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calendar.

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That's about

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again.

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Instruction.

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Make sure

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First order,

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here.

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changes

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motion.

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So move

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Any

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comments?

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So, I'll move that we wave the actual
reading accept.

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Any
discussion?

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» Okay. So, I don't have a whole lot to go
over.

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Apologize.
interviews or something. But I guess the

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biggest thing
has

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got a notice of violation
for

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industrial sampling.

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I'll let Lonnie kind of talk about that
a little.

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Also,
I The right way to say it is

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[clears throat] I give out a little old
information at the last board meeting

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about chronic manholes.
We were working off of some old data.

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We didn't

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bring what I wrote back to her, but you
guys will be able to see all of that.

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And a lot of this so that we kind of
understand, right? This isn't a finger

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point.
We're doing things very differently.

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Water and sewer department has been
done.

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in the past. Uh there's a there's a lot
of data missing. There's a lot of things

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that are happening and and you know,
we're doing what we can to make sure

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that when we report things, we do that
accurately.

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So, so I just want to kind of get that
out there, let everybody know that we

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did put out a little little mis data.
probably

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I don't want to say a number today until
we get done with the review

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and our engineering on exactly what that
is. Okay, I did send in uh to the state

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I think it was six or seven tap
applications.

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Uh
those are you know pertorium.

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I got a note back this morning that
is reviewing them and they will let me

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know what they
res

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into the system.
Uh so as we do taps now we take the

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application
map it out show how it goes from there

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to the plant and if there's any manual
problems it send

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We did
six or seven.

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The other part of the report was
you guys let us start the bond process.

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Passed it.
first

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resolution. So, we are going to apply
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bonds going to borrow $10 million.
We probably have that in the bank

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somewhere around the first of August
and what I sent to finance

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as I stated
all projects through this committee.

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We just want the money so that the
project not

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so way we broke it down to finance so
that you guys have understand wastewater

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treatment plant we put 10% or$2 million
funding water distribution system we

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felt like it would be about 20% or$4
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and then mitigation of
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which is about $12 million and then we
had a kind of a contingency buffer fund

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of 10% as things go up. So that's $2
million. Okay,

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there again all projects come through
this board to approve it go to Bulma and

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that's how we get the money. We just
didn't get the money, we're going to

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start, which is what everybody seems to
think that we now

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spend. That's not how this works. But
St. John engineering is working on

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several projects.
Stack them up, pull them out, come here,

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give us money, go to

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update, be clear about that.
Um, in the debt side of it, uh, we had

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our financial advisor come to the board
meeting this week. The highest peak of

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this board's debt was $1.8 million as a
payment. Okay. We're going to be below

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that at the $10 million mark.
And then part of it drop off

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the second $10 million. It's all

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we're going to borrow 10 this year. As
soon as we get it spent,

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we're not going to take all we're going
to aggregate it. So that and look, while

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we're doing some of that, I mean, part
of it, you get to gain a little as we're

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getting this done and it'll offset some
of our payment. But but that's how we we

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talk the board the resolution and stuff
was written so that we can fun project.

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There was some questions brought up by

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others about interest rates and borrow
money from the state for projects

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which you can get a better interest rate
but you have to turn the project in.

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They have to approve the project and a
long period of time. Now, I'm not saying

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there won't be projects coming up that
we don't use that system. That's another

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debt to take right now. We need the
flexibility to work in those areas as we

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find these problems.

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» You have to turn a project in. They rank
the project and and what our financial

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guy says, the projects that are more
maintenance related aren't funded as

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much as new projects and some of those
things get on the list because there's

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only x amount of dollars that they

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all agreed those are avenues we can
continue to look at as we do these

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things to rebuild our system and fix it.
But for what we're trying to get

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accomplished to keep the momentum going
forward

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felt like this was the right path and it
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So that that was a good show that we all
believe we're moving in the right

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direction.

