Resolution to Appoint H2O Innovation Operation & Maintenance, LLC as Water & Sewer Operator

Resolution #28-2025 — 2025-07-14

WHEREAS

• Delaware Engineering has succeeded in normalizing our Sewer Operations so that we are now regularly in compliance with our SPDES permit and their proposal to be our Water & Sewer Operator was meant as a temporary arrangement
• the Village of Red Hook requires the services of a properly licensed Water & Sewer Operator
• the Village has reviewed several proposals to provide Water & Sewer Operator services and has determined that H2O Innovation Operation & Maintenance, LLC, will provide the best services
• H2O Innovation Operation & Maintenance, LLC, is a properly licensed Water & Sewer Operator
• the Village is satisfied that H2O Innovation Operation & Maintenance, LLC, will provide the services required to continue proper operations of our WWTP and WTP
• the Village Board acknowledges that the Village Attorney Kyle Barnett represents H2O in a collection action that is winding down

RESOLVED

• the Board of Trustees of the Village of Red Hook hereby appoints H2O Innovation Operation & Maintenance, LLC, as the Village's Water & Sewer Operator, effective August 1, 2025
• the Mayor is hereby authorized to negotiate and sign the contract in consultation with the Village Attorney with H2O Innovation Operation & Maintenance, LLC
• the Village Board considers the potential conflict of the Village Attorney to be unrelated and inconsequential and therefore waives any potential conflict