Uh the Tuesday, November 3rd meeting of the Chattanooga City Council and recognize Councilwoman Dotley to lead us in our Pledge of Allegiance and invocation.

Thank

you.

Okay.

Welcome everyone.

The beginning of our council meetings, we like to give a rundown of how our meetings operate so that you'll know what to expect.

First of all, just a housekeeping matter.

If you have a cell phone, if you silence it or put it on vibrate, that would be much appreciated so that we don't have any disturbances.

Our meeting operates in two parts.

The first half is our agenda session where council will ask questions or raise concerns about matters that are on our agenda for this evening.

We'll then do the same with matters that are on our agenda for our proposed agenda for next week, and then we'll look ahead even farther to three weeks or more out to uh discuss any matters that will be on upcoming agendas so that we're well prepared for everything that comes before

us.

We'll also look at the purchasing items that are presented to us this evening for approval, um, and uh answer any council questions about those items.

Um we do not have any special presentations or committee um committee or department reports this evening and normally those would be in our agenda session if we had

them.

Um and so once we've gone through the discussion of our agendas, uh we'll have a recess, and as we normally do during our recess, we'll have a meeting uh with our city attorney who has a couple or three items, I believe, um, to discuss with us.

So when the time comes for that, I'll announce the time at which we'll be coming back after the recess for the voting or business session of our meeting, and that's when we'll be voting on all the items on our agenda this evening.

And at the end of all that, there is as always a time for public comment for members of the public who are here and would like to address the council.

And at that time, we'll have those who are here for that purpose to come down front, and our attorney will read some rules when we get there.

Um,

so

with that being said, uh council, could I get a motion on the minutes from our previous

meeting?

Second.

Do have a motion properly seconded to approve the minutes from last week's meeting, and they will stand as published.

Um look with me, council, if you will, at our agenda for this evening.

We do have on final reading our budget amendment ordinances,

and

as always, as we go through here, just hit your lights, council.

If you have any questions or comments, moving on to ordinances on first reading.

We do have one planning item on first reading, and then we have several resolutions from different offices and departments.

Any questions?

Yes, Councilwoman Noel, you're recognized.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

You're on the resolutions, correct?

Yes, ma'am.

Okay, council office.

There's one for council office as well for the Maryland Water Company, and I do see a few of them here.

Um I would like for them to at one point um come forth and tell us what it is going to cost uh our constituents for this service.

Okay, so that's something I and when we get ready.

Okay, to work on that.

And then on the economic development, there is some questions in reference to on the B that I would like uh answered as well.

Okay, well, yeah, we're at that point of discussion, and so um if we have some folks here from Tennessee American to speak to that resolution, please join us at the podium.

Be

happy to speak to that.

My name's Ryan Freeman.

I'm counsel for Tennessee American Water.

So as to cost, right now we're in a phase of estimates, but let me kind of set the background so we understand.

So what we're planning to do is to comply with the EPA's lead and copper rule improvements.

So right now we're facing sort of two stages with that.

The first is developing our inventory, determining how many lead service lines there are in this territory, both on the company side and on the customer side.

That's kind of the first round, we've got to know what that number is before we can figure out what actual costs are.

When we move to the replacement side and we're looking at cost replacement, right now, from information from other states that we have for American water that are doing this, and on some of our estimates, the general cost is about $10,000 per line that is replaced.

That's the average cost that we're seeing.

Now the portion of that that is attributable to the customer side is about $2,500 on average.

So what we're going to ask TPUC, Tennessee Public Utility Commission to do, is to allow us to take the $2,500 part that's attributable to the customer, and rather than have them pay for that individually, for us to capture that as a capital expense in our rates.

So if we back up where we sit right now, based on reviewing our internal records, we believe that we have as originally installed about 3,600 lead service lines.

And we're in the process now of doing field verification to confirm that those lead lines are still there to see if there are any others there.

That's a plan that's being done in coordination with TDEC to try and determine what's out there, verifying we have those 3600.