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» 4.25
is what we project. We won't know till

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they sell the bonds in July
and we will have a buffer to say no if

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we don't like the rate and wait
that was part of it I think in the

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actual paper it's set up to% but I think
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will pass on things we

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I've talked to our engineer. He's here
tonight. We're pushing pretty hard on on

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grant projects that we're working on,
but we already know one project that we

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want to tackle that we'll start is the
pumping of the wastewater collection

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tank where we know we're losing 10% of
the volume because of the sludge that's

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at the bottom. That's probably going to
be top on the list. The next one is

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working on the quote
electronic monitoring of the meters in

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the ground that we were discussing in
here. That will be another project and

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then we'll go into the bigger build
projects and that's going to be based on

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a series of things that we've been
doing.

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But I would say those two projects will
be one of the first that we roll out.

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Yes. I mean, listen, we're not going to
let grass grow under our feet, so to

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speak, because I want the next 10
million because that means we've done

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that much work. And and it shows
everybody that we're committed to

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getting this right in a short period of
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Yes, sir.

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And to be honest with you,
that $2 million toward the end and we

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absolutely probably will. But anything
that you do with building

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You just got to have a number to start
the project. And so that's how we broke

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it down. I mean, but that wouldn't be in
the first $10 million. I guarantee you

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that.
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probably take off pretty quick, too.
We're probably going to bring to you a

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new water tower for 4
We we've identified 15 acres that we

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believe will be donated to us and I
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tank. Is that what we were looking at?

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» It's one of the two either half million
or 750 which raises all the pressures in

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that area and gets everybody good water
pressure all the way out through those

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lines. But we do have a donor that's
willing to give us some land so we don't

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have to purchase it. And we think that
uh tank based on some information Hills

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give us on the tank they just put up
saying we're using the same tank but

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it's probably around 2 to2.2 million. So
so you know we've identified

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roughly $5 million that we intend to
really get busy with as engineering

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continues to build projects that we
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So
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» yeah, I mean if you remember the first
thing we wanted to do which we did get

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passed was the half million dollars
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Once we get that done, you know, there's
still probably some amount of money that

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we will be bringing to you in that that
is maintenance items that we haven't

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been able to repair. A lot of it is not
necessarily upgrading the plant because

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we have a lot of capacity left there.
It's just getting caught up on the

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things we've let go.

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» We've signed the paperwork and stuff. I
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Everything's being built right now

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to kind of see where

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» Yeah, we've already funded that out of
this year's budget. Yes, sir.

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» And and once we get that in place,
right, we start catching all the trash.

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Then we can move into phase two, which
is empty. So we get the full capacity of

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As you know, my report is attached if I
have a question, but just kind of piggy

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back on what the mayor said, but the
t I'm going to accept full

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responsibility for that. It was a
sampling issue. We did collect the

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sample. We just did not collect it
within a lot of time that required. We

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have a new pre-treatment coordinator as
well as a new uh chief plant wastewater

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plant operator and going on with they
took the sample a little bit later. We

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recognized it immediately had the sample
taken

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trying to hide it in that instant but
I'll accept responsibility for that.

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We since talked with G everything is
straightened out. Now we're on the list.

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We know exactly what dates are and
moving forward everything will be done

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on time.

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» And the same thing with the manual he
was speaking on that I'm [snorts] going

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take responsibility for that one as
well. We were going on old data off of a

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old spreadsheet that my staff nor myself
could manipulate. So we were basing it

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on data that was on the spreadsheet that
shouldn't have been on there and vice

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versa. Some that should have been on
there that wasn't on there. But

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everything is getting updated now. Like
I said, I don't want to give a a good

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number yet because we're still in
coordination with TK right now. We're

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still counting. I'll have probably an
official number next week and I'll send

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it off to you all immed. But we're going
in the right direction. Not an

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astronomical number. We have been doing
work. But I I just want to make sure

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that we're reporting accurate numbers
and what I give to the mayor reports to

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the public is accurate. So I'll take the
hit for that one as well. It's not like

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I said, we're not trying to hide or do
anything underhanded. We want to keep it

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everybody. always trying to be
transparent as possible.

