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          UM, 
          [CALL TO ORDER – November 3, 2021 at 12:00pm]
          [00:00:05]
ORDER THE, UM, AUSTIN INTEGRATED WATER RESOURCE PLANNING, COMMUNITY TASK FORCE. 
          I SHOULD'VE HAD A POP QUIZ TO SEE IF ANYONE ACTUALLY KNOWS THE NAME OF IT, BUT I'M, IT'S WATERFORD TASKFORCE AS WE CALL IT. 
          SO, UM, CALLED AN ORDER. 
          WE HAVE A QUORUM AND WE HAVE PERRY JOINING VIRTUALLY, BUT PERRY, PERRY UM, HAS TO STEP AWAY AT SOME POINT DURING THE MEETING. 
          THAT MIGHT BE IT RIGHT NOW WHILE HE IS ALL HIS CAMERA'S OFF. 
          HE'LL BE ON, BUT WE HAVE, UM, WE HAVE SIX MEMBERS HERE. 
          WE HAVE A QUORUM. 
          ALL RIGHT, LET'S GET GOING HERE. 
          SO 
          [CITIZEN COMMUNICATION: GENERAL]
WE'RE IN THE FIRST ORDER. 
          DO WE HAVE ANY CITIZEN COMMUNICATIONS? UH, SOMEONE DID SIGN UP, BUT I DON'T KNOW IF HE'LL BE ABLE TO MAKE IT. 
          OKAY. 
          UM, WELL, IF THEY DO, WE WILL BE HAPPY TO LET THEM MAKE COMMENTS AT THAT TIME. 
          CAUSE IT'S A LITTLE, I DON'T KNOW IF ANYONE NOTICED, BUT IT'S RAINING OUTSIDE. 
          UM, OKAY. 
          SO LET'S 
          [1. APPROVAL OF MINUTES]
GO AHEAD AND MOVE ON WITH THE APPROVAL OF THE MINUTES, WHICH ARE IN OUR PACKET. 
          HAS EVERYONE HAD A CHANCE TO TAKE A LOOK? I WAS NOT PRESENT FOR THIS MEETING SO I WILL. 
          OKAY. 
          I MOVE APPROVAL. 
          OKAY. 
          ALL RIGHT. 
          DO WE HAVE ANY COMMENTS? ALL RIGHT. 
          ALL IN FAVOR. 
          AYE. 
          ANY OPPOSED? VANESSA'S ABSTAINING. 
          OKAY. 
          WELL THAT MEANS WE DON'T HAVE A QUORUM APPROVING, SO WE'LL HAVE TO DO IT NEXT TIME. 
          RIGHT. 
          UM, OKAY. 
          MY GLASSES ARE FOGGING UP WITH MY MASK ON, SO I LOOK CONFUSED. 
          THAT'S WHY I CAN'T SEE. 
          OKAY. 
          ALRIGHTY. 
          SO NEXT ITEM. 
          WE HAVE STAFF BRIEFINGS, PRESENTATIONS AND REPORTS. 
          SO WE'VE GOT, OH, OKAY. 
          SORRY. 
          WE HAVE OUR WATER SUPPLY OUTLOOK AND MERISSA WILL YOU BE DOING THAT? J NOW WE'LL BE TAKING THAT ONE ON. 
          WE 
          [3.a. Approve dates for 2022 meetings]
WANTED TO SUGGEST POSSIBLY MOVING ITEM THREE A TO THE BEGINNING, SINCE IT IS OUR OTHER VOTING ITEM FOR THIS MEETING, TO MAKE SURE THAT WE ADDRESS THAT ITEM. 
          OH, ABSOLUTELY. 
          LET'S DO THAT. 
          THAT'S ACTUALLY THE SECOND PIECE OF PAPER IN OUR PACKETS, WHICH IS, UM, THE PROPOSED 2022 MEETING DATES. 
          UM, THEY HAVE A SIX DAYS PROPOSALS WERE SENT OUT IN ADVANCE FOR FOLKS TO LOOK AT. 
          HOPEFULLY YOU'LL HAVE A CHANCE TO DO SO. 
          UM, DO YOU, EXCUSE ME, DO YOU WANT TO SAY ANYTHING ABOUT THEM IN GENERAL? THE DATES ARE THE FIRST TUESDAY OF THE MONTH. 
          I THINK THERE ARE TWO TUESDAYS THAT HAVE BEEN MOVED TO THE SECOND TUESDAY THE MONTH IN JANUARY, AND THEN AGAIN IN JULY TO ACCOMMODATE HOLIDAYS. 
          OKAY. 
          AND WE'RE STILL SHOOTING FOR THE 12 TO TWO TIMEFRAME FOR FOLKS? YES. 
          OKAY. 
          YES, BILL. 
          UM, I PRESUME AT THIS POINT YOU HAVE NO IDEA WHERE THE MEETINGS WILL TAKE PLACE. 
          OKAY. 
          AS OF NOW, WE'RE STILL HOPING TO GET ROOMS IN CITY HALL. 
          UM, BUT WE HAVE SOME ROOM IN THIS BUILDING. 
          YES. 
          UNTIL OUR CONSTRUCTION IS FINISHED AT WALLER CREEK ROOM 1 0 4 IS UNDER CONSTRUCTION. 
          AND SO WHEN DO YOU THINK WE GO BACK TO ROMANO? FOR MY HOPE IS THAT, UM, AT THE LATEST BY FALL OF 2022, UH, CONSTRUCTION WILL BE FINISHED. 
          OKAY. 
          OKAY. 
          SO, UM, DOES EVERYBODY OKAY WITH THESE DATES? YEAH. 
          DO WE NEED TO, WE NEED A VOTE ON THAT. 
          DO I HAVE A MOTION TO ACCEPT OUR 20, 22 PROPOSED MEETING DATES? ALL RIGHT, VANESSA, I HEARD SECOND FROM HANEY. 
          LET'S JUST DO IT. 
          LET'S DO A LADIES MOTION PLAN SECOND. 
          ALRIGHT, LET'S DO THAT. 
          OKAY. 
          UM, ALL IN FAVOR, AYE. 
          OKAY. 
          ANY OPPOSED? ALL RIGHT. 
          SO WE HAVE OUR 20, 22 PROPOSED MEETING DATES SET UP, UM, KNOWING THAT WE MAY ADJUST IT SOMEHOW AS TIME GOES, BUT WE CAN PUT THOSE ON OUR CALENDAR. 
          GOOD. 
          OKAY. 
          I DID PARLIAMENTARY PROCEDURES TRAINING THE OTHER DAY. 
          ALSO LOOK OUT. 
          YEAH. 
          YEAH. 
          CAN YOU TELL, UM, JANE NELLA WAS VERY NICE TO INVITE ROBERT AND I TO DO IT. 
          WE DID. 
          I GOT, I GOT THE BOOK. 
          I'M ALL PREPARED. 
          SO, UM, OKAY, WELL 
          [2.a. Water Supply Outlook]
LET'S UM, GO BACK TO, TO A, OUR WATER SUPPLY OUTLOOK. 
          IT'S ALWAYS FUN TO TALK ABOUT WATER SUPPLY. 
          LIKE WHAT'S RAINING. 
          LOVE THAT. 
          THANK YOU. 
          NO PROBLEM. 
          IT IS FUN TO TALK ABOUT IT WHILE IT'S RAINING. 
          I AGREE. 
          [00:05:31]
AWESOME. 
          THANK YOU. 
          OKAY. 
          SO BEFORE THE RAIN, UM, WE WERE AT 79% FULL, UH, FOR OUR COMBINED STORAGE OF LAKE  AND LAKE TRAVIS. 
          UH, WE'RE CURRENTLY AT 1.5, 8 MILLION ACRE FEET MIGHT CHANGE AFTER TODAY. 
          YOU CAN GO TO THE NEXT SLIDE. 
          OKAY. 
          SO FOR OCTOBER, 2021, THE HIGHLAND INFLOWS WERE 33,500 ACRE FEET. 
          UH, ACCORDING TO THIS GRAPH, WE HAD MORE INFLOWS FOR OCTOBER THEN SEPTEMBER. 
          THIS IS ALL IN YOUR MEMBER PACKET AS WELL. 
          WE CAN GO TO THE NEXT SLIDE. 
          I WAS REALLY HOPING THAT WE'D HAVE AN UPDATED, UM, INFLOW OF THE STORAGE FROM LCRA FOR NOVEMBER. 
          UM, BUT THIS WAS POSTED ON OCTOBER 1ST. 
          UM, IT SHOWS THAT, YOU KNOW, WE'RE GOING TO CONTINUE TO TRACK OUR INFLOWS AND COMBINED STORAGE TO DETERMINE IF WE NEED TO ENTER DROUGHT RISK RESTRICTIONS. 
          UM, THIS IS PREDICTED FOR THE NEXT FEW MONTHS. 
          UM, HOPEFULLY IN THE NEXT FEW DAYS, WE'LL GET AN UPDATED GRAPH OF THIS FROM LCRA. 
          UM, AND IF YOU GO TO THE NEXT SLIDE, UM, ONE NINA CONDITIONS, IT HAS A HIGH CHANCE OF STAYING THROUGH FEBRUARY. 
          UH, ROBERT MASON ISN'T HERE TODAY, BUT HE HELPED WITH THE TEXAS WATER, UM, NEWSLETTER THAT Y'ALL MIGHT'VE GOTTEN IN THE LAST WEEK. 
          UM, MOST OF THE STATE IS EXPECTED TO BE IN DROUGHT OVER THE NEXT THREE MONTHS. 
          SO WE'RE EXPECTED TO HAVE SOME, SOME DRIER CONDITIONS IN THE NEXT FEW MONTHS THAT WILL PROBABLY CONTINUE INTO 2022. 
          YOU WOULDN'T HAVE ANY QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS ABOUT THE, UH, WATER SUPPLY UPDATE SLASH OUTLOOK. 
          OKAY. 
          LET'S KEEP MOVING ALONG THEN. 
          UM, 
          [2.b. Water Forward 2018 Implementation Progress]
WATER FORD, 2018 IMPLEMENTATION PROCESS. 
          SO JUST TO NOTE WHILE, WELL, FOLKS GET READY FOR THAT. 
          UM, YOU MAY SEE, UH, WATER FOR 2018 AND WATER FOR 2024. 
          WE'RE TRYING TO HAVE SOME, UH, SOME CONSISTENCY AND NOMENCLATURE HERE. 
          WATER FOR 2018 IS OUR EXISTING PLAN THAT WE ARE IMPLEMENTING RIGHT NOW. 
          WATER FOR 2024 IS THE PLAN THAT THE UPDATE THAT THERE IS WORK GOING ON RIGHT NOW, WHICH THERE'LL BE TALKING ABOUT TODAY TO. 
          SO THERE, WE'RE KIND OF SEPARATING THEM INTO TWO BUCKETS AND TRYING TO SET FOLKS. 
          DON'T GET CONFUSED ALONG THE WAY. 
          ALL RIGHT. 
          HELLO? MERISSA HELLO. 
          THIS IS TOO BIG. 
          SO B ONE, WAIT, AND WE HAVE ANOTHER PERSON HERE. 
          THAT'S JOINED THE CALL TODAY. 
          YEAH, BUT HE WAS HERE, BUT NOW HE'S GONE NOW HE'S BEEN REPLACED WITH A SLIDE, BUT TODD, I SAW YOU FOR A SECOND THERE. 
          OKAY. 
          OH, THERE YOU ARE. 
          HEY TODD. 
          EVERYONE'S WORKING AT YOUR HOUSE. 
          OKAY. 
          OKAY. 
          OKAY. 
          ALL RIGHT. 
          UM, SO AT THE LAST TASK FORCE MEETING, THE TASK FORCE MEMBERS HAD REQUESTED AN OVERVIEW OF OUR  20 ANNUAL REPORT. 
          UM, SO I'M GOING TO PROVIDE A LITTLE BIT OF AN OVERVIEW OF THAT REPORT. 
          IT WAS ALSO INCLUDED WITHIN YOUR PACKET AND IT'S IN YOUR BACKUP. 
          UM, AND ON THE WATERFORD TASK FORCE WEBPAGE, THEN WE'LL TALK ABOUT OUR WATERFORD, UH, FYI 21 QUARTER FOUR REPORT. 
          AND I'LL GIVE A LITTLE BIT OF INFORMATION ABOUT THE  ANNUAL REPORT THAT WE'RE EXPECTED TO DELIVER IN JANUARY, 2022. 
          AND, UM, IN ADDITION, UH, WE WILL HAVE A BRIEF PRESENTATION FROM CHRISTOPHER CHARLES FROM OUR WATER CONSERVATION DIVISION ABOUT OUR PLANS TO DEVELOP LANDSCAPE TRANSFORMATION ORDINANCES. 
          SO BUSY ITEM, UM, TO START OFF WITH THE  ANNUAL REPORT, UH, WE PROVIDED AN OVERVIEW OF THIS REPORT TO THE TASK FORCE IN JANUARY OF 2021. 
          UM, AT THAT TIME WE DID NOT HAVE A GRAPHICALLY DESIGNED REPORT. 
          HOWEVER, UM, NOW WE DO THAT'S THE REPORT THAT 
          [00:10:01]
WAS INCLUDED IN YOUR PACKETS. 
          IT'S, UM, MAINLY, UH, TO 99% OF IT IS THE SAME CONTENT. 
          THERE MAY HAVE BEEN SOME GRAMMATICAL ERRORS THAT WERE CORRECTED IN THE GRAPHICALLY DESIGNED REPORT. 
          UM, THIS, UH, REPORT DOCUMENTS, AUSTIN WATERS PROGRESS TO IMPLEMENT THE WATERFORD PLAN DURING FISCAL YEAR 2019 TO 2020. 
          AND, UM, DESPITE SOME CHALLENGES THAT WERE POSED BY THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC STAFF MADE ADDITIONAL PROGRESS TO IMPLEMENT THOSE NEAR TERM WATERFORD STRATEGIES. 
          NEXT SLIDE. 
          SO SOME HIGHLIGHTS FROM OUR FISCAL YEAR 20 IMPLEMENTATION ACTIVITIES INCLUDED OUR PARTICIPATION IN THE REGION, K WATER PLANNING PROCESS. 
          THAT'S A PROCESS THAT WE DEVOTE SIGNIFICANT STAFF TIME AND ENERGY TOWARDS. 
          UM, WE BEGAN OUR ADVANCED METERING INFRASTRUCTURE, PRIDE PROJECT AND PILOT. 
          UM, OUR ONSITE WATER REUSE SYSTEM REGULATORY FRAMEWORK WAS APPROVED BY COUNCIL AND OUR ONSITE WATER REUSE SYSTEM TEAM, UH, BEGAN, UM, IT'S IT'S WORK. 
          UM, THAT TEAM ALSO DEVELOPED A WATER BENCHMARKING CALCULATOR, THE ONSITE WATER REUSE SYSTEMS, INCENTIVE PROGRAM, AS WELL AS, UM, WORK TO CONTINUE, UH, IMPLEMENTATION CONSTRUCTION OF A BLACKWATER REUSE PILOT AT THE PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT CENTER. 
          UM, OUR ASR AQUIFER STORAGE AND RECOVERY PILOT AND PROGRAM MANAGEMENT PROJECT WAS ALSO APPROVED BY COUNCIL IN THAT FISCAL YEAR. 
          AND ON THE RIGHT HAND SIDE OF THE SLIDE, YOU CAN SEE SOME HIGH-LEVEL ACHIEVEMENTS. 
          UM, UH, DURING, FROM THAT YEAR, WE WERE SELECTED AS THE RECIPIENT OF THE UTILITY OF THE FUTURE AWARD. 
          UM, WE HAD A RIBBON CUTTING CEREMONY AT THE MONTOPOLIS TANK AND PUMP STATION, UM, AND WE WERE THE HIGHEST SCORING WATER CONSERVATION FOR A MAJOR TEXAS MUNICIPALITY AS IDENTIFIED BY THE TEXAS LIVING WATERS PROJECT. 
          NEXT SLIDE, THIS SLIDE INCLUDES OUR FISCAL YEAR 20 METRICS, A TABLE THAT YOU'LL SEE, UM, IN THE ACTUAL REPORT, IT'S A LITTLE BIT PRETTIER IN THE ACTUAL REPORT. 
          THE FUTURE PROJECTIONS THAT ARE INCLUDED WITHIN THIS TABLE ARE AS REPORTED IN THE ADOPTED 2018 WATER PLAN. 
          AND THEN THOSE, UH, SAVINGS AND YIELD TARGETS WILL BE UPDATED IN OUR PLAN UPDATE PROCESS HERE FOR WATERFORD 2024 TO REFLECT BOTH OUR IMPLEMENTATION PROGRESS FOR EACH STRATEGY, AS WELL AS IMPROVEMENTS THAT WE ARE MAKING TO OUR ESTIMATION OF STRATEGY SAVINGS AND YIELD. 
          NEXT SLIDE NOW TO DIG INTO OUR QUARTER FOUR REPORT FROM FYI 21, THIS IS THE REPORT THAT'S ALSO PROVIDED TO THE OSTEON WATER OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE OF COUNCIL. 
          UM, WE'VE INCLUDED A LITTLE BIT OF ADDITIONAL INFORMATION, PROBABLY NOT AS, UM, VISUALLY APPEALING AS, UM, YOU KNOW, WE MIGHT HAVE WANTED, BUT WE INCLUDED A LITTLE BIT OF ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ABOUT OUR 2040 YIELD TARGETS TO GIVE US A SENSE OF SCALE FROM HOW MUCH YIELD WE'RE EXPECTING FROM EACH OF THESE STRATEGIES. 
          YOU'LL SEE THAT THE STRATEGY THAT'S LISTED AT THE TOP WATERFORD 20, 24 DOES NOT INCLUDE A YIELD TARGET. 
          UM, THAT'S BECAUSE IT'S MAINLY AN IMPLEMENTATION OR A PLANNING EFFORT. 
          UM, SOME PROGRESS THAT WE MADE DURING QUARTER FOUR RELATED TO OUR PLAN UPDATE PROCESS, WE FINALIZED OUR CLIMATE AND HYDROLOGY CONSULTANT PROCUREMENT. 
          UM, WE'VE, UH, DEVELOPED A, UH, AN AGREEMENT WITH THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS WITH SEVERAL, UM, ACADEMICS, UM, FROM THE JACKSON SCHOOL, FROM THE, UH, ENGINEERING SCHOOL, UM, FOLKS WORKING IN BOTH ENGINEERING, HYDROLOGY AND CLIMATE SCIENCE, UM, TO, UH, UPDATE OUR CLIMATE AND HYDROLOGY ANALYSIS. 
          AND WE'VE HELD THAT KICKOFF AND ARE PROCEEDING ON THAT WORK. 
          WE'LL HAVE SOME UPDATES ABOUT THAT WORK AT OUR JANUARY, 2022 TASK FORCE MEETING. 
          WE CONTINUED ADDITIONAL WORK TO SUPPORT THE WATERFORD PLAN UPDATE RELATED TO DEMOGRAPHICS AND DEMAND FORECASTING DEMAND, ESTIMATION, OR GOING TO BE WORKING WITH OUR CITY, DEMOGRAPHER, LAILA, VALENCIA, AND DEVELOPING UPDATED PROJECTIONS. 
          THERE ARE GOING TO BE KEY FOR OUR, UM, UPDATED ESTIMATES OF DEMAND, UM, IN TERMS OF CONSERVATION, OUR, MY ATX WATER TEAM THAT'S, UM, UH, WHAT WE CALL OUR AMI PROJECT HAS CONTINUED TO PERFORM PRE-INSTALL FIELD SURVEYS AND CONTINUED METER INSTALLATIONS. 
          THAT BRINGS THE TOTAL NUMBER OF METERS INSTALLED TO DATE TO ABOUT 14,000 AND OUR, MY ATX WATER CUSTOMER PORTAL IS ABOUT 53% ADOPTION RATE, UM, FOR CUSTOMERS AFTER THEIR NEW METER IS INSTALLED. 
          UM, WORK IS GOING TO CONTINUE IN THAT EFFORT, UM, WITH ANTICIPATED COMPLETION OF THAT PROJECT IN  THE NEXT ROW IS, UM, RELATED TO OUR LANDSCAPE TRANSFORMATION 
          [00:15:01]
ORDINANCE WORK. 
          UM, OUR WATER CONSERVATION DIVISION STAFF HAS CONTINUED INTERNAL PLANNING, DISCUSSIONS AND TECHNICAL ANALYSIS TO SUPPORT, UM, THAT STRATEGY. 
          AND YOU'LL HEAR A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT THAT WHEN CHRISTOPHER CHARLES MAKES HIS PRESENTATION. 
          AND THEN THE LAST LINE ON THIS SLIDE IS, UM, RELATED TO AQUIFER STORAGE AND RECOVERY. 
          DURING THE LAST QUARTER, WE COMPLETED OUR ASR STORAGE ZONE SCREENING AND BEGAN DETAIL WORK ON OUR DETAILED ANALYSIS TO SUPPORT THAT EFFORT. 
          UM, WE CONTINUED OUR WORK ON INTEGRATION POINT ANALYSES. 
          THAT'S JUST REFERRING TO WHERE THAT ASR SYSTEM IS GOING TO INTEGRATE INTO OUR DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM, CONTINUED WORK RELATED TO ASR ENGAGEMENT AND AN EDUCATION PLAN, EDUCATIONAL MATERIALS, AS WELL AS, UM, EQUITY WORK RELATED TO ASR PILOTING. 
          UM, WE'LL CONTINUE. 
          OKAY. 
          SO I HAVE A QUESTION ABOUT ASR. 
          OH, I'M SORRY. 
          GO AHEAD. 
          TINY VOICE COMING FROM I'M COMING FROM UNDER THE TABLE. 
