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we're going to call this meeting to order.

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Seeing none we'll move to executive review.

Resolution of the city council authorizing the mayor to execute the task order and all related documents for the water model assessment by and between the city of Laurel and Morrison Maryland.

So this is a task order that uh we are asking the mayor of sign that uh we'll summarily to do a complete study on our water system to find out where we're actually adding the world, how much we can supply, where we can supply it to this is not a short study.

It uh we'll be going on for a significant period of time.

Um those of you who were at public works last night, maybe have a little bit better grasp, but uh we've needed to do this for a period in time, and now the timing was uh a good time to get started.

I'm

gonna have you stay up there, Matt.

All four of these are yours.

Okay.

Where we can supply it.

Yeah.

Public have any questions.

Yeah,

so this is gonna kind of look at outwest as well, right?

Yes.

Um I guess I'm kind of concerned about potential people who want development outwest and seem to think that we have the capacity to serve them.

You're saying it's gonna potentially be a long time line.

Yes.

Um, how are we going to be able to answer them?

Okay.

So

to answer that to perfect question.

I can there's a lot of lot of stuff we don't know.

I guess that's a good idea.

And the question that Laura just asked is very good question.

We have no real answer of what we can supply at this time.

Based on booster pumps, water plant, water line condition, size of water lines.

And part of it is also going to involve will be in the long worm well on long-term plan of a new reservoir to answer that and new water lines being installed in different parts of the city.

Does

that very good question

somewhat answer?

We have no

real

answer.

Because they have made statements that we have stated we have the capacity.

So that is nowhere that I have seen though.

So we can dispel that, right?

That we have nowhere that we've stated that we can serve them.

But

I guess I'm just kind of considering that it's just that uh they're going to determine our capacity.

Okay.

Um so we we have not uh we don't know what our capacity is.

That's why we hired this engineering firm to do that.

And so um, they will also be looking at um quite a few proposed subdivisions and uh our ability to serve them and uh serve them in order of of their annexation because there are there are a few subdivisions out there, three right now that uh have been annexed already, but that don't know if we can serve them as well.

So that this will help everybody in the community.

They're going to determine our thank you.

Okay.