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on those two fronts. That's all

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that goes back to June.

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We do have some missing stuff and so
trying to recreate some of that as

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we
didn't actually label manholes correctly

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and some of that. So now as we
the street and the manhole number

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so that there's no more confusion about
which

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we may have several on that street. And
so we named ourselves for some

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» Right. Right. What we appreciate is that
when manholes are overflowing and seeing

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that the public is now reporting to the
department so we can put our eyes on it

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and report it as well, not just know
about it and post it on social media

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where it goes because there are certain
parameters that make manhole.

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You know, just because you overflow, you
know, five or six times in the same day.

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There are certain parameters that go by
to judge how many overflows that is. And

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a lot of that data was wrong. It was
backwards.

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people calling in saying, "Oh, it
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recognizes overflow, it may have only
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due to the timeline that overflows
happen. So when we started recognizing

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that, that's when we realized that our
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So we just get everybody to continue
reporting to us. You see overflow, let

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us know so we can prop
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as it needs to be.

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» Yeah, we had we had quite a bit of rain.
We we we have mitigated a lot of those

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overflows. We had now when I say that
some of the same manholes are

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overflowing. We had 14 uh overflows
during that heavy heavy rain. But again,

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some of them are the same manholes over
and over and over again.

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And some of that within the 24hour
period, it may overflow six times, but

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it's on account because it's within 24
hours. So, we we we had quite a few

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overflow, but not not nearly as bad as
you would with the amount of rain that

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we had.
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overflows.

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Five times in
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» right
there's a difference between a release

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but if it comes out it's considered
I believe a release is if it gets into

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the stream I don't know I don't have
If it comes out of the pipe,

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» it could be it just depends on which
man. For example, we have one in the

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park that overflows all the time. Every
rainy get ready for it to overflow. It

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might be overflowing now. We come back
three hours from now and it stops and

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then we can go back two hours after that
and it's overflowing again, but it's

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still

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I think it's worth

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measure.

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There is no mechanism for that.

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I think
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estimate
sometimes we may best we can based on

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standards that we have.

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I think it's worth noting

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all that help us maintain and understand

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We don't treat sewage.
There's gray water.

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That's one of the applications that I
sent in

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water.
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it's been
got cancelled but we did issue permit

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last year

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but we have applied

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every bit of that goes water is treated.

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There's some provisions in there that
says event.

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» No, they don't have any sewer taps on
the property.

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That's about monthly since I've been
here.

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» They read the

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I meanbody

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[snorts]

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else.

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Right.

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They all have

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That's where
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started.

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Right.
Call it straight to it. And we confirmed

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though that
if [clears throat] a citizen calls or

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anybody outside of Manchester
uh city employee, it's not. So even if

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you have that speed and you're trying to
get us in trouble and call, they're

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going to refer you back to the utility
utility formally reported. Now they may

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make a mental note. you don't call, hey,
we just got this call, but

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they don't they don't
call

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and that's why we encourage everybody to
call.

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It's not like we don't want to go make
sure that it's happening or not. You

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know, you think you're doing good by
day, but actually not.

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They're not coming out. I mean, call us.
Let us go out and

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our goal is to get

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Well, I mean, exactly. Because just
imagine you have a pipe with holes in it

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and you got the river when it rains, the
river builds up, pipe fills.

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So until we can correct the holes in the
pipe which would cause the ping all the

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hole anytime the water raises the water
level raises and you being there close

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to the river

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» as as the river over the bank gets over
our pipes are it makes the bigger as the

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water sits on ground it goes into our
pipe versus back into the river so

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you're saying is exactly true. It's not
that the river, it's when the river gets

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outside.

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So as the rain goes and river expands
and we run along river

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it's easing

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in

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And that's what we're working on with
trying to clean.