          UM, I, I WAS WONDERING IF, IF WE HAVE ANY ONGOING EFFORTS TO CONTINUE TO LEARN FROM THOSE THAT ARE CURRENTLY DOING ASMR ASR SPECIFICALLY, UM, MAYBE SAN ANTONIO, SINCE THEY'RE THEIR AQUIFERS COULD PERFORM SOME RELATE TO THE ONES THAT WE'RE THINKING ABOUT HERE. 
          YES, THAT'S A GREAT QUESTION. 
          SO WE HAVE AN ASR TECHNICAL ADVISORY GROUP THAT WE MEET WITH ON A FAIRLY REGULAR BASIS. 
          UM, WE HAVE TWO MEMBERS OF THE TASK FORCE, UM, WHO SIT IN ON THAT, UM, ROBERT MACE, AS WELL AS BILL MORIARTY, UM, AND THAT, UM, TECHNICAL ADVISORY GROUP INCLUDES A REPRESENTATIVE FROM SAWS. 
          IT INCLUDES FOLKS FROM OTHER PARTS OF THE COUNTRY WHO HAVE IMPLEMENTED ASR PROJECTS, UM, AND, UH, YOU KNOW, WE GATHER THEIR INPUT ON, AS WE PROGRESS THROUGH THIS PROJECT AND WE'VE BEEN WORKING WITH THEM AND CONVENING THAT GROUP. 
          UM, SINCE BEFORE WE HAD FINALIZED THE SCOPE FOR THE ASR PILOT AND PROGRAM MANAGEMENT PROJECT, WE GOT THEIR INPUT ON THE SCOPE AND THEN WE'VE CONTINUED TO MEET WITH THEM. 
          AND I'M SURE THIS IS STILL THE SAME, BUT, UM, WE WENT ON A TOUR LIKE A DAY LONG TOUR EARLY ON OF THE ASR FACILITY AND SAWS THE TASKFORCE AND STAFF DID. 
          AND THEY WERE REALLY GOOD HOST AND VERY DETAILED IN INFORMATION THEY PROVIDED AND VERY MUCH HAVE A MINDSET OF WANTING TO SHARE INFORMATION AND HELP ALONG OTHER FOLKS THAT WANT TO DO IT. 
          AND I'VE FIGURED THAT I'M NOT ON THE ASR COMMITTEE, BUT THAT'S CONTINUING. 
          IT WAS, IT WAS VERY EDUCATIONAL, VERY INTERESTING TOUR WHERE THEY WENT AND ROLLED DEEP ON THE DETAILS. 
          I WAS GOING TO ADD THIS THERE'S REPRESENTATIVES ON THIS COMMITTEE FROM THE CITY OF LAS VEGAS, THE CITY OF DENVER, COLORADO, AND A GENTLEMEN FROM THE SOUTH FLORIDA WATER MANAGEMENT DISTRICT, IF I RECALL CORRECTLY. 
          SO THEY'VE THE CITY OF AUSTIN HAS DONE A GOOD JOB OF BRINGING IN EXPERTS, NOT JUST FROM TEXAS, BUT ALL OVER THE COUNTRY. 
          YEAH. 
          AWESOME. 
          OKAY. 
          UM, COULD YOU MOVE TO THE NEXT SLIDE? THANK YOU. 
          THIS ONE PAGE REPORT NOW HAS TWO PAGES. 
          UM, SO STARTING FROM THE TOP, UM, ONSITE WATER REUSE, UH, IN THE LAST QUARTER, STAFF CONTINUED TO PERFORM STAKEHOLDER OUTREACH TO EDUCATE OUR DEVELOPMENT COMMUNITY ABOUT OUR ONSITE WATER REUSE ORDINANCE. 
          THAT'S OUR REGULATORY FRAMEWORK, AS WELL AS THE PILOT INCENTIVE PROGRAM, UH, STAFF, BUT ALSO REVIEWED THE FIRST APPLICATION FOR AN ONSITE WATER REUSE PROJECT, WHICH HAD INCLUDED AN APPLICATION FOR THE PILOT INCENTIVE PROGRAM. 
          UM, MOVING FORWARD, UH, SINCE WE DID WELL, I'LL TALK ABOUT IT A LITTLE BIT LATER. 
          STAFF IS GOING TO CONTINUE TO REVIEW THOSE APPLICATIONS AND INCORPORATE THAT, UH, THIS REVIEW PROCESS IN THE CITY'S OVERALL, UH, DEVELOPMENT REVIEW SYSTEM, UM, RELATED TO RECLAIM WATER. 
          SO OUR CENTRALIZED RECLAIMED, UH, STRATEGY, UH, AUSTIN WATER CONTINUES TO WORK, TO IMPLEMENT OUR 2013 COMPLETING THE CORE PLAN. 
          UM, AND WE ALSO ARE WORKING ON UPDATING THE CENTRALIZED RECLAIM MASTER PLAN, DAN PEDERSON, AND HIS GROUP, UM, HAVE DONE A LOT OF WORK THERE AND THAT'S PRETTY CLOSE TO, UM, BEING DONE AS IS MY UNDERSTANDING. 
          UM, THE WATER CONSERVATION DIVISION HAS ALSO LAUNCHED A PILOT PROGRAM TO INCENTIVIZE CURRENT CUSTOMERS ON RECLAIMED WATER LINES TO CONVERT THEIR IRRIGATION SYSTEMS AND COOLING TOWERS FROM POTABLE WATER TO RECLAIM WATER. 
          UM, WE'LL CONTINUE TO SUPPORT THESE RECLAIMED INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECTS, UM, AND, UH, WE'LL ALSO BE DEVELOPING INFRASTRUCTURE PLANS RELATED TO DECENTRALIZED REUSE FOR A SMALL AREA PLANNING. 
          UM, WE'LL BE MOVING THAT WORK ALONG THROUGH OUR INNOVATIVE WATER STRATEGIES PROGRAM. 
          AND THEN THE LAST LINE HERE RELATED TO CODE CHANGES IN THE LAST QUARTER, WE HAD A BIG WHEN COUNCIL APPROVED A CODE CHANGES, UM, TO IMPLEMENT WATER BENCHMARKING, 
          [00:20:01]
ONSITE, WATER REUSE, AND EXTENSION OF OUR CURRENT RECLAIM WATER CONNECTION REQUIREMENTS. 
          UM, STAFF IS GOING TO CONTINUE TO PREPARE FOR THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THOSE APPROVED CODE CHANGES. 
          UM, THE BENCHMARKING AND EXTENSION OF THE RECLAIMED WATER CONNECTION REQUIREMENTS WILL BE EFFECTIVE DECEMBER 1ST, 2022. 
          UM, AND THE ONSITE WATER REUSE REQUIREMENT FOR NEW DEVELOPMENTS GREATER THAN 250,000 SQUARE FEET WILL BE EFFECTIVE DECEMBER 1ST, 2023. 
          UM, ONE KIND OF A NOTE ABOUT THESE CODE CHANGES. 
          UH, THERE WAS A CHANGE IN THAT THE, FOR THE EXTENSION OF THE RECLAIMED WATER CONNECTION REQUIREMENTS, UM, WE WILL BE IMPLEMENTING A VARIANCE FOR NEW DEVELOPMENTS THAT INCLUDE A MULTIFAMILY COMPONENT, UH, FROM DECEMBER 1ST, 2022 THROUGH DECEMBER 1ST, 2023, DURING THAT TIME, OR FROM NOW UNTIL DECEMBER OR UNTIL SEPTEMBER 1ST, 2020 3, 20 22. 
          EXCUSE ME, EXCUSE ME. 
          HOLD ON. 
          LET ME BACK UP FROM NOW UNTIL SEPTEMBER 1ST. 
          DO I NEED, DO I NEED TO, AUSTIN WATER WILL BE WORKING WITH HOUSING AND PLANNING TO DEVELOP AN AFFORDABILITY IMPACT REPORT TO EXPLORE THE POTENTIAL AFFORDABILITY IMPACTS OF THE ONSITE WATER REUSE REQUIREMENT, AS WELL AS THE EXTENSION OF THE RECLAIM WATER CONNECTION REQUIREMENTS, UM, ON MULTI-FAMILY HOUSING, UM, WE MAY BE IDENTIFYING STRATEGIES TO MITIGATE ANY POTENTIAL IMPACTS AND THAT MAY BE, UH, WILL BE PRESENTED BACK TO COUNCIL, UM, AND THAT, UH, THOSE CONSIDERATIONS MAY BE INCORPORATED AS WE ARE LOOKING TOWARDS THE, UH, EFFECTIVE DATE, UH, DECEMBER 1ST, 2023 ONE, WE'LL BE IMPLEMENTING THE ONSITE WATER REUSE REQUIREMENT AND REMOVING THAT VARIANCE FOR MULTIFAMILY FROM THE EXTENSION OF THE RECLAIM WATER CONNECTION REQUIREMENTS. 
          PLEASE FEEL FREE TO ASK ANY QUESTIONS. 
          YES, GO AHEAD. 
          MY QUESTION WAS JUST, IF IT'D BE POSSIBLE TO GET A ONE PAGER THAT SUMMARIZES SORT OF EXACTLY WHAT WAS PASSED WITHOUT NECESSARILY IN ORDINANCE LANGUAGE, BUT JUST BULLET POINTS. 
          AND THEN WHAT THE THINGS YOU JUST SAID, BUT WITH LESS WORDS THAT DESCRIBE, AND THIS IS WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN, THERE'S GOING TO BE A STUDY. 
          IT WILL BE TURNED IN AT THIS DATE, DESPITE COPIOUS AMOUNTS OF INFORMATION, ESPECIALLY AT THE COUNCIL APPROVAL STAGE. 
          I FOUND IT DIFFICULT TO DETERMINE WHAT EXACTLY THE EXCUSE ME, THE AMENDMENTS AT COUNCIL WERE AND LIKE JUST WHERE WE ARE SO THAT I CAN TALK ABOUT IT WITH PEOPLE. 
          ABSOLUTELY EDUCATE PEOPLE ABOUT WHAT EXACTLY WE ARE. 
          I CAN GET THAT TO YOU PRETTY QUICKLY HERE. 
          I HAVE A SUMMARY WRITTEN UP, UM, THAT I'LL JUST PUT ON, UH, YOU KNOW, PUT IN KIND OF A LETTERHEAD. 
          YEAH. 
          I'LL SEND IT OUT TO THE TOP. 
          I HAVE A SUMMARY AND PROBABLY THE OTHER MEMBERS OF THE TASK FORCE COMMITTEE. 
          I IMAGINED IT WOULD BE HELPFUL. 
          JUST ONE PAGE BULLETS. 
          YEAH. 
          I WILL SEND IT OUT TO THE ENTIRE TASK FORCE THROUGH JENNA. 
          YES, SIR. 
          MY RECOLLECTION OF WHAT WAS APPROVED IS TO GET THE VARIANCE. 
          YOU HAD TO HAVE A SIGNIFICANT, AND I UNDERSCORE THE WORD SIGNIFICANT COMPONENT OF MULTIFAMILY. 
          AM I RIGHT ABOUT THAT? UH, IT, THERE IS NO INCLUSION OF THE WORD SIGNIFICANT. 
          YES. 
          SO IT IS IF THERE IS A MULTIFAMILY COMPONENT, SO WE'RE SAYING ONE APARTMENT BUILDING GETS THEM OUT. 
          IF THERE IS ANY MULTIFAMILY COMPONENT, THEN MY UNDERSTANDING IS THAT THEY, THEY DO NOT HAVE THAT. 
          I MEAN, IT'S GOTTA BE LIKE WHERE THERE'S A SIGNIFICANT THAT THAT WORD NEEDS TO GO BACK. 
          I THINK IT WAS IN THERE AT ONE POINT, BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT THEY'LL DO. 
          THEY'LL PUT ONE APARTMENT IN THE DEAL AND SAY, OKAY, WE'RE OUT. 
          RIGHT? AND THIS IS FOR A VARIANCE THAT IS APPLICABLE FROM DECEMBER 1ST, 2022 THROUGH DECEMBER 1ST, 2023. 
          SO THIS IS A VARIANT THAT CAN ONLY BE ACCESSED DURING, AND IT'S TWO YEARS WORTH OF VARIANTS. 
          AND THE PROJECTS GONE IF THEY PUT ONE APARTMENT IN, I THINK WE HAVE TO FIX THAT. 
          ALL RIGHT, SECOND QUESTION. 
          THE 500 FEET, WHAT'S 500 FEET FROM WHAT? AND I THINK IT OUGHT TO BE NOT FROM THE BUILDING BECAUSE THEY'LL MOVE THE BUILDING ON YOU. 
          UM, IT SHOULD BE THE LAND, OR WE NEED TO COME UP WITH SOME VERY CONSERVATIVE INTERPRETATION TO THAT. 
          SO THESE GUYS CAN'T, UH, GAME THE SYSTEM AND SAY, OH, WELL, WE'RE WE PUSHED THE BUILDING OVER 10 FEET. 
          SO NOW WE'RE NOT IN THE RECLAIM WATER BUSINESS. 
          I WILL DOUBLE CHECK ON THE 
          [00:25:02]
SPECIFICS. 
          OKAY, GO AHEAD. 
          SORRY ABOUT THIS. 
          KEVIN BRINTON DONE. 
          AUSTIN WATER LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE, BASICALLY SPECIFIES THE SITE. 
          SO IT IS THE CORNER OF THE SITE, NOT THE ACTUAL BUILDING. 
          SO WITH THAT, WE COULD KIND OF WATCH OVER IT. 
          OKAY. 
          UM, THIRD QUESTION. 
          SORRY TO BOMBARD YOU. 
          I, WE HAVEN'T HAD A MEETING IN A WHILE AND I'M BEEN LIKE LOCKED UP. 
          RIGHT. 
          UM, I WANT TO KNOW, UM, WHAT WE'RE DOING TO GET THE WHOLESALE CUSTOMERS ON SIMILAR WATER CONSERVATION RULES. 
          AND WE'VE HAD THIS DISCUSSION MANY TIMES IN THE PAST AND THE TWO THAT I'M MOST INTERESTED IN ARE THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AND THE STATE. 
          AND I KNOW, AND I WILL SAY THIS IN ALL DUE CREDIT TO AUSTIN WATER THAT AS THESE WHOLESALE CONTRACTS ROLLED OUT, I KNOW YOU ARE REDOING THE CONTRACTS AND PUTTING PROGRESSIVE WATER CONSERVATION LANGUAGE IN THOSE CONTRACTS. 
          AM I RIGHT ON THAT? SO AGAIN, KEVIN CRITTENDON NELSON WATER, UM, CORRECT. 
          ON THE LATTER POINT, WE HAVE ROUGHLY, UM, 23 WHOLESALE CONTRACTS. 
          AND SO THAT'S A VERY SPECIFIC DEFINITION. 
          WE HAVE CONTRACTS WITH THOSE ENTITIES TO PROVIDE. 
          IN THIS CASE WATER. 
          WE ALSO HAVE WASTEWATER WHOLESALE CUSTOMERS, UM, THAT IS VERY SPECIFIC CONTRACT INSTRUMENT EXECUTED BETWEEN THOSE ENTITIES IN THE CITY. 
          OKAY. 
          UM, MANY OF THEM ALREADY DO HAVE SOME GENERAL WATER CONSERVATION LANGUAGE IN THEM. 
          WE GOING THROUGH A NUMBER OF CONTRACT UPDATES WHERE WE INTEND TO UPDATE THAT CONTRACT LANGUAGE, SO THAT WE'RE AS, AS, UM, CLEAR AND CONSISTENT ABOUT OUR EXPECTATION, YOU'RE STRENGTHENING THE LANGUAGE. 
          RIGHT? SO THAT THAT'S THE, UM, THE LANGUAGE IS STRENGTHENED TO THE POINT IT'S EQUIVALENT TO WHAT THE CITY OF AUSTIN ITSELF IS DOING. 
          CORRECT. 
          OKAY. 
          CORRECT. 
          NOW THERE WILL BE DETAILS RIGHT ON, ON THAT. 
          WE, WE CAN'T EXTEND LAND, USE CONTROLS THROUGH A WATER SUPPLY CONTRACT. 
          SO, YOU KNOW, WE'VE TALKED ABOUT THIS AT OTHER CONVERSATIONS AND I WON'T BORE EVERYBODY WITH THE DETAILS, BUT I MEAN LIKE OUR ONSITE RE EXCUSE ME, LIKE OUR ONSITE REUSE REQUIREMENTS, THOSE WERE EMBEDDED IN THE LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE. 
          WE CANNOT EXTEND THAT TO ANOTHER SOVEREIGN CITY AS AN EXAMPLE. 
          RIGHT. 
          SO SOME VERY PICAYUNISH DETAILS TOO. 
          UM, I WON'T TAKE UP TOO MUCH TIME CAUSE I KNOW YOU'VE GOT A FULL MEETING, BUT MY QUESTION, WHAT I'M TARGETING IS THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AND THE STATE, WHAT ARE WE DOING TO THEM? SO THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS IS ANOTHER CONSTITUTIONAL ISSUES TO STATE CONSTITUTION. 
          UM, THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS, THIS IS BY CONSTITUTION, A SOVEREIGN BODY. 
          THEY ARE PART OF THE STATE OF TEXAS. 
          AND AS SUCH, THEY OCCUPY A SIMILAR LEVEL OF AUTHORITY AS THE CITY, BUT THEY DO NOT. 
          AND WE CANNOT IMPLEMENT CERTAIN CODES ON ANOTHER SOVEREIGN ENTITY. 
          SO WE, ONCE AGAIN, CANNOT, UM, IMPLY OR ENFORCE OUR LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE ON THE STATE OF TEXAS, ON TRAVIS COUNTY, ON THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AND SO FORTH AND SO ON. 
          I MEAN, AGAIN, IT'S A CONSTITUTIONAL MATTER. 
          UM, WE CONTINUE A GOOD RELATIONSHIP WITH THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS. 
          I PERSONALLY MEET WITH A LOT OF MY OTHER STAFF ON A QUARTERLY BASIS. 
          WE FIND THEM TO BE A GOOD PARTNER. 
          UM, BUT OBVIOUSLY THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HAS THEIR OWN, UM, ORGANIZATIONAL NEEDS AND PRIORITIES. 
          AND SO SOMETIMES THERE ARE SOME DETAILS ABOUT HOW MUCH PARTICULAR WATER CONSERVATION AS, SINCE THAT'S THE TOPIC HERE, UM, THAT THEY'RE ABLE OR WILLING TO ACCOMMODATE. 
          BUT AGAIN, THEY ARE ONE OF OUR LARGER DANCED ON THE AUDIENCE EITHER. 
          THEY'RE ONE OF OUR LARGER RECLAIMED WATER CUSTOMERS. 
          THEY USE A PHENOMENAL AMOUNT OF RECLAIMED WATER ONSITE IN COOLING TOWERS. 
          IT'S HUGE. 
          UM, WE'RE WORKING WITH THEM ON A NUMBER OF OTHER ISSUES. 
          THEY HAVE EXPRESSED INTEREST AND CONTINUE TO PURSUE A PROJECT RELATED TO, UH, SEWER MININGS. 
          SO AGAIN, I DON'T WANT ANYONE TO THINK THAT THEY'RE NOT A GOOD PARTNER, BUT THERE ARE SOME BEATS THAT BASKETBALL ARENA AND THEY DIDN'T DO ANYTHING THEY DID NOT. 
          THEY NOT, UM, YOU KNOW, THEY, THEY WOULD HAVE HAD TO COMPLY WITH STATE REQUIREMENTS THROUGH, AND I'M DRAWING A BLANK ON THE SPECIFIC, UH, SECA REQUIREMENTS, WHICH HASN'T DO SOME PLUMBING EFFICIENCY, BUT WHETHER OR NOT IT GOES TO THE FULL LEVEL THAT WE ANTICIPATE IN OUR OTHER 
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WATERFALL WANT TO DERAIL THE MEETING. 
          LET'S SAY THIS WOULD MAKE A SUGGESTION. 
          I JUST HAVE ONE MORE QUESTION. 
          I'M GOING TO WRAP UP. 
          OKAY. 
          ALL RIGHT. 
          TALK ABOUT THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS THEY'RE TRYING, BUT I THINK THEY COULD BE BROUGHT FURTHER ALONG THE STATE. 
          WE KNOW IS HORRIBLE. 
          WHAT CAN WE DO WITH THEM? SO AGAIN, SAYING SIMILAR CONSTITUTIONAL ISSUE, SAME SOVEREIGNTY ISSUES. 
          UM, WE HAVE WORKED, UH, FROM TIME TO TIME, UH, WITH THE, UM, UH, TEXAS FACILITIES COMMISSION. 
          SO IT TAKES FACILITIES. 
          COMMISSION IS GENERALLY RESPONSIBLE FOR, WELL, I SAY, I THINK WE OUGHT TO DEVELOP A STRATEGY TO COME UP WITH SOMETHING THAT EITHER IS LEGAL OR GOING AND MEETING WITH THEM AND GETTING THEM TO VOLUNTEER, TO DO THE RIGHT THING AND CODIFY IT. 
          SO IT ISN'T JUST, YOU KNOW, IF WE FEEL LIKE AT ONE DAY OR SOMETHING, AND I THINK, CAUSE FOR ALL THIS WATER CONSERVATION WE'RE DOING IS GREAT, BUT WE'VE GOT ALL THESE OTHER PEOPLE OUTSIDE THAT HAVE TO BE BROUGHT INTO THE SAME REQUIREMENTS. 
          I THINK ANYWAYS, I'LL END MY QUESTION. 
          I DIDN'T SAY SO, BILL. 
          I WAS JUST GOING TO SAY, I THINK THAT THIS HAS COME UP MANY, MANY TIMES AND THAT WE NEED TO GET CLEAR ON WHAT'S OR IT WOULD BE GOOD FOR US TO GET CLEAR ON. 
