The Million River Drainage Update. Council Lady Ebert. Thank you, Chairman. As we're kind of waiting for everyone to come up, the reason for putting this on the agenda and I want to thank the administration for allowing us and working with me to get an update. We've always, from 2016 when the flood happened, we always promised ourselves as a council and leadership to always keep drainage and The vermillion rivers specifically because it runs through my district top of mind and always continuing to provide updates for the residents Who are interested in learning continuing to learn more we've done a lot of really great things as it comes to Attending to our drainage from from maintaining cool leaves to some of the dredging that I'm going to let you speak to specifically for the river, strengthening some of our requirements for builds for commercial and residential, strengthening those up a bit. And just general maintenance and the team here especially has done such a great job at that. So I want to thank you all for the work that you have done. We have seen improvement. I can speak to my district and I imagine most of you can say the same and these heavy rains we're seeing less and less complaints and getting less and less calls from the council office. So we're able to really pinpoint area, key areas that we need to focus a little bit more on and make improvements. I wanted to, specifically today, because I know it's big picture, right? It's a very big issue, and we all have questions in our district about drainage, but I specifically today wanted to bring the local team to talk about the Vermilion River. I've received some concerns about the levels of the river and how high it is, how much it's been raining, what are we doing? So I wanted you guys to come and share that way, our great media that's in the audit and the auditorium tonight can share that and people watching from home can learn more about some of the efforts that we've done, what we're currently doing, and what our plans are moving forward. So with that, I'll turn it over. Thank you, and thank you, Councilwoman, for encouraging me to come and present and say everything we're doing. Just a few quick recaps and quick facts about just drainage. The Mayor President talked a little bit earlier about some of the milled renewals that we had on the ballot recently just to reiterate 273 is our stormwater management fund which is one of those milleges that is critical to ensure that we communicate and hopefully get passed next time. So that generates about 3.5. We have our 261 funds with our drainage maintenance fund, which generates about 10 million, 461 and 45 are both capital line items, and they're both generate around roughly around four to five million. A couple of just again, general updates ongoing capital projects, we estimate about 93 million roughly in over a total of 16 different projects. In addition, we have 11 million in reoccurring just drainage department operations and maintenance. So significant capital investments are continuing to occur in our waterways as well as our maintenance operations continue to be provided for this community. Since 2018, one of the other components is home elevations, acquisitions, and buyouts, right? We're never going to necessarily find that one drainage project that's going to fix all of our drainage issues in our community. We live along the coastal zone area where 51% and a special flood hazard area, we're always going to have some level of flood risk that we need to mitigate in our community. And it's not going to be just one project. It's going to be a series of projects as well as looking at the way we develop our regulatory compliance looking at our elevations, our home buyouts as well as looking at severe repetitive losses. And so we've done significant elevations, acquisitions and buyouts over the years to the tune of about 37 homes. We still have significantly more that are considered severe repetitive losses that we're continuing to you know encourage to be to participate in program programs and funding that may become available for this type of opportunity. We also participate in the community rating system which is a CRS. We are currently at a class seven. Again the more mitigation measures you put in place your class gets and I'm sorry, the lower your class gets and then the higher the discount that you receive for those who actually carry insurance premiums on their homes. So just a couple of quick drainage facts and recaps about different things that have happened and I'm going to turn it over to Warren to talk a little bit about our capital investments and then I'll turn it over to Brian and then we'll talk specifically about the Vermillion River. So Warren Abity, Public Works Director, we wanted to show a slide that had all of our projects under construction as well as under design to show a commitment to drainage. The first two projects under construction, the volume of million flood control and the spot dredging will have updates on those later in the presentation. But other projects of noteworthiness, the downtown drainage inlet was a big help downtown, especially where you had high rainfall rates, because it had issues with water getting to the inlets. The river Oaks subdivision is an area historically that flooded, that has a pump that we were able to add in the tension system instead of upgrading the pump to hold water back instead of you know pumping more to the river. The localized flood mitigation contracts or the large scale coolly cleaning projects that are going in and around the parish and I know we also have a project to fix some of our concrete line channels that have cracks and other failures so just know that we're working on projects and we're blown going. A warm quick question. I know that to the things that I saw the most significant help for the Vermillion River was the, and I'm probably not going to use my engineering words, right? So bear with me. I'm a recruiter. I recruit surgeons. I'm not an