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UH, FIRST OF ALL, THANK FOR BEING HERE IN COUNTY 3 6 3 AND, UH, ILL BEGIN BY, UH, LETTING YOU KNOW ON, AND I'M GONNA GO AHEAD AND CALL WITH MR. AND AT 9:33 AM AND THE REASON WE'RE DOING THAT IS SO WE CAN HAVE A FOUR TODAY.
[I. 2025 PARKER COUNTY WATER SYMPOSIUM.]
JUDGE, APPRECIATE VERY MUCH, UH, WE'RE, UH, ALSO PROUD TO HAVE OUR COUNTY CLERK HERE, HAS TO BE HERE BECAUSE WE ALSO HAVE UP AND SAY THIS IS, THIS IS NOT THE MOST IMPORTANT CASE IN PARKER COUNTY, THE WHOLE PART OF FISHER 60.AND I'M VERY HAPPY TO KNOW THAT, UH, WE A GOOD WATER BILL THAT WAS, UH, PASSED.
BILL SEVEN SETS UP THE STRUCTURE OF WATER FUND THE JOB NOT SYM WORKING A COUPLE YEARS.
I THANK FOR KIND LEADING THAT EFFORT, UM, BECAUSE BEING A TIME, UM, I TO JUST THANK YOU FOR, AND, UM, WE ALSO, I I FEEL BLESSED TO, UM, HAVE, UH, SOME REALLY TOP NOT EXPERTS IN WATER DUCK SHOP WHO I THINK IS HERE TODAY.
UM, WHEN I FIRST RAN, KNEW ABOUT WATER, SO, AND HAY WATER LEARN, AND, UM, 10 TO 16 PEOPLE DAY, WHICH IS PUTTING ENORMOUS STRAIN ON OUR RESOURCES HERE.
AND NOT JUST WATER, BUT ALSO WE, WE ALSO NOT STAND BE RECOGNIZED.
WE DON'T CITY COUNCIL, MAYOR WITH US PERMIT PERMISSION CITY TO ENGAGE PARTNER.
OH YEAH, I, I GONNA ASK IF IF HE SAID SUSPECTED A SPEAKER, BUT WE'RE, HAVE, WE STARTED WORKING ON THIS PROJECT.
WE CALL OUR COMMITTEE HYDROLOGY 2050 AND, UH, ODD WAY I GUESS WE STARTED, WE HAD A COMMITTEE PUT TOGETHER.
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NOW OBVIOUSLY MR. BACK HERE, HE'S ONE OF OUR, UH, I'LL, BUT WE, UH, WE HAD COMMITTEE TO FIGURE OUT HOW WE WERE GONNA ALLOCATE THE AMERICAN RESCUE PLAN AND WE WORKED SO WELL AND WE RECOGNIZED THAT, UH, WE, WE WERE, THE VAST MAJORITY OF THE REQUEST THAT WE HAD THAT MONEY WERE FROM WATER ENTITIES HERE, THE COUNTY.AND WE WERE ABLE TO, TO SOME DEGREE EACH OF THOSE LOT REQUESTS.
BUT THAT SHOWS LACK FOR US ABOUT WHAT WE NEEDED DO WORK, WE NEEDED TO DO WORK AND HIS AND SO, AND I, WE OPPORTUNITY HERE, THIS COMMITTEE DOES GOOD WORK VERY WELL AND TURNED THIS INTO OUR WATER COMMITTEE.
AND SO WE, MEMBERS OF THAT COMMITTEE AND S ONE BACK HERE, PAT DEAN, RIGHT OVER HERE, JOHN FOREST AND MYSELF, IS THERE ANYBODY ELSE I HERE, THERE ARE OTHERS MEMBERS.
I THINK THOSE ARE THE ONE ARE HERE.
WE HAVE ONCE IN OPPORTUNITY HERE TO FOCUS ON WHAT WE NEED TO DO IN COUNTY, AND THAT IS SECURE ADDITIONAL WATER RESOURCES FOR CLARK COUNTY.
WE IMMEDIATELY WENT TO WORK ABOUT TWO AND A HALF, THREE YEARS AGO AND STARTED, STARTED WORKING FOR WHAT WE'RE DOING TODAY'S SOME THESE GUYS ARE ELECTED OFFICIALS, BUT THERE'RE NOT POLITIC BEST FOR EVERYBODY IN PARKER COUNTY.
THOSE OF YOU THAT DUNNO OR AREN'T FROM HERE OR AREN'T FROM HERE, UH, NEED TO RECOGNIZE THAT PARKER COUNTY IS NUMBER ONE IN THE STATE AND NUMBER WELLS DRILL FOR YEAR, ABOUT 1500 WELLS PER YEAR.
WE'VE DOUBLED NUMBER TWO, WHICH IS COUNTY, WHICH JUST HAPPENS TO HERE NORTH.
AND SO WE'VE SYSTEMATICALLY GONE THROUGH ALL THE THINGS THAT WE CAN DO AND WE, UH, WHERE WE'RE TODAY, WE HAVE APPROACHED IT AS, AS WE POSSIBLY CAN SO THAT EVERYBODY UNDERSTANDS THAT THERE'S NOT AN HERE, BUT WE TWO COUNTY GONNA UP IF WE DON'T TAKE ACTION.
AND PRETTY, WE ALSO NEED TO RECOGNIZE THAT THE WORK THAT WE'RE DOING IS NOT, NOT GONNA BE FOR SIX MONTHS FROM NOW.
NOT GONNA BE FROM A YEAR, A YEAR FROM NOW OR WHATEVER, IT'S LONG TERM.
BUT IF WE DON'T START THE PROCESS RIGHT NOW, THAT IN OTHER 25 YEARS WE LOOKING AROUND AND SAY WE SHOULD, WE DONE SOMETHING ABOUT THAT 25 YEARS AGO.
SO THAT'S WHAT OUR OBJECTIVE IS.
I KNOW, TRY TO, WHY ARE RIGHT REASONS WHY ARE HERE THAT OUR COMMITTEE, OUR 2050 COMMITTEE HAS ONE GOAL THAT IS TO SECURE ADDIT WATER RESOURCES FOR PARKER COUNTY.
UH, OUR, OUR GOAL IS TO SET UP DISTRIBUTION PLAN FOR COUNTY AS WELL AS WORKING ON WASTEWATER IN PARK COUNTY.
WE'RE NOT HERE TO TAKE ANYBODY'S WATER.
WE'RE NOT HERE TO CONTROL SOMEBODY WHO'S IN THE WATER BUSINESS IN COUNTY.
YOU'LL SEE SHOW THAT ARE IN AREAS, ANY WATER, CURRENT C THE UNINCORPORATED AREAS, COUNTY ARE NOT COUNTY THEY NEED ADDITIONAL.
THEN CAN LOOK OVER TO THE EAST AND YOU'LL SEE THE ALL BLACK SPACE OVER THERE WHERE THEY'RE RELYING ON, WELL, CURRENTLY TO TAKE CARE OF THE EVERYTHING OVER THERE.
AND I'LL TELL YOU AGAIN, IF WE DON'T TAKE APPROPRIATE ACTION AND WE DON'T GO FORWARD WITH WHAT WE'RE DOING, PARKER COUNTY WILL DRY UP EVENTUALLY FROM NOT HAVING ENOUGH WATER.
WE'RE ALSO SITTING HERE AT A TIME WHEN THERE ARE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITIES THAT ARE NOT COMING HERE.
LACK OF RELIABLE, WHICH RECOGNIZED PERHAPS THROUGH COUNCIL OF GOVERNMENT THAT WE'RE NOT GOOD ENOUGH TO, TO SOLVE OUR WATER CRISIS HERE IN THE COUNTY AND THEREFORE, SO ANYHOW, WITH ALL THAT SAID, UH, WE'RE SITTING HERE, UH, TRYING TO SET UP SOMETHING THAT WILL GIVE US A REGIONAL APPROACH, COUNTYWIDE WITH THE OPPORTUNITY FOR
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OTHER COUNTIES, OTHER AREAS TO PARTICIPATE WITH US IF THEY NEED OR IF THEY WANT COUNTY FOR EXAMPLE.AND SO WE COULD WORK TO MAKE THINGS BETTER FOR EVERYBODY.
WE, UH, IN ALL OF OUR DISCUSSIONS, THE FIRST THING THAT THEY TELL US IS THE NEED FOR OUR REGIONAL APPROACH TO THIS SOLUTION.
AND SO THIS IS OUR ATTEMPT TO HAVE A REGIONAL APPROACH WITH PEOPLE WORKING TOGETHER AND, UH, MAKING AVAILABLE THE FUNDING THAT'S GONNA BE REQUIRED.
WE DON'T KNOW HOW WE'RE GONNA SOLVE THOSE CHALLENGES TODAY, BUT THIS IS THE STARTING POINT FOR US.
SO AGAIN, UH, THIS COMMITTEE HAS WORKED REALLY HARD.
WE, UH, HAVE DONE THE CORRECT THINGS, I THINK, AND THAT IS HIRING THE APPROPRIATE ENGINEERING FIRM.
UH, THE FIRST QUESTION THAT I WAS ASKED AND I GO TO DIFFERENT PLACES AND SAY, YOU KNOW, WE NEED SOME MORE WATER HERE IN COUNTY, THEY SAID, WELL, HOW WATER AND A LOT FOR ALL WE CAN GET WAS NOT THE APPROPRIATE ANSWER.
SO, UH, THEY WERE ENGINEER, SO, UH, GROUNDWATER CONSTELLATION DISTRICT HAD DONE IN THE STATE THAT THEY THROUGH OF TO BE DONE.
AND THEN WE OF NICK TO OUR ENGINEERS SO THAT THEY BEGIN TO SOLVE THAT EQUATION FOR US.
HOW MUCH WATER DO YOU NEED WHEN ANTICIPATED GROWTH? HOW MUCH WATER IS THAT GOING TO REQUIRE? AND SO THAT LED US TO GROUND.
AND I GONNA TAKE OVER HERE AND FIRST OF ALL, I HAD TO DO SOME SEVERAL THINGS BEFORE THAT.
ALL THE FOLKS THAT BROUGHT THIS HERE, MAKING IT ALL HAPPEN.
AND, UH, THE, THE, IF YOU'RE NOT FAMILIAR WITH PARKER COUNTY SHERIFF'S, UM, THIS IS AN THAT WE HAVE HERE AT LAST NIGHT UNTIL 1130 LAST NIGHT.
SO SOMETIME AFTER LEFT AND THIS MORNING AT SEVEN, THIS, THIS FACILITY WAS MADE.
AND UH, THE OTHER SIDE OF IT'S IS THAT WE'RE NOT SO HERE.
SHERIFF'S POLICY BEEN HERE SINCE 1940.
A COUPLE, COUPLE, UH, UH, THINGS.
OUR, OUR MISSION IS TO PRESERVE THE WESTERN HERITAGE OF CLARK COUNTY, TEXAS.
WE'VE HAD A RODEO OVER YEAR, UH, SINCE 19 47, 70 THE WAY I COUNT AND, UH, GOING STRONG AND, UH, PART THAT ORGANIZATION, UH, BELIEVE IN PARKER COUNTY AND BEST IN PARKER COUNTY.
UH, SPECIFICALLY I WANT YOU TO LOOK AT IT AND I'LL BRING IT UP AGAIN, BUT IT DOES OVER HERE ABOUT FIVE YEARS AGO.
WE NEED YOU TO SYSTEM FOR OUR GROUNDS AND RODEO GROUNDS HERE.
AND THAT TOOK US SEVERAL TO CONVINCE THEM.
THEY SAID THAT WE HARVESTING, WE DON'T HAVE MONEY FOR THINGS LIKE THAT.
SO I CONVINCED THEM THAT WE NEED A WATERING SYSTEM HERE BECAUSE WE HAVE A NEW BUILDING BACK HERE THAT HAS 30,000 SQUARE FEET, SO SPREAD OUT OVER THEIR, ALL THEIR COUNTIES.
WE WERE FIRST, WE 65 GALLON OF WATER, FOUR OF FILLS THAT UP.
NOW THE REASON WE HAVE THAT SIZE TANK IS BECAUSE WE MADE HOW MUCH WATER IT TOOK FOR A YEAR TO PUT THOSE SOFT HERE, 65,000.
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NOW ALL THAT IS FROM RAIN.AND SO WE CAME BACK AS ANOTHER ORGANIZATION, THE SHERIFF OFFICE ORGANIZATION, AND WE PUT, AND WE JUST COMPLETED IT AND I DROVE BY THERE THIS MORNING.
AND GUESS WHAT? IT'S FULL, OUR GOAL IS TO HAVE ENOUGH WATER HARVESTING HERE TO FACILITATE.
SO IT'S A MODEL FOR EVERYBODY ELSE, FIRST OF ALL.
SO, BUT, SO WE CAN STOP THE USE WATER WELLS HERE, COMPLETE THIS WATER IS BOTTLE WATER.
WE CAN USE IT FOR WHATEVER PURPOSES WE WANT BEFORE YOU LEAVE TODAY.
IF YOU WANNA GO AROUND BEHIND YOU SEE VERY OF THAT.
SO, AND THEN ALSO WE'RE USING TO WEBSITE ABLE, SO FIRST IS ROBERT.
SO ROBERT, THAT WILL BE, I'M TO SEE THAT, UH, WE'VE GOT A GOOD OF FOLKS OUT HERE BECAUSE OFTEN TEACH 20 YEAR, ANYBODY KNOW WHAT THIS IS REFERRING TO? WORKING TEXAS CLOSE 40 YEARS.
AND UH, AND WHAT I'VE SEEN OVER THE LAST FEW YEARS IS, UH, THE TEMPERATURE REALLY GONE UP ON PRESSURE RESOURCES ACROSS STATE.
UM, I'VE BEEN QUOTED SAYING THE EASY WATER IS GOING ON SAID IT'S BECOMING CLEAR.
THE EASY WATER IS GOING BY EASY WATER.
I MEAN THE LOCAL RESOURCES THAT, THAT SOMEONE MIGHT HAVE DON'T WATER OUT ELSEWHERE TO GET THAT
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WATER.BUT EVEN THAT WATER IS, IS DRY OUT IN TERMS OF AVAILABILITY.
AND SO WE'RE SEEING COMMUNITIES GOING FARTHER FAR.
THE, THE HILL COUNTRY ALSO RELY ONLY CROP AQUI, UM, SHUT DOWN BECAUSE IT'S GONNA HAVE THE WATER WELLS ARE DRY UP.
WELL, SO FIRST OFF, YOU OF FOLKS THAT ARE FACING THESE ISSUES, COUNTIES THAT ARE COMING OUTSIDE, THESE URBAN CORES WHERE THE GROWTH IS COMING, UH, THE CHALLENGES YOU FACE ARE, ARE THE MOST SERIOUS AND CHALLENGING CHALLENGES THAT ANYBODY HAS BECAUSE THE GROWTH RATES ARE ASTRONOMICAL.
AND AGAIN, 20, 34 YEARS AGO IT BEEN EASIER FOR SOME LIKE Y'ALL OR COUNTY OR OTHER COUNTIES LIKE HAY COUNTY WHERE I WORK TO FIND COMMUNITY WATER.
BUT AGAIN, NEW WATER IS WAY MUCH EXPENSIVE.
SO, SO HOPEFULLY AT THE END OF THE MOVIE WE'LL HAVE SOME WATER.
I DID, I HAVE TO CONFESS, I DID USE SOME WATER THROUGH AI POSTER AND STILL WORKS.
