date reminders and do not see an email, please inquire by sending an email to [email protected] and I'll get you on the list.
Q4 of 2013 had some great original articles, but as I look back the past few years, our content has been less original than I would like (filler material from EPA is not considered original). Please take the time to provide original, timely, informative, and interesting content for your fellow water professionals. It is your articles that make the publication! If you would like to discuss content of the issues, have an idea for something new, or just want to discuss the overall feel of the issue please give me a call (see page 3 of each issue for my contact information). I promise not to volunteer you for anything, and we want you to know that your opinion is important and appreciated!
Lastly, please see the attached PDF for the summary of advertisers for 2014 and previous years. If you know of anyone that might be interested in advertising in the Source to Stream, please contact them or let me know and I can get a hold of them.
Thanks,
Erin
Stephanie Logue and Erin Steever
Source to Stream Editors
[email protected]
Unapproved Minutes
SDWWA 2013 Annual Business Meeting
September 12, 2013
Ramkota Inn-Aberdeen SD
Call to Order: By President Van Cleave at 12:24 pm. Approximately 200 were in attendance.
Agenda: The agenda had been provided to the attendees. Chris Schmit moved for approval. Ed Royalty seconded. Motion passed.
Van Cleave thanked the Commercial Committee, WEA, and AWWA Section for their work on the Conference. He also reviewed the Tuesday nite Board meeting for the attendees.
Minutes: The minutes of the 2012 Business Meeting had been posted to web site. Jim Auen moved for approval. Peggi Badten seconded. Motion passed.
Old Business: Van Cleave called for Old Business. There was none forthcoming.
Officers for 2013-14: Van Cleave announced that Gavin Graverson would be the 2013-14 President and Dan Graber would be the President-Elect.
Vice-President: The candidate from the Board was Stephanie Akers. Van Cleave called for nominations from the floor. Rob Kittay moved that nominations cease, and a unanimous ballot be cast for Akers. Kim Verhey seconded. Motion passed.
Secretary/Treasurer: The candidate from the Board was Rob Kittay. Van Cleave called for nominations from the floor. None were forthcoming. Royalty moved that nominations cease, and a unanimous ballot be cast. Mark Mayer seconded. Motion passed.
Outgoing Directors: Aker, Thompson, and Adler are the outgoing directors and were recognized.
New Directors for 2013-14: The three candidates recommended by the Nominating Committee were:
Jake Fitzgerald-WR LJ RWS
Heath Thompson-Sioux RWS (was filling an unexpired term)
Fred Snoderly-Madison
Van Cleave called for nominations from the floor. Bob Kappel moved to accept the candidates. Dan Graber seconded. Motion passed.
Van Cleave thanked the Association for allowing him to serve as President. The ceremonial passing of the gavel to 2013-14 President Graverson took place.
Graverson introduced the entire SDWWA Board.
New Business: Graverson made the following announcements-
YPers are currently conducting a twitter contest.
There is a “get well” card for Morris Elcock being circulated.
The sites of the future conferences were announced as follows: 2014-Watertown Ramkota, 2015-Spearfish Holiday Inn, 2016-Sioux Falls Ramkota, 2017-Huron Crossroads, 2018-The Lodge at Deadwood, and 2019-Pierre Ramkota.
Door Prizes: Kittay conducted the drawings.
Adjournment: Greg Merrigan moved for adjournment. John Wookey seconded. Motion passed. Meeting adjourned at 12:40 pm.
9-18-2013
Rob Kittay, Secretary
Unapproved Minutes
SDWWA Board Meeting
September 10, 2013
Ramkota Inn-Aberdeen SD
Members Present: Rob Kittay, Dan Fink, Dave Van Cleave, DelRon Peters, Dan Graber, Steph Akers, Jerry Adler, Gavin Graverson, Mitch Kannenberg, Heath Thompson, Dustin Sulzle, Jim Auen, Malcolm MacDonald
Members Absent: Vern Thorson
Others Present: Jan Kittay
Call to Order: Van Cleave called the meeting to order at 6:06 pm. A quorum was present.
Approval of Agenda: Thompson moved for approval. Akers seconded. Motion passed.
Minutes: The minutes were emailed by Kittay and were on web site. Kittay moved to approve the minutes. Fink seconded. Motion passed.
Old Business: Adler spoke about efforts to get on SD Municipal League agenda for October annual meeting about operator importance. He was unsuccessful in getting on the 2013 conference agenda.
Graber had some contact with SD American Public Works Association (APWA). He received a lukewarm reception as to their group meeting at our conferences. He will go Municipal League meeting and see if there is any interest for APWA.
Treasurer’s Report: Kittay reported that there were the following amounts in the various accounts-
$30,934.42 in the checkbook
$2416.70 in the UBS account (July 31, 2013)
$1018.24 Wells Fargo account
$16,973.51 Source to Stream account
A full report of the income and payments was provided. Adler moved to accept report. Graverson seconded. Motion passed.
Auditing Committee: Andrea Griese, Vern Thorson, and Mark McIntire were on the committee. A report was submitted by the committee. The audit was done in September, 2013. The books were in order. Macdonal moved to accept the report. Adler seconded. Motion passed.
Commercial Committee: Macdonald reported that some vendors were lost to MN AWWA Conference that was being held at the same time as this conference. MN had changed the dates of their conference sometime during 2013.
2014 Water Seminar: The committee met this afternoon and developed an agenda. It will be held at the SF Ramkota on February 5-6, 2014. Kittay would like the agenda by January 1 for the flyer. Topics were discussed.
2014 Wastewater Seminar: The seminar will be held at the Pierre Clubhouse Suites/Red Rossa on April 30-May 1, 2014. Topics were gathered.
Source to Stream: Steever submitted a written report. Editors need to be more aggressive in reminding people for articles. The deadlines for article submission need to be made known to all. Jan Kittay said that she would be willing to round up articles.
Article assignments were made for CY2014 as follows:
1st-Kittay, Van Cleave, Macdonald, Peters
2nd-Kannenberg, Graverson, Graber, Sulzle
3rd-New Vice-President, Thorson, Auen
4th-Three new directors
2013-2014 Officers: Graverson will be president, Van Cleave will be past-president, and Graber will become president-elect.
Secretary-Treasurer: Adler nominated Kittay with Thompson seconding. Motion passed. Kittay will be the Board’s candidate for S/T.
Nominations Committee: Adler gave the report for the committee. The committee put forth:
Jake Fitzgrald-WR LJ RWS
Fred Snoderly-Madison
Heath Thompson-Sioux RWS (He had been previously filling out the term of a director that retired.)
Kittay moved to approve. Kannenberg seconded. Motion passed.
Fink nominated Akers as VP. Thompson seconded. Motion passed.
Scholarships: SDWWA-Zeck gave the report. The winners have been determined for this year. The winners will be announced at the luncheon. Bill Aisenbrey and Blaine B Barker will be honored this year for the SDWWA Scholarships. The committee is checking on reinvestment possibilities as two of the funds are maturing. Kannenberg moved that two scholarships at $500 each be given for the next two years. Kittay seconded. Motion passed.
SDSU/SDSMT Scholarships-Thompson moved that $2000 be given each to SDSU and SDSMT to fund two scholarships at each school. Adler seconded. Motion passed.
2019 SDWWA Conference Site: Kittay had done some inquiries with the Pierre Ramkota. They are interested in holding the 2019 Conference. Kittay moved to hold 2019 Conference in Pierre. Graber seconded. Motion passed.
2013 Conference: The Aberdeen mayor backed out; however, Janel Ellingsen will be filling in. Wastewater portion also had a speaker drop out with DENR filling in.
Other Business: Water Festival-No specific date or info was available. SDWWA has donated to the SF Water Festival in the past. Graverson will find more information.
Next Meeting: The proposed date of the next Board meeting is January 14, 2014 at Red Rossa just prior to the SDARWS Conference.
Adler asked about getting more operators involved. Contact hours are not the only reason to come to conferences and seminars.
Adler moved for adjournment. Sulzle seconded. Meeting adjourned at 8:08 pm.
October 1, 2013
Rob Kittay, Secretary
Unapproved Minutes
SDWWA Board Meeting
May 31, 2013
Red Rossa-Pierre SD
Members Present: Dave Van Cleave, Gavin Graverson, Dan Graber, Rob Kittay, Dan Fink,
DelRon Peters, Steph Akers, Heath Thompson, Jim Auen, Vern Thorson, Dustin Sulzle and Jerry Adler
Member Absent: Mitch Kannenberg and Malcolm MacDonald
Others Present:
Call to Order: Van Cleave called the meeting to order at 11:37 am. A quorum was present.
Approval of Agenda: Kittay moved for approval. Akers seconded. Motion passed.
Minutes: The minutes were emailed by Kittay and were on web site. Adler’s name needs to be deleted from a motion. Adler moved to approve the amended minutes. Auen seconded. Motion passed.
Old Business: The Board had left off on the Brinker/Dornbush issue. There has been no contact with Ewing for years. Kittay moved to change the Ewing Award to the William Brinker Award. Peters seconded. Motion passed. There was then talk about the other awards.
Treasurer’s Report: Kittay reported the following balances in the various SDWWA funds-
Checkbook $37,336.22
UBS Account $ 2,416.70
Well Fargo Account $ 779.04
He also reported that-
AWWA SD Section and SD WEA have been paid their shares of the seminars and 2012 Conference.
He will begin work with the Aberdeen Ramkota for 2013 Conference arrangements
He has contacted the Pierre Ramkota about dates for the 2019 Conference (September 11-13, 2019)
Thompson moved to accept report. Fink seconded. Motion passed.
Committees: Various reports were given. Graber moved to approve. Kittay seconded. Motion passed.
2013 Conference: Kannenberg was not able to attend meeting but emailed the following information-
The AWWA T&E Council, chaired by Brett Runge (and ably assisted by Gavin Graverson & others) has developed the following draft agenda for the drinking water portion of the annual conference.
Thursday Afternoon DRAFT Agenda:
1:00 - 1:30 Crystalline Waterproofing, Chris Krage with Xypex
1:30 - 2:30 Panel Discussion – “The Pains of Startup”-Mid-Dakota,Clark RW, Lewis & Clark RW, Watertown, and Sioux City
2:30 - 2:45 BREAK
2:45 - 3:00 SD DENR Regulator Update
3:00 - 3:30 Yankton Intake Case Study
3:30 - 4:00 TWO OPTIONS: Pigging & Cleaning Transmission Lines
Tim Monson Presentation
If you have questions, Gavin should be able to fill you in on some of the details.
Also, T&E Committee is planning a valve workshop, to be held in Pierre on August 8
They have the Singer Control Valve trailer reserved for the workshop.
MacDonald also was not able to attend meeting and emailed the following information-
Contact has been made with Aberdeen Ramkota
Currently reviewing the arrangements for Wednesday Night Buffet and Thursday Social Hour.
The exhibitor form is available on the website and is ready to mail.
Mailing will go out on June 3, 2013.
Doug Herron has been contacted for information on the Golf Tournament to send along.
Jim Zeck has been contacted about the WFP letter.
I may have to shorten the deadline on the exhibitors to meet the August 1st requirement to be printed in Conference Program.
Gavin Graverson has inquired about some outside display trailers being present at the conference. I have contacted a few displayers, and we may have up to half a dozen set-up in parking area as an outside display.
Graverson indicated that he has a good number of presentations. Coach Don Meyer will speak on Wednesday afternoon. Graverson will work on the specific topic with him.
Kittay indicated that the preliminary Conference program needs to be done by July 15 with the final agenda with presenters/moderators/AV assistants’ names done by August 1.
Other Business: Van Cleave asked about ways to spend down checking account. Local government education was mentioned to enhance the appreciation of water/wastewater operations specialists. Adler will ask Vansco and Peters will talk to Municipal League about getting on program at Conference. A Public Outreach Committee will be formed. Auen moved to form the committee. Adler seconded. Motion passed.
Graber asked about including American Public Works in this group. He will talk to Dan Bjerke about any cooperative efforts that could be done.
Next Meeting: Will be at 6:00 pm in Aberdeen at either the Ramkota or a local restaurant if there is one suited to hold a dinner meeting.
Graber moved for adjournment. Fink seconded. Meeting adjourned at 1:11 pm.
August 13, 2013
Rob Kittay
Secretary
Unapproved Minutes
SDWWA Board Meeting
January 8, 2013
Red Rossa/Clubhouse Suites-Pierre SD
Members Present: Dave Van Cleave, Gavin Graverson, Dan Graber, Rob Kittay, Dan Fink,
Mitch Kannenberg, DelRon Peters, Malcolm MacDonald, Steph Akers, Heath Thompson, Jim Auen, Vern Thorson
Member Absent: Dustin Sulzle and Jerry Adler
Others Present:
Call to Order: Van Cleave called the meeting to order at 11:40 am. A quorum was present.
Approval of Agenda: Graber moved for approval. MacDonald seconded. Motion passed.
Minutes: The minutes were emailed by Kittay and were on web site. Kittay moved to approve minutes. Peters seconded. Motion passed.
Treasurer’s Report: Kittay reported that there was $32,677.72 in the checkbook plus $2416.70 in the UBS account. Fink moved to accept report. Auen seconded. Motion passed.
Committees: Van Cleave reviewed awards that had been given at conference. Graber mentioned about larger breakout rooms at conf. MacDonald discussed Commercial Committee concerns.
Source to Stream: Kittay relayed Erin Steever’s report. Thompson moved for approval. Graber seconded. Motion passed.
Water Seminar: Kannenberg gave the report. It will be held at the RC Ramkota on February 13-14, 2013. Brett Runge is the head of the committee. Kittay added that a mass email has already been sent and registrations are starting to come in.
WW Seminar: Peters reported that the seminar will be held on May 1-2 at the Red Rossa Italian Grill in Pierre. A few agenda items need to be finalized. Kittay added that committee should get dates a year in advance and that draft agenda was needed by March 10. MacDonald moved for approval. Akers seconded. Motion passed.
2013 Committees: The establishment of a budget committee was discussed. Graber volunteered to lead this. Kannenberg moved to establish this committee. Graverson seconded. Motion passed.
Bill Brinker/James Dornbush: These two gentlemen passed away recently. There was discussion on how to recognize these two long-time SDWWA members. There is already a Dornbush Award. Graber moved to give the SDWWA Scholarship in Brinker’s name this year. Adler seconded. Motion passed. There was more discussion for a more permanent recognition. Members were asked to think about this and bring more ideas to next meeting.
2012 Conference: Van Cleave thanked the Board for holding 2012 Conference in RC. Kittaythought some of the topics were getting off of the water/wastewater track. It is OK for one or two presentations but the focus needed to be narrowed. Other comments included keeping program on time which is one of the moderators’ functions and that all speakers should use a microphone.
2013 Conference: One contact from Van Cleave was passed on to Graverson. It may be possible to get Coach Don Meyer to speak. VJ Smith from Brookings was also mentioned.
Other Business: Graber wanted to discuss the giving of the Conference Watch. This was very old tradition of SDWWA. Auen moved to discontinue this effort. Kittay seconded. Motion passed.
Next Meeting: The Board proposed to meet in May in Chamberlain or Pierre. Kittay will make arrangements.
Fink moved for adjournment. Kittay seconded. Meeting adjourned at 1:12 pm.
May 28, 2013
Rob Kittay
Secretary
Unapproved Minutes
SDWWA 2012 Annual Business Meeting
September 13, 2012
Ramkota Inn-Rapid City SD
Call to Order: By President Fink at 1:21 pm. Approximately 210 were in attendance.
Agenda: The agenda had been provided to the attendees. Raysor moved for approval. Verhey seconded. Motion passed.
Fink thanked the Commercial Committee, WEA, and AWWA Section for their work on the Conference. He also reviewed the Tuesday nite Board meeting for the attendees.
Minutes: The minutes of the 2011 Business Meeting had been posted to the web site. Kittay moved for approval. Felton seconded. Motion passed.
Old Business: Fink called for Old Business. There was none forthcoming.
Officers for 2012-13: Fink announced that Dave VanCleave would be the 2012-13 President and Gavin Graverson would be the President-Elect.
Vice-President: The candidate from the Board was Dan Graber. Fink called for nominations from the floor. Hemyer moved that nominations cease and a unanimous ballot be cast for Graber. Kittay seconded. Motion passed.
Secretary/Treasurer: The candidate from the Board was Rob Kittay. Fink called for nominations from the floor. None were forthcoming. Swanson moved that nominations cease, and a unanimous ballot be cast. Harris seconded. Motion passed.
Outgoing Directors: William, Kuiper, and Clark are the outgoing directors and were recognized.
New Directors for 2012-13: The three candidates recommended by the Nominating Committee were:
Jim Auen-L&C RWS Dustin Sulzle-Marion Vern Thorson-Fort Pierre
Fink called for nominations from the floor. Hemeyer moved to accept the candidates. Kittay seconded. Motion passed.
Fink thanked the Association for allowing him to serve as President. The ceremonial passing of the gavel to 2012-13 President VanCleave took place.
VanCleave introduced the entire SDWWA Board.
Constitutional Changes: Kittay reviewed the current constitution and suggested some changes to better reflect the practices that are currently in place. The changes had been placed on the web site and passed out at the luncheon. Vansco moved. Graber seconded. Motion passed.