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So we've got them on. cleaning machine
is not as big or as we're inst

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Another question.

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We're finishing up

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slow down
expenditures so that we can finish.

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» We actually stopped ours

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or something. We well ahead because I
knew we needed to to catch up. a lot of

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still a lot of old outstanding bills
before me that were paying. So kind of

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stopped it early
starting

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and kill us like it did this year,

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» right?

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That was kind

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» we had a small line item to line
that just passed and take a second but

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yes they're him stopping his spending.
It's letting us catch up as he stated

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bills and stuff that have come in from
a year ago and so trying to get

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everything cleaned up. Give us 30 45
days. Let everything system start off

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July.

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» Yes.
>> Yeah. We've just moved things around

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inside. I mean, you know, we had$100,000
vehicles and stuff that we didn't

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bought. So, we used that in some other
areas that kind of

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So it was just

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» Yes. And a lot of

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work is being there's no ch

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people
direct.

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They didn't want to negotiate. They
didn't want to talk. They didn't

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understand about the email. They said
it's due. We're coming,

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» right? Everything is

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It's is actually we have a double check
system on there's a threshold for

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getting the bill from purchasing but we
also have an inhouse system that I match

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up invoices to
go through that list every days at the

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end of

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it we actually use it because lots of
people put it in their pocket I don't

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never married
us. It's just walking around.

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We have a better system in place now to
where we kind of catch that. We have a

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really good relationship with purchasing
agent. She stays on

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his own more than anybody. But we have a
really good relationship. So, we're able

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to have
>> with that agent

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for the whole city, right?
I don't want everybody

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to
not her personal email.

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So that's how
people outend

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their personal email in the city that

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Yeah. So, we passed the first reading of
the budget flat. We're not asking for

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any increases whatsoever from taxpayers.
We were able to give between a six and

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8% raise to the city employees.
and also covered their insurance. Uh,

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their insurance went up 11% this year,
which was about 270,000

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spend. We covered that as well. So,
financially, we probably have I think

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Anthony reported 14 or 15 million on
hand and probably 17 million total, but

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some of it's in funds, but we're very uh
physically resp responsible as a city

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right now. We have a AA credit rating
which is extremely

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» farud

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we balanced our budget last year as
well.

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Now you know we had an extra million
dollar line item where we sold some

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property at the industrial park and we
did that on fire.

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That's the one I sent you up

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once we had

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all the large water
that have been gone out for years.

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We spent the $39,000
that I knew we were going to start

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to back it up. So now you're seeing the
results.

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historically been in
the last several years.

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There's a little bit of state

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It's a$150.

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Yeah, I think I'm kind of behind on
I I should have I held it on my desk. I

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should have presented the first
month,

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but I had even talked to the mayor about
it, but the mayor got a hold of it

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fast.
>> You did?

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Yeah, that's what went to B before it
came here. But I just wanted y'all to

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see the package, be aware of what what
the plan was for this monitor

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helping us with overflow. It is mandated
by part of the project that we're doing.

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We did it last year. We have to show
again what we

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infiltration by. So all the repairs
we've done, all of that is going to be

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able to be seen. We put the back in the
same location that they were before, but

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we were losing thousand gallons. Just
hypothetically, we lost and now we put

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these back in and we recognize that hey,
now you only lose 800 gallons, for

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example. Okay, y'all remove 200 gallons
that uh and this will just be it's going

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to be a longterm thing for us because
we're going to try to keep in there as

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we do repairs. So, the repairs we do
this year will do the same. We'll try to

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do it next year following we get it down
to a manageable

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part of
this

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jumping

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system.

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So it wasn't intentional. I passed it
back and he said no. I said yes.

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Something I had to do to meet the
date,000.

