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For joining us this morning. We are here for our last in-person meeting from for the year to

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discuss the new bulk and brush program, which begins january 1st, 2026. We have a few staff

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members here with us, deputy city manager isom cameron is here. The sanitation

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coordinator, kimber henderson, is here with us, and we have the account manager from

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republic services, christy green, and she will be doing the presentation this morning.

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and hopefully we'll be able to answer any questions that you have. This is being streamed

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live now and it will be it's recording. So you can come back and look at it at any time. We

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have a scarce crowd this morning, but it's okay. Just here to get this information

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out. And christy, you got your clicker, okay. Christy green's going to start the presentation.

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just, just. Good morning everyone. Thank you so much for coming. As becky said, we are

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this is our last official meeting and it's been great feedback and questions from all

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of the residents. So we appreciate everyone joining. And as you guys know, we're

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going to be making some changes to the bulk and brush program beginning january. So we will

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be discontinuing the monthly on call service. And we're going to a scheduled service. And

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what that means is we're going to be dividing the city up into quadrants. So each address will

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have week one, week two, week three. Week four. And what this is going to do, it's going to

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help eliminate any confusion on when your pickup is going to occur. It's also going to

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eliminate issues with your trash bulk being picked up. Maybe your neighbors not being

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picked up. It's going to help republic services focus on specific areas in the city of

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desoto, so we can let the city and the residents know exactly where our trucks are going to

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be. Sometimes there's heavier brush and bulk in different areas, so it's going to allow

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us that. It's also going to allow you better scheduling. If you know I'm week one or week

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two and spring is just around the corner and we're doing some spring cleanup, you know that

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you're going to be able to set your stuff out week two and and can prepare for that. So

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there's still going to be an option for an on call option. We understand that sometimes

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there may be a large cleanup needed at your house. You may have a large tree that needs to

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be cut up. So we're still going to have the ability for you to call in for an on call option

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with a fee, and you'll just call into the action center if you need to schedule that. So

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as you can see here, we have divided the city up into four quadrants. We have currently

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been doing a pilot program in section two for a couple of months to see how that goes. We

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got really good feedback from the residents on things that were going on. We've done a

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survey from those residents, and we did working with the city of desoto and the gis. We

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tried really hard to get it equal with the number of homes in each quadrant. And so you

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can see by the map of how many homes are in each quadrant and where we're going to be now,

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this new program goes into effect january 1st. So right around the corner, if you've

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got something out right now that needs to be picked up, please call the action center.

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we're still running the go request until january 1st. I tell everyone on all the

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presentation, this is probably one of the most important slides, because it helps you

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understand the scheduling of the weeks. The most important part of this is for everyone to

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understand. The first week begins with the first monday of the month. So if the first

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falls on, as you can see in january, january 1st falls on a thursday. So week one for

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january is going to begin january 5th. So the first week of the month always begins with

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the first monday of the month. And that is the most important thing to remember. You can

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begin placing your items curbside 6 p.m. The friday before your scheduled monday,

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and we ask that all items be out by 7 a.m. Monday morning of the week of your scheduled

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pickup. Republic services will then run that quadrant monday through friday, and we have

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until 6 p.m. On friday to get everything serviced for you. And now we realize it is going

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to be a transition. Some changes during the first couple of months. So if something

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happens and you're in week two and you see the truck coming out on tuesday and you forgot

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to put your stuff out, we're going to be assisting with that transition. So please call in.

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we're trying to reiterate what the week is. And we're still going to be running an extra

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truck to pick up those additional things. So it's just additional reinforcement. It is

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a change. So if something happens and you see you missed it, then let us know. Call the

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action center and we'll come out and still get it serviced for you. We don't want you to

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have to wait until the next month to get it picked up. So just a few things about what

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brush some brush and bulk information. We ask that all of the brush be clean and free of

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trash, and we realize that there's going to be some trash that flies through the

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neighborhood, but we ask that it not be. Bags and bags should be going into your carts. But

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we also realize that if you have a lot of leaves, there's going to be a lot of bags. So

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just normal household trash should be going in your in your cart, not in with your brush

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and bulk. We ask that it's not blocked. So many of you may have seen the big truck that

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comes through the neighborhood. It is a large truck with a large claw arm, and so that

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truck needs a lot of clearance. So please try to make sure that it's not blocked with any cars

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and that your debris is not obstructed with any obstacles like mailboxes, cars, wires or

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anything like that. If something occurs and we arrive at your property and we're not

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able to service it because it's blocked, we will tag it to let you know we were here. We're

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not able to do it. And then you're able to to move it or get free of if it's blocked or

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anything like that. So the city of desoto residents, you are allowed ten cubic yards once a

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month for pickup. And this just kind of shows and illustrates what exactly is ten cubic yards.