          WE SHOULD HAVE A SEPARATE KIND OF AGENDA ITEM AT A FUTURE MEETING AND MAYBE INVITE A REPRESENTATIVE FROM UT OR SOMETHING OR DO WHATEVER WE'LL FIGURE OUT WHAT TO DO ABOUT THAT. 
          SO WE CAN ALL UNDERSTAND WHAT'S HAPPENING. 
          UM, GO AHEAD. 
          SORRY. 
          I JUST HAVE TWO QUICK QUESTIONS. 
          YOU CAN GIVE ME A YES OR NO ANSWER IS THE CITY OF AUSTIN. 
          THE ONLY FRESH WATER SUPPLIER FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS. 
          I'M SORRY. 
          YOU BROKE UP. 
          IS AUSTIN WATER, THE ONLY FRESH WATER SUPPLIER FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS IN AUSTIN, TEXAS, THAT WOULD BE CORRECT. 
          THE STATE OF TEXAS OFFICE BUILDINGS, THE CONGRESS DOWNTOWN AREA WHERE THE ONLY WATER ONLY WATER AND THEY HAVE WHOLESALE CONTRACTS THAT ARE NEGOTIATED. 
          NO, THEY DO NOT. 
          THEY ARE, THEY ARE BASICALLY WHAT WE WOULD DESCRIBE AS LARGE VOLUME COMMERCIAL CUSTOMERS. 
          SO THEY COME UNDER OUR STANDARD RATES. 
          SO YOU DON'T HAVE A SEPARATE, THOSE, THOSE CUSTOMERS ARE HANDLED UNDER OUR TARIFF ARRANGEMENTS AND OUR GENERAL UTILITY SERVICE PROVISION. 
          SO IT'S, AGAIN, WE CAN CERTAINLY INVITE, UM, FOLKS FROM OUR LAW DEPARTMENT TO COME AND TALK THROUGH THE VERY SPECIFIC DETAILS OF THAT. 
          BUT I MEAN, IT, IT IS DIFFERENT BODY OF LAW AND THERE ARE DIFFERENT, YOU KNOW, RIGHTS AND DUTIES ASSOCIATED WITH ALL OF THIS. 
          AGAIN, LIKE THEY COME UNDER OUR S OUR STANDARD FEE STRUCTURE. 
          THERE'S LIKE A CATEGORY OF OUR FEES AND THAT'S HOW THEY GET CHARGED. 
          OKAY. 
          THAT WAS MY QUESTION. 
          THANK YOU. 
          OKAY. 
          SO DID YOU HAVE A QUESTION? I HAVE A QUESTION ABOUT SOMETHING THAT MARISSA SAID EARLIER. 
          I ACTUALLY HAVE A QUESTION TO YOU FROM WAY BACK. 
          YEAH, GO AHEAD. 
          OKAY. 
          THANK YOU. 
          I THINK MARISA CAN ANSWER IT. 
          THANK YOU, KEVIN. 
          UM, OKAY. 
          I WAS JUST CURIOUS MERISSA UM, IN OUR PACKET ON PAGE FOUR, THE, THE TABLE THAT TALKS ABOUT THE Y 20 METRICS, UM, I WAS JUST LOOKING AT THE GPCD METRICS AND I WAS CURIOUS, UM, WHAT THE F Y 21 PROJECTION IS FOR THAT. 
          AND LIKE, AT WHAT POINT YOU'LL, WE'LL HAVE THE, THE ACTUAL, JUST TO COMPARE BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, I NOTICED THAT THERE WAS A DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE 20, 20, UM, ACTUAL AND PROJECTION. 
          AND I WAS CURIOUS KIND OF WHERE YOU FELT LIKE IT WAS GONNA FALL WITH, UH, THE 21. 
          YEAH. 
          SO WE'RE GOING TO HAVE THAT INFORMATION INCLUDED IN OUR GIN, IN OUR FY 21 ANNUAL REPORT THAT WE'LL BE PRESENTING IN JANUARY, 2022, I THINK RIGHT NOW WE'RE, WE'RE FALLING. 
          IS IT AROUND WHAT, 1 25? UM, IN TERMS OF GPCD AND WHAT DO YOU REMEMBER WHAT THE PROJECTION WAS? UH, THE PROJECTION, WELL, WE'RE, WE'RE, WE'RE A BIT ABOVE THAT BECAUSE ORIGINALLY IN 2018, WHEN WE HAD APPROVED THE PLAN, OUR 2020 PROJECTION WAS AT ONE 17. 
          OKAY. 
          THAT WAS IT. 
          THANK YOU. 
          OKAY. 
          UM, EASY QUESTION, GRATEFULLY. 
          UM, YOU MENTIONED, I THINK, UM, SEVERAL TIMES THAT THINGS WOULD BE, UM, THE ORDINANCES THAT WERE JUST ADOPTED BENCHMARKING AND THE CONNECTION RECLAIM LINE WOULD GO INTO EFFECT DECEMBER 20, 22, BUT IT'S 2021, DECEMBER 27, 20, 20, SORRY. 
          OKAY. 
          I WAS LIKE LOOKING AT THE ORDINANCE ONLINE. 
          I WAS LIKE, OKAY. 
          I WAS LIKE, DID I LOSE MY MIND? OKAY. 
          IT'S 2021. 
          SO, SO, SO THAT WAS SAID MULTIPLE TIMES. 
          SO JUST TO BE CLEAR, 2021 IS WHEN BENCHMARKING THE CONNECTION TO THE RECLAIM LINE COMES INTO A FEW WEEKS AND JUST A FEW WEEKS IT'S COMING, WINTER IS COMING. 
          NO, NOT REALLY. 
          UM, BUT, UH, AND THEN 20, 23 IS, IS, UM, WHEN THE, UM, ON-SITE RODRIGUEZ. 
          YEAH. 
          IT BECOMES MANDATORY FOR, FOR FOLKS AND THERE'LL BE EXEMPTIONS FOR MULTIFAMILY 
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BETWEEN NOW AND THEN. 
          SO, UM, THERE'S, THERE'S A LOT OF TWOS AND TWENTIES AND ALL OF THAT. 
          SO I JUST WANT TO BE, MAKE SURE EVERYONE'S CLEAR ON THAT. 
          OKAY. 
          UM, SO JUST, I MADE A NOTE HERE, BUT, UM, I DO THINK THAT THIS HAS COME UP MANY TIMES, THE QUESTIONS THAT BILL ASKED AND OTHER FOLKS, UM, UH, THAT WE SHOULD CARVE OUT SOME TIME TO TALK ABOUT AND KIND OF UNDERSTAND THAT ISSUE KINDA SPECIFICALLY, LIKE HOW OUR LARGE-SCALE CUSTOMERS TREATED, HOW, HOW, HOW MUCH WATER USED ARE WE TALKING ABOUT, LIKE, WHAT ARE THEY CHARGED AND WHAT ARE THE RULES FOR THESE? I CALL THEM CUSTOMERS THAT ARE, I DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU LIKE UT IN THE CAPITOL. 
          UM, SO, YOU KNOW, WE CAN WORK TO KIND OF PUT SOMETHING TOGETHER FOR THAT AND THE FUTURE, SO WE CAN HAVE A DISCREET DISCUSSION ABOUT IT. 
          I THINK IT, YOU KNOW, THE NUMBER OF TIMES IT'S COME UP HERE AND THERE A BENEFITS CONVERSATION, SO WE CAN UNDERSTAND, UM, WHAT THE MULTI-FAMILY EXEMPTION, I THINK W EITHER THE WATER DEPARTMENT AUDIT ISSUE A POLICY THAT ISN'T GOING TO LET PEOPLE JUST PUT ONE APARTMENT ON A DEVELOPMENT AND ESCAPE THE RULES, THAT THERE HAS TO BE SOMETHING BETTER THAN THAT. 
          I DON'T KNOW WHAT I MEAN. 
          MAYBE GO BACK TO CITY COUNCIL AND MEN AND MEN, THE THING. 
          WELL, LET'S GO BACK AND LOOK AT THE AMENDMENTS THAT WERE FILED. 
          THEY'RE ALL, THEY'RE ALL HERE THAT THE KITCHEN AMENDMENT AND THAT THE, I BELIEVE THERE WAS A TOVA ONE I'M JUST LOOKING AT THEM ARE IN THE, AND SEE IF THERE'S SOME CLARITY THERE AND, AND WE CAN, UM, BUT GOOD POINT. 
          OKAY. 
          SO WHERE ARE WE TO BE B2? OKAY. 
          OVERVIEW OF WATER, F Y 21, OUR FORD ANNUAL REPORT AND PREVIEW THE DRAFT ANNUAL REPORT. 
          CAN YOU THINK OF THIS LIGHTS AND GO TO SLIDE SEVEN, PLEASE? WHAT'S AUSTIN'S FISCAL YEAR AGAIN, I CAN NEVER REMEMBER FISCAL YEAR, OCTOBER 1ST THROUGH THE END OF SEPTEMBER. 
          SO TOBER FIRST. 
          SO AT THE F SO THIS REPORT THAT WE JUST LOOKED AT WAS OCTOBER 1ST, 2019 THROUGH SEPTEMBER 30TH, 2020. 
          AND WHAT WE'RE GOING TO BE TALKING ABOUT AS THE ONE THAT WE'LL GO THROUGH OCTOBER 1ST, 2020 THROUGH SEPTEMBER, 2021, UM, WHICH WE'VE ALREADY LIVED THROUGH. 
          AND THEN WE'RE NOW IN FISCAL YEAR 2022. 
          RIGHT NOW YOU REMEMBER ON FISCAL YEARS FOR EVERYONE. 
          YEAH. 
          YOU CAN GO ONTO THE NEXT SLIDE. 
          THANK YOU. 
          OKAY. 
          SO, UM, JUST A COUPLE OF POINTS ABOUT OUR FISCAL YEAR 21 ANNUAL REPORT, THAT REPORT WILL BE PRESENTED TO THE TASK FORCE IN JANUARY. 
          UM, WE ACTUALLY INCLUDED QUITE A LOT OF, UM, ACTIVITIES IN THIS A YEAR OR SO TO WDB ADOPTED THE 2021 REGION K WATER PLAN DURING THIS FISCAL YEAR, UM, FOR INCLUSION IN THE STATE WATER PLAN, COUNCIL APPROVED THE WATER BENCHMARKING ONSITE, WATER REUSE, AND EXTENSION OF RECLAIMED WATER CONNECTION REQUIREMENTS. 
          UM, THEN MY ATX WATER PILOT WAS COMPLETED. 
          THAT PROJECT CONTINUES, UM, AND WE ACHIEVED INSTALLATION OF A TOTAL ABOUT 14,000 METERS. 
          WE COMPLETED A WATER TREATMENT PLANT METER ACCURACY VALIDATION STUDY, WHICH YOU ALL GOT A PRESENTATION ON FROM THAT COLIN AND A RECENT TASK FORCE MEETING. 
          UM, I ALREADY MENTIONED THE VOLUNTARY RECLAIMED WATER CONNECTION INCENTIVE PROGRAM, AND WE BEGAN OUR ASR PILOT AND PROGRAM MANAGEMENT PROJECT. 
          THE FYI 21 ANNUAL REPORT WILL BE A MULTI PAGE DOCUMENT SIMILAR TO THE  ANNUAL REPORTED, UH, INCLUDE UPDATED, UM, UH, NARRATIVE LANGUAGE, AS WELL AS UPDATES TO THE TABLE OF METRICS THAT YOU SEE IN THE END OF YOUR FYI 20 ANNUAL REPORT. 
          AND I THINK AT THIS POINT IS WHEN I WOULD HAND IT OVER TO CHRISTOPHER CHARLES, UNLESS ANYBODY HAS ANY QUESTIONS HELLO. 
          MY NAME IS, UH, CHRISTOPHER CHARLES, UH, WORKING IN THE WATER CONSERVATION DIVISION. 
          I'VE BEEN WORKING THERE FOR THE PAST 10 YEARS, UM, BEEN IN CHARGE OF OUTDOOR, UH, INCENTIVES. 
          AND SO A LOT OF PEOPLE THAT WANT TO GO INTO THE INCENTIVE PROGRAMS USUALLY GO THROUGH ME. 
          SO, UM, UH, JUST, UM, WANT ME TO LET YOU, UM, SIR, I WANT TO START OFF SAYING THAT WE'VE BEEN, WE'VE BEEN TASKED WITH CREATING THE, UH, LANDSCAPE TRANSFORMATION ORDINANCE, UH, FOR, UM, UH, SINGLE FAMILY, RESIDENTIAL, THE, UH, MULTI-FAMILY AND COMMERCIAL ALREADY HAVE THEIR, UH, ORDINANCES. 
          AND, UM, THE TIMING THAT WAS LISTED ON THE PLAN, YOU KNOW, IT SAID, UH, ON THE, UH, 2018 PLAN SAID, UH, BY 2025, BUT WE KNOW THAT THIS IS A PRIORITY. 
          SO, 
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UH, WE ARE HOPING TO GET THIS DONE BY 2023, AS, UH, SAYS, SHOWED ON THOSE, UM, TIMELINES. 
          UH, NEXT SLIDE PLEASE. 
          UM, THIS, UH, YOU CAN SEE, UH, HERE THAT SINGLE FAMILY RESIDENTIAL HAS BEEN ESTIMATED TO SAVE MORE ACRE FEET OF WATER WITH LANDSCAPE ORDINANCE THAN MULTI-FAMILY RESIDENTIAL AND COMMERCIAL. 
          SO, UM, THIS SAVINGS IS BASED ON THE SAME 10% REDUCTION IN IRRIGATION WATER USE, NEXT SLIDE. 
          SO I KNOW YOU CAN'T SEE THIS TIMELINE, IT'S A DRAFT. 
          UM, JUST WANT TO LET YOU KNOW THAT WE, WHAT WE'VE ALREADY STARTED. 
          UM, WE HAVE, UM, WE WERE WORKING ON, UH, OF COURSE, A TIMELINE, UH, A PLAN, UH, THAT INCLUDES, UH, UH, MAKING DATES FOR, UH, STAKEHOLDERS, UM, YOU KNOW, WHAT TYPE OF ACTIVITIES WE'RE GOING TO HAVE FOR THESE, UM, STAKEHOLDERS. 
          UH, AND THEN, UM, THIS WOULD ALL TAKE PLACE BASICALLY IN THE SPRING OF 2022. 
          UM, AND THEN IN THE FALL OF 2022, WE ARE HOPING TO HAVE CODE REVIEW AND CODE LANGUAGE WRITTEN. 
          SO RIGHT NOW, LIKE I SAID, IT'S IN THE PLANNING STAGES, UH, THAT'S A DRAFT TIMELINE. 
          IT'S NOT CORRECT. 
          WE'RE, WE'VE ALREADY GATHERED INFORMATION FROM OTHER CITIES ON THEIR LANDSCAPE ORDINANCES. 
          UM, WE'VE STARTED TALKING TO HOME BUILDERS AND, UM, CREATED A, UH, A LIST OF, OF WHAT WE BELIEVE OUR STAKEHOLDERS, IF YOU WANT TO GO TO THE NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE. 
          UM, AND YOU KNOW, THE ACTIVITIES WHERE WE'RE SORT OF SCOPING THAT OUT. 
          UM, I ALWAYS LIKED THIS. 
          THIS IS, UH, AN EXAMPLE FROM, UH, JANUARY, 2012, UH, FOR THE, UH, SIX FOR WATER CONSERVATION CODE REVISIONS. 
          UM, THIS IS WHERE WE GOT A BUNCH OF PEOPLE TOGETHER AND WE TOLD THEM, JUST WRITE WHAT YOU WANT TO WRITE ON A PIECE OF, YOU KNOW, ON OUR POSTER BOARDS AND YOU GET ALL SORT OF, YOU KNOW, COMMENTS AND, AND, AND, UH, IDEAS. 
          AND THAT'S WHAT WE WANT. 
          WE WANT TO TRY TO GET AS MANY OPTIONS AND IDEAS ON THE TAPE ON THE TABLE. 
          SO WE WERE PLANNING TO HAVE INTERNAL STAKEHOLDER MEETINGS, WHICH INCLUDES, YOU KNOW, CITY STAFF, EXTERNAL, UM, STAKEHOLDER MEETINGS, UH, ONLINE PUBLIC COMMENT, UM, UH, FOR THOSE THAT CAN'T MAKE THE, UH, PUBLIC, UH, MEETINGS. 
          AND OF COURSE, UM, YOU KNOW, TRY TO GET, UM, ALL OF THIS, UH, DONE IN A TIMELINE THAT INCLUDES, YOU KNOW, LEGAL OR VIEW AFFORDABILITY, IMPACT STUDIES, UH, AND OF COURSE, BOARDS, COMMISSIONS, AND, AND FINALLY, UM, COUNCIL APPROVAL, NEXT SLIDE. 
          SO SOME OF THE GROUPS THAT WE'RE THINKING ABOUT, YOU KNOW, WE'VE, THERE'S GOING TO BE MORE, THIS IS NOT THE WHOLE LIST, BUT WE HAVE, UM, THE HOME BUILDERS ASSOCIATION, WHICH HAS ALREADY, UM, OF GREATER AUSTIN THAT HAS ALREADY COME UP WITH A PAMPHLET ON SENSIBLE LANDSCAPES. 
          AND THEY, THEY ARE, UM, UM, UH, A LITTLE BIT AHEAD OF THE GAME HERE. 
          THEY, THEY KNEW THAT WE HAD THIS ON THE, UH, 2018 PLAN THAT WE WERE THINKING ABOUT PUTTING IT ON THERE. 
          AND SO THEY CAME UP WITH THEIR OWN IDEAS, UM, THAT ARE TOTALLY VOLUNTARY RIGHT NOW. 
          UM, AND THE, UH, UH, CENTRAL TEXAS, UH, PROFESSIONAL IRRIGATION ASSOCIATION, OF COURSE, ASHLEIGH, UH, LMR, ELEANOR MCKINNEY, AND THOSE TYPES OF PEOPLE WILL BE ASKED TO JOIN THESE GROUPS. 
          UM, UH, THE TNLA INTERNAL, WE HAVE THE WATERSHED PROTECTION DEVELOPMENT SERVICES, AUSTIN ENERGY GREEN BUILDING, THE, UH, WATER WASTEWATER COMMISSION RMC. 
          UM, OF COURSE YOU GUYS, AND, UH, EQUITY OFFICE, NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE. 
          AND SOME OF THE OPTIONS, UH, THAT WE ARE CURRENTLY LOOKING AT IN OUR OFFICE, UM, AND THIS IS COMING FROM OUR OFFICE, OF COURSE, YOU KNOW, WE'LL HAVE LOTS OF, LOTS OF OPTIONS, BUT, UH, SOME OF THE IDEAS THAT WE HAD, UH, ENHANCED, UH, POST INSTALLATION INSPECTIONS, OR WE WOULD GO OUT AND LOOK AT IRRIGATION SYSTEMS, UM, REQUIRE, UH, PRESSURE REGULATING COMPONENTS, UH, PRESSURE IS ALWAYS A CONCERN, UM, FOR IRRIGATION SYSTEMS, UH, AND THEN LIMIT THE IRRIGATION AREA. 
          SO, UH, THAT, THAT WOULD BE SOME OPTIONS THERE, LANDSCAPE OPTIONS WE WOULD, WE'RE THINKING ABOUT, UM, REQUIRING LANDSCAPE PLAN TO BE SUBMITTED, UH, YOU KNOW, EH, UH, UH, HAVE LIKE MODEL HOMES, UM, THAT MIGHT SHOW WHAT A WATER-WISE LANDSCAPE MIGHT, MIGHT BE LIKE, AND THEN, UM, UH, LIMIT TURF GRASS AREA. 
          UM, YOU KNOW, THESE ARE JUST, UH, UH, YOU KNOW, LIKE I SAID, THESE ARE JUST SOME OF THE OPTIONS, 
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UM, NEXT SLIDE. 
          ALL RIGHT. 
          SO, LIKE I SAID, UM, I'M GOING TO BE, UM, UM, LEADING THIS EFFORT AND NORTHERN CONSERVATION DIVISION. 
          SO, UM, I WILL BE, YOU KNOW, IN CHARGE OF SETTING UP MEETINGS AND EVERYTHING, IF YOU WANT TO CONTACT ME, UM, FOR ANY OTHER QUESTIONS YOU MIGHT HAVE, UH, ON THIS EFFORT, I WAS PART OF, LIKE I SAID, PART OF THE, UH, SIX, FOUR ORDINANCE ADOPTIONS AND, UH, HAVE, HAVE EXPERIENCE WITH THAT. 
          ANY QUESTIONS? YES. 
          AND EXTERNAL STAKEHOLDERS. 
          YES. 
          I WANTED TO SUGGEST THAT YOU ALSO ADD THE ENVIRONMENTAL COMMISSION, UM, ESPECIALLY KIND OF WITH THE PICTURE YOU SHOWED. 
          IT FEELS TO ME LIKE, UM, THERE'S A GOOD OPPORTUNITY FOR OVERLAP HERE WITH, YOU KNOW, WATER QUALITY, UM, IMPROVEMENT IN MY DISTRICT IN DISTRICT FIVE. 
          I SEE A LOT OF, UM, THE NEW CONSTRUCTION IS MUCH GREATER IMPERVIOUS COVER AND SMALLER AMOUNTS OF LAWN ACTUALLY. 
          SO FROM A WATER CONSERVATION PERSPECTIVE, THAT'S GOOD, BUT IT MIGHT BE, YOU KNOW, SORT OF BAD FOR STORMWATER. 
          AND, BUT IT SEEMS LIKE THERE'S A POTENTIAL FOR OVERLAP FOR, YOU KNOW, UM, RAIN GARDENS AND THESE KINDS OF THINGS TO HELP WITH RUNOFF, AS WELL AS USING THAT, THE LANDSCAPING TO, AND TO NOT USE THE DRINKING WATER FOR WATERING. 
