Baker City Weekly Report

February 18, 2011

ADMINISTRATION

 The city manager participated in an interview with a group from Oregon Main Street. The group will make an
assessment of opportunities and issues that affect our downtown and develop general and specific
recommendations for action.
 City staff participated with the Council Tuesday evening in a goal setting session for the upcoming budget year.
The Council will have a follow-up meeting on February 28th to continue with the discussion and prioritize the
goals.
 Jennifer Bachman, Public Works Department, was nice enough to send me the link of a short documentary
concerning the Elkhorn feeding site in Baker County. The piece originally aired on KGW television in Portland
Oregon. Thank you Jennifer. http://blog.traveloregon.com/2011/01/27/grants-getaways-elkhorn-
wildlife-area/
 A section in The Record Courier this week mentioned a story that was shown on KTVB which had to do with
Telemedicine. The story featured Dusty Christensen of Baker City. I have included the link.
http://www.ktvb.com/home/Patients-in-Idaho-and-Oregon-get-checkups-through-robot-
115138214.html

Potential Agenda Items for February 22, 2011:

 Central Park update
 Update Resort Street
 Introduction of new Community Developer
 Council input on park improvements

POLICE
 BCPD opened 33 new cases, making multiple arrests. One of the cases was a multi-agency
response to the report of a suicidal person with a shotgun.
 BCPD personnel completed their annual Haz Mat awareness and Bloodborne Pathogen
awareness trainings.
 Chief Lohner and Finance Director Jeanie Dexter met with our Justice Court Judge, in an
ongoing effort to collect past due fines.
 Officer Erik Plaza completed an Interviewing Training in Prineville.
 BCPD participated in a goal setting session with council.
 BCPD personnel sold dog licenses to community members at the annual rabies clinic.

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FIRE
The Baker City Fire Department Responded to a total of 23 emergency alarms for the past week. Breakdown of
emergency responses:

FIRE
General Alarms 0
Still Alarms 1
TOTAL RESPONSES 1

Fire responses are broken down as follows:

 1 carbon monoxide detector activation-no leak was found.

AMBULANCE
Rural Calls 5
City Calls 17

Transports 18
No Patient Trip 4
Out of town transfers 2
Airport Transfers 0
Motor Vehicle Crash 0
Doubles 2
Triples 0

TOTAL RESPONSES 22

TRAINING/MAINTENANCE:
21 hours of training consisting of:
 EMS: Case reviews.
 Fire: Juvenile fire setter education, effects of ventilation on fire behavior.
91 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.
Additional services include:
 Baker City Firefighter 1 academy training for new volunteer firefighters.
 Fire inspection and pre-fire plan for local business.
 Fire station tour and emergency preparedness presentation for church group: 14 children/3 adults.

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PUBLIC WORKS
Miscellaneous
 Wastewater and water specialists attended an O.T.E.C. seminar on energy saving measures that can be practiced
at water and wastewater treatment plants.
 The Central Park bids were opened on Wednesday. Additional information is required and therefore the bid
award will be scheduled for the March 8th Council meeting.
 The Airport Improvement Project utilizing Connect Oregon III grant dollars was advertised for the first time
this week. A bid opening is scheduled for March 22nd.
 Additional work was completed on the Capital Plans for water and wastewater.

Wastewater
 Keith and Karl met with P.E.C. Inc. foreman Pat Pitsarsky this week to go over the scope of the CIPP sewer
mainline installation project. Later in the week, the crew used the TV equipment to inspect some of the newly-
lined mainlines.
The photo below illustrates the CIPP installed liner at Resort Street. The top of the new liner has been cut out
to allow access into the line for cleaning and inspection. After the resin has cured it takes on a blue hue.

Figure 1 A section of lined pipe.

The photos below are “before” and “after” testimonials of a section of mainline receiving CIPP treatment on
Bridge Street. The first photo shows the badly deteriorated 8" concrete line, with a lot of exposed aggregate and
a visible hole (there is actually a larger hole under the water surface). Concrete pipe deteriorates over time from
exposure to hydrogen sulfide gas and other corrosive elements.

The second photo shows the same section of sewer line after the 6 mm thick Cured In Place Pipe (CIPP) was
installed into the mainline. On the left side of this photo you can see one of the lateral connections on this
line. These access points are cut out using a robotic unit.

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 Hole in Pipe

Figure 2 Hole in old concrete pipe.

Sewer lateral

Figure 3 Mainline after it has been lined.

Streets
 Some of the gravel streets in town were graded this week.
 Routine street sweeping was performed all week.
 Heavily traveled streets received a light “shake” of salt on Wednesday morning to aid vehicle traction.

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Water
 The Riverside Crew has completed the task of pulling the 8" well pipe (which is in 10 foot sections) and the
well’s pump from its casing at the city water treatment facility.

Figure 4 Riverside employees removing pipe from the well at the treatment plant

Figure 5 Stack of ten foot sections of well pipe that have been removed from the well.

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  Dennis read water meters in Zone 7 this week. Zone 7 encompasses an area roughly from Washington Avenue
(west of 1st Street) south to Indiana Avenue.

SAM-O SWIM CENTER

 No report this week.

DEVELOPMENT SERVICES
Planning
 The Planning Commission met on Wednesday night and approved two separate Conditional Use Permits for
cell towers. One tower will be installed within the Baker Tower for AT&T and the other tower will be located
east of Vista Heights Drive.
 There have been three applications submitted for consideration at the March Planning Commission meeting.
Building
 The Building Official attended a continuing education class on fire sprinkler systems for residential occupancies
and fire hazards in commercial buildings
 Received an application for a 1,760 sq. ft. attached garage on Myrtle Street, which is currently in the plan
review process.
FINANCE
Finance Director
 February’s revenue and expenditure report will be available March 18th.
 I will be attending the CIS annual conference in Tigard on the 17th and 18th.
Utilities
 Zone 7 will be billed February 18th which includes 534 residential and 31 commercial accounts. Of those
accounts 50 or 9% are signed up for direct payment.
 94 late notices were sent February 15th.
 Six residential customers (Zone 6) were scheduled to have their water turned off for non-pay (over 60 days past
due) two of those was actually turned off until their past due balance is paid.
Payroll
 Draw checks were issued February 15th.
LID Billings
LIDs are billed every six months over a twenty year period. Interest is charged at the Local Government Investment
Pool Rate plus 1% which is currently an annual rate of 1.53%. These LIDs can be paid off at any time with interest
charged through the payoff date.
 Two 1997 Birch Street Improvement LIDs were billed February 16th. The original assessment in 1997 for
improvements on Birch Street (H to J and L to Park Street) included 16 property owners for a total of
$63,281. The remaining balance outstanding is $9,813.

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