Unfinished and incomplete time line shared with NMED and NM Representative HarryGarcia in first meeting

• FY 2013 Bluewater Water and Sanitation District (BWSD) began to raise rates by 300% to show skin in game and to meet loan/grant funding eligibility 

• By Fy 2019 BWSD water rates were 50% higher than surrounding areas

• BWSD recognized after addressing failing aging infrastructure issues that we needed to reduce spending though we didn’t foresee all the upcoming issues and unforeseen expenses.  The BWSD board of directors took action to reduce spending and the operator stopped charging for services and has been volunteering services since July 2019.

• March 25th 2019 meet with NMED and NMFA PER Review Meeting  and we all spoke of funding possibilities and had been reassured by all parties that BWSD would receive the funding needed to complete Sewer Plant project.  We met with CVE at the request of David Bishop to help BWSD board of directors make some final decisions and accept the PER.  We discussed renewing discharge permit and starting design and hire a sub to prepare the Environmental Information Document

• 12, August 2019 Engineer modified the Agreement and furnish Engineering services  from the previous 2018 effective date of agreement of furnishing Engineering services

• 2020 NM Legislative session  BWSD asked for $226,000.00 in capitol outlay and BWSD ask was given and has not been spent in full yet.

• 2020 NM Legislative session, BWSDasked for $400,000.00 in additional funding to complete sewer plant project but was denied

• 2020 BWSD asked for loan forgiveness for $276,000.00 loan from the Drinking Water Revolving fund but were denied

• 2020 April 3 BWSD received letter from NMED, RE Clean Water State REvolving Loan Fund Program (CWSRF) Project CWSRF 079 and Rural Infrastructure Program Project (RIP) 00018 stating that we did not meet agreed upon budget of $160,000.00 in yearly revenue and instead had only brought in $120,000.00.  NMED/NMFA tasked BWSD with further reducing cost or finding additional sources of funding.  Raising rates to BWSD stakeholders was not a possibility then and it is most definitely not an affordable possibility in today's economy. 

• 2019 to Current date BWSD has looked for affordable funding and technical assistance, in the time of discovery we have found that the Clean Water Act provides funding in the form of  Forgivable Loans for disadvantaged communities of which we are one.  If we could apply this funding source to pay the principle of the loan we could then afford the loan portion of the funding needed to come into compliance with state and Federal regulations at the Sewer Plant.