          SO I THINK THE ENVIRONMENTAL COMMISSION HAS A LOT OF THAT PERSPECTIVE. 
          YEAH. 
          AND WE WORK CLOSELY WITH WATERSHED PROTECTION AND PART OF THE RAIN CATCHERS PROGRAM. 
          AND WE DO PROMOTE, AND WE BOTH, UH, ENTITIES PROMOTE THE, UH, RAINWATER HARVESTING AND, UM, UH, RAIN, WATER-WISE RAIN, SCAPES, ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? UM, CHRISTOPHER, THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR YOUR PRESENTATION. 
          WE REALLY LOOK FORWARD TO THIS. 
          THIS IS A REALLY IMPORTANT COMPONENT. 
          AND IF FOLKS CAN SEE THE SAVINGS ARE A BIG PART OF OUR FUTURE WATER SUPPLY, UM, I THINK, UM, ON TOP OF MY MIND WITH THIS IS, AND THIS PLAYS INTO THE LANDSCAPE TRANSFORMATION AND KIND OF WHAT, WHAT OUR COMMUNITY'S GONNA LOOK LIKE IN THE FUTURE, BUT ALSO INTO WATER WATER FOR 24 AND, AND WHAT OUR DEMAND IS GOING TO LOOK LIKE, UM, IS THAT I AM SEEING MORE AND MORE IRRIGATION SYSTEMS GO IN AND EAST AUSTIN WHERE I LIVE, WHERE THERE PREVIOUSLY HASN'T BEEN ANY. 
          SO THERE'S A LOT OF NEW CONSTRUCTION AND ALL OF THEM ARE COMING WITH IRRIGATION SYSTEMS. AND I REMEMBER WHEN WE DEVELOPED WATERFORD 18, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE LOOKED AT WAS, UM, YOU KNOW, THE WATER USE PATTERNS IN DIFFERENT PARTS OF THE CITY, AND WE HAVE A DIS-AGGREGATED DEMAND MODEL. 
          AND, AND, UM, AND IN, UM, EAST AUSTIN, THERE JUST, THERE WASN'T A LOT OF OUTER OUTDOOR, AUTOMATIC IRRIGATION, BUT THAT IS COMING. 
          I MEAN, I CAN THINK OF LIKE A DOZEN THAT EXISTS NOW THAT DIDN'T EXIST, YOU KNOW, PROBABLY LIKE A YEAR AGO WITHIN WALKING DISTANCE OF MY HOUSE. 
          SO, UM, YOU KNOW, AS WATER USE PATTERNS CHANGE AND, UM, YOU KNOW, NEIGHBORHOODS CHANGE, THEN THOSE KINDS OF THINGS COME ON AND CHANGE OUR WATER USE PROFILE TOO. 
          SO THIS WILL BE REALLY IMPORTANT, UM, TO GET OUT AHEAD OF THAT, ALTHOUGH IT'S AHEAD OF US RIGHT NOW, BUT YEAH, AND WE HAVE, LIKE I SAID, WE'VE TALKED TO SOME HOME BUILDERS AND THEY SAY THAT THEY GIVE THEM THE OPTION, UH, FOR IRRIGATION SYSTEMS, BUT THEY MAKE IT SO INCENTIVIZING TO JUST GO AHEAD AND DO IT, UM, BECAUSE IT'S, IT'S CHEAPER FOR THEM JUST TO GO HOSPITAL HOUSE AND INSTALL THESE, UM, THAN TO TELL THEM NOT TO AND SKIP ANOTHER HOUSE OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT. 
          SO DEFINITELY GREAT. 
          VERY MUCH. 
          LOOK FORWARD TO HEARING MORE ABOUT IT AS YOU GO THROUGH. 
          OKAY. 
          UM, 
          [2.c. Water Forward 2024 Planning Update]
WE'RE GOING TO MOVE ON TO THE WATER FOR 2024 PLANNING UPDATE. 
          AM I CORRECT? YES. 
          AND TIME CHECK. 
          IT IS 1254. 
          WE HAVE UNTIL TWO AND PERRY HAS UNTIL ONE 30. 
          GREAT. 
          SO WE WANTED TO JUST GIVE A UPDATE, AN UPDATE ON OUR PLANNING PROCESS, GEARING UP FOR THE WATERFORD 2024 UPDATE. 
          WE'RE GOING TO BEGIN THAT PROCESS IN EARNEST IN JANUARY. 
          AT THAT TIME, WE'LL HAVE MORE INFORMATION ON SOME OF THE TASKS THAT WILL BE STARTING HERE AT THE BEGINNING OF THE PROCESS. 
          YOU CAN MOVE ON TO THE NEXT SIDE, JUST AS A REMINDER, THIS IS OUR PLANNED PROGRESSION OF TASKS. 
          OF COURSE, THIS IS A VERY HIGH LEVEL TASK. 
          ONE IS PROJECT 
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MANAGEMENT TASK TWO IS COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT, AND THOSE TASKS WILL LAST THROUGHOUT THE DURATION OF THE PROJECT. 
          THERE'LL BE KEY COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT PHASES THAT WE'LL BE OUTLINING IN OUR EDUCATION AND ENGAGEMENT PLAN AS WE MOVE FORWARD. 
          UM, ONE OF OUR FIRST TASKS IS TO REFINE OUR PLANNING METHODOLOGY AND TASK THREE, OUR TASKS, FOUR AND FIVE INCLUDE FORECASTING, BASELINE, WATER DEMANDS, AND PROJECTIONS, AND UPDATING OUR CLIMATE AND ANALYSIS. 
          AND WE'LL USE THAT INFORMATION TO UPDATE OUR IDENTIFICATION OF WATER SUPPLY NEEDS. 
          FROM THAT, UH, INFORMATION WE'LL BE IDENTIFYING SCREENING AND CHARACTERIZING SCRATCH STRATEGIES, AND WE'LL BE DEVELOPING AND EVALUATING 50 YEAR WATER RESOURCE PORTFOLIOS, AS WELL AS, UH, DEVELOPING A 100 YEAR ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT PLAN AND OUR FINAL PLAN RECOMMENDATIONS TO BE INCLUDED IN THE FINAL PLAN REPORT AT THE END OF THIS PROCESS. 
          UM, SOME OF Y'ALL WERE HERE FOR THE LAST PLANNING PROCESS, BUT SOME OF Y'ALL, THIS WILL BE FAIRLY NEW. 
          WE, UM, WE'LL BE GOING TO COUNCIL ULTIMATELY FOR THEIR APPROVAL OF THE WATERFORD PLAN AS A WHOLE, UH, NEXT SLIDE. 
          WE LAST PROVIDED AN OVERVIEW OF OUR PLAN SCOPE IN MAY OF 2021. 
          AND SINCE THAT TIME, WE HAVE CONTINUED REFINEMENT OF THAT SCOPE AS WELL AS TECHNICAL WORK RELATED TO DEMOGRAPHICS AND DEMAND FORECASTING. 
          I MENTIONED OUR WORK WITH UT ON THE CLIMATE AND HYDROLOGY ANALYSIS, AND WE'VE ALSO REVISED OUR TASK SIX THROUGH NINE AND ALIGNMENT WITH OUR UPDATED METHODOLOGY. 
          SO, UM, HERE IS WHERE I'M GOING TO HAND IT OVER TO HELEN GORILLA. 
          SHE'S GOING TO TALK YOU THROUGH THAT UPDATED METHODOLOGY, AND WE'RE GOING TO CYCLE THROUGH SOME MEMBERS OF OUR TEAM OF OUR WATER RESOURCES TEAM TO PROVIDE THE VARIOUS COMPONENTS OF THIS PRESENTATION. 
          SO I'LL GO AHEAD AND HAND IT OVER TO HELEN. 
          THANKS, RESA. 
          UM, HELLO EVERYBODY. 
          CAN WE ADVANCE TO THE NEXT SLIDE PLEASE? SO I'LL BE DISCUSSING SOME KEY METHODOLOGY CHANGES, UM, FROM WATERFORD 18 FOR THIS NEW PROCESS. 
          UM, ONE OF THE THINGS WE WANT TO DO FOR WATERFORD 24 IS DESCRIBE, UH, THE PLAN'S RELATIONSHIP TO OTHER RELATED AUSTIN WATER AND CITY OF AUSTIN EFFORTS. 
          SO THAT BASICALLY JUST MEANS DESCRIBING MORE CLEARLY, UM, WHAT THE WATERFORD PLAN, UM, IS PLANNING FOR AND WHAT IT ISN'T. 
          UM, AND SO FOR EXAMPLE, ITS RELATIONSHIP TO, UM, OTHER CITY OF AUSTIN EFFORTS, LIKE THE OFFICE OF SUSTAINABILITY RESILIENCE PLANNING, OR OTHER AUSTIN WATER EFFORTS, LIKE A WINTER STORM PLANNING, WE ALSO WANT TO HAVE A CLEARER APPROACH TO OUR WATER NEEDS IDENTIFICATION. 
          UM, FOLKS MIGHT REMEMBER FROM THE WATERFORD 2018 PLAN, UM, WE HAD MANY DIFFERENT TYPES OF NEED, AND SO WE'RE PLANNING TO CAPTURE THE SAME COMPLEXITIES IN THIS PROCESS, BUT WANT TO DO THAT IN A CLEARER WAY, BY CLASSIFYING THOSE DIFFERENTLY IN DIFFERENT PARTS OF THE PROCESS, WE'LL ALSO BE UPDATING OUR CHARACTERIZATION OF THE STRATEGIES FROM WATERFORD 18 BASED ON THEIR IMPLEMENTATION, UM, AND DEVELOPING A PROCESS TO ASSESS NEW STRATEGIES WE'LL WANT, UH, DEVELOP BETTER ALIGNMENT, UM, WITH THE WATERFORD DATA PRODUCTS, UM, FOR REGIONAL WATER PLANNING CONSIDERATIONS SINCE, UH, DEVELOPMENT OF THE WATERFORD 18 PLAN, WE'VE GONE THROUGH A REGION K PLANNING CYCLE. 
          AND SO WE NOW HAVE A BETTER SENSE OF WHAT THE SPECIFIC DATA NEEDS ARE, UM, TO SEE MORE SEAMLESSLY INTEGRATE WITH THAT PLANNING PROCESS AND THE WATERFORD 24 PLAN. 
          WE'RE PLANNING ON DEVELOPMENT OF AN EQUITY AND AFFORDABILITY TOOL, AS WELL AS A ROADMAP. 
          AND WE'RE PLANNING TO TAKE A MORE ROBUST APPROACH TO ADDRESSING RISK AND UNCERTAINTY. 
          AND SO THIS, WHAT ARE WE TALKING ABOUT? YEAH, THAT'S ACTUALLY, THAT'S MY NEXT SLIDE. 
          WANT TO GO AHEAD? JUST WANT TO SAY, UM, YES, YOU, YOU HAVE BEEN THROUGH A REGIONAL WATER PLANNING PROCESS WITH WATER FORWARD AND I SERVE ON THE REGION K PLANNING GROUP AS ALONG WITH THERESA, FROM CITY OF AUSTIN. 
          SO, UM, WATCH THAT PROCESS AND IT WAS A LITTLE DIFFICULT AT TIMES BECAUSE, UM, IT'S NOT NECESSARILY DESIGNED TO INCORPORATE THESE TYPES OF STRATEGIES. 
          UM, MY UNDERSTANDING IS, UM, THROUGH A TECHNICAL WORKSHOP WITH THE BOARD AND THEN THROUGH SOME COMMENTS THAT WE PUT IN AND STUFF THEY'RE GOING TO BE REVISING THEIR, UM, THEIR REGIONAL WATER PLANNING GUIDANCE. 
          UM, AND THEY'RE TALKING ABOUT, UM, IN THE WORKSHOP, SOME WAYS TO INCORPORATE, YOU KNOW, ONE OF WATER TYPE STRATEGIES. 
          AND I KNOW THEY'VE BEEN TALKING TO AUSTIN TOO, SO THERE MAY NOT ONLY BE US ADAPTING TO FIT INTO THAT, BUT THEN THEY CAN ADAPT TO TRY TO KIND OF MEET US WHERE WE ARE A LITTLE BIT, ALTHOUGH WE ARE A LOT MORE NIMBLE THAN THE STATE PLANNING PROCESS. 
          I THINK IT'S A SAFE THING TO SAY. 
          SO, UM, UH, BUT ANYWAY, SO, SO IT'S HAPPENING ON BOTH SIDES, BUT, UM, ANY, ANY WAYS THAT, THAT I CAN HELP TO AS A MEMBER OF THAT PLANNING GROUP, LET ME KNOW. 
          AWESOME. 
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THANKS JENNIFER. 
          GREAT POINT. 
          SO IF WE GO TO THE NEXT SLIDE, I'LL TALK A LITTLE BIT MORE APPROACH FOR ADDRESSING UNCERTAINTY. 
          AND SO A ONE APPROACH THAT IS JUST DOING SOME LESS DETERMINISTIC MODELING, UM, CONSIDERING MORE RANGES. 
          MANY OF THE INPUTS WE USE FOR THE WATERFORD PLANNING PROCESS ARE CONSIDERED, UM, VERY UNCERTAIN, ESPECIALLY OVER THE A HUNDRED YEAR TIMEFRAME THAT WE'RE LOOKING AT. 
          AND SO THESE ARE INPUTS THAT ARE DIFFICULT TO PREDICT OR MODEL ACCURATELY, AND THAT'S THINGS LIKE CLIMATE CHANGE OR WHAT DEMANDS ARE GOING TO BE LIKE IN A HUNDRED YEARS. 
          AND SO RATHER THAN TRYING TO PREDICT WHAT WILL HAPPEN OR JUST PLANNING, UM, TO THE AVERAGE OF ALL OF THOSE EVENTS, UM, FOR THIS PROCESS, WE WANT TO TRY EVALUATING, UM, OUR STRATEGIES AND OUR PLAN AGAINST MANY POSSIBLE FUTURES AND DETERMINING HOW THEY PERFORM. 
          AND SO FOR THIS WATERFORD 24 UPDATE, WE'RE GOING TO TRY TO INCORPORATE SOME OF THOSE CONSIDERATIONS THROUGH THINGS LIKE USING RANGES FOR INPUT PARAMETERS, UM, INCLUDING A SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS STEP TO GATHER DATA ON THE STRATEGIES BEFORE PORTFOLIO DEVELOPMENT AND EVALUATION AND DEVELOPING A TRULY ROBUST ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT PLAN THAT LOOKS AT SYSTEM STRESSORS AND IDENTIFIES RESPONSE STRATEGIES FOR THOSE. 
          AND SO IF, UH, GO AHEAD FIRST. 
          I LIKE HOW YOU DESCRIBE IT AS PLANNING FOR MANY POSSIBLE FUTURES. 
          I THINK THAT'S LIKE A PHRASE THAT A LOT OF PEOPLE CAN REALLY GET THEIR HEAD AROUND. 
          CAUSE I KNOW SOMETIMES IT'S JUST HARD TO UNDERSTAND HOW LIKE THIS MODELING REALLY WORKS. 
          AND SO, UM, I THINK THAT'S A HELPFUL PHRASE, BUT I WAS JUST CURIOUS, UM, WHO YOU ALL ARE GOING TO BE WORKING WITH ON THAT. 
          SURE. 
          SO, UM, WE HAVE, UH, OUR CLIMATE CONSULTANT WHO WILL BE HELPING US DEVELOP THE, UM, CALL IT THE RANGE OF CLIMATE VARIABLES. 
          UM, WE'LL LIKELY TO BE LOOKING AT SEVERAL DIFFERENT CLIMATE SCENARIOS AND WE'RE WORKING WITH OUR CITY DEMOGRAPHER TO DEVELOP DEMANDS. 
          UM, AND WE'VE GOT OUR HYDROLOGIST WHO WILL BE, UM, DEVELOPING INFLOWS BASED ON THOSE, UM, HYDROLOGY, UH, OUTPUTS FROM THE CLIMATE MODELING. 
          AND THEN WE'RE PLANNING TO, UM, COLLABORATE WITH OTHERS THROUGH LUCA, UM, WHO HAVE MAYBE DONE SOME SIMILAR, MORE PROBABILISTIC, UM, MODELING, UM, SO WE CAN LEVERAGE THEIR KNOWLEDGE. 
          OKAY. 
          I'LL JUST MENTION THAT IN THIS PLAN, UPDATE PROCESS, WE'RE ANTICIPATING UTILIZING A LOT MORE STAFF RESOURCES, UM, TO, TO SUPPORT THE TECHNICAL WORK. 
          SO ESPECIALLY WHEN WE TALK THROUGH LIKE THIS PLANNING METHODOLOGY, UM, A LOT OF THIS WORK WILL BE DRIVEN BY STAFF WORKING WITH SOME ADDITIONAL, YOU KNOW, FOLKS AT HELEN MENTIONED. 
          UM, DO WE HAVE A CLIMATE CONSULTANT? YEAH, MERISSA MENTIONED IT. 
          IT'S OUR, UH, WE HAVE A CONTRACT WITH THE UTI GROUP. 
          UM, SO IT'S SEVERAL, UH, ACADEMICS THAT UT AND THEIR STUDENTS WILL BE PERFORMING THE WORK. 
          UM, DID YOU GET YOUR QUESTION ANSWERED HAITI? SO I GUESS THE RESULT OF ALL THIS IS TO BE BETTER PREPARED FOR AND FREEZES, UM, LACK OF RAIN, YOU KNOW, THINGS THAT ARE CHANGING WITH THE CLIMATE. 
          YEAH. 
          I THINK A KEY OUTPUT WILL BE THIS ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT PLAN. 
          SO WE'LL BE ABLE TO IDENTIFY A SYSTEM STRESSORS. 
          SO IF WE'RE TRENDING MAYBE TOWARDS A WARMER CLIMATE OR LOW INFLOWS, WE'LL HAVE IDENTIFIED STRATEGIES THAT ARE NEEDED TO MEET THAT SPECIFIC TREND. 
          AND THERE'LL BE OTHER PATHWAYS THAT WE HAVE OTHER STRATEGIES IDENTIFIED FOR DEPENDING ON KIND OF HOW THE FUTURE IS PLAYING OUT. 
          I CAN ALSO, UH, IF YOU CAN ADVANCE ONE MORE SLIDE, I'VE GOT A GRAPHIC HERE THAT GOES THROUGH A LITTLE BIT MORE OF THE METHODOLOGY, WHICH MIGHT HELP ANSWER SOME OF THESE QUESTIONS AS WELL. 
          UM, AND SO THE OUTLINE HERE JUST LAYS OUT KIND OF ALL THE WAY THROUGH DEFINING THE NEEDS TO, UM, SELECTING THE BEST SOLUTION. 
          AND IT'S, UM, KEYING OFF OF THE WATERFORD 18 PLAN, UM, THAT ESSENTIALLY JUST ADDING A FEW STEPS TO HELP, UM, WITH THIS, UH, TO GATHER MORE DATA FOR OUR EVALUATION OF UNCERTAINTY. 
          SO STARTING WITH THAT, WE'LL BE DEVELOPING MODELING SCENARIOS, WHICH INCLUDE THOSE, UM, RANGES OF POSSIBLE FUTURES BASED ON THE DIFFERENT INPUTS THAT WE'RE PUTTING IN. 
          UM, SO AGAIN, THAT COULD BE THINGS SUCH AS DEMAND OR CLIMATE. 
          UM, HAVING A RANGE OF THOSE TO LOOK AT, WE'LL ALSO BE UPDATING THE CHARACTERIZATION OF THE WATERFORD 18 STRATEGIES BASED ON THEIR IMPLEMENTATION OVER THE LAST FEW YEARS. 
          UM, AND COMBINING THOSE WITH THE MODELING SCENARIOS TO DO OUR PRELIMINARY NEEDS ASSESSMENT, WHICH WILL PROVIDE US THE MAGNITUDE OF THE NEEDS THAT WE'RE GOING 
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TO PLAN FOR. 
          AND THEN IN THE NEXT STEP, WE'LL BE, UM, WE'LL HAVE A PROCESS TO IDENTIFY A SCREEN AND CHARACTERIZE ANY ADDITIONAL WATER MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES IN THIS, UM, WATERFORD 24 PROCESS. 
          AND THEN WE'LL BE TESTING THE STRATEGIES AS WELL AS COMBINATIONS OF STRATEGIES IN THIS ITERATIVE SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS THAT SHOWN THERE. 
          AND THAT'LL BE DEVELOPING INFORMATION ABOUT THE PERFORMANCE OF THOSE STRATEGIES AGAINST ALL THESE POSSIBLE FUTURES, SO THAT WE HAVE THAT INFORMATION AND WE CAN USE THEM TO BUILD PORTFOLIOS AND THE NEXT STEP. 
          SO AFTER WE HAVE THAT, UM, SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS DATA, WE'LL BE CONSTRUCTING 50 YEAR PORTFOLIOS FOR FURTHER EVALUATION. 
          UM, AND THAT'S THE TRADE OFF ANALYSIS SHOWN THERE. 
          AND THAT'LL LOOK VERY SIMILAR TO THE WATERFORD 18 PROCESS WHERE WE'VE GOT CRITERIA AND OBJECTIVES AND SUB OBJECTIVES, UM, AND WEIGHTINGS TO KIND OF EVALUATE THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE PORTFOLIOS. 
          WE'LL ALSO BE USING THE SENSITIVE SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS DATA TO CONDUCT A VULNERABILITY ASSESSMENT, TO IDENTIFY THOSE SYSTEMS STRESSORS THAT'LL FEED INTO THE ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT PLAN. 
