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Baker City Weekly ReportMarch 4, 2011

ADMINISTRATION

The City Manager and Finance Director met with two members of the budget committee this week. The subjwas the City Budget and how to understand the assorted funds, sources of revenues, and level of expenditures

The City Manager had a similar meeting last week with another budget committee meeting. The subject of thmeeting was the status of some current projects.

The Council held two public meetings this week. Monday they had a follow-up meeting in order to finalize ttop five goals that we will work on achieving during the upcoming fiscal year. Tuesday the meeting involved

Council and department directors discussing city revenue ideas. There was no public participation at eithermeeting.

The City Manager and Public Works director met with the current Fixed Base Operator at the Baker CityAirport this week. The discussion centered on the extension of the current FBO contract which expires June

2011.

otential Agenda Items for March 8, 2011:

Executive session Information on amendment of Resolution 3407 Central park bid award Council goals Appoint HBC representative Proclamation Girl Scout Week

OLICE

BCPD opened 39 new cases, making multiple arrests. One of these cases resulted in the arrest of a fugitive whhad a nationwide felony warrant out of New Mexico.

BCPD began a systematic effort to check the compliance status of the registered sex offenders living in ourcommunity.

The 2011 OSAA 1A State Tournament began this week. BCPD Officers provide security for this event eachyear.

Chief Lohner attended a quarterly Baker County Major Crime Team meeting.

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Sergeant McCormicks team, along with Chief Lohner, completed defensive tactics training. This training waheld at Baker High School and was taught by Officer Dee Gorrell, who is a certified Master Instructor in

Defensive Tactics.

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he Baker City Fire Department Responded to a total of 36 emergency alarms for the past week. Breakdown of

mergency responses:

FIRE

General Alarms 0

Still Alarms 3

TOTAL RESPONSES 3

ire responses are broken down as follows:

1 vehicle fire. 1 false alarm. 1 burn complaint (after hours)

AMBULANCE

Rural Calls 10

City Calls 23

Transports 21

No Patient Trip 12

Out of town transfers 4Airport Transfers 0

Motor Vehicle Crash 2

Doubles 6

Triples 0

TOTAL RESPONSES 33

RAINING/MAINTENANCE:

70hours of training consisting of:

EMS: Department patient care protocol review, Pharmacology. Fire: Engine company operations.

1 hours of station and equipment maintenance including:

Weekly medication inventory and replacement of expired medications. Station, apparatus and equipment maintenance. Annual SCBA/respiratory fit testing initiated. Annual SCBA maintenance and testing continued.

dditional services include:

Baker City Firefighter 1 academy training for new volunteer firefighters. Respiratory fit testing for public works personnel. Meeting with Saint Alphonsus regarding patient transfers to Boise.

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UBLIC WORKS

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The former concessions building roof at the Geiser Pollman Park was repaired.Wastewater

Tuesday Rick began discharging treated effluent at the Wastewater Treatment Plant. The photo below showsCell or Pond A at the facility. Recently the level of the liquid being stored in Cell A has been slightly above

design capacity.

Lingering cold temperatures have created an ice layer on the ponds making it necessary to postpone dischargi

treated wastewater, as the ice layer slows down the biological treatment process.

Figure 1 Cell A at the wastewater treatment plant.

Prior to discharging effluent, it was necessary for Rick and Karl to excavate to the chlorine solution line withthe Vactor truck in order to make an emergency repair.

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Figure 2 Rick and Karl excavating the chlorine solution line.

The photo below shows a test sample bottle filled with bright pink liquid. The color of the liquid indicates this chlorine residual in the wastewater. It is important that there is a small amount of chlorine residual in the

wastewater after the bacteria has been killed. The coloring of the sample confirms that.

Figure 3 Sample showing chlorine residual.

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The photo below is of the sulfur dioxide diffuser at the wastewater treatment plant. Sulfur dioxide is thechemical that is used to remove residual chlorine after wastewater disinfection of the wastewater has been

completed.

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Materials were salvaged from a derelict building at the Wastewater Treatment Plant (WWTP) in preparation the demolition of the building.

Trees were trimmed at the WWTP.AM-OSWIM CENTER

The pool was utilized by the following groups; Baker High School, Baker Middle School, St Alphonsus We had approximately 582 people use the pool last week (31% non Y members)

o Water Fitness: 120o Lap Swim: 186o Private Swim Lessons: 2o Masters Swimmers: 21o Open Swim: 251o Miscellaneous: 2

We had no incidents in the pool everyone remained safe We have over 40 children participating on our Mini Swim Team and they are having a great time!! We have

mini swim meet on Friday March 18th

We are planning for our summer programs and looking forward to our spring break day camp We currently have about 25 people participating in adult swim lessons learning to be more efficient and some

them are getting ready for our May Triathlon

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We had an initial biomass energy assessment and will get some results back in a couple months The city has completed the initial paperwork for an Energy Trust of Oregon audit and is looking forward to

moving ahead with their audit, the process takes several months to complete

We have changed two locks and will be installing a gate to bring the pool up to code as far as safety andsecurity

We are thankful for the energy the community has put forth regarding our pool and our programs thank youDEVELOPMENT SERVICES

lanning

For the month of February 2011, the Planning Department processed a total of:o 14 Type I Procedures (Administrative)o 0 Type II Procedures (Neighborhood Notification)o 2 Type III Procedures (Public Hearing before Planning Commission)

Public notices were sent out for the upcoming hearings on the St. Alphonsus sign variance request and TeMarshs accessory structure request.

Prepared and mailed the final decisions on the wireless communication facility cases.uilding

No reportINANCE

inance Director

Februarys revenue and expenditure report will be available March 18th.Utilities

Zone 1 was billed March 4th which included 88 residential and 249 commercial accounts. Of those accounts or 8% are signed up for direct payment.

79 late notices were sent February 28th. Six residential customers (Zone 8) were scheduled to have their water turned off for non-pay (over 60 days pa

due) four of those were actually turned off until their past due balance is paid.

ccounts Payable The second of two accounts payable check runs for the month was generated February 28 th.