YOU SEEN IT AGAIN AROUND THE URBAN AREAS, MUCH GREATER.
YOU KNOW, OVERALL SINCE I STARTED TEXAS, NOW WE'RE ONLY LOOKING AT 73%.
THIS IS SHOWING THE PERCENT HERE AND YEAH, PERCENT PROJECTED POPULATION.
SO IN THE COLOR, 3% INCREASE IN 50 YEARS ACCORDING TO THE GROWTH RATE BECAUSE FAST PEOPLE.
BUT TERMS OF THE POPULATION IN CURRENT, THIS IS WHAT PROJECTED.
SO UNDERSTAND THERE'S DIFFICULT TO, IT KIND OF DEPENDS ON, YOU KNOW, PEOPLE MOVE OUT HERE, THE ECONOMY AND ALSO ONE, UM, BE CAN BE A, IF DEVELOPERS HAVE THE ABILITY TO, YOU KNOW, DRILL WELLS, UM, FOR SUPPLIES AND THOSE WELLS ARE EXEMPT FROM, UM, REGULATION.
SO THIS MUCH, MUCH MORE WATER IS NEEDED FORWARD.
AND 25 BRACKET ACRE IS ONE PER DAY.
THESE ARE JUST UNITS THAT USE AC FEET.
SEEMS KIND OF, BUT IT REALLY COMES FROM INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECT.
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THE STATEWIDE, WE HAVE A FOR THE, SO THAT'S, BUT THAT'S ALSO, UM, SMALLER COMMUNITIES, SMALLER WATER SUPPLY CORPORATIONS, PUBLIC WATER SYSTEMS, ALL WRAPPED UP IN THAT MUNICIPAL, UH, IRRIGATION NUMBER THERE.WATER PRIMARILY, WE'RE PUMPING IT AT SIX TIMES THE, THE WATER'S COMING BACK IN RECHARGE.
SO, SO THAT, THAT, THAT'S SOMETHING UP.
AND SO, AND THERE'S, AND THEN THERE'S SOME OTHER NEEDS UP THERE AS WELL.
COUNTY, UH, YOU CAN SEE THAT, UH, ACCORDING TO THE STATE'S DATA ACCESS CURRENT TO THE CURRENT PLANNING NUMBERS, UM, YOU, YOU NEED AN ADDITIONAL 60,000 DEGREES.
SO, SO YOU NEED TO FIND, UM, THREE TIMES AS QUID AS YOU HAVE NOW THAT, THAT'S A DAUNTING LOT.
SO IT'S INFRASTRUCTURE AND GENERALLY INVOLVING IMPORT WATER.
UH, SO THIS, THIS IS SHOWING A DATABASES TWO OF ON TOP OF EACH OTHER.
YOU CAN'T SEE ALL THE, BUT AS YOU EARLIER, UM, THE MOST ABOUT AND TRINITY.
SO YOU SEE THE SOLID, THAT'S WHERE YOU GO STAND ON THE, ON THE RECHARGE ZONE.
AND THEN WHERE YOU SEE THE, WHERE IT'S AND EXPECTATION.
SO AQUI IS HERE, IS SHOWING THE FULL EXTENT OF THE TRINITY AQUIFER IN TEXAS.
DARKER, SLIGHTLY DARKER MENT, SAFE, GONE DOWN ANY BIG, THE OLD COURTHOUSE AROUND THAT 86.
AND UH, WHEN THAT WAS DRILLED, THE WATER, UH, SW 30 FEET ABOVE SURFACE.
AND UH, THAT IS CASE IT KARDASHIAN OVER THE, THERE WAS A SINGLE CATFISH THAT COURT IN CONTRAST, TRINITY AQUI A LITTLE MORE INCLUSIVE, UM, DOESN'T ENGAGE MUCH OVER.
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AND THIS IS ALSO PARTICULARLY TRUE WHERE YOU ARE AT NEAR, SO DOWN WACO, THEY GOT BIG WATER DOWN THERE INITIALLY BECAUSE OF PRESSURE.BUT UP HERE WE DON'T HAVE PRESSURE.
SO, SO THE BLUE LINES RED LINE FIRST, THE BLUE TAN SHOWING THAT CASE LIGHTS BLUE OR THE, THE AQUIFERS, UH, WATER WOOD LINE, THE MINOR AQUIFER AND COMPLICATED.
BUT YOU BASICALLY HAVE THOSE TWO LAYERS.
WE CALL THIS A DIP AQUI HYDRO.
KNOW THIS IS A LOT THIN POSSIBLE FORMATION.
THIS IS THE, AND THE GREEN SHOWING YOU WHERE THE, OF COURSE AS WE MOVE TO THE WEST, IT'S, SO GE IS ALL THERE VERY, AND THEN THAT'S, UH, A MEDIUM HASH THERE SHOWING THAT.
SO AGAIN, THIS IS SLIDE SHOWING THE AQUI.
IF YOU LOOK AT THAT SOLID GREEN COLOR, AND I'VE BEEN FASCINATED BY UM, THE ISSUES PERHAPS, UM, LEARN FROM IS THAT KIND, ENJOY THE HILLS AND SOME OF THE FARMS AND UM, BUT ONCE THAT TURNS INTO SUBURBAN DEVELOPMENT AND EVERYBODY HAS WELL, UM, THE AQUIFER IS, IS SO WE SEE THAT COUNTRY WHERE, YOU KNOW, RAINFALL AND THERE'S RECHARGE THE AQUIFER, OKAY, DRY CELLS THAT CUT PEOPLE'S PRODUCING PRODUCE AND PEOPLE FIGURE OUT WHAT TO DO.
UM, THERE'S ALSO THE STRUGGLE OF OF BRINGING WATER INFRASTRUCTURE, UM, IN AND, UH, SO FOR EXAMPLE, WHERE LATER NEXT YEAR, UM, HAS 400,000 RAINWATER, OLD HOUSE, RAINWATER, THE AQUIFER SUPPORTS, UM, AND THE REGION HASN'T BEEN ABLE TO IDENTIFY WATER GALLON.
UM, SO THAT REALLY CHANGED HOW THINGS NOW ARE PEOPLE IN COUNTRY THAT DO HARVESTING HOUSE MEDICINE.
JUST PUT OUT REPORTS, SOME SPREADSHEETS TO HELP FOLKS CALCULATE HOW THEY DO.
AND FOR VERY LONG TIME BEFORE FOLKS IN THE COUNTRY ARE GONNA HAVE, SO
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BY THE WAY, SMARTER COMPANY ACTUALLY COLLECT GREEN ON WATER TANK SMART, THE WATER PLAN FOR THE COUNTY, SEE WHAT WAS IN IT OR YOU'LL LATER I UNDERSTAND THAT WHAT KIND, LIKE HOW MUCH, MUCH WATER WE NEED, WHICH INCLUDES THAT POPULATION PROJECTION, THAT GROWTH, HOW MUCH WATER DO ON IF THERE'S DIFFERENCE BETWEEN TWO, THAT'S A NEED AND WHATCHA GONNA DO TO.UM, SO, SO THERE'S INDIRECT REUSE.
LOOK, WASTE LAKE OR, AND PUT BACK INTO LOOK TO ME LIKE THAT MIGHT BE SOME WIRE THAT COULD GET EXPORTED TO THE COUNTY RESERV, UH, VERY CONTROVERSIAL PERMIT EVERY STEP OF THE WAY, BUT THERE'S STILL RESERV WATER, OTHER SURFACE WATER CONNECTING TO RESERV THAT YOU HAVE CONNECTED.
ALSO WATER HARVESTING, UM, CAN BE USED A AS WELL.
CONDENSATE HARVESTING, AC HARVEST, THAT CAN BE, UM, ALSO SAN ANTONIO REQUIREMENTS FOR BUILDINGS CAPTURE, AC CONDENSATE, WATER FOOTPRINT, WELLS AND OTHER ARE IN HERE.
UM, YOU KNOW, SO THERE'S STILL AN EXPECTATION THAT SOME NEW WELLS GO IN, BUT THERE'S ALSO SOME WATER.
WELL, SO SOME OF THE FROM 30 MILES ALSO, THAT'S A PLAN.
WHY HAS THAT HAPPEN? PLAN REALITY.
UM, SO THIS IS WASTE OR LAKE GOING SOMEBODY, MAYBE IT'S GONNA THE FARM.
BUT MORE AND MORE WE'RE SEEING DIRECT CO.
SO COMPLETELY AND TRIPPING SPRINGS FALLS, UM, ALL COMMUNITIES THAT ARE IN THAT, UM, TRINITY AREA WHERE AGAIN, EASY WATERS GONE.
SO WASTE TREATMENT COMPLETELY POLISH THAT WATER LOOKING TO DO THIS.
GANGBUSTER AN ENORMOUS OUT THERE.
SURE, RECOVERY IS TAKING ONE SOURCE OF WATER AND UNDER SURFACE INJECT, WHICH ALSO A DOES THAT AND ALSO, SO FINALLY SOME NUMBER FOUR FROM CRAZY HOTEL.
UM, BUT UH, THERE'S A POTENTIAL PROJECT FOR FROM MINERAL WELLS THAT UH, UM, USE PARTNERED UP WITH OTHER COMMUNITIES OF THIS SIZE TO DO A PROJECT SOFTWARE TO THEIR GROWING.
SO STARTED PRODUCING WATER AND THEN FINALLY, UM, THE, UH, BRINGING IT BACK TO RESERVOIR BACK THERE, THAT YELLOW WASTE WATER TREATMENT PLANT.
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APPRECIATE.AND SO I WISH Y THE BEST IN SOLVING PROBLEMS. I'M NOT HERE TO TELL YOU WHAT TO DO.
WHAT I LOVE TO DO IS OUT THE OF THE DAY.
UM, SO YOU'RE WELCOME TO COME UP BREAKS IF I SMELL BECAUSE ALL OVER QUESTION.
UM, STATE WATER, GREAT QUESTION.
EVERYWHERE I GO, A QUESTION STATE RELATIVELY NEW.
IT'S THIS NEW GENERATION OF CENTERS, HUGE CENTERS POTENTIALLY NEED A, IT COULD SHOW UP AS HERE, COULD SHOW UP AS IN, COULD SHOW UP.
FIRST IS A CLOSED LOOP COOLING OR OPEN COOLING IT OPEN LOOP EVAPORATIVE COOLING HAS A LOT OF CLOSED LOOPS, MUCH MORE REASONABLE SYSTEM.
SECOND QUESTION IS IF THEY'RE CO-LOCATED WITH POWER PLANTS, IS THAT POWER PLANTS HAVE A STEAM ELECTRIC COMPONENT? AND IT DOES THAT COOLING CLOSELY APPRECIATE.
I, I, MAYOR, MAYOR HERE, GERALD, STAND UP.
IF THERE'S HOWARD, THE SECOND IS, SO PRESENTATIONS UPLOADED TO THAT AND BACK THERE THAT, SO OUR NEXT PRESENTATION, UM, CURRENTLY CITY MANAGER, THE WEATHERFORD WHERE PROVIDE LEADERSHIP ENGINEER, WATER COLLEGE, HIS BACHELOR'S DEGREE, CIVIL MASTER IN FROM PROFESSIONAL IN COOPER IN ADDITION TO HIS A MAJOR IN PROFESSOR FOR
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SO FOUNDATION, I'LL POINT OUT WE HAVE OUR RICHARD OVER HERE, EXCEPTIONAL WATER RESOURCES ENGINEER AND ALSO EXCEPT LET'S START WITH TAPE.THIS IS OUR GROUND OF RECORD, UM, MAPD TEXAS WATER COMING OUT THAT I'M NOT GONNA GO INTO ANY MORE THAN THAT.
SO NEXT I'LL SHOW YOU IS FOUR YEARS LATER AFTER THAT WAS CREATED IN THE NINETIES, WE HAD ANOTHER SERIOUS DRAFT METEOROLOGICALLY.
THE 1950S WAS THIS ONE ECONOMICALLY THOUGH URBAN WHEN THE CAME.
SO YOU SEE THAT NUMBER SIX CODE THERE HEAR.
UM, SO THIS ONE AND TWO CREATING, UH, THE REGIONS WE HAVE TODAY.
SO THIS WAS MANDATED REGIONS THAT FOCUS GRASSROOTS WAS EACH WATERSHED THAT CAN BE COMMUNICATED SEVERAL TIMES IS ALL THESE THINGS ARE LONG.
SO THERE'S MY SAFETY PRESENTATION GROUND.
YOU'RE PROBABLY FAMILIAR WITH LAKE WEATHER.
GET WATER FROM LAKE WEATHERFORD, ONE OF OUR THERE GROUND, LET'S A SHOW OF HANDS, THE ALRIGHT, NOT SHOCKING, RIGHT? SO WE MOVED I THINGS WE WERE MOST, WE HAVE MONEY TO PUT DOWN, CANNOT WATER THE ARMY.
SO WE MOVED OUT AND UH, IT WAS FROM OUR, THE FUTURE OF THAT.
SO THIS EDUCATION WE'RE FACING THE FUTURE.
YOU SAW SOME OF THIS, I COULD JUST SAY YOU REMEMBER WHAT THE SAID ON, BUT LET'S, LET'S LOOK AT IT AGAIN.
SO COUNTY POINTED OUT WELL EACH, RIGHT, RIGHT SHOWS THAT OVERWHELMINGLY THAT IS DOMESTIC WELLS.
THERE IS COMMERCIAL DISTRICT AND HOMES A TRADITIONAL WAY.
AGAIN, REMEMBER WHAT THE DOCTOR SAID.
SO THIS IS A SNAPSHOT OF, YOU CAN SEE IN THE GREEN BASICALLY REPRESENTS THE AQUA.
WE'RE THE, WE DISTRIBUTE THAT.
AND WHEN I THINK ABOUT THE THREE PIECES OF WATER, THAT'S
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WHAT WE'RE LOOKING AT, WHERE WE SOURCE IT, WHEN WE TREAT IT, AND HOW WE DISTRIBUTE IT TO PERSON.FROM THAT WE COLLECT A WASTE COLLECTION SYSTEM.
WE ALSO THAT AND THE DESCRIPTION I REUSE, WE ONLINE THE LAST TWO YEARS, THOSE TIMELINE 10 YEARS IN AVERAGE, 5 MILLION GALLONS A DAY.
THOSE RETURN 3 MILLION GALLON TO OUR, SO HUGE BENEFIT TO OUR, OUR NOW CAPACITY.
SO I SURFACE WATER, WATER ACCESS.
AND SO THIS GRAPH HERE SHOWS IN.
THIS IS GENERALLY WHAT WE ARE ABLE TO RECEIVE FROM LAKE BOTTOM ON AVERAGE, THAT LINE SO REPRESENT PROJECT A OF THEM THAT HAVE VERY SUCCESSFUL FOR US.
AND THEN THE RED THAT YOU SEE IT SHOULD DISCONTINUE AND AGO OUR PREDECESSORS CONTRACT PROVIDE RAW WATER.
I'LL SHOW YOU A LAYOUT PIPELINE EVENT.
BUT THAT IS A KEY PIECE TO OUR FUTURE AS CITY AND MUNICIPALITY IS TO HAVE THAT WATER ACCESS.
IT'S NOT TO SAY THAT THE STATE IS ALWAYS GONNA FOR WE TO AS MUCH AS WE NEED.
AND I'LL SHOW YOU HOW LARGE IS JUST A SECOND.
SO YOU KIND OF GET A SENSE OF HOW MANY LAKES AND SURFACE WATER ASSETS WE HAVE CONNECTED THAT.