          AND SO THE FINAL RESULT WILL BE THE PREFERRED 50 YEAR PORTFOLIO BASED ON THE TRADE-OFF ANALYSIS THAT LAYS OUT THE MORE NEAR TERM STRATEGIES AND IMPLEMENTATION NEAR TERM BEING 50 YEARS IN THIS CASE, AS WELL AS OUR ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT PLAN, WHICH GOES OUT OVER THE FULL HUNDRED YEAR TIMEFRAME AND INCORPORATES THE SYSTEM STRESSORS AND THE DIFFERENT RESPONSE STRATEGIES, UM, TO, TO ADDRESS THOSE STRESSORS. 
          AND, UH, I THINK I MENTIONED IT BEFORE, BUT WE'LL ALSO HAVE AN EQUITY AND AFFORDABILITY ANALYSIS OF THOSE FINAL PRODUCTS WOULD BE A, UM, OUTCOME OF THE PLAN AS WELL. 
          UM, SO I BELIEVE THAT SARAH HAD A QUESTION AND THEN DID YOU HAVE A QUESTION, VANESSA? OKAY. 
          LIKE WATER FOR 24, CHOOSE YOUR OWN ADVENTURE. 
          UH, OKAY. 
          BILL, UM, DO YOU EXPECT THE RA POPULATION NUMBERS TO CHANGE? AND I WOULD PRESUME THAT CHANGE WOULD BE GO HIGHER. 
          IN OTHER WORDS, THE POPULATION PROJECTIONS THAT YOU MADE IN WF 18, YOU EXPECT THOSE TO INCREASE OR STAY THE SAME? NO, I CAN'T ANSWER THAT. 
          OKAY. 
          UM, SO WE'LL BE WORKING WITH OUR CITY DEMOGRAPHER. 
          WE HAVE A NEW CITY, DEMOGRAPHER ALILA VALENCIA RYAN ROBINSON HAS RETIRED. 
          I'LL BE WORKING WITH HER TO UPDATE OUR HUNDRED YEAR POPULATION PROJECTION. 
          AT THIS POINT IN TIME. 
          I CAN'T TELL YOU WHETHER OR NOT WE WILL BE INCREASINGLY IMPORTANT THIS TIME. 
          I DO KNOW THAT WE, UH, FROM 2010 THROUGH 2020, WE GREW SLIGHTLY LESS QUICKLY THAN WE THOUGHT WE WOULD. 
          SO A LITTLE BIT LOWER GROWTH THAN WE HAD ANTICIPATED, BUT I THINK IT WAS VERY MINOR. 
          I DON'T THINK WE KIND OF VASTLY UNDERSHOT THE 20, 20 PROJECTION. 
          UM, I THINK, YOU KNOW, LOOKING FURTHER OUT INTO THE FUTURE, IF THAT, UH, YOU KNOW, IF WE WERE GONNA SHOOT FOR KIND OF AN AVERAGE TREND, MAYBE WE'D BE ABOUT THE SAME OR A LITTLE BIT LOWER, BUT I, AND THE ONLY REASON THIS IS IMPORTANT TO ME IS IT COULD BRING THINGS FORWARD FASTER. 
          IF THE POPULATION IS IN THE NEAR TERM IS GROWING EVEN FASTER THAN WE PROJECTED. 
          BUT ANYWAYS, YOUR ANSWER IS, YOU DON'T KNOW AT THIS TIME. 
          AND I APPRECIATE THAT THE AFFORDABILITY STUDY, UH, AND I THINK WE HAD THIS GO ROUND WITH THE HOUSING DEPARTMENT A LITTLE BIT. 
          AND I THINK THE WAY THEY DO THE AFFORDABILITY STUDIES IS THEY DON'T INCLUDE THE, UH, THE EFFECT OF CHEAPER WATER. 
          AND I THINK THE, UH, AND YOU KNOW WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT, RIGHT? IN OTHER WORDS, IF YOU, THE WAY THEY DO IT, IF YOU INVEST MONEY, THAT'S LIKE, THERE'S NO RECOVERY ON IT. 
          AND IN MY WORLD, OF COURSE, YOU WOULD MAKE AN INVESTMENT AND THEN OVER TIME YOU'D RECOVER IT. 
          SO I PRESUME YOU'RE GOING TO DO THE AFFORDABILITY, THE LATTER VERSUS THE FORMER, RIGHT. 
          WE'RE TRYING TO TAKE A HOLISTIC VIEW OF THE STRATEGIES IN TERMS OF COST AND AFFORDABILITY. 
          WE HAVE, UM, HOUSING AND PLANNING STAFF WHO ARE EX-OFFICIO MEMBERS OF THIS TASK FORCE AND WHO WILL BE WORKING WITH US. 
          THIS WORK CONTINUES, UM, ESPECIALLY ON OUR EQUITY AND AFFORDABILITY PROGRAM, DO THEIR AFFORDABILITY. 
          THEY SHOULD ADOPT THIS APPROACH VERSUS WHAT I WAS KIND OF HEARING FROM THEM. 
          I DO THINK THAT THEY TAKE INTO ACCOUNT RETURN ON INVESTMENT OVER TIME, BUT IT MIGHT BE IN A LITTLE BIT MORE LIMITED FASHION THAN WE WOULD, UH, THINKING KIND OF LONG-TERM ABOUT WATER, SUPPLY BENEFITS AND COSTS. 
          THANK YOU. 
          I DID WANT TO MENTION ONE OTHER THING. 
          UM, WHEN WE'RE UPDATING OUR CHARACTERIZATION OF THE WATERFORD 2018 STRATEGIES, YOU KNOW, THAT'S A KEY COMPONENT. 
          WE'RE GOING TO HAVE NEW INFORMATION BASED ON HOW OUR IMPLEMENTATION HAS PROCEEDED SINCE THE ADOPTION OF THE LAST PLAN AND, UM, THOSE WATERFORD 2018 STRATEGIES THAT ARE UNDERWAY, UM, WILL, UH, FORM KIND OF A BASIS 
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FOR THE PORTFOLIO AS WE MOVE INTO OUR PRELIMINARY NEEDS ASSESSMENT. 
          AND AS WE'RE KIND OF GENERATING THE PORTFOLIOS THAT WE'LL BE LOOKING AT AND THE, UH, PORTFOLIO EVALUATION TASK. 
          RIGHT. 
          AND SO ONE OF THE THINGS THAT I'VE SEEN THAT I THINK IS, IS A BIT OF A CHANGE AND, AND, UM, AND, UH, I THINK IT'S, IT'S PROBABLY A GOOD, GOOD CHANGE, UM, IS THAT, THAT WE'RE HAVING THIS, THIS 50 YEAR KIND OF PORTFOLIO, THEN WE GOT THAT FOR THE HUNDRED YEARS. 
          SO WE'RE NOT PRESUMING THAT WE KNOW THE STRATEGIES THAT WE NEED A HUNDRED YEARS OUT. 
          SO WE'VE GOT THIS, LIKE, THIS IS, THIS IS PRETTY CLEAR WHAT WE THINK WE NEED TO DO FOR THE NEXT 50 YEARS THEN, THEN, UM, BUT WE ALSO HAVE THIS ADAPTIVE COMPONENT GOING FURTHER OUT, AND THAT IS, UM, I'M NOT FAMILIAR WITH SOME OF THIS TERMINOLOGY, BUT THAT IS KIND OF LIKE THE DEEP UNCERTAINTY COMPONENT THAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT ON THIS, THIS SLIDE ABOUT THE, UM, YOU KNOW, THE, THE KIND OF WIDE VARIETY OF RANGES. 
          SO WE'LL DO SOME KIND OF, YOU KNOW, NEAR TERM, 50 YEAR PLANNING. 
          AND THEN OKAY. 
          SO THAT'S THAT, THAT IS NOT HOW WE DID IT LAST TIME. 
          I THINK WE ALL KNOW THAT. 
          UM, SO, OKAY. 
          THAT MAKES, THAT MAKES SENSE. 
          ALL RIGHT. 
          ANY MORE QUESTIONS? WE'LL KEEP GOING. 
          HOW ABOUT YOU GUYS ONLINE? YOU DOING GOOD? TODD AND PERRY. 
          ALL RIGHT. 
          THANK YOU. 
          WHO'S NEXT COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT. 
          LOTS OF STUFF ON THIS ONE. 
          LOTS OF GOOD. 
          YEAH, LOTS OF EXCITING STUFF. 
          IF YOU COULD PULL UP THE SLIDES SEVEN ON THE PREVIOUS SLIDE SEVEN, WE'RE STILL ON TO SEE AWESOME APPLAUSE FOR YOU, JAY NOW. 
          YEAH. 
          UM, SO, UH, OUR COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT AND WE'RE PLANNING ON CONTINUING IT THROUGH, THROUGH THE ENTIRE PLAN UPDATE JUST TO, UH, TO SEVEN SLIDE SEVEN, AND WE'RE GOING TO BE WORKING CLOSELY WITH OUR PUBLIC INFORMATION OFFICE FOR EACH STEP OF THIS UPDATE. 
          SO SOME KEY DELIVERABLES FROM THE COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT PROCESS ARE GOING TO BE UPDATING OUR MISSION STATEMENT, GUIDING PRINCIPLES AND PLAN OBJECTIVES, UH, WITH YOU ALL THE GENERAL PUBLIC AND OUR COMMUNITY AMBASSADORS THAT WE'LL GET TO IN A SECOND, AS HELEN MENTIONED EARLIER, WE ARE ALSO DEVELOPING AN EQUITY AND AFFORDABILITY ROADMAP. 
          UM, AND THAT'S GOING TO BE DEVELOPED WITH THE PUBLIC IN MIND, UM, AS WELL AS SOME OF OUR TECHNICAL EXPERTS, AS WE'RE WORKING WITH HOUSING AND PLANNING, UH, WE'RE REALLY DEVELOPING AN EQUITY AND AFFORDABILITY ROADMAP TO HELP US KIND OF REVIEW THE PORTFOLIOS, UM, AND REALLY FIGURE OUT, YOU KNOW, ARE WE MEETING THE NEEDS OF THE COMMUNITY, YOU KNOW, DEVELOPING IT WITH THE COMMUNITY IS GOING TO HELP US KIND OF MOVING FORWARD, GET THAT BUY-IN AND OUR EDUCATION AND ENGAGEMENT PLAN, UM, REALLY TO HELP US FIGURE OUT OUR OUTREACH AND COMMUNICATION STRATEGY AND TO REACH AS MANY FOLKS AS POSSIBLE. 
          SO SOME OF OUR ANTICIPATED COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT TOUCH POINTS, UM, MAY OF 2021, THAT'S REALLY WHERE WE'RE GOING TO HOPE TO GATHER INPUT ON COMMUNITY VALUES. 
          UM, REALLY OUR BIG PUBLIC PUSH, UM, AND WINTER OF 20, 22, AS WELL AS OUR SMALLER TOUCH POINTS WITH YOU, ALL COMMUNITY AMBASSADORS, UM, AND ONLINE ENGAGEMENT, YOU CAN GO TO THE NEXT SLIDE. 
          YES, IT MIGHT BE TOO EARLY, BUT I WAS TRYING TO THINK OF THAT. 
          THE ONE YOU JUST HAD ABOUT THE COMMUNITY OF VALUE IN THE WATER MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES. 
          AND I WAS TRYING TO REMEMBER THE TIMELINE THAT WE JUST SAW ABOUT THE ANALYSIS, AND IT SEEMS LIKE THE EQUITY AND AFFORDABILITY ANALYSIS, YOU MUST THE END OF THIS FINAL SELECTION STAGE. 
          AND I WAS WONDERING SORT OF HOW ALL OF THAT WORKS TOGETHER. 
          YEAH. 
          MAYBE YOU'RE GOING TO GET THERE. 
          YEAH. 
          UM, SO THE, DO WE WANT TO GO BACK TO THE SECOND SLIDE FOR THE TIMELINE? THAT ONE, BECAUSE THAT BOTTOM, I THINK THERE'S A, UM, THAT LITTLE BOX IS ON TOP OF IT, BUT SO IT'S LIKE, IS THAT INFORMATION AVAILABLE? THE EQUITY AND AFFORDABILITY ANALYSIS TAKES PLACE SORT OF AFTER THE, THE PARTS YOU WERE SPEAKING ABOUT THE COMMUNITY EVALUATION. 
          YES. 
          SO THE ROADMAP THAT WE'RE DEVELOPING, IT'S, YOU KNOW, IT'S NOT SOMETHING THAT WE THINK IS GOING TO BE DEVELOPED OVER NIGHT. 
          UM, IT'S SOMETHING THAT WE'LL BE DEVELOPING WITH THE COMMUNITY THROUGH NEXT YEAR, UM, AND HOPE TO HAVE REFINED BY THE END OF NEXT YEAR. 
          SO IN ALIGNMENT WITH THIS, UH, TIMELINE, I THINK THAT 
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THE IDEA IS THAT WE'LL HAVE MORE OF A ROBUST TOOL FOR US TO KIND OF RUN THESE THROUGH, UM, MORE TOWARDS THE END OF 2023. 
          MY UNDERSTANDING IS THAT ENGAGEMENT WITH THE COMMUNITY AND THAT COMMUNITY AMBASSADORS THAT THEY'RE GOING TO HELP INFORM THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE TOOL THAT WE USE TO EVALUATE THE STRATEGIES. 
          SO THAT THAT PROCESS KIND OF LEADS INTO THIS. 
          YEAH. 
          SO THERE'S TWO DELIVERABLES HERE. 
          THERE'S AN EQUITY AND AFFORDABILITY ROADMAP THAT WE'D BE DEVELOPING WITH THE HELP OF OUR COMMUNITY AMBASSADORS BEGINNING IN JANUARY, 2022, FEBRUARY, 2022 THROUGH, UM, SUMMER OF 2022. 
          AND FROM THAT EQUITY AND AFFORDABILITY ROADMAP, THEN WE DEVELOP A MORE DISCREET EQUITY AND AFFORDABILITY TOOL. 
          UM, THAT INCLUDES METRICS THAT WE WOULD BE INCLUDING AS WE ARE EVALUATING, UM, OUR STRATEGIES, UM, AND CHARACTERIZING OUR STRATEGIES, DEVELOPING INFORMATION ABOUT EACH INDIVIDUAL STRATEGY AND THEN EVALUATING THE PORTFOLIOS AS A WHOLE. 
          SO EVEN THOUGH IT'S AS EQUITY AND AFFORDABILITY ANALYSIS, ONLY HERE AT THE VERY END OF THE PROCESS, THE WORK TO GET TO THAT POINT IS HAPPENING THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE PLAN DEVELOPMENT PROCESS. 
          MAYBE IN A FUTURE PRESENTATION, I DON'T WANT TO MAKE A SLIDE THAT'S SO, YOU KNOW, IT HAS SO MANY THINGS ON IT. 
          WE CAN'T UNDERSTAND IT, BUT MAYBE IN A FUTURE PRESENTATION, WE COULD GET, UH, AN OUTLINE OF THE COMMUNITY STAKEHOLDER ASPECTS THAT IS INCLUDED WITH SORT OF THESE, UM, THESE, THE OTHER COMPONENTS THAT ACTUALLY THESE OUTCOMES ARE ABSOLUTELY PICTURE IT BETTER AS FAR AS WHAT'S GOING ON WITH THE AMBASSADORS IN THAT PROGRAM, ALONG WITH THE CONTRACTORS AND THE DEVELOPMENT. 
          ABSOLUTELY. 
          WE CAN TARGET AND PROVIDING THAT INFORMATION IN JANUARY. 
          THANK YOU. 
          UM, IN ADDITION TO THAT, I BELIEVE WE'RE HOPING TO DELIVER SOME ASPECTS OF OUR EDUCATION AND ENGAGEMENT PLAN TO Y'ALL IN JANUARY AS WELL. 
          SO THAT WILL BE MORE DETAILED ABOUT OUR COMMUNITY TOUCH POINTS. 
          UM, YOU CAN GO TO SLIDE EIGHT. 
          ARE THERE ANY MORE QUESTIONS BEFORE, UM, DO WE HAVE TO STOP? I KNOW SOMEONE STEPPED OUT, WE DON'T HAVE A VOTE ON ITEM. 
          RIGHT. 
          BUT WE DON'T TECHNICALLY HAVE A QUORUM RIGHT NOW. 
          OKAY. 
          I'LL WAIT. 
          YEAH, TECHNICALLY I THINK. 
          OKAY, AWESOME. 
          UM, SO WE'RE HOPING TO OPEN OUR APPLICATION FOR OUR COMMUNITY AMBASSADORS IN MID MID-NOVEMBER, HOPEFULLY THE NEXT FEW WEEKS. 
          AND WE'LL NOTIFY YOU ALL AS WELL, TO BE ABLE TO SPREAD THE WORD AND SEND THAT OUT TO FOLKS. 
          UM, WE'RE DEVELOPING OUR WATER FORWARD UNIVERSITY AS A WAY TO HELP, UH, INFORM THESE AMBASSADORS ABOUT OUR WATER FORWARD 18 STRATEGIES TO DATE, AS WELL AS OUR PLANNING PROCESS. 
          UM, AND WE'LL, WE'LL BE DOING SOME EQUITY GROUNDING, UM, AND TRAINING WHERE WE'RE GOING TO BE REVIEWING OUR MISSION, OUR GUIDELINES, OUR GUIDING PRINCIPLES AND OBJECTIVES THAT WILL ALSO INCLUDE, UM, Y'ALL AS THE TASK FORCE. 
          AND IT'S REALLY GOING TO BE A BASELINE FOR US TO DEVELOP, UM, OUR COMMUNITY PILLARS FOR EQUITY AND AFFORDABILITY, A ROADMAP, AND THE TOOL THAT WE'LL BE RUNNING THOSE STRATEGIES THROUGH LATER. 
          QUESTIONS, HAND IT OVER TO SARAH. 
          GOOD AFTERNOON. 
          NICE TO SEE YOU IN PERSON I'M SARAH EASTMAN. 
          UM, NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE. 
          I'LL RUN THROUGH THIS REALLY BRIEFLY. 
          I THINK THIS IS ALL INFORMATION THAT YOU'VE SEEN BEFORE IN GENERAL, THERE ARE A COUPLE OF SORT OF MAJOR GROUPINGS OF FOLKS WHO ARE PROVIDING INPUT AND GUIDANCE AND DOING THE WORK FOR THE WATERFORD UPDATE. 
          SO THE AUSTIN WATER TEAM OBVIOUSLY GUIDED BY OUR EXECUTIVE PROJECT SPONSOR PROJECT MANAGER, TASK LEADS AND TECHNICAL TEAMS REPRESENTED MOSTLY HERE. 
          UM, ADDITIONALLY, WE HAVE A COUPLE OF THE CONSULTANTS THAT WE'VE TALKED ABOUT PROCURING, INCLUDING THE CLIMATE AND HYDROLOGY FOLKS, THE EQUITY AND AFFORDABILITY, UM, CONSULTANTS, AS WELL AS AN ENGINEERING CONSULTANT TO HELP WITH UPDATES FOR THE WATER MANAGEMENT STRATEGY COST EVALUATIONS AND SOME OF THE TECHNICAL UPDATES TO THOSE STRATEGIES. 
          UM, SO THAT'S IN OUR ORANGE GETTING THINGS DONE COMPONENT. 
          WE ALSO HAVE THE CENTER GROUP, THE COMPRISING PRIMARILY OF YOURSELVES PROVIDING GUIDANCE TO THE WHOLE DEVELOPMENT OF THE WATER FORWARD UPDATE, AS WELL AS A COUPLE ADVISORY GROUPS, THE CLIMATE TECHNICAL ADVISORY GROUP, AND ALSO OUR COMMUNITY, OUR COMMUNITY AMBASSADORS, WHICH JENELLE REFERENCED, WHO WILL BE PROVIDING GUIDANCE AS WE HIT MAJOR DECISION POINTS AND TOUCH POINTS ALONG THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE PLAN. 
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AND LASTLY, BUT NOT LEAST WE HAVE OUR TARGETED STAKEHOLDER GROUPS, INCLUDING THE, UM, VARIOUS REPRESENTATIVES FROM FOLKS AS WE'RE LOOKING AT SPECIFIC TOUCH POINTS TO SPECIFIC QUESTIONS MOVING FORWARD. 
          UM, THIS COULD BE INCLUDING A PRETTY BROAD RANGE OF STAKEHOLDERS AS WELL AS JUST OUR LARGEST END CLIENT, THE AUSTIN WATER CUSTOMER BASE. 
          NEXT SLIDE. 
          SO JUST QUICKLY SUMMARIZING SOME OF THE NEXT STEPS THAT WE'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT IN THE PREVIOUS SLIDES. 
          WE HAVE OUR KICKOFF IN JANUARY OF NEXT YEAR, OFFICIALLY FOR THE UPDATE PROCESS. 
          UM, WE WILL PROVIDE UPDATES IN JANUARY FOR THE COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT PROCESS, AS WE'VE DESCRIBED WITH SOME OF THE DETAILS REQUESTED. 
          AND WE'LL ALSO BE PROVIDING UPDATES ON THE DIS-AGGREGATED DEMAND MODELING, WHICH WILL, UM, ADDRESS SOME OF THE POPULATION QUESTIONS PERHAPS AT THAT POINT. 
          AND WE'LL, UM, LET YOU KNOW WHERE WE ARE IN THE PROCESS OF DEVELOPING THE DEMAND PROJECTIONS. 
          WE CAN ALSO UPDATE PROGRESS ON THE CLIMATE AND HYDROLOGY ANALYSIS, WHICH WE'RE DOING WITH THE GROUP FROM UT. 
          AND, UM, I THINK AT THAT POINT, WE'LL HAVE SOME, SOME VERY PRELIMINARY DECISIONS ABOUT HOW WE'RE GOING TO PROCEED. 
          UM, EARLY IN 2022, WE'LL BE WORKING THROUGH THE EQUITY GROUNDING. 
