{"id":7877,"date":"2020-04-03T09:28:33","date_gmt":"2020-04-03T13:28:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gcdev3.com\/mwra\/weekly-check-in-friday-april-3-2020\/"},"modified":"2020-04-03T09:28:33","modified_gmt":"2020-04-03T13:28:33","slug":"weekly-check-in-friday-april-3-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gcdev3.com\/mwra\/weekly-check-in-friday-april-3-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Check-in: Friday, April 3, 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-14794 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/mwraadvisoryboard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Weeklyupdate-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" \/><\/p>\n<p>To all of our members: we have made it through another week, and we are hoping you continue to stay safe and healthy.<\/p>\n<p>As indicated last week, through the duration of this pandemic, Advisory Board staff will be sending a weekly update to all of our membership. Here are some items from the Advisory Board and the MWRA:<\/p>\n<h6>Advisory Board<\/h6>\n<ul>\n<li>Staff continues to work remotely. Remote briefings with MWRA staff will continue with the Operations Division proposed FY21 CEB briefing and a look at the proposed FY21 CIP<\/li>\n<li>As is scheduled on our calendar, the Executive Committee meeting for April 10th will be held remotely. Agenda items include discussing the community impacts of COVID-19, FY21 MWRA budget review, Quincy&#8217;s request regarding LWSAP borrowing, and the Advisory Board budget for FY21.\n<ul>\n<li>Of particular note, Advisory Board staff will present a plan that would extend community payments for the I\/I and water loan programs for the remainder of FY20 and all of FY21 by adding approximately 15 months to the term of the loans.<\/li>\n<li>If adopted, this proposal could significantly benefit our communities by deferring $35-40 million in payments. Many details still need to be determined.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Staff, in consultation with Chairman Taverna, have decided to cancel the regularly scheduled April 16th Advisory Board meeting in light of the increasing severity of COVID-19. We hope to hold our regular May meeting on May 21st and will be emailing members with our budget comments.<\/li>\n<li>Staff is developing a plan to remotely hold our PFAS workshop in June.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h6>MWRA<\/h6>\n<ul>\n<li>MWRA will be sending their May 2020 invoices (with assessment charges only) via email. Click <a href=\"https:\/\/mwraadvisoryboard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/FW-Electronic-Invoices.pdf\">here<\/a> to see the notice to communities.<\/li>\n<li>Mr. Laskey updated all employees with the status of MWRA operations <a href=\"https:\/\/mwraadvisoryboard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Pandemic-Update-MWRA-All.pdf\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h6>Calendar<\/h6>\n<ul>\n<li>April 10 | <a href=\"https:\/\/mwraadvisoryboard.com\/event\/excom410\/\">Executive Committee Meeting<\/a> at 10:00 AM<\/li>\n<li>April 15 | MWRA Board of Directors Meeting TBD<\/li>\n<li>April 16 | Advisory Board Meeting <strong>Cancelled<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Please stay safe. We hope to see you in the near future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week&#8217;s updates from the Advisory Board regarding loan repayments, meeting schedules, and operations at the MWRA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":398,"featured_media":7878,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","has-thumbnail"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gcdev3.com\/mwra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gcdev3.com\/mwra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gcdev3.com\/mwra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcdev3.com\/mwra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/398"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcdev3.com\/mwra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcdev3.com\/mwra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7877\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcdev3.com\/mwra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gcdev3.com\/mwra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcdev3.com\/mwra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcdev3.com\/mwra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}