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We're starting, Mr. Manager, we're talking about water.
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All right. With the upgrade now, the residents will have the option to log in and just go to my 360 app. This is what it's kind of the
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let me go to the homepage on the left hand side. And you would just create a, like you would create a Amazon account. You're
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in your email and create a password. Once you're in the system, you can sign up for alerts where you get a text message every day. You know, telling you what you are using. If you go out of town, you can sign up for alerts for that.
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There's something, and this would be very good for people who have second homes down here.
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That's a lot of the thumbnails I receive when they receive their villains.
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Outrights is because they did not know there was a leak.
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So it's going to be very good for the residents.
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So wait for a resident to monitor them on board and not wait for that phone call.
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Yeah.
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Someone logged in right now.
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I'll see.
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Okay.
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That's not right.
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Oh, there it is.
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Sorry.
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All right.
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This is one of our water technicians.
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Zach, he is our digger.
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He has registered.
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This is what I would look like on your side of it,
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after he registered in your account.
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You can't see your water usage confused by gallons.
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You can view it.
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You can see I'm signing for your alerts over here.
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If you're out of town, this is where you would sign up to get notification.
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if there is a worry, you can see it, you should
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be able to view it by day, you can view it by week, you can view it monthly.
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As this program has time progresses, you'll be able to compare your usage to the last year's usage to see if you're using more.
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So right here is where you can do the day ranges. So you can see daily use.
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So that's like today, that's what they're talking about.
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Right.
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There's the week for
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more of a line draft, and you can switch over your chart to, you
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do that with them.
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Just available on app.
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It's online.
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They call it the My360 app, but it's a website.
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There's a flyer right here.
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This is what's in the golden resonance.
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This is what y'all confuse.
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The address of the address is down on the bottom.
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And you can buy it.
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I'm gonna go over the next couple of days and we'll just start on again and tell us what you're like and what you're like.
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So over the next move we're Michelle and our Cudication Center putting together a marketing campaign.
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The product is called Neptune, but the actual service will be called water wise CYV.
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That's how we're going to start talking about water wise CYV.
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and we want you to take time to make sure it works out, okay?
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We don't have to put it through a ton of items, yeah.
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So we're rolling it out to basically all city employees
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who are tiny residents in city council as well.
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So please do correct your back.
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Yes, and we'd like to have the launch date
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once everybody had the chance to look at it
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in mid-August out to residents.
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So we would push on the websites on social media on the newsletter how to register this out to the public.
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I know about the user for law that you're logged in this program.
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You joined this website.
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You can sign
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up for alerts.
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It's a button you would click, and that's where you get the text messages, things like that.
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So right here, the usage first of all, this is where you can sign up for your alert,
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send me an alert when my account uses more than 200 gallons a day.
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So you would have saved settings.
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So if you're like Joel with explaining how much a toilet can use, this would send you out
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on alert.
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And you can sign up either or even lower for a text one.
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Yeah, I'll say something.
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This is actually set for Zach.
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So he wanted his every day, if his water goes above 200 gallons,
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he sends him a text message instead of a email.
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There's other thresholds on there that if you are gone for any length of time,
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let's say you're gone for a week,
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You can set it up for that specific week that you've gone, that you get alerts on text messages, or emails, or both.
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If you start using water during the time you were gone, you will get those alerts on your phone.
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And that's on the same page, yeah.
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Yeah, I think we had to complain the other day that somebody was washing their car and the next door laborers.
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We're out of town.
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So if they were using an old egg was water and I would think they would have a time,
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not good for your office.
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Yeah, it wasn't May.
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How do you, the reality is I think you all can see it to this because he does with us
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every single day and his people's water usage is testimony very consistent unless there's
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changed to happens in your house.
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Either you had a lot of increases when people started watering their lawns, irrigation and
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and it counts for a lot of stuff.
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But if you have running toilet, which is very subtle,
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and sometimes it's very, very difficult to notice,
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you will notice it out here.