SO THIS IS THE, NOW I KNOW IT'S A LITTLE ON THE SCREEN, BUT IT'S LARGE AREA LEFT.
AND ON THE FAR RIGHT, LAKE BEND IS RIGHT AND LAKE LEFT.
NOW THIS BLUE REPRESENTS THE WATER PUMP LAKE.
THAT'LL BE OUR SYSTEM WITH ONLY THING I DO WANNA POINT OUT IS WE DON'T PUMP LAKE, PUMP INTERCONNECTED SYSTEM FAR BEYOND.
SO IF YOU SEE THAT THERE ARE FIVE LAKES APPROXIMATELY THAT ARE ACTUALLY INTERCONNECTED, THERE'S SEVERAL OVER THE WATERSHED.
SO TWO AND A HALF MILLION RESIDENTS, 250 PLUS MILES OF LARGE AND TODAY SERVE UP HERE 5 MILLION GALLON A DAY.
YOU A SENSE OF HOW MUCH THEY'RE WATER THROUGHOUT THE REGION.
SO FOR US, THE ABILITY TO ACCESS THAT RAW WATER PIECES TO PUBLIC WATER SOURCE TREATMENT AND DISTRIBUTION BECAUSE PREDECESSORS AN NEED, WE PREPARED FOR THAT.
NOW YOU PROBABLY ALL SEE OUR TREATMENT PLAN IF YOU HAVE IT, IS VERY PROUD OF IT.
IT'S OVER AT THE LAKE WEATHERFORD ON THE WEST SIDE.
IT'S UNDER, UH, 30 MILLION IN EXPANSION US, UH, THE SIZE NEED THROUGH 2040.
BEYOND THAT, WE PLANS ON WE NEED EXPAND, BUT SIMPLY PUT THE RAW ELECTRIC OR OUR CONTRACT COMES TO THAT PLANT.
IT'S TREATED, SANITIZED AND SENT INTO THE DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM FOR USE BY OUR AND CUSTOMERS STORAGE AND OUR TANKS.
AND THAT IS A SIMPLE WAY NOW REUSE PROJECT, SORRY, THE RE PROJECT THAT WE TALKED ABOUT EARLIER.
UH, THIS SHOWS THE SAME DENVER PIPELINE AS YOU'LL SEE.
THE GREEN PATH IS WHERE OUR WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT SENDS THAT CLEAN EFF BACK INTO THE SYSTEM IT, BUT THROUGH OUR REUSE PROJECT, WE PUMP DIRECTLY FROM OUR PLANT BACK UP.
THAT'S HOW WE RECHARGE OUR RESIDENCE WORK.
UH, AGAIN, BENEFICIAL IS THE FORESIGHT OF OUR BOARD PLAN IN ADVANCE AND PIECES TO THAT.
WHEN THAT WAS CONSTRUCTED IN THE NINETIES, WE ACTUALLY DIDN'T NEED TO TURN IT ON FOR ABOUT 10 YEARS.
SO WE CONSTRUCTED IT EARLY NEED AND WE CAN'T STAND THAT INTO ANOTHER.
SO ALL THAT TO SAY I KEPT IT VERY SIMPLE BECAUSE TWO BOXES IN THE ROOM OR SOMETHING OTHER, UH, BUT I DO LAND ON DISTRIBUTION.
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SO THE TREATMENT IS A COMPLICATED PROCESS.WE'VE GOT GREAT CONSULTANTS IN THE ROOM, DISTRIBUTION, MAKE FEEL.
UH, BUT THE TRUTH IS THIS IS, THIS IS NOT EASY STUFF, ESPECIALLY WHEN WE DUNNO WHERE WE'RE GONNA GROW.
WE DUNNO HOW WE'RE GONNA GROW ON THE SIDE OR DO WE HAVE INDUSTRIAL AREAS.
SO ALL THESE WATERS ARE BIT UNCERTAIN OUTSIDE OF OUR JURISDICTION, OUTSIDE OF OUR ZONING.
SO BEING ADAPTABLE TO THAT S THE EXTENSION OF WHAT OUR CORRECT WAY IS REALLY THAT'S THE CHALLENGE FOR US.
AND WE LOOK AT THE COUNTY AS A WHOLE.
IF YOU HAVE YOUR UTILITY DISTRICTS, YOU HAVE NEIGHBORHOODS THAT COMMON WELLS, YOU MAY HAVE A OF WATER LINE ON EACH HOME.
SO AS WATER COMES INTO THE AREA WITH LONG TERM SOLUTIONS, YOU CAN TIE ON THOSE.
IT'S OBVIOUSLY MORE CHALLENGING IF YOU HAVE, UH, THOUSANDS OF ACRES OF HOMES THAT HAVE NO WATER LINES ON THE STREETS SERVING EVERYONE'S ON, WELL THAT'S NETWORK.
SO WHEN WE'RE AT THE THREE PIECES FROM RAW WATER SOURCING AND WHERE WE, UH, THAT SEEMS TO BE THE MOST CHALLENGING AND ROLE, WE'RE GONNA BE CREATIVE.
UM, WITH THAT IT SORT OF IT UP FOR MS, OUR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR.
SHE'S GONNA TALK ABOUT HOW THIS INCORPORATES INTO ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT.
AGAIN, TALKED ABOUT THE AGILE DEVELOP DEVELOPMENT.
UM, BUT WITH THAT COMES UP, I HAVE TO THE, TO ANSWER SOME QUESTIONS AND I HAVE BACKUP FRONT THE QUESTION.
SO YES, THAT IS A METHOD WE CAN DO TO GET THAT CAPACITY BACK.
IT HAS TO BE, IT HAS TO BE WORTH THE COST TO DO IF YOU HAVE OTHER ALTERNATIVES TO DOING THAT.
BUT WE ABOUT THE TIME TAKES BUILDING RESERVOIR TAKES IT NOT SO DIRECTOR YEARS CONVOY, ALINE FOCUSED APPROACH TO MANAGING DEVELOP PROJECT WHILE STRENGTHENING RELATIONSHIPS WITH BROKERS AND BUSINESS ALSO HER EXECUTIVE MCU SHE BUSINESS.
WHILE ALL GOOD MORNING EVERYONE, IT'S AN HONOR TO BE HERE WITH EVERYONE TODAY AND ORDER SUPPORT IN NOT ONLY, AND THOSE NAME DIRECTOR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND I DIRECTOR COUNTY IS ONE OF THE FASTEST GROWING, GROWING, BRINGS TREMENDOUS OPPORTUNITIES AND OUR LEADING AND EXCEEDING AS WE SUPPORT DIVERSE HEALTHCARE RANCH RANCH.
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RELATES TO MEDIA WITH THE POPULATION, THE DECISIONS THAT WE SAY ARE GONNA IMPACT FOUNDATION FORSIGHT DISCUSSION AS WE LONG BECAUSE A SITE COLLECTOR WHAT MATTERS MORE THAN ROOFTOP OR ACCOUNTABILITY, RELIABILITY, BUT I, WHICH MAKES THANK YOU.RESIDENTIAL MAP MAP RESIDENTIAL COMPONENTS THAT IS ON FOR OUR SCHOOLS AND OUR ROAD AND OUR PUBLIC SAFETY.
LARGE PREVIOUS NORTHEAST THAT WILL HOST SEVEN 40 AND WILL BE A LUXURY COMMUNITY.
ECONOMIC WITHOUT THE AVAILABILITY SUPPLY OF WATER, THE WATER, THE FOUNDATION OF OPPORTUNITY AND NUMBER ONE REQUISITE FOR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT.
IF YOU LEAVE WITH ONE PRESENTATION ORDER, DON'T GET ON THAT I PREDICTABILITY.
COMMERCIAL SURROUNDING AREAS KNOW, WILL THERE BE AN SUPPLY? WHAT DOES THAT IN FIVE, WHAT THAT LOOK QUESTION AS LOOKING AT, DO WE WANNA BE IN COUNTY UP AGAINST NATIONAL TENNESSEE, NEVADA ORDER TO THE HIGHER PROVIDE THOUSAND GALLONS OF WATER PER DAY.
ESSENTIALLY A HYPERSCALER UP TO 5 MILLION GALLONS OF WATER PER DAY.
AND I SOME NEWER DEVELOPERS AS OPPOSED TO WE HAD AN EXAMPLE WHERE NO, THAT
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WE PROVIDING, UM, THE TO SHOP IN MORE OF AN EXTENSION AND EXTENSION OF WASTEWATER.HOWEVER, THAT SAME CAN BE APPLIED AS COSTS FOR EXTENDING SERVICE, UPGRADING TREATMENT OR INSTALLING TRANSITION LINES.
THOSE COSTS ARE BEING PASSED DOWN TO THE DEVELOPERS AND THE HAVE REQUIRED BY STAYING AHEAD THE CITY AND THE COUNTY FOR THAT MATTER.
I DO HAVE THE ABILITY TO PROTECT SOME OF THOSE FEES.
IN FACT, CONSIDER WHAT THEY CALL READY AND THEY ASK IF THERE IS OUR UTILITY ON MONEY.
MYSELF, HIS LEADERSHIP AND OTHER STAFF ALSO CONSIDERATION ALLIANCE TO ALIGN THE GROWTH CORRIDOR, COMMERCIAL NOTES, INDUSTRIAL PARK AND INFRASTRUCTURE ENGINE.
ALL OF THIS CREATE ARE TAX BASE MAKING HAS THE RANCHING INDUSTRY IS COUNTY AND WE NEED WATER FOR WE CAN'T ANYTHING.
WHICH BRINGS ME TO THE NEXT POINT OF HEALTH TO FOOD AND EDUCATION.
I THINK THOSE ARE PRETTY EXPLANATORY.
BUT HOWEVER, SOMETHING NOT LONG TERM PLANNING.
WE WANNA KNOW THAT OUR SCHOOLS HAVE AN ADEQUATE WATER SUPPLY AND THEY'RE NOT JUST, FOR EXAMPLE, RELYING ON, UH, WELLS, ORION, CHILDREN, SAFE EVEN.
AND THAT'S NOT AND RESPECTFUL WATER, BUT ENSURE OUR RESIDENTS ARE CLEAN WATER SUSTAINABILITY, EVEN PROVIDE THEY'RE ALL VERY FOR SEVERAL DAYS AND UNLESS HAVE THE LUXURY WELL THAT, UH, US TO RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT AND COMMERCIAL DEVELOPMENT.
WITHOUT IT, WITHOUT IT IN THE REMAIN WHAT WE
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RIVER QUALITY BECAUSE WE'RE THE ENGINEER IN ROOM.YOUR WORK MATTERS TO DEVELOPERS IN LEADERSHIP IN THE ROOM STRATEGY MATTERS.
SO PROVOKING CONVERSATION TODAY.
UM, TO START THINGS OFF HERE, I'M GONNA WITH SOME BRIEF INTRODUCTIONS.
OUR, UM, TO MY DISTRICT, UM, SOMEONE I'VE FOR YEARS I'VE ALWAYS ADMIRE, UM, VERY RESPECTABLE, UM, HAS SOMETHING ALSO SERVED DISTRICT REPRESENTATIVE OF YEARS WORKING FOR THE TEXAS WATER DEVELOPMENT BOARD, THE TEXAS WATER DEVELOPMENT BOARD, AND SEVERAL SOCIOECONOMIC FOR THE AGENCY AND ASPECTS ENTIRE TO DOUG
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WEST 25.BRING 15 YEARS OF EXPERIENCE IN WATER INFRASTRUCTURE CLIENTS BUSINESS MODEL.
AND PRIOR TO JOINING WEST RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT OF INCLUDED WATER AS A SERVICE COMPANIES SERVING THE RESIDENTIAL, COMMERCIAL AND INDUSTRIAL SECTOR FROM 2018 TO 24, SHE SERVED C TEXAS WATER TRADE, WHICH TENURE AT TEXAS GROUND A BACHELOR DEGREE SCIENCES FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF DEGREES.
FIRST OF ALL, HOW MANY, UM, BUT I WAS WITH A YOUNG GUY OUTTA GRAD SCHOOL.
HE WAS ONE OF THE BIG BOSSES THERE.
TALKED ABOUT NOTHING ABOUT BASICALLY SURFACE, SURFACE PERMIT PROPERTY FOR THE PART, IT'S IT'S THE STATE, RIGHT? GROUND IS A PROPERTY.
UM, CAPTURES, RIGHT, YOU KNOW, BASICALLY STARTED OUT SOME COURT, UH, PROPERTY, UH, TEXAS
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COURT SAID SORRY AND EXPLAIN CAPTURE, UH, PROPERTY.SO IT'S VERY, IT'S A VERY SLIPPERY SLOPE.
THE DISTRICT BASICALLY SAID WE'RE GONNA MANAGE THIS RESOURCE LOCALLY, NOT THE STATE LEVEL.
I THINK THAT STILL WE UP THERE FOUR COUNTIES, PARKER COUNTY, THE ONLY DISTRICT YOU WE'RE ONE, THE 10 LARGEST IN TERMS OF STAFF.
UH, I'VE FOUR STAFFS I'M NOT HAS RESOURCE AND WE MAY NOT BE AWARE AREA IS SHADED AREA, AQUIFER.
THE IT WE COVERED I TO PRESENTATION LONG TIME AGO.
I LIKE TO SHOW THIS, I LIKE TO KIND THIS, RIGHT? THERE'S NOT REALLY A BACK OFFER.
MONEY TAKING WE'RE THAT, BUT IT'S NOT SUCH THAT.
SO YOU DON'T HAVE ANY, WELL A LOT OF PEOPLE BUT THE CLOSE TO THE SURFACE.
SO YOU FILL A WELL CHEAPER AND YOU CAN USUALLY GET 10.
SO THAT'S WHAT AT THE SURFACE RIVER, THAT'S, THAT'S LITERALLY THE SURFACE, RIGHT? IF YOU SEE THAT THE SURFACE THAT THE, YOU CAN HOW THAT AREA, THAT SURFACE STANDING ON THE LOWER PORTION OF THE TREE THAT UNDERNEATH A IS FIVE FEET LOWER SURFACE, RIGHT? JUST SO THIS IS FROM 63% OF THE WATER TAKEN THE GROUND IS, AND THAT'S GOOD.
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NINE AND JUST APPLYING A RATIONAL.WELL FOLKS, I'M YOU DRIVE AROUND, ALRIGHT? UM, I'M NOT GONNA POINT ANYBODY OUT.
AND WHEN YOU DON'T HAVE THAT, UM, NUMBER BEEN BEFORE, OBVIOUSLY THEY APPLY, UM, MORE THAN ANYWHERE ELSE IN THE STATE, UH, COUNTY, WE FIND THAT THIS AND ABOUT.
SO AGAIN, YOU KNOW THIS REAL QUICK.
MOST OF THOSE EVERY THREE MONTHS DOWN THERE, COMPARE THOSE YEAR TO YEAR, RIGHT? WE HAVE ABOUT 30 OR 40 WE HAVE DEVICES INSTALLED.
UH, JUST LOOKING AT THE PORTIONS OF OUT INTO THE FORMATIONS.
WHAT I'M SHOWING YOU HERE IS EVERY FORMATION IN COUNTY IS FOOT OVER THE LAST YEAR, 12 FOOT.
