* This transcript was created by voice-to-text technology. The transcript has not been edited for errors or omissions, it is for reference only and is not the official minutes of the meeting. [00:00:03] CALL THIS MEETING [CALL TO ORDER] TO ORDER AT 1204. OKAY. UM, OUR FIRST [APPROVAL OF MINUTES ] AGENDA ITEM IS TO APPROVE THE MINUTES FROM THE DECEMBER 9TH MEETING. I FEEL WE HAVEN'T MET IN SO LONG. WE HAVEN'T MET SINCE LAST YEAR AND GOLLY, LAST YEAR. IT FEELS LIKE A LONG TIME AGO AT THIS POINT, DOESN'T IT? WOO. THIS YEAR HAS GIVEN ME A RUN FOR MY MONEY. OKAY. SO LET'S REVIEW AND APPROVE THE MINUTES FROM THE LAST MEETING. DECEMBER 9TH. IT'S IN OUR PACKET. I GOTTA UNSTAPLE MY PACKET. FIRST THINGS FIRST. MOTION TO APPROVE THE MINUTES. OKAY, PAUL. I WAS LIKE, I DON'T THINK I WAS HERE, BUT I CHAIR IT SO I'LL SECOND . THAT'S NOT A GOOD SIGN. WELL, YOU CAN'T BE EXPECTED TO REMEMBER WHAT WAS LAST YEAR. HANEY HAS HIS HAND UP. WOULD YOU LIKE TO SAY SOMETHING ABOUT THE MINUTES OR WERE YOU MAKING A MOTION? NO, I'M JUST GONNA, UM, APPROVE THE MINUTES. OKAY. MOTION TO APPROVE. OKAY. NO, I'M GOOD. THANK YOU. UM, ALL IN FAVOR? AYE. AYE. AYE. ALRIGHT. THAT'S UNANIMOUS ON THAT ONE. THAT, OKAY. AND NOW NEXT WE'RE, OH, DO WE HAVE ANY PUBLIC COMMENT? I SKIPPED RIGHT OVER THAT. SORRY. PUBLIC COMMENT. PUBLIC. OKAY. I CAN SEE THE PUBLIC, SO I'M JUST SEEING IF Y'ALL WANNA MAKE ANY COMMENTS. ALRIGHT. UM, OKAY. NEXT WE HAVE A STAFF [2. Staff briefing regarding Lower Colorado River and Highland Lakes water supply conditions. Presentation by Emily Rafferty, Program Manager, Austin Water. ] BRIEFING REGARDING THE LOWER COLORADO RIVER AND HIGHLAND LAKES WATER SUPPLY CONDITIONS PRESENTED BY EMILY RAFFERTY. IS SOMEBODY WANTING TO MAKE COMMENTS? NO. NO. ARE YOU, ARE I JUST ASKING BRANDON, JUST GO THROUGH THIS ALL. HEY, YOU GOT A BACKUP? OKAY. 'CAUSE YOU'RE GONNA MAKE THE PRESENTATION. DO YOU HAVE ALL THIS RAIN INCLUDED IN THE, IN YOUR PRESENTATION? WE'LL HAVE TO WAIT TO FIND OUT. RIGHT. PAY ATTENTION, . OKAY. HELLO EVERYBODY. EMILY RAFFERTY, PROGRAM MANAGER AT AUSTIN WATER. UM, I'M GONNA GIVE THE UPDATE ON THE LOWER COLORADO RIVER IN HIGHLAND LAKES WATER SUPPLY CONDITIONS. NEXT SLIDE PLEASE. OKAY, SO THIS IS SHOWING INFLOWS INTO THE HIGHLAND LAKES IN ACRE FEET. UM, THE BLUE BARS REPRESENT THE AVERAGE INFLOWS BETWEEN 1942 TO PRESENT DAY. THE DARK BLUE SHOWS THE AVERAGE BETWEEN 2008 AND 2015, WHICH IS THE DROUGHT OF RECORD. AND THE GREEN BARS SHOWS 2025 INFLOWS. AND THE PURPLE BARS SHOW 2026. SO FOR MARCH OUR INFLOWS WERE HIGHER THAN 2025, BUT STILL MUCH LOWER THAN THE AVERAGE. UM, AND THAT ALSO GOES FOR JANUARY AND FEBRUARY OF THIS YEAR. NEXT SLIDE A QUESTION. YEAH. YES. ARE WE CONCERNED THAT THE 2026 IS A LOT LOWER THAN THE 2008 TO 2015? IT'S ONLY THREE MONTHS, SO I CAN'T SEE THE YEAR BEFORE 2025, BUT YOU CAN, 2025 ISN'T GREEN. OH. MM-HMM . IT'S WORSE EXCEPT FOR YEAH, IT'S A LITTLE BETTER THAN 20, 25 OR LESS. WORSE THAN 2025. SO FAR BOTH ARE CONCERNING. OKAY. I WOULD SAY. ALRIGHT. YEAH, THANKS. OKAY. SO THIS SLIDE SHOWS THE COMBINED STORAGE OF LAKES, TRAVIS AND BUCHANAN FROM 2005 TO APRIL 1ST, 2026. SO YEAH, THIS DOESN'T INCLUDE THE RAINS THAT WE'VE GOTTEN IN APRIL. UM, AND CURRENT COMBINED STORAGE IS AT 1.66 MILLION ACRE FEET. AND THE LAKES ARE CURRENTLY 83% FULL. NEXT SLIDE PLEASE. OKAY. THIS IS SHOWING THE DROUGHT INTENSITY ACROSS TEXAS. UH, AS YOU CAN SEE, THE VAST MAJORITY OF TEXAS IS IN SOME LEVEL OF DROUGHT. UM, TRAVIS COUNTY, WHICH IS IN THE MIDDLE OF THIS, UM, MAP, IT'S NOT BOLDED, BUT YOU KNOW, IT, UM, IT'S IN EXTREME DROUGHT FOR THE MOST PART. THE TOP LIKE NORTHWEST CORNER IS IN SEVERE DROUGHT AND ORANGE, BUT MOST OF IT IS IN EXTREME DROUGHT. NEXT SLIDE PLEASE. THIS IS NOAH'S THREE MONTH OUTLOOK OF MAY THROUGH JULY, AND IT'S SHOWING ABOVE AVERAGE TEMPERATURES FROM MAY TO JULY AND EQUAL CHANCES OF PRECIPITATION. SO THIS PRECIPITATION COULD BE DUE TO THE EL NINO FORECAST, WHICH WE'LL TALK ABOUT IN THE NEXT SLIDE. [00:05:01] SO THIS IS, UM, NOAH'S FORECAST. WE ARE CURRENTLY IN ENSO NEUTRAL AND WE'RE FAVORED TO STAY THAT WAY THROUGH APRIL THROUGH JUNE. SO THAT'S THE GRAY BARS IN THIS CHART. AND THEN MAY THROUGH JULY, EL NINO IS LIKELY TO EMERGE, WHICH IS WHEN YOU SEE THE RED BARS, UM, GETTING TALLER THAN THE GRAY ONES. AND THAT'S SUPPOSED TO PERSIST THROUGH THE END OF 2026. AND EL NINO BRINGS COOLER AND WETTER CONDITIONS TO TEXAS. SO THERE'S SOME HOPE OF MAYBE SOME RELIEF OF DROUGHT LATER THIS FALL INTO WINTER. NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE. OKAY. THIS IS RA'S COMBINED STORAGE PROJECTION, EVERYTHING BEFORE THAT YELLOW LINE. SO THE NAVY BAR IS ACTUAL COMBINED STORAGE. AND THEN AFTER THAT IS THEIR PROJECTION OUT THROUGH OCTOBER OF 2026. UM, THEY ADDED THIS NOTE ABOUT THE DCP TRIGGER LEVEL ON WHEN THEY HIT 1.1 MILLION ACRE FEET. SO AS YOU CAN SEE THE EXTREME DRY CONDITIONS, IF WE FOLLOW AND TRACK WITH THAT, IT COULD GET PRETTY CLOSE TO THAT. UM, DROUGHT TRIGGER AND BOXES AT 1.4. YEAH. YEAH. MM-HMM . OKAY. THAT'S ALL. ARE THERE ANY QUESTIONS THAT THIS LAST SLIDE, THE LINE ACROSS AT THE PURPLE LINE? MM-HMM . ACROSS THE MIDDLE. OH, OKAY. THAT ONE'S LCR RAY'S DROUGHT. YEAH. TRIGGER. THANK YOU. YEAH. AND THEN THE LINE'S ON THE RIGHT, UM, COINCIDE WITH AUSTIN'S AUSTIN. YEAH. OKAY. UM, AND THE CP STAGE ONE FOR AUSTIN IS 1.4. YEAH. WELL, DES DESCRIBE WHAT THAT IS, THAT THAT'S SHORTER WATERING WINDOW. UM, AND, AND SOME OTHER THINGS. YES. BUT THAT'S THE BIG ONE, RIGHT? THE SHORTER WATERING WINDOW. MM-HMM . OH, POP QUIZ TIME. SORRY. WHY AM I TRYING TO PULL THIS OUT OF THIN AIR? , UH, KEVIN KLUGE WATER CONSERVATION MANAGER. YEAH. ESSENTIALLY IT'S A SHORTER WINDOW. I THINK IT MAY BE DOWN TO 13 HOURS A DAY BETWEEN THE NIGHT AND, AND THE MORNING. SO IT'S JUST A LITTLE SHORTER. OKAY. OKAY. UM, AND THEN OF COURSE WE HAVE OUTDOOR WATERING ONE TIME PER WEEK ALL YEAR. OKAY. THANK YOU. I HAD A, ANY, ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? YES. YEAH, I JUST HAD A QUICK QUESTION ON THE SLIDE FOUR. THE US DROUGHT MONITOR SLIDE. YEAH. MM-HMM . UM, I MEAN, I'M JUST TRYING TO REMEMBER. UH, NOW I'VE BEEN ON THIS TASK FORCE FOR A LITTLE OVER TWO YEARS, I THINK. I'M NOT SURE THAT I'VE SEEN THIS SLIDE WHERE TRAVIS COUNTY ISN'T IN SOME KIND OF DROUGHT MM-HMM . UM, AND I WAS WONDERING IF WE WERE TRACKING, WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME THAT TRAVIS COUNTY, LET'S SAY ALL OF TRAVIS COUNTY HAD THE LITTLE WHITE COLORATION TO IT WHERE IT JUST SAID NONE, IT'S COMING BACK. ARE YOU COMING TO ANSWER THIS KEVIN? NO. , YOU FAKED ME OUT. . YEAH, WE CAN GO BACK AND FIND THAT. OKAY. BUT OFF THE TOP OF MY HEAD, I'M NOT SURE. I FEEL LIKE IT JUST KEEPS, LIKE, UM, I WAS TELLING SOMEBODY THE OTHER DAY LIKE, LIKE EXTREME AND EXCEPTIONAL DROUGHT OR JUST KEEP LIKE, KISSING THE EDGE OF TRAVIS COUNTY 'CAUSE IT'S BEEN LIKE OVER TO THE SOUTH OF US, LIKE OVER SAN ANTONIO AND BEAR COUNTY AND STUFF FOR IT SEEMS LIKE EONS AND IT JUST KEEPS KIND OF EXPANDING AND CONTRACTING BACK TO TRAVIS COUNTY. HASN'T COMPLETELY TAKEN IT UP YET, BUT IT'S JUST LIKE RIGHT THERE. WE'RE RIGHT THERE ON THE EDGE, WHICH IS NOT GOOD. YEAH. YEAH. I MEAN, IT'S HARD TO JUST TALK ABOUT IT WITH WITHOUT, YOU KNOW, THIS IS JUST LIKE QUALITATIVE TERMS SEVERE, EXTREME EXCEPTIONAL. BUT LIKE, AS FAR AS COMPARING IT TO THE LAST PERIOD THAT WE CONSIDERED A REALLY, REALLY BAD DROUGHT, YOU KNOW, THIS HAS GONE ON FOR PROBABLY JUST AS MANY YEARS. I DON'T KNOW IF THE SEVERITY IS THE SAME, BUT, UM, YEAH, I'M JUST TRYING TO THINK ABOUT IT AS FAR AS HOW LONG IS IT? HOW LONG HAS WE, HOW, HOW LONG HAVE WE BEEN IN DROUGHT EFFECTIVELY? AND THIS WOULD BE ONE WAY TO LOOK AT IT. I FEEL LIKE I READ A FACEBOOK POST FROM ROBERT ABOUT THIS THIS WEEKEND. OH. NOT SPECIFICALLY ABOUT TRAVIS COUNTY, BUT I I WAS JUST GONNA ADD THAT IT, AND IT'S NOT JUST TRAVIS COUNTY, IT'S, IT'S WHAT IS THE DROUGHT CONDITIONS AND THE CATCHMENT TO THE RESERVOIRS. AND SO, SO THOSE CATCHMENTS, YOU KNOW, ARE, ARE IMPORTANT AS WELL. AND, AND IT LOOKS LIKE THEY'RE IN BETTER SHAPE THAN WHAT TRAVIS COUNTY IS. I THINK LIKE TRAVIS [00:10:01] COUNTY, IT'S AFFECTING, I GUESS THE DEMAND FOR PEOPLE TO DO OUTDOOR WATERING. SO IT'S GONNA INCREASE IT, WE'RE IN DROUGHT, BUT, UM, BUT CONDITIONS ARE IMPROVED OUT IN THE, OUT IN THE HILL COUNTRY, BUT, YOU KNOW, AND YOU SEE THAT IN THE INFLOWS THROUGH THE LAKE, BUT THEY'RE STILL LIKE BELOW WHAT WAS OUR DROUGHT OF RECORD. SO, UM, IT'S A COMPLICATED STORY, BUT I'M LOOKING AT THE DROUGHT MONITOR RIGHT NOW. OH, SORRY, GO AHEAD. NO, YOU GO. THAT'S WHAT YOU FOUND. ONE, ONE YEAR AGO. A HUNDRED PERCENT OF TRAVIS COUNTY WAS YELLOW, ABNORMALLY DRY. I DON'T KNOW, WHICH IS TECHNICALLY NOT DROUGHT. OH. UM, YEAH, SO AROUND, AND THEN, AND THEN, UM, JULY OF 2025, WE HAD MAJORITY OF THE COUNTY IN ABNORMALLY DRY OR NO DROUGHT, BUT THAT WAS THE, YOU KNOW, YOU SAW IN THAT, UH, COMBINED STORAGE GRAPH THAT WAS THAT ONE REALLY BIG EVENT BASICALLY. UM MM-HMM . AND WE HAD HAD BEEN IN, UH, DROUGHT CONDITIONS. OH, I'M SORRY. YEAH. TR UH, THERESA LUTZ. UM, WE HAD BEEN IN DROUGHT, YOU KNOW, LEADING UP TO THAT FOR A LONG TIME. AND THEN, UM, YOU KNOW, DURING THAT DROUGHT AND, AND SHORTLY AFTER THERE WAS RELIEF LOCALLY AND UPSTREAM AND IN QUITE A LARGE AREA. BUT THEN, UM, WE'VE STARTED INTO DROUGHT CONDITIONS AFTER THAT JUST KIND OF A MAJOR EVENT IN THE MIDDLE THERE. AND, AND THEN THE DROUGHT MONITOR IS, UM, BIAS TOWARDS PRECIPITATION AMOUNTS. SO IT'S NOT REFLECTIVE OF SOIL MOISTURE AND RUNOFF. AND WITH INCREASING TEMPERATURES, YOU KNOW, WE SEE LESS RUNOFF, YOU KNOW, THERE'S MORE MOISTURE GETTING BURNED OFF THE LANDSCAPE THAN THE HISTORIC PRECIPITATION RECORD SHOWS. SO THAT'S JUST ANOTHER THING TO CONSIDER ON LAST YEAR'S, UM, DROUGHT AND GOING OUT OF THE DROUGHT, WASN'T THE AQUIFERS STILL IN THE DROUGHT DURING THAT TIME, EVEN THOUGH THE, THE LAKE LEVELS GOT A LOT HIGHER KIND OF GOING ON SOIL MOISTURE AND EVERYTHING ELSE WITH DIFFERENT PIPES? THAT'S, THAT'S CORRECT. YEP. AND THAT'S A GOOD POINT TOO. 'CAUSE THE DROUGHT AND TRAVIS COUNTY INCLUDES PART OF HAYES IS AFFECTING BARTON SPRINGS AND THE EDWARDS THERE. OKAY. ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? OKAY. THANK YOU. THANK YOU EMILY. UM, WELCOME SHAY, I HEAR YOU WERE AT A GROUNDBREAKING. I WAS. GOOD MORNING. UM, WE HAD A GROUND-BREAKING CEREMONY FOR THE WALNUT CREEK WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT THIS MORNING. NICE. UM, AS, AS YOU ALL, UM, ARE AWARE, WE ARE, UH, EXPANDING AND MODERNIZING THAT FACILITY TO EXPAND IT TO A CAPACITY OF 100 MILLION GALLONS PER DAY. SO IT WAS WONDERFUL TO GET TO CELEBRATE THAT INVESTMENT IN AUSTIN WA WATER'S FUTURE. NICE. DID YOU HAVE A HARD HAT AND A GOLDEN SHOVEL? WE DID HAVE GOLDEN SHOVELS, YES. NICE. OKAY. YEAH, THE CLASSIC, UH, GROUNDBREAKING SHOVEL . NOT REAL GOLD. NO, CERTAINLY NOT , JUST TO BE CLEAR. THAT'S RIGHT. I SUSPECT THEY'RE NOT REAL GOLD. GOLDEN GOLDEN. OKAY. UM, LET'S MOVE ON TO THE STAFF BRIEFING. OH WAIT, CURRENT YEAR. WHAT DOES CY 25 STAND FOR? UH, CALENDAR YEAR AS OPPOSED TO CALENDAR FISCAL YEAR. CALENDAR YEAR. OH, THREW ME FOR LOOP. OKAY. STAFF REGARDING [3. Staff briefing regarding CY25 Q4 Water Management Strategy (WMS) Implementation Report. Presentation by Kevin Kluge, Water Conservation Division Manager, Austin Water. ] CALENDAR YEAR 25 Q4, WATER MANAGEMENT STRATEGY IMPLEMENTATION REPORT, MOUTHFUL. OKAY. ALL RIGHT. GOOD AFTERNOON TASK FORCE. AGAIN. KEVIN KLUGE, WATER CONSERVATION DIVISION MANAGER. THE BRIEFING WE HAVE FOR YOU TODAY IS A LITTLE DIFFERENT FROM THE QUARTERLY IMPLEMENTATION REPORTS THAT WE'VE DONE OVER THE LAST YEAR. UM, NOW WE ARE JUST PRESENTING TO YOU, AS YOU'VE PROBABLY SEEN IN YOUR PACKET, JUST THE HIGHLIGHTS. UM, SO I'LL GO THROUGH HALF DOZEN SLIDES HITTING THE HIGHLIGHTS OF Q4, UM, BUT WE ARE HAPPY TO TALK ABOUT ANY, UM, TABLE OR INFORMATION IN THE FULL QUARTERLY IMPLEMENTATION REPORT. CAN I ASK A QUESTION? UM, SO HOW MANY QUARTERS HAVE YOU DONE THIS NOW? DID YOU START IN THE FIRST QUARTER OF CALENDAR YEAR? 2025. TY 25, RIGHT? YES. MY NEW ACRONYM ON THE CALENDAR YEAR QUARTERS. OKAY. AND WE'VE DONE FOUR QUARTERLY