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 R-094-24     A RESOLUTION APPROVING A SECOND AMENDMENT TO THE INTERLOCAL COOPERATION AGREEMENT AMONG OLDHAM COUNTY, THE LOUISVILLE AND JEFFERSON COUNTY METROPOLITAN SEWER DISTRICT, AND THE LAGRANGE UTILITIES COMMISSION.
Action Required By:  February 2025
Sponsors: Markus Winkler (D-17) ]
ITEM ON THE AGENDA. IT IS A RESOLUTION AND IT IS A RESOLUTION. R-094-2 FOR A RESOLUTION APPROVING A SECOND AMENDMENT TO THE INTERLOCAL COOPERATION AGREEMENT AMONG OLDHAM COUNTY, THE LOUISVILLE AND JEFFERSON COUNTY METROPOLITAN SEWER DISTRICT, AND THE LAGRANGE UTILITIES COMMISSION. AND WHO DO WE HAVE TO SPEAK ON THIS TODAY? MOTION. 
          OH, SORRY. BONNIE, I NEED TO GET A MOTION IN A SECOND FOR THIS. THANK YOU. PLEASE IDENTIFY YOURSELF, SIR. HI, I'M WES SYDNOR. I'M CHIEF OF GOVERNMENT AND PUBLIC AFFAIRS FOR LOUISVILLE MSD. HI. I'M JACKIE QUARLES, AND I'M DEPUTY GENERAL COUNSEL AT MSD. ALL RIGHT, THANK YOU, CHAIRWOMAN, AND THANK YOU, COUNCIL MEMBERS, FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK ON THIS PIECE OF LEGISLATION. JUST SOME QUICK BACKGROUND, MSD HAS BEEN SERVING PARTS OF OLDHAM COUNTY SINCE THE EARLY 2000. WE'RE ASSUMING THAT YOU ALL CAN SEE THIS, BUT, BASICALLY, WE HAVE SERVED THE, THE CITY OF CRESTWOOD, LIKE I SAID, SINCE THE EARLY 2000, AND THEN 2018, STATE LAW CHANGED THAT ALLOWED MSD TO OWN ASSETS OUTSIDE OF JEFFERSON COUNTY, THE CITY OF CRESTWOOD LOBBIED, BASICALLY THE STATE TO ALLOW US TO ACQUIRE THEM, FOR SOME REASON, THEY WANTED TO GET OUT OF THE SEWER BUSINESS. AND SO, WE OBLIGED AND ACQUIRED THAT SYSTEM IN 2019, FAIRLY SOON AFTER THAT, THE OLDHAM COUNTY ENVIRONMENTAL AUTHORITY, WHICH IS OLDHAM COUNTY'S SEWER DISTRICT, FOLLOWED SUIT IN THAT. AND SO WE ACQUIRED THAT SYSTEM, ALSO IN, IN LATER IN 2019 THAT, THAT'S POCKETS OF OLDHAM COUNTY DOES NOT INCLUDE THE CITY OF LAGRANGE DOES NOT INCLUDE PEWEE VALLEY. SO HERE'S A MAP OF SHOWING SOME OF THESE DIFFERENT SERVICE AREAS. THE AREAS THAT I'M TALKING ABOUT TODAY ARE ZOOMED IN ON THIS SLIDE. SO WE HAVE THE LAKEWOOD VALLEY, WATER QUALITY TREATMENT CENTER, BASICALLY TREATMENT PLANT, AND THEN WE ALSO HAVE GREEN VALLEY, WHICH IS THAT AREA IN THE PINK, SO BASICALLY WHAT IS HAPPENING HERE IS THE CITY OF LAGRANGE IS BUILDING OUT INFRASTRUCTURE TO SERVE THE OLDHAM RESERVE. 