AND YOU'RE RIGHT, WE CAN'T, I MEAN CURRENT METHOD POSSIBLE TO DRAIN THAT, THAT BUT THAT WELL FRONT AND THIS IS ON, RIGHT? SO I'M GONNA TELL YOU SLIDE AND I'M, BUT THE ON AVERAGE ACROSS THERE, AREAS PULLING OFF RAPIDLY AREAS THERE NO, WELL AREN'T, SO WHAT WHAT THE TAKEAWAY IS IS WHERE YOU HAVE LARGE, YOU KNOW, LARGE CONGREGATION OF WELLS AND THAT IN THOSE AREAS, WELLS ARE RIGHT, RIGHT? SO YOU'RE HAVING LESS, LESS AREAS.
THIS IS A ABOUT THAT WATER IF RIGHT SHALLOW, IT'S PROLIFIC THE SAND MAKE GOOD WATER, BUT THERE IS JUST IT FOR SO LONG REALLY RIGHT? UH, HERE, THREE BELOW THE BONE AND THE PH, THE LOAD OF THE OFF IS WHERE IT SURFACE SUN, SIX FEET, IT'S HEATING UP, RIGHT? YOU KNOW, THERE'S IN THAT RIGHT THERE IS NOTHING.
SO WHEN YOU GET OUT THERE, THAT'S, YOU CAN'T GO DEEPER, RIGHT?
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YOU GO SOME PRETTY NASTY STUFF.UH, THIS IS, THERE'S A RIGHT STICKER IN THE GREAT.
SO WE'RE ALSO ONE OF THE FEW DISTRICT THAT SPECIFICALLY FOR THE PURPOSE OF STORM SLOW AND DOING NOTHING, WE WATER, WHAT WE FOUND WAS WATER.
IT'S VERY TIGHT AND IT ALSO REALLY, REALLY BAD, REALLY BAD.
SO THAT THAT, AND UH, AGAIN, HUNDREDS OF SIX, HUNDREDS OF TWO OF OUR STAFF THROUGH GRAD SCHOOL, UH, SPONSORED STUDY, GONE ON TO WORK FOR PRIVATE FIRMS, UH, IDENTIFY SCREENS IN THE DISTRICT.
UH, SO WE, AND NOT PREVIOUS STUDIES FAMILIAR TO THOSE PROBABLY.
UM, BUT THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT THAT THESE AREAS THAT THE COUNTY TALK ABOUT THAT AFTER WE ALSO DO TESTING EXAMPLE IN, UH, WISE COUNTY.
WE IDENTIFY 25 OR SO WELLS THAT ARE VISITING PROBABLE WE'RE HARVEST.
UH, COMMISSIONER THAT QUICKLY, I WOULD SAY YOU'RE INTERESTED IF PUBLIC ENTITY PLEASE APPLY.
WE'VE SPENT OVER A MILLION DOLLARS AND OVER 600,000 GALLONS STORAGE PROJECTS.
UM, AND IT IS, IT'S REALLY COOL, RIGHT? OUR OFFICE WAS WATER INSIDE EVERYTHING, EVERYTHING
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HERE ABOUT TRULY CLIENTS.SO FOR THAT, UM, ONE THING THAT I'M SURE THERE'S PROBABLY A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT GEOGRAPHICALLY, WHERE ARE, WHERE ARE, I MEAN THAT'S REALLY EASY, RIGHT? YOU LOOK AT THOSE ARE AREAS, THERE'S NOTHING GOING ON.
THEN YOU PUMP THE WATER, THE WATER IN THE TRINITY TYPICALLY MOVES, UH, EAST, SOUTHEAST, CORRECT? CORRECT.
BUT IT CAN TURN AROUND AND SLOWLY OVER AREAS OCCURRING.
SO YOU STILL OVER TIME AREA DROPPED IN MOST AREAS.
BUT IF YOU LOOK AT A MAP WHERE THE WELLS ARE, WELL PROBABLY NOT MANY, I THINK YOU WANTED A UM, AT THE STATE LEVEL OR THINGS THAT ARE, BUT WHAT IT, YEAH, YEAH.
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AND A LOT OF PLANNING, VERY ENCOURAGING.SOMETHING THAT I KNOW, UM, YOU WORK ACROSS THE STATE, ACROSS THE COUNTRY, WORK WITH RURAL COMMUNITIES, UH, YOU WORK WITH COMMUNITIES OF ALL SHAPES AND SIZES, UM, AND I THAT ARE KIND OF, UM, I USUALLY IN THESE AREAS, DO YOU MIND PROVIDING SOME OF YOUR INTO WHAT YOU SEE DEVELOPMENT? IS THAT THE FIRST TO IS YOUR PERSONAL GROUNDWATER AND HOW MUCH THAT THAT SHOWN UP IN PARTS OF THE STATE? UM, UM, SOMETIMES DISADVANTAGE THAT THE HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO, TO MOST OF THAT REGULATION IS ON NON PROVIDING WATER TO A BASE WATER.
AND OF THAT WHY, LIKE TRY UNDERSTAND ALTERNATIVES TO GROUND WATER COST BECAUSE OF THE QUALITY OF THE WATER THAT ACCESS FROM MORE, IT CERTAINLY HAS COST.
AND SO SOME OF THE, THE REASON WHY WATER DISTRICTS ARE SO FUNDAMENTALLY IMPORTANT TO COMMUNITIES INCLUDING, UM, IS THAT THEY MIGHT HAVE
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VERY INTERESTING TO SEE HOW THAT IS IN DIFFERENT PARTS OF THE STATE.UM, I'LL MENTION THAT THERE HAS BEEN A LOT OF DEVELOPMENT IN MITIGATION FUNDS IN DIFFERENT PARTS OF THE STATELY THAT IS LARGE, ESPECIALLY FOR DISTRICT.
THERE ARE A NUMBER OF DISTRICTS, PARTICULARLY JULY FIVE, HAVE SEEN PERMITTED LARGE.
THOSE DISTRICTS ARE MILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN REVENUE IN FROM PERMIT FEES, UH, THAT WILL GIVE THEM OPPORTUNITY TO DO THINGS HELPING ARE NO LONGER ABLE TO ACCESS THEIR OWN WATER, UM, INTO WELLS.
UH, AND ALSO SUPPLY, WE HAVE NOT SEEN ANY DISTRICTS YET.
I VERY LARGE MUNICIPAL EXPORT ON.
THAT'S, THAT'S THE LAST THING I MENTION IS ITS SURPRISING THE NUMBER OF HOMEOWNER AROUND THE STATE OF TEXAS DO NOT HAVE, UM, EVEN IN COUNTY IN AUSTIN, WE HAVE, UH, COMMUNITIES THAT HAVE BEEN SUBDIVIDED SERVICE.
UM, AND IF THERE IS, WELL IN THAT AREA MAY OR MAY NOT BE SERVED BY SOME OF THE PIPELINES THAT GO PAST THEIR PROPERTY SERVING OTHER WATER SYSTEMS AND TO THE SYSTEM, UH, SOMETIMES GO RAISE A LOT OF QUESTION.
I HOPE TODAY ON THIS PANEL OR AROUND, UH, THE OPPORTUNITIES TO CREATE, UH, MORE AFFORDABLE, UH, FINANCING FOR REGIONAL SOLUTIONS THAT ARE THIS YOU SUPPLY, THEN YOU'RE EITHER GONNA BE ON RAINWATER, WHICH MIGHT BE VERY VIABLE ALTERNATIVE FOR YOU.
UM, OR UH, UNFORTUNATELY THERE ARE MANY CASES HAVE NO PROPERTY AND NOT, THERE IS A LOT OF FOCUS THERE ON DOMESTIC, WE EXHIBIT ALL AS WELL.
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AND SO ONE OF THE REALLY IMPORTANT THINGS THAT YOU COULD DO AS A DOMESTIC REGISTERED RIGHT? MAY SOMETHING RIGHT? WELL, SPECIFICALLY WE ALL, ALL THAT, ALL WELL LIVESTOCK COMMERCIAL, WELL WE HAVE SOME SPECIAL A LEGISLATION, WELL, OIL, GAS PRODUCTION, UM, BUT GAS, WELL, GAS, COMMERCIAL LIMIT, DOMESTIC.AS LONG AS IT'S, YOU KNOW, AN APPLICATION MAKE, MAKE SURE SPACE LONG AS YOU PERMIT WASTE, YOU WASTE MEAN YOU PRETTY MUCH UP DOWN WATER INTO CREEK, UH, RUN DOWN THE WATERWAY.
ANYTHING ELSE? UM, THEN YOU CAN GO DAY.
WHAT YOU WANT IS, YOU KNOW, I'VE SAID THIS OVER AND OVER, YOU TALKING OUTSIDE WATER CONVERSATIONS, RIGHT? THAT'S ESPECIALLY PRIVATE I WOULD ESTIMATE.
THAT'S JUST, IT'S JUST THE NATURE OF IT, RIGHT? WELL SUBMIT AN APPLICATION, THAT DEPARTMENT, THAT'S BASICALLY IT, RIGHT? BUT IF YOU'RE WELL BEFORE THOUSAND NINE, WE DON'T KNOW'S THERE THE STATE DOESN'T THERE AND LIKE THAT.
BUT LET'S SAY SOMEBODY WANTS TO DRILL PERFECT EXAMPLE SOUTHEAST COUNTY LARGE, WELL GOING DOWN THERE, FAMILIAR WE HAVE AND THOSE BIG WELLS, THOSE LARGE, IF WE YOUR WELL THERE, WE CANNOT ENSURE THAT THAT BIG WELL IS SPACED PROPERLY, RIGHT? SO IT HARM, WELL I KNOW GOVERNMENT GET THAT, BUT THERE'S NO HARM.
WELL, SO IF YOU, UH, ENCOURAGE YOU TO CONSIDER, UM, THAT'S SOMETHING WHERE I KNOW COMMONLY REFER TO THOSE GROUND ON THE GROUND AS THIS ONE WELL VIEW PHILOSOPHY, WHICH IS IS SOMETHING THAT I THINK I SAW A LOT OF.
ONE OF THE FIGURES EARLIER, WE TALK ABOUT ALL THESE ELEMENT AND THEN WE TALKED ABOUT LESS 10, UM, THE DISTRICT INVOLVED THAT IN DISCUSSIONS AND I YOU YOU HAVE ANY SUGGESTIONS OR STRATEGIES ON THOSE? SUGGEST I TROUBLE? UH, NO.
SO WE WORK REALLY CLOSE TO COUNTY IN THE COUNTY REVIEW GAPS, CERTIFICATIONS ON THEIR BEHALF, RIGHT? MANY MUNICIPALITIES, MANY COUNTIES, THEY DON'T HAVE STAFF.
UM, YOU KNOW, SO WE REVIEW THEM ON THEIR BEHALF.
SO, SO, SO THERE, THERE AREN'T A LOT OF OLOGISTS IN THE WORLD, RIGHT? THERE ARE A LOT OF GROUNDWATER SCIENTISTS.
SO THERE ARE PEOPLE THAT, THAT CAN DO THESE STUDIES, RIGHT? THEY REQUIRE MAYBE THEY DON'T HAVE A SENSE BACKGROUND GROUNDWATER SCIENCE.
SO SEEING THE BIG PICTURE IS CAN BE PROBLEM.
MAYBE THEY, THE TEST WELL AND OH HEY, ITS WAY OUT WEST PART COUNTY AND THE SANDS ARE GOOD, IT PRODUCES WELL AND THE NUMBERS ARE GOOD AND THEY USE SOME MODELING THAT PUT IN.
BUT WHAT WE KNOW IS WELL ARE FED AND HE'S BEEN DRILLING WELL MOST OF HIS CAREER.
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WHERE YEAH, THAT'S FINE, YOU GOT PLENTY OUT IS DRILLING 50? WELL, ON A GOOD IDEA.SOME THESE AREAS PROBABLY NOT LONG TERM.
I MEAN I'LL ALWAYS SAY MY BOARD SAID THIS SO I DON'T FEEL TOO LIKE I'M SETTING UP TOO MUCH.
BUT HAVING PIPES IN THE GROUND WAS ALWAYS SUSTAINABLE.
EVEN IF GROUND WATER THE HOMEOWNER LESS PER, PER AND THERE IS OPPORTUNITY FOR ANOTHER SOURCE OF WATER PUT, IF IT'S A PRIVATE WELL THERE LOT, I MEAN WHO'S GONNA PAY INFRASTRUCTURE ALL ACROSS NEIGHBORHOOD, RIGHT? THAT'S, THAT'S ALWAYS GROUND.
I OPEN THE TOOL SO I GO OVER YOU AND I'M JUST CURIOUS, YOU KNOW, KNOWS ACTIVELY MANAGING THIS REGION, UH, THAT HOPEFULLY, HOPEFULLY START WITH OUR STATE WATER PLAN QUICK.
UM, YOU KNOW, ROBERT SHOWS SOME IMAGES OF OUR FUTURE.
THE UM, AND I'LL SAY THAT I COMPARE THE 20 WATER AND WATER HERE.
UM, AND SO THAT YOU KNOW TODAY, BUT UH, DOES HAVE SOME MONITOR AND I, I WAS SAYING AND I ALSO WANTED TIE IN A LITTLE BIT ABOUT, AND THAT IS WHAT OUR STATE WATER PLAN AND SO ALL THAT INFORMATION, STATE WATER PLANNING AGENCY, WE'RE NOT ONLY A SCIENTIFIC AGENCY, WE'RE ALSO A BANK AND UM, WE ALL SORT OF FINANCING FOR PROJECTS, MANY DIFFERENT FUNDING PROGRAMS TODAY.
AND OF COURSE WE ALL VOTED ON, UM, VOTED PROPOSITION FOUR IN OUR ELECTION.
UM, WHICH TALK ABOUT AS WELL
UM, SO ALL TO SAY ALL THE WORK THAT WE'RE DOING, PEOPLE, THANK YOU FOR THAT.
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LENE WANTED TO YOU, YOU BRIEFLY INNOVATIVE OR OPPORTUNITIES, UM, KIND OF THINKING ABOUT THOSE SUPPLY OPPORTUNITIES THAT KIND OF RISE TO THE TOP IN YOUR MIND, UM, TO GET SERIOUS IN THE NEXT 12 TO 24 MONTHS.SO HERE TO THE FUNDING HAS ALREADY TAKEN PLACE, UH, WHERE BY UM, SOME OF THE REGIONAL PROVIDERS THAT IS NEW STRANDING BEING PARCELS, UM, AND ACTUALLY TIE INTO REGIONAL SYSTEM THAT THE BENEFIT OF BUT BEYOND THAT WE REALLY INTERESTING INCLUDING MAKE THAT SUBDIVISION THAT PROVIDE WATER WASTE WATER SERVICES PROVIDE A CREDIT TO A DEVELOPER INTO CONSERVATION THAT REDUCES SUBDIVISION QUO.
UM, SO IT REQUIRES ALL ENTITIES BY THAT IS SO IMPORTANT.
ALL OF THE SUPPLY THAT ARE GONNA COME WATER SUPPLIES AS THIS CT WATER LOCAL GROUND MORE IF THAT BY RESIDENT WATER, IT'LL MAKE WATER BILLS VERY HIGH COMPARED TO TODAY'S CIRCUMSTANCES.
I ONE ANTICIPATING HOW HIGH WATER WATER, BUT YOU WATER SUPPLY AT THAT COST, THE WATER HAS NO CHOICE TO PAY THAT BACK.
AND SO YOU CAN HOW MUCH THE WATER, THE AND PART IS.
BUT THOSE LANDLORD, THEY'RE NOT THE ONES MAKING THE DECISION ABOUT HOW MUCH TAKING, HOW MUCH, WHETHER THEY'RE THE NATIONAL HOME BUILDER OFFERS A SINGLE HOME BRICK SYSTEM FOR TECHNOLOGY COMPANY.