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Because, again, you're gonna see that your water
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is extremely consistent, and then it's all
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some kind of spike, and rainfall is consumed a lot of it.
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Right, and that's a lot of the thumbnails I did,
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because you don't know, I mean, it could be a backback
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back then, but you never got one.
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So, this will be great, you can catch it three, and you can set it for me.
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Any other questions?
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Yes.
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I think this is great.
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Switched.
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Years ago, when it came out, looks like a significant reduction in man hours, is it possible
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to quantify how much the city stands to save on an annual basis, and will that be passed on
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to the citizens?
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Yeah.
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Well, self-sufficient, so I think the water bill is going down.
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It digges rather than checking me.
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Joe, I don't have to even monitor it.
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Again, we haven't rolled it out for the public yet,
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so we don't realize the whole sort of like efficiencies in the system.
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In general, they're just on the back and stuff.
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At least we're out of the week against the water saving.
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Yeah, to give you the list, I would have to really drive around the island for four hours just to get it in the place.
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So I don't have to, I can get a lot more than a shorter amount of time just pulling up everybody's water just to jump in the computer.
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It's actually going to be busy going to the address, finding water meter, digging it up, downloading the graph on my computer,
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then call in homeowners and say hey you know this is what's going on with your water.
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So just a busy work about a day a week is what I'm saying.
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The KL again our hope is that our residents are going to be a lot more self-sufficient when it comes to the water usage
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and she's going to get a lot of your calls something.
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I think initially it's going to be a bit of a surprise.
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I mean, as I remember, I mean, it's a shock when you get a bill, you know, I know I got a week, this will bring me a lot of that, and we'll give President's piece of mind.
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And just, you know, we have, I'll leave you just a policy, right?
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Yes, I do.
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So there is that.
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And it's half of the usage.
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It takes half of the usage and the warning usage.
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Does city will do that?
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I'll put it about a few percent.
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Yes.
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But that still results in sometimes very large bills, right?
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Yes.
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I can't see it.
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So, dear, let's help with ironing problems.
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Iron-I?
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Iron-I, sorry.
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No, ma'am, it's just too separate issue.
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Okay.
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But this, what I love about this program is the homeowner,
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if you're taking more ownership in your place,
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I wish what other than that we have is,
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we hear horror stories all the time,
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hey, I get a phone call, hey, I've been away
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from the place for a month.
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My told was done on it. Unless you fill out a proper documentation or I can help to litigate, we can't help on that.
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So I think this would be, there's a brain tool for the homeowner who's talking for sure.
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Yeah. And all that's the question for Tony. Because Tony Reader, he would ask this question.
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So right now our building unit size is 1,000 pounds and 1,000 pounds, and his request
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is that the unit size be lowered to something less so that residents can have more control.
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We are on the AMI system, definitely as possible, as you saw, measured by the gallon of the building
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and we're working on it and it would require some programing on the back end and we don't have a paid and insurable work on it.
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All right, thank you guys so much.
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Thank you.
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Thank you.
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Thank you.
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Thank you.
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Thank you.
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Thank you.
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We're going to talk about, if it's OK unless you guys want to talk about the rest of the agenda first, we'll just kind of jump to it if that's OK.
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Okay, it's all the agenda doesn't yet, or okay, I hope.
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Jim.
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We're just going to back up a little bit for our student
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folks and members to make sure they're able to speak with what our
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capital plan is, with what it comes to ours.
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So I think it was, seems like a couple of months ago,
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I think it was a year and a half ago, we meant to go over the
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capital plan, what our borrowing is, how much infrastructure
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production permits or capital permits you're going to do.
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And the plan that we settled on included both.
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So we have a million in capital permits each year.
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And again, with the story of silly,
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how we finance that Mr. Barrowing included a capital plan
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was a 5% annual race increase.
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And in our scenarios, we assumed that there's
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a 3% inflation when it comes to costs.
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and then other revenue was going to stay the same
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as well as any other significant changes.
