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Utility board city of Denton. My name is Lily a binem and I

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'd like to call the meeting to order and

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the first

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item on the agenda

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today is to elect a

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Chair a chair pro tem for the meeting in the absence of

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Susan and Brendan who are out of town today

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So if I could have any nominations

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The chair pro tem, excuse me

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I'll second

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All in favor. All right any discussion

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Okay, all right then we move forward

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All

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Right, we'd like to start the

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The evening with moving a couple of items. We'd like to

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move the closed

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meeting to the end of the agenda and

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Bring forward the items on the consent agenda first

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So if we could move on to that

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Are there any questions about any of the items on the

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consent agenda either a or B that we would like to pull

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back

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like to pull item a

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Anyone else

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All right, well so we'll go forward and

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Pull item a

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And item a is

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Charlie would you like a do you have a question? Yeah, I

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have a question

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We have an existing contract with this firm. We did and I

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guess my question is why are we not amending that as

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opposed to?

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awarding a new contract

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I

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Think procedurally this is the way we would handle a

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situation like this where we still have

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Work that is required to be completed. These are

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professional engineers that it would be very difficult for

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others to step in

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so their contract has expired and

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We're looking to just

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Almost expire to carry it forward until we can go out with

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another competitive book here man and replace them

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I

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Know this is not your question, but Chuck brought some show

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-and-tell

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I guess the other question is how much have we expanded on

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this contract already?

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We've expended two million three hundred and six thousand

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one hundred eighty eight dollars and nineteen cents

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That's all the questions

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All right, well then we would like to call for a motion

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with the kids consent agenda items of Charlie's okay with

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moving forward

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Oh

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The majority of this cost is transmission cost

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There is some distribution because when we do check out in

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substations, we check out the distribution as well as the

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transmission

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That's commissioning when we build a new station or

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whatever

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Or when we do periodic testing, we also test the

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distribution. So there's some cost in there

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But the large majority of pardon there's some costs that

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won't be covered under T costs. That's correct

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But it's a pretty small percentage probably in the under 10

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%

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Okay, thank you any other questions regarding number a

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All right, so I'd like to

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See if I could get a motion to approve consent agenda items

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a and B

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So moved

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second second any discussion

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All right, so motion carries motion carries

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Sorry

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All right. So to vote say aye if you agree. I

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May same sign

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All right, so the motion carries and we will move into

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closed session

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We choose myself from a since it's the UNT, thank you. I

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appreciate that. Yes. So do we have a quorum new?

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Do we have a core?

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All right, we're back for

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Items for individual consideration and

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If you will take a look at number a consider approval of

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the Public Utility Board meeting minutes of September the

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10th 2018

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There's some people who want to be in here

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Yeah, I didn't see any out there

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Okay, all right, thanks Billy

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All right. So we'd like to consider approval of the Public

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Utility Board minutes of September 10th 2018

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Any

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Changes or anything that needs to be made to the minutes

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well in the version I'm reading

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item H in the consent agenda

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The introductory portion of that is incorrect

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To recopy of item G instead of the correct item H

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Because I wasn't here I had to read that

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All right, any other changes all right, can I have an a

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move for approval

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Move to be approval as amended as amended. Mm-hmm

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All in favor say aye

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Any opposed same sign?

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All right, they are approved and then we'll move on to

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B which is to consider recommending adoption of an

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ordinance of the City of Denton authorizing the city

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manager or designee

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to execute a physical gas

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Transaction confirmation for the purchase of natural gas

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under the terms and conditions of base contract for the

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purchase and sale of natural gas

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with enterprise products operating LLC

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Providing for the expenditure of funds and providing for an

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effective date

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Thank you. Good evening George Morrow general manager of DM

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E. I'm before you tonight

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Asking for a recommendation to approve and consider a

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proposed natural gas contract for the Denton Energy Center

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The background is our current gas supply contract expires

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September 30th and

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Staff has negotiated a new business arrangement to replace

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this expiring deal

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that contract will be with

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Enterprise products operating Inc as as the chair indicated

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and

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It's designed to be

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Seamless to move from one arrangement to the other

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The contract is made pursuant to a naysbees agreement that

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has was previously approved with Enterprise the naysbee

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agreement

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provides the boilerplate for

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for the transaction with

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What we're asking you to approve today is what's called a

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confirmation agreement. It's just the business terms for

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the exact transaction

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And

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Open for questions. I

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I'm limited in what I can say tonight

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Any questions

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All right without any questions would like to move for

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approval

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Make a motion to approve. Excuse me. Thank you

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All right

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Any discussion

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All right then

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All in favor say aye

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Any dissent same sign

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Motion carries. Thank you very much

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All right, and now we'll move on to the ACM update from

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Kenny

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The first item is the an item for the 2018 EPA

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CMOM conference

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Those the CMOM stands for capacity management operation and

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maintenance

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This was held on August 20th the 21st in Austin and it was

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one of two cities

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It was featured in an indicated presentation as a good

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example of how these systems are put together

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So wanted to share that it was it was a good honor to to be

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Charged of that sort of thing for the city of Denton

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That is done through PS Aurora shop on the wastewater side

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There are a number of employees that are involved with the

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with the system

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Tyler Dawson is one of the one of the key players as well

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and it's basically just a type of asset management system

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that allows us to

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have a better sense of how our

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Wastewater system operates the true condition of the pie

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The the the true condition of the of the pipes and

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through camera technology instead of just through

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age of asset

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So it's a it's a way to kind of optimize our system that

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minimizes risk and it doesn't is intended to prevent us

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from expending

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capital just based on a lifecycle asset only so some some

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you know lifecycle assets are typically averages and

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And some assets you can get a much longer life out of some

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you can't get as much

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So we're just trying to right-size the capital so to speak

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through that program

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The the second item is the liquid oxygen

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Proposal information that mr. Vinnie and asked for the last

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time the the exceptions are mainly related to

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The inability to come to terms on liquidated damages and

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indemnification

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So I wanted to provide that item

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And the future other two items are just the future public

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utility board agenda item

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I would encourage everyone to look forward to the October 8

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solid weights waste rate correction strategy discussion

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That's going to be a good one

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Policy decisions to be made on that and then the only other

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item that I have is the public utility board new business

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item

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both of the items that remain on the list are

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Coming from solid waste that miss Parker's request and we

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've got intentions to cover those in fall of 2018

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So they'll be coming up in the next couple of months

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And that's all I have

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All right, I would like to see it would like to know if

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there are any concluding items

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I

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Seen none. I'd like to ask for a motion to adjourn

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second

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so

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All right, I'd like to have a motion to vote

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Okay, all right

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All those in favor of adjourning say aye

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Any opposed all right, so we're adjourned. Thank you