REPORTS SO FAR. OKAY. SO NOW THEY WILL COME TOGETHER MAYBE INTO AN ANNUAL REPORT? I DON'T KNOW. [00:15:01] YES. OKAY. WE ARE PUTTING TOGETHER, RIGHT NOW WE'RE PUTTING TOGETHER WHAT WE'RE CALLING A 2025 WATER MANAGEMENT STRATEGY IMPLEMENTATION SUMMARY, UHHUH . UM, IT IS GONNA BE A TWO PAGE DOCUMENT. WE'RE ENVISIONING, UM, KIND OF A PLACE MAT FORMAT, UM, ONE PAGE HITTING THOSE HIGH, UM, METRICS, UH, SUCH AS GPCD AND WATER LOSS METRICS. UM, THE OTHER SIDE, UM, WILL CONTAIN INFORMATION ON THE PROGRESS BEING MADE ON EACH OF THE WATER FORWARD WATER MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES. OKAY. SO WE'RE WORKING ON HOW TO, HOW TO BEST DEMONSTR ILLUSTRATE THE PROGRESS WHILE NOT MAKING JUST A PAGE FULL OF TEXT AND OKAY. AND I PRESUME THAT SINCE WE'RE JUST SHORTLY INTO THE SECOND QUARTER, THE FIRST QUARTER FOR CALENDAR, YEAR 26 IS PROBABLY STILL UNDER DEVELOPMENT. RIGHT. OKAY. YEAH, TODAY IS JUST Q4 OF LAST YEAR. UH, AND WE ARE WORKING ON THE Q1 OF 2026. AND MAYBE ALL THAT WAS YOUR LAST SLIDE. SORRY, BUT GO AHEAD. NO, THAT, THAT WAS, THAT WAS GOOD, SCOTT EXCITED. OKAY. SARAH HAS A QUESTION. OKAY. SORRY, I KNOW YOU'RE JUST TRYING TO START, BUT, OKAY. THE THING THAT, THE FIRST THING IN THE, WHERE IT SAYS ITEM TWO, ITEM THREE Q4, WATER MANAGEMENT STRATEGY IMPLEMENTATION REPORT, WE'VE GOT LIKE THREE, THERE'S LIKE THREE OR FOUR SLIDES, BUT THEN LATER THERE'S WATER MANAGEMENT STRATEGY IMPLEMENTATION REPORT, AND, AND THAT HAS MORE SLIDES, BUT IT'S THE SAME THING. IS THAT RIGHT? CORRECT. THAT'S THE FULL REPORT. THE FULL REPORT WHICH YOU EMAILED TO US PRIOR TO THE FEBRUARY MEETING THAT WAS CANCELED FOR LACK OF A FORM. CORRECT. OKAY. SO IS THE PLAN THAT MOVING FORWARDS QUARTERLY, WE'LL STILL GET THE FULL SLIDE OR JUST THE LITTLE THREE SLIDES? YOU'LL GET THE FULL REPORT. WE'LL PRODUCE THAT EVERY QUARTER. OKAY. AND, BUT WE'LL JUST GO THROUGH A HALF DOZEN HIGHLIGHT SLIDES. IF I HAVE A QUESTION ON SOMETHING FROM THE FULL SLIDE, DO I BRING IT UP NOW FROM THE WHOLE DECK THAT WE GOT EMAILED? NOT NOW, BUT YES, ANYTIME IN THIS ITEM YOU'RE WELCOME TO BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT I HAD GONE THROUGH TO THINK OF QUESTIONS AND THEN OKAY. ALRIGHT. WHILE I LIKE TALKING ABOUT THE WHOLE REPORT AND I'M HAPPY TO TALK 25 MINUTES. IT'S A LOT. YEAH. SOMETIMES UM, LESS MIGHT BE MORE. OKAY. OKAY. BUT IT'S STILL APPROPRIATE UNDER THIS ITEM. EXACTLY. THANK YOU. EXACTLY. OKAY. SO AS WAS MENTIONED, THIS UH, HIGHLIGHT OF THE FOURTH QUARTER OF 2025, THOSE ARE THE MONTHS, OCTOBER, NOVEMBER, AND DECEMBER OF LAST YEAR. IT SEEMED LIKE A LONG TIME AGO. UH, AS YOU MIGHT REMEMBER, UH, JUST PRIOR TO THAT FOURTH QUARTER IN SEPTEMBER, WE CAME OUT OF STAGE TWO DROUGHT, OFFICIALLY THE STAGE TWO DROUGHT RESTRICTIONS AND WENT BACK TO CONSERVATION STAGE. UH, AND THEN WE WENT INTO A PRETTY DRY OCTOBER AND THEN, UH, NOVEMBER AND DECEMBER WEREN'T AS DRY, BUT IT WAS STILL PRETTY DRY INTO OCTOBER OF LAST YEAR. NEXT SLIDE. JUST SOME OF THE Q4 HIGHLIGHTS PULLED OUT OF THE FULL, FULL REPORT. UM, IN OCTOBER, WE HAD DONE A FULL YEAR OF NEW IRRIGATION INSPECTIONS FOR NEW SINGLE FAMILY HOMES INSPECTING ABOUT 1600 IRRIGATION SYSTEMS OVER THAT TIME PERIOD. AND THEN REBATES, UH, WERE SHOWN TO HAVE DONE PRETTY WELL IN 2025, UH, WITH OVER 30 MILLION GALLONS OF SAVED THROUGH THE REBATE PROGRAMS. THAT WAS A, A FIVE YEAR HIGH. SO WE WERE EXCITED ABOUT THAT. UM, ADDING POSITIONS AND TRAINING FOR WATER LOSS, SENDING OUT MONTHLY HOME WATER USE REPORTS FROM THE MY ETX WATER SYSTEM. AND THEN, UH, WE PUBLISHED THE ONSITE WATER REUSE SYSTEM OPERATOR TRAINING, UM, MANAGER AND CERTIFICATE PROGRAM. UM, THAT WAS, WHILE MY SEEMED LIKE A, A REAL TECHNICAL INSIDE BASEBALL TYPE OF THING, THIS WAS VERY IMPORTANT FOR THAT ONSITE WATER REUSE IMPLEMENTATION, LETTING PEOPLE KNOW HOW TO OPERATE AND MAINTAIN THOSE SYSTEMS. SO THOSE ARE SOME OF THE HIGHLIGHTS. KEVIN? YES. I'D SAY TOO FOR THAT, IT'S NOT JUST FOR AUSTIN, BUT IT'S, IT'S FOR ANYONE, IT'S STATEWIDE, IT'S IMPORTANT. LIKE IT'S A GREAT THING THAT AUSTIN HAS PUT THE RESOURCES IN TO CREATE THIS BECAUSE IT'S NOT JUST A RESOURCE FOR AUSTIN AS OUR ONSITE REUSE SYSTEMS GROW, BUT LOTS OF COMMUNITIES ARE OUR, OUR, THIS IS GROWING IN OTHER COMMUNITIES [00:20:01] AND THERE THIS IS THE REALLY ONLY PROGRAM TO TRAIN FOLKS. I DUNNO IF IT'S THE ONLY ONE, BUT IT IS ONE THAT'S OUT THERE THAT'S, THAT Y'ALL HAVE DEVELOPED. AND SO I THINK IT'S, THAT'S A SERVICE TO KIND OF LIKE GROWING THAT WATER SUPPLY. 'CAUSE YOU HAVE TO HAVE OPERATORS. ANYWAY. GREAT JOB. OKAY, NEXT SLIDE. GPCD, UH, FROM THE QUARTER THAT, THAT FAR RIGHT BAR IS THE Q4 WATER USE FROM 2025 AS YOU'LL SEE, IT, UH, WAS 1 26 AND THE FOURTH QUARTER, WHICH IS COMING DOWN IN THE SUMMER OR THE Q3, IT WAS 1 41 AND THEN DROPPED TO 1 26, WHICH WAS NOT UNUSUAL A YEAR AGO OR A YEAR PREVIOUS TO THAT Q4 OF 2024, IT WAS 1 34. SO BETWEEN 2024 AND 2025, THE LAST QUARTER OF OUR YEARS, WE HAD A A BIT LOWER WATER LOSS OR WATER USE RATHER. AND OVERALL OUR GPCD FOR 2025 WENT DOWN TO 1 28. SO AS YOU CAN SEE IN THOSE BARS IN 25 AND 24, WE CERTAINLY HAD LOWER SPIKES IN THE SUMMER, UM, THAN IN 22 AND 23, WHICH WERE EXTREMELY HOT AND DRY YEARS. UM, SO HOPEFULLY WE'RE GONNA SEE A LOWER GPCD IN 26 WITH THE EL NINO AND COOLER TEMPERATURES. NEXT SLIDE. THIS IS THAT SECOND GPCD REPORT THAT, UH, SLIDE THAT YOU'VE SEEN IN PREVIOUS QUARTERLY REPORTS. ONE THING TO NOTE, AS YOU LOOK AT THAT, THAT BLUE BAR GOING ACROSS THE TOP ONE THERE, THAT'S SINGLE FAMILY RESIDENTIAL. YOU'LL NOTICE THAT THERE'S A BIT LESS OF THAT, THAT PEAK THAT YOU SEE IN THE SUMMER. IF YOU LOOK FURTHER TO THE LEFT, 22, 23, YOU KNOW, THERE ARE SOME PRETTY SHARP PEAKS, UM, UH, IN THE SUMMER FROM SINGLE FAMILY RESIDENTIAL. AND WE SAW LESS OF THOSE, UH, PEAKS IN 24 AND 25 4 FOR THE CITY OF AUSTIN. AND THE COMMERCIAL, THE GREENS ARE VERY SIMILAR COLORS. IS THE CITY OF AUSTIN THE VERY LOW GREEN? I'M ASSUMING IT'S THE YEAH, IT'S THE BOTTOM GREEN. OKAY. JUST ABOVE THE HORIZONTAL ACCESS. OKAY. JUST WANTED TO CLARIFY THAT. 'CAUSE OF THE COLORS ARE VERY, VERY CLOSE. YEP. AND THEN THE NON-REVENUE WATER ON THAT SAME GRAPH, THAT'S THE WATER LOSS, CORRECT? THAT INCLUDES WATER LOSS. MAJORITY OF IT IS WATER LOSS. OKAY. NEXT SLIDE. SOME OF THE TAKEAWAYS AND NEXT STEPS. UH, CERTAINLY MENTIONED THAT THE LOWER GPCD 1 28, THAT WAS GOOD TO SEE THAT HOPEFULLY THAT'LL BE A DOWNWARD TREND, UH, GOING INTO THE NEXT SEVERAL YEARS. THERE HAVE BEEN A LOT OF, UH, WATER LOSS REDUCTION ACTIVITIES, UM, THAT HAVE BEEN TAKING PLACE OVER THE LAST YEAR AND NOW INTO, UM, THIS YEAR THERE ARE MORE LEAK DETECTION SCHEDULED AND THERE ARE A NUMBER OF ACTIVITIES YOU SEE ZONES SCAN LEAK DETECTION, DEPLOYMENT, ULTRASONIC METERS. THESE ARE, UH, ACTIVITIES THAT ARE USED IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE A MI SYSTEM THAT ALLOW STAFF TO REALLY HAVE MORE DYNAMIC VIEWS INTO LEAK LEAKS IN THE SYSTEM. SO THAT'S, THAT'S SOMETHING EXCITING TO SEE. AQUIFER STORAGE AND RECOVERY, UH, FIELD TESTING, WE'RE PREPARING FOR FIELD TESTING IN TRAVIS COUNTY. AND THEN, UH, WE'RE MOVING FORWARD WITH THE ENFORCEMENT OF LANDSCAPE TRANSFORMATION ACTIVITIES. UM, APRIL 6TH IS THE DATE WHEN WE PUT THIS TOGETHER. UM, WE'RE WORKING WITH OUR PARTNERS IN DEVELOPMENT SERVICES. UM, AND THAT'S GONNA ADJUST A BIT IN, IN TERMS OF IMPLEMENTING THOSE REQUIREMENTS. AND THOSE ARE THE HIGHLIGHTS FOR THE Q4 REPORT. BUT WE'RE HAPPY TO TALK ABOUT ANY PART OF THE FULL REPORT. JUST REAL QUICK, YOU SAID IT'S GONNA ADJUST A BIT TO WHEN THAT IS. UH, WELL, LEMME SAY, UM, THERE'S THAT BOTTOM BULLET THERE. ADDITIONAL IRRIGATION SYSTEM, WATER SAVING COMPONENTS. THESE ARE SIMPLY, UH, WELL NOT SIMPLY, BUT ADDING, UH, PRESSURE REDUCING HEADS AND VALVES ONTO IRRIGATION SYSTEMS, SINGLE FAMILY IRRIGATION SYSTEMS, UH, [00:25:01] TO REDUCE MISTING AND WASTE. UH, THOSE, WE'VE STARTED GIVING WARNINGS FOR THOSE, UM, AT THE BEGINNING OF APRIL TO IRRIGATORS THAT THESE WILL NEED TO BE INSTALLED AND THEY'RE, THEY'RE GONNA BE FULL ENFORCEMENT COME JUNE 6TH. THE LIMITATION ON THE AUTOMATIC IRRIGATION AREA, UM, THAT IT LOOKS TO BE, UH, SOMETHING THAT WE'RE GONNA TAKE THROUGH THE, UH, THROUGH THE PLAN REVIEW PROCESS, I'M SORRY, WE'RE GONNA CREATE A REVIEW, A RULE FOR THE COMPLIANCE INFORMATION TO DO THAT. SIMPLY TELLING IRRIGATORS AND BUILDERS YOU ONLY GET 50%, REQUIRES A LOT MORE INFORMATION ON HOW TO COMPLY WITH THAT. SO WE'RE GOING TO BE WORKING ON THAT INFORMATION TO HELP BUILDERS AND IRRIGATORS SUCCESSFULLY MEET THAT, UM, REQUIREMENT. AND WE'RE GOING TO PURSUE A RULE FOR THAT. AND I BELIEVE UNDER A SCHEDULE PUT FORWARD BY DST RECENTLY IS THAT ALL RULES WILL GO AT THE SAME TIME. SO THAT MIGHT BE SEPTEMBER AND WHEN THAT IS POSTED. THANKS. SORRY. LONG ANSWER FOR YOU ON THAT ONE. OH, THAT'S GOOD. THANK YOU SARAH. OH, THANKS. YEAH, I HAD A COUPLE QUESTIONS. UM, IN THE LONGER REPORT YOU GIVE, UM, MORE DETAIL ON LIKE REBATE PROGRAMS AND HOW MANY APPLICATIONS THERE WERE AND OTHER TYPES OF, UM, CUSTOMER SIDE WATER USE MANAGEMENT, AS WELL AS UTILITY SIDE WATER LOSS CONTROL AND LANDSCAPING. UM, WHAT I WAS WONDERING IS, IS THERE ANY WAY SO TO LIKE FOR EXAMPLE, WE HAVE THESE, UM, I'M TRYING TO GET TO THE PAGE, SORRY, IN THE LARGER REPORT, I KNOW THERE WAS ONE PAGE THAT HAD A BUNCH OF REBATES, STATISTICS, FIVE SLIDE FIVE RESIDENTIAL REBATES. I'M GOING THROUGH THIS BIG PACKAGE NOW. OKAY, SO HERE'S ONE THAT SAYS WATER CONSERVATION METRICS, RESIDENTIAL REBATE PROGRAMS, WATER CONSERVATION METRICS, COMMERCIAL REBATE PROGRAMS ON SLIDE SIX. SO MY QUESTION IS JUST, IS THERE ANY WAY THAT AT SOME POINT LIKE THIS, UM, WE WOULD BE ABLE TO PUT A VOLUME TO THOSE NUMBERS LIKE REBATES, UM, OR, YOU KNOW, WHATEVER THE DIFFERENT STRATEGIES ARE TO KNOW HOW WE'RE DOING ON OUR ESTIMATES OF YIELD FROM THE WATER FORWARD PLAN. SO FOR EXAMPLE, IF YOU WERE LOOKING AT THE WATER FORWARD PLAN ON PAGE 31, WE HAVE ESTIMATES OF YIELD FOR SAY CUSTOMER SIDE WATER USE MANAGEMENT. WE WERE PLANNING FOR 2,400 ACRE FEET BY 2030. THAT'S A BIG NUMBER AND IT TAKES YEARS AND YEARS TO GET THERE. BUT WHAT I'M TRYING TO FIGURE OUT IS ALONG THE WAY, SAY IN 2026 OR 2027, HOW CAN WE JUDGE VOLUMETRICALLY HOW WE'RE DOING? YOU DID HAVE THE, THE ONE NUMBER IN HERE ABOUT, UM, 30 MILLION GALLONS SAVED THROUGH PARTICIPATION IN REBATE PROGRAMS THROUGH 2025. SO I DON'T KNOW WHEN THAT STARTS FROM, IF THAT'S, IS THAT THE YEAR 2025? MM-HMM . OKAY, SO SO THAT'S A GOOD START AT IT. YEAH, THAT'S, I DON'T KNOW, ALMOST 92 ACRE FEET. ANYWAYS, YOU CAN SEE WHERE I'M GOING. I'M TRYING TO GET A, LIKE A, A METRIC VERSUS WHAT'S IN THE PLAN. DO YOU THINK? ARE WE ON POSSIBLE WE AT SOME POINT, ARE Y'ALL CALCULATING IT THAT WAY? YEAH. YES. MARISA, THERESA AND I HAVE BEEN SPENDING A GOOD AMOUNT OF TIME TALKING ABOUT THAT BECAUSE SOME STRATEGIES, UM, THAT IS, WE CAN CALCULATE THAT IT'S RELATIVELY EASY. UH, FOR INSTANCE, THE CURRENT REBATES THAT WE HAVE, YOU KNOW, THIS MANY REBATES, WE HAVE THIS MANY GALLONS SAVED FOR REBATE AND, YOU KNOW, YOU CAN, YOU CAN ADD IT ALL UP. OKAY. UH, RECLAIMED IS RELATIVELY EASY. WE KNOW HOW MANY GALLONS OF RECLAIM WE PROVIDE. SOME STRETCH. WELL, WELL, OH, WELL, LEMME JUST SAY SINCE IF, IF YOU CAN DO IT, I THINK THAT'S GREAT BECAUSE FOR ME TO KNOW THAT THERE WAS THREE BUCKS FOR BUSINESS REBATES IS INFORMATION, BUT I HAVE NO IDEA HOW TO PUT THAT IN THE BIGGER PICTURE. MM-HMM . OF THIS IS EFFECTIVE AND WE'RE DO IT'S GOING WELL OR THIS IS NOT BEING PICKED UP ON. IS THIS A GOOD THING TO LEAN INTO FOR, YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN? YEAH. TO [00:30:01] REALLY THINK ABOUT YEAH, THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT WE'RE TRYING TO DO TO ASSESS OUR PERFORMANCE, UM, AT THE CALENDAR YEAR LEVEL. SO HERE WE'VE GOT ALL THE GREAT INFORMATION THAT'S CONTAINED WITH IMP THESE QUARTERLY IMPLEMENTATION REPORTS MM-HMM . AND WE'RE WORKING TOWARDS PREPARING THE SUMMARY FOR, UM, CALENDAR YEAR 2025. THAT WOULD INCLUDE INFORMATION ABOUT THE VOLUMETRIC YIELDS ASSOCIATED WITH THE STRATEGY SO THAT WE CAN TRACK AGAINST OUR, UM, TARGETS FOR WATER FORWARD AS WELL AS THE WATER CONSERVATION PLAN. THAT'S OUR, OUR, UH, TASK THAT WE'RE