CDM:                          Jamie Coleman, Chris Brausch

            Deerfield Township:      Trustees, Clerk, Township Support Staff

            Public:                          People attending the Township work session

 Randy Kuvin called the Township meeting to order. Barbara Wilkens Reed did the invocation and Lee Speidel lead the Pledge of Allegiance. The Trustees then invited the DRSWD board to present their report. Ms. Berger introduced the presentation with a summary of events leading to present day. Mr. Daniels then discussed the formation of the Storm Water Advisory Committee. Mr. Coleman discussed the details of what was presented to the SWAC about Comprehensive Storm Water Management including regulatory issues, O&M, planning and management, and CIPs. He also discussed the annual budget determined by the SWAC. Mr. Brausch then presented funding methods and discussed how the SWAC came to the decision to institute a storm water fee and what the next steps in the process would be.

 At this point the DRSWD fielded questions from the Trustees. Mr. Kuvin asked how many residential vs. non-residential billing units there were in the Township. CDM estimated that there are 12,000 residential units. Ms. Berger stated that Fran Klatte from the Township told her that there were about 10,000 residential units and about 500 businesses. Mr. Kuvin also inquired about grants to do some of the capital improvement work. CDM described some possible grants and said that the District was planning to look into them. He and members of the board pointed out that obtaining grants could allow projects to be done quicker and allow other projects to move forward on the list and thus would not necessarily be a way to lower the storm water fee.

 Ms. Reed asked how the credit/adjustment policy would work. She wondered if any consideration had been given to discounts for the elderly or for people with disabilities. CDM answered that a voluntary fund could be set up with people contributing extra fees such as Cinergy has, but that no other districts had such a discount in place. Ms. Reed also wondered if storm water funding could be used to install sewers to replace septic systems to help avoid illicit discharges. CDM said that while the money could probably not be used for sewers since that was considered a different utility, storm water projects and sewer installation could be done together to save costs for both parties. Ms. Reed also wondered about sharing storm water costs with other communities since water knows no boundaries. CDM pointed out that we could only use funding to control water in our own district. Ms. Berger informed the board that we were working with Warren County and that she had met with other districts about sharing costs for public information.

 Mr. Speidel wanted to know if a credit policy could be set up to offer incentives to businesses to do more storm water control. CDM said the policy is usually viewed as a reward after the fact rather than an incentive beforehand.

 Mr. Thomas then address the Board of Trustees briefly about the Districts budget request for 2006.

 Adjournment:

 Jeff Thomas made a motion, seconded by Walt Daniels, to adjourn the DRSWD part of the meeting at 2:30 P.M. Vote:  All yes.

 Next Regular Meeting: January 10, 2006.

The second Tuesday of every month, at 6:30 P.M., unless otherwise notified.

 Attest:

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Jeff Thomas, Secretary/Treasurer