WE THINGS THAT REALLY CHANGING, BUT THAT CHOICE IS UP THE LAND NOT SYSTEM MANDATED BY THE LEGISLATURE IS IMPORTANT.
COUNTIES AND WATER UTILITIES TO LOCK IN A LOWER PROFILE IN THOSE SUBDIVISION ALONGSIDE REGIONAL.
AND YOU MENTIONED REGIONALIZATION AND
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REGIONALIZATION.YEAH, I MEAN ESPECIALLY WHEN FUTURE GROWTH AND EXPOSURE, RISK EXPOSURE IN UNINCORPORATED AREAS, THE COUNTY PLAYS SUCH AN IMPORTANT ROLE ALONG WITH THE
UM, SO WE HAVE, WELL I, THERE WE, WE'LL YOU, SO WE'RE PROJECT TO SEE COUNTY IN THE NEXT SIX MONTHS, WHAT WOULD THAT BE? AND I'LL WITH YOU, DOUG, I THE SIX REALLY WORK, WORK TOGETHER REGIONAL REGIONALIZING THE WATER PROBLEM, RIGHT? UH, THEY DON'T, THEY'RE WORKING ON THE SAME THING IN WISE COUNTY RIGHT NOW.
THEY CREATED DUA, YOU KNOW, THE ONE THING HAPPEN, COMPETITION RIGHT BETWEEN AREA, EVEN IF IT'S NOT THE SAME, UH, OTHERWISE IT'S GONNA COST MORE BECAUSE YOU KNOW, I'M LOOKING AT MY FRIENDS FROM REGIONAL BACK, BUT, UH, YOU, THEY LONG RIGHT? AND YOU LOOK LONG TERM, THAT TELLS YOU A LOT.
WHERE IS THAT WATER COMING FROM? WE JUST NEED MAKE SURE THE PROJECTS GET FUNDED AND BUILT AND WATER DIRECTION.
SO, SO REGIONALIZATION, WELL I IT'S, IT'S NOT PROJECT, BUT YOU HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO WORK WITH THE RAINWATER DISTRICT TO HAVE YOUR BE MONITOR.
WELL THAT, SO THAT'S SOMETHING GREEN WATER SOME AND THAT EVERY WATER SYSTEM HAS TO EARLIER ABOUT WATER PLANNING STAKEHOLDERS FROM ALL DIFFERENT INDUSTRY LEVELS OF GOVERNMENT
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THAT IN TIME Y'ALL FIND SOMEONE BELIEVE TO ANSWER YOUR QUESTION, I THINK THEY'LL ALL BE MORE THAN HAPPY TO.UM, SHE, SHE'S VOLUNTARILY ANSWER ALL THESE QUESTIONS, UH, AFTERWARDS ON THE WE'LL CLOSE.
OKAY, SO I KNOW EVERYONE IS SO I APPRECIATE PATIENCE.
UH, WE ACTUALLY HAVE TWO LINES THAT WE'RE WORKING.
AND SO I THINK THAT THE, TO THIS IN MANY ALSO THAT THERE ARE AND WATER SUCH THAT NO SINGLE AND THAT MORE AND PURPOSE.
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SO OUR FIRST PANEL IS A AND HE'S KNOWN FOR CONSISTENT, EFFICIENT, UH, CONSISTENT, EFFICIENT AND COLLABORATIVE APPROACH, ESPECIALLY WHEN THAT DIFFICULT ISSUES REQUIRE PRACTICAL, REASONABLE SOLUTIONS.RECENTLY RETIRED UNDER CONSERVATION, THE OF TEXAS IN AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION.
APPLIED RESEARCH MANAGEMENT PRIOR MANAGING CLEAR, HE SERVED TEXAS UP.
IS MOORE THE RIGHT THERE? MOORE HAS BEEN A CORNERSTONE OF ALLIANCE WATER SINCE ITS INCEPTION ORGANIZATION LONG, RAPIDLY, RAPIDLY GROWING COMMUNITIES LEADER SECURE 25 MILLION IN THE TEXAS WATER, SAME PERMIT, 16 YEAR SYSTEM RESIDENTS BEYOND PROFESSIONAL ACHIEVEMENTS, SOLUTIONS, FAMILIES AND FUTURE GENERATIONS DEDICATED SOCCER.
THE SAME COMMIT PUBLIC SERVICE, CITY OF MANFIELD DEPARTMENT AS EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OVERSEE STREETS AND DRIVERS, ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES BEGAN INFRASTRUCTURE, LEADERSHIP, REGIONAL WATER SUPPLY, SERVING AS REGIONAL COLLABORATION LONG TO ALL HERE.
I TELLING YOU BEFORE WE OFF, WE HAD, EVERYBODY THAT'S SITTING HERE RIGHT NOW HAS DEDICATED YEARS PROCESS SOLUTIONS AND I THINK THAT
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EXCITED FOR YOU ALL.SO I TAKE A SEAT, UH, BEFORE I, LEMME ASK THE FIRST QUESTION ON THIS.
UM, WHAT I'D IS THAT REGIONAL ENTITY, CAN YOU EXPLAIN THE CONTEXT OR THE SITUATION IN WHAT WAS HERE GREATER THAN ANYTHING IN PREVIOUS WATER PLANS, GREATER THAN ANYTHING WE ANTICIPATED.
AND SO WITH THAT, UH, UH, THE LINE FOR US TO CREATE WITH LEADERSHIP OF THAT REPRESENTATIVE DI BECAUSE THEY WEREN'T, THEY WEREN'T WORKING TOGETHER AND THAT PEOPLE, THEY SAY THEY'RE VERY REASONABLE PEOPLE.
AND MY FRIEND, UH, DAVID, UH, BLACKBURN, UH, DOUG BLACKBURN, CITY MANAGER, TEXAS, SO SPECIFIC RESTRICTED, UH, AUTHORITY, UH, OPPOSED TO WELL APPRECIATE OPPORTUNITY HERE TODAY.
UH, SO OUR AREA IS IMMEDIATELY SOUTH OF CITY OF AUSTIN.
WHAT OUTSIDE THE, IT WAS RURAL AND WE STILL HAVE TONS OF PRESSURE TOGETHER.
THESE ARE GROUPS, FOOTBALL AGAINST EACH ASIDE THAT'S REALLY GROUND HAS BEEN THE CASE
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AGENCY THAT WE LATER TRANSITION TO.SO I APPRECIATE BEING HERE AS WELL.
UM, THE CITY OF MANFIELD, MOST OF YOU WHERE MANFIELD IS JUST FROM THE PERSPECTIVE CAREER SAW REGIONALIZATION DEVELOP THROUGHOUT, THROUGHOUT THE CITY.
SO, YOU KNOW, LOOKING BACK, MY PREDECESSORS REALLY SET THE, SET THE GROUND WHAT ROLE? BACK, BACK IN THE EARLY EIGHTIES, SEVENTIES INTO THE EARLY EIGHTIES, MAX WAS PREDOMINANTLY A, A WELL SUED CITY AND RELIED ON, RELIED ON, WELL, IN THE EARLY THEY, THEY PARTNERED WITH THE CITY OF ARLINGTON, THE CITY OF FORT WORTH, TRINITY RIVER, IN, IN AN CONTRACT WITH THE REGIONAL WATER DISTRICT FOR SURFACE WATER SUPPLY.
AND, AND THAT KIND OF SET THE GROUND IN THE FUTURE OF HOW MANFIELD GONNA GROW.
FAST FORWARD TO, TO MY TIME IN MANFIELD, YOU KNOW, WHEN I STARTED WITH THE, WITH THE CITY, IT WAS AT A POPULATION OF ABOUT 25,000.
TODAY FROM THE WATER SUPPLY PERSPECTIVE, WE SERVE CUSTOMER, THE TOTAL CUSTOMER POPULATION OF ABOUT 60,000.
SO IN IN THAT, IN THAT TIME, IT, IT'S SIGNIFICANTLY GROWN.
AND YOU KNOW, I, ABOUT 2015 WHEN I WAS ONE DIRECTOR OF UTILITIES, I SAW A, I SAW A NEED FOR HOW DO WE, HOW DO WE MAINTAIN WATER AFFORDABILITY AS A CITY AND CONTINUE TO MEET THE, MEET THE GROWTH THAT WE'RE, WE'RE, WE'RE SEEING IN THE AREA.
AND WE, WE HAD A COUPLE WHOLESALE CONTRACTS, WHICH HAVE PROVED TO BE THE, THE MECHANISM THAT HAS ALLOWED FOR AFFORDABILITY, AFFORDABILITY FROM BOTH THE, THE RETAIL SELF BACK.
SO WE'VE GROWN FROM, IN 2015 WE WERE, WE WERE AT AN AVERAGE DAY POPULATION OF ABOUT 80 G AND WE'RE, WE'RE AT AN AVERAGE STATE DEMAND OF, OF RIGHT AROUND 19 G.
BUT IT, IT IS IMPORTANT TO, WHEN I SAY THAT, THAT AS A CITY, WE'RE NOT PLANNING FOR THAT 19 PLANNING FOR OVER 40 MG EVERY YEAR BECAUSE THERE IS A PEAK DEMAND THAT IS, THAT IS IMPOSED UPON US LARGELY BY, UH, IRRIGATION USE AND RESIDENTIAL IRRIGATION USE.
SO WE'RE ALL THE INFRASTRUCTURE THINK ONE OF THE IMPORTANT THINGS I'VE DISCUSSIONS WATER IS, IS AS CHEAP AS IT'S GONNA BE TODAY AS IT IS AS IT'S EVER GONNA BE.
AND THE WAY THAT WE CONTINUE TO MANAGE HOW, HOW EXPENSIVE WATER IS, IS HAVE THE ABILITY TO SPREAD THAT OUT OVER OVER MORE BILLABLE UNITS.
AND, AND I THINK THAT IT IS IMPORTANT WHEN YOU THINK OF REGIONALIZATION, HOW YOU CAN CONTINUE TO SPREAD THAT, SPREAD THAT COST OUT.
I KNOW FOR US, WE'RE LOOKING AT, WE HAVE ANOTHER WATER TREATMENT PLAN OUR, IN OUR, IN OUR FUTURE.
AND IT IS WITHIN THE NEXT 10 YEARS PROBABLY, AND IT'S LARGE LIKELY GONNA LARGELY BE A WHOLESALE PLANT.
SO WE ANTICIPATE HAVING PARTNERS REGIONALLY ON THE, ON THE INITIAL CONSTRUCTION OF THAT PLANT SO THAT WE CAN LOOK AT HOW WE'RE GONNA, HOW WE'RE GONNA CAPTURE THAT INITIAL COST FOR THE LONG, THE LONG TERM.
OKAY? SO I HEARD THE SYSTEM WE HAD THE AMOUNT ACCESS TO IS JUST NOT ENOUGH.
UH, AND THE SCARCITY, SCARCITY IS JUST DRIVING THIS KIND OF THING.
SO IT MAKES IT EXPENSIVE IS NOT THE ACTUAL LIQUID STUFF, IT'S
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THE, IT'S ALL OF THE INFRASTRUCTURE.AND AS YOU HEARD THROUGHOUT THIS MORNING, WE'RE HAVING TO THIS COST ISSUE THAT JUST, JUST LIKE, UM, WE'VE BEEN HEARING FROM THE PANELISTS, YOU JUST CAN'T PICK IT UP ALONE.
YOU GOTTA HAVE A LARGER, LARGER BASE.
SO REALLY TAKES TO THE NEXT STEP, RIGHT? SO WE HEARD THE CONTEXT WITHIN EACH YEAR IS FORMED.
WHEN YOU THINK BACK TO THAT TIME EACH, EACH COMMUNITY UNIQUE, EACH REASON IS UNIQUE.
EACH SET OF THIS CORE LEADERSHIP IS UNIQUE.
SO CAN YOU TALK ABOUT, THINK ABOUT THAT TIME WHEN YOU WERE PERFORMING, WHAT WERE THE ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS THAT ALLOWED IT TO HAPPEN THAT IF THOSE ELEMENTS WERE NOT IN PLACE, YOU WOULD NOT SOMETIMES HAPPEN.
AND HE WAS IN THE CITY OF TEMPLE, THE CITY AND HE WAS A SMALL RURAL WATER SUPPLIES AS THE CITY WAS ANNEXING.
SO AS DID THAT, HE HAD RESOURCES, MANY OF THOSE WHOLE THAT GET WATER FROM THE TWO, UH, UNDER.
AND THEN THOSE ALSO THAT WATER.
AND THE ELEMENT WAS THAT THEY SAW THAT THERE WAS A DECLINE IN OUR GROUND.
WE ALREADY WERE EXPERIENCING, I TELL HIM I MAKE YOU CREDIBLE SHOP, THERE'S NOTHING MORE THAN THE FACT YOU GREW UP AREA.
I MEAN HE KNOWS HOW TO WORK, HE'S HAD HARD DAY LONG HOURS, BUT SCIENTIFIC APPROACH, HE AND I, THAT WHAT YOU PEOPLE SAY, CAREFUL, FIND OUT SOMETHING THEY WANNA KNOW.
AND THREE BELL GALLON SOUTHWEST COUNTY GALLONS FROM UNDER COST A LOT OF MONEY.
AND THE, AND SO WE AND ALL, ALL WE JUST, WE HAD NO LAWS IN SOUTHWEST WE OTHER THAN GEORGETOWN AUTHORITY.
THE FIRST WAS BRING EVERYBODY TOGETHER, 13 ENTITIES FUNDED AND INDEPTH STUDY OF THE PURPOSE OF OFFICER RECOVERY, OUR CONSULTANTS AND UH, UH, L SAID, LET'S GO FIND SOMEBODY DIFFERENT, BUT WE WANT PART IT ALL EQUALLY COMMISSION.
AND WE HIRED IN AS AND WHEN WE REALIZED, AND THE CONTRACTS, EVEN THOUGH WE HAD JUST EXPERIENCED 2012, STILL THREE OF THOSE WHOLE 12, AND THEN THE OTHER LARGE ENTITY HAD ALL CONTRACT, SO CONDITIONS IF WE THAT WATER AND STORE.
SO WE FOUND OUT IN THAT ANALYSIS WE HAVE 31 WATER 18 RULE WATER SUPPLIES THAT OWNS THEIR OWN WHOLESALER.
ALL OF THOSE 18 EXCEPT ONE 10%, THE 35 TO OVER 50% OFF.
AND, AND WHAT HAPPENS IS THEY CAN'T MEET THEIR NEEDS BECAUSE DENOMIN IS WHAT MY BROTHER SAYS.
WHAT WHAT'S YOUR, AND I DON'T,
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THAT DOESN'T HAVE CAPACITY OR WILL RESOLVE THAT.SO MOST OF THOSE NOW CAME TOGETHER AND THE JUDGE SAID IF WE LOOK FOR A A SOLUTION, WE CAN HAVE THIS THREE STOOL.
THE THREE STOOL IS TWO DIFFERENT ANALOGIES.
THE FIRST ONE IS UH, INFRASTRUCTURE, AG INFRASTRUCTURE.
WHAT CAN WE DO ONCE WE GET OUR GOVERNMENT WE CAN HELP THEM.
AND YES, THEY SECOND ONE INVESTING IN THE SYSTEMS FOR HOOD ALREADY IN LEADERSHIP, UH, WHICH WHICH IS OUR LARGEST MEMBER OF THE ALLIANCE THAT PROVIDES WATER FOR 3 75 PEOPLE FOR EVEN IN OTHER COUNTIES.