Dr James Dornbush Award: Delvin DeBoer was given his award as he had to leave the Conference before the Thursday nite banquet.
Honorary Membership: The Board had approved an Honorary Membership for Delvin DeBoer at the Tuesday nite meeting which then needed approval from the membership. Kittay moved for Honorary Membership status for DeBoer. VanCleave seconded. Motion passed. DeBoer was given his plaque.
SDWWA Scholarship: Zeck gave a brief life history of JR Yde whose name the scholarships were given. Dane Yde, JR’s son, also made a few comments. Tia Miles and Brady Aldrich who are both at SDSU were the recipients.
New Business: The sites of the future conferences were announced as follows: 2013-Aberdeen Ramkota, 2014-Watertown Ramkota, 2015-Spearfish Holiday Inn, 2016-Sioux Falls Ramkota, 2017-Huron Crossroads, 2018-The Lodge at Deadwood.
Conference Watch: Kittay conducted the drawing. Waterland won the watch.
Adjournment: Hemeyer moved for adjournment. Kittay seconded. Motion passed. Meeting adjourned at 1:53 pm.
Rob Kittay
Secretary
9-18-2012
Unapproved Minutes
SDWWA Board Meeting
September 11, 2012
Ramkota Inn-Rapid City SD
Members Present: Rob Kittay, Robin Dykstra, Dan Fink, Jeff Clark, Steph Akers, Jerry Adler, Gavin Graverson, Mitch Kannenberg, Heath Thompson
Member Absent: DelRon Peters, Randy William, Kevin Kuiper, Dave Van Cleave, Malcolm MacDonald
Others Present: Jan Kittay, Kim Verhey, Ms Dykstra, Mark Mayer-DENR, George Vansco-SDARWS, Bob Kappel-SF WW
Call to Order: Fink called the meeting to order at 7:17 pm. A quorum was present.
Approval of Agenda: Dykstra moved for approval. Clark seconded. Motion passed.
Minutes: The minutes were emailed by Kittay and were on web site. Graverson moved to approve the minutes. Kittay seconded. Motion passed.
Old Business: None
Treasurer’s Report: Kittay reported that there was $ in the checkbook plus $2661.70 in the UBS account (July 31, 2012). A full report of the income and payments was provided. Kittay indicated that the account should be lowered. The checkbook has $5720.31 that has been donated for the scholarship during 2012 and should be moved out of checkbook to the scholarship account. The 2012 AWWA/WEA payments had been made after the checkbook had been closed out for the year. Adler moved to accept report. Kannenberg seconded. Motion passed.
Auditing Committee: Andrea Griese and Randy Hilding were on the committee. The audit was done in September, 2012. The books were in order. Thompson moved to accept the report. Clark seconded. Motion passed.
Other Committees: Graverson gave a report on conference preparations.
Water Seminar: Kannenberg gave the report. The committee met this afternoon and developed an agenda. It will be held at the RC Ramkota on February 13-14, 2013. Brett Runge is the head of the committee. Kittay would like the agenda by January 1.
WW Seminar: No report.
Honorary Membership: Kittay moved that Honorary Membership be bestowed on Delvin DeBoer. Kannenberg seconded. Motion approved. This nomination must now be approved by the membership at the Business Meeting.
Source to Stream: Steever submitted a written report (Attachment 1). Fink thanked the editors for their work. Jan Kittay stressed that articles need to be submitted. Article assignments were made for CY2013 as follows:
1st-Kittay, MacDonald, Fink, VanCleave
2nd-Akers, Graverson, Peters
3rd-Kannenberg, Adler, Thompson, New Vice-President
4th-Three new directors
2012-2013 Officers: VanCleave will be president, Fink will be past-president, and Graverson will become president-elect.
Secretary-Treasurer: Adler nominated Kittay with Clark seconding. Motion passed. Kittay will be the Board’s candidate for S/T.
Nominations Committee: Fink gave the report for the committee. The committee put forth:
Dustin Sulzle-Marion
Jim Auen-Lewis & Clark RWS
Vern Thorson-Fort Pierre
Kittay moved to accept the nominations. Graverson seconded. Motion passed.
Dan Graber of HDR was nominated as VP. Kittay moved for acceptance. Dykstra seconded. Motion passed.
Scholarships: SDWWA-Zeck gave the report. $?? total for SDWWA Scholarship. $15,000 has been invested with Wells Fargo. The committee is to meet during conference. The winners have been determined for this year, and the checks sent to the school. The winners will be announced at the luncheon. How money can be invested depends on what kind of non-profit corporations SDWWA is. Kittay will investigate this. Municipal bonds are a possibility. Kittay asked about the $5720.31 that was collected last year. Kittay moved to deposit this money in a 6 month CD. Clark seconded. Motion passed.
SDSU/SDSMT scholarships-Kittay moved that $2000 be given each to SDSU and SDSMT to fund two scholarships at each school. Adler seconded. Motion passed.
Constitution Changes: Kittay reviewed the current constitution (Attachment 2) and suggested some changes to better reflect the practices that are currently in place. Graverson moved to adopt the changes. Akers seconded. Motion passed. These changes now need to go in front of the membership at Business Meeting.
Resolution: Vansco gave a report. NRWA is advocating more professionalism in the water/wastewater industry. One of their objectives is for all groups to use the terms “Water System Operations Specialist” and “Wastewater System Operations Specialist”. Vansco would like the Board to adopt a resolution promoting this. Adler moved to adopt the following resolution-
South Dakota Water & Wastewater Association Draft Resolution
Advocate the Value of Professional Careers in Water & Wastewater
WHEREAS: The South Dakota Water & Wastewater Association (SDWWA) desires to promote the skills, knowledge and expertise in today’s water and wastewater industry workforce, and;
WHEREAS: This workforce is a critical link to protect public health and the environmental protection of our waterways, and;
WHEREAS: The skills, knowledge and expertise embedded in the industry should be respected for its complexity and critical infrastructure responsibilities, and;
WHEREAS: It is desired that these workforce positions be viewed as a professional career path for the next generation, and;
WHEREAS: Our organization continues to provide leadership and continuous communication to the industry, agencies and the public, thus;
THEREFORE: From this day henceforth, the SDWWA will endeavor to project the workforce position of operations personnel as:
WATER SYSTEM OPERATIONS SPECIALISTS
and as
WASTEWATER SYSTEM OPERATIONS SPECIALISTS
in publications, reports and verbal communications.
Kittay seconded. Motion passed.
Other Business: Mark Mayer appeared for DENR. The department is preparing for the 2013 Legislative Session. They are in the process of eliminating outdated regulations/statutes as part of the Better Government Initiative. This was just to notify the Board that some of the statutes to be eliminated dealt with water and wastewater and were no longer needed.
Water Festival-Graverson gave some information on the 2013 Water Festival on March 12-13 in Sioux Falls. SDWWA donated $500 last year. Kittay moved to donate $500 again this year. Akers seconded. Motion passed.
Computer-Kittay indicated that the current computer was getting hung up, and he is currently using his own printer. Adler moved to allow Kittay to purchase a new computer and printer. Clark seconded. Motion passed.
Next Meeting: Proposed date of January 8, 2013 just prior to the SDARWS Conference in Pierre.
Fink thanked board and said that their work is appreciated by Fink
Graverson moved for adjournment. Kittay seconded. Meeting adjourned at 8:16 pm.
September 30, 2012
Rob Kittay, Secretary
Attachment 1
Subject: Source to Stream - Financial Update
Good afternoon, everyone. I hope you are enjoying this gorgeous weekend weather we are having! With the Annual Meeting coming up next week I've been asked to prepare a financial status update for the board meetings. Please see the attached PDF for the number and types of ads under contract for this year and the previous years, for comparison. I've also attached a summary of the expenses from this year to date. We are expecting to have some surplus at the end of the year, which is always our goal. We were able to update the look of the issue in the first issue, and we've also been placing a PDF copy on the SD AWWA website.
For those of you who don't know, we are looking for a second editor again. Jan's work load was unexpectedly increased this year and she is unable to fulfill her obligations to co-edit the Source to Stream. She brought a lot of energy and ideas to the table and I appreciate the work that she was able to provide for the first two issues of 2012. I have had a few people inquire about the editor position opening, however, none of the inquiries were looking to fill the position. They were only curious about what was going on. Al, I know that you have a potential in Rapid City that I think would be a good fit. Could you send me her contact information and I can get in touch with her about the opening? If anyone else has someone in mind for the position, I'd also welcome you to send me some information about them.
I would like to point out that we have not be receiving as many articles as I would like to see for each issue this year. Please stress to your board members to get articles in as assigned. The deadlines for each issue can be found on page 3 on the lower right hand column of the publication.
If there is anything else you'd like to see, please let me know and I'll do my best to get your questions answered before the board meetings. As always, constructive feedback is always welcome. If you have new ideas you'd like to run by me, things you might want to see changed, etc. please let me know.
Thanks,
Erin
Attachment 2
October 2008 September 2012
CONSTITUTION OF THE SOUTH DAKOTA WATER AND WASTEWATER ASSOCIATION (SDWWA)
ARTICLE I
Name
The name of this body shall be “The South Dakota Water and Wastewater Association”, hereinafter designated as the Association.
ARTICLE II
Object
The objectives of the Association shall be:
- The advancement of a course of instruction for those responsible for the operation of water and wastewater facilities.
- The general advancement of knowledge of the design, construction, operation, and management of water and wastewater facilities.
- The cooperation with, and promotion of, the South Dakota Section of the American Water Works Association (AWWA) and the South Dakota Water Environment Association (WEA).
- The encouragement for a friendly exchange of information and experience amongst its members.
Membership
Section 1. Members of this association may either be Honorary Members or Active Members.
Section 2. An Honorary Member shall be a person who has rendered loyal and dedicated service to the Association. Election to this grade of membership shall be recommended by the Executive Committee and approved by majority vote of the members at the annual business meeting. The number of living Honorary Members at any one time shall not exceed 4% (four percent) of the Association membership at the time of election.
Section 3. A member shall be anyone with an interest in the water and/or wastewater field.
ARTICLE IV
Fees and Dues and Fiscal Year
Section 1. Each Active member shall pay annual dues of ten dollars. Honorary Members shall pay no annual dues.
Section 2. The fiscal year of the association shall begin on September 1 of each year.
ARTICLE V
Executive Committee
Section 1. There shall be an Executive Committee in which the government of the Association shall be vested. It shall consist of the Association President, President-Elect, Vice-President, Past-President, Secretary-Treasurer, and nine Directors.
The Directors will be designated as follows:
One AWWA-SD Section designated representative
One SDWEA designated representative
One manufacturers’ representative
Two people representing water and/or wastewater systems that serve less than 3300 people
Four at-large directors
The Officers of the Association shall be the Officers of the Executive Committee.
Section 2. The Officers of the Association shall be a President, President-Elect, Vice-President, and Secretary-Treasurer. All Officers shall be members of the Association and shall reside within the geographical boundaries of the State of South Dakota. The Officers of the Association shall be the Officers of the Executive Committee.
The office of President shall be filled by the previous year’s President-Elect.
The office of President-Elect shall be filled by the previous year’s Vice-President.
The position of Past-President shall be filled by the previous year’s President.
The election of officers shall take place during the annual business meeting. Prior to the annual business meeting, the Executive Committee shall select the nominees for any vacated offices being filled by interim officers and for the offices of Vice-President and Secretary-Treasurer, to be balloted on by the membership-at-large. Following the report of the Executive Committee to the membership-at-large members present at the annual business meeting, the President shall call for any additional nominations from the floor. Eligible voting members Members present may place in nomination additional qualified members for each office, the same being balloted on by the membership-at-large. These terms shall begin immediately following the conclusion of the annual business meeting. The Vice-President shall have served on the Executive Committee. All nominees shall have signified their willingness to serve.
The election of the Directors shall take place during the annual business meeting. A nomination committee, consisting of three active members of the Association appointed by the Executive Committee, shall place before the membership-at-large attending members present at the annual business meeting nominations for three Directors. Following the report of the Nominating Committee to the membership-at-large, the President shall call for any additional nominations from the floor. Eligible voting members Members present may place in nomination additional members of the Association, the same being balloted on by the membership-at-large. All nominees for Director shall be members of the Association. The terms of the Directors so elected shall be for three years. No director shall be elected to more than one consecutive three-year-term. All nominees shall have signified their willingness to serve. These terms shall begin immediately following the conclusion of the annual business meeting.
If only one (1) name is placed in nomination for any office and/or only three (3) names are placed in nomination for Directors, the nominee for that office or the nominees for the director positions shall be declared as elected.
If more than one (1) name is placed in nomination for any office or more than three (3) names are placed in nomination for Directors, an Election Committee shall be named and an election shall take place at the annual business meeting. Voting voting shall be by ballot by those present at the annual business meeting and the names of the nominees receiving the greatest number of votes cast shall be declared elected.
The terms of the officers and directors so elected shall begin immediately following the conclusion of the annual business meeting.
Section 3. If it becomes necessary for an officer to reside outside of the State of South Dakota, said officer shall relinquish the office held immediately, constituting a vacancy. In the event that a director or officer vacancy occurs for any reason in any office, the Executive Committee shall elect an interim officer or director.
The interim officer shall be a present member of their body the Executive Committee or any past Director or Officer and shall be elected by majority vote to fill the vacated office for the balance of its term. Upon completion of the term of the vacated office, the interim officer shall be relieved of further duty with regard to the normal progression of offices but shall be eligible to serve as director for the balance of his/her previous elected term on the Executive Committee. If the interim officer was a Director with an expired term on the Executive Committee he/she may exercise his/her eligibility to be elected again to office or for Director on the Executive Committee.
An interim director shall serve out the remainder of the term of the vacating director. An interim director may then be elected as a director thru the process described in Section 2 of this article.
ARTICLE VI
Duties of the Executive Committee
Section 1. The President shall have general supervision of the affairs of the Association.
Section 2. The President-Elect shall be responsible for the coordination of the annual conference. In the absence of the
President, he/she shall perform the duties of the President.
Section 3. The Vice-President shall assist the President-Elect as required in the coordination of the annual conference.
Section 4. The Secretary-Treasurer shall have charge of the funds of the Association, shall pay bills against the Association and shall make a report of the expenditures of the funds of the Association at the annual business meeting. It shall be his/her or a duly authorized representative's duty to attend all meetings of the Association and of the Executive Committee; prepare the business agenda for all official meetings and record the proceedings thereof. He/she shall conduct the correspondence of the Association and keep a full record of the same. He/she shall act as parliamentarian at all official sessions of the Executive Committee.
Section 5. Those officers or directors responsible for the coordination of both water and wastewater seminars shall beappointed and approved by the Executive Committee. They shall participate in the program planning of the annual conference. They shall be willing to offer their support to the Association as needed.
Section 6. The Executive Committee shall have the authority to appoint committees to carry out special activities of the Association and shall be the legal representative of the Association and as such, shall have full control of the management of the affairs of the Association or to invest funds of the same, but must not incur indebtedness beyond the funds in the custody of the Secretary-Treasurer. The Executive Committee shall have the power to prepare and enforce, for the conduct of the business of the association, by-laws not in conflict with this Constitution. It shall hold a meeting at least one hour before the opening session of the annual business meeting. Other meetings shall be held at the call of the President or of any three members of the Executive Committee.
All questions in the Executive Committee shall be decided by a majority vote. Fifty percent of the Executive Committee plus one Five members shall constitute a quorum at any meeting of the Executive Committee. The Executive Committee may vote by letter ballot upon questions submitted by letter from the President and Secretary-Treasurer.
ARTICLE VII
Annual Business Meeting
This Association shall hold an annual business meeting. The place will be selected and the time set by the Executive Committee.
Section 1. The Secretary-Treasurer shall make available an agenda to all members of the Association at least ten days before the annual business meeting.
Section 2. Amendments to this Constitution may be proposed by a majority of the Executive Committee, or through it, on petition of ten (10) percent of the eligible voting members. Amendments to this Constitution must first be adopted by the Executive Committee prior to being voted upon by the membership present at the annual business meeting. If adopted by the Executive Committee, written notice of the proposed amendments shall be made available to the members prior to the annual business meeting. A two-thirds vote of the members present at the annual business meeting shall be necessary for ratification.
Section 3. An amendment approved by the Association membership shall take effect immediately.
Current as of 2008 2012 Annual Business Meeting in Pierre Rapid City.
Approved Minutes
SDWWA Board Meeting
April 27, 2012
Oacoma, SD
Members Present: Rob Kittay, Robin Dykstra, Gary Englund, Dan Fink, Rudy William, Kevin Kuiper, , Jeff Clark, Steph Akers, Dave Van Cleave, Jerry Adler, Gavin Graverson, Mitch Kannenberg, Heath Thompson, DelRon Peters
Member Absent:
Others Present: Jim Zeck, Chris Van Cleave
Call to Order: Van Cleave called the meeting to order at 11:47 am. A quorum was present.
Approval of Agenda: Van Cleave moved for approval. Clark seconded. Motion passed.
Minutes: The minutes were emailed by Kittay and were on web site. Kittay moved to approve minutes. Dykstra seconded. Motion passed.
Board membership: Chad Johnson will not be able to fulfill his term on the Board. MacDonald is willing to fill the manufacturers position on Board. Kittay moved to have MacDonald join the Board as the Manufacturers’ Rep. Dykstra seconded. Motion passed.