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Also, about a year and a half ago,
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we contacted with Dan for a company
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for our city finance consultants.
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And what they're doing ways to do is we're viewing
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and advising our debt portfolio,
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as well as help us, they work through the water slurry
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when we looked at that a few years ago,
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and then when we actually do issue debt,
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then we'll go through that process.
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One of the things that you're looking at
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is specifically in 2024, debt issue that we have
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is revenue bond and a hit of your high interest rate
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at 6%.
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We have discussed with them starting last year
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the possibility of doing every financing
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when we get the debt issuance for the purchase
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of the fire station land back in July, we looked at this and the interest rates weren't
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worth it. We also talked about including it when we do the long-term debt financing with
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the fire station and since that instance really set the stone of when we're going to do that,
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how much we're going to do that. The discussion was the timing of it wasn't necessarily the best
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and with interest rates being the way they are right now, we've found it to be beneficial to that refinancing right now.
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And then when we talk about our water sewer financials, no surprise, operating costs continue to rise.
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Our revenue is very seasonal dependent. Like Brett was just saying, it's consistent, but it's very seasonal dependent.
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right, so if we have a very dry, had summer in where water in a lot, well obviously used
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to just going to be out, the revenue is going to be up. If people aren't water in
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it's not much, you know, revenue is going to be down. So revenue, we have 5% increase every
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January first, but our revenue, again, it's just consistent. We don't have a lot of new revenue
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sources when it comes to utility, and our infrastructure is very old. We have breaks weekly,
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and that is all draining our cash.
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So right now I'm projecting that you're going to have less than a million dollars of cash
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at the end of the year, which seems like a lot, I'm going to wish I had a million dollars
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in my checking account, but when it comes to the utility that is not about a cash, it doesn't
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leave us a lot of wiggle room.
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This turn here we had a lot of, for those breaks, what do we breaks that we weren't anticipating
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and so that to please our cash and when it comes to the budget we are basically
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budgeting to keep the lights out. We don't budget right now in Freddie
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surplus or to put anyone in savings. A lot of that has to do with it.
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The 5% increase, going over 5%, everything. We have to keep that in mind. Any questions in a little bit of that background?
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You said the life sentence, the cash, and year in, is that fiscal year, and the fiscal year.
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So at the end of this fiscal year, will that last?
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Correct.
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Yeah, this past fiscal year took a very large hit on our cash reserves.
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This is straight out of our budget document. So this is the water and sewer current debt.
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We have a couple revenue bonds, and then we have some chief loans.
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This does not include any of the debts from the campground, and it doesn't include any debt that the state holds.
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So the upstate debts for the water surged activity is about $8.5 million.
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We have annual debt service of approximately 1.1 million, so that's principal can interest.
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The debt ratio that I'm going to talk about is operating income divided by debt service.
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Now, included in our revenue bonds and our Jeep alone documents, is we have to have a
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debt ratio of 1.25.
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And I'm projecting this here that we're going to have a debt ratio of 1.03.
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So what that means is, potentially, our issuers, like Cameras Bank or Jeep,
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are going to come back and say, you follow the mobility steps.
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Service requirements, what are you going to do to get back up to 1.25?
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which usually means increasing rates, right,
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of the cutting costs.
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Or we get really creative and think
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of how we can lessen the burden on the utility.
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We have this 2024 water sewer revenue bond,
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the hand in 20 year term, it measures in 2044
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and a 6% annual interest.
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We have a 5% prepayment felony,
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which is roughly $145,000.
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And it has annual debt service of approximately 268,000.
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And then I listed, we're paying $177,000 in interest and $91,000 in principle.
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So now we're going to talk about what's up for approval tomorrow.
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And that said, 2026 RevVon issues due to the building authority, not the waters or utility.
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So that here is an 18 year term.
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It has an interest of 4.495%.
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The issuance costs are approximately $90,000.
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The annual debt service is $259,000, which equals about $9,000 in annual debt service savings.
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Now, I know you're going to say $9,000.