UH, AND THEN THE THIRD LEG IS AN UN UH, IT'S NOT APPRECIATED, BUT IT'S BUYING WATER RESOURCES AND BRINGING IT IN FROM THE EAST TO THE WEST LAND THAT HEADQUARTERS, TEMPLE TEXAS HAVE LARGE RANCH IN THE DC THAT HAS GROW WATER AND THAT WATER, HE'S LOOKING AT IT AND, AND AND BEING PART OF THE SOLUTION.
THAT'S HARD CONVERSATION AND THAT THAT'S PART OF THE THREE SCHOOL, BUT IT'S NOT THE ANSWER TODAY.
AND I TOLD IAN, I'LL MEET THIS, UH, THERE WAS A CONCERN THAT TO SET DOWN 13 THOSE CITIES IN THE WATER, THE LEADERSHIP WITH WHO WROTE A LETTER AND THEN THEY ALL ONE DOCUMENT.
AND AS STRONG BELIEVER IN, IN TRIALS, I BELIEVE THAT WHEN YOU HAVE LANGUAGE AS A GOVERNMENT ENTITY, THAT MEANS TOO.
AND SO THAT IF WE, YOU THIS WILL HAPPEN.
AND THAT'S, AND WHEN YOU HAVE LEADERSHIP LIKE COURT AND OUR JUDGES WHO PEOPLE TRUST, THEY TRUST AND THEY'LL, IF THEY CAN STAY AT THE TABLE AND HELP HER, THE CAST, IT REALLY HELP YOU MOVE FORWARD.
IF YOU TRULY WANNA HAVE A PDU OR REGIONAL, AND I SAY THAT AS A PERSON TO PART OF THE AHEAD, HOW DID YOU USED TO, AND HE, HE HE IN THAT TIME THERE CREATE THE PROCESS OF CREATION AND HE KEPT TELLING US OVER AND OVER, YOU DEFINE YOUR PROBLEM, IT YOU'RE PROBLEM, PROBLEM.
THEN YOU CAN GET YOUR STATEMENT OF YOUR MISSION.
WHY DO YOU EXIST AND YOUR VISION, WHERE ARE YOU GOING WITH THIS? WHAT'S YOUR PURPOSE? YOU GOT WATER SYSTEMS OF WATER LOSS STUFF, RIGHT? IMPORTANT.
ALL THE LESS THAN 10% PRETTY GOOD, RIGHT? SO THAT IS UNIQUE TO THAT PARTICULAR SO LET'S GO DOWN LINE JUST TO WHEN YOU FORM THAT, UM, WHAT WERE THE ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS HAD TO BE PLACE THAT LED LEGISLATION, HOW THAT, SO BASICALLY ALL PEOPLE, YOU GOTTA HAVE LEADERS IN THOSE COMMUNITIES THAT ARE WILLING TO STEP UP AND PULL COMMUNITY IS TREMENDOUSLY UNDER HIS ROLE IN HELPING COUNTY.
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THERE'S A LOT OF INTEREST.THERE'S A LOT OF PEOPLE LIVE HERE.
SO SIMILAR TO WHAT YEARS AGO, C WAS ABOUT 40,000 PEOPLE, WHICH IS PROBABLY, AND YOU LOOK AT IT, EVERYBODY THE OF DIRECTION.
SO CONCERN ABOUT WORKING THAT CITY.
SMALL POPULATION OF 40, RIGHT? UM, SO WHAT WOULD HAPPEN? RECOGNIZ KNEW IN FAVOR, SO THEY WERE HUMBLE.
WE, WE'VE BEEN AROUND OVER 20 YEARS, FOUR SPLIT VOTES.
WE 13 FOUR VOTES SPLIT BECAUSE THERE'S A PURPOSE ON THAT BOARD.
WE DON'T, WE FIGURE OUT WE GET THE SOLUTION THAT THE GROUP CAN BECAUSE THEY ALL RECOGNIZE THAT BEST.
SO THAT WAS SO DIFFICULT, RIGHT? WORK.
AND SO WE SPEND A LOT OF TIME IMPORTANT FOR EVERYBODY MESSAGES THE SAME PAGE ENTITY.
I THINK FOR, FOR THE CITY OF MANVILLE, YOU KNOW, OF COURSE THE CITY'S THERE TO SERVE THE CITIZENS AND, AND WE WANT BE A VIBRANT COMMUNITY, BUT IT GOES WITHOUT SAYING THAT WATER, THE MOST IMPORTANT RESOURCES AND FACTORS HAVING HAVING A VIBRANT COMMUNITY.
I GO BACK TO SOMETHING THAT SAID EARLIER IN THAT, THAT THAT'S AROUND PLEX AND WHERE THE CITY OF MAN FALLS IN THAT.
AND WE, WE, WE, WE WERE IN THAT SPACE AND ONE OF THE, ONE OF THE CONVERSATIONS EARLY ON THAT I HAD WITH OUR CITY COUNCIL AND CONSTITUENTS, HOW DO WE CONTINUE TO GROW AND, AND SEE WHERE THE CITY IS GOING SO THAT WE CAN, WE CAN, WE CAN ACCEPT THIS GROWTH THAT'S HAPPENING AND ALLOWS FOR THE, THE TAX RATE TO HAVE SOME, SOME MONEY BUT ALSO NOT TO, NOT TO ON THE UTILITY CUSTOMERS AND, AND HAVE THEIR, HAVE THAT ADDITIONAL BURDEN TO FALL ON.
SO I THINK THAT WE LOOK AT WATER AFFORDABILITY AND WE, WE TRY TO TRY TO ASSESS WHAT THAT MEANS.
AND AND THAT'S SOMETHING DIFFERENT FOR, THAT'S, THAT'S NOT SOMETHING THAT EVEN IN MY POSITION, I CAN, I CAN, I CAN PUT MY FINGER ON WHAT WATER AFFORDABILITY IS, BUT I CAN, I CAN LOOK AT IT, WE CAN, WE CAN DESIGN RATES A NUMBER OF WAYS TO ACCOMMODATE DIFFERENT, DIFFERENT, UM, DIFFERENT ECONOMIC AND WHAT PEOPLE CAN AFFORD.
BUT THE, THE REALITY IS, IS WE, WE LOOKED AT HOW DO WE POSITION OURSELVES WHERE WE'RE AT AND BE ABLE TO BE ABLE TO CAPITALIZE ON SOME OF OUR CAPACITY WITHIN OUR SYSTEM.
WE HAVE 45 MILLION GALLONS PER DAY WATER TREATMENT PLANT.
AND WHEN I, WHEN I TOOK OWNER, I TOOK THE RESPONSIBILITY OF, OF THIS JOB IN 2015, THERE WAS A LOT OF CAPACITY THAT WAS, THAT WAS STRANDED, THAT WAS, WAS NOT USED FROM A, FROM A AVERAGE DAY PERSPECTIVE, WE WERE BUILT TO HANDLE THOSE, THOSE LARGE HEATS.
SO WE REALLY HAD TO GET UNDER CONTROL A THINGS, YOU GOTTA GET CONTROL.
CONSERVATION HAS TO BE ONE OF THE TOP PRIORITIES OF HOW WE CONTROL THAT, THAT
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THE SIZING OF INFRASTRUCTURE AND EVERYTHING.BUT ALSO HOW DO WE, HOW DO WE CAPITALIZE ON, ON WHAT WE'VE ALREADY BUILT AND THE INFRASTRUCTURE THAT IS IN PLACE.
SO WE, WE'VE WORKED WITH A FEW REGIONAL PARTNERS THAT, THAT ARE, THAT ARE IN AREAS THAT ARE EXPERIENCING GROWTH.
EARLY ON I DIDN'T KNOW HOW FAST THAT WAS GONNA GROW AND, AND TO WHAT EXTENT, BUT WE, WE BUILT WHOLESALE AGREEMENTS WITH THOSE CUSTOMERS WOULD BE UNDERSTANDING THAT WE WOULD, WE WOULD BE ABLE, THAT TOTAL COST OUT OVER THAT HELPS BOTH THAT, THAT HELPS BOTH OUR RETAIL CUSTOMERS AND OUR WHOLESALE CUSTOMERS.
AND THEN ALSO THE BIG THING WE WORRY ABOUT IN THE FUTURE IS, IS WE KNOW THE GROWTH IS COMING.
WE DO HAVE TO PAY FOR THAT UPFRONT.
THERE IS A COST THAT THE CURRENT CUSTOMERS WILL BEAR FOR THE FUTURE INFRASTRUCTURE NEEDED TO SERVE, SERVE THESE, THESE, UH, THIS, THIS D THIS GROWTH THAT WE, SO HAVING REGIONAL PARTNERS, US BEING A, A PARTNER WITH REGIONAL WATER DISTRICT AND WORKING WITH THEM ON, ON HOW WATER SUPPLIES GROW TO MEET, MEET FUTURE NEEDS, ALL THOSE THINGS ARE, ARE IMPORTANT FOR US TO, TO BE ABLE TO DO AS A REGIONAL PARTNER AND NOT JUST A, NOT JUST THE CITY.
THAT, THAT HAS A FEW WHOLESALE CUSTOMERS AND KNOWING THAT WE'RE PART OF A BIGGER, A BIGGER GROUP IS, IS IS REALLY IMPORTANT, MAN, CITIZENS TO OUR, OUR LEADERSHIP.
AND BEFORE I KEEP ASKING QUESTIONS, QUESTION, ALRIGHT, SO ONE OF THE THINGS THAT KEEPS COMING UP I WANNA WANNA POINT OUT IS THIS WHOLE, THIS WHOLE IDEA OF RELATIONSHIPS, THIS WHOLE IDEA OF PARTNERSHIPS, UM, LONG TERM OR SHORT TERM, WHETHER, HEY, YOU KNOW, WHAT WE HAD IN THE PAST TIME TO SET THAT ASIDE BECAUSE THERE'S BIGGER HEARING.
THIS, THIS THING RUN THROUGH HERE, IT'S ALL ABOUT PERSON, PERSON THAT'S RELATIONSHIP ESSENTIAL.
YOU SAID, YOU SAID SOMETHING TO US PREPAR FOR THIS.
I THOUGHT IT WAS A GREAT QUOTE.
UM, YOU SAID REGIONALIZATION IS NOT A SILVER BULLET ORATION HIM.
UH, WE WERE ACTUALLY DRIVING UP, WE INTELLECTUALLY, AND I DON'T EVEN RECALL, DAVE MIGHT BE A BAD IDEA, KNOW, AND UH, SO WE WENT TO ON UP THERE WE'RE DRAFT THE ANNUAL LEGISLATION.
PEOPLE ARE LOOKING FOR THIS RESOLUTION OVERNIGHT.
AND HE, HE'S SO ARTICULATE, HE SAID MULTIPLE TIMES, NOT TOMORROW.
WE HAVE IMPORTANTLY HE SAID, NOTABLE, ITS NOT PERFECT AND WE NOT PERFECT, WE COME DOING THAT.
WE HAVE 20 ENTITIES THAT ARE ALREADY APPLICATIONS TO THE WHOLE CONCEPT ORGANIZATION.
HOW MANY FOLKS DO YOU HAVE? AND WHAT I'M AT BASED ON OUR RELATIONSHIP WITH OUR ATTORNEYS WITH CLEAR WHO ALSO TO THE CITY, WHICH IS, AND THERE'S OFFICE.
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IT AND, AND I'M OLD SCHOOL BEING COUNTY AGE WORK, EIGHT COUNTIES OUT COUNTY, RARE COUNTY IN THE FISH FARM.SO I MYSELF, 59 LONG, BUT MY DAY STARTED WITH WHAT I MAKE SURE PEOPLE THAT I SERVE, UH, WERE SATISFIED.
AND THAT STARTED WITH, AND THEN I DID, YOU KNOW, KNOW AND DOWN IN MY HOMETOWN IN 2001.
THE, THE TRUTH IS IT TAKES THOSE KIND OF, AND USUALLY START COURT BECAUSE USUALLY WHAT YOU FIND IN COURT, YOU REASONABLE USUALLY A VERY LIMITED CONVERSATION.
AND HOW MANY TIMES WE HAVE UNREASONABLE CASES COME.
AND SO I I IT STARTS HOMETOWN LEADERSHIP, WHICH IS THE, THE FOUNDATION OF GT AND THAT'S WHO I WORK.
AND THE LAST THING I WANNA SAY THOUGH IS WHY IN THE HECK DID WE HAVE GC THE LARGEST CONVEYOR? IT JUST LOGICAL, THIS IS A VERY IMPORTANT, SO WHO, WHO THIS, IS IT JUST UTILITIES? WHO IS IT FOR AS A STAFF? THE JUDGE KEPT SAYING WE NEED CLEAR WATER AS ONE OF THE RENTERS.
BUT, BUT MY CONCERN WAS WHAT HAPPENS IF YOU AN ENTITY COMES TO CLEARWATER GROUND? WELL, AND SO WE WERE ABLE TO WORK LEGISLATION IF THERE WAS GROUND, EITHER THE TWO COUNTIES, THE G WOULD OUT AND, AND WITH A HARD CONFLICT OUT, WHICH IS GOOD FOR EVERYBODY, BUT WHY DO YOU HAVE THE GOVERNMENT? WELL, GOVERNMENTS MANAGEMENT PEOPLE PLACE TO SAY YES, THEY HAVE TO PUT IN FEES.
IF THEY'RE NOT GONNA BE WATER, THEY'RE NOT GONNA HAVE PAY ANY.
THE THIRD IS WHETHER THEY, SUCH AS, BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY THAN MUST, THE KIDS HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY SEAT AND THEY, THEY SEE THAT.
WHAT I LIKE ABOUT THAT IS THEY'RE IN, THEY ALSO ARE, I HEAR OUR COUNTY JUDGE ANDERS, WE GO IN AND ANALYZE A AND THEY CERTIFICATION BEFORE HE, SO THE, THE COURT WOULD SAY, OUR ROLE IS NOT TO SATISFY, EVEN THOUGH APPRECIATE THE EXPECTATION OF THAT FUTURE HOMEOWNER AND THAT LANDLORD SUFFICIENT THROUGH THE MORTGAGE PERIOD 30 YEARS AND WHERE D HAS I I NOT THE RIGHT, THAT'S WHY THREE OF US ARE ON THAT.
AND OTHER OF COURSE, TWO QUESTIONS HERE.
PERSONAL PARKER COUNTY IS JUST OVER 900 SQUARE MILES LI 10, 15% IS IN WELL OVER 50% OF NEW TAX VALUE GROWTH IS INCORPORATED.
AREAS HAS PANEL EXPERIENCE THAT DOES THIS AFFECT SAY SITUATION A LITTLE DIFFERENT.
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AREAS, IT WAS ALL WITHIN, UH, CERTIFICATED AREAS THAT HAVE BEEN SUPPLIED BY THE WHITE CORPORATION, SOMEBODY RESPONSIBLE SITUATION, UH, HAVE THAT WEREN'T, I THINK FOR THERE'S, THERE IS UNINCORPORATED EXTRA JURISDICTION WHERE WE'VE ALWAYS PLANNED AS A CITY TO, TO SERVE.I THINK THAT RECENTLY WE'VE SEEN SOME, THERE, WE'VE SEEN SOME GROWTH THAT'S HAPPENED OR THAT LOOKS TO HAPPEN WITHIN OUR EJ BUT ALSO IN THE, IN THE UNDER UNDEVELOPED AREA AROUND OUR CITY.