WORKING ON RIGHT NOW. OKAY. AND SO THAT WOULD GO IN THE ANNUAL REPORT? YES. AND IT'S, UM, WE'RE NOT NECESSARILY CALLING IT AN ANNUAL REPORT, UM, SO MUCH AS AN ANNUAL IMPLEMENTATION SUMMARY TO PROVIDE THOSE VOLUMES FOR ALL OF THE STRATEGIES. OKAY. AND ABOUT WHAT, WHEN WOULD WE SEE THAT? HOPEFULLY MAY? YEAH, I MEAN I THINK LET'S TRY MAY, OH, I MEAN, I DIDN'T KNOW IF YOU'RE DOING IT AT THE END OF THE YEAR OR LIKE OH, SURE. NO, WE'RE, WE'RE TRYING TO GET TO IT, UM, WITHIN A FAIRLY TIMELY WAY. SO BY MIDDLE OF THE YEAR WE'RE TRYING TO HAVE THAT BUTTONED UP. WE'RE WORKING THROUGH KIND OF THE FORMATTING. WE'VE BEEN WORKING THROUGH KIND OF THE CALCULATION ELEMENTS AND NOW WE'RE TALKING WITH OUR, UM, PUBLIC INFORMATION OFFICE ABOUT HOW ALL OF THAT WILL LAY OUT. OKAY. WELL THAT WOULD BE SUPER HELPFUL BECAUSE I THINK IT'S GOOD TO HAVE THESE, THIS INFORMATION. YOU CAN KIND OF SEE QUARTER BY QUARTER IF A PROGRAM'S BEING UTILIZED. BUT, YOU KNOW, ALSO ANOTHER EXAMPLE WOULD BE, BUT I I, THERE'S NOT A LOT I CAN DO WITH THAT WITHOUT KNOWING WHERE WE ARE AGAINST THE OVERALL GOAL. THE OTHER, YOU KNOW, THERE'S A FEW EXAMPLES, BUT THE OTHER ONE IS LIKE THERE'S, YOU KNOW, HOW MANY LINEAR FEET OF PIPE OR DETECTED FOR LEAKS. GREAT. I'M SURE BIGGER NUMBERS ARE BETTER. ALL OF THAT. IS IT, WHAT, WHERE IS IT MOVING THE NEEDLE ON OUR UTILITY SIDE WATER LOSS CONTROL. AND I KNOW THAT'S A COMPLICATED ANALYSIS. I DON'T EXPECT YOU TO FIGURE IT OUT HOW TO SPIT IT OUT ALL THE TIME. BUT YEAH. UM, IF WE'RE WORKING TOWARDS BEING ABLE TO SEE IT IN THAT FRAME, THAT WOULD BE VERY HELPFUL. YEAH, I WOULD ADD THAT THE, AS, AS YOU ALL KNOW, THIS IS A FIRST OF ITS KIND REPORT. UM, AND SO FIGURING OUT HOW TO, THIS IS THE FIRST YEAR THAT WE'VE GOTTEN THROUGH A WHOLE YEAR OF THIS REPORTING. AND SO FIGURING OUT EXACTLY HOW TO DO THE ANNUAL REPORTING I THINK IS, UM, IS A TASK. MM-HMM . UM, AND THEN ONCE WE HAVE THAT IN PLACE, IT IS GONNA BE REALLY USEFUL TO US TO BE ABLE TO MEASURE HOW WELL THESE STRATEGIES ARE PERFORMING IN ACHIEVING THEIR GOALS. AND THAT REALLY WAS THE INTENT OF THIS QUARTERLY REPORT WITH THE ANNUAL SUMMARIES TO BEGIN WITH. SO THAT'S, THAT'S, UM, AN IMPORTANT FEEDBACK AS WE MOVE FORWARD. AND JUST THE OTHER METRIC I'D BE INTERESTED IN, TO TACK ONTO THAT WHEN WE'RE TALKING ABOUT REBATES, WOULD BE THE COST OF THE REBATE PROGRAM. I THINK I MENTIONED THIS AT THE, UM, MARCH 10TH IMPLEMENTATION WORKING GROUP MEETING, WHICH VERY HELPFULLY THERE ARE MINUTES FOR THAT. UM, SO APPRECIATE, APPRECIATE THAT. AND THAT REMINDED ME THAT I DID ASK ABOUT THAT AT THAT POINT, AND DANIEL CAVASSO SAID HE WOULD, UH, FOLLOW UP ON THE COST OF THOSE REBATE PROGRAMS. UM, BUT JUST AS FAR AS, AGAIN, LOOKING AT, UM, HOW MUCH WATER SAVINGS ARE WE GETTING OUT OF THEM AND ALSO HOW MUCH, UH, ARE WE SPENDING ON THEM TO GET THOSE WATER SAVINGS. I HAVE KIND OF A SIMILAR COMMENT ABOUT RECLAIMED WATER METRICS. SO WHEN THE REPORTED, IT HAS TOTAL NUMBER OF RECLAIMED WATER METERS VOLUME OF CENTRALIZED RECLAIMED WATER USED. UM, BUT, AND MAYBE THIS WOULD BE FOR THE, THE, THE LARGER CONTEXTUAL REPORT YOU'RE WORKING ON, IT'S HARD TO KNOW WHERE THIS IS IN TERMS OF LIKE WHAT WE'VE BEEN PLANNING ON. THERE'S ALSO A REPORT ON, YOU KNOW, PROJECTS AND EXTENSIONS AND SO THAT'S GOOD TO SEE, BUT, AND WHERE THE EXTENSIONS ARE. BUT IT'S HARD TO KNOW FROM THIS, UM, BASED ON WHAT THE PLANS WERE, ARE, IS THE RECLAIMED BEING PICKED UP AS MUCH AS WE HAD PLANNED? IS IT NOT, HOW DO, HOW DO WE JUDGE THIS, THIS VOLUME IN MILLION GALLONS ALSO, UM, VERSUS WHAT THE, WHAT THE GOALS WERE, WHAT'S IN THE PLAN? AND SO YEAH, LOOKING FORWARD TO THAT BIGGER CONTEXT. UM, I HAVE A QUESTION ABOUT THE WATER LOSS. I JUST, IT, IT'S JUST KIND OF LIKE A BIG PICTURE QUESTION. UM, I KNOW THAT THAT IS A TIME, [00:35:01] A TIME CONSUMING PURSUIT AND, WELL, I'M TRYING TO THINK IN SPACE AND TIME. I CAN'T REMEMBER EXACTLY, YOU KNOW, UM, WHEN THE BLACK AND VEATCH REPORT CAME OUT AND, YOU KNOW, WE'RE COMMITTED TO, AS A CITY TO IMPLEMENTING ALL THE STRATEGIES IN THERE. UM, AND IT LOOKS LIKE WHEN YOU, WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE REPORT, I LOST THE PAGE. UM, BUT WE'RE, YOU KNOW, MOVING FORWARD, UM, AND WELL NOW I CAN'T, LEMME NOT SHUFFLE ALL MY PAPERS, BUT WE'RE MOVING FORWARD ON A LOT OF 'EM. A LOT OF 'EM WOULD SAY THAT THEY'RE LIKE TO COMPLETION, BUT IT'S JUST, I GUESS KIND OF A LITTLE BIT MORE QUANTITATIVELY. 'CAUSE I, I DO THINK LIKE, LIKE THE METRICS ON, WE'VE DONE THIS AND THIS AND LOOKED AT THIS MANY MILES OF PIPE, BUT QUANTITATIVELY LIKE, OKAY, WE WERE LOSING 22 GALLONS PER PER CAPITA PER DAY PER CONNECTION. I CAN'T REMEMBER HOW AUSTIN REPORTS IT. UM, THAT MIGHT NOT BE RIGHT. DON'T TRUST ME ON THAT NUMBER. BUT, UM, BUT LIKE HOW, IF WE'RE IMPROVING ON THAT, AND I THINK IT'S MAYBE A LITTLE BIT SOON TO PROBABLY TELL ON THOSE 'CAUSE THESE THINGS TAKE TIME. BUT, UM, AND THEN I THINK, YOU KNOW, AUSTIN'S GONNA BE TURNING IN IN MAY IT'S NEXT ANNUAL WATER WATER LOSS AUDIT REPORT. UM, MAYBE, MAYBE THAT CAN ALSO BE PART OF OUR NEXT, WELL NOT OUR QUARTERLY REPORT, BUT MAYBE WHEN THAT GETS TURNED IN AND STUFF THAT THE DATA FOR THAT COULD BE SHARED WITH THE TASK FORCE. BUT JUST KIND OF LIKE WHERE WE ARE ON WATER LOSS KNOW, KNOWING THAT THAT IS KIND OF LIKE THE ONSITE WATER REUSE GO PURPLE PROGRAM. A LITTLE BIT MORE OF A SLOW, SLOWER ROLLOUT. 'CAUSE IT'S, IT'S, IT'S BIG. UM, YEAH, I THINK WE HAVE, UM, ON PLANNED TO FEATURE WATER LOSS PRESENTATION, UM, OR UPDATE TO THE TASK COURSE THAT, AND THAT WOULD BE AFTER THE WATER LOSS AUDIT REPORT HAS BEEN COMPLETED. WE'VE GOT ALL THAT. THAT'S TIMELY. YEAH. OKAY. SO WE'LL LOOK BACK. WE'RE CHECKING ON THE DATES, UM, FOR THAT. WE'LL, UH, WE DEFINITELY HAVE 'EM, UH, THAT WE'RE SCHEDULING FOR THIS YEAR. YEAH. THE WATER LOSS AUDITS ARE ALL DUE MAY 1ST. RIGHT. OKAY. SO MAYBE WE HAVE OUR NEXT MEETINGS IN JUNE. I WOULD LOVE TO SEE, UM, LIKE THE GRANULAR DATA ON THE POLYBUTYLENE PIPES AND HOW MANY OF THOSE OUT OF THE ONE TO LEFT WE HAVE TOO AS WELL FOR THAT UPDATE. I THINK THAT WOULD BE HELPFUL TO SEE RATHER THAN JUST THE LINEAR FEET. OKAY. ANY, ANYTHING ELSE ON THIS AGENDA? ITEM NUMBER THREE, SARAH? UM, I HAVE ONE OTHER THING AND IT'S NOT QUITE A QUESTION FOR YOU KEVIN, BUT THANKS FOR THE, THE FULL REPORT. SO, UM, MYSELF AND PAUL HAVE BEEN LOOKING AT THE COMMERCIAL WATER USE IN AUSTIN, IN PARTICULAR LARGE VOLUME CUSTOMERS. UH, YOU KNOW, LIKE THE TOP, THEY PUBLISH THE TOP FIVE IN THE WATER CONSERVATION REPORT AND SOME OF THOSE CUSTOMERS ARE SORT OF STAYING THE SAME OR EVEN REDUCING OTHERS ARE GROWING DRAMATICALLY. UM, IF YOU DIDN'T SEE IT, THERE WAS AN ARTICLE IN THE AUSTIN CURRENT ON APRIL 10TH ABOUT WATER USE GROWING FROM LARGE RETAIL CUSTOMERS. AND SO JUST LOOKING AT THAT CONTEXT AND THINKING ABOUT THE GROWTH OF THE POTENTIAL GROWTH FOR THE DATA CENTERS THAT WE'RE SEEING IN THE SAN ANTONIO AUSTIN CORRIDOR AND POTENTIALLY SOUTHEAST TRAVIS COUNTY, WE WERE THINKING THAT IT MIGHT BE GOOD FOR SOME TASK FORCE MEMBERS TO CREATE A WORKING GROUP. JUST TO LOOK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT ARE WE, WERE WE, WERE WE CONSIDERING ENOUGH ABOUT THESE LARGE COMMERCIAL USERS WHEN WE DID THE 2024 UPDATE? MAYBE WE WERE, BUT I WASN'T TALKING ABOUT DATA CENTERS IN 2023. I WAS JUST LOOKING AT SOME STATISTICS FROM THE COMPTROLLER. THERE WAS AN INTERESTING ARTICLE IN LIKE THE EXPONENTIAL GROWTH OF THE DATA CENTERS THAT ARE CLAIMING THAT SALES TAX REBATE. I DON'T KNOW IF Y'ALL SAW THAT, BUT IT'S MIND BLOWING. IT WENT FROM A HUNDRED MILLION TO A BILLION IN A YEAR. WOW. CLAIMING THAT TAX REBATE. SO ANYWAYS, UH, WE JUST WANTED TO SEE IF THERE WAS OTHER TASK FORCE MEMBERS THAT WOULD HAVE AN INTEREST IN DOING A WORKING GROUP, UH, LOOKING AT THIS AND SEEING IF THERE'S A POLICY RECOMMENDATION THAT THE TASK FORCE COULD MAKE TO CITY COUNCIL. SO THIS WOULD BE WORK WE WOULD DO STARTING AFTER THIS MEETING AND BEFORE OUR NEXT MEETING IN JUNE. UM, SO IT'S KIND OF A DISCUSSION OF CUSTOMER SIDE WATER CONTROL STRATEGIES. SO THE QUESTION IS, IS THAT THIS WORKING GROUP WOULD EXAMINE KIND OF [00:40:01] WHAT DID WE CONSIDER IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE 2024 WATER FORWARD PLAN AS FAR AS GROWTH OF LARGE COMMERCIAL LARGE WATER USERS. UM, POTENTIAL NEW, POTENTIAL NEW REALLY BIG CUSTOMERS, UM, ARE ESTIMATES, DO WE, WHAT DO OUR ESTIMATES INCLUDE? AND, AND IF THEY'RE NOT SUFFICIENT CONSIDERING THIS KIND OF NEW THING THAT'S POPPED UP, UM, OR NEW NEW LARGE WATER USERS. OKAY. AND I THINK ALSO LIKE WHAT ARE POLICIES THAT MIGHT BE APPROPRIATE FOR CONSIDERATION? SO FOR EXAMPLE, UM, RIGHT NOW WE CITY COU THERE'S CITY COUNCIL APPROVAL REQUIRED FOR SOME SERVICE EXTENSION REQUESTS AND NOT OTHERS. AND IS THAT SOMETHING THAT WOULD BE APPROPRIATE TO HAVE A PUBLIC DISCUSSION ON SOME SERVICE EXTENSION REQUESTS THAT DON'T CURRENTLY GET THAT PUBLIC DISCUSSION? SO THAT WOULD BE AN ISSUE WE'D WANNA LOOK AT AND OTHER IDEAS FROM OTHER FOLKS, BUT THAT'S OUR, THE CURRENT MM-HMM . THINKING IS THAT THAT'S A SPOT WHERE THIS MIGHT, UH, THERE MIGHT BE SOME, SOME TOOLS THAT WE'RE NOT CURRENTLY USING AND WE DIDN'T THINK WE NEEDED A COUPLE YEARS AGO. YEAH. YEAH. UM, DO YOU WANNA SAY ANYTHING ABOUT THIS, MARISA? WHAT'S, WHAT'S THE, I I CAN'T, I COULDN'T TELL IF YOU WERE ABOUT TO HIT YOUR BUTTON OR NOT. IT KIND OF LOOKED LIKE IT. NOT THAT I DON'T WANNA SAY ANYTHING. , UM, WHAT, WHAT, I GUESS WHAT STAFF WOULD NEED TO BE INVOLVED IN THAT? WOULD THAT BE YOU OR WOULD IT BE LIKE PART OF OUR DEMAND MODEL TEAM OR, OR I GUESS SO. CAN I MAKE A SUGGESTION? MM-HMM . JUST 'CAUSE I HAVEN'T THOUGHT ABOUT THIS BEFORE. 'CAUSE I DON'T WANNA BURDEN THEM. YEAH. I DO THINK, LIKE, I HAVE A, MY THOUGHT IS THAT MAYBE WE COULD DO A WORKING GROUP WITH TWO MEETINGS. ONE IS JUST THE MEMBERS WHERE WE TALK THROUGH SOME THINGS AND WHAT ARE OUR SPECIFIC QUESTIONS FOR STAFF. SO THEY DON'T HAVE TO LIKE, TRY TO STAFF THE MEETING AND, YOU KNOW, BE PREPARED AND WE LIKE COME UP WITH THOSE QUESTIONS, GIVE 'EM TO Y'ALL, YOU FIND THE BEST PEOPLE, THEN WE GET BACK TOGETHER WITH THE RESPONSES AND MOVE FORWARDS, MAKE DECISIONS. SO THAT'S ONE IDEA, JUST SO THEY'RE NOT LIKE LOOKING TO GET PEOPLE TOGETHER AND BE ABLE TO ANSWER WHATEVER RANDOM QUESTIONS WE HAVE. MM-HMM . AND THEN MY SECOND QUESTION IS, UM, WHAT ARE ARE BYLAW RULES AROUND WORKING GROUPS? I DARE TO ASK. YEAH. WITHIN OUR RULES OF PROCEDURE, I'M, UH, TRYING TO THINK OFF THE TOP OF MY HEAD. I'M NOT SURE THAT WE HAVE SPECIFIC, UM, ANYTHING SPECIFIC THAT SPEAKS TO THE CREATION OF WORKING GROUPS, BUT WE HAVE THE ABILITY TO CREATE WORKING GROUPS WITHIN THE TASK FORCE. SO THE TASK FORCE HAS THE ABILITY TO CREATE WORKING GROUPS AND WE CURRENTLY HAVE ONE MM-HMM . RUNNING RIGHT NOW WITH IMPLEMENT KIND OF A BROAD IMPLEMENTATION WORKING GROUP. UM, SO THE TASK FORCE COULD CREATE A SEPARATE WORKING GROUP, UM, ON THIS TOPIC. OKAY. AND IS THIS SOMETHING THAT WE VOTE ON THAT'S A TASK FORCE OR DO I JUST DECREE IT AS A CHAIR? ALL POWERFUL DECREE ALSO, DOES ANYBODY WANNA BE ON THIS WORK? IS ANYBODY INTERESTED IN BEING IN THIS WORKING GROUP? ? I THINK SARAH MIGHT BE. YEAH. YEAH. WE JUST HAVE TO KEEP THE MEMBERSHIP TO, UM, BELOW A QUORUM. YEAH. SO LESS THAN SIX PEOPLE. OKAY. I'M LOOKING AT PEERING OVER THE EDGE OF THE DESK AT, AT, UH, LEAH AND HANEY TO SEE IF THEY'RE RAISING THEIR HAND. UM, YEAH, I MEAN I, I FEEL LIKE THIS IS, THIS IS SOMETHING THAT'S DEFINITELY WORTH TAKING A LOOK AT AND, UM, YOU KNOW, EITHER CONFIRMING THAT, UH, WE ARE CONTEMPLATING THIS IN THE PLAN OR IF NOT, UM, LOOKING AT, LOOKING AT SOME OTHER THINGS. I'LL HAPPILY BE ON THE, UH, WORKING GROUP OBVIOUSLY. UM, I ALSO WOULD WANNA OFFER TO OTHER MEMBERS OF THE TASK FORCE TO JOIN BEFORE I DO, BECAUSE YEAH, YEAH. UH, I WOULD WANT TO HEAR THEIR INPUT AND GET LEAH HANEY. DO Y'ALL WANNA BE ON A WORKING GROUP TO LOOK AT LARGE WATER USERS? UM, SURE. UM, SURE. I I, I I CAN DO THAT. I, I, I GUESS MY, JUST WANNA, YOU GUYS HAVE ANSWERED MY QUESTION, UH, BUT I AM DEFINITELY CONCERNED, UH, ABOUT THE, THE WORD LOSS. UM, AND I CAN SEE THAT IN Q1, YOU, YOU HAVE ABOUT 17,500 LINEAR FEET. UM, HOW ABOUT Q2 AND Q3? AND THESE ARE, ARE LARGE