CUATRO VILLAS MDWUA
18537 US 84/285 SUITE A,
ARROYO SECO, NM PH 505-747-4848
August 27, 2025 - 6:30 pm

 

Monthly Board of Directors Meeting

 

Cuatro Villas MDWUA meetings are conducted in accordance with the New Mexico Open Meetings Act. All meetings are open to the public. We encourage and welcome members to attend meetings to become more involved with our local water system.

AGENDA

1. CALL TO ORDER

2. ROLL CALL

3. APPROVAL OF AGENDA

4. MATTERS FROM GUESTS/MEMBERS
    a) Is there an industrial meter that could be used to replace the meter at Valley Baptist Church (per Mel, it would be a good idea to have the meter replaced in order to be aware of leaks)
    b) review pending issues

5. READING AND APPROVAL OF MINUTES (ACTION)
   July 30, 2025 (no meeting, no quorum)

6. FINANCIAL REPORTS (ACTION)
Approve financials for June and July 2025.

7. REPORTS FROM OFFICERS, BOARDS, AND STANDING COMMITTEES
    a) Report on delinquent accounts, telecons by Matt
    b) Discuss info from Santa Fe County, help per Ramon Lucero
    c) Discuss delinquent letter time frame, i.e., 30, 60, 90 days?
    d) Discuss memos received concerning DFA and LGBMS data entry

8. OLD BUSINESS
    a) Report on delinquent accounts, telecons by Matt
    b) Discuss info from Santa Fe County, help per Ramon Lucero
    c) Discuss delinquent letter time frame, i.e., 30, 60, 90 days?
    d) Discuss memos received concerning DFA and LGBMS data entry 
      
9. NEW BUSINESS
    a) Water leak at Manny Chavez; report on repair on fire house road
    b) Members meeting, Saturday, September 20?
    c) Approval of expenditures of over $100.00 for the month of September, 2025
    d) Next Monthly meeting is September 24, 2025
    e) Deadline to submit monthly agenda items for publication is September 13 , 2025

 
10. ADJOURNMENT


CUATRO VILLAS MDWUA MINUTES OF MEETING August 27, 2025

  

  1. Call to Order
    Meeting was called to order by Chairman Mukhtiar Khalsa at 7:15 pm.

  2. Roll Call
    Voting Board members in attendance included Mukhtiar Khalsa, Nancy Williams, and Matt Martinez. James Smart, not present. Also present were Sam and Robin Rodar. Leo Salazar, bookkeeper in attendance.

  3. Approval of Agenda
    Motion to approve the agenda was made by Matt Martinez, seconded by Nancy. Motion passed.

  4. Matters from Guest/Members
    a) Mukhtiar to check with Vences concerning an industrial meter for Valley Baptist Church; extra equipment is stored at the Apple Shed in Chimayo. Discussed maintaining a commercial meter as per By-laws.
    b) Robin Rodar, is acting Secretary, also acting for the La Puebla area until elections at the annual meeting, by consent of the board until formally elected.
    c) Mel took a letter to Seth Vigil concerning his past due bill. Seth told Mel that he would take care of it. He has not come in.
    d) Leo asked if we can have Vences remove the meter?
    e) Matt has contacted Leandro, has not had an affirmative response. He has talked to Melanie concerning bookkeeping. Still nothing affirmative. Janelle- LGBMS is willing to meet with us , we will have Mukhtiar and Matt as leads, Nancy and Leo will be the minors. These reports are due quarterly and annually. They won’t do the reports but will train us!
    f) It was asked and determined that per our policy, we will leave water bill under the land owners name, with the bill being between the owner and the renter.

  5. Reading and Approval of Minutes(Action)
    Minutes for June 25, 2025 were read and a motion to approve was made by Matt Martinez, seconded by Mukhtiar. Motion passed.

  6. Financial Reports (Action)
    a) Motion to approve financial report for June and July, 2025 was made, 1st, Robin, 2nd Matt, motion passed.

  7. Reports from Officers, Boards,and Standing Committees
    a) Matt reported that he updated the delinquent list spreadsheet.
    b) It was discussed and determined that after 60 days, a delinquent letter would be sent to the past due user ie., the bill due on 7/25 is not paid, bill due 8/25 is not paid, the bill due 9/25 will have a 10% late fee added for months of 7/25 8/25 and show on the bill due 9/25.

  8. Old Business
    a) Discuss rate increase; need to increase rates in order to continue paying bills
    b) Discuss “Members Meeting” possible date, Saturday, September 24, 2025. We need a location
    c) Information needs to be presented in the LGBMS format. Matt suggested the board access the training modules with Matt and Mukhtiar being be primary, granting access authority to Nancy and new bookkeeper. TABLED

  9. New Business
    a) Motion to approve expenditures of over $100.00 for the month of September, 2025 was made by Matt Martinez and second by Nancy. Motion passed.
    b) Next Monthly Meeting is scheduled for October 1, 2025
    c) Deadline to submit monthly agenda items for publication is September 20, 2025.
    d) Leo and Nancy are tasked with requesting information from the City of Espanola concerning just how our bill is determined. Use FOIA if need be.
    e) Robin went to Souder Miller and got an Audits list. The Office of State auditors provides public assistance. It looks like our last audit was in 2015. There is a form to down load and fill out in the OSA connection, we need only prove that we operate on a cash basis. Robin has the information.

  10. Adjournment
    Motion to adjourn was made by Nancy, seconded by Robin, Motion passed. The meeting was adjourned 8:57 pm.

                        ________________________       _____________________
                        Approved                                         Nancy Williams, Secretary

Certified by Secretary - Signature on File