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▶ 32:31 Speaker 2: motion to adjourn mr president uh before we adjourn are there any members of the board who Do you have any reports from outside committees pursuant to Rule 53?

▶ 32:40 Speaker 8: Yes.

▶ 32:40 Scott M. Forbes: Thank you, Mr. President. Thank you, Alderman Mortimer. The Water and Sewer Committee did meet last week. There is a lot of information that's being brought to the table. There's actually another meeting. Let the general public know there's a meeting tomorrow at 3.30 in the afternoon here at City Hall. I have a bunch of materials that I received last week. tomorrow those materials are going to be finalized so instead of in the course of redundancy and sending you estimated information i will be able to send you more final information there is the hope that a meeting will be in place on may 8th where the water and sewer committee will come before you with a bunch of orders it is my hope that this information will uh oh i will send this to you beforehand to give you days of review and if you have any questions and you guys can be prepared uh for for may 8th that that is my goal there's a couple of things that that were discussed i just wanted to bring to your attention there was discussion about using uh retained earnings to make the final payment on the water and sewer reserve accounts uh if that does uh if that does come to fruition that would be no fy 18 allocation in the budget to water and sewer reserves that's one of the things that we were talking about last week we'll continue to talk about that tomorrow meter project is 92 percent complete citywide there are 460 accounts estimated that still have not converted over there is a proposal that's being discussed for a manual read fee at 25 a quarter there have been multiple letters and door knockers set on these these households so it would start out at 25 a quarter which would increase in 25 increments up to a hundred dollars a quarter which would stay in place until the the meters replaced as one of the things that we will be talking about and probably be coming before this board next week as far as the rates we are going to be using the same rate model as last year that is the recommendation of the committee because of that we did make the decision not to bring on a consultant this year because we felt after setting everything in place there was no need to to bring on a consultant MW IRA usage is it did go down it is the lowest in three years shows that residents are consuming start conserving I'm sorry Thank You Alderman Mortimer and finally the we are going to have this discussion tomorrow is whether or not we're going to be holding the rates as is for the upcoming fiscal year and water rates would be held as is sewer rates will be held as is with the exception of the 5% increase in the base charge which is something we all talked about last year again there's a lot of information that is going to be coming forth and I will hopefully after the committee meeting tomorrow I hopefully you'll have that in your hands Wednesday if not Thursday by the latest any questions you feel free to contact me

▶ 35:35 Speaker 2: thank you thank you for that report Alderman Forbes motion to adjourn mr.

▶ 35:43 Michael P. Zwirko: Pope thank you mr. president the Charter Review Commission concluded its work we had our last meeting on Wednesday April 26th today the chairman of the commission david lucas submitted the report the red line of the charter the public comments received and a list of the articles that were voted on by the commission on wednesday the 26th that report in accordance with section 9 6 of the city charter has been fulfilled so we look forward to discussing that when the board deems it so thank you great thank you weldon anyone else