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So the project
back in

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was successful and
we were able to shut down

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the water all the way down to I still
want to move forward with project as we

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have originally drawn up to all that
stuff out of that building

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outside
that building. We can do it now%

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sure we can shut it down. We test cut it
and we know it worked. So that was a

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good spin and a good decision to make.
Also we were we were able to replace the

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hydra in front of Manchester time out of
service for I don't know how long. They

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have a brand new in there now as well.
So that project we moving forward with

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probably some of this $10 million try to
get that project

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get out of that building because it's
just too unsafe for staff to go in

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there.
Water over your shoe when you walk in

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right up

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we have to go in there because we got to
go in there. But if we can avoid it,

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then we're going to do the best we can.

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Um, we have a sketch. We have everything
pre-drawn up by by St. John.

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Originally, we were going to do all the
work in house, but staff we have, we

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don't have the talent to do it. So, I
would prefer to go outside and make it

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turn. So now just
going to see I don't know

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» right and and I even I've even
instructed the guys like unless there's

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all hell breaking loose and whining and
screaming people out of water you know

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you can check it from the door you know
look in everything look good don't go in

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I mean it is that dangerous so it'll be
put up as an e

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or 10 million. We can make that up
because like everything's grown out. We

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just need to try to get some contractor

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» probably oldest city.

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» Right. [laughter]

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I think we're trying to peace. Let's
just

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» Right. And that was my thing. This is
their specialty that do what they

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specialize in.
>> I mean, We do have some guys that are

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pretty sharp that could probably do the
work. It would it would take us from our

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regular everyday operating duties and
that would put the citizens at a

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disadvantage.
Now we're taking long to respond to

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backup
concrete

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build.

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Where are we on the

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brackets

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that us

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once we get that pipe back installed?
There is some that we don't have to have

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those pumps except in the case of

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So that was the backup plan so that we
can get the building out of commission

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and stuff for a period of time.
Couple things we've been working on.

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» Believe it or not, I only have two
meter reader and the assistant director.

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And we have applicants for both. I
haven't pulled the trigger on assistant

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direct

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finding a lot of wellqualified people
but not for what city

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we had one acceptance and of course

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we're two

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I'm not looking for a not looking for
anybody with strategic planning all that

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long. I need somebody that's going to
come in here boots on the ground uh

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field manager, field general kind of
person that can help us resolve some of

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these issues that we have, some of this
construction issue that we're having.

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Everybody get stuck in analysis
paralysis. 10 to 15 years go by and you

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still have the issue you have now. I
need somebody with construction

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background that can come in and lead
team that knows waste water that can

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that can instruct and guide contract
know how to read blueprints that kind of

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not not really another engineer. We have
St. John right now. That's all I need.

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and I [clears throat] have the I have
the strategic planning, the vision. I

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have all that myself. I don't want
another meeting. I need somebody that

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can help the staff get on board so we
can get projects completed.

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So that that's kind of
what has been applied has been your

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really really high civil engineers,
mechanical engineers who want double

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what I'm making a year.
to be paid and majority of them don't

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want to they want to work from home.
They don't want to come here. It's like

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wow I would too. But
>> so but we have we have a few applicants

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in there now. One of them it looks
really good to me. So I'm going to set

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up some interviews with with HR probably
next week.

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» And also this is
gone through this before. We did have a

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candidate. We made an offer

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pulled it down for a short period of
time back up to refresh it so

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I need

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a lot of things

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out.

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» [clears throat]

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» You just

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thought

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I've got one
on street

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corner

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semiis come down

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So
>> well and and just so that everybody kind

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of understands the process, right? So
Lonnie and them guys do the works.

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George got a little bit behind
jobs, but we will get there.

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» Well, they did alleys.

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I'll bring that to

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quite a bit now right now.

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I'll get
a

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» Well, that's a I'm not trying to pass,
but that's a public works. I mean,

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Lonnie and them guys made a deal that
we'll buy the material and George does

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the work. So,
>> well, we're not water department,

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believe it or not. We're not street
papers. We're the hole diggers and

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filling it in.
>> I brought that up several years ago.

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[laughter]
>> So, we quit, right? We quit that.

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I'll