          SO GETTING EVERYBODY WHO'S CONTRIBUTING ON THE SAME PAGE IN TERMS OF OUR GOALS, WITH RESPECT TO EQUITY, UM, THE EQUITY AND AFFORDABILITY ROADMAP THAT JAMAL GNL MENTIONED, AND WE'LL ALSO BE WORKING THROUGH SOME UPDATES TO THE MISSION STATEMENT, GUIDING PRINCIPLES AND OBJECTIVES THAT WILL BE GUIDING SOME OF THE PLAN, THE DECISIONS AND THE WORK THAT WE'LL BE DOING THROUGHOUT THE PLANNING PROCESS. 
          ANY QUESTIONS? OKAY. 
          OKAY. 
          MOVING ON 
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HERE. 
          SO WE'VE GOT THE ASR RECOVERY, WHAT, SORRY IS OUR PILOT SURVEY RESULTS. 
          WE DO WHERE WE GET WORRIED. 
          WE'RE GOING TO RUN OUT OF TIME THERE. 
          AND IT WAS SHOCKING THAT NO ONE HAD QUESTIONS. 
          EVERYONE'S LIKE, ALL RIGHT. 
          ALL RIGHT. 
          SO WE NEED SLIDE THROUGH THE SITE. 
          HI, GOOD AFTERNOON. 
          I'M EMILY CHANCELLOR AND I'M IN AUSTIN. 
          WATER'S PUBLIC INFORMATION OFFICE. 
          I'M GONNA PRESENT THIS ALONG WITH HELEN GERLACH. 
          SO WE I'M IN JUNE OF THIS YEAR, DID A SURVEY TO KIND OF GET SOME BASELINE DATA FROM OUR CUSTOMERS AND FROM WATERFORD STAKEHOLDERS, AS WE WERE STARTING PLANNING OUR COMMUNICATIONS AND COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT FOR THE ASR PROJECT. 
          NEXT SLIDE. 
          SO I WANTED TO JUST MENTION THAT THIS SURVEY IS SORT OF DISTINCT FROM OUR SORT OF TRADITIONAL COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT EFFORTS. 
          WE DID WORK WITH AUSTIN ENERGY, A GROUP THERE THAT DOES CUSTOMER RESEARCH AND DATA ANALYTICS. 
          AND SO THEY HAVE ACCESS TO CUSTOMER EMAILS THAT ARE IN OUR BILLING SYSTEMS. SO THEY'RE ABLE TO REACH OUT DIRECTLY TO CUSTOMERS TO DO RESEARCH PROJECTS. 
          UM, QUESTIONS WERE SENT TO A RANDOM SAMPLE OF OUR CUSTOMERS AND ALSO TO OUR WATERFORD STAKEHOLDERS, WE RECEIVED ABOUT 1200 RESPONSES TO THE SURVEY. 
          NEXT SLIDE. 
          YOU KNOW, I DON'T HAVE THAT. 
          I TH I THINK IT WAS ABOUT 10,000 OF OUR CUSTOMERS, BUT I WAS LOOKING THIS MORNING AND I, I, UM, DID YOU HAVE THAT HOME? YEAH. 
          OKAY. 
          SHE SAID 9,000 WAS WHAT SHE WAS REMEMBERING. 
          SO IT WAS IN THAT NEIGHBORHOOD. 
          YEAH. 
          SO THIS SHOWS YOU THAT RESPONSES. 
          MOST OF THE RESPONSES WE GOT WERE FROM OUR CUSTOMER BASE AND I'M ABOUT 3.5% WERE FROM THE STAKEHOLDER GROUP. 
          WE DID HAVE PARTICIPATION FROM ALL OF THE COUNCIL DISTRICTS AND IN OUR PLANNING FOR OUR COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT FOR THE ASR PROJECT, WE'RE TAKING NOTE OF COUNCIL DISTRICTS WHERE WE SAW LESS, LESS INPUT. 
          AND SO WE'LL BE WORKING TO DO OUTREACH IN THOSE AREAS AS WE GET OUT IN THE COMMUNITY ON THE PROJECT, THESE AS TO WHAT CONTRIBUTES TO THE DIFFERENT LEVELS OF PARTICIPATION FROM THE COUNCIL DISTRICTS. 
          YEAH. 
          BETWEEN FIVE AND 10 IT'S DOUBLED AND EVEN A GREATER EXTENT AND OTHERS, I DON'T HAVE, I DON'T HAVE ANY DATA THAT WOULD WOULD POINT TO WHAT CAUSES THAT DIFFERENCE. 
          I DON'T, I KNOW THAT, UM, THE PARTNERS WE WORKED WITH AT AUSTIN AND RG LOOKED AT A REPRESENTATIVE SAMPLES SO THAT THEY WERE INCLUDING ALL OF THE DISTRICTS. 
          UM, BUT WE DO SEE VARIATION WHEN WE DO THESE KINDS OF SURVEYS. 
          NEXT SLIDE PLEASE. 
          SO WE'RE JUST SHARING THE SURVEY QUESTIONS WITH YOU HERE. 
          I'M NOT GOING TO READ EACH ONE, BUT WE WANTED YOU TO HAVE A CHANCE TO SEE THIS. 
          WE WANTED IT TO BE A QUICK SURVEY. 
          WE DID HAVE OPEN ENDED QUESTIONS AS WELL AS QUESTIONS WHERE THEY DID RANKING OR GAVE A YES OR NO ANSWER. 
          WE REALLY WANTED TO MEASURE FOLKS KNOWLEDGE AND AWARENESS OF WATER FORWARD AND OUR ASR PROJECT, 
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GET SOME FEEDBACK ON, UM, MESSAGING AND ALSO GET SOME FEEDBACK ON PREFERRED COMMUNICATION METHODS. 
          I'LL JUST PAUSE FOR A MOMENT. 
          SO FOLKS CAN SKIM OVER THIS. 
          OKAY, LET'S GO TO THE NEXT SLIDE. 
          I'LL TALK ABOUT SOME HIGH LEVEL RESULTS HERE. 
          SO THIS IS PART OF OUR DESIGN FOR THE SURVEY WAS WANTING TO BE ABLE TO COMPARE RESPONSES FROM OUR WATERBOARD STAKEHOLDERS. 
          THESE ARE FOLKS WHO HAVE BEEN ENGAGED IN THE WATERFORD PLAN AND OUR COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT AND OUR AUSTIN WATER CUSTOMERS. 
          AND THIS DOES SHOW US THAT OUR STAKEHOLDERS ARE MUCH MORE AWARE OF THE WATER FORWARD PLAN AND THE ASR PROJECT, UM, THAN OUR CUSTOMERS. 
          SO WE'D LIKE TO SEE THESE NUMBERS HIGHER AMONG OUR CUSTOMERS. 
          IT'S REALLY GOOD TO HAVE THE DATA AND TO KIND OF GROUND US IN THIS, KNOWING THAT THIS IS WHERE OUR CUSTOMERS ARE IN THESE EFFORTS. 
          IT'S REALLY EASY TO KIND OF GET INTO A GROOVE OF PREACHING TO THE CHOIR, TALKING IN LANGUAGE THAT YOU ALL ARE USED TO, UM, HAVING MAYBE MORE TECHNICAL DETAILS IN OUR COMMUNICATIONS. 
          AND I THINK THIS WILL HELP US TAKE A STEP BACK AND REALLY INTRODUCE ARI AS OUR PROJECT TO OUR CUSTOMERS AND LANGUAGE THAT THEY ARE FAMILIAR WITH AND THAT THEY WANT TO, THAT THEY CAN CONNECT WITH. 
          YES. 
          AND THAT THAT'S A, IT'S A PRIORITY. 
          AND TO THAT END, I WAS ACTUALLY LOOKING ON THE SLIDE BEFORE YOU HAD THE QUESTIONS. 
          I THINK THEY WERE SUMMARIES OF THE QUESTIONS, BUT I DIDN'T SEE AQUIFER STORAGE AND RECOVERY WRITTEN OUT. 
          I SAW ASR. 
          SO I WAS JUST HOPING THAT BEFORE THE QUESTIONS GOT ASKED, THERE WAS EVEN A YES, YES. 
          THE SURVEY ITSELF SPELL OUT SO MANY ACRONYMS AND IN DOING, WORKING WITH THE PUBLIC, IT'S BETTER TO JUST NOT USE THEM AND TYPE OUT THE SURE. 
          I THINK JUST TO FIT ON THE SLIDE THAT WE DID PUT ASR, BUT I BELIEVE IN THE SURVEY THAT IT WAS SPELLED OUT. 
          FOR SURE. 
          YEAH. 
          THAT'S A GOOD, THAT'S A GOOD POINT. 
          THE OTHER THING I JUST, UH, GO AHEAD AND GO AHEAD. 
          SORRY. 
          I THINK YOU SAID THIS, THE SURVEY WENT OUT WITH HER EMAIL. 
          THAT'S CORRECT. 
          YES. 
          AND DID IT, WAS IT IN SPANISH OR JUST, JUST AN ENGLISH AS AN ENGLISH AND SPANISH. 
          AND I THINK WE MAY HAVE GOTTEN ONE RESPONSE ON THE SPANISH SURVEY. 
          IT WAS PRETTY LOW, BUT WE OFFERED IT IN BOTH. 
          OKAY. 
          YEAH. 
          SO I JUST WANTED TO HIGHLIGHT ALSO THAT EVEN AMONG OUR STAKEHOLDERS AND OUR CUSTOMERS, THE QUESTION ABOUT, DO THEY BELIEVE THAT WATER SUPPLY IS A PRESSING ISSUE FOR OUR AREA? WE SEE YES. 
          BEING THE RESPONSE FOR MOST OF THOSE. 
          AND SO THIS REALLY HIGHLIGHTS FOR US, A COMMUNICATION OPPORTUNITY. 
          OUR CUSTOMERS BELIEVE WATER, SUPPLY ISSUES ARE A PRESSING ISSUE, AND WE HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO KIND OF BRING THEM INTO THE CONVERSATION ABOUT THE WATER FORWARD PLAN, THE WORK THAT JANE AL AND THE TEAM TALKED ABOUT FOR NEXT YEAR. 
          AND SO THIS IS AN OPPORTUNITY TO LET FOLKS KNOW SOMETHING THEY'RE CONCERNED ABOUT WE'RE WORKING ON AND WE'D LIKE FOR THEM TO BE ENGAGED, NEXT SLIDE. 
          OTHER JUST HIGH-LEVEL RESULTS WE'LL HIGHLIGHT HERE IS THAT AMONG THE COMMUNITY VALUES OF THE WATER FORWARD PLAN, RELIABLE WATER, SUPPLY RANKED, HIGHEST IN IMPORTANCE. 
          AND THEN WE GOT SOME GOOD FEEDBACK ABOUT HOW FOLKS WANT TO RECEIVE COMMUNICATIONS. 
          EMAIL NEWSLETTERS WAS AMONG THEIR PRIORITIES, WHICH WE DO OUR AUSTIN WATER WEBSITE, UTILITY BILL INSERTS, SOMETHING THAT WE HAVE ACCESS TO AND THEN TEXT MESSAGES ALSO ROSE TO THE TOP. 
          THAT IS A TACTIC THAT WE'RE ABLE TO USE MORE WITH OUR, MY ATX WATER CUSTOMER PORTAL. 
          SO THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE CAN LOOK AT AS WE'RE WORKING ON OUR ESR COMMUNICATIONS. 
          ALL RIGHT. 
          SO I'M GOING TO HAND IT OVER TO HELEN TO TALK ABOUT SOME MORE OF THE RESULTS. 
          EXACTLY. 
          YEAH. 
          SO I'LL JUST BE TALKING THROUGH A FEW MORE ASPECTS OF THE SURVEY. 
          UM, COULD WE GO TO THE NEXT SLIDE PLEASE? THIS ONE FOCUSES ON A QUESTION WE HAD ASKED, UH, THAT WE HAD ASKED THAT PROVIDED A DESCRIPTION OF ASR, UM, AND, UH, ASKED FOR FEEDBACK FROM THE COMMUNITY. 
          SO I'LL GO AHEAD AND READ THE FULL DESCRIPTION HERE. 
          WE SAID AQUIFER STORAGE AND RECOVERY IS A WATER SUPPLY STRATEGY USED BY WATER UTILITIES IN TEXAS AND AROUND THE WORLD TO STORE WATER IN A NATURAL AQUIFER. 
          WHEN IT IS AVAILABLE DURING WET TIMES, THE STORED WATER CAN BE, CAN THEN BE SUPPLIED TO CUSTOMERS AND TIMES WHEN WATER IS NEEDED SUCH AS DURING TIMES OF DROUGHT. 
          AND SO OUR QUESTION HERE, UM, WAS WHETHER THIS DESCRIPTION, UM, HELPED IMPROVE PEOPLE'S UNDERSTANDING OF ASR. 
          AND AS YOU CAN SEE FROM THE GRAPHIC, IT WAS PRETTY OVERWHELMINGLY YES. 
          UM, THAT, THAT DID HELP THEM UNDERSTAND WHAT ASR WAS. 
          AND SO WE CAN USE CUSTOMER RESEARCH LIKE THIS TO TAILOR HOW WE DESCRIBE OUR PROJECT, UM, AND DO OUR GENERAL MESSAGING AS WELL AS CREATING COMMUNICATION MATERIALS, UM, THAT WILL RESONATE WITH CUSTOMERS. 
          NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE. 
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THIS NEXT ONE HERE, UM, WAS LOOKING AT RANKING, WHICH BENEFITS OF AQUIFER STORAGE AND RECOVERY WERE MOST IMPORTANT TO THE SURVEY RESPONDENT. 
          UM, AND SO THE GRAPHIC SHOWN HERE, UM, HAS RANKINGS, UM, FOR THE FIRST OR SECOND MOST IMPORTANT BENEFIT. 
          SO IF IT WAS CHOSEN AS EITHER THE FIRST OR THE SECOND MOST IMPORTANT IN THAT RESPONSE, UM, IT'S PRESENTED HERE. 
          SO ABOUT 58% OF RESPONDENTS RANKED, IMPROVING AUSTIN'S CLIMATE RESILIENCY AS THEIR FIRST OR SECOND CHOICE, UM, 57% CHOSE HAVING AN ADDITIONAL SOURCE OF WATER DURING EMERGENCIES AS ONE OF THEIR TOP TWO BENEFITS AND 53% RANKED, UH, MAXIMIZING OUR LOCAL WATER RESOURCES AS THEIR FIRST OR SECOND MOST IMPORTANT BENEFIT. 
          SO KIND OF THE THEME AMONG ALL OF THESE HIGHLY RANKED ASR BENEFITS SEEMS TO BE A FOCUS ON IMPROVING OUR RESILIENCY AND ENSURING THAT WE HAVE AMPLE WATER SUPPLY FOR THE FUTURE. 
          SO THIS DATA WILL HELP OUR TEAM MAKE SURE THAT EDUCATIONAL MATERIALS CONTAIN INFORMATION ABOUT HOW ASR ADDRESSES THESE CONCERNS AND PROVIDES THESE BENEFITS SINCE IT SEEMS TO BE WHAT PEOPLE INDICATED IS MOST IMPORTANT. 
          THE SECOND ONE SERVE AS AN ADDITIONAL SOURCE OF WATER DURING EMERGENCIES, IS THAT AS AN EMERGENCY, ARE YOU ALLUDING TO DROUGHT? BECAUSE IN MY MIND THE WATER EMERGENCY, WE JUST HAD WAS THE LACK OF WATER SERVICE DURING THE FREEZE IN FEBRUARY. 
          AND I DON'T KNOW HOW WATER SUPPLY IS GOING TO ADDRESS THE DISTRIBUTION ISSUES THAT WE HAD. 
          SURE. 
          SO ASR HAS THE POTENTIAL TO ACT AS A SECOND SOURCE OF SUPPLY DURING THOSE SHORT-TERM EMERGENCIES. 
          UM, ITS MAIN GOAL STILL IS, UH, UH, YOU KNOW, PROVIDE A DROUGHT SUPPLY, BUT AS WE'RE DEVELOPING THE PROJECT, WE'RE LOOKING AT, YOU KNOW, WAYS THAT WE COULD BUILD IT SUCH THAT IT WOULD BE AVAILABLE DURING THOSE SHORTER TERM, UM, EVENTS. 
          SO IT BASICALLY THE WATER JUST FEEDS BACK INTO THE SYSTEM. 
          SO IT WOULD BE ABLE TO PROVIDE WATER. 
          UM, IF THERE ISN'T ENOUGH MAYBE COMING OUT OF THE PLANTS OR THROUGH THE SYSTEM, WHEN YOU STILL NEED ELECTRICITY TO DISTRIBUTE IT. 
          I MEAN, TO IMPLY THAT THIS ASR WOULD HAVE BEEN THE SOLUTION TO WINTER STORM URI OR THAT EMERGENCY, BUT IF THERE ARE OTHER EMERGENCY EVENTS WHERE ASR COULD BE USED AS A SECOND SOURCE OF SUPPLY, THAT'S THE TYPE OF SITUATION THAT, YOU KNOW, THIS STRATEGY WOULD BE USEFUL FOR, ALTHOUGH IT'S REALLY A SECONDARY BENEFIT AND NOT THE PRIMARY DRIVER OF ASR, THE PRIMARY DRIVER IS DROUGHT. 
          YEAH. 
          I THINK MAYBE, I MEAN, I WOULD JUST THINK MAYBE MOVING FORWARDS TO BE MORE SPECIFIC ABOUT THE KIND OF EMERGENCY, BECAUSE I DON'T WANT TO BE, I THINK, I THINK THAT COULD EASILY BE READ AND TO, TO BE MISCONSTRUED IF I WAS JUST A WATER CUSTOMER WITHOUT ANY KNOWLEDGE OF THE UTILITY, THAT'S THE MOST RECENT, YOU KNOW, WATER EMERGENCY, I GUESS YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT, LIKE WE HAD THE BOIL WATER THAT, UH, COULD ADDRESS THOSE. 
          WE HAVE HAD SEVERAL EMERGENCIES WITHIN THE PAST YEAR OR SO. 
          UM, BUT YOU KNOW, HOW, IF IT'S GOING TO BE BLENDED WITH OUR OTHER WATER SOURCES, I DON'T KNOW. 
          I'M NOT SURE ALL OF, A LOT OF THE EMERGENCIES WE'VE BEEN DEALING WITH WOULD ACTUALLY BE ADDRESSED BY THE SUPPLY, BUT IT'S JUST SOMETHING TO RAISE WHEN YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT IN THE FUTURE AND WHAT, I JUST HAD ONE OTHER COMMENT ON THE DEFINITION OF ASR. 
          UM, IF, WHEN YOU'RE WORKING ON THAT, IF YOU CAN ALSO THINK ABOUT USING THE WORD TO INJECT AND STORE, UM, I THINK THAT DEFINITION SAID IT'S STORED WATER AND AN AQUIFER, WHICH, YOU KNOW, I FEEL LIKE MOST AQUIFERS STORE WATER AND THAT'S NOT ACTUALLY DESCRIBING THE INJECTION PROCESS, WHICH IS THE KIND OF KEY KEY THING THAT MAKES IT DIFFERENT INJECTION. 
          SURE. 
          YEAH, WE CAN DEFINITELY DO THAT. 
          UM, JUST AS A NOTE TO, UH, THE DESCRIPTION ON THE GRAPHIC UP HERE IS ALSO A BRIDGE TO READ WHAT WAS IN THE SURVEY. 
          SO I DO THINK WE HAD A FEW MORE WORDS QUALIFYING WHAT TYPE OF EMERGENCY AND THE ACTUAL LANGUAGE. 
          SO APOLOGIES FOR THAT. 
          UM, NEXT SLIDE PLEASE. 
          ALL RIGHT. 
          SO, UM, EMILY ALLUDED TO THIS, BUT WE HAD OPEN-ENDED QUESTIONS, UM, THROUGHOUT THE SURVEY TO ALLOW RESPONDENTS TO EXPRESS ANY CONCERNS OR QUESTIONS THAT THEY HAD ABOUT ASR. 
          AND SO WE'VE TRIED TO CAPTURE A HIGH LEVEL SUMMARY OF THE RESPONSES WE RECEIVED HERE. 
          UM, SO THIS IS, UH, KIND OF ILLUSTRATING THEMES WE SAW IN THE, UM, OPEN TEXT RESPONSES THAT WE GOT. 
          SO JUST READING THROUGH THESE, UM, THERE WERE CONCERNS ABOUT UNDERSTANDING HOW WE WILL MAINTAIN THE WATER QUALITY IN OUR PIPES, UM, WITH AN ASR PROJECT ONLINE, AS WELL AS, UM, MAINTAINING WATER QUALITY IN THE AQUIFER, UM, OR PREVENTING DAMAGE TO THE AQUIFER. 
          UM, PEOPLE WERE CONCERNED THAT ONCE WE HAVE 
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AN ASR PROJECT ONLINE, WHETHER WE WOULD HAVE ENOUGH SUPPLY COMING FROM IT, THEY ALSO WANTED TO KNOW MORE ABOUT HOW ASR WORKS AND HOW THAT RESOURCE WOULD BE DISTRIBUTED ONCE WE HAD IT AVAILABLE. 
          AND THEN ALSO WANTED TO KNOW MORE ABOUT THE COST AND AFFORDABILITY IMPACTS THAT THE PROJECT WOULD HAVE. 
          AND SO WE'RE PERFORMING TECHNICAL WORK NOW AS PART OF PHASE ONE, AFR ASR, PILOT, AND PROGRAM MANAGEMENT PROJECT, UM, TO ENSURE THAT WE'RE GOING TO BE ABLE TO PROVIDE ANSWERS, CLEAR ANSWERS TO ALL OF THESE QUESTIONS. 
          AND, UM, THE DATA FROM THE SURVEY RESPONSES WILL HELP US DEVELOP OUR EDUCATIONAL MATERIALS SO THAT WE CAN MAKE SURE WE ANSWER THESE COMMON QUESTIONS. 