          BASICALLY INDUSTRIAL COMMERCIAL AREA, WHICH WILL INCLUDE PARTS, AROUND THESE TWO, TWO AREAS, THE AREA IN PINK, THAT GREEN VALLEY AREA IS ALREADY AS YOU CAN SEE, IT'S SURROUNDED BY THE CITY OF LAGRANGE. AND THAT ACTUALLY GETS TREATED AS A WHOLESALER BY THE CITY OF LAGRANGE NOW, LAKEWOOD VALLEY IS, GOING TO BE RIGHT NEXT TO A NEW FACILITY THAT IS BEING BUILT BY THE CITY OF LAGRANGE. LAKEWOOD IS A PACKAGE TREATMENT PLANT. SO SMALL TREATMENT PLANT CAN, YOU KNOW, A LOT OF TIMES WE LOOK FOR EVERY OPPORTUNITY POSSIBLE TO ELIMINATE THOSE TYPES OF FACILITIES, SO WITH LAGRANGE BUILDING THE INFRASTRUCTURE AROUND IT, THIS WILL ALLOW US TO TAKE THIS PLANT OFFLINE AND INSTEAD WILL DRAIN TO THIS NEW PUMP STATION THAT'S BEING BUILT BY OLDHAM COUNTY AND THE. AND THE CITY OF LAGRANGE, ALSO, WITH THIS NEW DEVELOPMENT THAT THAT AREA IN PINK, THE GREEN VALLEY AREA, CAN BE TAKEN OFF AS WELL. AND SO THIS, THIS AMENDMENT TO THE INTERLOCAL AGREEMENT, THERE'S NO, YOU KNOW, GO TO THE NEXT SLIDE. SO THERE'S NO MONEY CHANGING HANDS, THERE'S NO LIKE PURCHASE OF, OF PROPERTY ON BEHALF OF MSD, IT'S BASICALLY 
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TAKING THOSE TWO AREAS THAT WILL BE ENGULFED BY THE CITY OF LAGRANGE AND CEDING THOSE OVER TO, TO THE CITY OF LAGRANGE TO BE BE TREATED AND CAPTURED BY THESE NEW ASSETS THAT THEY'RE BUILDING, SO WE NEED AN INTERLOCAL AGREEMENT AMENDMENT TO DO THAT, AND SO THAT'S THAT'S WHAT THIS RESOLUTION DOES, IS IT CLARIFIES THAT THESE TWO PARTS OF THE SERVICE AREA WILL NO LONGER BE IN MSD'S, SERVICE AREA NOW WILL BE CEDED TO THE CITY OF LAGRANGE. AND JUST FROM AN ENVIRONMENTAL AND, CUSTOMER BENEFIT, OR PERSPECTIVE, YOU KNOW, GETTING RID OF A PACKAGE TREATMENT PLANT IS ALWAYS GOOD, AND ALSO FOR THE AREA OF THE GREEN VALLEY AREA, THERE'S A, A SMALL PUMP STATION THERE THAT WILL BE ABLE TO BE ELIMINATED BY LAGRANGE. SO, WITH THAT, I WILL PAUSE FOR ANY QUESTIONS. SO THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE AND TALKING. AND I WANTED TO KNOW WOULD THIS HAVE ANY IMPACT ON HEIGHTS CREEK? WILL IT STILL MAINTAIN ITS FUNCTION? IT WILL. 
          YES. YES, MA'AM. SO THESE, THESE TWO AREAS ARE PRETTY REMOTE. THEY HAVE THE ONE AREA DRAINS TO LAGRANGE, AND THAT'S WHERE IT'S TREATED TODAY, THE OTHER ONE HAS THE SMALL PACKAGE TREATMENT PLANT, SO THAT'S WHERE THAT FLOW IS GETTING TREATED TODAY, BUT EVENTUALLY WILL BE SERVED BY THE CITY OF LAGRANGE. AND THESE ARE GEOGRAPHICALLY PRETTY FAR AWAY FROM, HIGH CREEK. AND THAT THAT FUNCTIONALITY. SO THE PEOPLE THAT OPERATE IN THIS TREATMENT PLANT WILL THEY BECOME MSD EMPLOYEES? SO THE PEOPLE THAT ARE OPERATING THE LAKEWOOD TREATMENT PLANT ARE MSD EMPLOYEES TODAY. AND WILL, THEY WILL BE MOVED TO OTHER, YOU KNOW, DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES WITHIN OUR SYSTEM. THE ONES THAT THE PACKAGE. YES. OKAY. YES. OKAY. 
          THANK YOU. YEAH. RIGHT NOW IT'S JUST ME. THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR, SO JUST MAYBE 1 OR 2 QUICK QUESTIONS. NUMBER ONE, BROAD BRUSH STROKE. I'M ASSUMING THERE'S NO. AND WE USE THE WORD SIGNIFICANT, BUT EVEN MINIMAL FINANCIAL IMPACT TO MSD FOR DOING THIS. CORRECT. YES. 
