Board Meeting Agenda February, 2012
- Date/Time:
- February 2, 2012 at 10:30 AM
- Location:
- Stephen F. Austin Building, 1700 N. Congress, Room 170, Austin, Texas
- Resource:
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1. Consider approval of the December 2011 Board Meeting minutes. Board Agenda #01 Document
REPORTS
2. Contract Status Report regarding the status of pending contracts that are under development and executed contracts that have been previously approved by the Board. (David Carter) Board Agenda #02 Document
3. Status of Applications for financial assistance. (Jeff Walker) Board Agenda #03 Document
4. Financial Assistance Programs Performance Report regarding loan and grant commitment activity. (Jeff Walker) Board Agenda #04 Document
5. Report on activities relating to the Economically Distressed Areas Program, including the EDAP Status Report. (Mireya Loewe) Board Agenda #05 Document
CONSENT
6. Consider approving the substitution of Bracewell and Giuliani for Vinson & Elkins as outside bond counsel. (Piper Montemayor) Board Agenda #06 Document
7. Consider approving by resolution, the establishment of a new tax-exempt lending rate scale for the Economically Disadvantaged Areas Program. (Finance Committee Item No. 3) (Benjamin Benzaquen) Board Agenda #07 Document
8. Consider approving by resolution, the establishment of a new tax-exempt lending rate scale for the Water Infrastructure Fund program. (Finance Committee Item No. 4) (Benjamin Benzaquen) Board Agenda #08 Document
9. Consider approving: (a) authorizing the Executive Administrator and the Development Fund Manager to take all necessary actions for the issuance, sale and delivery of State of Texas Water Financial Assistance Bonds, in one or more series (Development Fund Program) in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed $180 million; and (b) selection of underwriter(s) for the negotiation of the bond issue. (Finance Committee Item No. 5) (Monica Galuski) Board Agenda #09 Document
10. Consider approving: (a) authorizing the Executive Administrator and the Development Fund Manager to take all necessary actions for the issuance, sale and delivery of State of Texas Water Financial Assistance Refunding Bonds (Economically Distressed Areas Program) in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed $16 million; and (b) selection of underwriter(s) for the negotiation of the bond issue. (Finance Committee Item No. 6) (Monica Galuski) Board Agenda #10 Document
11. Consider approving: (a) authorizing the Executive Administrator and the Development Fund Manager to take all necessary actions for the issuance, sale and delivery of State of Texas Water Financial Assistance Refunding Bonds (State Participation Program) in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed $50 million; and (b) selection of underwriter(s) for the negotiation of the bond issue. (Finance Committee Item No. 7) (Monica Galuski) Board Agenda #11 Document
12. Consider authorizing by resolution, the use of depository interest to prepay Drinking Water State Revolving Fund match debt. (Finance Committee Item No. 8) (Piper Montemayor) Board Agenda #12 Document
13. Consider approval of the Department of Information Resources (DIR) Interagency Agreement for the Pilot Texas Cloud Offering (PTCO). (Lisa Petoskey) Board Agenda #13 Document
14. Consider approving by resolution, a request from the Greenbelt Municipal and Industrial Water Authority (Donley County) for a waiver of optional redemption provisions of the Greenbelt Municipal and Industrial Water Authority Revenue Bonds Series 1975. (Piper Montemayor/Jim Bateman) Board Agenda #14 Document
15. Consider approving by resolution, extensions of time in which to close existing commitments from the Economically Distressed Areas Program in conjunction with the sale of bonds to fund such commitments. (Jeff Walker) Board Agenda #15 Document
16. Consider approving by resolution, a request from the Bluebonnet Water Supply Corporation (Bell and McLennan Counties) for a loan in the amount of $3,600,000 from the Rural Water Assistance Fund to finance water system improvements, utilizing the pre-design funding option. (Caaren Skrobarczyk) Board Agenda #16 Document
17. Consider approving by resolution, a request from the Harris County Municipal Utility District No. 46 (Harris County) for a loan in the amount of $1,560,000 from the Texas Water Development Fund to finance water system improvements, utilizing the pre-design funding option. (Dain Larsen) Board Agenda #17 Document
18. Consider approving by resolution, a request from the Matagorda County Water Control and Improvement District No. 2 (Matagorda County) for a loan in the amount of $500,000 from the Texas Water Development Fund to provide financing to finance water system improvements, utilizing the pre-design funding option. (Javier Pena) Board Agenda #18 Document
19. Consider approving by resolution, a request from the San Jacinto River Authority (Montgomery County) for a loan in the amount of $175,000,000 from the Water Development Fund to finance development costs for a water supply project, utilizing the pre-design funding option. (Finance Committee Item No. 9) (Caaren Skrobarczyk) Board Agenda #19 Document
20. Consider approving by resolution, a request from the City of Shallowater (Lubbock County) for a loan in the amount of $4,100,000 from the Texas Water Development Fund to finance water system improvements, utilizing the pre-design funding option. (Javier Pena) Board Agenda #20 Document