          UM, AND SO THAT FOLKS KNOW WHAT OUR PLANS ARE TO ADDRESS THE DIFFERENT ISSUES THAT THEY'RE CONCERNED ABOUT WHEN YOU HAVE SOME ANSWERS. 
          SOME OF THEM ACTUALLY ARE REALLY GOOD, GOOD QUESTIONS. 
          UM, THE, THE QUALITY IS IT TO ME IS, IS A CONCERN. 
          UM, AND, UM, YOU KNOW, THE BLENDING AND WHAT WOULD BE THE, UH, ARE YOU GOING TO BE PUBLISHING THIS SOMEWHERE FOR THE CITIZENS TO, TO SEE WHAT'S WHAT'S THERE, WHAT'S THE PLAN? SURE. 
          SO RIGHT NOW WE'RE IN THE PROCESS OF TRYING TO IDENTIFY A LOCATION FOR THE, UM, WELL FIELD. 
          AND SO WE WON'T HAVE MUCH DATA ABOUT THE SPECIFIC WATER QUALITY EFFECTS UNTIL WE KNOW WHICH WATER WE'RE GOING INTO, BUT, UM, IN FUTURE PHASES OF THE PILOT PROJECT, WE'LL BE LOOKING AT DOING, YOU KNOW, PIPE STUDIES AND MIXING STUDIES, UM, SO THAT WE CAN IDENTIFY ALL THE PRE AND POST TREATMENT THAT'S NEEDED TO MAKE SURE EVERYTHING'S FULLY COMPATIBLE. 
          SO ONCE WE'RE, ONCE WE HAVE THAT INFORMATION, I IMAGINE THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE'LL BE COMMUNICATING OUT, UM, TO FOLKS, TO, TO ANSWER THESE TYPES OF CLAIMS. AND YOU EXPECT THAT THE NEXT YEAR, COUPLE OF YEARS, OR, UH, PROBABLY A COUPLE OF YEARS OR PHASE ONE A, UM, WHICH THE OUTCOME OF THAT WILL BE IDENTIFYING A LOCATION AND DEVELOPING A PRELIMINARY FIELD TESTING PLAN IS ANTICIPATED TO, UM, FINISH IN 2023. 
          SO IT WOULD BE PROBABLY 20, 24, 20 25 AFTER WE PASSED THE END OF PHASE ONE, A THANK YOU ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? NEXT SLIDE. 
          SO JUST A QUICK SUMMARY OF THE OVERALL SURVEY. 
          UM, SO THE RESULTS FROM THIS ARE GOING TO BE USED TO DEVELOP, UM, A BASELINE FOR OUR CUSTOMER UNDERSTANDING AND THE ASR ENGAGEMENT AND EDUCATION PLAN THAT OUR CONSULTANT IS DEVELOPING. 
          UM, ALSO BE USING THAT, UM, TO INCORPORATE INTO EDUCATIONAL MATERIALS FOR THE ASR EDUCATIONAL CAMPAIGN LAUNCH THAT WE'RE ANTICIPATING IN SPRING OF 2022. 
          AND WE ALSO HAVE A FOLLOWUP SURVEY SCOPED FOR THIS PROJECT, AND THEN WE'RE PLANNING TO CONDUCT THAT, UM, TO EVALUATE THE EFFECTIVENESS, OUR COMMUNICATION OF OUR COMMUNICATION. 
          UM, AND WE'LL BE DOING THAT LATER IN THE PROCESS ONCE WE'VE HAD A CHANCE TO ACTUALLY, UM, COMMUNICATE AND DISTRIBUTE OUR EDUCATIONAL MATERIALS, UM, AND ENGAGE WITH THE COMMUNITY. 
          AND THAT'S, THAT'S ALL THE SLIDES I HAVE, IF THERE'S ANY OTHER QUESTIONS. 
          SO, UM, I WAS GOING TO ASK THIS AT THE LAST PRESENTATION I FORGOT, BUT IT PERTAINS TO THIS ONE TOO. 
          UM, UM, Y'ALL DID A REAL GOOD JOB. 
          UH, WHEN YOU ROLLED OUT THE CONSULTANTS WITH THE ASR, LIKE, YOU KNOW, I THINK THEY CAME AND HAD A KICKOFF AND INTRODUCED AND STUFF. 
          UM, THERE'S QUITE A FEW CONSULTANTS WITH THE WATER FOR 24 UPDATE. 
          AND WHEN WE DO THE KICKOFF AND, UH, 20, 22 JANUARY, WHAT YEAR IS IT? JANUARY OF 20, 22. 
          UM, CAN YOU PROVIDE A LIST OF CONSULTANTS? CAUSE IT SOUNDS LIKE THERE'S QUITE A FEW, THEY'RE GOING TO BE INVOLVED WITH THAT AS WELL. 
          UM, CAUSE THERE'S, THERE'S A LOT OF, UH, DIFFERENT PROCESSES AND JUST GOOD TO KNOW WHO ALL THE PEOPLE ARE. 
          AWESOME. 
          THANK YOU. 
          ARE YOU PROBABLY ONLY PLANNING ON IT WITH THE KICKOFF STUFF, BUT, UM, DOES, DO PEOPLE HAVE QUESTIONS ABOUT THE ASR PARTICULAR? YEAH, I WAS JUST GOING TO, UM, THIS INVOLVES THE ASR SURVEY AND OUTREACH AND THEN I GUESS ALSO THE COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT PIECE, UM, IT JUST LOOKED LIKE WHERE THERE WAS A LACK OF ENGAGEMENT ON THE SURVEY WAS MAYBE FROM THE EAST AUSTIN COMMUNITIES. 
          AND I DIDN'T KNOW IF THROUGH THE, UM, EQUITY AND AFFORDABILITY OUTREACH AND THE WATER AMBASSADOR PROGRAM, WATERFORD AMBASSADOR PROGRAM. 
          UM, IF Y'ALL ARE PARTNERING WITH ORGANIZATIONS THAT ARE WORKING ON THE EAST SIDE TO KIND OF, UM, UM, YOU KNOW, CONNECT MORE WITH MEMBERS OF THAT COMMUNITY. 
          YEAH. 
          SO, UM, THE ASR ENGAGEMENT EFFORT IS SOMEWHAT DISTINCT FROM THE WATERFORD ONE. 
          SO I DON'T THINK WE'LL BE USING, UH, THE FOLKS WHO APPLY FOR THE COMMUNITY AMBASSADORS BECAUSE THEIR SCOPE IS A LITTLE DIFFERENT, BUT WE, 
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UM, FOR THE ASR PROJECT OR DEVELOPING AN EQUITY AND AFFORDABILITY ROADMAP, UM, THAT WE'RE WORKING ON RIGHT NOW THAT I IMAGINE WILL HIGHLIGHT SOME OF THOSE DISPARITIES AND WE'LL IDENTIFY, UM, OPPORTUNITIES THAT WE WILL INCORPORATE INTO OUR ENGAGEMENT AND EDUCATION PLAN, UM, TO TRY TO REACH OUT TO MAYBE THE COMMUNITIES THAT WE HAVEN'T BEEN HEARING FROM. 
          UM, AND SO THAT WOULD INCLUDE COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS, UM, AND IDENTIFYING OUTREACH STRATEGIES, UM, THAT MIGHT INCREASE PARTICIPATION AND, UH, OTHER AREAS IN THE CITY. 
          OKAY. 
          YEAH. 
          I MEAN, I THINK THAT SOUNDS GOOD. 
          I GUESS I WOULD JUST MAYBE URGE WHERE IT SEEMS POSSIBLE TO NOT THINK OF THE ASR AND THE EQUITY AND AFFORDABILITY BUCKETS AS A COMPLETELY SEPARATE CAUSE I DO SEE OVERLAP AND IN PARTICULAR, IF IT IS THE SAME COMMUNITIES THAT YOU'RE GOING INTO, LIKE, IT MIGHT MAKE SENSE TO THINK ABOUT THOSE TOGETHER. 
          YEAH. 
          GREAT, GREAT POINT. 
          AND JUST TO, WE DEFINITELY DON'T SEE IT ASR, UH, AN EQUITY IS SEPARATE. 
          THAT'S A VERY IMPORTANT PART OF, UM, THE ASR PROJECT, BUT YEAH, UH, COORDINATING WITH WATERFORD WILL BE, UM, DON'T WANNA OVERWHELM FOLKS, BUT TOO MUCH COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT ALL AT THE SAME TIME FOR JUST TO CLARIFY, THERE'LL BE AN EQUITY AND AFFORDABILITY ROADMAP FOR THE PLAN UPDATE, AND THEN THERE WILL BE ONE FOR ASR. 
          SO THEY HAVE DIFFERENT SETS OF CONSIDERATIONS. 
          YOU KNOW, THE, THE GEOGRAPHIC AREA IS POTENTIALLY DIFFERENT FOR ASR. 
          THAT TIMEFRAME IS DIFFERENT. 
          THE IMPLEMENTATION IMPACTS ON COMMUNITIES ARE DIFFERENT. 
          AND SO IT MAKES SENSE TO HAVE A TAILORED EQUITY AND AFFORDABILITY ROADMAP TO ADDRESS THESE DIFFERENT CONSIDERATIONS. 
          UM, SO WE'RE TRYING TO MAKE CLEAR WHAT IS PLANNING AND WHAT IS IMPLEMENTATION? THE IMPLEMENTATION COMPONENTS WILL HAVE KIND OF DIFFERENT STRATEGIES THAT ARE NECESSARY TO REACH THESE DIFFERENT COMMUNITIES AND INCORPORATE, UM, THEIR VALUES AND THEIR INPUT. 
          SO THERE'LL BE TWO, WE'RE TRYING TO STANDARDIZE THIS EQUITY AND AFFORDABILITY ROADMAP AND EQUITY AND AFFORDABILITY TOOL FOR EACH OF THESE PROJECTS. 
          OKAY. 
          IS THIS SOMETHING THAT THE EQUITY AND AFFORDABILITY ROADMAP AND TOOL SOMETHING THAT LIKE AS A CITY OF AUSTIN, LIKE BEST PRACTICE FOR LIKE KIND OF EVERY PROJECT THAT GETS ROLLED OUT TO HAVE, I WOULD SAY IT'S BECOMING A BEST PRACTICE. 
          YEAH. 
          YOU SEE SOMETHING SIMILAR ON PROJECT CONNECT. 
          THERE WAS A KIND OF AN EQUITY AND AFFORDABILITY OF ASSESSMENT AND COMMUNITY AMBASSADORS FOR THE CLIMATE EQUITY PLAN. 
          IT'S SOMETHING THAT'S BECOMING KIND OF MORE NORMALIZED EQUITY AND AFFORDABILITY ROADMAP WITH DISCRETE PROJECTS AS WE GO ON. 
          OKAY. 
          THAT'S HELPFUL. 
          AND MAYBE IF THERE'S SOME KIND OF LIKE BACKGROUND THAT YOU COULD PROVIDE US JUST ON BACKGROUND ABOUT IF THERE'S A DESCRIPTION OF THIS IS WHAT AN EQUITY AND AFFORDABILITY ROADMAP SHOULD INCLUDE FOR CITY OF AUSTIN PROJECTS, BUT WHAT COMES OUT OF THAT OFFICE OF EQUITY? I WOULD PRESUME, UM, OR, UM, IF THERE IS SOMETHING THERE THAT LIKE A BEST PRACTICES FOR, YOU KNOW, CITY DEPARTMENTS OR IMPLEMENTING PROGRAMS, UM, THAT JUST PILLOW. 
          OKAY, COOL. 
          UM, I CAN SPEAK A LITTLE BIT TO THAT. 
          WE HAVE A LOT OF PARTNERSHIPS THAT, YOU KNOW, WE'RE TRYING TO LEVERAGE WITH OUR COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT AND TO ADVANCE SOME OF OUR EQUITY WORK. 
          SO WE HAVE MEETINGS FREQUENTLY WITH, UM, THE OPPOSITE SUSTAINABILITY, UH, FOLKS FROM WATERSHED PROTECTION AS THEY'RE, YOU KNOW, DEVELOPING THEIR STRATEGIC PLAN, UM, AS WELL AS SO MANY OTHER DEPARTMENTS, REALLY JUST TRYING TO LEARN ABOUT THEIR COMMUNITY AMBASSADOR PROGRAMS AND THEIR COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT. 
          AND, YOU KNOW, A LOT OF OUR EFFORTS MOVING FORWARD IS MODELED AFTER THE CLIMATE EQUITY PLAN AND HOW THEY REALLY RECRUITED THEIR AMBASSADORS AND LIKE REALLY INFORMED THE COMMUNITY ABOUT THEIR WORK AND REALLY TO GET THAT ENGAGEMENT. 
          SO OUR RECRUITMENT EFFORTS WERE, YOU KNOW, USING A LOT OF DIFFERENT, UH, NEWSLETTER OUTLETS THAT OTHER FOLKS HAVE. 
          UM, WE'RE DOING PHYSICAL FLYERS IN SPANISH AND ENGLISH AS WELL AS OTHER LANGUAGES THAT ARE FREQUENTLY SPOKEN IN DIFFERENT DISTRICTS. 
          WE'RE DOING PHYSICAL FLYERS IN LIBRARIES AND REC CENTERS, UM, AND EVEN GROCERY STORES. 
          SO THIS IS GOING TO BE A PRETTY LARGE EFFORT TO REALLY MAKE SURE WE HAVE A DIVERSE REPRESENTATION WHEN IT COMES TO COUNCIL DISTRICT, AS WELL AS, UH, FOLKS THAT AREN'T TYPICALLY REPRESENTED IN OUR PLANNING PROCESSES. 
          OKAY. 
          SO I GUESS JUST ONE THOUGHT WITH ALL OF THAT. 
          THANK YOU, JAY NOW IS THAT WHEN WE HAVE SEPARATE PROCESSES RELATED TO WATER SUPPLY AND WATER, AND LIKE IF WE'RE HAVING, YOU KNOW, A LANDSCAPE TRANSFORMATION AND ASR AND A WATER FOR 24, UM, AND I KNOW I'VE PROBABLY GOTTEN EMAILS ABOUT SIX OTHER PROCESSES, LIKE PROJECT CONNECT AND ALL DIFFERENT KINDS OF THINGS AT THE CITY OF AUSTIN. 
          AND WE'RE ASKING FOLKS TO HAVE INPUT ON THAT. 
          IT'S, IT'S CONFUSING AND EXHAUSTING. 
          UM, SO JUST AS FAR AS LIKE HOW, I MEAN, I, I DON'T NEED TO SAY THIS TO Y'ALL CAUSE YOU KNOW, THIS AND ANY 
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WANT PEOPLE TO BE INVOLVED AS MUCH, BUT, UM, YOU KNOW, PARTICULARLY IF WE'RE, IF WE ARE, UM, DOING THE COMMUNITY AMBASSADORS PROGRAM AND WE'RE TRYING TO FOCUS, UM, IN EAST AUSTIN AND AREAS THAT HAVEN'T HAD A LOT OF INPUT, UM, BASED ON DATA THAT WE HAVEN'T STUFF ON THE PLANE BEFORE, AND THEN ALSO ON ASR, WE HAVEN'T HAD A LOT OF INPUT THERE. 
          AND IF, AND IF, YOU KNOW, JUST GUESSING THAT'S WHERE A PROJECT LIKE THAT MIGHT GO, IT COULD BE CONFUSING TO FOLKS. 
          UM, SO I'M JUST PROBABLY STATING THE OBVIOUS TO EVERYBODY, BUT, UM, AS MUCH AS WE CAN BE MINDFUL ABOUT THAT AND COMBINE EFFORTS, EVEN THOUGH THEY ARE SEPARATE EQUITY ROADMAPS AND SEPARATELY, SEPARATE TOOLBOXES AND STUFF, UM, I WILL SAY THAT, UM, AND THIS MAY JUST BE ME GETTING TOO MANY EMAILS, BUT NOW THAT I ACTUALLY UNDERSTAND FROM MERISSA EXPLAINING TO ME ABOUT THE, UM, ABOUT THE, UM, COMMUNITY AMBASSADORS AND STUFF, I REALIZED THAT THERE WAS A COMMUNITY AMBASSADOR PROGRAM IN MY NEIGHBORHOOD AND SOMEBODY WAS HOLDING COFFEES AND STUFF FOR THE EQUITY PLAN, BUT I DIDN'T ACTUALLY UNDERSTAND WHAT IT WAS OR HOW IT FIT INTO ANYTHING. 
          IT WAS VERY KIND OF OPAQUE. 
          AND I REMEMBER SEEING NOTICES AND A COUPLE OF THINGS ABOUT IT. 
          UM, AND NOT UNTIL LIKE, YOU KNOW, FULL ON LIKE TWO YEARS LATER THAT WHEN WE TALKED ABOUT WHAT THIS IS, I WAS LIKE, OH, I THINK THAT HAPPENED IN MY NEIGHBORHOOD. 
          AND SOMEBODY WAS INVITING FOLKS. 
          SO WE JUST WANT TO BE LIKE SUPER CLEAR AND TRY TO DISTINGUISH IT FROM OTHER PROGRAMS. AND I KNOW THERE'S JUST SO MUCH NOISE AND STUFF AND PEOPLE COMING AT US, LIKE I SAID, I PROBABLY GOT LIKE EMAILS ABOUT, YOU KNOW, MLK REDESIGN AND PROJECT CONNECT AND, YOU KNOW, SILK OR PARK AND EVERY, YOU KNOW, EVERYTHING'S ONCE COMMUNITY INPUT AND THAT'S GREAT. 
          AND IT'S, IT'S HARD TO GET PEOPLE'S ATTENTION. 
          YEP. 
          SPEECH OVER BILL. 
          I'D LIKE TO ASK A QUESTION ABOUT WATERFALL OR UNIVERSITY. 
          IT HAS THAT BEEN BROUGHT UP BEFORE, OR IS THIS THE FIRST TIME WE'RE KIND OF A CATCHY NAME THAT WE MADE UP THERE WAS ALWAYS GOING TO HAVE TO BE SOME SORT OF BACKGROUND AND CONTEXT PROVIDED TO OUR COMMUNITY AMBASSADORS. 
          SO THEY UNDERSTAND WHAT ARE WE DOING WITH WATERFORD? WHAT, WHAT ARE, YOU KNOW, WHAT'S THE PREVIOUS WATER PORT PLAN? WHAT DOES WATER SUPPLY PLANNING LOOK LIKE AND MEAN, AND WHAT ARE THE IMPLICATIONS FOR OUR COMMUNITY, BUT IT'S REALLY JUST A CATCHING UP. 
          THAT'S A REALLY GREAT IDEA. 
          I AM SO IMPRESSED SERIOUSLY. 
          AND I KIND OF WANTED TO RE RE REMIND YOU ALL. 
          WHEN WE WENT TO SAN ANTONIO TO LOOK AT THEIR ASR. 
          AND I DON'T MEAN FOR JUST ASR. 
          I THINK YOU COULD DO THIS WITH LOTS OF THINGS RELATED TO THE WATER SYSTEM. 
          BUT IF YOU REMEMBER, WHEN WE WALKED THROUGH THAT FACILITY, HOW LONG AGO WERE YOU DOWN THERE? OH, GOSH, THREE, FOUR YEARS. 
          IT'S BEEN A WHILE, BUT THE WAY THEY HAD CONSTRUCTED THAT BUILDING, WHERE THEY HAD THE PUMPS, THEY ACTUALLY MADE IT. 
          SO IT WAS EDUCATIONAL THAT THEY DREW ON THE FLOOR WHERE THE PIPES WERE AND HOW BIG THEY WERE AND HOW THEY WENT FROM HERE TO THERE AND ON ALL OF THAT. 
          SO YOU COULD TAKE GROUPS THROUGH THEM AND EXPLAIN HOW THIS THING WORKED. 
          SO I'D SAY TWO POINTS. 
          ONE IS WHOEVER THOUGHT OF THAT. 
          THAT WAS A GOOD JOB. 
          A SECOND. 
          WE SHOULD BE THINKING IN TERMS OF, IN THE FUTURE, AS THE WATER DEPARTMENT DEVELOPS THINGS, INCLUDING THE ASR, BUT IT COULD BE OTHER THINGS THAT THIS OUGHT TO BE THOUGHT THROUGH IS, IS A POSSIBILITY. 
          I'M NOT SAYING WE HAVE TO COPY SAN ANTONIO, BUT IT COULD BE THAT THIS IS GOING TO BE SUCH A UNIQUE WATER, UH, FACILITY, THAT THERE WILL BE A LOT OF PEOPLE THAT WANT TO GO DOWN THERE AND LOOK AT IT AND TOUCH IT AND KICK THE TIRES AND STUFF. 
          SO IN THE COURSE OF BUILDING IT, YOU'LL, YOU'LL WANT TO BE THINKING OF THAT, THAT, UH, YOU, YOU WANT TO EXPLAIN THIS AND THEN MAYBE IN THE COURSE OF DOING THIS UNIVERSITY OR WHATEVER IT'S GOING TO BE ULTIMATELY CALLED, I THINK THIS WOULD HELP BRING IN SOME OF YOUR COUNCIL DISTRICTS THAT AREN'T AS KNOWLEDGEABLE OR AS, OR AS INVOLVED AT THIS POINT. 
          AND THEY COULD LEARN ALL ABOUT THIS SUBJECT. 
          SO GOOD JOB. 
          WHOEVER DID THE UNIVERSITY. 
          ALL RIGHT. 
          SO I'M MINDFUL OF TIME. 
          I THINK WE HAVE A HARD STOP AT TWO. 
          YES. 
          SO WE HAVE 11 MINUTES LEFT. 
          SO, UM, SO WE'VE GOT IT. 
          STILL HAVE A COUPLE OF AGENDA ITEMS. UM, WE'VE GOT 
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THE, UM, TASKFORCE, SUBCOMMITTEE, REORGANIZATION, AND THEN SUB COMMITTEE REPORTS. 