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That's not much money, but it would come to a utility that's living along $9,000 is $9,000.
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The biggest thing is it removes the debts from the water sewer utility and adds it to the authority.
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So our overall city death is basically staying staying but it's taking it from the water so you're totalling and putting it over in the city.
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Yes.
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That's water sewer is a separate one.
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And I'm concerned about the mean when the debt because the debt or water sewer needs to be paid for water sewer revenue.
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right? Correct. So how is that going to be segregated from by the park? Sure. So that's
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a great question. It's literally taking it out of the water's rear utilities so there
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will be no more debt. This was the big debt lesson. And then it's taking it over to a separate
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fund that's going to be shown on your government's list of your entities. Now with this revenue
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and it is backed by the full faith of the city.
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It's not backed by water sewer utility revenue.
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But in the plan, we are using water sewer revenue,
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obviously, to pay for that debt, right?
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But if let's say the utility couldn't pay it,
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the city has to pay it.
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And so it's shown over on the city.
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Does that make sense?
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Yeah, but the bottom line is that the water sewer department
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can't pay their bills to the citizen anyway.
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anyway. Sure, so I don't know. We still have the same
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feeling of debt, so I guess I'm not understanding the
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benefit of just having it under separate.
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So let's go back to this slide. So this is our current debt in the
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waters through utility, right? And I was talking about the
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projected debt ratio. So right now we're going to fall
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below or projected fall below that required debt ratio of 1.25 and then
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it can just really really clearly explain what a debt ratio is. Sure, it's
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operating income divided by debt service, right? So if revenue is lesser
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expenses divided by your debt service and really that's saying like are you
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bringing enough money to pay your debt service? I said what people care about. Okay so
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So then this is what our water, so we see where utility debt would look like after
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refinancing.
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I think it's our annual debt service down to $886 and that the debt ratio increases
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to 1.34, so we're meeting our debt requirement, I know you smile, it's creative accounting.
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But I mean, it is, because right now, like I said, the bank could come or chief could come,
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We're not going to give you any more loans because you're not meeting your debt service requirements, right?
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Which we need to do any further capital improvements into our suitability.
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Well, they're just looking at the utility
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It's just clear. You're right. It's a bookkeeping trick, right?
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But it's not, it's not underhanded.
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This is a normal practice, this is why these authorities exist, right?
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This is how we're funding really the fire department as well.
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It's the same thing.
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This is an entity created by the state for this purpose.
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But yes, yes, no question, no.
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And it seems so.
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I know you all are.
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Rightfully, you can use the remains of it all, but it just can't have.
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We should do both pieces of right here on the state of work.
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Or are we getting hit by the pre-payment penalty just pre-finished?
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We have paid $145,000 to rethink it.
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Yes, we have to pay the pre-payment.
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So how many years before we break even on that $145,000 cost?
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So that savings is built in the cost of the issuance,
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as well as the pre-payment is built into that savings.
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So if we didn't have that, it'd be much more savings.
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but the $153,000 that we have after the refinancing includes both the cost
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officials and that repayment penalty.
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Yeah, so we're saving money with the lower interest rate, so we're spending more
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the premium and the middle day and then on the issuance cost, right? But all that
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net's out to $127,000 to our favor in the end. Not a ton. Like it's about $10,000 a year
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that we're saving, but it's something, right? And then we importantly are taking this
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that off the utilities books, which makes it easier to issue new debt in the future.
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That's all it's going to do.
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It's going to some more capacity.
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2016, the refunding revenue run.
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So what was that original amount?
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At 466.
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Oh goodness.
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A lot more than 466.
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I did that.
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So, and I know a lot of people are really worried about utility bills, even the five percent.
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But, you know, all these hypotheticals, and this coming from a product sector, is super
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breathtaking, because we're kicking a key in now, and I'm rude again, and I mean, daily
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in my emails, we're having water breaks and stuff like that, so I understand the shifting
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of money and the game of the tax side, and could be a data wrecking, and some days, I'm
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stand up and say, hey, you know, are we close to a major collapse in one area, from the
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standpoint of infrastructure to where, you know, that eight million dollars of what the
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tone debt service is, I mean, I guess from my standpoint, I would love to see a true
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to work out to this is, you know, is the 5% not enough in what we guarantee for the water utility?