engineer. Is that by you Vermillion flood control, is that the project where we did not spot dredging, but pulled the debris out of the Vermillion where we had the pulleys out there? So phase one of spot dredging was getting the debris, the large pieces of identifiable debris out of the Vermillion. Yeah. Value of Vermillion flood control is the homewood and elder con site and the parish. Gotcha. And do you happen to recall how much debris, because I remember seeing the Vermillion significantly lower after that. Do you remember how much we pulled out? I know it was tons and tons. Yeah. I remember it being a lot. I didn't tag that number in my head, but it was significant, yes. OK, perfect. And then the vermilion river spot dredging is still, and that's separate from what we were just talking about, and that is still under, Yes, it's still under construction. We were gonna give an update later, but I can go ahead and do it now. The project was designed off of a scan that was done in 21 to identify an area of the river with the highest siltation, roughly 2,000 feet north of Rotary Point and 2,000 feet south of Rotary Point. And that was calculated to be 14,000 cubic yards of dredgable material. Well after the project bid last year, it was identified that the amount of siltation in that area was approximately double. What was anticipated and what we were measured in 21. And so as part of the project, we attempted to negotiate a contract, a change order with the contractor in order to dredge that additional material. But that we were not able to come to terms with the contractor. The price that he wanted to do that material was more than double what his original bid was. It was nearly a million dollar change order. And so it was higher than all of the other bids with a different type of technology that originally came in. So it didn't make sense to continue on with that particular contractor because they nearly doubled the price for the job that we had at hand when we could have went with somebody else at a lower bid. So they heard rumors about change orders in local government? That's right. Okay. So at the end of that exercise, he dredged the material that was in the base bid and that operation has finished, the dredging operation has finished. And what we're going to do is we're going to stand the entire river throughout Lafayette Parish to see, was this issue that we noticed the foot and a half? Is it a entire river through the parish problem or is it just the coolie mean problem? And we have not got the results of that analysis yet. All right, I apologize. I should have weighed in, but you continue to do your... Okay, okay. Get out the way. Yeah. Passionate., please. I think we're going to jump back to Brian. Sure. Okay, just so wanted to also share. And again, this is just to reemphasize the priority that we place on drainage. Brian, if you could share just a little bit about the maintenance, drainage maintenance and then just the system overview. Sure. Brian Smith, Director of drainagerainage, thank you all for inviting us tonight to present. This has probably been shared before, but I think it's very important that it's shared and spoken about again just to show the responsibility that we all have in this room basically to take care of our drainage needs. Earthen channels, we have approximately 850 miles which run through the city and parish. Concrete line channels, there's 30, right at 30 and a half miles of those. Roadside ditches, about 1,400 miles. Sub-surface culverts around 300 miles. Bridges, 440, that's the large span as well as the small local bridges that aren't on the off-system program through the Department of Transportation. About 59 box culverts, little bit 27,000 inlets, right at 30,000 culverts. We monitor and maintain five pump stations, and we have six retention pond systems, as well as two underground detention basins, which are located in the downtown area. And just a few facts of what was completed last year in fiscal year 2324. We do this annually, just approved our official drainage map. We do that annually, like I said, and that is to upgrade, we make changes, it's kind of housekeeping, we do run across errors or things that are not exactly where they're placed so we corrected and try to get one adopted annually. The Department of Drainage cleaned about 2.5 miles of earth and channels last year that's right at almost 14,000 linear feet and that is an addition to our contractual efforts as well. We also with the help of contractual services and in-house staff We clean 356,000 linear feet of channel of roadside ditches Rather 67 miles is what that equates to. Also we flushed 146,296 linear feet of culverts Which included vacuuming the debris and hauling it off as well. That's about 28 miles. And through that effort, approximately 700 cubic yards of debris was removed from our pipe systems. Also staff was able to replace about 2,170 linear feet of culverts that include some lakeside as well as cross drains and also we led a project last year where we were able to clean 27 of our concrete line channels of sediment and debris accumulation and that was about 48,550 linear feet which is roughly nine miles or a third of our network of concrete line channels. That after we removed about 300 cubic yards of material. 