Treasurer’s Report: Kittay reported that there was $37,512.27 in the checkbook plus $2906.70 in the UBS account plus $1002.70 in the Wells Fargo account. Water Seminar bill has not been paid. Akers
moved to accept report. Clark seconded. Motion passed.
Budget Committee: Van Cleave gave a report and has a plan to get a budget developed.
2012 Conference: Kannenberg gave a report of what AWWA Section has been developing for their section of program. They have more than enough topics so some of the extras could be used for Wednesday or Friday. Kittay will contact SDSMT to see if there are any student reports that could be given. Kittay wants a completed program of topics by July 1, and a final program with names by August 1. MacDonald will work on table tops. Fink/Adler/Kuiper will organize the small system section for Thursday afternoon. WEA will be meeting on Monday to develop their portion of program.
Scholarships: Zeck had information on the scholarship. Fink asked if a permanent name should be given to the scholarship. The committee will discuss this. The scholarship is given in a different name each year. Zeck will check w/ Verhey on where money from credit union interest is going. Kittay moved to have the committee investigate investing in municipal bonds. Dykstra seconded. Motion passed.
A drawing was done for the scholarship so that the submitter can be confirmed as a member of SDWWA.
Other Business:
Next Meeting: Proposed date of September 11, 2012 just prior to the SDWWA Conference in RC.
Kittay moved for adjournment. Clark seconded. Meeting adjourned at 1:17 pm.
Rob Kittay, Secretary
Date- May 17, 2012
Unapproved Minutes
SDWWA Board Meeting
January 10, 2012
Pierre, SD
Directors Present: Dan Fink, Robin Dykstra, Gavin Graverson, Dave VanCleave, Delron Peters, Kevin Kuiper, Heath Thompson, Jeff Clark, Jerry Adler, Stephanie Akers, Mitch Kannenberg
Directors Absent: Chad Johnson, Rob Kittay, Randy William
Others in Attendance: Malcolm MacDonald
Call to Order: Dan Fink called the meeting to order at 11:40 am. A quorum was present.
Opening Discussion:
Gavin Graverson indicated he had received email from Rob Kittay indicating Rob could not be present at meeting.
Gavin indicated that Rob Kittay’s email listed the following date and locations for the Annual Conference:
Sioux Falls – 2016
Huron – 2017
Deadwood – 2018
Approval of Agenda: Jerry Adler moved to accept the Meeting Agenda. Robin Dysktra seconded. Motion passed.
Minutes: There were no minutes from the previous meeting available.
Old Business: None
Treasurer’s Report: Gavin Graverson read the following from an email from Rob Kittay:
Balances as of December 19, 2011:
Checkbook: $30.205.53
Wells Fargo: $824.34
UBS: $2,906.70
Robin Dysktra moved to approve Treasurer’s Report. Jeff Clark seconded. Motion passed.
Committee Reports: None
“Source to Stream”: There was no Source to Stream Report, and no-one present knew the Article Assignments. Stephanie Akers indicated that Article Submission deadlines are as follows: January 30, April 30, July 1, and October 1. It was indicated that Article Submission assignments will be emailed to everyone at a later date.
Board Meeting Suspended for Lunch: 11:54 am to 12:17 pm
Formed 2012 SDWWA Committees:
There was some discussion regarding the Budget Committee. It was decided to at this time to leave the committee unchanged from the 2011 Budget Committee. The 2011 Budget Committee Members are Dan Graber, Del DeBoer, Rob Kittay and Dave VanCleave. The remaining 2012 committees are as shown in the attached document titled “SDWWA 2012 Committees.”
Review of 2011 Conference: Dan Fink reviewed previous email communication, indicating that each session at conference must have a moderator and an audio-visual (AV) person. Also, speakers should be reminded that they must fill their allotted time on the agenda – finishing early can cause problems with timing. Some members had indicated that the Banquet got a little long. Discussed potential ideas for shortening the Banquet. One suggestion was to pre-draw the Water for People prizes (rather than doing the drawing at the banquet). Then, the winners would simply be announced by Jim Zeck during his presentation of the winners, and acknowledgement of the firms donating the items. Also, it would be advantageous to encourage pre-registration for the conference as this greatly facilitates meal planning, etc.
Preliminary 2012 Conference Arrangements
Pre-Registration
In order to encourage pre-registration (see above), it was moved by Delron Peters that a $10.00 surcharge be added to both member and non-member conference registration fees for those attendees who do not pre-register. Seconded by Dave VanCleave. Discussion – for example, it conference fees are left as they were in 2011, Fees would be as follows:
Member Pre-registration: $60.00
Member No Pre-registration: $70.00
Non-Member Pre-registration: $80.00
Non-Member No Pre-registration: $90.00
Motion passed;
Conference Agenda
Some discussion on what acceptable amount for speaker fees is? General consensus is that this has generally been decided on a case-specific basis.
Some potential general session topics were discussed, including Sid Goss (SDSM&T Professor) South Dakota Demographics, or perhaps US Forest Service on Pine Beetle Infestation of the Black Hills.
There was discussion on whether or not the Conference should have a theme, such as suistainability, or some other theme. No theme was selected, will give it further consideration.
Dan Fink, Kevin Kuiper, and Jerry Adler will develop Small Systems Session
SD AWWA T&E Committee will develop drinking water session
SD WEA will develop wastewater session.
Specific topic suggestions should be ready by next board meeting so that agenda can be finalized by end of July.
Other Conference Items
Must have AV operators & Moderators selected no later than 2-weeks in advance of conference – Mitch Kannenberg to assist Dave VanCleave with AV operator issues.
Discussed potential plant tours, Rapid City’s new water plant will be well underway by then, also some discussion about other tours that may be of interest to a wider audience. Rapid City has a downtown trolley tour. Dave VanCleave will further review potential tours.
Other Business: Gavin Graverson had been contacted by Jesse Neyens (Sioux Falls Environmental) to request, on behalf of the Region 8 Pretreatment Association, a donation to help this industrial wastewater pretreatment group fund meals, etc. at a Conference they are holding in Deadwood in May. This is a national conference focusing on wastewater pretreatment, and historically different groups and associations from the host state have donated funds to offset meal costs, etc. Discussion for making a donation included supporting local wastewater operators who may want to attend and to encourage groups like this to hold conferences in South Dakota. Jerry Adler moved that $500 be donated to the Region 8 Pretreatment Association, Heath Thompson seconded. Motion passed.
Water Festival donation amounts were discussed. It has been previously decided by the Budget Committee that a maximum of $1000 be donated for Water Festivals, with a maximum amount of $500 per festival. No board action was needed or taken on this topic.
Dan Fink asked the Board to consider the potential benefits of SDWWA having a booth at the SDARWS Technical Conference. He indicated that he often sees many operators at the SDARWS Conference that he doesn’t see at other conferences, and a booth there may be a way to reach out to new members. The SDWWA does not have a booth at this time. No board action taken at this time.
There was some discussion regarding potentially re-naming the scholarship award to memorialize JR Yde. It was suggested to invite Jim Zeck to attend the next SDWWA Board meeting to further discuss.
Next Board Meeting: The next board meeting was scheduled for 11:30 am, on Friday, April 27, 2012, at Al’s Oasis in Chamberlain.
Adjournment: Kevin Kuiper moved to adjourn the meeting. Robin Dysktra seconded. Motion passed. Meeting adjourned at 1:15 pm.
Unapproved Minutes
SDWWA 2011 Annual Business Meeting
September 15, 2011
Huron, SD
Call to Order: By President Dykstra at 12:22 pm. Approximately 175 were in attendance.
Agenda-The agenda had been provided to the attendees. Graber moved for approval. Verhey seconded. Motion passed.
Dykstra thanked the Commercial Committee, WEA, and AWWA Section for their work on the Conference. He also reviewed the Tuesday nite Board meeting for the attendees.
Minutes: The minutes of the 2010 Business Meeting were distributed. Swanson moved for approval. Graber seconded. Motion passed.
Old Business: Dykstra called for Old Business. There was none forthcoming.
Officers for 2011-12: Dykstra announced that Dan Fink would be the 2011-12 President and Dave Van Cleave would be the President-Elect.
Vice-President: The candidate from the Board was Gavin Graverson. Dykstra called for nominations from the floor. Zeck moved that nominations cease, and a unanimous ballot be cast for Graverson. Swanson seconded. Motion passed.
Secretary/Treasurer: The candidate from the Board was Rob Kittay. Dykstra called for nominations from the floor. None were forthcoming. Zeck moved that nominations cease, and a unanimous ballot be cast. Kappel seconded. Motion passed.
Outgoing Directors: Bisgard, Graber, and Monson are the outgoing directors and were recognized.
New Directors for 2011-12: The three directors recommended by the Nominating Committee were Chad Johnson for the Manufacturers Rep position, Mitch Kannenberg for the AWWA position, and DelRon Peters for the WEA position. Dykstra called for nominations from the floor. Kittay moved to accept the candidates. Schmit seconded. Motion passed. Heath Thompson from Howard was nominated to fill Graverson’s director position. Kittay moved that nominations cease and a unanimous vote be cast. Kannenberg seconded. Motion passed.
Dykstra thanked the Association for allowing him to serve as President. The ceremonial passing of the gavel to 2011-12 President Fink took place.
Zeck announced that raffle tickets were still for sale.
Conference Watch: Kittay/Juelfs conducted the drawing. Walter Bauer of Aberdeen won the watch.
New Business: The sites of the future conferences were announced as follows: 2012-RC Ramkota, 2013-Aberdeen Ramkota, 2014-Watertown Ramkota, 2015-Spearfish.
Pipe Tapping Results were given.
Adjournment: Van Cleave moved for adjournment. Merrigan seconded. Motion passed. Meeting adjourned at 12:45 pm.
Rob Kittay
Date 9-18-2011
Secretary
Unapproved Minutes
SDWWA Board Meeting
September 13, 2011
Huron, SD
Members Present: Rob Kittay, Robin Dykstra, Gary Englund, Dan Fink, Dan Graber, Rudy William, Kevin Kuiper, Kirsten Bisgard, Tim Monson, Jeff Clark, Steph Akers, Dave Van Cleave, Jerry Adler,Gavin Graverson
Member Absent:
Others Present: Jan Kittay, Kim Verhey,
Call to Order: Dykstra called the meeting to order at 6:07 pm. A quorum was present.
Approval of Agenda: England moved for approval. Clark seconded. Motion passed.
Minutes: The minutes were emailed by Kittay and were on web site. Kittay moved to approve minutes. Fink seconded. Motion passed.
Old Business: None
Treasurer’s Report: Kittay reported that there was $37,512.27 in the checkbook plus $2906.70 in the UBS account. A full report of the income and payments was provided. Kittay indicated that the account should be lowered. A check for $10,000 had been written in March for the SDWWA Scholarship but that committee ran into problems with the investment. That check has been voided and the committee will start over on that issue. Adler moved to accept report. Akers seconded. Motion passed.
Auditing Committee: Andrea Griese and Randy Hilding were on the committee. The audit was done in August, 2011. The books were in order. Fink moved to accept the report. William seconded. Motion passed.
Nominations Committee: R Dykstra gave the report for the committee. The committee put forth DelRon Peters for the WEA position, Mitch Kannenberg for the AWWA position, and Chad Johnson as the Manufacturers Rep as directors. Gavin Graverson was nominated as VP. Heath Thompson was nominated to take Graverson’s director position. Van Cleave moved for acceptance. Kittay seconded. Motion passed.
Other Committees: There were no reports.
Water Seminar: The committee met this afternoon and developed an agenda. It will be held at the SF Ramkota on February 22-23, 2012.
WW Seminar: Englund reported that the seminar will be held on the first week of May at the SF Ramkota.
2011-2012 Officers: Fink will be president, Dykstra will be past-president, and Van Cleave will become president-elect.
Secretary-Treasurer: Kuiper nominated Kittay with Graverson seconding. Motion passed. Kittay will be the Board’s candidate for S/T.
Scholarships: SDWWA-Verhey gave the report. $25,927 total for SDWWA Scholarship. $15,000 has been invested with Wells Fargo. The committee is to meet during conference. The winner has been determined for this year and the check sent to the school. Fink wanted to supplement the SDWWA scholarship w/ more money. Kittay moved to have the original $15,000 fund a $500 scholarship with the excess going to a second scholarship. The $10,000 interest would also go to the second scholarship. The SDWWA will then makeup whatever money is needed to make the second scholarship in $500. Clarke seconded. Motion passed.
Graber entered meeting.
Jim Zeck will become the new chairperson for the scholarship committee with Verhey staying on as a member.
SDSU/SDSMT scholarships-Kittay moved that $2000 be given each to SDSU and SDSMT to fund two scholarships at each school. Englund seconded. Motion passed.
Sioux Empire Water Festival: Englund moved that $1000 festival w/ $500 maximum to any one festival with January 30 as an application deadline. Clarke seconded. Motion passed.
2011 Conference Concerns: There was discussion about the lack of rooms in Huron for Conference. Kittay explained that SDWWA had the Crossroads reserved for at least four years for the Conference. A racing group had decided w/in the last year to hold races at the same time. There had been plenty of time for people to have gotten their room arrangements taken care of and not wait until the last few weeks before Conference.
S2S article assignments-1st qtr- Dykstra Kuiper William
2nd-Akers Kittay Gavin Fink
3rd-Van Cleave Thompson Clarke Adler
4th-Peters Kannenberg Johnson
Other Business: Mailing Permit #19-The permit was formerly used for Clarifier but now S2S is mailed out of Sioux Falls. In the past year, it was used only for the renewals as flyers for the conference and seminars were not sent. The only notification of these was thru the web site and Kittay’s email list of 100’s of water/wastewater systems.
Next Meeting: Proposed date of January 10, 2012 just prior to the SDARWS Conference in Pierre.
Adler moved for adjournment. Graverson seconded. Meeting adjourned at 7:58 pm.
September 18, 2011
Rob Kittay
Secretary
Unapproved Minutes
SDWWA Board Meeting
June 10, 2011
Oacoma, SD
Members Present: Rob Kittay, Robin Dykstra, Dan Fink, Kevin Kuiper, Stephanie Akers, Jerry Adler, Dave Van Cleave, Gary Englund
Member Absent: Kirsten Bisgard, Tim Monson, Jeff Clark, Dan Graber, Rudy William, Gavin Graverson
Others Present: None
Call to Order: Dykstra called the meeting to order at 12:24. A quorum was present. The Board introduced themselves.
Approval of Agenda: Van Cleave moved for approval. Fink seconded. Motion passed.
Minutes: The minutes were passed out by Kittay. Judy Krege was misidentified on minutes. Englund moved to approve amended minutes. Adler seconded. Motion passed.
Old Business: 30 Year Longevity Award-Dykstra explained the thoughts behind the creation of a new award for 30 year water/wastewater personnel that are not certified. The Siger Bies Award is a 30 year award that only certified water/wastewater operators are eligible for. Englund moved to approve the new award. Adler seconded. Motion passed with Kittay abstaining.
Treasurer’s Report: Kittay reported on the following accounts-
SDWWA checkbook-$45,059.38 as of 5/16/2011
UBS Account-$2906.70 as of 4/29/2011
Wells-Fargo Low Activity Checking Account (Scholarship)-$345.95 as of 4/30/2011
The additional money authorized to be put into SDWWA Scholarship has not been moved yet. Kittay has contacted Verhey about this. The SDSU/SDSMT scholarships, Conference disbursement, and seminar profit checks were written since this bank statement.
Adler moved to accept report. Akers seconded. Motion passed.
Budget Committee: Van Cleave gave the report that Graber had put together. Kittay suggested that a calendar year be used. A few ideas were suggested to spend some of the association funds. Kittay moved to approve that proposed budget. Englund seconded. Motion passed.
Seminars: Englund reported on the WW seminar. There were 72 people in attendance and there were many good presentations. Kittay asked about the DENR awards. Englund stated that by knowing who was at seminar that was receiving the awards, it ran much better. The seminar netted about $1900.
“Source to Stream” (S2S): Kittay reported that Therese Hanson was moving to Omaha and will not be an editor any longer. This is an issue for the S2S board to handle.
2011 Committees: The Board formed committees for the coming year. It should be noted that the AWWA and SDWEA reps’ terms are expiring this year as well as the Manufacturers’ Rep. Englund moved to accept the committees as formed. Van Cleave seconded. Motion passed.
2011 Conference Concerns: Kittay reported on the basic structure of conference. AWWA/WEA will keep their spots on agenda as assigned for the past few years. Numerous topics for presentations were given.
Other Business: There was no other business.
Kittay moved for adjournment. Englund seconded. Meeting adjourned at 2:13 pm.
June 14, 2011
Rob Kittay, Secretary
Unapproved Minutes
SDWWA 2010 Annual Business Meeting
September 16, 2010
Sioux Falls, SD
Call to Order: By President Englund at 12:26 pm. Approximately 200 were in attendance.
Agenda-The agenda had been provided to the attendees. Felton moved for approval. Odens seconded. Motion passed.
Englund thanked the Commercial Committee, WEA, and AWWA Section for their work on the Conference. He also reviewed the Tuesday nite Board meeting for the attendees.