DIAMETER, WHAT'S THE PLAN? AND Q4, YOU'RE ASKING ABOUT WHAT IS THE WATER LOSS FOR THE PREVIOUS QUARTERS? THE, THE LINEAR PIPE THAT THEY'VE EXAMINED? NO, MY, MY [00:45:01] QUESTION IS THE, THE, THE SLIDE SAYS THAT THEY'RE LOOKING AT, UM, DOING ABOUT 17 FIVE, 17,500 LINEAR FEET TO, TO CHECK AND SEE THE, WHERE THE WATER LOSS ON, ON THOSE MAINS. IS THIS GONNA CONTINUE? WHAT IS PLANNED FOR Q2, Q3 AND Q4? OH, OKAY. IS THAT JUST, IS OKAY. DID Y'ALL UNDERSTAND THAT OR SHALL I INTERPRET MY REPEAT MY INTERPRETATION OF IT? COULD YOU REPEAT YOUR INTERPRETATION OF THAT? OKAY. OKAY. YEAH, IT'S LIKE A GAME OF TELEPHONE. OKAY. UM, I THINK WHAT HANEY IS ASKING IS THE SLIDE SAYS THAT THE, A CERTAIN NUMBER OF LINEAR FEET WERE EXAMINED FOR WATER LOSS AND HE'S WONDERING ABOUT FUTURE QUARTERS, WILL THAT CONTINUE TO HAPPEN? OKAY. AND WILL MORE LINEAR FEET BE EXAMINED? RIGHT. DID I GET IT? YES. OKAY. OKAY. THAT'S EXACTLY, WE'LL NEED TO FOLLOW UP ON THAT TOPIC. I'VE WRITTEN THE QUESTION DOWN. OKAY. WE'LL FOLLOW, SHE WROTE THE QUESTION DOWN HANEY AND, AND WE'LL GET BACK TO US ON THE, AT THE NEXT MEETING. YES. OKAY. OKAY. OR, OR WE CAN HERE, YOU CAN ANSWER OVER EMAIL TOO. THESE ARE DONE BY AUSTIN WATER EFFORTS. IT'S A COMBINATION OF AUSTIN WATER CREWS AND CONTRACTED CREWS THAT DO OUR WATER PIPE LEAK DETECTION WORK. OKAY. AND CONDITION ASSESSMENT. OKAY. EXCELLENT. THANK YOU. AND HANEY, JUST TO MAKE SURE, I THINK THAT YOU ASKED A QUESTION AND VOLUNTEERED TO BE ON THIS WORKING GROUP FOR LARGE WATER USERS, BUT I WANNA MAKE SURE THAT, THAT I DIDN'T MISINTERPRET THAT. YES, I, I I, I I CAN BE ON THAT. OKAY. OKAY. HE CAN BE ON IT. HE MIGHT BE LOW KEY UNDER DURESS, BUT HE CAN BE ON IT. SORRY. SO WHO WERE THE PREVIOUS MADELINE, YOU ALSO, MADELINE ARE NOTING YOUR INTEREST AND SARAH. SARAH PAUL HANEY. OKAY. SO, AND SARAH SOUNDS LIKE SHE HAS A PLAN. UM, SO NOT THAT THESE GROUPS HAVE CHAIRS, BUT SHE CAN BE THE, THE, BUT AND, AND THAT SHE HAS A TWO MEETING PLAN ALSO. IT'S NOT LIKE A FOREVER, FOREVER ASSIGNMENT. OKAY. YEAH. AND I JUST, UH, SCROLLED THROUGH OUR ROLES OF PROCEDURE. IT DOESN'T SPEAK TO THE CREATION OF WORKING GROUPS, BUT YOU KNOW, WE HAVE THE, OKAY, I WILL JUST SAY THIS. UM, I SHOULDN'T SAY THIS BEFORE I CHECK MY JUNE CALENDAR. IS THAT WHEN OUR NEXT MEETING IS JUNE? YES. YEAH. OKAY. 'CAUSE WHAT I WAS GONNA SAY IS IT'S A TWO MEETING PLAN IS GREAT IF WE HAVE QUORUM IN JUNE. YEAH. . YEAH. BUT AGREED. SHOULD WE SEND OUT AN INVITE TO THE TASK FORCE MEMBERS THAT WEREN'T ABLE TO MEET THIS? THAT'S WHAT I WAS GONNA SAY IS THERE'S ANOTHER SPOT AVAILABLE, UM, ON IT AND, UM, ON THIS GROUP. AND SO WE HAVE SOME TASK FORCE MEMBERS THAT ARE NOT HERE MM-HMM . AND THEY MIGHT WANT TO JOIN IT. OKAY. SO WE HAVE ONE SPOT OPEN. OH. EMILY COULD, UM, FOLLOW UP VIA EMAIL AFTER THE MEETING TO RECAP THAT THIS WORKING GROUP WAS OR IS BEING CREATED AND TO OFFER UP THE OPPORTUNITY FOR ONE MORE PERSON TO JOIN. I MEAN, WE'RE ONLY MISSING PERRY AND TODD TODAY. MOST TO HERE. DID YOU SAY? YES, WHEN I WASN'T PAYING ATTENTION FOR, FOR WHAT? YEAH. YOU DIDN'T AND, AND AGAIN, TO DRIVE ME TO THE AIRPORT. YEAH, IF SURE. IF PERRY, UM, I MEAN IF THE TWO SPOTS ARE, ARE TAKEN, I, I, I'M OKAY. NOT BEING IN THERE. UM, BUT UM, YEAH, SO BECAUSE I'M AL I'M ALREADY ON ANOTHER COMMITTEE AND I CAN BARELY MAKE IT, BUT IF YOU GUYS NEED ME, I WOULD BE THERE. OKAY. OKAY. ALL RIGHT. UM, ANYTHING ELSE ON THE IMPLEMENTATION AGENDA ITEM FOLKS? UM, I'M GLAD THAT WE'RE GONNA LOOK IN, LOOK INTO THAT AND, AND JUST, YOU KNOW, TRUST BUT VERIFY. LIKE, YOU KNOW, THERE'S LOTS OF NEW INFORMATION COMING IN. UM, LOTS OF NEW WATER USERS. IT'S, IT'S SO INTERESTING THE WAY WE GO WHEN WE'RE TRYING SO HARD TO CONSERVE WATER. BUT WE ALSO HAVE BIG WATER INTENSIVE INDUSTRIES. IT'S KIND OF THE SAME WAY WITH, UH, YOU KNOW, WE ARE ALL HEADED TO BUSES FOR A WHILE AND THEN WE HAD INDIVIDUAL DELIVERY DRIVERS FOR EVERYTHING. IT'S LIKE, YOU KNOW, THE EBB AND FLOW . UM, SO ANYWAY, UM, OKAY. THANK YOU FOR THAT. THANKS FOR BRINGING THAT UP. UM, SARAH, I HAD A QUESTION KIND OF RELATING BACK TO THE LAST SLIDES UNDER THE CONSERVATION OUTREACH METRICS. YEAH, LET'S DO THAT AND THEN WE'LL GO TO THE NEXT ONE. [00:50:01] THERE'S 17 MILLION IMPRESSIONS AND I WAS WONDERING WHERE THAT KIND OF METRIC IS TAKEN FROM. IS IT LOOKING AT LIKE GEOGRAPHIC CLICKS IF IT'S SOCIAL MEDIA, LIKE TO THIS AREA? OR IS IT LIKE JUST WHOEVER'S CLICKING IT, EVEN IF THEY LIVE IN CANADA OR SOMETHING? 'CAUSE THAT SEEMS LIKE A LOT. I'M SORRY. WELL, UM, IN Q3 WE ACTUALLY HAD 28 MILLION IMPRESSIONS. SO, UH, IN THAT FINAL QUARTER OF THE YEAR, IT DOES GO DOWN. UM, 'CAUSE WE'RE NOT THE, GENERALLY THE HOT AND DRY PART OF, OF THE YEAR. SO THERE, THERE'S FEWER CONSERVATION OUTREACH ACTIVITIES. UH, 18 MILLION IMPRESSIONS AS I UNDERSTAND IT, IT'S A COMBINATION OF, OF CLICKS ON SOCIAL MEDIA AND ESTIMATES OF VIEWERSHIP OR LISTENERSHIP FOR RADIO MM-HMM . UM, THAT ARE PROVIDED BY THE, UH, FIRMS THAT WE CONTRACT WITH TO PUT OUT THAT, UH, THOSE MESSAGES THROUGH THE TRADITIONAL MEDIA RADIO AND SOMETIMES TV. AND I'M NOT BY, BY ANY MEANS AN EXPERT IN THIS, BUT I DO SEE MULTIPLE THINGS FROM AUSTIN WATER, YOU KNOW, LIKE THEY POST ON INSTAGRAM A LOT. UM, I SEE STUFF ON LINKEDIN. THEY HAVE THINGS AND LIKE, YOU KNOW, ADS IN THE CHRONICLE OR DIFFERENT THINGS. SO INDIVIDUALS GET, MAKE IMPRESSIONS MANY TIMES, I GUESS IS HOW I'M TRYING TO SAY THAT. BUT YEAH. BUT, AND LARGELY IN THE AUSTIN AREA. MM-HMM . I GUESS THERE COULD BE PEOPLE IN IDAHO CLICKING ON OUR PAGES, BUT IMPRESSIONS ARE ALWAYS A WEIRD THING. 'CAUSE LIKE YOU'LL DO A POST ON LIKE LINKEDIN AND IT'LL HAVE LIKE FOUR LIKES, BUT IT'LL HAVE LIKE 87 IMPRESSIONS AND LIKE, DO YOU EVEN REALLY KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS? I MEAN, I DON'T, I'M, I DON'T KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS, BUT, SO IT FEELS LIKE AN IMPRESSION JUST MEANS LIKE IT CAME UP ON YOUR SCREEN? YEAH. MM-HMM . LIKE YOU MAY OR MAY NOT HAVE LITERALLY MADE AN IMPRESSION, READ IT IN MM-HMM . IT JUST CROSSED YOUR CONSCIOUSNESS, WHICH IS ENOUGH TO INFLUENCE US THOUGH. YEAH. UNFORTUNATELY, OR FORTUNATELY, ONE OF THE METRICS THAT WE'RE PROUD OF ON OUR OUTREACH IS OUR EMAIL OPEN RATE. UM, AND I THINK KEVIN HIGHLIGHTED THAT ON ONE SLIDE, BUT 68% OPEN RATE WHEN THE AVERAGE FOR THAT, THOSE KINDS OF EMAILS IS VERY WELL. 20 SOMETHING PERCENT. YEAH. UM, SO WE DO KNOW THAT WE'RE, THAT PEOPLE ARE ENGAGING WITH OUR MESSAGING. HOW MUCH, YOU KNOW, WHAT DOES AN IMPRESSION MEAN IN SOCIAL MEDIA OR, YOU KNOW, WHEN YOU OPEN THE COMMUNITY IMPACT, THAT'S DIFFICULT TO GAUGE, BUT WE KNOW WE'RE REACHING PEOPLE. ALRIGHT. CAN I ASK ONE MORE QUESTION? SORRY. ARE YOU ABLE, YOU PROBABLY COULD. I MEAN, ARE YOU, YOU ABLE TO SEE LIKE, OKAY, THAT WAS A LOT OF OPENS. TOTALLY CORRECT. AND THEN LIKE THOSE CUSTOMERS ARE PEOPLE THAT ARE ALREADY LOW WATER USERS. YOU KNOW, THAT'S KINDA WHAT I'M WONDERING IS LIKE I'M ALSO A PERSON WHO'S REALLY INTERESTED IN THIS TOPIC AND MM-HMM . THEREFORE I OPEN THE EMAIL. LIKE I, YOU KNOW HOW THERE'S LIKE THESE PEOPLE THAT ARE SUPER INTO THEIR SOLAR AND THEY CAN TELL YOU ABOUT EVERY KILOWATT AND THE BATTERIES AND THE, YOU KNOW, THEY, OH MAN, MY NEIGHBORHOOD LIST LIGHTS UP IF YOU ASK A QUESTION ABOUT THAT STUFF. SO IT'S LIKE A SIMILAR THING. AND SO THAT'S WHAT I'M WONDERING ABOUT THE, THE OPENS. IT'S GREAT, BUT LIKE THEN HOW DO YOU KIND OF DIG INTO THAT NEXT GROUP OF PEOPLE? MM-HMM . WHERE WE COULD PROBABLY SEE SOME GOOD SAVINGS? I FEEL LIKE THE ANSWER IS PROBABLY YES, BUT I DON'T KNOW THAT FOR SURE. YEAH. SO I WILL SAY THAT, UM, I WENT OUTTA TOWN FOR LIKE FIVE DAYS. OUR HOUSE WAS EMPTY AND I LOOKED AT MY A TX WATER WHEN I GOT BACK JUST TO CHECK AND THERE WAS 35 GALLONS A DAY. I DIDN'T GET A LEAK ALERT 'CAUSE I DON'T KNOW, MAYBE THEY DIDN'T THINK IT WAS A LEAK, BUT, UM, BUT THERE WAS THE SECOND BATHROOM HAD A RUNNING TOILET, LIKE, YOU KNOW, REPLACED THE, REPLACED THE FLAPPER. THAT WAS, ANYWAY, NEXT TIME I LEAVE TOWN I'LL CHECK AND MAKE SURE I DID IT RIGHT. LET'S GET MY DATA OR ELSE TELL NOBODY THEY CAN USE ANY WATER IN THE HOUSE FOR A COUPLE OF DAYS, BUT, SO THAT WAS FINE. THAT'S HOW WE FOUND A LEAK IN OUR HOUSE TOO. YEAH. JUST CHECKING WHEN, WHEN EVERYONE LEAVES THE HOUSE FOR A COUPLE DAYS. OKAY. BEFORE WE MOVE ON REAL QUICK, JUST BECAUSE I FEEL LIKE YOU CAN'T HAVE A WORKING GROUP WITHOUT A NAME. UH, IT FEELS SORT OF LIKE WE DON'T WANNA JUST CREATE IT AND THEN NOT NAME IT. UM, I WOULD SUGGEST HAVE A SUGGESTION. YEAH. I WAS JUST TRYING TO JOT SOME THINGS DOWN. EITHER PLANNING FOR LARGE VOLUME USERS OR PLANNING FOR FUTURE DEMAND GROWTH, SOMETHING ALONG THOSE LINES. I THINK THAT KIND OF CAPTURES WHAT WE'RE GETTING AT. MM-HMM . UM, DO Y'ALL HAVE A PREFERENCE AT CITY OF AUSTIN? I MEAN AT AUSTIN WATER, THE FIRST ONE. WHICH ONE? ROBERT VOTES FOR THE FIRST ONE. PLANNING FOR LARGE VOLUME MUSIC. WHISPER CAMPAIGN OVER HERE. HERE? YEAH. OKAY. THAT'S OUR WORKING GROUP TITLE THEN. OKAY. IF YOU APPROVE [00:55:01] I WORKING GROUP, I THINK IT'S A GREAT IDEA TO HAVE A PLANNING FOR LARGE VOLUME USERS WORKING GROUP OF AUSTIN'S INTEGRATED WATER RESOURCE PLANNING COMMUNITY TASK FORCE. AND WHO WILL BE THE MEMBERS WITH, WITH SARAH FOWL TO PAUL D FIORI, MADELINE MATHIS AND HANEY MICHELLE ON IT. CORRECT. POSSIBLY YOU JENNIFER. POSSIBLY ME. MAY FALL TO YOU. , WE'RE GONNA HAVE TO MEET ON SATURDAYS AT THIS RATE. SATURDAY. YEAH. AT BARTON SPRINGS. OKAY. UM, NEXT [4. Staff briefing regarding Aquifer Storage and Recovery and Brackish Groundwater Desalination Field Testing and Community Engagement plan. Presentation by Marisa Flores Gonzalez, Water Resources Team Supervisor, and Emlea Chanslor, Chief of Staff, Austin Water. ] ITEM, UH, STAFF BRIEFING REGARDING AQUIFER STORAGE AND RECOVERY AND BRACKISH GROUNDWATER DESALINATION FIELD TESTING AND COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT PLAN. WONDERFUL. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR READING THAT. SO I DON'T HAVE TO . YOU'RE WELCOME. I I'M GONNA GO AHEAD AND, AND, UM, WALK US THROUGH THIS PRESENTATION. WE ALSO HAVE EMILY CHANCELLOR ON THE WEBEX WHO WILL BE HERE TO HELP ANSWER QUESTIONS, ESPECIALLY AS REGARDS TO THE COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT. EMILY CHANCELLOR IS ALSO NOW AUSTIN WATERS FIRST A CHIEF OF STAFF. UM, SO SHE'S OVERSEEING A VARIETY OF WORK GROUPS, INCLUDING OUR PUBLIC INFORMATION OFFICE, STRATEGIC PLANNING, INTERNAL AUDIT, AND OTHER, UM, FUNCTIONS INCLUDING OUR GOVERNMENTAL RELATIONS. UM, AND EMILY C HAS JOINED US ON THE SCREEN. UM, SO SHE MAY BE ABLE TO TUNE IN, UM, CHIME IN WITH SOME, UM, UH, FOR QUESTIONS. UM, OKAY. SO GO AHEAD AND LAUNCH IN. WE CAN, UM, MOVE ON TO THE NEXT SLIDE. SO WITHIN THIS PRESENTATION I'LL GIVE AN OVERVIEW OF OUR FIELD TESTING IN TERMS OF CURRENT STATUS, THE CONTRACTING PATHWAYS THAT WE'RE MO UH, USING TO MOVE THIS FORWARD. UM, PRELIMINARY ACTIVITIES TO BE PERFORMED AS WELL AS, UM, FIELD TESTING AND DRILLING ACTIVITIES. AND THEN WE'LL GIVE AN OVERVIEW OF OUR 2026 COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT STRATEGY AND NEXT STEPS. NEXT SLIDE. UH, SO IN THIS PROJECT WE ARE CURRENTLY DOING EARLY SITE PLANNING. AUSTIN WATER, AS YOU KNOW, HAS, UM, PIVOTED TO LOOKING AT FIELD TESTING WITH EASTERN, WITHIN EASTERN TRAVIS COUNTY. AND WE'RE CONSIDERING SEVERAL CITY OWNED OR CITY MANAGED PROPERTIES FOR POTENTIAL TESTWELL SITES. UM, WE'RE WORKING CLOSELY WITH OTHER CITY DEPARTMENTS TO COLLABORATE ON PLANS FOR CITY OWNED LAND THAT COULD INCLUDE THE USE OF SMALL AREAS OF LAND FOR FIELD TESTING FOR THE COLLECTION OF DATA AND THE INSTALLATION OF PERMANENT MONITORING WELLS, UM, AS WELL AS OTHER PLANS THAT, UM, CITY DEPARTMENTS MAY HAVE FOR THOSE PROPERTIES. UM, I WILL SAY THAT IN TERMS OF OUR TIMELINE, AND THIS IS MENTIONED LATER ON DOWN THE LINE, UM, WE DO, WE HAVE PLANS TO CONTINUE WORKING THROUGH THE SITE PLANNING AND SITE SELECTION PROCESS THROUGH AT LEAST FALL OF 2026. SO WE HAVE, UM, MORE TIME, UM, THAT AND MORE TASKS THAT WE NEED TO WORK THROUGH BEFORE SITE LOCATIONS FOR THIS SPECIFIC WELLS WOULD BE IDENTIFIED. YES. HOW EXPENSIVE IS IT TO, UM, IDENTIFY THOSE AREAS? 