3000. Yes. We also wanted to provide an update on the biomellion flood control. I think you asked about it a little bit earlier. Again, this is the combination of both the Homewood detention pond, as well as the Koolie-Ildacon ponds and the connections therein. So just a couple of things where we're at with the project. When we came in to office, you know, there was a cease and desist on the particular property at Homewood. So we faced some significant legal challenges as well as the need for continuing to get a final design which we still working through getting a final stamped set of design so that we can go out to bid to finalize both the projects at homewood and Kool-Yield-Acon. We have, we successfully secured the permit that was required by the Omricorv Engineers for the home connection. That happened this past February, so it took us almost a year to get to that point, to get the permits that were required. And we're still working through the permitting process on the Culeo Decon side. And just to remind you all, so some of the project challenges, obviously the parish has set in on $22 million of unfunded reimbursement. So these are expenses that we've already incurred. We've paid out, but the state has not reimbursed us for because we do not have a functional and a complete project. So we're still working through the process of getting a functional and complete project so that we can then seek reimbursement from the state. And we have to ensure that we're meeting all of the environmental regulations and ensuring that we're not, part of it will also likely be buying into a mitigation bank to offset some of the environmental challenges that we have incurred. So we are, we did recently go out to Milton, I think maybe two or three weeks ago, we held a pretty significant public meeting that was well attended, just to review with the community because there's a lot of engagement about where we're at with the project, what we want to see done. So we just reassure the community our commitment to the project, commitments to continue to finish it, and then explain just exactly where we're at with it. But we are committed to completing the project for 7.6 million, which is what we have available to date to actually finish the project, to securing the permits, to finishing the environmental phases and the permitting phases, to completing the final engineering designs that we can go out and finish the entire project. So that is still part of our, I guess, big, large drainage projects that we're doing, $108 million dollars roughly that was invested in that area. So just wanted to provide that update to the council and then also finalize with, you know, we did touch on the Dredge project locally but simultaneously the US Army Corps of Engineers also has a Dredge, a Vermillion River Dredge project. We have worked closely with Ellison, which is a partner at the Congressman Higgins that Congressman Higgins office. Congressman Higgins secured nearly $50 million to Dredge for the Vermillion River. My understanding, as it can appreciate, I was hoping that it would be on a Zoom call tonight, but unfortunately they were not able to attend. But where I believe that it stands to date from past conversations, I have seen designs, I have seen some modeling, and I believe there is still a commitment, and I know if I talked to Congressman Higgins office, there is still commitment from them to push the project forward to ensure that there is some movement on it. So we're working through what that looks like, where the project extends our are. My understanding is that they're gonna be focusing on areas that have silted up over time, and maybe not the full extent that was originally planned in some of the early conversations, but they are gonna focus on those areas that really need the attention and the river restoration. Some of the other initiatives just to let you know, and I'll touch on them quickly, because then I'm taking a bit of time, but I think it's important to re-communicate the effort that we have on drainage. So we are also participating in a much broader, larger study, the US Army Corps of Engineers has also authorized through Congressional Office, a study, it's a three by three by three, $3 million over the course of three years to complete an entire study on, it's called Alexandria to the Gulf for West of the Chifuly basin. And it starts from Alexandria all the way down to the Gulf coast. And what that would allow us to do is to determine federally aid eligible projects. So some of our larger systems, sometimes we don't have enough funding to be able to do some type of projects that we're looking to do because they're multi-jurisdictional. Obviously, water knows no boundaries. We share water with Vermilion St. Martin. There may be projects that we could do through the core. And that is the premise of this study. It's to identify, they would basically conduct a study from Alexandria all the way to the Gulf and identify any projects that might be eligible for federal funding in the future. We are continuing to work with the Katie and a planning commission on the Katie and regional gauge network. We have identified, I believe, and my math might be all a little bit, but there's probably about 40 different gauges that have been identified. There is a design. It is funded through GOSEP, the governor's office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness, which has seen some changes recently. So we're still in the conversation about how to keep that project forward and to continue to partner with them to deploy those gauges, as well as the state has also completed the LDPI Region 5 modeling. So there's some significant modeling that has been invested in this area. And we are going to use those, we intend to utilize those models to our fullest potential. And then additionally, Lafayette Parish does have a representation on the Katie and on Watershed District. I do sit and co-chair that particular Watershed District that also has engagement from the state. So there's a lot of coordination and collaboration with our neighboring parishes to make sure that if there are projects, these larger scale projects, then there's participation from other parishes as well. And also just want to bring an update as well. So Mark Moses was recently announced that he's doing an assessment on public works to revisit, I guess, the structure of public to understand, maybe some of the ways we can become more efficient, and one of those efforts that I've communicated, and I'll kind of get a preview to this, is I would like to see drainage kind of consolidated in one area. So we have drainage maintenance, that focus, our department focuses on maintenance maintenance but we have