21. Consider approving by resolution, a request from Westwood Shores Municipal Utility District (Trinity County) for a three month extension of the $960,000 loan commitment from the Texas Water Development Fund to finance wastewater system improvements, utilizing the pre-design funding option. (Caaren Skrobarczyk) Board Agenda #21 Document
22. Consider approving by resolution, a request from the Sandy Land Underground Water Conservation District (Yoakum County) for a loan in the amount of $2,000,000 from the Agriculture Water Conservation Program for an agriculture water conservation program. (Javier Pena) Board Agenda #22 Document
23. Consider approving by resolution, a request from the City of Willis (Montgomery County) for a loan in the amount of $3,150,000 from the Drinking Water State Revolving Fund to finance water system improvements, utilizing the pre-design commitment option. (Finance Committee Item No. 10) (Dain Larsen) Board Agenda #23 Document
24. Consider approving by resolution, a request from the City of Eldorado (Schleicher County) for a loan in the amount of $1,200,000 from the Clean Water State Revolving Fund to finance wastewater system improvements, utilizing the pre-design funding option. (Dain Larsen) Board Agenda #24 Document
25. Consider affirming by resolution, the commitment to the Agua Special Utility District (Hidalgo and Starr Counties) made in Resolution Nos. 07-51 and 07-93 after environmental review, and approving release of funds for design and construction from the $3,967,000 Drinking Water State Revolving Fund loan for a water system improvement project. (Kathy Calnan) Board Agenda #25 Document
26. Consider affirming by resolution, the commitment to the City of Robert Lee (Coke County) made in Resolution No. 11-102 after environmental review, and approving release of funds for design and construction from the $2,275,000 Drinking Water State Revolving Fund loan for a water system improvement project. (Kathy Calnan) Board Agenda #26 Document
27. Consider affirming by resolution, the commitment to the Harris County Municipal Utility District No. 50 (Harris County) made in TWDB Resolution No. 07-14 after environmental review, and approving release of funds for design and construction from the $1,500,000 Clean Water State Revolving Fund loan for wastewater system improvements. (Christopher Jurgens) Board Agenda #27 Document
28. Consider affirming by resolution, the commitment to the Southmost Regional Water Authority (Cameron County) made in TWDB Resolution No. 09-38 after environmental review, and approving release of funds for design and construction from the $13,090,000 Drinking Water State Revolving Fund loan for water system improvements. (Clay Schultz) Board Agenda #28 Document
29. Consider affirming by resolution, the commitment to the San Antonio Water System (Bexar County) made in TWDB Resolution No. 11-63 after environmental review, and approving release of funds for design and construction from the $19,630,000 Clean Water State Revolving Fund loan for wastewater system improvements. (Clay Schultz) Board Agenda #29 Document
30. Consider: (a) amending the Board’s policy regarding the WATER IQ service marks in order to allow the Executive Administrator to waive license fees with respect to for-profit entities; and (b) authorizing the Executive Administrator to waive a license fee for Tuerff-Davis EnviroMedia, Inc. (Robert Mace/Jim Bateman) Board Agenda #30 Document
31. Consider approving by resolution, a request from Lake Livingston Water Supply and Sewer Service Corporation (Polk, San Jacinto, Liberty, Hardin, Trinity, Walker and Tyler Counties) for partial release of lien on property owned by the Corporation. (Jim Bateman) Board Agenda #31 Document
32. Consider approving by resolution, a request from Kempner Water Supply Corporation (Lampasas County) for partial release of lien on property owned by the Corporation. (Jim Bateman) Board Agenda #32 Document
33. Consider approving by resolution, a request from Riverside Water Supply Corporation (Walker County) for partial release of lien on property owned by the Corporation. (Jim Bateman) Board Agenda #33 Document
34. Consider authorizing the Executive Administrator to approve an amendment to the project-scope for the Class I/Class II Injection Well Permitting Process project for Texas Water Development Board Contract No. 1004831106. (Sanjeev Kalaswad) Board Agenda #34 Document
35. Consider authorizing a Request for Applications for Agricultural Water Conservation Grants for fiscal year 2012. (Comer Tuck) Board Agenda #35 Document
REGULAR
36. Briefing and discussion on drought conditions in the state of Texas. (Mark Wentzel) Board Agenda #36 Document
This matter has been postponed until the Board's meeting on March 1st. 37. Briefing, discussion, and possible action on appeals of the reasonableness of the desired future condition adopted by the groundwater conservation districts in Groundwater Management Area 9 for the Trinity Aquifer. (Joe Reynolds and Larry French) Board Agenda #37 Document
38. The Board will receive comments from the public.
39. The Board may recess into Executive Session to consult with its attorneys regarding any posted matter in which the Board may seek the advice of its attorneys under Government Code §551.071 and will reconvene in open session for any appropriate action on any matter considered in Executive Session.
The next regular meeting of the Texas Water Development Board is scheduled for Thursday, March 1, 2012.