The Combined Lake Delhi Recreational Facility and Water Quality District
Wednesday, May 21, 2025
5:00 pm
Lake Delhi Office
Delhi, IA 52223
The regular meeting of the Combined Lake Delhi Recreational Facility and Water Quality District was held and called to order at 5:00 pm by President Althoff.
Present: Althoff, Scherrman, Burger, Thompson and Leonard. Staebell via Zoom.
Absent: Beals
Visitors: None
Support Staff : Randy Rattenborg and Laurie Kramer via Zoom
Burger made a motion to approve the agenda as presented. Leonard seconded the motion. All ayes. Motion carried.
A motion to approve minutes from previous meetings was made by Thompson, second by Staebell. All ayes. Motion carried.
The Board reviewed claims from the General Fund (81000) as presented. Claims included utilities, maintenance contract, clerical expense, lobbyist expense, legal expense, copier expense, website renewal, lawn care and dam maintenance and equipment (50%). Claims totaled $85,197.08 from the General Fund. Claims for Fund 81001 total $230,289.10 for principal and interest payment. Claims for Fund 81006 included dam maintenance and equipment totaling $67,103.25. A motion was made by Burger, second by Leonard to approve all claims. All ayes. Motion carried.
April financial reports were presented. The General Fund received $46,207.87 in property taxes for the month and interest of $8,785.46. Expenditures for April were $387,593.64 ending April at $2,240,288.50. The Debt Service Fund received $62,768.05 in property tax for the month of April and $1,804.84 in interest. There were no expenditures ending April at $895,765.06. The Dam Improvement Fund had no revenues and no expenditures ending April with a $80,000.00 balance. Grant Fund (81006) had revenues of $923.55 in interest and $126,065.56 in expenditures ending April with a balance of $112,166.22. A motion was made by Staebell, second by Scherrman to receive and file the April financial report. All ayes. Motion carried.
The Board consideration a resolution to transfer a designated amount into the Dam Improvement Fund as required by the 28# Agreement with the County Supervisors filed in January of 2014. A motion was made by Burger, second by Thompson to transfer $10,000 into that fund from the General Fund. Althoff asked for a roll call vote. Leonard – aye, Burger – aye, Thompson – aye, Staebell – aye, Scherrman – aye and Althoff – aye. Beals was absent. All ayes. Motion carried.
A motion was made by Leonard, second by Shcerrman to move $68,000 in budgeted authority from fund 81000 to fund 81006. All ayes. Motion carried.
Burger made a motion, second by Leonard to redeem an additional $250,000 of General Obligation Refund Bonds, Series 2017 in fiscal year 2025. All ayes. Motion carried.
Committee Updates:
Water Quality, Legislative & Community Events – Leonard is planning to have the MVWA representative to give an update.
He gave an update on the fireworks that are planned for August.
He noted additional work being done by B&B and Hartwick Marina to move the RNA docks to meet requirements.
Leonard updated the Trustees on the Wall of Recognition. Things are ready to move forward. He did state that there’s still discussion about adding wind sails to the area. That will be dependent on the determination of the dam committee and Pat Colgan. Staebell asked if completion could be done by July 20th. Leonard stated that that’s the goal.
With regard to a legislative update, Leonard noted that Larry Murphy has been following the legislation regarding a dock bill that was primarily issued for a private lake within the state. It was to enable individuals and association to have hard deck dock lifts. At this point it does not involve Lake Delhi but our lobbyists are following the language to provide us with more information.
Burger requested a meeting with our lobbyists to address the status of current legislation.
Dredge – Staebell plans on a upcoming dredge meeting. He’s reached out to Dan Kimball, an engineer on the lake for more input. He also talked with Joe Vorwald from the Delhi Fire Department regarding burning at the dredge site. He will follow up with him. Staebell left the meeting at 5:29 p.m.
Dam Operations & Property Management – Althoff noted the second grant is over. He updated that $450,000 was received. As of the end of April the balance to send back including interest was around $41,000. He will be working with Kramer to close out the grant.
Althoff noted that he and Burger will be looking at the renewel of the Burrington Group contract. They plan to meet with our legal representative to bring back possible action at next month’s meeting.
Althoff is also investigating whether or not there’s any value in selling the old actuators.
He noted that HDR will now have time to finalize the dam operation and maintenance plan. The hope is to have a plan presented in the next month or two.
Rattenborg requested a dam meeting to review water that is leaking into the control room.
Finance & Budget – No update
Althoff spoke about an issue with garbage being put in the port-a-potties at Lost Beach. Scherrman said he would work with Kramer to develop signage for the area. There was also discussion on rock removal at Lost Beach. Leonard said he would research options.
Public Comment: None
A motion to adjourn was made by Burger, second by Leonard. All ayes. Motion carried. Meeting adjourned at 5:46 p.m.
