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uh
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all right so it's three o'clock I'm
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gonna go ahead and follow the meeting to
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order we do have a quorum
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um so oh perfect commissioner Gold's
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coming on now
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um director do you want to just kind of
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like kick things off about just the one
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item that we have on
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this emergency meeting agenda uh Madam
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president thank you Bart happy to
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Commissioners again thank you all is
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commissioner gold on you
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okay uh thank you all for taking the
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time as you're well aware last night we
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received a call from the neighborhood
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indicating there was a sinkhole that was
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occurring on Lemp Street between streets
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20 and 21. it was
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not that big team responded immediately
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and started courting off the area
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because it appeared to be getting larger
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uh this uh so everything was set for a
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safe operation through the night
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earlier this morning earlier this
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morning our team went back out and saw
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some of the pictures that I've already
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sent you
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regarding the uh the uh sinkhole across
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the sport our Engineers
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went out we did contact Boise we
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contacted the neighborhood and started
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as in our maintenance teams we did do a
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good assessment on this we have found
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that this sinkhole is approximately 15
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feet deep if not longer the pipe that
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the drainage system that is in this area
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was built in the 1970s out of aluminum
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and over the years it is apparent that
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the system uh started to fail uh this
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week we had that massive rain event uh
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the the uh the pipes that lead into this
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one going Downstream is about an 18 inch
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pipe this one is a larger 30 inch pipe
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so as you can imagine this would be
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similar to the Gold Rush where they
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dredged uh uh operations and so uh the
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entire system got blown out uh there is
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no remnants left of the pipe itself we
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did have our team go out using the
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specific technologies that we have to
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scope uh what we could scope in this and
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we found is that the uh the system has
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completely failed so uh we've been
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commissioner Pickering commissioner gold
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you know we've been in contact with the
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mayor on this and so what we are asking
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you to do today is to Grant and
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conditions so we can expend funds under
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emergency condition for sole source
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contractor
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recruitment to get these things fixed
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and the estimated cost that we're
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looking at right now is between 300 000
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and 350 000 we believe this may take uh
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uh up to two weeks we have already I've
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already closed uh limp from 20 to 21 and
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we have put up barricades on that
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Alleyway that accesses lamp
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and such and you'll have a video a
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visual of that here and
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okay to ensure safe operations we have
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already started a coordination process
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with all the key players out on the
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neighborhood but uh Republic Service all
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the folks will be servicing that area
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and our maintenance teams right now are
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actually filling the whole uh back in
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with gravel as quickly as possible to
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prevent any more degradation of the
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infrastructure but the same token to
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keep
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lookings out from getting too close and
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then falling in or having any more uh
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stress put on that infrastructure so
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again the the request is for you to
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grant that emergency uh uh opportunity
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for us to go sole source and if you do
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that we'll immediately start reaching
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out to the key contractors to see how
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quickly we can respond and get this
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fixed I do have general counsel in the
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building here I do have communications
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uh development Technical Services and I
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here in case you have any specific
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questions for them so Madam president
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that's my request and that's why we're
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here
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thanks director Commissioners
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commissioner McKinney
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uh yeah let me just ask a couple of
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questions um director what is our
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confidence level as far as uh uh how
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confident are we that once we start
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digging and looking into it that we
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won't find that the damage is a lot more
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than we think that is to say how
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confident are we that we know the extent
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of the damage at this point as opposed
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to we start digging and then discover
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that oh this is twice a big twice as big
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of a job as we thought and we'll have to
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come back again and do this again soon
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Madam president commissioner McKinney
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great question uh fortunately we do have
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a project that was ongoing that was
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going to address uh a similar situation
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a little further down our team has used
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the technology that we have here to
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assess that damage right now we we
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initially thought that we could do some
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type of spot repair and then come back
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later and then so I understand it's
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called sleeting it uh to provide more
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strength
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we're confident we have to replace the
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whole uh the whole system or about 300
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feet worth now that being said as we all
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know when you open up the roadway
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there may be more surprises there but we
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believe that this will give this will
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fix this issue again uh I'm not going to
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give you 100 on that to say when we get
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Downstream and we continue to move
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forward we may find more issues if we do
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I'll come back to the commission and uh
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make sure I'll make sure you have an
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update we have to go for something
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different than I'll be in front of you
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again saying here's what we found
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are we are we going to presumably
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replace uh with reinforced concrete pipe
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uh I believe we're doing um
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I'm not mistaken yes uh Plastics uh more
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more strength more uh longevity
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PVC yeah
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okay then one final question I'm sorry
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um
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the sort of temporary measure that you
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took in dumping gravel in there uh does
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that not pose a problem for them silting
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up our pipes Downstream or is that going
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to be there short enough time that I
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mean what I'm saying is before we get in
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there let's suppose a downpour hits two
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hours from now and starts trying to wash
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all that gravel Downstream is that not a
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problem
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um Madam president uh commissioner
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Pickering yes it is uh that being uh
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kind of President commission McKinney uh
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that being said yes it is however uh
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again all knowing that you never cancel
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the forecast we are confident that for
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the next week week and a half we were
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not going to see another one of these
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issues recall this was the impact of the
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revenants of that hurricane and uh and
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uh tropical storm that came up uh into
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Idaho but everything looks great I
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looked at the weather forecast there is
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a high over Idaho right now there's a
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storm earlier today that was it was
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going around the Oregon Washington area
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but it was going north
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so so if there's another a major event
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it's going to be an issue but uh we
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don't think that's going to happen today
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okay great thank you commissioner
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goldthorpe
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yeah I you know last eight and a half
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years I think we've all had our fingers
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crossed that something like this wasn't
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going to happen in the North End because
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of the uh infrastructure that was built
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there 100 years ago and maybe a little
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more recent as we're finding out now but
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uh yeah I you know just like
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commissioner McKinney said nothing's
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nothing's going to surprise me there and
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I hope we can find that it's uh less
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than worst case scenario and get it done
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quickly and sitting here hearing Paul
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saying what kind of material is going to
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be used to replace the pipe I actually
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remembered one of my Roadmaster classes
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where we talked about the types of pipe
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that's all I have to say thanks
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commissioner Goldberg commissioner gold
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do you have anything any questions you
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want to ask
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I don't I am
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I think it was all covered from my
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questions but um I appreciate the you
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know quick response and
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making sure that we can get this address
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so thank you
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can I just ask one more question I am
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sorry about this the um the funding uh
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the funds that we're authorizing for
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emergency use uh where do they come from
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Mr we'll take that out of any reserves
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we have but it's not a problem having
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one of the reasons we have reserves okay
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they just come out of our cash reserves
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then that was gonna be my question too
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so thanks commissioner McKinney okay
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any other questions commissioners
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yes you will if if you agree and allow
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us you'll have to adopt that resolution
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that's in front of us that authorizes us
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to go
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so yeah all uh is there a motion to
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approve the adoption for resolution 24
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10. yes
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Madam president I would move that we
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adopt resolution 2410.
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okay
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moved and seconded any other discussion
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keep up the great work of keeping the
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neighbors informed about what's
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happening
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um and or maybe even provide like a
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specific like line that they can call or
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text to get more update information
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because this is really
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um
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specific and I don't want them to get
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bogged down through our Telus system
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even though they wouldn't but yeah just
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a little bit more hasty Communications
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would be great so Madam President we are
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we are adding a project page
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um and such so uh
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beautiful that sounds great okay all
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right all those in favor say aye
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aye
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opposed motion carries thank you
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director thanks Dave thanks staff
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thank you
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enjoy the weekend