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it's got the dimensions of it. It's 12ft in length, eight feet in width, and it's about 3.5ft

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tall. And you can see that the blue dumpster, there is a ten cubic yard, 55 to 65 large

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trash bags. Leaves are now starting to fall off all the trees. As I was driving through

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the neighborhood this morning, I was. I saw some beautiful trees and beautiful colors and

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they were starting to lose their leaves. And I'm like, leave! Season is about to be here soon. So for that continue, we will pick those up. Those are going to be more than bags

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that you can fit in your cart, and will continue to pick those up with your with your bulk and

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brush items. So what exactly is a bulk item? So it's an appliance. It's any piece of

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furniture or any other residential item that can't go into your cart. We do take

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refrigerators, freezers, things like that, but we ask that they be free of freon so you can

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call a licensed technician. They will come out, they will remove and drain the freon and

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they will place a tag on it. Once that tag is there, then you can place it curbside and

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we will pick that up for you. It just has to be free of any freon. We do not accept any

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chemicals, any tires, any car parts, any paint or anything like that. All of that is is

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not part that we do now. The city of desoto, typically in the spring, march, april, has a

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household chemical cleanup where you're allowed to bring your items here. In addition,

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the city of dallas has a household chemical location located on plano road. You are

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able to drop your items off there for free. All you have to do is show your driver's

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license and they accept that material there. And what's considered brush grass

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clippings. Anything from your yard? Trees. We understand trees sometimes are going to

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going to fall down and have to be kept, but we ask that they be in 4 to 6 weeks. Anything

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larger than that is really hard for our truck to safely maneuver, to pick up and place

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into the back of the truck, bags of grass, cleaning out your flowerbed and things like

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that is what's considered brush. It does not include food waste. Again, anything coming out of

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your house, normal household trash should be going in your carts. And I also want to

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remind everyone that on your second pickup day of the week. So on your thursday or friday,

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you are allowed up to three cubic yards. Now that is going to need to be placed where your

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cart is. So place it directly next to your cart. Your bulk and brush will go in the front

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and then wherever you place your trash cart for pickup is where you'll place your three

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cubic yards. So nothing is changing on that. You can still put that out every week. The

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small items. In addition to all of the great things that the city of desoto has been doing

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with the app and the action center, we're also launching in more information on the

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republic services app. So this is a free app that you can download, and you simply need

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to enter an email address, create a password, and then you put in your address and it will

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download your information. What this does is it allows you to see your schedule for your

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pickups. It allows you to report a missed pickup. It allows you to schedule. Many

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times people call into the action center. They're needing to do a clean out. Maybe they

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need a large open top. You can actually order that information directly from the app. So just

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an additional line of communication along with your desoto app, along with the

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action center, along with the great information on the website, we're just trying to

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give you guys information overload of how many ways you can get everything contacted.

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so as you can see here, it shows you this is actually my service. And my service goes on

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mondays. So you can see on monday I have a recycle cart, I have a trash cart, and I have

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my bulk service every monday. And it shows you when your service is going to be. It also

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allows you to see where your truck is and lets you know of any holidays. So for me we

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didn't service. My area was not ran on labor day and so my pickup was on a monday so my

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pickup was delayed. It also allows you to set up any notifications if something

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happens. When it rains. We can experience up to 2 to 3 hours wait times at the landfill,

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which is going to delay our drivers. We then enter that information on the route to say

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we're running behind, and then it can send you notifications. You can get a text, a phone

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call, an email, or if you don't want any notifications, you can unsubscribe from the

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notifications altogether. You can still just log in the app and see what's going there, but

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it's just additional information for you to get on your services. Most of the time

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we try to be pretty prompt, but sometimes with the landfill it the rain is just insane with

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some how how far the delays can become. And this is a great faq of just kind of some things

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that the city of desoto and republic services has been doing over the last couple of

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months to kind of reiterate everything that's going on. We've had multiple town hall

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meetings, zoom meetings every resident should be receiving had received a letter. We did

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specialize postcards that went out to every resident that told you what week. Your pick up,

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pick up. Good, good goodness, that was funny. Your pickup is in. So. Week one. Week two,

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week three. Week four. We have also done neighborhood entryway signs. If you guys see we've

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got they've got the digital signs throughout the city of desoto letting you know hey

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welcome brush is coming. We've had hoa meetings with hoa presidents, the city manager

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newsletter. So much information is going out because we want to ensure we heard the residents

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of desoto. We understood that they wanted some changes. So thank you to everyone for your

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feedback and just more constant communication of getting everything out to the residents.

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so that is all I have on that. Miss becky, do you want to show the map or do you want to? Any

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questions at this time? Yeah. Sounds good. Thank you. Becky is pulling up the gis map.

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there is a page dedicated directly to brush and bulk, and kudos to the city of desoto gis

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department. You can go in and enter your address and it tells you directly when your pickup

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is. So just an additional link for you to be able to look and see when your pickup is. So

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this is the interactive map that is available on the city of desoto website. When you go

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to the home page, there should be a tab that says I'm sorry. We go to the home page and go

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to the trash page. Then you'll see where it says to be able to find your location and you just

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click on there, you can enter your address. We're going to enter the city of desoto's

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address. And you click on it there, and it will zoom in and show you which week you are

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assigned to. So the city hall happens to fall into week two, which is in the yellow. Make

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sure again all items need to be placed out no later than 7 a.m. On the monday morning of the

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week that you are designated. You cannot put your items out on wednesday. You need to have

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it out by 7 a.m. On monday, because they do do assessments to make sure that they have

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enough room, and the routes are going to be okay to be able to pick up all the debris. We have

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had questions before about, you know, incidents that happen outside of your designated week.

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just understand that those kinds of pickups may be subject to additional fees, and we will

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determine those on a case by case basis. That's all I have. Okay. All right. Any questions.

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nothing else. Well thank you everyone for joining us. And as always if you need anything

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have any questions. Reach out to the action center and or reach out to us republic

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services and we'll be more than happy to help. Thank