          UM, MERISSA WHAT'S HOW WOULD YOU LIKE TO HANDLE THIS? SO WE'D LIKE TO DEFINITELY GET THROUGH THE SUBCOMMITTEE ITEM, THE SUBCOMMITTEE REORGANIZATION ITEMS. AND, UH, SO IF YOU COULD BRING UP THE, UH, PRESENTATION FOR TWO E THERE'S REALLY JUST ONE SLIDE TO KEY OFF OF, 
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UM, WE HAD DISCUSSED WITH THE CHAIR AND VICE CHAIR, UM, PREVIOUSLY KIND OF SOME POSSIBLE REORGANIZATION OF OUR, UH, TASK FORCE SUBCOMMITTEES. 
          CURRENTLY WE HAVE FOUR DIFFERENT SUBCOMMITTEES. 
          WE HAVE A LEAD ABATEMENT SUBCOMMITTEE, AN ORDINANCE OF COMMITTEE AND IPR INDIRECT, POTABLE REUSE SUBCOMMITTEE. 
          AND THEN, UM, THESE ARE NOT REALLY SUBCOMMITTEES, BUT WE HAVE TECHNICAL ADVISORY GROUPS. 
          WE HAVE A CLIMATE TECHNICAL ADVISORY GROUP AND, UH, AQUIFER STORAGE AND RECOVERY TECHNICAL ADVISORY GROUP AS WELL. 
          UM, THAT'S REALLY MADE UP OF FOLKS WHO ARE EXTERNAL TO EVEN THE CITY OF AUSTIN. 
          UM, BUT TWO, TYPICALLY TWO OF OUR TASK FORCE MEMBERS WILL SIT IN ON THOSE MEETINGS. 
          UM, WE WOULD ACKNOWLEDGING THAT THERE'S GOING TO BE A TON OF WORK AHEAD OF US IN THE NEXT TWO YEARS. 
          AND WE WANTED TO PROPOSE TO PROPOSE, UM, STREAMLINING OF THE SUBCOMMITTEES AND WE WANTED TO PROPOSE STREAMLINING THEM INTO TWO SUB COMMITTEES, UH, THAT WOULD MEET, UM, IN-BETWEEN OUR TASK FORCE MEETINGS. 
          UM, OUR BIMONTHLY TASK FORCE MEETINGS, THE TWO COMMITTEES WOULD BE RELATED TO WATERFORD 2018 IMPLEMENTATION AS WE CONTINUE, UM, WORK RELATED TO IPR ASR ORDINANCES. 
          UM, IT WILL LEAD ABATEMENT, ET CETERA. 
          AND THEN THE OTHER SUBCOMMITTEE WE'D BE PROPOSING WOULD BE RELATED TO THE WATERFORD 2024 PLAN UPDATE. 
          AND THAT SUBCOMMITTEE WOULD BE AN OPPORTUNITY FOR US TO DRILL IN ON SOME OF THE DETAILS THAT WE MAY NOT BE ABLE TO GET TO IN, UM, OUR FULL TASKFORCE MEETINGS. 
          SO THIS WAS THE PROPOSAL WE WANTED TO PUT TO YOU. 
          AND, UM, WE'RE HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS AND WE FIGURED WE'D LEAVE IT UP TO THE TASK FORCE TO DISCUSS IS THAT THESE MEETINGS FOR THE, IF, IF WE GO THIS WAY, WE'LL HAVE TWO SUB COMMITTEES AND MEETINGS BE SET IN ADVANCE. 
          SO ONE MONTH WE'LL HAVE A FULL TASK FORCE MEETING THE NEC AND THE NEXT MONTH THERE'S GOING TO BE THE SUBCOMMITTEE MEETINGS. 
          ALSO, MY REQUEST WAS, AND I DON'T REALLY KNOW KIND OF WHERE THINGS CAME OUT IS, YOU KNOW, IF, IF THERE'S MORE THAN A QUORUM AND WANTS TO PARTICIPATE IN THESE, THAT, THAT I DON'T WANT TO LIMIT PRESENTATION PARTICIPATION, BUT THEY WERE GOING TO CHECK WITH LEGAL ABOUT THAT. 
          UM, YOU KNOW, CAUSE, UM, THE MORE THE MERRIER, BUT, UM, ANYWAY, WELL, YEAH, THAT THEY WERE GOING TO CHECK ON SOME OF THAT STUFF. 
          I MEAN, IT WOULD HAVE TO BE PUBLIC MEANING IT DOESN'T HAVE TO BE AS CENTRALIZED LOCATION AND TELEVISED ALL THAT STUFF. 
          BUT, UM, ANYWAY, COMMENTS, THOUGHTS? I HAVE A QUESTION ABOUT THE, UM, THE STRUCTURE AND PURPOSE OF THE NEW COMMITTEES. 
          IS IT ANTICIPATED THAT THE COMMITTEES WOULD BE USED FOR PRESENTATION AND APPROVAL OF ITEMS THAT WOULD THEN MOVE FORWARDS TO THIS TASK FORCE? OR IS IT ANTICIPATED THAT THEY ARE MORE INFORMATIONAL COMMITTEES? LIKE HOW, WHAT IS THEIR PURPOSE? WE HAVE YOU SUBCOMMITTEES TO BE MORE INFORMATIONAL RATHER THAN REVIEWING AND APPROVING ITEMS THAT WOULD THEN MOVE FORWARD TO THE TASK FORCE MEETING GENERALLY, BECAUSE WE HAVE A LOT OF CONTENT TO GO OVER IN THE TASK FORCE MEETINGS. 
          SOME FOLKS WANT TO DRILL IN ON DETAILS, UM, OR HEAR MORE ABOUT THE ITEMS THAT ARE PRESENTED AND THIS OFFERS AN OPPORTUNITY FOR THAT TO HAPPEN. 
          YEAH. 
          I THINK ONE OF THE THINGS IS, IS THAT WE'VE, WE HAVE THESE LIMITED HOUR AND A HALF, TWO HOUR MEETINGS NOW WE USED TO HAVE LONGER MEETINGS AND WE HAD TIME TO ACTUALLY DO WORK ASSET TASKFORCE. 
          RIGHT. 
          I JUST WOULDN'T, I WAS JUST CURIOUS WHAT THE INTENTION WAS, THE STRUCTURE. 
          UM, AND THEN I GUESS ALSO IS THERE LIKE MORE OF A BREAKDOWN AS TO, I'M NOT, I GUESS I'M NOT THAT CLEAR ON WHAT'S UNDER IMPLEMENTATION AND WHAT'S UNDER UPDATE. 
          FOR EXAMPLE, WE JUST GOT THIS ASR PRESENTATION KIND OF AS A SEPARATE ITEM. 
          AND IS THAT IMPLEMENTATION ANYTHING RELATED TO ASR BECAUSE IT'S IN THE CURRENT PLAN? IT, SO THE ASR PILOT AND PROGRAM MANAGEMENT PROJECT IS IMPLEMENTATION BECAUSE WE'RE IMPLEMENTING A STRATEGY THAT WAS INCLUDED IN THE WATER FOR 2018 PLAN. 
          IT HAS GONE ON ITS OWN PLANNING AND IMPLEMENTATION ROUTE. 
          SO WE'RE LOOKING AT POTENTIAL LOCATIONS FOR THAT. 
          WE'LL HAVE A PHYSICAL ONE OR SEVERAL PHYSICAL PILOTS WHERE WE'RE GATHERING INFORMATION FROM AND MAKING DECISIONS ON WHERE TO LOCATE A FULL-SCALE FACILITY THAT IS IMPLEMENTATION. 
          SIMILARLY THINGS LIKE, UM, THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE ADVANCED METERING INFRASTRUCTURE. 
          THAT'S AN ONGOING PROJECT THAT'S IN CONSTRUCTION. 
          WE WOULD SAY THAT'S IN CONSTRUCTION RIGHT NOW. 
          UM, IF THERE ARE ADDITIONAL ITEMS RELATED TO INDIRECT POTABLE REUSE AND HOW WE MOVE FORWARD WITH THAT STRATEGY, THAT WOULD BE RELATED TO IMPLEMENTATION, UM, YOU KNOW, UH, UH, WATER QUALITY CONSIDERATIONS, UM, RELATED TO IPR, ET CETERA, CODES AND ORDINANCES CODE CHANGES THAT WERE PROPOSED 
          [01:50:01]
WITHIN THE PREVIOUS PLAN, LIKE THE LANDSCAPE TRANSFORMATION ORDINANCE, THAT WOULD BE AN IMPLEMENTATION ITEM AND THE WATERFORD 2024 UPDATE, THERE'LL BE SO MUCH INFORMATION RELATED TO INITIALLY COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT, PLANNING, DEMAND, FORECASTING, THAT'LL BE INCLUSIVE OF DEMOGRAPHICS AND POPULATION AND EMPLOYMENT PROJECTIONS. 
          WE'LL BE DRILLING INTO THE DETAILS ON CLIMATE AND HYDROLOGY. 
          WHAT DO THESE, HOW DO WE SELECT GLOBAL CLIMATE MODELS? UM, WHAT DO, ARE THE TRENDS IN TEMPERATURE AND PRECIPITATION? HOW ARE WE DEVELOPING HYDROLOGIC MODELS TO TURN THAT INTO STREAMFLOW, TO BE INCLUDED IN OUR WATER AVAILABILITY MODEL? THOSE CONVERSATIONS CAN BE PRETTY DETAILED. 
          I MEAN, WHY DO I THINK WHEN, UH, ONE OF, UH, YOU KNOW, THE BALANCES IS WE WANT TO HAVE A LOT OF THIS INFORMATION THAT YOU JUST LISTED IN FRONT OF THE FULL TASK FORCE. 
          SO WHAT'S THE BALANCE OF SUBCOMMITTEE VERSUS VERSUS, UM, FULL TASK FORCE. 
          I MEAN, WE USED TO MEET MONTHLY. 
          WE USED TO HAVE, I MEAN, REALLY THE COVID HAS MADE OUR SHORT MEETINGS ALL UP UNTIL THEN WE HAD MEETINGS. 
          I MEAN, NOT THAT THAT'S A VIRTUE TO MEET FOR A LONG, SUPER LONG TIME, BUT WE DID HAVE TIME TO DISCUSS THINGS AND TO HAVE PRESENTATIONS AND STUFF. 
          SO, UM, WELL DO FOLKS, I MEAN, I'M FINE EITHER WAY. 
          I THINK FOR STAFF, AS FAR AS LIKE SIMPLICITY AND, UM, AND GETTING ORGANIZING THINGS A LITTLE, MAYBE A LITTLE MORE, BETTER RATIONALLY ON THEIR END, IT WOULD BE GOOD TO HAVE TWO SUB COMMITTEES. 
          UM, AND THAT WE GET KIND OF GET CLEAR ON, ON WHAT HAPPENS IN SUB COMMITTEE VERSUS TASKFORCE AND MAYBE TRY TO WORK, WORK THROUGH THAT A LITTLE BIT. 
          UM, IT SEEMS, IT SEEMS LIKE TO TWO TOPICS HERE, ONE IS, SHOULD WE REDUCE THE NUMBER OF SUBCOMMITTEES OR COMBINED SUBCOMMITTEES THAT, THAT SEEMS TO BE AN EASY DECISION BASED ON EVERYTHING WE'VE HEARD. 
          RIGHT. 
          THEN THE SECOND IS HOW DO WE DIVIDE UP THE WORK? YEAH. 
          SO I LIKED THE WAY Y'ALL PROPOSED DIVIDING IN, UH, BUT IT IS MAKING IT HARD FOR ME TO CHOOSE. 
          UM, SO, AND I, I DON'T WANT TO OVER-COMMIT BILL, ONE THING WE COULD CONSIDER AS PART OF THIS IS THERE MAYBE TIMES THAT WE'VE HAD MEETINGS WHEN WE DIDN'T NEED TO HAVE THEM. 
          AND I, AND, AND I'M NOT CRITICIZING THE MEETINGS WERE ALL VERY, VERY GOOD, BUT IN THE, IN THE, IN THE INTERESTS OF CONSERVING TIME, IT COULD BE THAT THE WAY WE DESIGNED THE MEETING IS SIMPLY AN EMAIL. 
          LIKE FOR INSTANCE, IF THERE'S THE, LET'S TAKE THE SMART METER THING, MAYBE WE DON'T NEED TO HAVE A METER. 
          MAYBE WE JUST EMAIL OUT A SPREADSHEET THAT SO MANY THOUSANDS OF THESE HAVE BEEN INSTALLED IN THIS, YOU KNOW, AND WE JUST DO SOMETHING LIKE THAT. 
          AND THAT ANSWERS ENOUGH OF THE QUESTIONS THAT SAY, WELL, WE DON'T NEED NECESSARILY NEED A MEETING. 
          CAUSE I KNOW FOR YOU GUYS TO HOLD A MEETING, YOU GOT TO ROUND UP EVERYBODY AND DO ALL THIS. 
          AND IT'S A LOT OF WORK. 
          AND I, I APPRECIATE THAT. 
          SO MAYBE THERE'S WAYS THAT WE CAN ANSWER QUESTIONS MORE ECONOMICALLY IN TERMS OF TIME. 
          OKAY. 
          UM, ANYONE ELSE? SO, YEAH, I WOULD JUST LIKE TO ADD, I MEAN, WE, WE ARE AT A CROSSROADS, UM, YOU KNOW, IT'S BEEN A VERY BUSY TIME SINCE 2018 AND YOU CAN TELL, YOU KNOW, ALL THESE DEDICATED PROFESSIONALS ON THE STAFF, WE GOT A LOT MORE PEOPLE HERE NOW THAN WE HAD AT THE BEGINNING OF 2018. 
          AND WE'RE GOING TO BE IN THE POSITION OF CONTINUING THE WORK OF WATERFORD 18 AT THE SAME TIME, AS WE'RE TRYING TO OPEN UP THE HOOD AND SORT OF CREATE WATER FOR 24. 
          AND SO I THINK REALLY WHAT THE ASK IS, YOU KNOW, TO ALLOW SOME CREATIVITY ON HOW WE SORT OF STREAMLINE AND, YOU KNOW, MORE EFFICIENTLY USE OUR RESOURCES. 
          I THINK YOU HAD A GREAT POINT. 
          I THINK THE THINGS THAT WE CAN REDUCE TO WRITTEN REPORTS, YOU KNOW, THAT'S, YOU KNOW, WHERE WE WILL HEAD, UM, TO YOUR POINT, UH, THE, THE PURPOSE OF THE COMMITTEES IS NOT AT ALL. 
          I MEAN, TH THE BODY EXISTS. 
          SO THE TASK FORCE IS THE BODY THAT WAS SET BY COUNCIL. 
          AND SO WE'RE GOING TO RUN THINGS, INFORMATION FORMAL APPROVALS THROUGH THE FULL, UM, TASK FORCE. 
          BUT I THINK THERE IS SOME FLEXIBILITY THAT COMES WITH SOME SMALLER GROUPS. 
          AND SO WE DON'T HAVE TO HAVE ALL OF THIS GRANDIOSITY. 
          UM, AND, AND SO, AND I THINK WE HAVE FOUND THE TASKFORCE TO BE, AND THE SUBCOMMITTEES TO BE EFFECTIVE VEHICLES, BUT I THINK WE'RE, WE'RE HAVING TO KIND OF RETHINK AND REORGANIZE SOME OF THE THINGS THAT WE WANT TO DO SO THAT WE CAN KEEP YOU ALL INFORMED. 
          WE CAN KEEP STAFF MOVING IN THE RIGHT DIRECTIONS AND THEN FOCUSED ON THE THINGS THAT THEY NEED TO. 
          SO REALLY THAT'S THE REQUEST. 
          UM, 
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YOU KNOW, WE'RE LOOKING FORWARD TO, UH, EXCITING AND BUSY TIME, BUT IT'S GOING TO BE A LOT OF, SINCE, YOU KNOW, WE'VE BEEN, YOU KNOW, UNDER, UNDER COVID FOR THE LAST COUPLE OF YEARS, AND WE'VE FOUND OUT THAT, UM, VIRTUAL TEAM MEETINGS WORK, WOULD WE CONSIDER HAVING THOSE COMMUNITY SUBCOMMITTEE MEETINGS, UM, VIRTUALLY AGAIN, THAT'S THE INFORMALITY THAT IS AFFORDED TO US IF WE USE THE SUBCOMMITTEE STRUCTURE SO LONG AS WE AVOID WHAT WOULD BE DESCRIBED AS A WALKING QUORUM. 
          SO WE CAN'T, WE CAN'T DO IT IN A WAY THAT CREATES A CORE, UM, THAT THERE THEREFORE NECESSITATES A PUBLIC MEETINGS. 
          SO WE'VE SAT SOME OF THOSE DETAILS, BUT THE SHORT ANSWER IS YES, IF THERE'S SOME FLEXIBILITY, SMALLER GROUPS, WE CAN CERTAINLY ACCOMMODATE HYBRID MEETINGS. 
          THAT'S EASY. 
          WE FIGURED THAT OUT. 
          YEAH. 
          OKAY. 
          SO I SEE THAT WE ARE AT TWO O'CLOCK AND WE HAVE A QUESTION OF, DO WE MOVE TO A NEW COMMITTEE STRUCTURE? UM, I GUESS ANOTHER QUESTION WOULD BE WHO WANTS TO BE ON THE COMMITTEES? I DON'T KNOW IF WE HAVE TO ANSWER THAT TODAY, A THIRD WOULD BE LIKE, WHAT IS THE, UM, KIND OF THE PURPOSE OF EACH OF THE COMMITTEE? AND SO MAYBE AN EMAIL COULD BE SENT OUT SAYING, HERE'S THE TWO COMMITTEES THAT WE'RE GOING TO HAVE IF WE DECIDE TO DO THAT, UM, HERE'S THEIR FUNCTION WHO WANTS TO BE ON WHICH ONE AND WHAT KIND OF SEE WHERE WE LAND. 
          UM, BUT WE DO NEED TO ANSWER THE QUESTION OF, DO WE, ARE WE FINE WITH MOVING TO THESE TWO SUBCOMMITTEE, UM, FORMAT SOMETHING THAT'S NOT A VOTING ITEM? I DON'T BELIEVE SO. 
          IT'S NOT LISTED IN OUR BYLAWS AS REQUIRED TO BE A VOTING ITEM. 
          YEAH. 
          SO I THINK WE'VE JUST, WELL, I'M IN FAVOR. 
          OKAY. 
          OKAY. 
          SO WE'LL FOLLOW UP WITH THE LISTING OF THE TWO SUBCOMMITTEES AND WHAT THE PURPOSE OF THE SUBCOMMITTEES IS, AND THEN THE REQUEST, OR WHO WANTS TO BE ON THOSE SUBCOMMITTEES. 
          YEAH. 
          AND THEN, UM, BETWEEN, WE DO NOT HAVE A TASK FORCE MEETING, UH, UNTIL JANUARY, JANUARY 11TH, 2022. 
          UM, WE DO HAVE AN ORDINANCE SUBCOMMITTEE MEETING PLANNED IN BETWEEN NOW AND THEN, SO I GUESS THE QUESTION WOULD BE, DO WE WANT TO HOLD THAT SUB COMMITTEE MEETING OR DO WE WANT TO FIGURE OUT OUR KIND OF NEWLY ORGANIZED SUBCOMMITTEE MEETINGS AND, AND SCHEDULE THOSE, UM, FOR THE FUTURE NATE, ABOUT THAT AFTER THIS? YEAH. 
          WE, I CAN, MAYBE WE CAN USE THAT TIME TO FIGURE THIS OUT OR OKAY. 
          ANYWAY, SOUNDS GOOD. 
          OKAY. 
          AND I BELIEVE 
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WITH THAT, WE DIDN'T GET TO OUR SUBCOMMITTEE REPORTS. 
          OKAY. 
          THAT WOULD BE GREAT. 
          UM, I DO THINK THAT THERE, WE MAY WANT TO EXPLORE, LIKE GOING BACK TO OUR REGULAR ALLOTTED MEETING TIME THAT WE HAVE PRE COVID, BUT I DON'T WANT TO FREAK ANYONE OUT BY THAT, BUT, UM, JUST PLANT THE SEED, IT'S A LOT TO COVER AN AND BEFORE YOU ADJOURN, I WOULD JUST NEVER WANT TO JUST LIKE TO RECOGNIZE STAFF AND THANK THEM ALL FOR YOUR HARD WORK. 
          IT'S BEEN A BUSY, BUSY YEAR. 
          WE'VE KIND OF MANAGED THROUGH A PANDEMIC THROUGH ALL OF THIS. 
          CERTAINLY THANK YOU ALL FOR YOUR WORK. 
          IT'S BEEN AMAZING. 
          AND THANK YOU FOR YOUR VOLUNTEER. 
          UM, YOU KNOW, OBVIOUSLY THIS IS A COMMITMENT, UM, LOTS OF MEETINGS DOESN'T MAKE IT EASIER BY HAVING TO COME DOWN HERE IN THE RAIN DEAL WITH THE KIND OF CHANGES IN TIMING. 
          SO THANK YOU ALL WE KNOW IT'S A, UH, A CHALLENGE. 
          SO THANK YOU FOR THE COMMUNITY WHEN WE APPRECIATE IT. 
          YEAH. 
          THANK YOU, KEVIN. 
          THANK YOU VERY MUCH. 
          I THINK AROUND OF APPLAUSE ALL AROUND FOR EVERYONE, THIS IS REALLY A TEAM EFFORT IN A, IN A STRONG, IN MY MIND. 
          SO, UM, I REALLY APPRECIATE IT. 
          UM, AND WITH THAT, WE ARE ADJOURNED. 
          I HAVE THE CLAM SHELL TO VERIFY, UM, TO VALIDATE PARKING FOR Y'ALL 
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