Minutes: The minutes of the 2009 Business Meeting were distributed. Merrigan moved for approval. Graber seconded. Motion passed.
Old Business: Englund called for Old Business. There was none forthcoming.
Officers for 2010-11: Englund announced that Robin Dykstra would be the 2010-11 President and Dan Fink would be the President-Elect.
Vice-President: The candidate from the Board was Dave Van Cleave. Englund called for nominations from the floor. Kittay moved that nominations cease, and a unanimous ballot be cast for Van Cleave. Odens seconded. Motion passed.
Secretary/Treasurer: The candidate from the Board was Rob Kittay. Englund called for nominations from the floor. None were forthcoming. Felton moved that nominations cease, and a unanimous ballot be cast. Schmit seconded. Motion passed.
Outgoing Directors: Del DeBoer, Doug Dykstra, and Bill Selland are the outgoing directors and were recognized.
New Directors for 2010-11: The three directors recommended by the Nominating Committee were Stephanie Akers from Hot Springs, Jerry Adler from Howard, and Gavin Graverson from Sioux Falls. Englund called for nominations from the floor. Kittay moved to accept the candidates. Badten seconded. Motion passed.
Englund thanked the Association for allowing him to serve as President. The ceremonial passing of the gavel to 2010-11 President Dykstra took place.
Conference Watch: Hilding conducted the drawing. Dean Schilling won the watch.
New Business: The sites of the future conferences were announced as follows: 2011-Huron Crossroads Inn, 2012-RC Ramkota, 2013-Aberdeen Ramkota, 2014-Watertown Ramkota, 2015-Spearfish.
Adjournment: Kittay moved for adjournment. Sarringar seconded. Motion passed. Meeting adjourned at 12:50 pm.
Rob Kittay, Secretary
9-18-2010
Unapproved Minutes
SDWWA Board Meeting
May 14, 2010
Oacoma, SD
Members Present: Rob Kittay, Robin Dykstra, Gary Englund, Dan Fink, Del DeBoer, Dan Graber, Rudy William, Kevin Kuiper
Member Absent: Kirsten Bisgard, Tim Monson, Jeff Clark, Wayne Fletcher, Bill Selland, Doug Dykstra
Others Present: John Cloud and Jeff Hines-AWWA
Call to Order: Englund called the meeting to order at 11:45 am. A quorum was present.
Approval of Agenda: Englund wanted to discuss funding requests & compensation for speakers. Kittay moved to accept the amended agenda. Graber seconded. Motion passed.
Minutes: The minutes were emailed by Kittay. R Dykstra moved to approve amended minutes. Kittay seconded. Motion passed.
Old Business: None
Treasurer’s Report: Kittay reported the following balances on accounts-
SDWWA Checkbook $48,102.95 as of April statement
Source to Stream 17,380.09 as of April 30, 2010
Wells Fargo Checking 130.44 as of April 30, 2010
UBS Account 3151.60 as of April 30, 2010
For the Wells Fargo account, this is just the interest earned from the $15,000 in the SDWWA Scholarship account. The AWWA and WEF shares of seminars and yearly allotments have not been paid while the checks for the SDSU/SDSMT scholarships ($1000 each) were just written. Kittay also just received the Ramkota Inn bill for the Water Seminar.
Graber moved to accept report. R Dykstra seconded. Motion passed.
“Source to Stream”: Kittay reminded board members to submit their annual articles to S2S.
Committees: The Award Committees were formed. Kittay will send an email to systems and Muni League.
2015 Conference: Kittay moved to have the 2015 Conference at the Spearfish Holiday Inn. R Dykstra seconded. Motion passed.
2010 Conference: Kittay had previously emailed a skeleton agenda for conference. The Board offered suggestions for topics. Schedule with topics needs to be done by July 15 for the conference flyer with speakers confirmed by August 1. Kittay will do a preliminary email on the conference attaching last year’s flyer to show a general flavor of the conference.
Other Business: Englund spoke about the Sioux Empire Water Festival and the Haiti Earthquake relief. DeBoer suggested that a budget line item be established. Kittay moved that $500 be given to the Sioux Empire 2010 Water Festival. R Dykstra seconded. Kittay amended the motion to have money go to 2011 Festival. R Dykstra seconded. Motion passed.
DeBoer suggested that SDWWA establish a budget each year. Graber spoke in favor of this. Kittay move to form a Budget Committee. DeBoer seconded. Motion passed. Englund appointed Kittay, DeBoer, Graber, and himself on the committee.
Englund spoke about paying for speakers again. It was confirmed that SDWWA would pay for motivational type speakers only-Not technical speakers. R Dykstra will pursue a speaker for Conference.
Fink spoke about establishing a stipend/scholarship for operators to attend the conference. This effort will be dealt with by the Budget Committee.
R Dykstra moved for adjournment. Graber seconded. Meeting adjourned at 1:45 pm.
May 19, 2010
Rob Kittay
Secretary
Unapproved Minutes
SDWWA 2009 Annual Business Meeting
September 17, 2009
Spearfish, SD
Call to Order: By President Fletcher at 12:26 pm. Approximately 200 were in attendance.
Agenda-The agenda had been provided to the attendees. Schmit moved for approval. Swanson seconded. Motion passed.
Fletcher thanked the Commercial Committee, Gary Englund, WEA, and AWWA Section for their work on the Conference. He also reviewed the Tuesday nite Board meeting for the attendees. Minutes: The minutes of the 2008 Business Meeting had been published on the SDWWA web site. Raysor moved for approval. Doug Dykstra seconded. Motion passed.
Old Business: Fletcher called for Old Business. There was none forthcoming.
Officers for 2009-10: Fletcher announced that Gary Englund would be the 2009-10 President and Robin Dykstra would be the President-Elect.
Vice-President: The candidate from the Board was Dan Fink. Fletcher called for nominations from the floor. Kittay moved that nominations cease, and a unanimous ballot be cast for Fink. Odens seconded. Motion passed.
Secretary/Treasurer: The candidate from the Board was Rob Kittay. Fletcher called for nominations from the floor. None were forthcoming. Kittay moved that nominations cease, and a unanimous ballot be cast. Swanson seconded. Motion passed.
Outgoing Directors: Dan Fink, John Cloud, and Vince Juelfs are the outgoing directors and were recognized.
New Directors for 2009-10: The three directors recommended by the Nominating Committee were Jeff Clark from Wall, Kevin Kuiper from Platte, and Randy William form the Lead-Deadwood Sanitary District. Fletcher called for nominations from the floor. Kittay moved to accept the candidates. Selland seconded. Motion passed.
Honorary Members: Fletcher announced that the Board had voted to bestow Honorary Membership upon Al Erickson of HDR and Pete Hesla of Aberdeen for their loyal service to the Association. A vote of the Association is needed to affirm this action. Kittay moved to have Hesla and Erickson be Honorary Members. Brinker seconded. Motion passed.
Fletcher thanked the Association for allowing him to serve as President. The ceremonial passing of the gavel to 2009-10 President Englund took place.
Conference Watch: As tradition dictates, Kittay read the conference watch rules, and Hilding conducted the drawing. Joe Munson won the watch.
New Business: The sites of the future conferences were announced as follows: 2010-Sioux Falls Ramkota, 2011-Huron Crossroads Inn, 2012-RC Ramkota, 2013-Aberdeen Ramkota, and 2014-Watertown Ramkota.
Deb Houshell of WEF presented the Bedell Award to Chris Schmit.
Morris Elcock presented an award to Brad Lawrence for his work with SD WARN.
Adjournment: Brinker moved for adjournment. Stockert seconded. Motion passed. Meeting adjourned at 12:50 pm.
Rob Kittay, Secretary
9-10-2010
Unapproved Minutes
SDWWA Board Meeting
September 15, 2009
Spearfish, SD
Members Present: Rob Kittay, Jim Raysor, John Cloud, Dan Fink, Wayne Fletcher, Robin Dykstra, Gary Englund, Doug Dykstra, Bill Selland, Del DeBoer, Dan Graber, Kristin Bisgard, Tim Monson
Member Absent: Vince Juelfs
Others Present: Kim Verhey, Cindy Raysor
Call to Order: Fletcher called the meeting to order at 7:22 pm. A quorum was present. The Board introduced themselves.
Approval of Agenda: DeBoer moved to accept the agenda. Graber seconded. Motion passed.
Minutes: The minutes were emailed by Kittay and were on web site. Fink moved to approve minutes. Raysor seconded. Motion passed.
Old Business: None
Treasurer’s Report: Kittay reported that there was $36,184.50 in the checkbook plus the CD. A full report of the income and payments was provided. R Dykstra moved to accept report. Raysor seconded. Motion passed.
Auditing Committee: Andrea Griese and Gayleen Lowe were on the committee. The audit was done on September 3, 2009. The fiscal year end balance was $36,184.50 with $3376.38 in the CD. The books were in order. Fink moved to accept the report. Graber seconded. Motion passed.
Nominations Committee: R Dykstra gave the report for the committee. The committee put forth Kevin Kuiper-Platte, Jeff Clark-Wall, and Rudy William-Lead-Deadwood Sanitary District as directors. Dan Fink was nominated as VP. Kittay moved for acceptance. Graber seconded. Motion passed.
Honorary Members: Kittay moved that Al Erickson of Sioux Falls and Pete Hesla of Aberdeen be nominated for Honorary Membership. Raysor seconded. Motion passed.
WW Seminar: The seminar will be held in Rapid City. March 23-24-25 are the possible dates. The committee has met and gathered topics.
“Source to Stream”:
Article assignments-
November-Kittay, R Dykstra, Graber, Monson
February-Bisgard, DeBoer, D Dykstra, Englund
April-Graber, Fletcher, Fink
July-New directors
2009-2010 Officers: Englund will be president, Fletcher will be past-president, and R Dykstra will become president-elect.
Secretary-Treasurer: Raysor nominated Kittay with Graber seconding. Motion passed. Kittay will be the Board’s candidate for S/T.
Scholarships: DeBoer gave a report. $1000 per yr can be a stand alone scholarship. A memorandum of Understanding (MOU) was presented. Raysor moved to accept. D Dykstra seconded. Motion passed. Bisgard moved that $1000 be given each to SDSU and SDSMT scholarships. Monson seconded. Motion passed.
Verhey spoke about the SDWWA scholarship. There is $17,075 total in scholarship fund with $2270 in checkbook. This year, $500 will go to the scholarship winner with the check being written out to the school. The announcement will be done at the banquet. Don Wessel is the name sake of the scholarship for this year. Raysor moved to add $1000 to scholarship. He also spoke about getting money from membership to get up to $20,000. R Dykstra seconded. Motion passed.
2014/2015 Conferences: Englund reported that the Brookings Days Inn should be taken out of the running for the Conference. Kittay investigated the Watertown Ramkota, and they have room in 2014. Some people wanted to get info on the Lodge at Deadwood for the 2015 Conference. Kittay moved to have the 2014 Conference at the Watertown Ramkota/Events Center. D Dykstra seconded. Motion passed.
2009 Conference Concerns: Englund said that an American flag was needed for meeting room. The National Anthem and flag entry need to be coordinated. The ceremonial passing of the gavel will occur at the luncheon business meeting.
Other Business: None
Selland moved for adjournment. Raysor seconded. Meeting adjourned at 8:30 pm.
Rob Kittay
Secretary
September 18, 2009
Unapproved Minutes
SDWWA Board Meeting
May 15, 2009
Oacoma, SD
Members Present: Rob Kittay, Jim Raysor, Robin Dykstra, Wayne Fletcher, Gary Englund, Doug Dykstra, Del DeBoer, Dan Graber
Member Absent: Vince Juelfs, Bill Selland, John Cloud, Kirsten Bisgard, Tim Monson, Dan Fink
Others Present: Tanya Miller
Call to Order: Fletcher called the meeting to order at 11:54 am. A quorum was present.
Approval of Agenda: DeBoer wanted to talk about scholarships. R Dykstra would like to discuss the passing of the gavel. Kittay moved to accept the amended agenda. D Dykstra seconded. Motion passed.
Minutes: The minutes were emailed by Kittay. Raysor moved to approve amended minutes. DeBoer seconded. Motion passed.
Old Business: None
Treasurer’s Report: Kittay reported the following balances on accounts-
SDWWA Checkbook $41,410.34
Source to Stream 17,107.44
Wells Fargo Checking 414.92
UBS Account 3376.14
There is approximately $2700 of SDWWA Scholarship contained within the SDWWA account. The AWWA and WEF shares of seminars and yearly allotments have not been paid. Kittay noted that were was quite a bit of money in SDWWA account. Keynote speakers for conference/seminars, more scholarship money, and lower conference costs were ideas presented to reduce this amount of money.
Graber moved to accept report. D Dykstra seconded. Motion passed.
Scholarship: DeBoer presented a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) on the SDWWA Scholarship for Environmental Engineering Studies at SDSU (SDWWA Scholarship). This pertains to the money that is currently given each year. The Dornbush Scholarship is fully funded and gives a scholarship with the interest earned. These are two separate scholarships. Raysor suggested that the recipient of the SDWWA Scholarship be a member of the Student Chapter of WEF/AWWA. Raysor moved to approve amended agreement. R Dykstra seconded. Motion passed. DeBoer will come back with a final version of the MOA.
“Source to Stream”: Kittay reviewed the email received from Erin Steever. R Dykstra moved to accept report. D Dykstra seconded. Motion passed.
Committees: The Award Committees were formed. An email should be sent to South Dakota Municipal League to advertise the awards.
New Computer for SDWWA: Kittay explained that the current laptop is seven years old, has old software, and locks up on occasion. He said that a new computer is desired. DeBoer moved to buy a new computer/printer/software with a limit of $2500. R Dykstra seconded. Motion passed.
Future Conferences: Kittay moved to have the 2013 Conference at the Aberdeen Ramkota. R Dykstra seconded. Motion passed. Discussion centered around the status of Brookings Days inn being able to hold conference in 2014. Englund and DeBoer will investigate the Days Inn. Raysor will look into Deadwood Ramkota being able to hold 2015 Conference. It was noted that Al Erickson had investigated that facility for the 2012 Conference; however, the room rates were too high. Raysor will also look into a restaurant for the Tuesday nite board meeting.
2009 Conference: Kittay passed out a skeleton agenda for conference. The Board offered suggestions for topics.
Other Business: Kittay moved to eliminate watch drawing at the Annual Conference. Englund seconded. Motion failed.
It was asked if anyone saw “Liquid Assets”-a PBS production that SDWWA contributed to so that it would be shown in SD. A couple members saw it and thought it was good.
Raysor asked about setting up a bus to go to Deadwood during Conference. The concensus was that it would be OK; however, it would not be noted in program.
DeBoer moved for adjournment. D Dykstra seconded. Meeting adjourned at 2:45 pm.
Rob Kittay
Secretary
May 19, 2009
Unapproved Minutes
SDWWA 2008 Annual Business Meeting
September 11, 2008
Pierre, SD
Call to Order: By President Raysor at 12:33 pm. Approximately 200 were in attendance.
Raysor thanked the Commercial Committee, Wayne Fletcher, WEA, and AWWA Section for their work on the Conference. He also reviewed the Tuesday night Board meeting for the attendees.
Minutes: The minutes of the 2007 Business Meeting had been published on the SDWWA web site. Royalty moved for approval. Swanson seconded. Motion passed.
Old Business: Raysor called for Old Business and none was forthcoming.
Constitutional Amendments: The Board passed numerous constitutional amendments that must now be approved by the membership. Copies were made available at registration desk and were passed out to those in attendance. Raysor explained the changes. Verhey moved that the changes be adopted all together. Stefanich seconded. Motion passed.
Officers for 2008-09: Raysor announced that Wayne Fletcher would be the 2008-09 President and Gary Englund would be the President-Elect.
Vice-President: The candidate from the Board was Robin Dykstra. Raysor called for nominations from the floor. Kittay moved that nominations cease, and a unanimous ballot be cast for Dykstra. Yde seconded. Motion passed.
Secretary/Treasurer: The candidate from the Board was Rob Kittay. Raysor called for nominations from the floor. None were forthcoming. Swanson moved that nominations cease, and a unanimous ballot be cast. Clark seconded. Motion passed.
Outgoing Directors: Tyler Smith, Robin Dykstra, and Thad Konrad are the outgoing directors and were recognized.
New Directors for 2008-09: The three directors recommended by the Nominating Committee were Dan Graber from WEA, Kristin Bisgard from AWWA, and Tim Monson for Manufacturers’ Group. Raysor called for nominations from the floor. Kittay moved to accept the candidates. Royalty seconded. Motion passed.
Raysor thanked the Association for allowing him to serve as President. The ceremonial passing of the gavel to 2008-09 President Fletcher took place. Fletcher introduced the entire board.
Meter Competition: Joe Honner gave the results.
Conference Watch: As tradition dictates, Kittay read the conference watch rules, and Hilding conducted the drawing. Craig Mitchell won the watch.
New Business: The sites of the future conferences were announced as follows: 2009-Spearfish, 2010-Sioux Falls, 2011-Huron, and 2012-RC.
Adjournment: Zeck moved for adjournment. Yde seconded. Motion passed. Meeting adjourned at 12:52 pm.
