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The meeting, beginning at 11:15 UTC on November 2, 2026, covered a requested water-bill adjustment for Park CU and a discussion of the town’s opioid settlement funds. No formal votes were recorded in the transcript; the water adjustment was deferred to the next council meeting, and the opioid fund item was discussion-only. No adjournment time was stated.
Time every year, and then towards the end of the year, they go back down to minimal usage. It's not always minimum bill, sometimes it is. Something else I noted when researching this is each year, their 12 month average is doubling. So if you look at the very bottom line of the graph I have here, their 12-month average in 2023 was 10,269 gallons. 24, it went to over 22,000 gallons. 25, 48, 952. And 2026, it's 94,000. I don't dispute they had a leak. They absolutely did. They do deserve an adjustment. I don't feel like the 14,000 is a reasonable number. I have put two potential scenarios on this paper. Um the far right hand columns. If we go strictly off their 2025 12 month average, I've gone through and in black are the months where they went over that average, and that's the number of gallons. The last column is if we double it like they have historically, that's what those numbers would be. So if we go with their 25 average, their overage for the year is 746,935 gallons at a dollar 24 per 100 gallons, which is our current rate, that gives a total adjustment of 9,261 dollars and 99 cents. Um taking from that the 1,01019 cent adjustment we've already given them to match Indiana American water. Uh that takes a total adjustment to 9,251 dollars and eighty cents. And then if we wanted to include the late penalties we've charged them this year, that's that next total of 1,408 and six cents, which would be a total adjustment of $9,659 and 86 cents. Um we started talking with Park early in the year when their usage spiked. They came several times. We had conversations. They did um, I want to say it was April when they went to research it and they found the leak, and then it wasn't repaired until July. Nine months is a long time to go without with a leak without it being repaired. Did they have a leak absolutely? I don't think $14,000 is a reasonable amount, considering their history. Thank you, any other? Uh, what I would like to do, yeah. Go ahead. Sorry. Okay, so I I don't I just I don't disagree with everything you said, but I do I we we were notified that we had a leak from the town of Clarksville, and we made the repair two days later. So we we we didn't know if we had a leak or not. We had a third party verified the next day. The issue that we found, and I have uh videos, I have pictures. The issue we found was where the water service comes into the building. There's a plastic, it's a it's a poly water line underground with a plastic connection, right? Underground, and then a um copper pipe going underground into our building as our service is where the service comes in. I I I see understand that you have trends year to year that say that one of warmer months uh there is more usage.