Operations reports staffing gains, emergency-response plan update and equipment modernization

David, the utility operations lead (speaker 6), told commissioners the operations group has filled several positions and promoted an operator to a distribution supervisor role; staff are completing reservoir warranty inspections and divers'based cleaning and have not identified issues that require CIP action. "We do 50 [monthly total coliform samples] here in Oro Valley," he said while explaining routine sampling and sampling frequency requirements.

David described a planned update to the emergency response plan and continuity of operations in winter for FY26'27 and said staff aim to add North-project facilities to that plan. He also reviewed a multi-year program to replace aging programmable logic controllers and instrumentation across the utility''about 48 sites''and said much of the panel and PLC work is being done in-house to save cost and build institutional knowledge. On cybersecurity concerns, he noted that POCs are not connected to the Internet and that the utility is working with IT to add firewalls and other protections.