drainage functions that live in four different departments. Whether it be floodplain management and community development and planning, FEMA flood regulations and development. We also have in public works obviously we have the capital improvement side and we also have FEMA regulations in the development section. So there's a lot of our drainage efforts that are focused in four different areas. And sometimes it becomes difficult to say, well, who does what and how do we all coordinate? And so one of the larger efforts that I would like to see happen is that we develop a storm. We implement a storm water management framework that implements all of these things that you see up here, where we're utilizing best available science to us, whether that be a hydrologic model. Also looking at our system, storm water system maintenance, like Brian does, is to continue that effort as well as looking at our, continuing to review capital improvements and where do we make significant capital investments, whether that be green space areas. Do we hold water here? Do we improve channels? So looking through how do we identify where the best projects are and how do we ensure that we're getting a cost-beneficial analysis on some of these projects to make sure that what we're investing actually produces the results that we're looking for in terms of property values and saving life and property and values in this community. Also looking to implement grant funding and strategies, applications that make sense. So we currently have CDMP who does our home elevation and buyout program. And so continuing that effort but potentially in a consolidated drainage effort. And then revisiting some regulatory improvements, we are, there are some conversations right right now about how to improve that so that we can increase our CRS participation and potentially realize some savings as in the NFIP program. Also one of the things I recognize is that our drainage division department needs to be out engaging the public on a regular basis. We need to engage our community. We need to educate our community about our flood risk why we're seeing high tides or high river, the high volume and the river, or high water elevations in the river. It could be something as simple as the South Wind that we got these last several days that's keeping the water in and not allowing it to flow out to the Gulf. So there's a lot of educational opportunities that we could be educating the public because it's again, there's no one drainage project that's going to allow us to fix our efforts. It's going to be a combination of all of us. Even the community is going to need participation and how we address erosion because that is coming up quite a bit erosion and sinkholes and a lot of times it's on a private channel or private property and you know where does government's responsibility lies. And just the last two things just continue to support our CRS program and then also exploring the potential for a near to realtime flood warning system. This technology does exist elsewhere. I've seen it in the city of Central, I've seen it in the city of Lake Charles. So I think we should have it too. So we're working through all of that, and this is the goal, this is the vision, this is where we want to see this headed, and I think that can be accomplished if and when we can truly get a full comprehensive drainage department that focuses on all of it. So with that, I'll open it up for questions. Sure and thank you all. Again, I want to reiterate the difference we have seen in the flooding request since 2016, because when I arrived at my room for office, nobody talked to me about drainage. It was roads, roads, roads. We flooded in 2016. It is the conversation changed. And the weather changed is, but I can say, and I want to reiterate how wonderful you guys have been, your departments have been going out and meeting with my constituents in that extra little onsite meeting is needed to put your eyes on something because sometimes just calling it in and sending someone out isn't enough. So thank you all. We've seen improvements. The amount of calls are going down. People are we're finding solutions for that. So I want to celebrate when's where they're needed. Still a long way to go, right? The ever evolving projects and cleanups. I'm going to have, I have a couple of questions but I'm also going to make some requests while we're here as well. What can we do? We talked about we're waiting on permitting, waiting on something from the state. Oftentimes we feel like our hands are tied here with wanting to move projects faster that are beyond our control. Is there anything we can do from a city or even a? I see Councilman Taber from the parishes here. So thank you for staying. I know you wanted to be here for this. What can we do to move the permitting through on these projects faster for any of these projects, whether we're talking the dredging with Congressman Higgins or the retention pond? What can we do to help? I believe key is just maintaining our partnerships with the US Army Corps of Engineers. They are responsible and they have oversight of all of their navigable waterways. So ensuring that we maintain that healthy relationship with them and communicating openly about our needs. I think that should help. Okay. it was about to say something. And then the additional dredging, we're still in the process of the current dredging that was funded through the city parish. Is there, when do we have an end date for this project? So the actual dredging on the Vermilion has done. But a part of the project is staging that dredge material and then taking it off. So we're in the process of that happening. So the project is currently ongoing, but the actual dredging of the Vermilion is done. The spot dredging. And then we're still not sure of even a date range on when we will get the next spot dredging done that's coming from Congressman Higgins do we have a potential star date so that is not going to necessarily be done through