June 16th 2025 Meeting Minutes

DEER CREEK IRRIGATION DISTRICT MINUTES OF THE

June 16th, 2025

BOARD OF DIRECTORS MEETING

PLACE: Vina Elementary School Library, 4790 D Street, Vina, CA 96092 

TIME: 5:00 P.M.

DIRECTORS PRESENT: Linda Pitter, Jeff Rabo, Doug Amato, Jake Thompson, Patrick Johnson

DIRECTORS ABSENT: none

The meeting was called to order by Board President, Linda Pitter at 5:12pm. The Pledge of Allegiance followed immediately after the call to order. Secretary, Jennifer Salisbury, was absent. Directors Pitter and Rabo recorded the minutes. With no corrections to be made to the agenda, Director Rabo moved that the agenda be approved. Director Amato seconded, and the vote was unanimous.

PUBLIC COMMENT:

No public comments.

CONSENT AGENDA

Director Johnson read the minutes from the meeting on June 2nd, 2025 aloud. Grammatical

revisions were proposed. Director Rabo motioned to approve the minutes as amended. Director

Johnson seconded, and the vote was unanimous.

Treasurer Stephens was absent however, Director Johnson presented the following invoices for the period of June 3rd, 2025 through June 16th, 2025 on her behalf:

ACH Payments:

 Allevity payroll for period 5.19.2025 – 6.1.2025, $2,136.04

Other Invoices

 #874 Downey Brand, legal services for April, $920.00

 #875 GSRMA, Insurance for 7.1.2025 – 6.30.2026, $7,311.00

 #876 Ellen Stephens, reimbursement for postage (Gene Amato’s certified mail) $5.58

 #877 Tri Counties Bank, May credit card (certified letters postage) $48.65

REPORTS:

Director Johnson read the Treasurer’s report prepared previously by Treasurer Stephens to be read at this meeting. Tri Counties did not charge a late fee or penalties for the April credit card payment. Also, as a follow-up, Treasurer Stephens is in contact with Zuley at Allevity to verify and document the debit in question from April 7, 2025 of $194.47. Allevity is still investigating the expense and will get back to Treasurer Stephens

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Additional diversion cleaning was performed by Director Rabo. He rented a bucket for a borrowed excavator and removed silt, debris and cobble out of the concrete intake channel.

OLD BUSINESS

The board had an in-depth discussion concerning District tax rates and options for solving future budget shortfalls. The Board reviewed four years of budget expenses and published inflationary increases. A detailed discussion was had regarding concerns about increasing tax rates amongst difficult agricultural production costs. The Board reviewed current User and Non-User tax rates, and then performed an analysis of costs born only by Non-Users, based on all budget categories.

MEETING ADJOURNMENT at 9:35 pm.