9-18-2008
Rob Kittay, Secretary
Unapproved Minutes
SDWWA Board Meeting
September 9, 2008
Pierre, SD
Members Present: Rob Kittay, Vince Juelfs, Jim Raysor, John Cloud, Dan Fink, Wayne Fletcher, Robin Dykstra, Gary Englund, Doug Dykstra, Bill Selland, Del DeBoer
Member Absent: Peggi Badten, Thad Konrad, Tyler Smith
Others Present: Jan Kittay
Call to Order: Raysor called the meeting to order at 7:23 pm. A quorum was present. The Board introduced themselves.
Approval of Agenda: R Dykstra moved to accept the amended agenda. DeBoer seconded. Motion passed.
Minutes: The minutes were emailed by Kittay and were on web site. Juelfs moved to approve minutes. Fink seconded. Motion passed.
Old Business: None
Treasurer’s Report: Kittay reported that there was $44,007.19 in the checkbook plus the CD ($3494.28). A full report of the income and payments was provided. Raysor explained what is going to be happening with the scholarship money. Selland moved to accept report. R Dykstra seconded. Motion passed.
Auditing Committee: Raysor gave the report. Andrea Griese, Carl Johnson, and Mark McIntire were on the committee. The audit was done on September 3, 2008. The fiscal year end balance was $43,987.19, $3494.28 in the CD, and the books were in order. Fink moved to accept the report. Englund seconded. Motion passed. Englund moved that the secretary/treasurer honorarium be issued. Fink seconded. Motion passed. DeBoer asked for an accounting of the S2S. Kittay stated that he would follow-up on that.
Nominations Committee: There are pending changes to the Constitution that effect the makeup of the Board with AWWA and WEA getting designated slots this year. The AWWA/WEA reps will ne in charge of the respective seminars and for their associations’ portions of the conference agenda. Englund gave the report for the committee. The committee put forth Kristin Bisgard-AWWA, Dan Graber-WEA, and Tim Monson as directors. Robin Dykstra was nominated as VP. Kittay moved for acceptance of the report. D Dykstra seconded. Motion passed.
Wastewater Seminar-Englund reported that the committee had met that afternoon. The seminar will be held around the end of March in either Mitchell or Sioux Falls.
Water Seminar- DeBoer reported that the program had been competed. It will be held at the RC Ramkota on February 11-12. R Dykstra moved that the seminar reports be accepted. Englund seconded. Motion passed.
“Source to Stream”:
Article assignments-
November-Cloud, DeBoer, D Dykstra
February-R Dykstra, Englund, Fink
April-Fletcher, Juelfs, Kittay, Raysor
July-New directors, Selland
2008-2009 Officers: Fletcher will be president, Raysor will be past-president, and Englund will become president-elect.
Secretary-Treasurer-Raysor nominated Kittay with Englund seconding. Motion passed. Kittay will be the Board’s candidate for S/T.
Scholarships: Kittay gave a brief description of previous years’ scholarship program. Kittay moved to continue scholarship program for 2008-2009 in the amount of $1000 to each school. DeBoer stated that funding at $1000 at SDSU could be a stand-alone scholarship. Englund seconded. Motion passed.
Verhey spoke about the SDWWA scholarship. There will be awards made to the donators at the banquet. The funds will be invested w/ Edward D Jones.
Fink moved to put $3000 from the SDWWA General Funds be put into SDWWA scholarship for this year. Raysor seconded. DeBoer suggested that the scholarship award be made by April 30 of each year. DeBoer will also be on committee. Motion passed.
Paying for Speakers: The current policy is to not pay for technical speakers. DeBoer moved to maintain that policy except for motivational/personal development speakers. Englund seconded. AWWA/WEF pay for their national reps. Motion passed.
2008 Conference Concerns: Doug Dykstra asked about credit card usage. Kittay stated that with only three events it would be not cost effective and currently we are not set up to do so.
Raysor suggested that “core beliefs” (policies) be setup for SDWWA similar to what is done by the SD Municipal League.
Other Business: None
Kittay moved for adjournment. D Dykstra seconded. Meeting adjourned at 8:17 pm.
September 18, 2008
Rob Kittay, Secretary
Unapproved Minutes
SDWWA Board Meeting
May 29, 2008Oacoma, SD
Members Present: Rob Kittay, Jim Raysor, Dan Fink, Robin Dykstra, Wayne Fletcher, Gary Englund, Doug Dykstra, Thad Konrad,
Member Absent: Del DeBoer, Tyler Smith, Vince Juelfs, Bill Selland, Peggi Badten, John Cloud
Others Present: Mitch Kannenberg-AWWA
Call to Order: Raysor called the meeting to order at 11:40 am. A quorum was present.
Approval of Agenda: Fletcher moved to accept the amended agenda. Englund seconded. Motion passed.
Minutes: The minutes were emailed by Kittay. Fink moved to approve amended minutes. Robin Dykstra seconded. Motion passed.
Old Business: None
Treasurer’s Report: Kittay reported that, as of April 17, 2008, there was $50,356.19 in the checkbook plus the UBS account has $3475.66 as of April 30, 2008. There is approximately $12,000 for SDWWA Scholarship contained within the SDWWA account. Kittay would like that money moved out. Raysor will talk to Verhey about doing such. Robin Dykstra moved to accept report. Doug Dykstra seconded. Motion passed.
Committee Reports: None
“Source to Stream”: Kittay noted that there were only two articles in the May S2S-One from DENR and one from the Lake Traverse Reservation. Everything else was reports from AWWA, award descriptions, or a reprint from the SDARWS publication. Board members need to submit articles. The editors (Steever/Purchase) are to publish what they are given—not necessarily looking for or writing articles. Kittay reviewed article assignments-
Article assignments-
November-Kittay, Dykstra, Fink
February-Badten, Konrad, Juelfs
April-Raysor, Smith, Fletcher, Cloud
July-New directors, Englund
AWWA/WEA/SDWWA Combined Meeting: Raysor gave a review of discussions. Kittay spoke about some possible amendments to Constitution to reflect the items discussed at meeting. There was also discussion on revenue sharing from the seminars. Kittay moved for a 50% share of Water Seminar profit/loss go to AWWA-SD Section and a 50% share of Wastewater Seminar profit/loss go to SD WEA. Raysor seconded. Motion passed.
Each section of the Constitution Amendments was handled separately-
Article II
Object
The objectives of the Association shall be:
(a) …
(b) …
(c) The cooperation with, and promotion of, the South Dakota Section of the American Water Works Association (AWWA) and the South Dakota Association of the Water Pollution Control Federation (WPCF) Water Environment Association (WEA).
(d) The encouragement for social intercourse among its members of a friendly exchange of information and experience amongst its members
Article II-Fletcher moved. Doug Dyksta seconded. Motion passed.
Article III
Membership
Section 1 …
Section 2 …
Section 3. A member shall be anyone with an interest in the water and/or wastewater field. (Delete rest of Section 3 referring to whom may be a member of SDWWA)
Article III-Englund moved. Fink seconded. Motion passed.
Article IV
Fees and Dues
Section 1. Each Active Member shall pay annual dues of ten dollars. Honorary Members shall pay no dues.
(Delete rest of Section 1 referring to dispersion of membership dues)
Article IV-Fink moved. Doug Dykstra seconded. Motion passed.
Article V
Executive Committee
Section 1. There shall be an Executive Committee in which the government of the Association shall be vested. It shall consist of the Association President, President-Elect, Vice-President, Past-President, Secretary-Treasurer, and nine Directors. At least one member of the Executive Committee shall be a manufacturer’s representative.
The Directors will be designated as follows:
One AWWA-SD Section designated representative
One SDWEA designated representative
One manufacturers’ representative
Two people representing water and/or wastewater systems that serve less than 3300 people
Four at-large directors
The Officers of the Association shall be the Officers of the Executive Committee.
Article V-Robin Dykstra moved. Fletcher seconded. Motion passed.
Article VI
Duties of the Executive Committee
Section 6 …
All questions in the Executive Committee shall be decided by a majority vote. Five Eight members shall constitute a quorum. The Executive Committee may vote by letter ballot upon questions submitted by letter from the President and Secretray-Treasurer.
Article VI-Kittay moved. Konrad seconded. Motion passed.
Article VIII
Annual Business Meeting
This Association shall hold an annual business meeting. The place will be selected and the time set by the Executive Committee.
Section 1. The Secretary-Treasurer shall make available an agenda send notice to all members of the Association at least ten days before the annual business meeting, giving titles of papers to be read and mentioning any special business to be considered at said meeting.
Section 2. Amendments to this Constitution may be proposed by a majority of the Executive Committee, or through it, on a petition of ten (10) percent of the eligible voting members. Amendments to this Constitution must first be adopted by the Executive Committee prior to being voted upon by the membership at-large present at the annual business meeting. If adopted by the Executive Committee, written notice of the proposed amendments shall be made available given to the members at the time of their registration for any regular prior to the annual business meeting. A two-thirds vote of the members present at the annual business meeting shall be necessary for ratification.
Article VIII-Fink moved. Robin Dykstra seconded. Motion passed.
These amendments will now be voted upon at the next business meeting.
2008 Conference: Kittay passed out a skeleton agenda for conference. SD WARN would like to hold their annual meeting on Thursday of the Conference. Randy Hilding will be coordinating a split session for small systems on Thursday afternoon with AWWA and WEA coordinating the other two sessions on Thursday afternoon. Fletcher suggested that a breakfast buffet be scheduled for Friday morning. It was also suggested that an ad be placed in the SD Municipal League magazine. Kittay noted that the conference topics were needed by July 10 for the flyer and presenter names by August 15 for the conference program. Kittay will also look into having the Wednesday nite picnic at Steamboat Park where it was held during the last conference in Pierre.
Other Business: None
Fletcher moved for adjournment. Doug Dykstra seconded. Meeting adjourned at 1:30 pm.
May 30, 2008
Rob Kittay, Secretary
Unapproved Minutes
SDWWA Board Meeting
January 9, 2008
Pierre, SD
Members Present: Rob Kittay, Vince Juelfs, Jim Raysor, Dan Fink, Robin Dykstra, Tyler Smith, Wayne Fletcher, Gary Englund, Doug Dykstra, Del DeBoer, Bill Selland
Member Absent: Peggi Badten, Thad Konrad, John Cloud
Others Present: Randy Hilding, Dan Graber, Jeff DeVille, Mitch Kannenberg, Chris Schmit
Call to Order: Raysor called the meeting to order at 11:38. A quorum was present. The Board introduced themselves.
Approval of Agenda: Fink moved to accept the amended agenda. Fletcher seconded. Motion passed.
Minutes: The minutes were emailed by Kittay and were on web site. Kittay stated that Petrik’s name was noted twice while Fletcher’s name had been omitted. DeBoer moved to approve amended minutes. Fletcher seconded. Motion passed.
Old Business: None
Treasurer’s Report: Kittay reported that, as of 12-17-2007, there was $31,003.87 in the checkbook plus the CD of around $3600. Several thousand dollars in checking account are designated for SDWWA Scholarship. Renewal notices have been sent and several hundred have been processed. They are now trickling in after the initial big rush. Raysor has been speaking to Verhey, and the scholarship fund is near $10,000. DeBoer moved to accept report. Englund seconded. Motion passed.
W/WW Seminar Reports: Graber represented the WW Seminar. The preliminary agenda is done. He will get agenda to Kittay by Feb 1 for flyer.
DeBoer spoke for the Water Seminar. All is done except perhaps one speaker is being sought. The flyers have been sent.
Raysor spoke about AWWA/WEF sharing revenue from seminars. Graber spoke about WEF perspective. Schmit added a few comments also. The OpCert topic was mentioned because of higher training and contact hour requirements. It is felt that the three groups need to get together to achieve some common goals. It was suggested that they should have a common meeting to get a direction. Schmit suggested a possible concept for the conference of a six member committee made up of all three groups. Perhaps a facilitator for the joint meeting would be needed. Kittay moved that a large group meeting be held. Selland seconded. Motion passed. Raysor asked Kittay to get a date at Oacoma in April for the meeting.
Other Committee Reports: None
“Source to Stream”: Kittay reviewed article assignments-
Article assignments-
November-Kittay, Dykstra, Fink
February-Badten, Konrad, Juelfs
April-Raysor, Smith, Fletcher, Cloud
July-New directors, Englund
2008 Committee Formation: The Board formed the committees.
2007 Conference Review: There were a few comments.
Kittay moved for adjournment. Englund seconded. Meeting adjourned at 1:05 pm.
Rob Kittay, Secretary
January 10, 2008
Unapproved Minutes
SDWWA 2007 Annual Business Meeting
September 13, 2007
Watertown, SD
Call to Order: By President Badten at 12:39 pm. Approximately 175 were in attendance.
Badten thanked Jim Raysor, WEA, and AWWA Section for their work on the Conference. She also reviewed the Tuesday nite Board meeting for the attendees.
Minutes: The minutes of the 2006 Business Meeting had been published on the SDWWA web site. Royalty moved for approval. Fletcher seconded. Motion passed.
Old Business: Badten called for Old Business. Verhey spoke about the SDWWA Scholarship for members’ children.
Officers for 2007-08: Badten announced that Jim Raysor would be the 2007-08 President and Wayne Fletcher would be the President-Elect.
Vice-President: The candidate from the Board was Gary Englund from Brookings. Badten called for nominations from the floor. Verhey moved that nominations cease, and a unanimous ballot be cast for Fletcher. Beoerger seconded. Motion passed.
Secretary/Treasurer: The candidate from the Board was Rob Kittay. Badten called for nominations from the floor. None were forthcoming. Merrigan moved that nominations cease, and a unanimous ballot be cast. Clark seconded. Motion passed.
Outgoing Directors: Chip Petrik, Vern Johnson, and Craig Wagner are the outgoing directors and were recognized.
New Directors for 2007-08: The three directors recommended by the Nominating Committee were Del DeBoer from SDSU, Doug Dykstra from Sioux Falls, and Bill Selland from Salem. Badten called for nominations from the floor. Kittay moved to accept the candidates. Hilding seconded. Motion passed.
Badten thanked the Association for allowing her to serve as President. The ceremonial passing of the gavel to 2007-2008 President Raysor took place.
Conference Watch: As tradition dictates, Kittay read the conference watch rules, and Hilding conducted the drawing. Ron Barber won the watch.
New Business: The sites of the future conferences were announced as follows: 2008-Pierre, 2009-Spearfish, 2010-Sioux Falls, 2011-Huron, and 2012-RC.
Adjournment: Merrigan moved for adjournment. Skinner seconded. Motion passed. Meeting adjourned at 12:52 pm.
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SDWWA Board Meeting
September 11, 2007
Watertown, SD
Members Present: Rob Kittay, Vern Johnson, Chip Petrik, Peggi Badten, Craig Wagner, Chip Petrik, Thad Konrad, Vince Juelfs, Jim Raysor, John Cloud, Dan Fink
Member Absent: Robin Dykstra, Tyler Smith, Malcolm MacDonald
Others Present: Randy Hilding, Mrs John Cloud
Call to Order: Badten called the meeting to order at 6:07. A quorum was present. The Board introduced themselves.
Approval of Agenda: Fletcher moved to accept the amended agenda. Wagner seconded. Motion passed.
Minutes: The minutes were emailed by Kittay and were on web site. Johnson moved to approve minutes. Fink seconded. Motion passed.
Old Business: None
Treasurer’s Report: Kittay reported that there was $33,776.87 in the checkbook plus the CD ($3521.13). A full report of the income and payments was provided. Fletcher moved to accept report. Fink seconded. Motion passed.
Auditing Committee: Badten gave the report. Andrea Griese and Kevin Espeland were on the committee. The audit was done on September 5, 2007. There was $33,776.87 in checkbook, $3521.13 in the CD, and the books were in order. Kittay moved to accept the report. Johnson seconded. Motion passed.
Fink moved to increase the sec/treasurer honorium to $700. Wagner seconded. Motion passed.
Nominations Committee: Badten gave the report for the committee. The committee put forth Bill Selland from Salem, Doug Dykstra from Sioux Falls, and Del DeBoer from SDSU as directors. Gary Englund was nominated as VP. Kittay moved for acceptance. Petrik seconded. Motion passed.
“Source to Stream”: There were no problems, and it is fiscally solvent.
Article assignments-
November-Kittay, Dykstra, Fink
February-Badten, Konrad, Juelfs
April-Raysor, Smith, Fletcher, Cloud
July-New directors, Englund
2007-2008 Officers: Raysor will be president, Badten will be past-president, and Fletcher will become president-elect.
Secretary-Treasurer-Johnson nominated Kittay with Petrik seconding. Motion passed. Kittay will be the Board’s candidate for S/T.
Scholarships: Kittay gave a brief description of previous years’ scholarship program. Kittay moved to continue scholarship program for 2007-2008 in the amount of $1000 to each school. JR seconded. Raysor spoke about possibly giving some money to a vo-tech. Motion passed.
Kittay moved to put $2000 into SDWWA scholarship. Raysor seconded. Motion passed.
2012 Conference: Kittay had made inquiries with RC Ramkota for the 2012 Conference. Petrik moved to accept this location. Wagner seconded. Motion passed.
2007 Conference Concerns: Badten asked about the Dakota Pump reception. Angello had been in contact with Kittay a number of times.
