Minutes from the December 14th, 2011 PCCD regular scheduled meeting
to be presented on January 17th, 2011 for Board approval andsubject to corrections, additions, deletions and approval.

December 14th, 2011

Notices of this regular meeting were posted in the Hays and Caldwell County
Courthouses at least 72 hours prior to the meeting. Receipts of the notices
are on file in the office of Plum Creek Conservation District.
Checks were reviewed and signed, just prior to the call to order, by Vice
President, James O Lipscomb.
1:00 PM The meeting was called to order by President of the Board, James Holt, withthe following Board members present: James O. Lipscomb (Vice President ),Peter Reinecke (Secretary/Treasurer), Lucy Knight (Director), and Fred
Rothert (Director). Also present were Johnie Halliburton (Executive Manager), Ed McCarthy Jr. (Attorney) Feathergail Wilson (PCCD Geologist) andPCCD staff Karen Bassett, Korey Schuelke and Dan Meyer. Minutes weretaken by Karen Bassett and transcribed by Korey Schuelke.
1:00PMPresident Holt requested motions or comments regarding the minutes of theRegular Meeting held on November 15th, 2011. Mrs. Knight made a motionthat the minutes of the Regular Meeting held on November 15th, 2011 be approved as circulated. Mr. Lipscomb provided the second and the motion wasapproved unanimously.

1:00PM President Holt requested any unfinished business that required the Board ofDirectors’ attention. Mr. Halliburton informed the Board of Directors that there
was no unfinished business at that time.
1:00PMPresident Holt requested discussion of Item IV on the agenda. Mr. Jansen ofJansen and Gregorczyk Certified Public Accountants gave the Board of Directors a line by line breakdown of the 2010-2011 audit report. Mrs. Knightmade a motion to accept the 2010-2011 audit report performed by Jansenand Gregorczyk Certified Public Accountants. Mr. Reinecke provided thesecond and the motion was approved unanimously.

1:11PM President Holt then announced that the Board of Directors was going to ad-just the agenda and would begin discussion on Item VIII of the agenda. Mr.
Lipscomb then discussed the transfer of funds from one account to anotherfor a real estate purchase and the requirements necessary for the funds toremain insured. Mr. Lipscomb made a motion that the depository contract for
the transfer of funds to First Lockhart National Bank be accepted. Mrs.
Knight provided the second and the motion was approved unanimously.
1:16PMPresident Holt requested a report from the Plum Creek Conservation District’s Geologist, Mr. William Feathergail Wilson. Mr. Feather Wilson thengave explanations regarding well logs from the Quail Creek Country Club in
San Marcos, Texas and from an injection well within the Salt Flat field. Mr.
Feather Wilson then discussed several handouts regarding groundwater that
he had produced with the Board of Directors. Mr. Feather Wilson then discussed multiple changes that were going to take place in Chapter 36 of theTexas Water Code due to recent legislation. Mr. Feather Wilson also discussed some guidelines for the setting of rules within the Plum Creek Conservation District.

1:35PM President Holt requested a report from the Natural Resources Conservation

Service’s District Conservationist, Mr. Isidro Morales. Mr. Morales was not inattendance.

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1:35PM President Holt requested a report from the Plum Creek Conservation Dis-trict’s Assistant Manager, Mr. Daniel Meyer. Mr. Meyer then informed theBoard of Directors of a Texas Alliance of Groundwater Districts’ Meeting, aGroundwater Management Area-13 Hearing, and a Groundwater Management Area-10 Meeting which he had attended recently. Mr. Meyer discussed
a pictometry class he had recently attended upon invitation by the Hays
County Appraisal District. Mr. Meyer also discussed a map of water wells
within the Plum Creek Conservation District that he had produced to provide
the public with a wealth of water well knowledge that was available on thePlum Creek Conservation District’s website. Mr. Halliburton then discussed aRainwater Harvesting pamphlet that Mr. Meyer had produced for the Plum
Creek Conservation District.
1:50PM

President Holt requested a report from the Plum Creek Conservation District’s Executive Manager, Mr. Johnie Halliburton. Mr. Halliburton informed
the Board of Directors that the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality
would be performing the dam inspections instead of the Natural Resources
Conservation Service in the future. Mr. Halliburton then discussed recent
conversations he had with the Plum Creek Watershed Partnership. Mr. Halliburton informed the Board of Directors that the Plum Creek Watershed Partnership was requesting that a representative of the Plum Creek Conservation
District be on the hiring committee for their upcoming available position. Itwas the opinion of the Board of Directors that Mr. Halliburton would serve asthe Plum Creek Conservation District’s representative on the hiring committee. President Holt stated that the salary portion that the Plum Creek Conservation District was providing would need to be approved each year by theBoard of Directors. Mr. Halliburton then discussed the necessity of setting up
a work day for the Plum Creek Conservation District’s Rules Committee. Mr.
Halliburton then discussed the status of the Emergency Action Plans on thesites that required them and the necessity for inundation area maps on someof the dams that still need completed Emergency Action Plans, as well as, thecosts associated with these inundation area maps. After much discussion, it
was the opinion of the Board of Directors that Mr. Halliburton select several
engineering firms to present to the Board of Directors their qualifications andtheir ability to construct the needed inundation area maps. Mr. Halliburton
then discussed the Wastewater Reuse Study that was being looked into at
the Plum Creek Conservation District’s Site 1 in Kyle, Texas. Mr. Halliburton
then showed the Board of Directors photos of the rehabilitation construction
at Site 5, photos of the City of Kyle’s office construction at the Plum Creek
Conservation District’s Site 2, and photos of unauthorized tires and fish habitat at the Plum Creek Conservation District’s Site 3. Mr. Halliburton informed
the Board of Directors that the City of Kyle would remove the unauthorizedtires and fish habitat. Mr. Halliburton then discussed, in depth, photos taken
at a recent oil field well fracturing tour that he and Ms. Bassett had attended
along with Mr. Feather Wilson.

2:35PM President Holt requested a report from Mr. Ed McCarthy Jr., who was substi-tuting for the Plum Creek Conservation District’s Attorney, Mr. Bob Wilson.
Mr. McCarthy discussed the Plum Creek Conservation District’s draft rules
and how new legislation changes to Chapter 36 of the Texas Water Codewould affect them. Mr. McCarthy then discussed voting rights regarding redistricting in the past. Mr. McCarthy then discussed the proposed closing
date for the new Plum Creek Conservation District office building and thecontingencies that needed to be met prior to that date.
2:38PM President Holt then dismissed the meeting for a five minute break and moved

the meeting into executive session after the break to discuss the remaining
items on the agenda.
3:17PM President Holt called the meeting back to order after the executive session.

Mr. Lipscomb made a motion that each employee be reimbursed three hundred dollars ($300.00) for expenses incurred during the year. Mrs. Knightprovided the second and the motion passed unanimously. The Board of Di-

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rectors then discussed the status of the possible purchase of a new Plum
Creek Conservation District office building.
3:21PMPresident Holt and the Board of Directors then discussed the recent 20102011 audit by Jansen and Gregorczyk and the items that needed to be fulfilled prior to the next regularly scheduled Plum Creek Conservation District
Meeting in order to meet the requirements of the Texas State Auditor’s Office.
President Holt then appointed an audit committee consisting of himself, Mr.
James Lipscomb, and Mr. Peter Reinecke. The Board of Directors discussed
different reports that they would like to see as a result of the recent audit.

3:25PM President Holt requested any public comments. There were no public com-ments at that time.
3:27PM

Mr. Rothert made a motion to adjourn. Mrs. Knight provided the second andthe motion passed unanimously.

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