'CAUSE I KNOW WITH THE LAST TIME WHEN TRYING TO CHOOSE AN AREA, THERE WAS A LOT OF PLANNING THAT WENT INTO THAT AND THEN A LOT OF OBJECTION AND EVENTUALLY BLOCKING OF THAT PLAN. IS THERE A WAY THAT WE COULD BE MORE SURE THAT AN AREA WOULD BE WILLING TO RECEIVE AND COME TO AN AGREEMENT BEFORE THE COST OF SPECULATIVE LIKE, UM, SITE INSPECTIONS AND RIGHT. WE, UH, WE ACTUALLY DIDN'T GET OUT INTO THE FIELD IN SOME OF THAT WORK THAT WE DID WITHIN BASTROP COUNTY. WE WERE DOING MORE DESKTOP ANALYSIS TO IDENTIFY POTENTIAL LOCATIONS AND THEN WE DID A, A, A NUMBER OF MEETINGS WHERE WE WENT TO A NUMBER OF MEETINGS AND HAD COLLABORATION WITH LOCAL STAKEHOLDERS TO KIND OF WORK THROUGH THAT PROCESS AND DEVELOP A COLLABORATION AGREEMENT. UM, SO HERE WE'LL BE WORKING WITH, UM, STAKEHOLDERS WITH AN EASTERN TRAVIS COUNTY AND THAT'S A PART OF OUR COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT STRATEGY THAT WILL TOUCH ON AND, UH, A FEW SLIDES IS HOW WE'RE REACHING OUT TO ELECTED OFFICIALS, UM, COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS AND, UM, UH, DIFFERENT NEIGHBORHOOD GROUPS TO BE ABLE TO LAY THAT PATH FOR HAVING KIND GOOD SUPPORT FOR THIS PROJECT MOVING FORWARD. UM, WE WON'T BE OUT INTO, UH, UM, INTO THE FIELD TO, [01:00:01] LET'S SAY DO ANY OF THAT TESTING AND DRILLING OF COURSE, UNTIL WE'VE KIND OF GONE THROUGH THE PROCESS TO DO SOME MORE DESKTOP ANALYSIS AND, UM, AND, AND SOME OF THAT COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT THROUGH FALL OF 2026. I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT ALSO TO NOTE THAT THE ORIGINAL DESKTOP ANALYSIS THAT RECOMMENDED BASTROP COUNTY ALSO RECOMMENDED EASTERN TRAVIS COUNTY. SO THIS, WE HAVE, UH, THE WORK THAT WE ARE DOING NOW FOR EASTERN TRAVIS COUNTY IS A RESULT OF THE SAME WORK THAT RECOMMENDED BASTROP COUNTY. THOSE WERE TWO OF THE TOP THREE SITES, SO, UH, WE'RE NOT STARTING FROM SCRATCH ON, ON EASTERN TRAVIS COUNTY. OKAY. NEXT SLIDE. SO WE ARE, UM, WORKING CURRENTLY WITH OUR CONSULTING TEAM. ANISSA? YES. SORRY, CAN I JUST, I'M SORRY, I THOUGHT OF A QUESTION LATER. COULD YOU JUST LIKE BRIEFLY DESCRIBE, UM, WHAT MAKES EASTERN TRAVIS COUNTY A HIGH RANKING OPTION? YEAH, THE, UM, THE DESKTOP ANALYSIS THAT WE PERFORMED INITIALLY INCLUDED FACTORS LIKE HYDROGEOLOGICAL, CHARACTERISTICS OF THE AQUIFERS, SO THE ABILITY TO STORE AND RECOVER WATER, UM, REGULATORY FACTORS. WHAT DOES THAT MEAN, ABILITY TO STORE AND RECOVER? DOES THAT, IS THAT LIKE SURFACE THAT MEANS FORAGE OR LIKE YOU'RE TALKING, TALKING AGAIN ABOUT AQUIFER CHARACTERISTICS FOR, I'M TALKING ABOUT AQUIFER CHARACTERISTICS. OKAY. YOU, SO THE ABILITY TO STORE WATER UNDERGROUND IN AN AQUIFER FOR THE, UM, FOR THAT WATER TO BE HELD GENERALLY AND ONE LOCATION WITHIN THAT AQUIFER AND, AND SPACE WITHIN THE AQUIFER TO, TO RECEIVE WATER. AND THEN THE ABILITY FOR US TO, UM, USE WELLS TO PUMP THAT WATER BACK OUT AND RECOVER THE WATER THAT HAS BEEN PUMPED INTO THE AQUIFER FOR STORAGE. UM, THERE'S DIFFERENT CHARACTERISTICS OF THE ROCK THAT MAKE UP, OR THE MATERIAL THAT MAKE UP THE AQUIFERS THAT IMPACT THE, UM, THAT, THAT ABILITY TO STORE AND RECOVER WATER. UM, THEN THERE, UH, WERE OTHER FACTORS THAT WE LOOKED AT INCLUDING REGULATORY FACTORS, UM, YOU KNOW, IS, UH, UH, ARE THERE GROUNDWATER CONSERVATION DISTRICTS PRESENT? UM, ANY PERMITTING CONSTRAINTS, ENVIRONMENTAL, UM, UH, CONSTRAINTS, ENDANGERED SPECIES. UM, THERE WERE OTHER FACTORS INCLUDING THE COST, UM, CONCEPTUAL PLANNING LEVEL COST, BUT STILL THE COST OF, UM, POTENTIAL, UH, FUTURE PROJECTS AND UM, UH, THE, WHAT WE CALL LIKE THE, THE IMPLEMENTATION FEASIBILITY. SO HOW WELL DOES IT INTEGRATE IN WITH OUR SYSTEM, WITH OUR WATER DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM, WATER TREATMENT SYSTEMS, UM, THE, THE, THE DISTANCE TO A A WELL FIELD. UM, AND YOU KNOW, THAT KIND OF TAKES INTO ACCOUNT THE AMOUNT OF ENERGY THAT'S USED TO PUSH WATER OUT AND PULL WATER BACK IN. UM, A NUMBER OF OF FACTORS LIKE THAT WERE CONSIDERED. AND, AND SO THE TRINITY AQUIFER WAS, UM, I'D SAY THE THIRD RA, TRINITY AQUIFER WITHIN EASTERN TRAVIS COUNTY WAS THE THIRD TOP RANKED OPTION THAT EMERGED FROM THE EIGHT COUNTY DESKTOP ANALYSIS THAT WE INITIALLY PERFORMED THAT ALSO IDENTIFIED THE CR OF WILCOX WITHIN BASTROP AND LEE COUNTIES. OKAY, THANKS. THAT'S VERY HELPFUL. MM-HMM . UM, SO WE WERE INITIALLY AUTHORIZED, UM, WE INITIALLY RECEIVED AUTHORIZATION FROM CITY COUNCIL TO, UM, EXECUTE A CONTRACT WITH HDR AND ENGINEERING CONSULTING FIRM TO PROVIDE PILOT AND PROGRAM MANAGEMENT SERVICES BACK IN 2020. AND THAT AUTHORIZATION, UH, GAVE US UP TO, UM, $6 MILLION, AUTHORIZED US FOR UP TO $6 MILLION. WE'VE USED ABOUT HALF OF THOSE DOLLARS TO PERFORM THE INITIAL DESKTOP ANALYSIS, UM, THAT I MENTIONED OR DESCRIBED, UH, THAT IDENTIFIED OUR, OUR TOP RANKING OPTIONS. UH, WE HAVE ABOUT $3 MILLION LEFT THAT WE WILL BE FOLDING INTO A A, A SERVICES FOR THE PHASE ONE B FIELD TESTING. AND, UM, THE SCOPE ONE THAT'S DESCRIBED, UM, ON THIS SCREEN, WE'LL USE THOSE, UH, $3 MILLION. UM, OR, UH, YEAH, WE'LL USE THOSE $3 MILLION TO CONDUCT PRELIMINARY ACTIVITIES. OH, THERE'S ANOTHER SCREEN THAT POPPED UP ONTO OUR SCREEN HERE. UM, NOT SURE WHAT TO DO ABOUT THAT I DON'T SEE ON SCREEN. OKAY. THEY'RE GONNA PRINT STOP HEARING ANYTHING ON [01:05:01] SCREEN. YEAH, I THINK MARCUS IF YOU CAN HEAR US, THERE'S ANOTHER WINDOW FOR A PRINTER LOGIC, UM, APPLICATION THAT HAS POPPED UP ON YOUR SCREEN THAT YOU MAY NEED TO CLOSE. OKAY. GIVE US JUST A SECOND WHILE WE WORK THROUGH THAT. HE'S BEHIND A SHIRT. YEAH. . IT'S LITERALLY, IT'S LIKE THEATER QUALITY STUFF ALL IN HERE. IT'S VERY NICE. . IT'S SO FUN. BACK TO IT. AND I'M JUST BECOMING AWARE OF THE GIANT SCREEN BEHIND. YEAH. . THANK YOU EMILY. OKAY. I DO REMEMBER THE TIME THAT ROBERT SENT ME A SELFIE OF HIM SHARING THE MEETING, BUT WITH ME REMOTE AND HOW I WAS ON, BUT THAT WAS A ALARM HE ALARM FOR ME. , I LIKE LOOKING OVER YOUR SHOULDER. THEY DID YOU YOUR FACE. YEAH. THAT'S . OKAY. OKAY. WE'RE BACK. BACK TO SERIOUS BUSINESS. BACK TO SERIOUS BUSINESS. UH, HOLD ON. SERIOUS FACE. OKAY. THE, OUR FIRST $3 MILLION WILL HELP, UM, OR THAT LATTER $3 MILLION WILL HELP TO COVER EARLY DESKTOP STUDY UPDATES, UH, TO INCLUDE, UH, FULLER ANALYSIS OF, UM, PROJECT, UH, POTENTIAL PROJECT LOCATIONS WITHIN EASTERN TRAVIS COUNTY ENVIRONMENTAL AND CULTURAL ANALYSIS AND SOME INITIAL PERMITTING ACTIVITIES. THIS WILL NOT INCLUDE TEST WELL DRILLING. IT'LL USE THOSE EXISTING ALLOCATED FUNDS. AND SINCE THAT WAS ALREADY AUTHORIZED BY COUNCIL, THIS FIRST SCOPE CAN BE APPROVED ADMINISTRATIVELY BY CITY STAFF THROUGH INTERNAL CITY PROCESSES. THEN UM, WE HAVE A SECOND SCOPE THAT WILL COVER THE REST OF THE FIELD TESTING AND DRILLING WORK. THIS WILL COVER TEST WELL DRILLING SAMPLE COLLECTION LABORATORY TESTING AS WELL AS ADDITIONAL PLANNING FOR A POTENTIAL A SR PILOT PROJECT AND, UM, EVALUATION AND RECOMMENDATION OF FUTURE CONSIDERATIONS FOR POTENTIAL BRACKISH GROUNDWATER DESALINATION PROJECTS. THIS, UM, WORK WILL REQUIRE ADDITIONAL AUTHORIZATION, UM, MEANING IT'LL REQUIRE ADDITIONAL MONEY TO COMPLETE ALL OF THAT WORK, GIVEN THAT THERE'S AN EXPANDED SCOPE. UM, AND ALSO GIVEN THAT ESSENTIALLY SIX YEARS HAVE PASSED SINCE THE INITIAL COUNCIL AUTHORIZATION AND OUR INITIAL WORK TO DEVELOP COST ESTIMATES FOR HOW MUCH, UM, THE FIRST PHASE WOULD, UH, COST US. SO THIS SECOND SCOPE WILL REQUIRE, UH, CITY COUNCIL ACTION, AND WE'RE ANTICIPATING TAKING THAT SCOPE TO CITY COUNCIL FOR THEIR CONSIDERATION ON MAY 28TH. THAT, UM, THE MONEY, YES, THAT, UM, THE ADDITIONAL AUTHORIZATION THAT'LL BE REQUESTED IS AN ADDITIONAL $15 MILLION, UM, WHICH WILL TAKE OUR TOTAL TO ABOUT $22 MILLION, UH, 2020 $1 MILLION, UM, TO COVER THE ENTIRE, UM, SER UH, SCOPE OF SERVICES. UM, SO ON TOP OF OUR INITIAL 6 MILLION AUTHORIZATION, WE'RE REQUESTING AN ADDITIONAL 15 MILLION TO TAKE OUR TOTAL CONTRACT TO, UH, $21 MILLION. IS THERE A QUESTION? IS THAT JUST ON THE EASTERN TRAVIS COUNTY PART? YES. THAT'LL INCLUDE THE DRILLING OF UP TO FOUR WELLS. SO IT DOESN'T INCLUDE, YOU'RE NOT INCLUDING WHAT WAS SPENT ON BASTROP. THAT'S THE TOTAL CONTRACT AMOUNT. THE 22 MILLION DOES INCLUDE THE 3 MILLION THAT'S ALREADY USED FOR THE INITIAL DESKTOP, UH, STUDY. THAT WAS, YEAH. THAT INCLUDED THE BASTROP WORK. YEAH. AND THEN THERE WAS A SIGNIFICANT AMOUNT OF, UM, STAFF TIME THAT REALLY WENT INTO THE, THE COLLABORATION THAT OCCURRED IN BASTROP COUNTY. SO THAT'S OVER AND ABOVE THAT. LUCKILY, THAT'S ALL FREE . SORRY, YOU KNOW. YEAH. , WE'LL HAVE TO PUT IT IN THE CONTRACT WITH HDR. MAYBE YOU DO. I DON'T KNOW, ACTUALLY. I'M SURE LOTS OF PEOPLE WERE INVOLVED IN THAT. UM, MADELINE HAS A QUESTION. OH, GO AHEAD. YEAH. FOR THE, THE 21 MILLION, THAT'S JUST FOR LIKE THE TEST AND THE PILOT, THAT'S NOT FOR THE ACTUAL IMPLEMENTATION AND CREATION OF THE [01:10:01] NO, AND THIS IS, THIS IS JUST FOR THE FIELD TESTING. SO DRILLING, UM, THE TEST WELLS DO, COLLECTING THE SAMPLES, TAKING THOSE SAMPLES TO TEST THEM WITHIN THE LAB, AND THEN, UM, DEVELOPING TECHNICAL MEMORANDUM RELATED TO FUTURE PILOTING OR, UM, FEASIBILITY FOR OTHER PROJECTS LIKE BRACKISH GROUNDWATER, DECEL PROJECTS, IT DOESN'T INCLUDE PILOTING ITSELF. PILOTING WOULD BE A SEPARATE PHASE THAT WOULD REQUIRE ADDITIONAL AUTHORIZATION IN A PILOT PHASE FOR, LET'S SAY A SR FOR EXAMPLE, WE'D ACTUALLY HAVE TO, UM, BE PUTTING WATER, PUMPING WATER UNDERGROUND AS A PART OF THAT PILOTING PROCESSES THAT WILL REQUIRE SEPARATE FUNDING AND A SEPARATE SCOPE. DO WE HAVE A FULL SCOPE OF THE, THE TOTAL COST THIS IS EXPECTED WITH THE CHANGED COUNTIES? IS IT THE SAME FROM THE WILCOX? 'CAUSE I REMEMBER SEEING A, A COST IN THE WATER FORWARD PLAN. WE HAVE CONCEPTUAL, LIKE PLANNING GLOVE COSTS, UH, PLAN, WE'LL BE UPDATING THOSE COSTS BASED ON WHAT WE FIND THROUGH THE FIELD TESTING. AND OH, I JUST HAD A QUESTION ABOUT, UM, WHAT IS THE, MAYBE IT'S TOO EARLY TO KNOW THE EXPECTED YIELD. I THINK I HEARD THAT THE YIELD FOR THIS IS GONNA BE LESS, MAYBE QUITE A BIT LESS THAN WHAT WAS ANTICIPATED FOR EASTERN, I MEAN, FOR, UM, THE BEST DROP AREA. AND, AND THEN DO WE HAVE TO ALSO UPDATE WATER FOR, TO REFLECT THAT AND UPDATE OUR STRATEGIES? 'CAUSE THIS IS A, A SR IS A PRETTY BIG AND IMPORTANT STRATEGY FOR US. RIGHT? SO WITHIN THE WATER FORWARD PLAN, WE HAD, UM, FUTURE TARGETS OF ACHIEVING 44,500 ACRE FEET PER YEAR. UM, IN TERMS OF, OF OUR ABILITY TO RECOVER WATER THAT WAS STORAGE. SO IT'S 44,500 ACRE FEET UP TO THE POINT OF, YOU KNOW, UP TO THE MAX OF OUR STORAGE, UM, WE ANTICIPATE THAT A TRINITY, AUSTIN A SR PROJECT WOULD YIELD LESS LIKELY, QUITE A BIT LESS, UM, POTENTIALLY A THIRD OF THE AMOUNT THAT WAS INITIALLY ESTIMATED FOR A CARA WILCOX A SR. UM, SO, UH, OF COURSE, YOU KNOW, WE'LL LEARN MORE BASED ON THE FIELD TESTING AND IN SPECIFIC LOCATIONS, YOU COULD HAVE BETTER OR WORSE RESULTS THAN THAT. UM, AS FAR AS WE KNOW, THIS IS NOT A, A VERY WELL STUDIED AREA, UM, PORTION OF THE AQUIFER. AND SO WE'LL BE ABLE TO GATHER MORE DATA AND UPDATE OUR ESTIMATES OF YIELD AS WELL AS OUR ESTIMATES OF, OF COST FOR LARGER PROJECTS. MM-HMM . WILL, THE WILL, I'M SORRY. HOLD ON. SO WHAT DOES THAT MEAN AS FAR AS, UH, DO WILL WE NEED TO GO BACK IN AND UPDATE OUR PLAN OR LEAN MORE HEAVILY ON OTHER STRATEGIES? I MEAN, I KNOW IT'S KIND OF EARLY TO TELL, BUT JUST SO THAT IS WHY WE WANT TO DO THIS FIELD TESTING, TO GATHER DATA THAT COULD INFORM OTHER PROJECTS THAT ARE ALSO INCLUDED IN THE WATER FORWARD PLAN, LIKE BRACKISH GROUNDWATER. AND IN THIS ITEM THAT'LL GO TO COUNCIL, LIKE YOU WERE MENTIONING, THIS DOESN'T AUTHORIZE THOSE FUTURE PROJECTS. THIS JUST AUTHORIZED THE COLLECTION OF DATA THAT WE COULD USE TO HELP INFORM PLANNING FOR THOSE PROJECTS. IF, LET'S SAY WE WERE INTERESTED IN MOVING UP THE TIMELINE FOR IMPLEMENTATION OF BRACKISH GROUNDWATER DESALINATION, WE WOULD HAVE DATA AND INFORMATION TO INFORM, LET'S SAY, WHAT LEVEL OF TREATMENT WOULD BE REQUIRED. IF THIS WATER THAT IS LESS SALINE, THEN MAYBE IT'S A, A MUCH MORE FEASIBLE OPTION. UM, AND THERE'S, UM, LESS TREATMENT REQUIRED, LESS ENERGY REQUIRED, YOU KNOW, IT FEELS LIKE IT'S A, UM, A MORE ATTRACTIVE OPTION. IF IT'S, YOU KNOW, MODERATELY SALINE TO MORE SALINE, THEN, YOU KNOW, THERE