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Well, what really with the water raises, we have to catch up right now, look like, to give the residents what?
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What the real number is to get us to where the utility, I'm not saying utility has to make money,
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but to get to the ground zero to where we are because the
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scary numbers to somebody's
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going to have to pay somewhere down the line in 2016 if that number was a million dollars
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and we're 10 years down the line we still owe almost 50% of the money we borrow from that.
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How do you say that?
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Yeah, that depends.
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I mean, it is. They're all scary numbers, but we have to make the improvements. I mean,
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we're stuck with a bad system that has to be improved. I mean, what do you do?
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Yeah, it's a liquid butt wrench.
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The key, the key, the strategy right now is to be consistent, right? And we're asking for a consistent 5% annual increases,
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which we've just haven't done in the past, right?
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We've taken holidays for some times five years
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I'm not taking any rate increases.
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And that just gets key, right?
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That's how we can best we dig ourselves into whole,
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which is how we got into this issue in this mess right now.
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I didn't want to call it mess,
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it's just in the situation that we're right now.
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I don't know, why does the rate 10% look like
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if we went 10% of this year and caught up or did you know?
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I mean, I don't know what the number is.
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As long as we know that we're,
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Again, we're going to be working on this forever, right?
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There's no catch up.
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We're going to be, because we're making improvements
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to the infrastructure, and then the more recent
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infrastructure gets older, right?
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It's all keeps on aging out.
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What's important is the consistency
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and to continue to invest in our infrastructure,
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which we aren't doing, right?
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Our plan is to make investments every single year.
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It gets painful because we're growing debt, right?
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We are growing debt, but we have to do it.
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or we're going to fall behind them further and then it's all going to break like you said at the same time.
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And then it gets more extensive and they're going to have to take up more debt to fix the things that are broken.
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That's what we are right now.
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We recommend sticking with the, again, it's a balance, right?
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Because there's only so much that a rate pairs can pay, right?
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And it feels like a 5% annual increase is the right amount right now.
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I'm going to sort of like in the future, we might readdress that, but if we can stick with
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the 5% annual increase for the next 10 years, we feel like we're going to be the utilities
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going to be in good shape.
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As long as you know, we stick to the plan, do these small regular consistent investments
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within our infrastructure right now, it's 2.5 million dollars a year.
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That seems to be the right size of debt for tidy in the right investment, if we take
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They got too much debt due to too many projects at the same time,
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turned to a big old construction zone.
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There's always so much that our staff can manage at the same time.
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It just feels like the right plan for us now.
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But yeah, you're right back.
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I mean, that's...
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We haven't really sort of made all the right vests.
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That's better.
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Well, no.
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No, we in here at this point.
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Right.
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But six years ago, they weren't doing anything.
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So we each stepped it up.
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But they were given away before that, and we changed that.
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And now, you know, we had to go 5%, but we're not kicking a can down the road.
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We're trying to help, but it's, like Brett said, we're going to be in this contact for us.
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Do you counsel people of the type of information we do?
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Well, and it's my recollection that when we were having all of these discussions, that the
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The consensus was that 5% was about as much as the consumer could handle a year and with
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the current economy and the gas prices right now, I would be really reluctant to advocate
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going higher.
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I will say 5% of the annual increases are right in line with the national average and what's
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going out there.
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In our average water and sewer bills are right in line, we're actually below the national
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average.
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So, we're ready to go back to the concern about the growing debt other than our revenue,
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the choice, our options to continue to make improvements, but to reduce the debt would
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be through grants and, you know, like special allocations from the state or the federal government
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right.
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Or the most tax.
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Right.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, we get a new revenue source scape changer.
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So, are y'all familiar with the most tax?