Other Business: Badten stated that SD AWWA and WEA asked about seminar setup and perhaps getting a share of the profits. Raysor indicated that SDWWA should meet in November and have the two groups state what they wanted.
Raysor moved for adjournment. Johnson seconded. Meeting adjourned at 8:00 pm.
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SDWWA Board Meeting
April 20, 2007
Oacoma, SD
Members Present: Peggi Badten, Jim Raysor, Wayne Fletcher, Rob Kittay, Vern Johnson, Chip Petrik, Craig Wagner, Tyler Smith, Thad Konrad, John Cloud, Vince Juelfs, Dan Fink
Member Absent: Robin Dykstra, Malcolm MacDonald,
Others Present:
Call to Order: Badten called the meeting to order at 11:40. A quorum was present. The Board introduced themselves.
Approval of Agenda: Kittay moved to accept the amended agenda. Raysor seconded. Motion passed.
Minutes: The minutes were emailed by Kittay and were on web site. Johnson moved to approve minutes. Cloud seconded. Motion passed.
Old Business: Some money is being collected for the SDWWA Scholarship. Verhey is looking for a way to invest this money.
Treasurer’s Report: Kittay reported that there was $36,486.03 (4/17/07) in the checkbook plus the CD with UBS of $3466.03 (3/30/07). Kittay just bought a new battery for computer and paid AWWA/WEF their allotments for 2007. The WW Seminar bill and the SDSU/SDSMT Scholarships have not been paid. Fletcher moved to accept report. Johnson seconded. Motion passed.
Water & WW Seminar Reports: Kittay indicated that the WW Seminar needed to get moving sooner. The WW Committee will be meeting during the Conference. A date and place needs to be determined ASAP.
Other Committee Reports: None
“Source to Stream”: Badten gave the report. Kittay is now in charge of check book. Kittay asked about the submittal dates and publishing dates.
2007 Committees: The Board formed committees for the year.
2007 Conference: The Conference is to be held in Watertown at the Ramkota on September 12-13-14. Smith will be getting the tabletop info out in June. The Board suggested ideas for possible presentations. The presentation ideas are needed by July 1 for the mailed flyers and presentation topics w/ names by July 20 for the program.
Other Business: Fink asked about prior t-shirt sales and what happened w/ it. Raysor said it could be a scholarship raising idea.
Fletcher moved for adjournment. Kittay seconded. Meeting adjourned at 1:02 pm.
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SDWWA 2006 Annual Business Meeting
September 14, 2006
Rapid City, SD
Call to Order: By President MacDonald at 12:31 pm. Approximately 175 were in attendance.
MacDonald thanked the WEA, AWWA Section, Local Arrangements Committee, and Commercial Committee for their work on the Conference. He also reviewed the Tuesday nite Board meeting for the attendees. Board is working on scholarship for children of SDWWA members. Also ads on web site may be possible.
Minutes: The minutes of the 2005 Business Meeting had been published in the SDWWA web site and provided at this meeting. Vansco moved for approval. Graber seconded. Motion passed.
Old Business: MacDonald called for Old Business, and there was none.
MacDonald announced that Peggi Badten would be the 2006-07 President and Jim Raysor would be the President-Elect.
Vice-President: The candidate from the Board was Wayne Fletcher from Brandon. MacDonald called for nominations from the floor. Kittay moved that nominations cease, and a unanimous ballot be cast for Fletcher. Dave Johnson seconded. Motion passed.
Secretary/Treasurer: The candidate from the Board was Rob Kittay. MacDonald called for nominations from the floor. None were forthcoming. Diez moved that nominations cease, and a unanimous ballot be cast. Raysor seconded. Motion passed.
Outgoing Directors: Gavin Graverson, Gayleen Lowe, and Gary Englund are the out going directors and were recognized.
Directors: The three directors recommended by the Nominating Committee were John Cloud from Lake Traverse, Dan Fink from Harrisburg, and Vince Juelfs from Huron. MacDonald called for nominations from the floor. Lowe moved to accept the candidates. Fletcher seconded. Motion passed.
MacDonald thanked the Association for allowing him to serve as President. The ceremonial passing of the gavel to 2006-2007 President Badten took place.
Honorary Member: Badten announced that Kim Verhey was approved by the Board as an Honorary Member. Yde moved to approve the nomination. Kittay seconded. Motion passed.
Conference Watch: As tradition dictates, Kittay read the conference watch rules, and Hilding conducted the drawing. Doug Byers of Sioux Falls was the winner.
New Business: The sites of the future conferences were announced as follows: 2007-Watertown; 2008-Pierre, 2009-Spearfish, 2010-Sioux Falls, and 2011-Huron.
The AWWA Young Professionals announced the results of the meter assembly competition.
Adjournment: Graber moved for adjournment. Van Cleave seconded. Motion passed. Meeting adjourned at 12:52 pm.
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SDWWA Board Meeting
September 12, 2006
Rapid City, SD
Members Present: Rob Kittay, Gavin Graverson, Malcolm MacDonald, Al Erickson, Gayleen Lowe, Vern Johnson, Chip Petrik, Peggi Badten, Robin Dykstra, Tyler Smith, Craig Wagner, Chip Petrik, and Gary Englund
Member Absent: Thad Konrad
Others Present: Kim Verhey, Randy Hilding, Cindy Raysor, Pete Hesla, Mrs. Vern Johnson
Call to Order: MacDonald called the meeting to order at 6:01. A quorum was present. The Board introduced themselves.
Approval of Agenda: Englund would like to add a “clearinghouse of spare parts” to agenda. Dykstra moved to accept the amended agenda. Graverson seconded. Motion passed.
Minutes: The minutes were emailed by Kittay and were on web site. Raysor moved to approve minutes. Badten seconded. Motion passed.
Old Business: Kim Verhey had suggested a scholarship for SDWWA member children. He gave a presentation for some ideas that he had been working on. He suggested a number of methods to raise the money to establish an annuity. The plan would be to then use the interest every year for the scholarship. Raysor moved to appoint a committee to explore moving forward with this project. Wagner seconded. Motion passed. Wagner suggested that Verhey be chairperson for the committee. Raysor, Lowe, Smith, and Erickson volunteered to be on the committee.
Treasurer’s Report: Kittay reported that there was $27,718.86 in the checkbook plus the CD ($3360.87). A full report of the income and payments was provided. Lowe moved to accept report. Raysor seconded. Motion passed.
Auditing Committee: Kittay gave the report. Mark McIntire and Ron Ramsey were on committee. The audit was done on September 7, 2006. There was $25,714.55 in checkbook, $3360.87 in the CD, and the books were in order. Johnson moved to accept the report. Lowe seconded. Motion passed.
Nominations Committee: MacDonald gave the report for the committee. The committee put forth Dan Fink of Harrisburg and Vince Juelfs of Huron as directors. Wayne Fletcher was nominated as VP. Kittay moved for acceptance. Petrik seconded. Motion passed. The committee will contact John Cloud as another possible candidate.
Other Committee Reports: Lowe reported on the PR/SB Award. There was some disconcern from an SDWWA member on awards. Erickson said that it is the duty of someone to be nominated even if they do it themselves.
WW Seminar: Dan Graber will head the committee. A site and date needs to be picked.
“Source to Stream”: Erickson gave the report. Jan Kittay has resigned from all matters on magazine. A copy of the report was provided. A definition of what the Editorial Board is was made.
Article assignments-
November-Kittay, Johnson, Dykstra
February-MacDonald, Badten, Konrad
April-Raysor, Wagner, Smith, Petrik
July-New directors, Fletcher
2006-2007 Officers: Badten will be president, MacDonald will be past-president, and Raysor will become president-elect.
Secretary-Treasurer-Graverson nominated Kittay with Badten seconding. Motion passed. Kittay will be the Board’s candidate for S/T.
Scholarships: Kittay gave a brief description of previous years’ scholarship program. Kittay moved to continue scholarship program for 2006-2007. Badten seconded. Motion passed.
2010/2011 Conferences: Kittay had investigated some future sites-Sioux Falls 2010 and Huron 2011. Petrik moved to accept these locations. Badten seconded. Motion passed with three dissenting votes.
2006 Conference Concerns: Petrik stated that the door prizes were taken care of. Badten asked about AV equipment. There will be enough AV equipment.
Other Business: Englund spoke about an idea to get rid of spare parts from various systems. There was also talk about a question-and-answer email group. Kittay maintains an extensive email list of W/WW systems that could be used.
Verhey spoke about the web site. There is a possible advertiser. Verhey wanted to know if the Board wanted to allow ads. Badten moved that ads for website be $50 per year. Raysor seconded. Motion passed.
Graverson moved for adjournment. MacDonald seconded. Meeting adjourned at 8:00 pm.
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SDWWA Board Meeting
May 16, 2006
Oacoma, SD
Members Present: Rob Kittay, Gavin Graverson, Malcolm Macdonald, Al Erickson, Gayleen Lowe, Vern Johnson, Chip Petrik, Jim Raysor, Peggi Badten, Craig Wagner, Thad Konrad, Robin Dykstra, and Gary Englund
Member Absent: Tyler Smith
Others Present: Jeff DeVille-AWWA-SD Section Representative
Call to Order: Macdonald called the meeting to order at 11:35 am. A quorum was present. The Board introduced themselves.
Approval of Agenda: Englund moved to accept the agenda with the deletion of scholarship agenda item. Badten seconded. Motion passed.
Minutes: The minutes were emailed by Kittay and were on web site. Kittay moved to approve minutes. Erickson seconded. Motion passed.
Old Business: Kittay notified the Board that the PA system had been purchased ($425). The Sewerage and Water Board of New Orleans (SWBNO) sent a reply for the $1000 contribution that the Board approved during the September meeting.
Treasurer’s Report-Kittay gave the report. There is $3324.96 in the Piper Jaffray account and $31,139.42 in the checking account. He also indicated what was recently paid and recent deposits. Lowe moved to accept the report. Johnson seconded. Motion passed.
Water Seminar Report-Erickson gave the report of the seminar. All items with the seminar went well. There were 105 attendees. The 2007 will be held during the same week at the RC Ramkota. The committee will meet prior to the 2006 Conference.
Wastewater Seminar Report-Badten mentioned a few items. The seminar went well. The Awards Dinner was a success also.
There were no other committee reports.
Raysor entered meeting at 11:51 am.
2006 Committee Formation-MacDonald mentioned about the Siger Bies/Price-Rees Committee should select Honorary Members if there are any deserving members. Committees were formed. See attachment.
Conference Program Ideas-Badten is in charge of conference program. Ideas were offered by the board members. A program for the flyer and Source to Stream is needed by July 1. Final program is needed by August 10.
Adjournment-Graverson moved for adjournment. Dykstra seconded. Motion Passed. Meeting adjourned at 1:10 pm.
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SDWWA 2005 Annual Business Meeting
September 15, 2005
Brookings, SD
Call to Order: By President Erickson at 12:30 pm. Approximately 175 were in attendance.
Erickson thanked the Local Arrangements Committee and Commercial Committee for their work. He noted that the SDWWA Executive Board voted to donate $1000 to the Katrina Relief work.
Minutes: The minutes of the 2004 Business Meeting had been published in the SDWWA web site. Hesla moved for approval. Royalty seconded. Motion passed.
Erickson called for Old Business, and there was none.
Erickson announced that Malcolm MacDonald would be the 2005-06 President and Peggi Badten would be the President-Elect.
Vice-President: The candidate from the Board was Jim Raysor from Deadwood. Erickson called for nominations from the floor. Kittay moved that nominations cease and a unanimous ballot be cast for Raysor. Odens seconded. Motion passed.
Secretary/Treasurer: The candidate from the Board was Rob Kittay. Erickson called for nominations from the floor. None were forthcoming. Van Cleave moved that nominations cease and a unanimous ballot be cast. England seconded. Motion passed.
Directors: The three directors recommended by the Nominating Committee were Thad Konrad from Tea, Robin Dykstra from Parker, and Tyler Smith as the manufacturers’ rep. Erickson called for nominations from the floor. BB moved to accept the candidates. Royalty seconded. Motion passed.
Erickson thanked the Association for allowing him to serve as President. The ceremonial passing of the gavel to 2005-2006 President MacDonald took place.
Conference Watch: As tradition dictates, Kittay read the conference watch rules, and Hilding conducted the drawing. Chancy Shrake of DENR was the winner. Busby and Mince also won prizes.
New Business: The sites of the future conferences were announced as follows: 2006-Rapid City; 2007-Watertown; and 2008-Pierre.
The AWWA Young Professionals announced the results of the meter assembly competition.
Adjournment: Kittay moved for adjournment. Erickson seconded. Motion passed. Meeting adjourned at 12:53 pm.
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SDWWA Board Meeting
September 13, 2005
Brookings , SD
Members Present: Rob Kittay, Sue Hargens, Gavin Graverson, Malcolm Macdonald, Wayne Fletcher, Tim Monson, Jeff Clark, Al Erickson, Gayleen Lowe, Vern Johnson, Chip Petrik, Peggi Badten, Craig Wagner, and Gary Englund
Member Absent: Tim Monson and Sue Hargens
Others Present: Sheila Fletcher and Mrs Gary Englund
Call to Order: Erickson called the meeting to order at 6:13 . A quorum was present. The Board introduced themselves.
Approval of Agenda: MacDonald moved to accept the agenda. Clark seconded. Motion passed.
Minutes: The minutes were emailed by Kittay and were on web site. Kittay moved to approve minutes. Badten seconded. Motion passed.
Old Business: Kim Verhey had suggested a scholarship for SDWWA children. A committee was formed. No action was taken.
Portable PA system-No action taken. MacDonald moved to purchase the system. Badten seconded. Motion passed.
Treasurer’s Report: Kittay reported that there was $19,475.23 in the checkbook plus the CD ($3230.84). A full report of the income and payments was provided. Englund moved to accept report. Clark seconded. Motion passed.
Auditing Committee: Kittay gave the report. Andrea Griese, Mark McIntire, and Bill Sarringar were on committee. The audit was done on September 7, 2005 . There was $22,473.23 in checkbook, $3230.84 in the CD, and the books were in order. Fletcher moved to accept the report. Johnson seconded. Motion passed.
Nominations Committee: Mac Donald gave the report for the committee. The committee put forth Robin Dykstra from Parker, Thad Konrad from Tea, and Tyler Smith from DSG. Jim Raysor from Deadwood was nominated as VP. Kittay moved for acceptance. Lowe seconded. Motion passed.
Other Committee Reports: Lowe spoke about the Price-Rees Award committee.
Water/WW Seminar: Water Seminar committee had met. Topics were found. Dan Graber and Aaron Moen are going to work with SD WEA and help with Wastewater Seminar program.
2005-2006 Officers: MacDonald will be president, Erickson will be past-president, and Badten will become president-elect.
Secretary-Treasurer-Graverson nominated Kittay with Clark seconding. Motion passed. Kittay will be the Board’s candidate for S/T.
Scholarships: Kittay gave a brief description of previous years’ scholarship program. Kittay moved to continue scholarship program for 2005-2006. Englund seconded. Motion passed.
2009 Conference: Erickson spoke to owners group of the proposed Deadwood Ramkota. MacDonald will talk to Spearfish Holiday Inn about 2009 Conference.
Newsletter: Kittay explained the concept of a new combined newsletter with AWWA and WEA. Badten said articles had been submitted and not published. Badten moved to approve this new concept for the newsletter. Clark seconded. Motion passed. Kittay/Erickson will speak to other groups. Badten will bring up the topic at the WEA meeting.
Board members were assigned to submit articles for the newsletter as follows-
November-Kittay/Johnson/Petrik/Badten
Feb-Lowe/Graverson/Wagner
April-MacDonald/Erickson/Englund/Raysor
July-New board members
2005 Conference Concerns: Erickson was concerned w/ the Thursday night program for the banquet. He will develop a program.
Other Business: Mike Reed, WEF President, stopped in to say hi and see what was going on at meeting.
Kittay suggested a Katrina Relief donation to help rebuilding there. Badten moved to donate $1000 to relief in the affected area. Graverson seconded. Motion passed. Badten/MacDonald will investigate and decide the specific group to receive the donation.
Kittay moved for adjournment. Badten seconded. Meeting adjourned at 8:03 pm .
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SDWWA Board Meeting
May 13, 2005
Oacoma , SD
Members Present: Rob Kittay, Sue Hargens, Randy Hilding, Gavin Graverson, Malcolm Macdonald, Wayne Fletcher, Al Erickson, Gayleen Lowe, Vern Johnson, Chip Petrik, Craig Wagner, and Gary Englund
Member Absent: Tim Munson, Jeff Clark, Peggi Badten
Others Present:
Call to Order: Erickson called the meeting to order at 12:48 . A quorum was present. The Board introduced themselves.
Approval of Agenda: Hargens moved to accept the agenda. Johnson seconded. Motion passed.
Minutes: The minutes were emailed by Kittay and were on web site. MacDonald moved to approve minutes. Lowe seconded. Motion passed.
Old Business: Kittay reported on LCD projector purchase. Kittay moved to accept the report. Graverson seconded. Motion passed.
Treasurer’s Report: Kittay reported that there was $30,098.77 in the checkbook plus the CD ($3300). Some items haven’t been paid. Fletcher moved to accept report. Englund seconded. Motion passed.