COULD BE MORE COSTS ASSOCIATED WITH ENERGY TREATMENT, ET CETERA. OKAY. SORRY, GO AHEAD. NOW, MADELINE, AND THEN IF ANYBODY, ALSO, IF LEAH OR HANEY HAVE QUESTIONS, WAVE YOUR ARMS AND LET ME KNOW. AND I SARAH, TOO, BUT GO AHEAD, MADELINE. OH, I GOT AND PAUL TOO. EVERYBODY EXCEPT FOR IN HERE WITH IT YIELDING ONE THIRD POTENTIALLY OF THE AMOUNT OF THE ORIGINAL, UM, AQUIFER STORAGE AND RECOVERY. ARE THE ESTIMATES OF THE COST GONNA BE UPDATED BEFORE THIS PILOT PROGRAM IS APPROVED IN THE MAY 8TH MEETING? SO THAT, YOU KNOW, THE, SO WE'RE NOT APPROVING A PILOT, WELL, SORRY, THE, THE TESTING, RIGHT. THE, THE FIELD TESTING ITSELF WILL HELP US TO UPDATE THE PROJECT CONCEPT AND CONFIGURATION AND THE [01:15:01] PROJECT COST FOR A FULL SCALE PROJECT. WE, WE DON'T HAVE ENOUGH INFORMATION RIGHT NOW TO DEVELOP, UM, BROADER COSTS FOR, LET'S SAY A FULL SCALE A SR PROJECT IN THE TRINITY AQUIFER WITHIN EASTERN TRAVIS COUNTY. UM, I THINK IT, IT WOULD REALLY HELP US TO HAVE THAT FIELD TESTING DATA TO BE ABLE TO UPDATE THOSE COSTS. SO THE ADDITIONAL 15 MILLION IS JUST TO GATHER DATA TO CREATE AN ESTIMATION OF HOW MUCH IT COULD POTENTIALLY YIELD. WHAT IS THE ONE THIRD YIELD BASED OFF OF CURRENTLY JUST WHAT'S AVAILABLE OR JUST BASED OFF OF HIGH LEVEL CHARACTERIZATIONS OF THE, UM, THE PERMEABILITY OF THE AQUIFER, FOR EXAMPLE. AND, UM, UH, YOU KNOW, STUDIES THAT HAVE BEEN DONE IN, IN THE PAST ON THE TRINITY AQUIFER WITHIN THIS PORTION OF TRAVIS COUNTY. SO THE DESKTOP ANALYSIS THAT WE DID OF THE EIGHT COUNTY AREA HELPED US TO FRAME UP THE POSSIBLE YIELDS AND CONCEPTUAL LEVEL COSTS, COMPARATIVE COSTS, UM, AND THEN THIS IS THE NEXT PHASE OF GATHERING THAT ADDITIONAL REAL WORLD DATA IN ORDER TO UPDATE OUR UNDERSTANDING OF, UH, POSSIBLE YIELD AND ULTIMATE COST. AND THEN WE WOULD SEEK ADDITIONAL COUNCIL AUTHORIZATION TO ACTUALLY DO THE PILOT TESTING, AND THEN YET AGAIN TO ACTUALLY DO, UH, DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION. SO THIS IS, THIS IS A PHASED APPROACH TO GATHER THE INFORMATION WE NEED TO MAKE GOOD DECISIONS. OKAY. THANKS. I JUST WANTED TO COMMENT THAT, UM, IF WE'RE GATHERING DATA AND THAT IT COULD INFORM OTHER PROJECTS LIKE BRACKISH, GROUNDWATER, DESALINATION, IT'S ALL JUST KEEPING THE OPTION OPEN THAT WE RESEARCHED THE BASTROP A A SR, WE'RE GATHERING DATA, WE'RE RESEARCHING THIS. MAYBE THERE'S A POINT WHERE WE, YOU KNOW, ALSO SEE IF WE NEED TO CHANGE COURSE A LITTLE BIT AND COME BACK AND SAY, HOW MUCH MORE CAN WE LEAN INTO TIGHTENING THE SHIP ON CONSERVATION? INVESTING A TON OF MONEY IN THAT. BECAUSE IF YOU LOOK AT THE ACRE FOOT COST IN THE PLAN, IT'S WAY CHEAPER THAN ANYTHING. YOU KNOW, IF WE THINK THERE'S VIABLE STUFF WE CAN DO WITH THAT MONEY. SO, AND UM, YOU KNOW, TODD'S NOT HERE TODAY, BUT GOING BACK AND LOOKING AT PRICING AT OUR RATE STRUCTURE, ARE WE REALLY SENDING AN EFFECTIVE PRICE SIGNAL TO THOSE LARGER USERS, RESIDENTIAL AND COMMERCIAL LIKE THAT? JUST, I JUST WANTED TO OFFER THAT OTHER VIEWPOINT IS THAT LIKE DOING THE RESEARCH AND FIGURING IT OUT DOESN'T NECESSARILY LEAD TO OTHER VERY EXPENSIVE ENGINEERED WATER YIELD PROJECTS? IT MAY, BUT THERE'S OTHER WAYS WE, THIS MIGHT BE SIGNALING TO US THAT WE NEED TO LEAN INTO OTHER METHODS THAT ARE MORE AFFORDABLE AND THAT MAYBE THAT INVESTMENT COULD GO TOWARDS. SO WE ABSOLUTELY ARE DOING THAT. GOOD. SO THE PLAN IS FOUNDED ON ALL OF THE CONSERVATION, RECLAIMED WATER, REDUCING WATER LOSS. THOSE ARE THE FOUNDATION OF THE PLAN. UM, CERTAINLY THE RATE STRUCTURE, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE, UH, WE DID A, A VERY, UM, EXTENSIVE COST OF SERVICE MODEL AND THAT DOES LOOK AT HOW WE CAN ENCOURAGE CONSERVATION RATES. AND WE DID, WE DID STRENGTHEN THAT IN OUR LAST, UH, RATE UPDATES, LAST COST OF SERVICE MODEL. SO THOSE ARE, THOSE ARE FOUNDATIONAL TO THE PLAN. AND THEN, YOU KNOW, IN ADDITION TO A SR AND BRACKISH GROUNDWATER DESALINATION, WE HAVE OTHER WATER SUPPLY STRATEGIES THAT ARE ALSO PROGRESSING. SO, YOU KNOW, THIS, THIS COMMUNITY HAS RELIED ON THE TEXAS, COLORADO RIVER SINCE, SINCE WE WERE FOUNDED HERE, AND WE ARE NOW ENTERING INTO A NEW PHASE OF HAVING TO EXPAND OUR WATER SUPPLY OPTIONS IN A WAY THAT WE NEVER HAVE BEFORE. AND SO THERE'S A LOT OF FOUNDATIONAL WORK THAT HAS TO GO INTO THAT AND IN ORDER TO UNDERSTAND WHICH ARE THE STRATEGIES THAT ARE GOING TO BE THE MOST EFFECTIVE FOR US IN WHICH ORDER. I AGREE. AND JUST POINTING OUT THAT, LIKE LEANING, YOU KNOW, UNTIL WE BELIEVE WE ARE LIKE THE MO BEING THE MOST EFFICIENT AS POSSIBLE WITH THE COLORADO RIVER WATER WE HAVE, AND IT SOUNDS LIKE WE ARE, WE HAVE INVESTED IN THAT. WE HAVE MADE A LOT OF CHANGES, BUT JUST KEEPING THAT AS A, UM, AN EMPHASIS AS WE EXPLORE ALL OF THE NEW TECHNOLOGIES, WHICH IS WHAT WE'RE DOING AND THE NEW EFFORTS, YOU KNOW, WE ARE GONNA HAVE TO ALWAYS LOOK BACK AND SAY, THIS WAS A PLAN, BUT [01:20:01] AS WE ARE INVESTIGATING AND FIND LEARNING MORE, WHAT CAN WE LOOK BACK ON AND EMPHASIZE MORE THAT'S, YEP. WE AGREE. MM-HMM . ALRIGHT. I HAD ANOTHER QUESTION. DID YOU WANNA NO. ASK SOMETHING. GO AHEAD. ALRIGHT. SORRY. YEAH. WHILE WE'RE ON THIS, UM, OKAY. I JUST WANT TO BE CLEAR ON WHAT IS HAPPENING HERE. SO CORRECT ME IF I'M WRONG. WE ARE DOING TEST WELLS FOR TWO SEPARATE PROJECTS. SO TWO, THE TEST WELL WILL GIVE US, OR THE, THE TEST, WELL THAT WE'RE GONNA DRILL EVENTUALLY IN THE SPRING OF 2027, POTENTIALLY. MM-HMM . GIVES US INFORMATION ABOUT THE POTENTIAL OF THE TRINITY HOST AQUIFER TO STORE TREATED WATER. MM-HMM . TREATED DRINKING WATER MM-HMM . FOR AUSTIN WATER. YES. THAT WE WOULD PULL OUT LATER. YEP. IT ALSO GIVES US INFORMATION ABOUT THE POTENTIAL OF THE TRINITY HOSTIN AQUIFER TO PRODUCE BRACKISH GROUNDWATER MM-HMM . THAT WE WOULD THEN TREAT. YES. OKAY. SO WE GOT TWO THINGS GOING ON THAT, BUT THAT'S THE INFORMATION WE GET FROM THE SINGLE TEST. WELL, IS THAT RIGHT? YES. OKAY. SAME. AND THERE MAY BE MULTIPLE TEST WELLS, BUT SAME, YEAH, SAME WELLS. WE GET DATA FOR POTENTIALLY TWO DIFFERENT STRATEGIES. THERE'S TWO DIFFERENT PROJECTS. BOTH OF THOSE ARE ANY OF THOSE WELLS, ANY, AND ALL OF THOSE WELLS ARE ON CITY OWNED LAND AND SOMEWHERE IN EASTERN TRAVIS COUNTY. MM-HMM . OKAY. BUT IN ORDER TO ACTUALLY GO FORWARD WITH THE A SR PROJECT AS WE ENVISION IT, OR A BRACKISH A BROADER BRACKISH GROUNDWATER DESAL PROJECT AS WE ENVISION IT, WE WOULD NEED TO ACQUIRE MUCH MORE THAN THE CITY OWNED LAND THAT WE CURRENTLY HAVE. OUR INITIAL EVALUATION, WE'LL SEE, SEE WHAT'S POSSIBLE WITH CITY OWNED LAND. OH, OKAY. AND THEN WE'LL SEE IF FROM THAT EVALUATION, YOU KNOW, MAYBE THERE, THERE IS THE, THE FUTURE NEED FOR THAT. BUT OUR INITIAL IDEA IS THAT WE WILL USE CITY OWNED LAND AND SEE WHAT'S POSSIBLE. HOW CAN WE MAKE THE BEST USE OF THE ASSETS THAT WE CURRENTLY HAVE. OKAY. AND IS IT, IS IT THE SIZE OF THE CITY OWNED LAND THAT WE HAVE THAT SORT OF IS IS A FACTOR IN WHY THE YIELD IS LESS? OR IS THAT REALLY AQUIFER PROPERTIES? YEAH, THIS, IT'S, UM, A FACTOR OF BOTH THE LAND SURFACE, SO THE AMOUNT OF LAND THAT YOU HAVE AND THE NUMBER OF WELLS YOU COULD POTENTIALLY PUT ON THAT LAND, AS WELL AS THE CHARACTERISTICS OF THE AQUIFER. OKAY. MM-HMM . AND THEN, UM, I GUESS JUST THINKING DOWN THE LINE, I'M JUST THINKING IF WE'RE GONNA BE PUMPING FROM A WELL FIELD, UM, I DON'T KNOW, WHAT KIND OF ANALYSIS ARE WE PLANNING TO DO ABOUT, UH, OTHER PUMPERS IN THE AREA? MM-HMM . YEAH. PEOPLE WHO ARE DRILLING INTO THE AQUIFER. THERE'S OBVIOUSLY GONNA BE GROWTH IN EASTERN TRAVIS COUNTY NO MATTER WHERE WE LOOK. SURE. SO I'M KIND OF CURIOUS ABOUT THAT. AND ALSO, ARE WE DEALING WITH THE GROUNDWATER CONSERVATION DISTRICT OUT THERE? YEAH. DO WE NEED PERMITS FROM, MAYBE WE CAN MOVE TO THE NEXT SLIDE. THAT'S GOOD. AND, UM, YOU HAVE A WHOLE PRESENT. DON'T, WE'RE ONLY LIKE ON THE SECOND SLIDE OR WE COULD JUST TALK IT THROUGH. THAT'S FINE TOO. WE'RE ALL FRIENDS HERE. UM, RIGHT. BUT PART OF THIS ANALYSIS OF PROJECT LOCATIONS WITHIN TRAVIS COUNTY WILL HELP US TO DEVELOP A MORE DETAILED HYDROGEOLOGICAL OF, YOU KNOW, WHAT WE KNOW RIGHT NOW BASED ON WHAT LIMITED STUDIES THERE ARE, AS WELL AS WHAT DATA IS CURRENTLY AVAILABLE BASED ON, UM, DRILL WELL DRILLING LOGS, UM, AND INFORMATION FROM, YOU KNOW, STATE AGENCIES LIKE, UM, TEXAS WATER DEVELOPMENT BOARD, THAT'LL HELP US TO UNDERSTAND, YOU KNOW, IN A MORE DETAILED WAY, OTHER WATER USERS, UM, WHO HAVE WELLS WITHIN, UH, OF CERTAIN RADIUS OF THE AREAS THAT WE'RE LOOKING AT. AS WELL AS, YOU KNOW, THE, SOME OF THE HIGH LEVEL INFORMATION ABOUT THOSE HYDROGEOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS. UM, WE ARE HAVE TAKEN KIND OF AN INITIAL SCAN JUST LOOKING AT WHAT DATA IS PUBLICLY AVAILABLE. UM, FOR SOME CONTEXT, THE WELLS THAT, OR THE TEST WELLS THAT WE'RE LOOKING AT DRILLING ARE, ARE QUITE DEEP. UM, WE ARE TALKING ABOUT, YOU KNOW, THOUSANDS OF FEET DEEP, THE, UM, YOU KNOW, UH, 1500 FEET DEEP. AND THEN, YOU KNOW, THE BOTTOM OF THE HOSTIN WITHIN ONE OF THE AREAS THAT, UH, I'M LOOKING AT IT RIGHT NOW, IT'S LIKE OVER 4,000. WOW. FEET DEEP. SO THESE ARE QUITE DEEP AREAS THAT WE'RE LOOKING AT. MANY OF THE WELLS THAT YOU SEE ON LIKE THE, UH, GROUND WELL, UH, GROUND, UH, WELL VIEWER, UM, ON ONLINE, UM, THROUGH TWDB, THESE ARE LIKE 50 TO A HUNDRED FEET DEEP. UM, SO THEY'RE ACCESSING A MUCH HIGHER LEVEL OF THE AQUIFER. THERE ARE SOME WELL THAT GO, YOU KNOW, MAYBE 1500 FEET DEEP AND SOME OF THOSE ARE OLDER, WELL, THAT AREN'T BEING USED OR WE'RE ALSO DRILLED FOR, UM, TESTING PURPOSES. BUT WE'LL BE DOING MORE DETAILED EVALUATION OF OTHER WATER USERS WITHIN THE, THE REGION AS WE, AS WE GET INTO THIS ANALYSIS OF PROJECT LOCATIONS. [01:25:01] UM, WE'LL ALSO BE IDENTIFYING ENVIRONMENTAL CONSTRAINTS AND OUTLINING ANY POTENTIAL PERMITTING NEEDS AT THESE POTENTIAL WELL SITES, WORKING WITH OUR CONSULTANTS. UM, AND THEN USING THE INFORMATION FROM THOSE STUDIES WILL ADVANCE TOWARDS SELECTING SPECIFIC TESTWELL LOCATIONS, UM, TO HOPEFULLY COMPLETE THAT SITE SELECTION BY FALL OF 2026. AND DURING THAT TIME. AND, AND BEGINNING FROM, YOU KNOW, SOMETIME BACK, WE ARE WORKING WITH OUR PARTNER DEPARTMENTS, UM, TO COORDINATE THROUGH OUR PHASE ONE B KICKOFF AS WELL AS THE TEST WALL SITE SELECTION TO MAKE THAT, UM, A GOOD ALIGNMENT ON THE, THE SITES AND POTENTIAL FUTURE PLANS FOR THESE PROPERTIES. IS THAT HELPFUL? THAT'S, YEAH, THAT IS HELPFUL. OKAY. NOW I'M JUST CURIOUS, WHO ARE THE CITY DEPARTMENTS THAT WE HAVE TO COORDINATE WITH? WE ARE COORDINATING WITH A NUMBER OF THEM. WE HAVE ONGOING COLLABORATION WITH WATERSHED PROTECTION, UM, UH, AUSTIN ENERGY, UM, PARD, UM, AND THEN OTHER, YOU KNOW, CITY OF AUSTIN, UH, REAL ESTATE AND OTHER, UM, UH, DEPARTMENTS AT THE CITY. OKAY. YES. WHEN, WHEN YOU SAY EASTERN TRAVIS COUNTY, IS IT SOUTHEASTERN NORTHEASTERN NORTH OF THE RIVER? UM, SO I GUESS NORTHEASTERN CENTRAL, A CENTRAL TO NORTH. WE'RE LOOKING AT AN AREA THAT'S KIND OF NORTH OF THE RIVER AND UM, UH, I GUESS I'M LOSING MY, MY INTERNAL MAP HERE, BUT NORTH OF THE RIVER AND UP, I GUESS. OKAY. AND IS, IS IT PARKLAND? UM, SOME OF THE AREAS WE'RE LOOKING AT, UM, INCLUDE PARKLAND, ALTHOUGH NO, UM, SELECTIONS HAVE BEEN MADE YET. NO GROUNDWATER DISTRICT. YEAH, I WAS THINKING ABOUT THAT. IT'S KIND OF A DOUBLE-EDGED SWORD, RIGHT? NO GROUNDWATER DISTRICT, BUT NO RESEARCH. 