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It's a special, do you want to sign it?
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Yeah, it's just another thing, let me talk about that.
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Yeah, another up to a penny that can only be used for infrastructure, and we do think
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it would be a good solution for tiny, which has strong visitor population, you know, to get
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those who are visiting the island to help with the infrastructure of the island.
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There's not an appetite right now in Atlanta to expand that.
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Sorry about that.
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No, that's none of this.
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Unless they go through with eliminating property tax and then let us have it.
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That's just swapping six of them.
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It's better if they didn't pass two.
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I will say, if we can remain consistent with these increases, the goal is
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Over time, that will start begin, you know, building reserves again, over time. It's going to be challenging as we have debt, right? But we can be consistent, I think, over time, we're in a path where we can start growing or the bottom.
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It'll always be paid for the sudden cash.
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Yeah,
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I have a question.
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Thank you.
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You know that.
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I have a good question.
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What you want is a little scary to see this sort of dig in yourselves in the home.
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One, you have a graph or something.
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Showed that a couple of years ago.
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That might have helped us.
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But unfortunately your projections may work out this year.
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No.
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And so we couldn't borrow from you, or which one, we couldn't make our debt service ratio.
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So we can get any more borrowing, but that doesn't also mean that those borrowings made
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me in the fall.
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And we federal though our debt service.
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Sure.
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So we don't want to follow the loan.
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Hard.
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In fact, so then the other side of this is the legal ledger demand of changing the debt
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to the facility from the water and sewer close, even though without changing the financial
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liability of the water and sewer close, they still got to pay indirectly the debt service
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on the move.
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So you've got, it's very sort of abstract, artificial, and we're content.
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That report's content that our Londoners who have system on this debt service
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coverage will not be offended by this.
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Yes.
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Yes.
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And that report will be presenting via teams tomorrow at the authority meeting.
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I mean, you have to if you're further like technical questions when it comes to that, that's above my head.
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So, fight there, it's my turn.
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Thank you.
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That's it for presentations, or if there's any other questions, something that are there if you want to.
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Sorry, I'm sorry for short.
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Any other questions about the agenda?
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Any other questions?
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Would anyone here like to say anything about the items that we just discussed?
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I think,
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would anyone like to talk about items on the agenda tomorrow?
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Well, I saw that Patricia sent out another email about number three, so is everybody comfortable with that?
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Number three?
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Yeah, I am.
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I have got a point.
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At the 4th ward, we get to say that, but I don't think it should be on the agenda at all.
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Number three?
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Yes.
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Where would then, according to me, the exclusion periods were finally a second.
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You disagree with Bubba's and Patricia's assessment?
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I have heard the same level of the tradition I have been taking three years.
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I'm also including Tracy's assessment online as well.
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If they take my mind, that's four-board again.
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Okay.
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All right.
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And Brian and Brett, if we have a live workshop, can we address for next year's grant funding
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to talk about the process of groups going forward?
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Not 2026, 2027.
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And we had a future workshop.
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Out of future works.
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Talk about the grant process.
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Talk about the grant process.
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What was the nonprofit grant?
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Yes.
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And we thought, you know, well, it's fresh on everybody's mind.
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That would be a good time.
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Workshop meaning it doesn't have to be like this next two months,
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but we can do it the next few months,
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but it's a lot like, I'm good with that.
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And I guess one question that kind of came up this week
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was about demolition permits.
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And I was with Hamstrung yesterday
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because I didn't have internet and I couldn't like look stuff up.
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It was so annoying.
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But, you know, could we like discuss like what happens if somebody applies for a demo permit and if there are any requirements on the city side is not dealing just with the demo, but like.
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like, rodent and insect-controlled prior to?
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Yeah, I'm sure Patricia could answer questions.
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Yeah.
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Are you prepared?
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Do you want to come back, Patricia?
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Well, it's not on the agenda.
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So I didn't want to put her on the spot.
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You know, I can come back with that in the long run,
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because I'm 100 as well.
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Okay.