          CORRECT. AND WHEN I'M SO THEN WHEN I'M LOOKING AT THE MAP, WHEN I'M LOOKING AT THIS. SO IF I, IF I GOT THE HISTORY CORRECT, YOU'VE TAKEN OVER CRESTWOOD BUT NOT LAGRANGE. CORRECT. THAT'S CORRECT. SO I GUESS I'M NOT UNDERSTANDING THE PURPOSE. AND MAYBE I JUST MISSED IT IN THE BACKGROUND OF YOU GUYS TAKING OVER TWO VERY SMALL AREAS, BOTH IMMEDIATELY ADJACENT TO LAGRANGE, IN WHAT SOUNDS LIKE IT'S GOING TO BE A TEMPORARY THING UNTIL LAGRANGE TAKES THEM OVER. WHY DON'T WHO OWNS THESE TWO THINGS CURRENTLY? WE CURRENTLY DO. OH, WE CURRENTLY DO. WE DO, CURRENTLY DO. THEY WERE, THEY WERE TWO OF THE AREAS THAT WERE PART OF OLDHAM COUNTY ENVIRONMENTAL AUTHORITIES. OH, OKAY. SERVICE AREA THAT WE ACQUIRED. AND SO, YEAH, THAT'S PART OF THE REASON FOR DOING THIS TOO, IS THAT IT DOESN'T REALLY MAKE LOGISTICAL SENSE FOR US TO CONTINUE TO OPERATE THOSE, ESPECIALLY IF THEY'RE SURROUNDED BY LAGRANGE. GOT IT, NO MORE QUESTIONS FOR ME. LET ME SEE IF THERE'S ANYBODY ELSE IN THE QUEUE, PLEASE FORGIVE ME. I FORGOT TO ACKNOWLEDGE OUR ATTENDEES VIRTUALLY. COUNCILMAN ACKERSON AND COUNCILMAN BENSON. 
          MADAM CHAIR, I DO HAVE A QUESTION. YES, SIR. WHEN I HEAR THE WORD ACQUIRED, DID WE FINANCIALLY ACQUIRE THESE AREAS? WHEN WHEN THIS TRANSACTION HAPPENED IN 2019? BASICALLY THE, THOSE CUSTOMERS AND THAT SYSTEM WAS, ACQUIRED BY MSD THROUGH, ASSUMPTION OF THEIR EXISTING DEBT. SO IF THESE IF THESE TWO FACILITIES HAD, YOU KNOW, CAR LOANS OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT, THEN WE WOULD HAVE TAKEN THOSE OVER IN THESE TWO SITUATIONS. THESE ARE THESE ARE FREE AND CLEAR. AND SO THERE'S NO, YOU KNOW, THERE'S NOTHING ATTACHED TO THEM AS FAR AS ANY FINANCIAL OBLIGATIONS AT THE AT THIS TIME. JUST SO I'M CLEAR, AND OTHERS ARE CLEAR. SO THE TERM ACQUIRED MEANS THAT WE TOOK THEM OVER AT NO FINANCIAL DETRIMENT OR FINANCIAL LOSS TO MSD. NO 
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PAYMENT BY MSD RELATED TO THESE, IN WHICH CASE NOW WE'RE LOOKING AT TURN THEM BACK OVER TO OTHER ORGANIZATIONS. SO AGAIN, SO MY THE ULTIMATE QUESTION IS WE'RE NOT LOSING MONEY HERE ON THIS DEAL. RIGHT. NO THAT'S CORRECT. WE'RE WE'RE NOT. YEAH THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR. YOU'RE WELCOME SIR. 
          ARE THERE ANY OTHER QUESTIONS, IF THERE AREN'T ANY OTHER QUESTIONS, THIS CALLS FOR A VOICE VOTE. ALL OF THOSE IN FAVOR SAY, I, I. ALL OF THOSE OPPOSED, SAY NO. BYE BYE. THE AYES HAVE IT. THIS WILL GO ON THE CONSENT CALENDAR. THANK YOU ALL FOR BEING HERE. ABSOLUTELY. 
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* This transcript was compiled from uncorrected Closed Captioning.