'CAUSE YOU MIGHT HAVE MORE INFORMATION IF THERE WAS A GCD THERE AND NO NEED FOR OTHERS TO GET PERMITS. BUT IF YOU, I MEAN, I GUESS IF YOU'RE DRILLING SO DEEP, YOU'RE NOT WORRIED ABOUT YOU PEOPLE, YOU'RE, YOU'RE DRILLING INTO A LAYER THE AQUIFER THAT'S NOT AFFECTED BY OTHER PEOPLE THAT ARE DRILLING THOSE SHALLOWER WELLS. THAT'S, THAT'S GENERALLY THE IDEA. OKAY. IT'S JUST, JUST A COUPLE. ROBERT BEING REAL QUIET, JUST A, JUST A COUPLE OBSERVATIONS. I DON'T HEAR ANYTHING I DISAGREE WITH, SO I'M NOT, YEAH, I JUST WANNA TALK TO TALK, BUT, BUT, UH, ONE, ONE THING I'LL JUST POINT OUT IS LIKE, THE CITY OF KERRVILLE DOES AQUIFER STORAGE AND RECOVERY AND THE LOWER TRINITY AQUIFER GEOLOGY'S A BIT DIFFERENT THERE THAN OVER HERE, BUT I THINK ACTUALLY OVER HERE IT'S PROBABLY BETTER MM-HMM . THAN OVER THERE. THEY, UM, I'M READING HERE, THEY'VE, THEY STORE ABOUT 2,600 ACRE FEET, BUT THAT'S, THAT'S REALLY ALL THEY NEED. IT'S NOT SO MUCH A, UM, ABOUT WHAT THEY COULD DO DOWN THERE. AND THEY HAVE EXPANDED IT MULTIPLE TIMES OVER THE LAST 20, 30 YEARS. UM, ON THE, ON THE GROUNDWATER DISTRICT THING, THE, YOU, ANOTHER THING TO TO THINK ABOUT IS THAT IF, IF THERE IS A BUNCH OF WATER STORED ON THE GROUND, THERE'S NOTHING TO PREVENT SOMEBODY FROM, YOU KNOW, DRILLING A WELL NEXT TO IT AND PULLING WATER OUT. UM, CORPUS CHRISTI CREATED A, UM, GROUNDWATER CONSERVATION DISTRICT CALLED AN A SR DISTRICTS YES. FOR THE PURPOSE OF PROTECTING AN A SR. UM, AT THAT POINT, THEY WERE LOOKING TO BUILD ONE, THEY, THEY DIDN'T BUILD IT. UM, I DON'T KNOW IF THEY'RE PLANNING ON DOING IT NOW, BUT, UM, BUT THAT WAS HOW THEY DEALT WITH THAT CONCERN WAS THEY CREATED A, A DISTRICT THAT, THAT, UM, PRETTY MUCH THE BOARD IS CITY EMPLOYEES. MM-HMM . UM, AND THAT, THAT THEY THOUGHT THAT GAVE THEM SOME CERTAINTY IN PROTECTING SUPPLIES THAT, THAT WOULD BE PUT IN SUBSURFACE. OKAY. AND NEXT SLIDE. ALL RIGHT. SO WE'VE TALKED A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THIS. SO, UM, BUT OUR EXPLORATORY TEST WELLS WOULD BE DRILLED AT, UM, TWO POTENTIAL LOCATIONS YET TO BE SELECTED. WE'RE LOOKING AT, UM, THE TRINITY HOSTIN AQUIFER FORMATIONS. UM, OUR CONSULTANT WOULD BE CONDUCTING PUMP TESTS, DOING GEOPHYSICAL LOGGING, WOULD BE PERFORMING WATER QUALITY ANALYSES AND, UM, GEOCHEMICAL COMPATIBILITY STUDIES, AS WELL AS CHARACTERIZING KIND OF THE METEOROLOGICAL COMPOSITION OF THE CORE SAMPLES FROM THE AQUIFER. UM, UH, WE, THE FIELD TESTING WOULD ALSO INCLUDE COORDINATION WITH, UM, ENVIRONMENTAL PERMITTING AND CULTURAL RESOURCE REQUIREMENTS THAT HAVE BEEN IDENTIFIED THROUGH OUR, OUR PRELIMINARY ANALYSES. AND THEN THE, THE LONG-TERM PLAN WOULD BE TO CONVERT [01:30:01] THESE TEST WELLS INTO, UM, MONITORING INSTALLATIONS, PERMANENT MONITORING INSTALLATION, SO YOU COULD, UH, CONTINUE TO COLLECT DATA RELATED TO WATER QUALITY AS WELL AS WATER LEVEL FROM THIS FAIRLY UNSTUDIED UNSTUDIED AREA OF THE AQUIFER. UM, OUR PRELIMINARY TIMELINE, IT WOULD BE FOR, UM, FALL OF 2026 TO HAVE OUR SITE TO TRY TO SET SELECT SITES, UM, TO WORK THROUGH THE TEST. WELL DESIGN ENVIRONMENTAL AND MORE DETAILED PERMITTING TASKS. AND THEN BY SPRING OF 2027, UH, TO BEGIN DRILLING TEST WELLS, COLLECTING SAMPLES, AND PERFORMING OUR LABORATORY ANALYSIS. THEN BY SPRING OF 2028, WE WOULD TARGET COMPLETING OUR PHASE ONE B PLAN REPORT, UM, BEGINNING, UH, PILOT, WELL DESIGN FOR A PHASE TWO A SR PILOT IF WE DECIDE TO PROCEED TO THAT STAGE. AND THEN, UM, POTENTIALLY PREPARING FOR T-C-Q-A-S-R PILOT AUTHORIZATION AGAIN, IF WE DECIDE TO PROCEED TO THAT PHASE. UM, I'M GONNA GO AHEAD AND KEEP ROLLING THROUGH. I THINK WE'RE UP AT TWO. SO LET'S GET TO OUR COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT PLANS. UM, OUR, UM, PUBLIC INFORMATION OFFICE, OUR GOVERNMENT RELATIONS TEAM, UM, HAVE, AND OUR GOVERNMENT RELATIONS TEAM HAVE DEVELOPED A COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT AND OUTREACH PLAN. UH, THE PRIMARY PURPOSE OF THAT COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT WOULD BE TO RAISE AWARENESS ABOUT AUSTIN WATERS WATER SUPPLY PROJECTS, INCLUDING OUR POTENTIAL A SR AND BRACKISH GROUNDWATER DESALINATION PROJECTS. UM, AND TO PERFORM PROACTIVE ENGAGEMENT AND EDUCATION, UM, TO BUILD COMMUNITY SUPPORT FOR THESE WATER SUPPLY STRATEGIES AND SECURING GOSS'S WATER FUTURE. UH, ANOTHER KEY GOAL WOULD BE TO FORM STRONG PARTNERSHIPS WITH STAKEHOLDERS WHO WILL SUPPORT AUSTIN WATER AND ADVOCATE WITH US, UM, REGARDING THE IMPORTANCE OF THESE PROJECTS. NEXT SLIDE. AND THIS SLIDE OUTLINES OF KEY TASKS AND PHASES ASSOCIATED WITH OUR 2026 COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT STRATEGY. PHASE ONE HAS ALREADY BEGUN, UH, FROM JANUARY THROUGH MAY OF 2026, WE'VE LAUNCHED INTERNAL AND EARLY STAKEHOLDER ENGAGEMENT TO INTRODUCE EASTERN TRAVIS COUNTY WATER SUPPLY PROJECTS TO STAKEHOLDERS BY ENGAGING WITH CITY OF AUSTIN PARTNER DEPARTMENTS, HAVING EARLY COMMUNICATION WITH ELECTED OFFICIALS AND BEGINNING OUTREACH TO EASTERN TRAVIS COUNTY GROUPS ENVIRONMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS AND WATER PROVIDERS. WITHIN PHASE TWO. UH, FROM MAY TO SEPTEMBER, WE WOULD PERFORM BROADER COMMUNITY OUTREACH, UH, TO BROADEN SUPPORT FOR AUSTIN'S WATER SUPPLY PROJECTS AND SHARE UPDATES ON ANALYSES AS WELL AS OTHER INITIAL WORK. AND, UH, WE'VE TENTATIVELY PLANNED FOR FALL OPEN HOUSES TO SUPPORT THAT BROADER COMMUNITY OUTREACH. UM, AND WE'D ALSO PLAN OUTREACH TO ENVIRONMENTAL GROUPS, NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATIONS, LARGE CUSTOMERS, BUSINESS GROUPS, AND REGIONAL WATER ENTITIES. IN OUR THIRD PHASE, UH, BEGINNING IN FALL OF 2026, UM, WE'D START TO COMMUNICATE KEY PROJECT MILESTONES FOR FIELD TESTING. BY THIS TIME, WE'D, UM, LIKELY ALSO HAVE SITES, SPECIFIC SITES SELECTED FOR THE FIELD TESTING AND THAT WORK. UM, AND SOME OF THE ACTIVITIES WOULD BE COMMUNICATING ANY, UM, DETAILS LIKE SITE PREP WORK THAT MAY BE NEEDED, SUCH AS ACCESS ROADS AND DRILL RIG MOBILIZATION AS NEEDED, AS WELL AS TIMELINES FOR THAT. WE LIKELY WON'T HAVE, UM, YOU KNOW, A SIGNIFICANT AMOUNT OF, UM, FIELD ACTIVITIES HAPPENING DURING THIS TIMEFRAME, BUT WE'LL BE ABLE TO DEVELOP MORE DETAILED PLANS AND PROVIDE UPDATES AS WE GET THERE. UM, MARISSA? YES, GO AHEAD. OH, SORRY. YOU'RE NOT DONE WITH THIS SLIDE. I WAS JUST GONNA STOP. I WAS GONNA ACTUALLY PAUSE AND SEE IF, UM, EMILY CHANCELLOR, WHO'S, UM, JOINING US VIA WEBEX HAD ANYTHING THAT SHE WOULD LIKE TO ADD TO, TO THIS COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT UPDATE. GREAT. AND THEN I'LL ASK A QUESTION. YOU COVERED IT, MARISA. I'M GOOD. I'M HERE TO ANSWER QUESTIONS, BE PART OF THE DISCUSSION. OKAY. OKAY, COOL. UM, YEAH, I JUST WAS JUST GONNA ASK, MAYBE REQUEST THAT, UM, FOR SOME OF THESE PUBLIC OUTREACH, IF THERE'S GONNA BE PUBLIC OUTREACH GOING ON IN THIS TIMEFRAME, MAY OF SEPTEMBER, THAT, UM, YOU LET TASK FORCE MEMBERS KNOW I'D BE INTERESTED TO ATTEND OR OKAY. PARTICIPATE. [01:35:01] I'M VERY CURIOUS TO SEE. I MEAN, I THINK THIS ACTUALLY DOVETAILS MAYBE A LITTLE BIT WITH WHAT WE DISCUSSED EARLIER AND THE NEW WORKING GROUP THAT WE'RE STARTING. UM, I THINK MAYBE JUST GIVEN THE CENTRALITY OF, UM, THE DATA CENTER CONVERSATION IN THE PUBLIC DISCOURSE RIGHT NOW, IF, WHEN YOU DO THIS PUBLIC OUTREACH ABOUT THE NEED FOR INCREASED WATER SUPPLY IN THE AUSTIN AREA, WHAT KIND OF RESPONSE YOU'LL GET AS FAR AS LIKE, WHO'S THIS FOR? YOU KNOW, WHO'S THIS GOING TO, ALL THIS INCREASED SUPPLY WE NEED TO SPEND A LOT OF MONEY ON, YOU KNOW, OBVIOUSLY IT'S FOR THE PEOPLE OF AUSTIN AND IT'S ALSO FOR OTHER CUSTOMERS AS WELL. AND, UM, WHAT'S DRIVING THAT DEMAND GROWTH? I THINK THAT WILL BE, UM, A QUESTION THAT Y'ALL MIGHT FACE AND MAYBE WE CAN ANTICIPATE AND WE CAN WORK TOGETHER WITH Y'ALL, UH, AS PART OF THIS WORKING GROUP ON HOW TO BEST THINK ABOUT, UM, HOW TO RESPOND. OKAY. ALL RIGHT. NEXT SLIDE. SO, JUST TO WRAP UP ON OUR NEXT STEPS AS A REMINDER, UM, IN MAY WE'LL BE SEEKING COMMISSION AND COUNCIL APPROVAL FOR ADDITIONAL AUTHORIZATION TO SUPPORT THE FIELD TESTING AND DRILLING ACTIVITIES WILL GO TO MAY 20TH WATER WASTEWATER COMMISSION WITH THAT REQUEST FOR COUNCIL ACTION. AND A RECOMMENDATION RELATED TO THAT AND MAY 28TH COUNCIL IS THE CURRENT PLAN. UM, WE'LL PROVIDE UPDATES IF THOSE DATES CHANGE. WE ARE ALSO STILL PLANNING TO ESTABLISH AN A SR AND NOW BRACKISH TECHNICAL ADVISORY GROUP TO REVIEW OUR TESTING PLANS AND RESULTS AND PROVIDE INPUT ALONG THE WAY, UM, OUR FUTURE GOALS, INCLUDING TESTING THOSE GROUNDWATER AND CORE SAMPLES TO BETTER UNDERSTAND EXISTING CONDITIONS. AND THEN USING THOSE TEST RESULTS TO PLAN SAFE TREATMENT STEPS AND PROTECT THE AQUIFER THROUGH POTENTIAL FUTURE PHASES OF EITHER OF THESE PROJECTS. AND THEN OUR PLAN IS TO MAINTAIN TRANSPARENCY AND SHARE OUR FINDINGS FROM ALL OF THIS WORK WITH OUR ADVISORS, WITH OUR COMMUNITY PARTNERS AND THE PUBLIC. UM, SO YEAH, WE'RE HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS THAT Y'ALL MAY HAVE. ROBERT, SO, SO YOU'RE GONNA REACH OUT TO, UM, FOLKS THAT ARE ALREADY USING THE AQUIFER OUT THERE. UM, I'M, I'M LOOKING LIKE MAYER GETS PART OF ITS SUPPLY FROM THE, FROM THE TRINITY MM-HMM . UM, SO IS PART OF YOUR OUTREACH ACTIVE IN THE SENSE OF, OF IDENTIFYING A PRIORI SOME KEY STAKEHOLDERS THAT YOU NEED TO TALK TO? YES. YEAH. OUR OUTREACH PLAN INCLUDES OUTREACH TO OTHER WATER PROVIDERS WITHIN THAT AREA. SO CITY OF MAINER WOULD BE INCLUDED ON THAT LIST. OKAY. AND IT MIGHT, MIGHT NOT BE BAD IF FOLKS OUT THERE DID DECIDE TO CREATE A GROUNDWATER DISTRICT MM-HMM . UM, IT, IT CAN'T PREVENT THE CITY FROM DOING AN A SR PROJECT, BUT IT COULD ADD A, YOU KNOW, PERMITTING PROCESS THAT WOULD, UH, PROVIDE PROTECTION. SO I'M JUST THINKING LIKE, WORST CASE SCENARIO, IF LIKE, PEOPLE FREAK OUT THAT THIS PROJECT'S COMING MM-HMM . UM, YOU KNOW, THEY COULD FORM A GROUNDWATER DISTRICT. I DON'T THINK THAT WOULD BE A BAD THING ACTUALLY FOR THE CITY. YEAH. WE ARE, UM, WE'VE HAD SOME DISCUSSION ABOUT THE AQUIFER, UM, DISTRICT THAT YOU MENTIONED PREVIOUSLY, OR THE A SR DISTRICT, UM, THAT'S BEEN FORMED IN ANOTHER LOCATION AND THE POTENTIAL FOR THAT TO APPLY HERE. SO YEAH, I THINK WE WILL BE, WE'LL BE LOOKING AT DIFFERENT OPTIONS LIKE THAT. OKAY. UM, I, UH, I THINK THIS IS, I MEAN, WE'RE HAVING TO PIVOT EVERYTHING DIDN'T QUITE WORK OUT THE WAY WE, WE, I'M NOT GOING DOWN THE PATH WE THOUGHT WE WERE GOING DOWN WITH THE, WITH THE A SRI DO THINK THAT, UM, THE COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT PIECE, AND I JUST KIND OF THINK THIS IN GENERAL, BUT UM, PAUL'S COMMENT WAS A GOOD EXAMPLE TOO, OF, AS WE GO IN AND TALK TO PEOPLE ABOUT, YOU KNOW, DEVELOPING ADDITIONAL WATER SUPPLIES, UM, I MEAN, YOU WANNA GET TO THE POINT AND NOT OVERBURDEN 'EM WITH INFORMATION, BUT IT'S ALSO LIKE, HOW CAN WE BE REALLY CLEAR ABOUT LIKE OUR WATER SUPPLY SITUATION AND OUR WATER SUPPLY MIX AND, YOU KNOW, A COMMUNICATION PROFESSIONAL'S GONNA HAVE TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO THREAD THAT NEEDLE, UM, FOR FOLKS TO WHERE YOU'RE NOT PROVIDING THEM TOO MUCH INFORMATION, BUT YOU ALSO WANNA BE REALLY CLEAR AND TRANSPARENT ABOUT WHAT IT IS THAT WE'RE PLANNING TO DO. MM-HMM . AND, AND THE, WHAT THE BENEFITS ARE TO AUSTIN. UM, 'CAUSE I DO THINK THAT WE ARE NOW NOT JUST IN AUSTIN, BUT ACROSS THE STATE IN A PERIOD OF LIKE WHERE WE NEED TO BE REALLY TRANSPARENT ABOUT OUR WATER SUPPLY [01:40:01] DECISIONS BECAUSE THEY'RE NOT, YOU KNOW, THEY'RE NOT THE SURFACE WATER OR GROUNDWATER MM-HMM . YOU KNOW, LIKE, LIKE, AND YOU KNOW, SOME CONSERVATION LIKE IT USED TO BE. UM, AND THEN ALSO THAT IT'S GONNA COST MORE MM-HMM . FOR FOLKS. THEY NEED TO KNOW WHAT THEY'RE, WHAT THEY'RE PURCHASING, WHAT THEY'RE BUYING. UM, AND YOU KNOW, STUDIES SHOW THAT THAT CUSTOMERS THAT TRUST THEIR UTILITY AND TRUST, LIKE, YOU KNOW, THE PATH THAT WE'RE ON AND HOW WE'RE MANAGING WATER ARE WILLING TO MORE WILLING TO, TO PAY THOSE COSTS. SO I JUST THINK THAT, UM, I, I KNOW THAT AUSTIN, I MEAN, I HAVE OBSERVED THAT AUSTIN WATERS, UM, COMMUNICATIONS AROUND, YOU KNOW, WATER, WHETHER IT'S WATERING DROUGHT RESTRICTIONS OR, OR WHETHER IT'S CONSERVATION OR OTHER THINGS ARE GETTING BETTER ALL THE TIME, BUT THERE'S ALWAYS ROOM FOR IMPROVEMENT. AND ESPECIALLY HERE AS WE EMBARK IN THIS KNOWING THAT THINGS KIND OF WENT OFF THE RAILS FOR LOTS OF REASONS, UM, UM, ON THE FIRST, THE FIRST OUTING ON THIS MM-HMM . UM, AND, AND A LOT OF IT HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH THE CITY OF AUSTIN. UM, AND IT HAD TO DO WITH LOTS OF THINGS THAT HAPPENED BEFORE, BEFORE UM, AUSTIN EVEN GOT THERE. SO JUST KIND OF LIKE ALL OF THAT JUST, I GUESS I'M JUST SAYING THAT LIKE, I THINK IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT TO THINK VERY COMPREHENSIVELY ABOUT LIKE RADICAL TRANSPARENCY AROUND MM-HMM . AROUND, YOU KNOW, OUR WATER SUPPLIES AND WHAT WE NEED TO DO TO SECURE 'EM. LIKE NOT FREAK PEOPLE OUT MM-HMM . BUT JUST SAY LIKE, WE'RE ALL PART OF IT AND THIS IS A REALLY IMPORTANT PIECE OF THE PUZZLE. MM-HMM . YEAH. YEAH. WE AGREE. UM, YOU KNOW, WE DID A, A REALLY TREMENDOUS, UM, COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT PROCESS DURING WATER FORWARD 24 AND ALSO DURING OUR COST OF SERVICE STUDY WHEN WE UPDATED OUR RATES. UM, AND, AND WHAT WE FOUND IS EXACTLY WHAT YOU SAID, THAT WHEN WE HELP OUR COMMUNITY UNDERSTAND THE KINDS OF DECISIONS THAT ARE IN FRONT OF US ABOUT HOW WE, UH, TACKLE THE CHALLENGES OF OUR TIMES, UM, THAT OUR COMMUNITY SUPPORTS, UH, THOSE EFFORTS TO BE RESILIENT AND FORWARD THINKING AND MAKE INVESTMENTS THAT WILL MAKE OUR, UM, BOTH WATER AND WASTEWATER AND RECLAIMED WATER SYSTEMS MORE, UH, ROBUST AND RESILIENT. AND, AND, AND YOU MENTIONED YOU'RE, YOU'RE, Y'ALL ARE THINKING ABOUT AN A SR DISTRICT. BE CAREFUL. 