AND, AND THERE ARE ALREADY CERTIFICATED UTILITIES THAT HOLD THE RIGHTS TO SERVE IN THOSE AREAS, BUT THAT DOESN'T MEAN THAT THAT THE SUPPLY IS THERE FOR THEM.
ONE OF THE REASONS I KIND ME WHERE WE'RE CURRENTLY IN DISCUSSION FOR A SECOND WATER TREAT COMPLAINT, WE'RE TALKING ABOUT HOW WE CAN SHARE IN THAT INITIAL INVESTMENT WITH THESE OTHER, OTHER UTILITIES THAT, THAT HOLD CERTIFICATE UNINCORPORATED AREAS, GET A BUY FROM THAT PERSPECTIVE ON A, A CAPACITY DEMAND AND HELP OFFSET THE COST OF THAT, OF THAT PLAN.
AND I, I THINK THAT THAT'S, THAT'S ONE, ONE WAY WE'VE LOOKED AT IT, BUT WE'RE ALSO, WE'RE ALSO LOOKING AT IT IN A FINANCIAL, ALL THE CUSTOMER FROM A RETAIL PERSPECTIVE BECAUSE THERE'S STILL AN OPERATIONAL COST TO TO RUNNING THAT.
SO, BUT I THINK THERE, I, I THINK WE ARE SEEING A LOT OF GROWTH IN UNINCORPORATED AREAS AROUND US.
WE, WE'VE EXPERIENCED IT WHERE MUD AND MUDS ARE, ARE GOOD FOR DEVELOPERS BECAUSE THEY, THEY FINANCE ALL THE INFRASTRUCTURE NEEDED THAT THOSE INVESTMENTS TO NEED TO TRICK DOWN TO SUPPLIER.
SO THAT THE, I'LL JUST ADD TO SO THAT THERE IS UH, THE 31 COVERED, BUT UNFORTUNATELY IT 12, THE CITY OF GEORGETOWN WORKED WITH UH, UH, THE UH, AND THEY HAD NINE ELECTED OFFICIALS REPRESENTING 'EM ALL AT LARGE.
THE LARGEST ECN THAT I COULD FIND IN THE STATE TRAIL DISTRICT, UH, THAT THAT SUN CITY WAS, WAS CUR LIMITS LIMITS.
SO FIVE PEOPLE GOT ELECTED, THEY CLOSED THE DOORS OF THE ORGANIZATION AFTER THEIR FIRST MEETING AND CONVEYED THE, THE CITY OF GEORGETOWN, WHICH WE TALKED ABOUT GEORGETOWN, WHICH IS I 35, TO UH, LEAD THIS RIVER TO UP THE WEST PREDOMINANTLY CORRECT.
AND, AND BRAD, THAT THAT AREA IS, IS WHERE LARGE DEVELOPMENT, THAT AREA THAT CPW IS THEMSELVES THAT, BUT THEY CAN'T TALK TO ABOUT IT.
SO, BUT THEY DIDN'T APPROACH US.
SO WE'RE JUST TO SEE HOW MANY PEOPLE BUY ENTITY TABLE AND WE WOULD DO THAT, BUT WE DUNNO FOR SURE WHAT'S GONNA HAPPEN.
BUT IT IS, IT IS A, IT IS WHERE WE CONVERSATION QUESTION, WHAT PARTS DO THREE 80 AND 3 81 ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AREA DISPLAY IN THE REGIONALIZATION OF THE WATER SUPPLIES, WHAT WOULD IT LOOK LIKE IN CITIES AND COUNTIES? ALL FUNDING, WE'VE ALWAYS, ALL OUR EFFORTS AT THE END OF THE DAY, IT'S BY THE WATER CHARGED BY OTHER, UH,
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WAYS TO DO THAT'S A DISCUSSION LATER ON BOARD.SOME OF THE WE'VE LOT THOSE I NOT YOU HAVE THOSE METERS HOOK.
YEAH, WHEN YOU CALLED COST OF SERVICE, THERE'S NO PROBLEM UNLESS YOU
NOT HAVE PROFIT COST OF SERVICE.
AND IN MY EXPERIENCE WAS THAT THOSE SEEKING SERVICE, WE WERE GOVERN BY BOARD TRUSTEES APPOINTED BY, BUT WITHIN CITY GOVERNMENT THERE WAS.
AND SO THAT'S WHERE TYPICALLY THOSE WOULD PROVIDE SOME TYPE OF REBATE.
NO, I I THINK IT'S JUST LIKE SAID THERE, WE'VE, UM, WITHIN THE CITY, I THINK THERE NEEDS ARE PAYING THEIR FAIR SHARE THE IMPACT TO WATER SYSTEMS. I UH, AND THEN WHEN, WHEN WE GET LEGISLATION, MORE CONDITIONS ON IMPACT FEES SO IMPORTANT, ANOTHER INVESTMENT IN THAT INITIAL INFRASTRUCTURE THAT'S NEEDED.
REMEMBER WE SAID WE HAVE ALL ON OUR CURRENT POINT, UH, WAGE ABLE HAS TO ANYWAY, WE'RE AT END.
OKAY, THIS THE MOST RELEVANT, SO AROUND BEEN 20 YEARS, I ALSO AND UM, INTRODUCE MY CURRENTLY DISTRICT RIVER OF WE'RE GONNA BE TALKING ABOUT.
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AND UH, I WANTED KIND FOR THIS REALLY KIND ON DIFFERENT THEMES THAT WE'VE TALKED ABOUT THAT BUT THERE, AND SO WE'RE GONNA GO THROUGH EACH OF EACH OF THESE.UM, SO FIRST A SO NOT SITUATION YOU THIS PRESENTATION MENTION I THAT TRAJECTORY MONTHS, SOME OF THAT, UM, OVER THE LAST 20 YEARS YOU SEE THAT LARGE ON TOP OF THAT, THIS IS NOT NECESSARILY IS WE DEEPER.
SO HAVING TO COST AND NOT JUST BECAUSE 10 YEARS BUT OF YOU, BUT THEN FOR AGENCY PROHIBIT TO BE ABLE TO PURSUE THAT AND WE STATE PLAN TO DIFFERENT COLORS THAT YOU SEE.
SO THE UM, BLUE BAR THAT IS SURFACE WATER, UH, THE GREEN IS AND THE GREEN YOU CAN SEE NOT OBVIOUSLY HOW COST OR HOW THAT NUMBER GOES UP, BUT IF YOU LOOK AT THE SPLIT IN DEMAND AND WHAT THAT LOOKS LIKE, START TO SEE SURFACE ON BEING ABLE TO BUILD THE SUPPLY.
AND IF WE WANNA BE ABLE TO LOOK AT UH, WHAT THAT LIKE IN THE STATE WATER PLAN, THIS IS KIND A FASCINATING, SORRY ACTUALLY, BUT RECENTLY ENGINEERING.
SO SAID, HEY, YOU TAKING UP THIS IS THAT YOU SEE THERE, THAT IS THE, UM, THAT'S THE STATE WATER PLAN DATA FROM THE 2022 PLAN.
SO YOU SEE THAT, UM, THEN YOU LOOK AT THE CURRENT STATE WATER PLAN GOING ON.
THE WE DO HAVE, WE'RE NOT ALSO CHANGING THE ASSUMPTION GREATLY HOWEVER IS IF YOU AT THE OF THE 2020, WE'RE NOT ABOUT 20 YEARS, WE'RE NOT TALKING ABOUT 30 YEARS, FIVE YEARS LOOKING.
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THAT COST IS NOT A LOT.WE'RE OBVIOUSLY THIS IS COST THAT EACH ENTITY CAN UH, TAKE ON THEIR OWN.
UM, WE TALKED ABOUT CHALLENGES OBVIOUSLY COUNTY AND THE CHALLENGE YOU HAVE IS THERE IS GOING ON INCORPORATED AREAS AND THOSE AREAS OBVIOUSLY RELY PRIMARILY ON OWN WATER.
AND SO NOT ONLY ARE BUT PICTURE OF WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE NOW.
I THINK IT'S REALLY INTERESTING TO SEE HOW THIS OVER 20 YEARS, 2020 AND THEN THE THE LAST KIND THAT WE GAPS IN THERE AND WE DON'T REALLY HAVE ANY TYPE OF BUSINESS TO BE THOSE CONVERSATIONS, UH, TO BE ABLE TO THOSE, UH, THOSE.
AND SO I KIND OF WANTED TO PART THAT WE HAVE, WE TALKED A LOT ABOUT REGIONAL AND UM, IT IS PROVEN BY OBVIOUSLY HEARD.
UM, YOU BUT IT REALLY ON MY WHOLE CAREER THAT STARTED YEAR OR TWO BEFORE.
UM, AND SO THAT OVERALL REGIONAL LEVEL, WE TAKE THAT DOWN COUNTY AND THAT WAS ONE OF THE, THE CHALLENGES STUDY AND THAT WAS LOOKING AT WE'RE ALSO NOT PRESCRIBED FOR CERTAIN METHODOLOGY POPULATION, WATER, ET THE THING AT THE END THOUGH IS THAT THE END WE, IT IS COMING OUT EVEN SOLUTIONS, THEY'RE NOT.
THEY'RE TO WATER TO BE ABLE TO PROVIDE THOSE AND THAT 2020 REGIONAL ENTITY TO START WORKING ON COUNTY AND THEN THE PLAN AND FUNDING.
UM, SO, SO THAT LEADS US TO UH, THIS OPPORTUNITY FOR REGIONAL COLLABORATION.
HAVE WE TALKED ONE, WAS THERE OPTIONS THAT WERE AVAILABLE? REGIONAL ENTITY? UH, ONE IS, UM, BUT YOU KNOW, THE CHALLENGES WE HAD LAST YEAR, ATION PROCESS IS LEGISLATIVELY SO CONFINED TO LEGISLATIVE, IT WAS TO AGENCY.
ONE OF THE REASONS THAT WE HAD THAT DIRECTION IS THAT WE COGNIZE, THERE WERE A LOT OF KEY DECISIONS THAT NEEDED TO BE WORKED THROUGH AT WORKERS AT CONVERSATIONS.
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SO AT HOWEVER KIND OF SIDE BY, UM, WE'RE TALKING ABOUT A, AN ENTITY THAT GOVERN IN AREAS WE WERE IS THAT A WATER DISTRICT? UM, THE TAX AUTHORITY IS DETERMINED BY THE LEGISLATION, WHETHER PASSES OR NOT DISCUSS TODAY, REALLY GOING THROUGH OPTIONS TO IDENTIFY REGIONAL.I THINK THE SLIDE PREVIOUSLY, UH, HIGHLIGHTS THAT WHEN IT COMES DOWN TO IMPLEMENTATION, UM, A PUBLIC UTILITY AGENCY CAN REALLY DO ALMOST EVERYTHING THAT YOU WOULD NEED SOLUTION.
THEY CAN, UH, DEVELOP A GOVERNANCE STRUCTURE.
THEY CAN COSTS, THEY CAN DESIGN TO CONSTRUCT AND PROCURE ALL THE INFRASTRUCTURE WATER AND THEY OPERATE WATER INFRASTRUCTURE.
SO REALLY ALL THE KEY INGREDIENTS THAT REGIONAL ARE AVAILABLE UNDER STATE LAW.
THE CREATION PROCESS FOR A PUBLIC AGENCY IS ALSO SOMEWHAT STREAMLINED.
UH, AND COMPARE IT TO GOING, HAVING CONVERSATIONS WITH KEY STAKEHOLDERS SHOULD HAVE BEEN EMPHASIS IS REALLY ON, UH, WHAT ARE, WHAT ARE OUR PROBLEMS AND WHAT ARE WE TRYING TO SOLVE INSTEAD OF, UH, AGENCY FORMATION, IT'S REALLY CREATED BY PUBLIC ENTITIES ADOPTING CONCURRENT ORDINANCES AND PUBLICATION REALLY, UH, IF THE, IF THE PUBLIC IS, IS NOT INCLINED THAT SUPPORT THE CREATION OF THE AGENCY OR THEIR PARTICULAR POLITIC PROCESS.
PROCESS WHERE THESE VOTERS AND THEN PARTICIPATION IN THE BE SUBJECT TO, THERE IS A PROCESS THERE FOR VOTERS TO, UH, PUT THE BRAKES, UH, ON THE PROCESS.
THEY DON'T APPEAR SUBDIVISION.
BUT THE FLIP SIDE OF THAT BY THE, UH, ONE OF THE BIG UH, ISSUES TALK ABOUT ALL FRAMEWORK ISSUES ARE CONVERSATIONS THAT NEEDS TO BE ABOUT WHAT, WHAT, WHAT REGIONAL.
SO UH, OBVIOUSLY MEMBERSHIP IS A BIG ISSUE.
WE TALKED A LOT ABOUT THE, UH, AREAS OUTSIDE CITIES AND DISTRICTS AREAS.
SO REALLY THE COUNTY, THAT IS ONE OF THE FUNDAMENTAL ISSUES IS, IS
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UM, THERE ARE ALSO CONSIDERATIONS ABOUT WHOLESALE VERSUS UH, RETAIL TYPE SERVICE.UH, HOW, WHAT SORT OF POWER DO MEMBERS OFFER US.
STAFF IS ALSO AS WE HEARD EARLIER, KEEPING UP WITH PUBLIC EDUCATION REQUIRE DEDICATION AND SOME LEVEL STATE LAW REQUIRE TO BE PUBLIC.
SO THE CITIES, UH, UH, AND OTHER TYPE OF DISTRICTS CAN'T BE MEMBERS OF THE THAT ISSUE RUN DISCUSSION.
UM, THAT TOPIC IS REALLY WHOLESALE VERSUS RETAIL SERVICE.
AGAIN, PROBLEM REGIONAL SOLUTIONS.
MORE TO A LOT OF RESOURCES TO EXISTING RETAIL SO THAT THEY CAN DEAL WITH THE GAPS JUST GOING THROUGH CONTRACT AND UH, REALLY IMPORTANTLY, THEY ISSUE THEIR DEATH SUPPORTED BY, UH, FOR EXAMPLE A A SUBDIVISION BUT OUR HAVE THAT AN AGENCY CAN'T GET INTO
SO A LOT OF WELLS AND, AND WHAT POWER EXERCISE EVIDENCE, THERE ARE A NUMBER OF OPTIONS AVAILABLE AND STATE LAW.
SO I'LL JUST SAY THAT TO BE DISCUSSED, AGENCY GOVERN, THIS IS ALWAYS, UH, ONE OF INTERESTING TOPICS BEFORE YOU HAVE PRODUCT TO SELL WHOLESALE RATES, HOW YOU OPERATIONS AND THAT MEMBERSHIP CONTRIBUTION BEFORE YOU
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LEVEL BE NECESSARY.THIS, SO YOU HEARD SO TERM C CERTIFIC AND SO THAT MEANS THAT THAT IS THAT WATER PROVID WATER ANYWHERE THAT YOU SEE IN THAT TAN AREA WANNA CALL COLOR IN BETWEEN UM, THAT INCORPORATED AND THAT AREA, THAT AREA.
UM, THAT'S ONE OF THE BIG GAPS IN ADDITION TO OBVIOUSLY, UM, HELPING SUPPORT DIFFERENT SYSTEMS. UM, BUT THAT IS ONE GAPS WE'RE TRYING TO UM, BEING ABLE COST TO BE ABLE TO GET MORE WATER TO MAKE THAT PIPE, ET CETERA GOES DOWN EACH OF THOSE.