Seminar Reports-Erickson gave water report for Water Seminar. There were technical problems-computer problems and versions of Powerpoint that were not up-to-date. It was suggested that a person be assigned for technical issues for each session of seminar. Also, presentations should be sent prior to seminar to coordinator so that they can be loaded to computer and any problems could be ironed out before seminar. Next year-Sioux Falls Ramkota February 8-9, 2006 .
Dave Van Cleave submitted a written report for the Wastewater Seminar. The Award Banquet had 92 in attendance. VanCleave is willing to run the seminar again. He wants to go a central location (Pierre or Oacoma) for 2006. Kittay moved for acceptance of the reports. Hargens seconded. Motion passed.
Committees for 2005-These committees were formed. Englund moved to accept the committees. MacDonald seconded. Motion passed.
2009-2010 Conference Sites-MacDonald suggested that the Ramkota will have a facility in Deadwood. Kittay stated that a firm reservation for the 2009 Conference should be obtained July 1. Kittay had spoken to SF Ramkota for 2010. Kittay moved to accept these Conference sites. Englund seconded. Motion passed.
2005 Conference Organization-Kittay provided a skeleton for Conference. Brookings Inn will be able to hold Business Luncheon on Thursday afternoon. There will be a WEF meeting during displays. Some concern on part of a vendor that there were not supposed to be meetings during displays.
Presentations for 2005 Conference-The Board suggested topics for Conference. MacDonald collected the ideas and will form the program.
Other Business: Fletcher reported there were some hearing problems at some motels during meetings. He did a search on projection equipment. He will do some more checking on it.
Erickson reported that Deb Callahan from SF asked about a Water Festival donation. There are held in SF and a number of other cities. There was no motion forth coming on this issue.
Kim Verhey suggested that an SDWWA Scholarship be set up for children of SDWWA members. Kittay moved that Verhey head a committee with Hargens/Erickson to give a $500 scholarship. Englund seconded. Motion passed.
Hargens moved for adjournment. Fletcher seconded. Meeting adjourned at 2:53 pm .
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SDWWA 2004 Annual Business Meeting
September 16, 2004
Aberdeen, SD
Call to Order: By President Hargens at 12:37 am. Approximately 150 were in attendance.
Hargens thanked the Local Arrangements Committee and Commercial Committee for their work.
Minutes: The minutes of the 2003 Business Meeting had been published in the SDWWA web site. Hemeyer moved for approval. Yde seconded. Motion passed.
Hargens called for Old Business, and there was none.
Hargens announced that Al Erickson would be the 2004-05 President and Malcolm MacDonald would be the President-Elect.
Vice-President: The candidate from the Board was Peggi Badten from Aberdeen. Hargens called for nominations from the floor. Kittay moved that nominations cease and a unanimous ballot be cast for Badten. Yde seconded. Motion passed.
Secretary/Treasurer: The candidate from the Board was Rob Kittay. Hargens called for nominations from the floor. None were forthcoming. Zeck moved that nominations cease and a unanimous ballot be cast. Merrigan seconded. Motion passed.
Sarringar, Erikson, and Hauger are the out-going directors.
Directors: The three directors recommended by the Nominating Committee were Vern Johnson from Alcester, Chip Petrik from Rapid City, and Craig Wagner from Hartford. Swanson called for nominations from the floor. Swanson moved to accept the candidates. Yde seconded. Motion passed.
Hargens thanked the Association for allowing her to serve as President. The ceremonial passing of the gavel to 2004-2005 President Erickson took place.
Conference Watch: As tradition dictates, Kittay read the conference watch rules, and Hilding conducted the drawing. Sid Munson from SDARWS was the winner. Jerry Adler and Jerry Hemyer also won prizes.
New Business: The sites of the future conferences were announced as follows: 2005-Brookings; 2006-Rapid City; 2007-Watertown; and 2008-Pierre. Two AWWA classes were also noted.
Adjournment: Yde moved for adjournment. Harris seconded. Motion passed. Meeting adjourned at 12:52 pm.
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SDWWA Board Meeting
September 14, 2004
Aberdeen, SD
Members Present: Rob Kittay, Sue Hargens, Randy Hilding, Gavin Graverson, Bill Sarringar, Roger Hauger, Ray Erikson, Malcolm Macdonald, Wayne Fletcher, Tim Monson, Jeff Clark, Dave Van Cleave, Al Erickson, Gayleen Lowe, and Gary Englund
Member Absent: None
Others Present: Steve Diez, Randy Hilding, Pete Hesla
Call to Order: Hargens called the meeting to order at 6:17. A quorum was present. The Board introduced themselves.
Approval of Agenda: Englund moved to accept the agenda. Fletcher seconded. Motion passed.
Minutes: The minutes were emailed by Kittay and were on web site. Hauger moved to approve minutes. Erikson seconded. Motion passed.
Old Business: There was none.
Treasurer’s Report: Kittay reported that there was $19,343.23 in the checkbook plus the CD ($3189.65). A full report of the income and payments was provided. Sarringar moved to accept report. Graverson seconded. Motion passed.
Auditing Committee: Steve Diez gave the report. Andrea Griese, Steve Diez and Gayleen Lowe were on committee. The audit was done on September 3, 2004. There was $14,035.25 in checkbook and the books were in order. MacDonald moved to accept the report. Clark seconded. Motion passed.
Nominations Committee: Van Cleave gave the report for the committee. The committee put forth Vern Johnson from Alcester, Stan Petrik from Rapid City, and Craig Wagner from Hartford. Peggi Badten from Aberdeen was nominated as VP. Sarringar moved for acceptance. Kittay seconded. Motion passed.
Other Committee Reports: There were none.
WW Seminar: Dave Van Cleave volunteered to chair this committee. Al Erickson will ask a co-worker if he would help Dave.
2004-2005 Officers: Erickson will be president, Hargens will be past-president, and MacDonald will become president-elect.
Secretary-Treasurer-Erickson nominated Kittay with Graverson seconding. Sarringar moved that nominations cease. Graverson seconded. Motion passed. Kittay will be the Board’s candidate for S/T.
Scholarships: Kittay gave a brief description of previous years’ scholarship program. Kittay moved to continue scholarship program for 2004-2005. Clark seconded. Motion passed.
2004 Conference Concerns: Monson reports that there are 44 tabletops. Hesla would like to speak to the Executive Officers.
Other Business: Kittay brought a catalog that had with LCD projectors and inquired of the committee as to interest in purchasing a projector. Monson moved to purchase an LCD projector. Clark seconded. Kittay will check how powerful the DENR projector is. Motion passed.
Englund moved for adjournment. Hauger seconded. Meeting adjourned at 7:14 pm.
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SDWWA Board Meeting
May 13, 2004
Oacoma, SD
Members Present: Rob Kittay, Sue Hargens, Gavin Graverson, Roger Hauger, Ray Erikson, Malcolm Macdonald, Wayne Fletcher, Tim Monson, Al Erickson, Gary Englund, Gayleen Lowe
Member Absent: Dave Van Cleave, Jeff Clark, Bill Sarringar
Call to Order: Hargens called the meeting to order at 11:42. A quorum was present. The Board introduced themselves.
Approval of Agenda: Kittay wanted to add Committee Formation to the agenda. Fletcher moved to accept the agenda. Hauger seconded. Motion passed.
Minutes: The minutes were emailed by Kittay. Van Cleave should be replaced by Kittay for ceasing nominations for Secretary/Treasurer. Erickson moved to approve minutes as corrected. Macdonald seconded. Motion passed.
Treasurer’s Report: Kittay reported that there was $20,744.87 in the checkbook plus the CD (approx $3200). Erikson moved to accept report. Graverson seconded. Motion passed.
Other Committee Reports: There were none.
Committee Formation: The Board formed committees for the upcoming year. Macdonald moved for approval of the committees. Erickson seconded. Motion passed.
2004 W/WW Seminars: Erickson will be heading up the Water Seminar with help from JR Yde. The Seminar will be held in February in RC Ramkota. The Wastewater Seminar leadership is still up in the air. Several names were suggested. Hargens will pursue this.
2004 Conference Ideas: Some general ideas for the conference schedule were discussed. Specific presentation ideas were given. Erickson is in charge of the program from SDWWA. AWWA-SD Section has volunteered to take care of one of the Thursday afternoon sessions. WEF has not responded as to their role.
Other Business: Kittay reminded the Board members that each one needs to submit an article for the Clarifier during the year.
Kittay moved for adjournment. Englund seconded. Meeting adjourned at 1:40 pm.
Rob Kittay
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Date- May 14, 2004
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SDWWA 2003 Annual Business Meeting
September 11, 2003
Spearfish, SD
Call to Order: By President Hilding at 11:50 am. Approximately 140 were in attendance.
Hilding thanked the Local Arrangements Committee and Commercial Committee for their work.
Minutes: The minutes of the 2002 Business Meeting had been published in the SDWWA web site. Elcock moved for approval. DeBoer seconded. Motion passed.
Hilding called for Old Business, and there was none.
Hilding announced that Hargens would be the 2003-04 President and Erickson would be the President-Elect.
Vice-President: The candidate from the Board was Malcolm Macdonald from SDARWS. Hilding called for nominations from the floor. Swanson moved that nominations cease and a unanimous ballot be cast for Macdonald. Toscano seconded. Motion passed.
Secretary/Treasurer: The candidate from the Board was Rob Kittay. Hilding called for nominations from the floor. None were forthcoming. Swanson moved that nominations cease and a unanimous ballot be cast. Hughes seconded. Motion passed
Hilding thanked the Association for allowing him to serve as President. The ceremonial passing of the gavel to 2003-2004 President Sue Hargens took place.
Directors: The three directors recommended by the Nominating Committee were Garg Englund from Brookings, Gavin Graverson from Sioux Falls, and Gayleen Lowe from DENR-Pierre. Van Cleave called for nominations from the floor. Kittay moved that nominations cease and a unanimous ballot be cast. Buscher seconded. Motion passed. Hilding introduced the entire Board.
Conference Watch: As tradition dictates, Kittay read the conference watch rules, and Hilding conducted the drawing. Connie Silva from Madison was the winner. Senn, Back, Burtzlaff, and Bisgard also won prizes.
New Business: The sites of the future conferences were announced as follows: 2004-Aberdeen; 2005-Brookings; and 2006-Rapid City.
Adjournment: DeBoer moved for adjournment. Kittay seconded. Motion passed. Meeting adjourned at 1:07 pm.
Rob Kittay
Secretary
Date 8-30-2004
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SDWWA Board Meeting
September 9, 2003
Spearfish, SD
Members Present: Rob Kittay, Sue Hargens, Randy Hilding, Shane Torgrude, Gavin Graverson, Bill Sarringar, Roger Hauger, Ray Erikson, Malcolm Macdonald, Wayne Fletcher, Tim Monson
Member Absent: Al Erickson, Dave Van Cleave, Jeff Clark
Others Present: Jan Frederick-Kittay
Call to Order: Hilding called the meeting to order at 7:12. A quorum was present. The Board introduced themselves.
Approval of Agenda: Sarringer moved to accept the agenda. Graverson seconded. Motion passed.
Minutes: The minutes were emailed by Kittay and were on web site. Fletcher moved to approve minutes as corrected. Monson seconded. Motion passed.
Old Business: There was none.
Treasurer’s Report: Kittay reported that there was $14,035.25 in the checkbook plus the CD ($3180.69). A full report of the income and payments was provided. Erikson moved to accept report. Macdonald seconded. Motion passed.
Auditing Committee: Sarringer gave the report. Andrea Griese, Bill Sarringer and Fred Snodderly were on committee. The audit was done on September 3, 2003. There was $14,035.25 in checkbook and the books were in order. Honorarium was not paid in 2002 and should be paid during September of each year. Hargens moved to accept the report. Graverson seconded. Motion passed.
Nominations Committee: Hilding gave the report for the committee. The committee put forth Gayleen Lowe from DENR, Gavin Graverson from Sioux Falls, and Gary Englund from Brookings Municipal Utilities. Graverson is actually filling in a term presently. Monson will become the Manufacturers’ Rep. Kittay moved for acceptance. Sarringer seconded. Motion passed.
Other Committee Reports: There were none.
2003-2004 Officers: Hargens will be president, Van Cleave will be past-president, and Erickson will become president-elect.
Secretary-Treasurer-The committee nominated Kittay with Hilding seconding. Van Cleave moved that nominations cease. Macdonald seconded. Motion passed. Kittay will be the Board’s candidate for S/T.
Vice-President-The committee nominated Macdonald and Graverson seconded. Erikson moved that nominations cease. Kittay seconded. Motion passed. Macdonald will be the Board’s candidate for VP.
Scholarships: Kittay gave a brief description of previous years’ scholarship program. Kittay moved to continue scholarship program for 2003-2004. Fletcher seconded. Motion passed.
2003 Conference Concerns: Hilding will have a moment of silence for 9/11.
Other Business: SDARWS wants to remove their phone number from Conference flyer.
Fletcher moved for adjournment. Hilding seconded. Meeting adjourned at 7:44 pm.
October 16, 2003
Rob Kittay
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SDWWA Board Meeting
April 25, 2003
Pierre, SD
Members Present: Rob Kittay, Sue Hargens, Randy Hilding, Shane Torgrude, Gavin Graverson, Bill Sarringar, Roger Hauger, Ray Erikson, Malcolm MacDonald, Wayne Fletcher, Tim Monson
Member Absent: Jeff Clark, Dave Van Cleave
Call to Order: Hilding called the meeting to order at 12:05. A quorum was present. The Board introduced themselves.
Approval of Agenda: Hargens moved to accept the agenda. Kittay seconded. Motion passed.
Minutes: The minutes were emailed by Kittay. Four "miniscule" corrections were made. Fletcher leave moved to approve minutes as corrected. Hargens seconded. Motion passed.
Treasurer’s Report: Kittay reported that there was $13,405.09 in the checkbook plus the CD ($3171.10). Scholarships and payments to SD AWWA and SD WEA still have to be made. Sarringar moved to accept report. Erikson seconded. Motion passed.
Committee Formation: The Board formed committees for the coming year. People will be informed by email and Clarifier.
2004 W/WW Seminars: Hilding clarified the Water Seminar leadership situation. Al Erickson of HDR will head-up the Water Seminar. Yde will be assisting Erickson. Hilding will speak to Jim Zeck to clarify the Wastewater Seminar situation.
2002 Conference Wrap-up: Torgrude indicated that the manufacturers’ tabletop displays were a little cramped. It was somewhat hard to hear at pool during Business Meeting.
2007/2008 Conferences: Kittay had done some preliminary work for future conferences. He moved that Watertown Ramkota hold the 2007 Conference and Pierre Ramkota hold the 2008 Conference. Erikson seconded. Motion passed.
Vice President: The Association needs to fill the VP position as the person nominated never wanted the position. Hargens nominated Al Erickson. Graverson seconded. RKittay moved that nominations cease and cast a unanimous ballot for Erickson. Macdonald seconded. Motion passed.
2003 Conference: The Business Meeting will be held at noon Thursday with luncheon. AWWA meeting will be held at 6:00 pm Tuesday and 4:30 pm Thursday. There again will be no spouses program. AWWA/WEA will form the Thursday afternoon programs. Ideas for presentations were given by the Board.
Other Business: Macdonald indicated that SDARWS is going to hold an advanced distribution workshop. He was looking for possible participation by SDWWA. He will bring a concrete proposal to the next Board meeting. There was no other business forthcoming.
The next meeting will be planned for the Conference.
WF moved for adjournment. RH seconded. Meeting adjourned at 7:44 pm.
Rob Kittay
Secretary
April 16, 2003
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SDWWA 2002 Annual Business Meeting
September 11, 2002
Huron, SD
Call to Order: By President Hilding at 7:04 pm. Approximately 140 were in attendance.
Hilding thanked the Local Arrangements Committee and Commercial Committee for their work.
Minutes: The minutes of the 2001 Business Meeting had been published in Clarifier and the SDWWA web site. Bjerke moved for approval. Elcock seconded. Motion passed.
Auditing Committee Report: The report was given Andrea Griese. All balances were in proper order as of August 21, 2001. Bill Nelson moved for acceptance of the report. Barber seconded. Motion passed.
Hilding called for Old Business, and there was none.
Hilding thanked the Association for allowing him to serve as President. The ceremonial passing of the gavel to 2002-2003 President-Elect Dave Van Cleave took place.
It was announced that Mike Peterson, Lowell Corbin, and Vince Juelfs were the directors that would be leaving the Board.
Vice-President: The candidate from the Board was Kim Verhey from Kingbrook RWS. Van Cleave called for nominations from the floor. Back nominated Chuck Larson from Rapid City. Royalty seconded. Kittay moved that nominations cease. Clark seconded. Motion passed. An election was conducted and it was announced that Verhey was the VP.
Secretary/Treasurer: The candidate from the Board was Rob Kittay. Van Cleave called for nominations from the floor. None were forthcoming. Hilding moved that nominations cease and a unanimous ballot be cast. Barber seconded. Motion passed
Directors: The three directors recommended by the Nominating Committee were Jeff Clark from Wall, Tim Monson from Sioux Pipe, and Wayne Fletcher from Brandon. Van Cleave called for nominations from the floor. Zeck moved that nominations cease and a unanimous ballot be cast. Phalen seconded. Motion passed. Van Cleave introduced the entire Board.