'CAUSE THAT DISTRICT IS NOW A TERRIBLE REPUTATION DOWN IN THE CORPUS AREA. GOOD TO KNOW. SO, YOU KNOW, THE, UM, ARGUABLY FOR GOOD REASON, I'M NOT GONNA, I DON'T KNOW ENOUGH TO, TO JUDGE, BUT THE OPTICS LOOK REALLY BAD BECAUSE THEY'VE, IT CREATED THE DISTRICT TO PROTECT THE, AS SR NOW THEY'RE USING THE DISTRICT TO GIVE THEMSELVES PERMITS TO PUMP GROUNDWATER MM-HMM . UM, AND SO, AND, AND THEY HAVE THAT AUTHORITY ALONG WITH THAT A SR. SO, SO JUST BE AWARE MM-HMM . YOU KNOW, THAT, THAT THAT IS THE CHATTER OUT THERE THAT, YOU KNOW, THAT'S NOT, NOT WORKING AS IT WAS ORIGINALLY INTENDED. AND, YOU KNOW, AND THERE ARE LOCALS SEEKING TO, TO CREATE A GROUNDWATER DISTRICT DOWN THERE, SO MM-HMM . SO DON'T DO THAT. . YEAH. OUR PLANS ARE NOT FAR ENOUGH ADVANCED TO REALLY, AND HAVE, BE SPECIFIC ABOUT CREATION OF DISTRICTS OR ANYTHING. RIGHT NOW WE'RE REALLY JUST IN THE DATA COLLECTION PHASE AND UNDERSTANDING WHAT THE FEASIBILITY OF THESE OPTIONS BEFORE WE EVEN GET TO PILOTING. SO YEAH. OKAY. SIR, I WAS JUST GONNA TAG ON A LITTLE BIT WHAT JENNIFER WAS SAYING ABOUT 'CAUSE IF YOU'RE DOING THE ENGAGEMENT IN THE FALL, AND IT SOUNDS LIKE THERE'S, UH, A LOT OF LOCA LOCATION ANALYSIS TO BE DONE, BUT I WOULD JUST ADD ALSO NOT, YOU KNOW, BEING VERY COGNIZANT ABOUT IF IT WINDS UP THAT THE ONLY ALTERNATIVE IS TAKING PARKLAND, WHICH I HOPE IT'S NOT, BUT YOU KNOW, UH, THERE IS THERE, IT, IT CAN FEEL ON THE PARKS SIDE. LIKE THERE ARE, UM, OTHER CITY DEPARTMENTS THAT ARE SEE THAT AS LIKE, WE'RE LOOKING FOR PARKLAND BECAUSE IT'S CHEAPER THAN OTHER LAND, BUT THAT'S ACTUALLY PARK LAND THAT PEOPLE NEED FOR PARK PURPOSES. SO JUST BEING VERY SENSITIVE ABSOLUTELY. TO THAT. ALSO, HOWEVER THAT GOES WHEN YOU GET TO THAT ANALYSIS. WE HAVE A, A, A LONG HISTORY OF WORKING COLLABORATIVELY WITH PARKS AND RECREATION DEPARTMENT. SO WE, WE ARE, THAT IS VERY MUCH TOP OF MIND FOR US. YEAH. AND WE HAVE A NUMBER OF OPTIONS THAT WE'RE LOOKING AT. SO I GUESS WHAT I'M SAYING IS MORE ENGAGEMENT THAN JUST PARKS AND RECREATION DEPARTMENT BECAUSE THEY DO A GREAT JOB, BUT, YOU KNOW, THEY'RE, THEY'RE THERE TO PROCESS CHAPTER 26 REQUESTS. AND, UM, I THINK FOR COMMUNITY MEMBERS, SOMETIMES THAT'S HARDER TO RECEIVE, IS WHAT I'M REFERRING TO. I WOULD SAY THEY'RE VERY PASSIONATE ABOUT THEIR PARKLAND AND WE ENJOY WORKING WITH THEM. MM-HMM . BUT OUR ENGAGEMENT PLANS, LIKE WE MENTIONED ON THE SLIDE, WILL INCLUDE ENGAGEMENT WITH, UM, NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATIONS, COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS AND RESIDENTS WHO COULD BE LOCATED [01:45:01] CLOSE TO THESE POTENTIAL SITES. SO YEAH, WE'LL BE CONSIDERING THAT BEYOND JUST THE DEPARTMENTAL COORDINATION. AND I'LL JUST ADD, WE ABSOLUTELY WILL ENGAGE WITH, UM, PARKS ADVOCATES AND WE, WE HAVE THAT ON OUR LIST. WE'RE TALKING TO YOU ALL EARLY. SO WE HAVEN'T STARTED THOSE CONVERSATIONS YET, BUT, UM, WE HEAR YOU. AND, AND THAT'S PART OF OUR PLAN FOR SURE. I THINK, UM, I THINK THAT'S GOOD AND TO HAVE AN EXPANSIVE LIST, AND I'LL START ON IT EARLY. I, I THINK SOMETIMES IT'S HARD TO GET THROUGH THE NOISE AND STUFF. I MEAN, I, I THINK AN EXAMPLE OF THAT IS, UM, LIKE THE, UH, THE AUSTIN WATER, I CAN'T THINK OF THE NAME OF WHAT IT WAS CALLED, BUT YOUR, YOUR, UM, STRATEGIC PLAN. YEAH. MM-HMM . AND I WAS READING THAT AND IT WAS TALKING ABOUT ALL THE OUTREACH AND STUFF THAT WAS DONE, BUT THEN I DON'T REMEMBER SEEING ANYTHING ABOUT IT. AND I FEEL LIKE I'M SOMEBODY THAT SHOULD, BUT HONESTLY IT PROBABLY DID. AND THERE'S JUST SO MUCH, I MEAN, I HAVE A LOT OF WATER EMAILS IN MY INBOX AS YOU CAN PROBABLY IMAGINE, . UM, SO, YOU KNOW, JUST LIKE GETTING THROUGH THE NOISE THERE. SO I GUESS YOU HAVE TO HAVE SOMEBODY COME TO MY HOUSE AND KNOCK ON MY DOOR OR SOMETHING. BUT, UM, ANYWAY, JUST, YOU KNOW, LIKE, BUT JUST TRYING TO CUT THROUGH THE, THE NOISE OF THAT AND KNOWING THAT THERE'S A LOT OF PROCESSES AND STUFF AND I KNOW THAT I'M JUST LIKE RAISING FLAGS AND LIKE, YOU KNOW, NOT PROVIDING ANY SOLUTIONS ON. SO I ACKNOWLEDGE THAT ALSO. WELL THAT IS, THAT IS FOREVER THE CHALLENGE OF GETTING OUR SIGNAL THROUGH THE NOISE. ABSOLUTELY. YEAH. YEAH. OKAY. SO, UM, ARE WE DONE WITH THIS ITEM? YES. OKAY. THERE ARE NO FURTHER QUESTIONS. I JUST WANTED TO SAY, SO OUR NEXT MEETING [FUTURE AGENDA ITEMS ] IS IN JUNE, CORRECT? YES. CORRECT. AND I ALSO WANTED TO, UM, ACKNOWLEDGE, 'CAUSE I KNOW I THINK WE DID THIS IN A, IN A WORK, UH, WORK GROUP MEETING, BUT, UM, ONE OF OUR LONG STANDING WATERFORD TASK FORCE BOARD MEMBERS BILL MORIARTY YES. HAS STEPPED DOWN. YES. UM, AND I JUST WANTED TO JUST ACKNOWLEDGE THE SERVICE THAT HE'S DONE. HE'S BEEN A GREAT TASK FORCE MEMBER. UM, WE'RE REALLY GONNA MISS HIM. UM, I'M REALLY GONNA MISS HIM JUST LIKE, YOU KNOW, AT THE END OF THE MEETING, JUST, YOU KNOW, SUMMARIZING IT UP IN A WAY OR JUST, YOU KNOW, SO, UM, WE HOPE HE'S WELL AND WE LOOK FORWARD TO HIM, UM, JOINING US AGAIN AT SOME POINT IF HE, IF HE WISHES. BUT, UM, BUT JUST, YOU KNOW, WANTED TO THANK BILL FOR HIS SERVICE TO THE, NOT JUST TO THE WATER FOUR TASK FORCE, BUT WATER WASTEWATER COMMISSION AND IN GENERAL. 'CAUSE HE'S JUST SUCH A GREAT WEALTH OF INFORMATION MM-HMM . UM, SO JUST REALLY, UH, WE'RE GONNA GONNA, THAT'LL BE A LOSS. WE'LL NEED TO FIND SOMEBODY ELSE. HANEY, YOU'RE THE OTHER ENGINEER NOW. IT'S ALL ON YOU . HE'S LIKE, OH NO, MUTE HANEY, YOU'RE MUTED. IF YOU HAD, IF YOU HAD A BILL, UH, TRU END OF MEETING TRUTH BOMB TO ADD . OKAY. UNMUTE. YEAH. UM, SO NO, UM, SORRY TO SEE, UH, BILL LEAVE AND, UM, BEST OF LUCK TO HIM AND, YOU KNOW, UM, UH, FOR THE FUTURE. YEAH, YEAH. ABSOLUTELY. AND WE'LL WORK ON, UM, GETTING HIS SPOT FILLED. HE WAS AT A MAYOR'S APPOINTEE. MM-HMM . UM, SO WE HAVE TWO VACANCIES ON THE GROUP NOW. MM-HMM . AND DID YOU HAVE SOMETHING TO ADD, ROBERT? I JUST WANTED TO SAY DITTO TO WHICH HE SAID ABOUT BILL. SO, YEAH. YEAH, HE'S A GOOD ONE. CAN I ASK ONE QUICK QUESTION? UM, ABSOLUTELY. JUST AN ADMINISTRATIVE ITEM. WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT FOLKS WHO WERE INTERESTED IN GETTING A BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS EMAIL ADDRESS HAD RECEIVED INSTRUCTIONS FROM THE CITY CLERK'S OFFICE ON HOW THE, THE TRAINING TO ATTEND, UH, WHICH I BELIEVE IS AN ONLINE MM-HMM . UH, TRAINING AS WELL AS INSTRUCTIONS FOR HOW TO SET UP THAT BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS EMAIL ADDRESS. SO DID FOLKS RECEIVE THAT OR, YEAH, YOU SHOULD HAVE RECEIVED AN EMAIL FROM BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS OR BC@AUSTINTEXAS.GOV THAT CAME OUT IN DECEMBER. MM-HMM . UM, I DID THE TRAINING FOR, IT TOOK A FEW MINUTES AND THEN IT SAID, YOU CAN DECIDE TO USE THIS OR NOT, BUT IT GAVE SOME PARAMETERS IF YOU DECIDE NOT TO USE IT. I DECIDED NOT TO USE IT BECAUSE I CAN BARELY KEEP UP WITH MY EMAIL AS IT IS. AND IF I HAVE TO GO CHECK ANOTHER ONE, IT'S NOT GONNA WORK. UM, BUT EVERYBODY SHOULD HAVE RECEIVED IT. SO MY QUESTION ON THAT IS LIKE, IF YOU CHOOSE NOT TO RECEIVE IT, THEN HOW, LIKE, WHAT MY QUE OKAY, LET ME SEPARATE IT. [01:50:01] WHAT IS THE METHOD FOR PEOPLE, FOR PUBLIC PEOPLE WHO ARE INTERESTED IN AN ISSUE WE'RE TALKING ABOUT TO FIND OUR EMAIL AND CON CONTACT US CURRENT. I KNOW HOW I DO IT WITH OTHER BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS. WHAT WE'VE DONE WITH THE TASK FORCE IS THAT FOLKS WILL EMAIL THE LIAISON. SO THEY WILL EMAIL EMILY RAFFERTY AND SHE WILL DISTRIBUTE INFORMATION TO ALL OF THE TASK FORCE MEMBERS, BLIND COPYING ALL OF THE TASK FORCE MEMBERS. SO IS NOT TO, UM, HAVE ANY QUORUM ISSUES. OKAY. BUT FOR LIKE, I KNOW WE'RE A TASK FORCE, NOT A BOARDING COMMISSION MM-HMM . BUT FOR MOST OF THOSE THEY HAVE AN EMAIL WHERE, 'CAUSE MAYBE, I MEAN, IT'S POSSIBLE SOMEBODY WANTS TO COMMUNICATE WITH ONE OF US NOT THROUGH THE UTILITY. WELL THEN FOLKS WILL NOW HAVE THE ABILITY TO SET UP A BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS EMAIL ADDRESS. I'VE SEEN ONLINE THERE'S A, A LIKE A PAGE OR A, UH, THAT LISTS ALL OF THE MEMBERS OF INDIVIDUAL BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS AS WELL AS THEIR EMAIL ADDRESSES, UM, AND HOW TO CONTACT THEM. AND SO NOW IF YOU HAVE THE BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS YES, GO AHEAD. YOU CAN FINISH THAT. I, I BELIEVE, UM, AND WE CAN CONFIRM WITH THE CITY CLERK'S OFFICE THAT THAT WOULD BE ADDED. THAT INFORMATION WOULD BE ADDED TO THAT PAGE. ALTHOUGH WE CAN CONFIRM WITH THE CITY CLERK'S OFFICE THAT THEY WOULD DO THAT FOR THE TASK FORCE MEMBERS. UM, IS THERE ANY WAY THAT IT COULD BE ADDED TO THE LIKE WATER FORWARD TASK FORCE LANDING PAGE SO YOU DON'T HAVE TO NAVIGATE TO LIKE A BIG BOARD? 'CAUSE THAT SEEMS KIND OF HARD FOR SOMEBODY WHO MIGHT NOT KNOW THAT EVEN EXISTS. LIKE I DIDN'T REALIZE THAT EXISTED FOR A LIST OF EVERYONE. IT WOULD BE NICE IF CLICKING ON THE WATER RESOURCE COMMUNITY PLANNING TASK FORCE, IT WAS JUST LIKE A LIST OF THE, THE EMAILS FOR THE PEOPLE IN THOSE DISTRICTS TO REACH OUT IF THEY WANT TO. THAT'S SOMETHING WE CAN ASK THE CITY CLERK'S OFFICE THAT THEY, THEY REALLY SET THE RULES FOR KIND OF HOW THEY WANT THOSE PAGES TO BE SET UP AND WE ASK FOR UPDATES AND UM, THEY SEE IF THAT FALLS KIND OF IN ALIGNMENT WITH THE WAY THAT THEY WANT THOSE PAGES TO BE SET UP. BUT IT'S SOMETHING WE CAN ASK THEM. SO I ACTUALLY HAVE A QUESTION ABOUT THE EMAIL THING BECAUSE WHEN I WENT TO THE TRAINING I WAS TOLD I WAS REQUIRED TO GET ONE OF THOSE EMAILS AND THAT YOU WOULD, THAT THERE WAS NO ABILITY TO COMMUNICATE WITH ME ABOUT THIS BOARD USING MY PERSONAL GMAIL ACCOUNT. UM, AND IT SOUNDS LIKE THAT WAS MAYBE INCORRECT INFORMATION . UH, SO, UM, OR IF MAYBE IT HAS CHANGED, I DON'T KNOW KNOW THE, THE, THE PERSON FROM THE CITY CLERK'S OFFICE THAT DID THAT TRAINING UH, TOLD ME THAT IT WAS A REQUIREMENT EVEN FOR THE, EVEN FOR THIS AS A TASK FORCE. 'CAUSE I ASKED THAT AS A SPECIFIC QUESTION FOR THE TASK FORCE. OKAY. THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE CAN ALSO FOLLOW UP ON WITH THE CITY CLERK'S OFFICE. I'M NOT SURE WHAT WAS IN THE CONTENT THAT YOU SAW ON THE YEAH, I MEAN IT WAS JUST IN THE VIDEO THAT I WATCHED. IF Y'ALL LOOK AT THE EMAIL THAT YOU GET. OKAY. I DO REMEMBER HEARING THAT LEAH WHEN I DID THE TRAINING QUITE A WHILE BACK. UM, BUT I DID THE EMAIL FIVE MINUTE VIDEO AND THEN THE LIST OF I CERTIFY ONE THROUGH 11, I'M LOOKING AT IT RIGHT NOW, THINGS, UM, AND IT SAID THAT YOU COULD CHOOSE NOT TO HAVE IT AND I WASN'T CLEAR ON IF IT'S GONNA GO TO A SEPARATE EMAIL ADDRESS THAT I'M GONNA HAVE TO GO LOG INTO AND CHECK SOMEWHERE DIFFERENT AND I JUST KNOW MM-HMM . THAT THAT IT DOES. YEAH. YEAH, YEAH. NO, THAT'S A CHALLENGE FOR ME AS WELL. AND THAT'S WHY I WAS SURPRISED WHEN YOU WERE TALKING ABOUT NOT USING IT BECAUSE THAT'S, UM, I MEAN THEY DO YEAH. LIKE LITERALLY GIVE YOU THE OPTION ON THE THING, SO. OKAY. UM, BUT YOU KNOW, IF IT'S, IF IT'S A PROBLEM THEN, 'CAUSE I WAS ALL PREPARED TO SIGN IN AND I WAS LIKE, OH, I DON'T ACTUALLY HAVE TO DO THIS. OKAY. IT SAYS YOU DON'T HAVE TO LET US FOLLOW UP WITH THE CITY CLERK'S OFFICE. YEAH. MAYBE THE VIDEO'S WRONG AND SEE IF WE CAN GET SOME ALIGNMENT BETWEEN THOSE TWO DIRECTIONS. YEAH. OKAY. THAT'D BE GREAT. THANKS. AWESOME. THE EMAIL SAGA CONTINUES. I KNOW. OKAY. . OKAY. WELL THANK YOU ALL. THANK YOU ALL. WE ARE, WHAT DID YOU WANNA SAY SOMETHING? OKAY. , WE ARE ADJOURNED. ALRIGHT. . * This transcript was created by voice-to-text technology. The transcript has not been edited for errors or omissions, it is for reference only and is not the official minutes of the meeting.