Director reports equipment repair quote and postponed hazardous-materials refresher

During the director's report, Joel said a county-contracted inspection found the facility’s backflow preventer failed and Corson submitted an $875.26 quote to rebuild the unit. Joel said the district has funds in its building equipment repair and maintenance line and that he believed a board motion was not required to proceed.

Joel also updated trustees on hazardous-materials training: federal OSHA HAZWOPER requirements call for an initial 24-hour class and annual eight-hour refresher. He said a refresher scheduled for March 19 in Monroe County was canceled because the instructor was hospitalized and that the training will be rescheduled in summer. He asked staff to keep the board informed of the new training date.

Those items were presented as routine operational updates and no formal board action on the repair quote or training rescheduling was recorded in the transcript.