Conference Watch: Kittay read the rules and Hilding conducted the drawing. Andre was the winner.
New Business: The sites of the future conferences were announced as follows: 2003-Spearfish; 2004-Aberdeen; 2005-Brookings; and 2006-Rapid City.
Adjournment: Elcock moved for adjournment. Yde seconded. Motion passed. Meeting adjourned at 7:22.
Rob Kittay
Secretary
8-13-2003
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SDWWA Board Meeting
September 10, 2002
Huron, SD
Members Present: Rob Kittay, Sue Hargens, Randy Hilding, Cindy Swanson, Shane Torgrude, Gavin Graverson, Dave Van Cleave, Lowell Corbin, Mike Peterson, Vince Juelfs, Bill Sarringer, Roger Hauger, Ray Erickson
Member Absent: Malcolm MacDonald
Others Present: Jan Frederick-Kittay
Call to Order: Hilding called the meeting to order at 6:10. A quorum was present. The Board introduced themselves.
Approval of Agenda: Swanson moved to accept the revised agenda. Hargens seconded. Motion passed.
Minutes: The minutes were emailed by Kittay. Van Cleave moved to approve minutes as corrected. Peterson seconded. Motion passed.
Old Business: There was none.
Treasurer’s Report: Kittay reported that there was $6794.36 in the checkbook plus the CD ($3154.29). A full report of the income and payments was provided. Hilding moved to accept report. Corbin seconded. Motion passed.
Auditing Committee: Sarringer gave the report. Andrea Griese, Bill Sarringer and Fred Snodderly were on committee. The audit was done on August 21, 2001. There was $3095.06 in checkbook and the books were in order. Swanson moved to accept the report. Van Cleave seconded. Motion passed.
Nominations Committee: Swanson gave the report for the committee. The committee put forth Jeff Clark from Wall, Tim Munson from Sioux Pipe, and Wayne Fletcher from Beresford. Kittay moved for acceptance. Sarringer seconded. Motion passed.
2002-2003 Officers: Van Cleave will be president, Hilding will be past-president, and Hargens will become president-elect.
Secretary-Treasurer-Swanson nominated Kittay with Hilding seconding. Van Cleave moved that nominations cease. Mutual seconded. Motion passed. Kittay will be the Board’s candidate for S/T.
Vice-President-Corbin nominated Kim Verhey of Madison and Peterson seconded. Erickson moved that nominations cease. Kittay seconded. Motion passed. Verhey will be the Board’s candidate for VP.
Scholarships: Kittay gave a brief description of previous years’ scholarship program. Swanson moved to continue scholarship program for 2002-2003. Peterson seconded. Motion passed.
2002 Conference: Van Cleave indicated that one speaker will not be showing up for the WW session. Hilding will have a moment of silence for 9/11.
New Computer: The screen is going bad on the SDWWA laptop. Kittay asked for permission to spend $2000. Sarringer moved to allow association to spend $2000 for a new laptop. Hargens seconded. Motion passed
Kittay moved for adjournment. Swanson seconded. Meeting adjourned at 7:44 pm.Rob Kittay
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October 16, 2002
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SDWWA Board Meeting
April 26, 2002
Oacoma, SD
Members Present: Rob Kittay, Randy Hilding, Cindy Swanson, Shane Torgrude, Dave Van Cleave, Lowell Corbin, Vince Juelfs, Roger Hauger, Malcolm MacDonald, Ray Erikson
Member Absent: Mike Peterson, Sue Hargens, Bill Sarringer
Call to Order: Hilding called the meeting to order at 12:15. A quorum was present. The Board introduced themselves.
Approval of Agenda: Kittay wanted to add Clarifier to the agenda. Kittay moved to accept the revised agenda. MacDonald seconded. Motion passed.
Minutes: The minutes were emailed by Kittay. Swanson moved to approve minutes as corrected. Corbin seconded. Motion passed.
Treasurer's Report: Kittay reported that there was about $6797.26 in the checkbook plus the CD-$3140.80. Van Cleave moved to accept report. Hilding seconded. Motion passed.
Reports from Standing Committees-No reports
Clarifier-No articles have been submitted for Clarifier by Board. Each Board member needs to submit by May 10 or July 1. Kittay asked about pictures in Clarifier.
2002 Committee Formation-The Board filled out names for each of the SDWWA 2002 Committees.
Water and Wastewater Seminars-JR Yde has resigned as Water Seminar Chairperson. Hilding will look into the leadership of each seminar.
2001 Conference Review-Kittay summarized conference. Conference and speakers were good in consideration of events of September 11, 2001. Some manufactures' reps wanted more time for displays. Some were switching spots without permission. Torgrude will do a reconnaissance of Crossroads for setup for tabletop displays.
2005 Conference Site-Kittay move for Brookings Inn. Swanson seconded. Motion passed.
Resignation of Greg Anderson-MacDonald to accept the resignation. Corbin seconded. Motion passed. Kittay moved for Gavin Graverson of Sioux Falls. Van Cleave seconded. Motion passed.
Conference Ideas-The Board gave ideas to Van Cleave for possible presentations for Conference. He will coordinate w/ AWWA and WEA on subjects and will develop a schedule for Conference.
Other Business-There was none.
Next Meeting-The next Board meeting will be held on September 10, 2002 at 6:00 pm at the Huron Crossroads.
Kittay moved for adjournment. MacDonald seconded.
Meeting adjourned at 1:49.
Rob Kittay
Secretary
July 26, 2002
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September 12, 2001
Yankton, SD
SDWWA Annual Business Meeting
Call to Order: By President Swanson at 7:10 pm. Approximately 140 were in attendance.
Swanson thanked the Local Arrangements Committee and Commercial Committee for their work.
Minutes: The minutes of the 2000 Business Meeting had been published in Clarifier and the SDWWA web site. Elcock moved for approval. Harts seconded. Motion passed.
Auditing Committee Report: The report was given by Ray Birchem. Andrea Griese and Bill Sarringer were also on the committee. All balances were in proper order as of August 21, 2001. Checkbook balance was $3023.40, and there was $3095.06 was in the Piper Jaffrey account. Dennis Sparks moved for acceptance of the report. Linda Harris seconded. Motion passed. This was Ray Birchem's last report as part of the Auditing Committee as he will be retiring.
Swanson called for Old Business, and there was none.
Swanson thanked the Association for allowing her to serve as President. The ceremonial passing of the gavel to 2001-2002 President-Elect Randy Hilding took place.
It was announced that Mike Boerger, Randy William, and Sue Hargens were the directors that would be leaving the Board.
Vice-President: The candidate from the Board was Sue Hargens from Mid-Dakota RWS. Hilding called for nominations from the floor. None were forthcoming. Rob Kittay moved that nominations cease and a unanimous ballot be cast. JR Yde seconded. Motion passed.
Directors: The three directors recommended by the Nominating Committee were Bill Sarringar-Mid-Dakota RWS, Roger Hauger-Vermillion, and Ray Erikson-Murdo. Hilding called for nominations from the floor. Yde moved that nominations cease and a unanimous ballot be cast. Dave Odens seconded. Motion passed. Hilding introduced the entire Board.
Conference Watch: Kittay read the rules and Hilding conducted the drawing. Craig Nussbaum was the winner.
New Business: The sites of the future conferences were announced as follows: 2002-Huron; 2003-Spearfish; 2004-Aberdeen; 2005-Brookings; and 2006-Rapid City.
Adjournment: Kittay moved for adjournment. Yde seconded. Motion passed.
Meeting adjourned at 7:40.
Rob Kittay
Secretary
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SDWWA Board Meeting
September 11, 2001
Yankton, SD
Members Present: Rob Kittay, Sue Hargens, Randy Hilding, Cindy Swanson, Mike Boerger, Greg Anderson, Shane Torgrude
Member Absent: Randy William, Malcolm MacDonald, Jim Zeck, Dave Van Cleave, Lowell Corbin, Mike Peterson
Others Present: Jan Frederick, Ray Birchem, Ron Back
Call to Order: Swanson called the meeting to order at 6:44. A quorum was present. The Board introduced themselves.
Approval of Agenda: Kittay wanted to add Bob Carr’s resignation to agenda. Hargens moved to accept the revised agenda. Hilding seconded. Motion passed.
Bob Carr Resignation from Board: Vince Juelfs name was put into nomination as a replacement. Kittay moved for acceptance of Juelfs. Boerger seconded. Motion passed.
Minutes: The minutes were emailed by Kittay. Anderson moved to approve minutes as corrected. Boerger seconded. Motion passed.
Treasurer’s Report: Kittay reported that there was about $3434.40 in the checkbook plus the CD. Anderson moved to accept report. Torgrude seconded. Motion passed.
Auditing Committee: Birchem gave the report. Bill Sarringer and Andrea Griese were on committee. The audit was done on August 21, 2001. There was $3095.06 in checkbook and the books were in order. Boerger moved to accept the report. Anderson seconded. Motion passed.
Nominations Committee: Hargens gave the report for the committee. The committee put forth Paul Brunick of Vermillion, Bill Sarringer of Mid-Dakota RWS, and Ray Erikson of Murdo. Hargens moved for acceptance. Boerger seconded. Motion passed.
2001-2002 Officers: Hilding will be president, Swanson will be past-president, and Van Cleave will become president-elect.
Secretary-Treasurer-Boerger nominated Kittay with Swanson seconding. Anderson moved that nominations cease. Torgrude seconded. Motion passed. Kittay will be the Board’s candidate for S/T.
Vice-President-Swanson nominated Hargens and Boerger seconded. Kittay moved that nominations cease. Hilding seconded. Motion passed. Hargens will be the Board’s condidate for VP.
Scholarships: Kittay gave a brief description of previous years’ scholarship program. Swanson moved to continue scholarship program for 2001-2002. Kittay seconded. Motion passed.
Other Business: Water Seminar-Doug Anderson said that the SD AWWA Section would be willing to ramrod the seminar. Hargens moved to allow them to do so. Boerger seconded. Motion passed.
2001 Conference-Hilding will adjust program as necessary and speak to caterer concerning possible attendance problems due the events of the day.
Kittay moved for adjournment. Torgrude seconded. Meeting adjourned at 7:44 pm.
April 22, 2001
Rob Kittay
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June 8, 2001
SDWWA Board Meeting
Pierre, SD
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Members Present: Rob Kittay, Jim Zeck, Mike Peterson, Sue Hargens, Randy Hilding, Cindy Swanson, Lowell Corbin, Mike Boerger, Greg Anderson, Dave Van Cleave
Member Absent: Bob Carr, Randy William, Malcolm MacDonald
Others Present: Del DeBoer and Doug Anderson
Call to Order: Swanson called the meeting to order at 12:08. A quorum was present. The Board introduced themselves.
Approval of Agenda: Kittay wanted to add Bob Carr’s resignation to agenda. Boerger moved to accept the revised agenda. Kittay seconded. Motion passed.
Bob Carr Resignation from Board: Carr sent a letter to the Board indicating he was resigning as he did not have the time to devote to the Board. Van Cleave moved to accept the resignation. Kittay seconded. Motion passed. The position will be filled at the next meeting.
Minutes: The minutes were emailed by Kittay. Hilding moved to approve minutes as corrected. Boerger seconded. Motion passed.
Treasurer’s Report: Kittay reported that there was about $14,761.08 in the checkbook plus the CD. Torgrude moved to accept report. Boerger seconded. Motion passed.
Web Site Review: Kittay said to delay putting Clarifier on web by a quarter each time. Advertisers would not be put in. Power point presentations can be put out there. Award applications are there now.
Clarifier: Swanson indicated that the next issue deadline is July 15 and which Board members needed to supply articles. Up-to-date exam dates were needed for the Clarifier.
Committee Reports: Wastewater Seminar report by Zeck-He would like to work w/ a co-leader for next year’s seminar. Peterson said he would assist w/ this. He spoke about state rates & Mitchell Holiday Inn. Date & place of next year’s seminar will be determined by committee.
Nominations Committee-Zeck gave some information from this committee. Kittay said to let this committee determine the replacement for Carr.
2001 Conference: The general format for the conference was discussed. Hilding led discussion as he is in charge of the program. The business luncheon cannot be held on Thursday afternoon as was done last year. Zeck moved to have business meeting on Wednesday evening. Hargens seconded. It was suggested that Hilding figure out the logistics of having this meeting on Wednesday. Motion passed.
Del DeBoer and Doug Anderson proposed that AWWA-SD Section set up the Thursday afternoon water session and would then have the AWWA business meeting after that session. DeBoer also indicated some proposed topics. Torgrude indicated that 8:00-noon on Thursday for tabletop displays was again desired. Van Cleave would like WEF to plan the Thursday wastewater session.
Kittay moved to allow WEF to coordinate the Thursday wastewater session. Hilding seconded. Motion passed.
Presentation ideas for the conference were given by the Board.
Other Business: There was none.
Next Meeting: The next Board meeting will be on September 11 at 6:00 pm at Yankton Kelly Inn prior to conference.
Adjournment: Hargens moved for adjournment. Anderson seconded. Motion passed. Meeting adjourned at 2:04 pm.
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January 11, 2001
SDWWA Board Meeting
Pierre, SD
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Members Present: Rob Kittay, Jim Zeck, Mike Peterson, Sue Hargens, Randy Hilding, Randy William, Cindy Swanson, Lowell Corbin, Mike Boerger, Malcolm MacDonald
Member Absent: Bob Carr, Greg Anderson, Dave Van Cleave
Others Present: Kevin Paulson
Call to Order: Swanson called the meeting to order at 12:08. A quorum was present. The Board introduced themselves.
Approval of Agenda: Peterson moved to approve agenda. Kittay seconded. Motion passed.
Minutes: The minutes were passed out by Kittay. Zeck moved to approve minutes as corrected. Hargens seconded. Motion passed.
Treasurer's Report: Kittay reported that there was about $1354.28 in the checkbook plus the CD. William moved to accept report. MacDonald seconded.
Web Site Review: Kim Verhey has set up a web site for SDWWA. Kittay was to have minutes added.
Clarifier: Swanson spoke about the Clarifier. Kristy Ward from AWWA asked about changing editors.
2001 Conference Preparation: Spouses Program-It was felt that the spouses program is not worth doing because of low attendance and the amount of effort to do such. Swanson moved and Hargens seconded to not have a spouses program. Motion passed. Hilding spoke about his inspection of Kelly Inn. The luncheon will not be able to be held on Thursday.
Committee Formation: The Board proceeded to make committee assignments.
Committee Reports: Zeck-Wastewater Seminar-The seminar will be held in Mitchell March 29-30. Zeck will checking w/ Stack on progress. Talk centered about rotating chairpersons for these seminar committees. Chairs should draw up items that need to be handled for each seminar.
Kittay delivered info for Yde about water seminar.
Other Business: Swanson asked about money given to AWWA from SDWWA.
Next Meeting: The next Board meeting will be in April or May in Oacoma. The specific day will be set by President.
Kittay gave new email address of [email protected]
Adjournment: Zeck moved for adjournment. Boerger seconded. Motion passed.
Meeting adjourned at 1:03 pm.
Rob Kittay
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September 14, 2000
SDWWA 2000 Annual Business Meeting
Rapid City, SD
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Call to Order: By President Jim Zeck at 12:36 pm. Approximately 139 were in attendance.
Zeck thanked the Local Arrangements Committee for their work to prepare for Conference and Doug Herron for arranging the golf tournament.
Minutes: The minutes of the 1999 Business Meeting had been published in Clarifier. Yde moved for approval. Elcock seconded. Motion passed.
Auditing Committee Report: The report was given by Ray Birchem. September 8, 2000 was date of audit. Vern Thorson & Bill Sarringer were also on the committee. All balances were in proper order. Checkbook balance was $5745.98 and there was $2938.79 was in the Piper Jaffrey account. Cindy Swanson moved for acceptance of the report. Dave Van Cleave seconded. Motion passed.
The ceremonial passing of the gavel to 2000-2001 President-Elect Swanson took place.
Vice-President: The candidate from the Board was Dave Van Cleave from Rapid City. Swanson called for nominations from the floor. None were forthcoming. Kim Verhey moved that nominations cease and a unanimous ballot be cast. John Scheltens seconded. Motion passed.
Secretary/Treasurer: The candidate from the Board was Rob Kittay. Swanson called for nominations from the floor. None were forthcoming. Van Cleave moved that nominations cease and a unanimous ballot be cast. Randy Hilding seconded. Motion passed.
Directors: The three directors recommended by the Nominating Committee were Malcolm MacDonald-SDARWS, Greg Anderson-Sioux Falls, and Shane Torgrude-Dakota Supply Group. Swanson called for nominations from the floor. Eldon Christians moved that nominations cease and a unanimous ballot be cast. Dave Odens seconded. Motion passed. Swanson introduced the entire Board.
HDR Engineering held a drawing to give away a putter. The winner was Brenda Frost.
Conference Watch: Kittay read the rules and Hilding conducted the drawing. Mark Perry was the winner.
New Business: The sites of the future conferences were announced as follows: 2001-Yankton; 2002-Huron; 2003-Spearfish; 2004-Aberdeen; 2005-Brookings; and 2006-Rapid City.
Adjournment: Birchem moved for adjournment. George Vansco seconded. Motion passed. Meeting adjourned at 12:53.
Rob Kittay
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