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So I'll leave the net all of, like, unsafe and tragic issues.
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Yep.
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Well, in the woods, I'm not talking about the recent fires,
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But you know buildings that our houses that have been vacant for years and then are demoded without doing any kind of
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Critter control really freaked the neighbors out when they saw the raccoons running
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But anyway, so that's what I was just curious is to whether or not we had any requirements
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Either way
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You can.
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Second.
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Well, are there any other things on the agenda tomorrow?
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Yeah.
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We want to do it.
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Anybody?
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Everybody's okay with the rest of the agenda?
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Any other discussion?
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We need on that.
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If I on the second reading of the budget, I sent out some responses to Tony and I'm not sure
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if everyone had to.
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that was today.
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But for the adoption of the budget,
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his question about we have this P schedule,
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that's an appendix identity in the budget.
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And the question was, is the adoption of the budget,
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adoption, P schedule?
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And the answer is kind of, you can adopt the P schedule.
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There's the only proposed changes within the P schedule
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are basically development of permitting fees.
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We have taken action through the LVC earlier this year that takes it out of the LVC and allows you to adopt it in the fee schedule.
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The only thing I'd recommend is I would recommend approving that as part of the budget, but if someone can make a motion to extract proposed changes to the STR fees,
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We do feel like that should be addressed as part of the SEO ordinance itself, and then we're still getting a beat back from
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the attorney and also from members of council who I don't feel like we've landed on the correct fee yet, so I recommend that we pull that out of it.
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That's the only change that I recommend.
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The only thing is we were asked for input, and then we never discussed it again.
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Yeah, yeah, you're talking about the fees themselves well, I think we incorporated
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So just to just to clarify to you we initially gave you guys a
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Fees scheduled that included our administrative fees, but also administrative citations
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And I got a lot of we got a lot of comments on the administrative citations and Jenna just pulled those out, right?
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So we're gonna treat those completely separately and they really are separate
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and I'm really pleased to really just sit down and sit down and think, you know, it has a change in decades and it's so much.
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And so, I mean, there were just a few things, but...
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Yeah, I mean, we talked about the problem is the entertainment fee of most of you don't have an entertainment fee.
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I'll say the entertainment fee is often hooked into an alcohol licensing.
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see, you know, had conversations about alcohol, license these, it didn't feel like now was
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the right time to kind of go up in all the speeds, but you can certainly look to pull
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that out.
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Or again, we can address all of these things can be addressed at any day and for.
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I mean, I don't have a lot, but there was that, and the pro today animals needs to be passed.
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So that, all of that's out, yeah, we're going to address, we will address that later.
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So that's part of the administrative citation schedule.
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We're just going to address those separately.
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We need to send more time to counsel on that.
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Okay.
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That felt like all the ones that we've got most of the comments on
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were things like the noise stuff and all that.
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We're going to address that later in the next two months.
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We need to move forward.
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But I need to make a motion to approve the second meeting of the agenda.
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but pull out the proposed changes to the SCR application fee.
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Now I can write somebody any you need there for me or okay.
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Okay, sounds good.
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I appreciate that.
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Thank you.
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All right.
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Anything else?
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I have to make a little bit of a backup when I, when I,
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earlier, when I was here, and I made it,
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had to refuse by a subtle form of A.J.s.
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My, my, my, my, my, my, my,
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Because you love it there.
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I love it.
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My personal interest is so clear in five days.
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I wanted to get going.
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I wanted to talk to you again.
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And in five days, I wrestled with whether or worked on it.
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I think we can all say that.
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I too have to refuse myself.
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I think it's for business purposes with an offer.
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Well, maybe.
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You don't have a business interest in it.
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No business interest.
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I think that it was really a fake plan, didn't it?
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Okay.
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It might come from the rest of it.
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Uh, it's crazy building and letting me live in my heart.
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Disappear.
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Disappear.
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Get up a little.
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Okay.
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Hi everyone.
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We're adjourned.
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Thank you.
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We're going to start.