UM, AGAIN, SOMETHING THAT IS GOVERN BY AND CUSTOMER THROUGH WATER SUPPLY THAT POWERFUL.
UM, AND THEN AND DEFINE THE, THAT WORKS BEST FOR THAT.
WE ON THE UM, THIS OBVIOUSLY FOR THE, ALRIGHT, SO, SO ONE OF THE QUESTIONS IS PRIMARILY FROM THE WATER PLAN, THAT NUMBER REPLACEMENT.
UH, YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT UM, THE COUNTY ASSISTANCE MANAGE? THAT'S AN ONGOING DISCUSSION AND QUESTION ON IS BEING ABLE TO HAVE, COMMUNICATE THOSE MESSAGES.
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THE UH, THE QUESTION ALWAYS COMES UP ABOUT COUNTY, LOOK HERE, I'LL FIND OUT THAT WELL SURE ENOUGH, NO ONE IS MAKING PLANS TO COVER THAT AREA.WE, I BELIEVE IN GOVERNMENT I TAXES NOT WE NEED TO WITHOUT.
SO FOR YOUR COMMISSIONER, NO MATTER WHAT YOU DO, SOMEONE OUT THERE ALWAYS HAS A BETTER IDEA.
WHY DIDN'T YOU DO THIS? I CAN GIVE YOU EXACTLY WHY DON'T YOU JUST COME OVER AND MY, WELL THAT'S NOT A SIMPLE BUT THERE LOT MORE TO THAT.
DON'T YOU JUST DO THIS OR DO THAT.
I PROBABLY HAVE DIFFERENT IDEAS FROM PEOPLE THAT ARE REALLY INTELLIGENT.
YES, I'M SCOTT GALL, FIFTH GENERATION, TEXAS FROM RURAL TEXAS IN MERA COUNTY DRANK FARMERS AND RANCHERS.
SO I UNDERSTAND YOUR SITUATION HERE ALL THE TIME ACROSS TEXAS.
YOU AS WE TODAY, RURAL AREAS ARE EXPERIENCING EXACTLY OUR FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE SUBDIVISION.
ALL OF THESE TOPICS TODAY COULD BE AN ALL DAY FORM OF COURSE.
SO WHAT ARE NON-REGULATORY STATE? OUR MISSION, ESPECIALLY HEALTH AND SAFETY.
SO HOW DO WE DO THAT? FIRST WE HAVE BEEN COLLECTING DATA, ALL TYPES OF DATA, ESPECIALLY DRINKING WATER STARTS GOOD QUALITY DATA AT OUR LOCAL LEVEL.
UTILITY SYSTEMS FEED INTO PLANNING PROCESS.
YOU'VE WATER, WATER DOING THAT SINCE THE FIFTIES AND THEN RECENTLY THE LAST SEVERAL YEARS WE'VE HAD FLOOD PLANNING TO OUR PORTFOLIO PLANNING PROCESS.
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BUT IT ALL STARTS.SO IF YOU ARE A UTILITY, PLEASE FILL THAT INFORMATION OUT, SEND IT TO US, USE IT.
SOME OF OUR PLANNING PROCESSES ARE DIRECTLY LINKED TO FUNDING.
SO ALL THE A BANK FUNCTION, LONG GRANTS OR POLITICAL SUBDIVISIONS OF THE STATE, CITIES, COUNTIES, RIVER WATER DISTRICTS, UTILITY DISTRICT, UH, ESPECIALLY UTILITY DISTRICTS, EVEN SCHOOL DISTRICTS ARE ELIGIBLE ADVOCATE FOR THESE FUNDING PROGRAMS. LOANS AND GRANTS.
AGAIN, CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT, CAPITAL OPERAT.
WE DON'T HAVE FUNDS FOR ADMINISTRATION, OPERATION OR MAINTENANCE ACTIVITIES.
AND THESE ARE CAPITAL PROJECTS PROJECT FIND, IDENTIFI, MASTER PLAN, CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS, PROJECT PLAN AND MANAGE A BIT ABOUT WHAT WE, AND THESE ARE OUR MOST POPULAR PROGRAMS, ALL THE MORE POPULAR PROGRAM.
WHAT I WANNA REALLY TRY TO DRILL DOWN INTO THIS ACRONYM IS HOW TO ACCESS THOSE.
THESE PROGRAMS WE SOLICITATION PERIOD.
SO WE APPLICATIONS FROM LOCAL COMMUNITIES, DISTRICTS, WATER CORPOR, WE ALSO FISCAL RECEIVE THE APPLICATIONS, REVIEW THEM, THE ELIGIBLE PROJECTS RISE TO THE TOP.
WE THEN LOAN OUT GRANTS PROCESS BASED ON THE BIG ONE.
THESE PAST FEW MONTHS, ESPECIALLY RECENT LEGISLATION PROPOSITION SIX, PROP SIX FROM 88 SESSION LEGISLATION WAS UH, APPROVED.
VOTERS WERE PRESENTED WITH PROPOSITION AMENDMENT.
THEY OVERWHELMINGLY APPROVED IT FOR A LONG TIME CASH DEPOSIT OF A NOW THE NINTH TAX DOLLARS ANNUALLY FOR THE NEXT 20 YEARS AND HAVE A COUPLE OF NOTES EXACTLY HOW THAT WORKS.
ONE GREAT THING ABOUT THIS PARTICULAR LEGISLATION, LEGISLATION 50% DESIGNATED FOR KNOW WE ALWAYS A LOT OF INFORMATION ON THE MEDIA LAST FEW YEARS, SYSTEMS AGING.
MOST OF THESE SYSTEMS WERE BUILT SOMETIMES.
SO DESIGNATE 80% FOR 80 INFRASTRUCTURE AND 50% PROJECT.
WHAT'S THE, THOSE ARE WATER REUSE ON THE WASTE WATER AND RESERVOIRS HAVE A VERY SPECIFIC CRITERIA AS, AND WE ALL KNOW RESERV, HOWEVER THESE FUNDS ARE AVAILABLE AS LONG AS THE LAND IS ALREADY
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PROPERTY PERMIT.AND THEN TQ COMMISSION ENVIRONMENTAL PERMIT REQUIREMENTS FOR THESE PARTICULAR CAN BE USED FOR CONSTRUCTION.
THE OTHER THING ON THESE CARVE OUT THE STATE SO TO SPEAK WILL BE WATER AND THE VERY, OUR EXECUTIVE TEXAS WATER RESOURCE I WATER LEGISL, A BRAND NEW UMBRELLA FUND THAT BASICALLY MAKES CASH DEPOSITS INTO THESE BUCKETS.
THE EXISTING FUNDING PROGRAMS ARE FEDERAL PROGRAMS, ALL 50 STATES AND US THE STATE PROGRAMS ARE THROUGH THE ENVIRONMENTAL EPA.
SOME ARE VERY SPECIFIC IN NATURE AND SCOPE, SOME ARE MORE BROAD.
BUT BASICALLY THE NEW MONEY, THE NEW WILL HAVE PROGRAM ONE THING BY SAY FISCAL YEARS, SOME YEARS WE GOT A LOT IN PROGRAM.
SOME YEARS NO IN SPECIFIC PROGRAM AND DOLLAR AND PROGRAM WE HAVE THIS AFTERNOON.
TODAY THE STATE IS DIVIDED UP INTO REGIONAL PLANNING FOR WATER SUPPLY PLANNING.
TO ACCESS THESE PLANNING DOLLARS, WE HAVE TO PARTICIPATE IN A REGIONAL GROUP.
THE PARTICIPATION IS HAVING A CAPITAL PROJECT WITH A CAPITAL EXPENSE ASSOCIATED WITH IT AS A WATER MANAGEMENT STRATEGY.
AND IF YOU'RE ABLE TO DO THAT, THEN YOU HAVE ACCESS TO, BUT IT HAS TO BE A RECOMMENDED WATER MANAGEMENT STRATEGY.
AND THE WATER PLANNING PROCESS IS VERY UNIQUE.
MOST STATES DON'T HAVE THIS PLANNING PROCESS.
IT IS A LOCAL WATER PROCESS PROCESS.
I HIGHLY ENCOURAGE, ESPECIALLY IF YOU'RE
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ORGANIZATION ABOUT WHAT'S HAPPENING IN AREA.AND WE PRODUCE THIS, THAT'S THE, THESE OTHER THAT ARE NOT TIED DIRECTLY PLANNING PROCESS.
HOWEVER, PROGRAMS, WATER CAPITAL PROJECTS, A NEW STATE PROPOSITION SIX, PROPOSITION FOUR PLANNING IS OUR OLDEST AND EASIEST.
AS LONG AS YOUR PROJECT MEET THE SCOPE AND OUR ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS, IT'S EASY TO ACCESS BUT UM, REQUIRE ELIG, IT'S NOT OUR MOST POPULAR PROGRAM, BUT IT'S NOT INTEREST RATES POINTS.
AND THEN THE DRINKING WATER STATE IS BY FAR PROGRAM, IT'S A FEDERAL DOLLAR PROGRAM THAT GRANTS THE LAST FEW YEARS.
THE GRANT PORTION HAS 70 COMMUNITY, 30%, BUT IT'S EXTREMELY COMPETITIVE DISTRIBUTION, METER REPLACEMENT, THOSE TYPE OF THINGS.
RECYCLING, REUSE OR VERY THE KEY COMPONENTS WE HAVE TO ACCOMMODATE EVERY SIZE PROJECT FOR MULTIMILLION DOLLAR PROJECTS UP TO FEW TEXAS.
THE BLUE BOX WHEN WE TALK ABOUT, BUT THE PHASE WERE BROKEN INTO, UH, PLANNING, DESIGN, ENGINEER, WATER CONSTRUCTION, SO ALL THOSE, ALL THOSE TYPE OF ACTIVITIES.
WATER REGIONAL PLANNING AND WATER DIVISION.
ONE THING THAT'S INTERESTING, COMMUNITIES
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DO THAT GONNA BE TIED TO EVEN CONTRACT.THAT'S APPLICATIONS ARE COMING UP FEBRUARY NEXT YEAR PROGRAM THE STATE.
THIS IS OUR PROGRAM TYPICALLY THAT'S THE NUMBER ONE QUESTION.
THE THESE PRE GRANTS ARE REALLY BASED ON HEALTH AND SAFETY COMPLIANCE.
SO IF YOU ON SCORING SYSTEM, SYSTEM JUST OUT SOME OF THE GREEN PROJECT, THOSE TYPE OF, SURE PROCUREMENT PROCESSES AND FEDERAL COMPLIANCE SUCH AS AMERICAN STEEL COMPLIANCE ALSO HAVE SIMILAR TOPICS.
WE SOME TOPICS MYSELF AND TEAM AROUND THE STATE CONDUCTING DEEP DIVE APPLICATION PROCESS, ELIG TIMELINES, THOSE TYPE OF, SO TAKE A AROUND ON TOP OF THE REGIONAL WATER.
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YOU'RE NOT SUCCESSFUL BY THE GOOD NEWS IS THESE PROGRAMS CURRENTLY EXIST.THAT CONCLUDES MY, MY PRESENTATION.
I HOPE IT IS A LITTLE BIT OF INSIGHT ALSO.
OKAY, BEFORE WE DISCUSSION HERE IN PARKER PROGRAM THAT ASSIST
SO
SO FIRST OF ALL, THOSE OF YOU HERE, THANK YOU FOR SAYING HERE, I'VE NEVER BEEN TO EVENT LIKE THIS A INCENTIVE AUDIENCE IN MY LIFE.
EVERYBODY SAID LISTENING, EVERY WORD SAID, SAID.
I KNOW IT'S AN IMPORTANT TOPIC BUT IT CERTAINLY IS COUNTY YOU.
THE THINGS THAT I NOBODY FORCE ANYBODY.
NOBODY'S GONNA FORCE YOU TO GIVE UP ANY OF YOUR WATERS.
WHATEVER THEY'RE AND NOBODY'S GONNA BE TO PLANNING, DEVELOPMENT, UH, GETTING ADDITIONAL WATER RESOURCES HERE AND HELPING GET THOSE DISTRIBUTED.
UH, YOU CAN SEE ALL THE WAYS BENEFIT FROM BEING ABLE SOME OF THESE.
AND SO IT A SLOW PROCESS, IT AVAILABLE OPTION FOR THEM.
THEN THROUGH, THERE'S A LOT OF QUESTIONS THAT ARE NOT ANSWERED YET ABOUT THE, AS FAR AS THE
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THERE ARE OF QUESTION PROBABLY EVERY, IT DIDN'T GET TALKED ABOUT THAT COUNTY WE'RE HERE AND YOU GO TO THE COURTHOUSE.SO THAT, UH, THING I WANTED TO TELL YOU IS THAT THE COUNTY, WHY THE COUNTY LEADER, WE HAVE TO BE A LEADER.
YOU LOOK AT THE MAP HERE, YOU SEE THE AREAS.
WE HAVE TO TAKE LEADERSHIP ROLE AS YOU HEARD, TWO AND THREE YEARS ENTIRE LIFE.
AND FROM THAT I LEARNED THAT NOBODY'S PLANNING VAST MAJORITY WE'RE GONNA COST FOR US TO GO HOME.
THE OTHER THING THAT I LEARNED IS NO, THERE'S NOT GONNA BE CHEAP.
ALL THE WATER, THE A EXPENSIVE AND WE'RE TRYING TO A, THAT PROBLEM WOULD BE THESE WELL ARE GOING GO.
AND UH, SO THAT LEADS ME BACK TO THIS.
AS I SAID, GO GET ALL YOU GOTTA DO, ALL YOU GOTTA DO IS THIS PROPERTY HERE.
UH, AND THEY BELIEVE LIKE I DO INDIVIDUAL, PRIVATE AND SO MESSING THAT'S RIGHT TERM.
YOU'RE MISSING THOSE THINGS WHEN YOU'RE TELLING ME THAT THE PROPERTY THAT, THAT I OWN IS NOT WORKING BECAUSE WE'RE IN TOUCH WITH THE PUBLIC, WE HEAR ALL SIDES.
BUT WITHIN THE RULES THAT ARE US, HERE'S SOMETHING THAT WE'RE LOOKING AT.
IF WE MAKE SOME CHANGES TO OUR REGULATIONS, WE PROPOSED TO DO LEGAL REPRESENTATION.
IF YOU'RE OF IRRIGATION PHARMACY OR STATE SUB, THEN YOU MIGHT BE ABLE TO SUBDIVISION THE, THE TIME BEING.
WE'RE LOOKING AT EVERYTHING WE DO.
I DON'T THINK ANY STONE UNTURNED, UNTURNED, I ALREADY SAID THAT EARLIER.
WE, I YOU THE OF THE REASONS WHY COMMISSIONER COURT MAKES A LOT OF DECISIONS THAT THEY DO IS BECAUSE, UM, WE'RE IN TOUCH WITH THE PUBLIC AND GENERALLY SPEAKING WE MAKE COMMON US FOR YOU TO DECIDE, DECIDE WHO GONNA GET THIS OFFICE OVER HERE FOR OUR STAFF.
BUT THE TRUTH IS, IS THAT COURT CAN MAKE A COMMON SENSE DECISION.
IT FALLS ALL ON US TO MAKE THOSE TIMES OF DECISION.
THIS IS ONE COMMON, WE NEED TO GET MORE IN THIS COUNTY.
LITTLE HOUSE, YOU CAN HEAR MADISON STILL HERE.
SHE'S BEEN HERE ALL NIGHT, BEEN RECOGNIZED, CALL
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HER OUT.UM, AS WE GO ALONG HERE, NEED TO END.