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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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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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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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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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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