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Approved 2.5.25 technicians, they have technicians to do this and, you're relying on a homeowner’s association to 1146 hire and maintain a sewage technician, at least one. 1147 1148 Cy Stober: Were, were you bugging the conference room yesterday? It sounds like you were with me and 1149 Perdita. 1150 1151 Adam Beeman: No, this has been one of the things. It came up in Massachusetts when I first did the work. There 1152 was a community that had absolutely zero access to water and sewer, and they installed this 1153 system, and I was baffled because they were going to have two technicians that that was their job. 1154 To babysit it and there was no guarantee once, once you say, here's your certificate of 1155 compliance, have at it. 1156 1157 Charity Kirk: Yeah, I, I know a community in California too. Every once in a while, the sewage overflowed into 1158 the laguna. You'd have some poop, and you were part of it. 1159 1160 Cy Stober: Well, Patrick, Perdida, and I were all talking about very similar things yesterday. So, I don't know. 1161 The commissioners want more information. You all want more information. We'll have more 1162 information, but I don't have it tonight. 1163 1164 Adam Beeman: Like I said, I may or may not be here for that discussion, so I got to get my two cents in. 1165 1166 Beth Bronson: When, when is your term up? 1167 1168 Adam Beeman: March. 1169 1170 Lamar Proctor So, that's already included in the work plan under 7, looking at that. 1171 1172 Perdita Holtz: Yeah, and that is under the emerging issues or other information that you want to bring to 1173 commissioner's attention. It's not necessarily like we're actively going to have something this 1174 year. 1175 1176 Lamar Proctor: Right. I had a question. I was very intrigued by the under-utilization of OWASA. Is that part of 1177 what we're looking at and can that be included? Is that already part of our work plan in terms of 1178 looking forward or is that something that we can do. 1179 1180 Cy Stober: No, it'll be part of the comprehensive plan policy recommendations. 1181 1182 Lamar Proctor: Okay, so, it's covered in the work plan already. 1183 1184 Cy Stober: I intend to, and the commissioners are interested in that conversation. 1185 1186 Perdita Holtz: I'm not sure if I'd call it the under-utilization of OWASA. They have plenty of capacity. 1187 1188 Beth Bronson: Well, I mean I think the under-utilization of the infrastructure that exists within the economic 1189 development districts is absolutely something that I would like to see more discussion about 1190 among the commissioners because that's going to directly impact how the economic development 1191 department and, in turn, the planning boards and, in turn, applicants too. Just that there is a large 1192 amount of space that has been built up and is not being utilized for industrial or commercial use 1193 and whether or not we're missing out on tax revenue dollars that are already there to be realized 1194 versus expanding an economic development district. It would be very interesting to know what that 1195 is and what that looks like and how it might be impacting the commissioner's desire to expand it 1196 versus to actually utilize it. 1197 1198