the city that is going to be done through the core right so it's up to you know I don't have a clear I don't have a date yes I don't have a clear date as to when it'll commence okay and then my two request is a couple of items in my district just if I could be selfish Right now is Under last term under the previous mayor Josh Killery One thing that really helped in the Kool-E-Mean the concrete area Brian you'll remember is that we barged off the Kool-E-Mean concrete part and Cleaned out because it was full of water. My homeowners along hillside drive and a bouquet crescent flooded nine, 10 times since 2016. As you recall, we've been out there quite a bit and they have not flooded since. We have done that project and I wanna keep it that way. It is, then that's where they're flooding from. It's not the front yards, but from the back yards. As I'd like to make a request, because the water starting to rise back up again, because there's some blockage somewhere, if I can make a request from my office to your office to have that rebarged and re-dredged and cleaned out. And then if I can get an update, I know that Nancy, I see Nancy in the auditorium is an update on my broadmore Brentwood Greenbrire drainage project of adding more subsurface drainage for my people that are still flooding in that area. If I can get those two updates, that'd be helpful. Or if you have something you'd like to share, you certainly can. So on the Koola Mean project, to our knowledge that Kool Never-Maint Clean since it was built in the 60s. So I don't think it necessarily needs to be cleaned, I guess, annual or three-year window, but maybe we could get it scanned, use technology. It's quite a task and it is expensive, no doubt. Not to say it's not warranted, but I think that would be the first step is to see what's lies below. It is affected by the tide and the me, and so we'll never get it dry, but I think that's the key moving forward is to kind of see what we're up against. When we did it the first time, we didn't know what we were up against, Thankfully, I knew it was bad, but thankfully, when we did, dam it up, and I was able to get a drone to fly it as it was being cleaned. So we have some evidence and some proof what was down there, and I get some history also. But that would be my recommendation on that one. Perfect. I'll work with you on that. Thank you for your help with that. You're welcome. And those are my two big questions. Happy to open the floor to my fellow council members. I know drainage is a big concern in a lot of your districts. If anybody has any questions. Councilman Nacken. Mr. Smith, we had basically these last weather events. We had an unusual rise in the Vermeian that we haven't seen in a couple of years I'm assuming. We were about flood stage for a while there. Were there any events where we had homes or businesses flood in the last few weeks that we haven't reports? I don't recall getting any. I haven't had any calls. But they weren't reported to us, so I'm not aware of them. But because of the million had risen to a 10.6 feet and flood stages 10, I think is what it was. Was that correct? So my hearing. That is considered minor. Right, it's just said minor, but it was enough to flood like the main vill area, you know, that kind of thing, I understand, around the area by Surrey, where it thank goodness you all, they're retention now, they probably helped that subdivision back in there. But that would cause all the channels that grained to me and to rise also, would it not? Yes. Okay, so that could be part of the problem we were experienced down hillside and all that. The level of me was just high. So it backed up everything else. I noticed that when the cool is down on Johnstreet in my area that they were unusually high a couple of days later, which normally they drain out pretty quickly, but the Bermian itself was like plus the South wind pushing waters back up the B the million didn't help any in any way. But you know keep up what you're doing. I know you're making an effort out there. In fact I see a lot of ditch digging as you might call it in my area and there are a lot of earth and waterways that need to be looked at. We know we have erosion problems. We've discussed that before. But I know it's like eating elephant. It's a bite at a time. That's that's all you can do. I just hope we can keep getting money. That's why these renewals are so important. People got to understand that these are dedicated milligests on your properties that go to service them. And when they complain and hollering scream, that they aren't getting what they need. But one reason why is if we're not going to have this money, not gonna get what you need. It's just not gonna happen. So please consider this next time we go vote on these milleges, we need the money to get this work done, to protect our quality of life and our citizens and their life and their property. This is our future, you know? And we're not gonna change because if anything, we're developing more. We've taken up less more green space and having more runoff. So we definitely need your science, your engineer, your expertise to help maintain the quality of life and all these areas of our parish. And like you said, it's a regional. It's not just life, it's a parish, it's regional. So coordination and cooperation amongst all the entities involved, especially the core engineers, because they have their thumb on everything. It's very important. So thank you all for what you'll do. Thanks for the presentation. And please keep up this good work. And remember, people, the voters out there, these milleges are important. These renewals are something we pay. I heard a lot of people complaining that we raised taxes on them. Now, we just rode the milleges forward to what you voted on till a liable collection amount. Grant assessment values went up, but if we don't roll those milleges forward, we lose those taxes down the road, which means that we're going to lose the money to do the work you want us to do. So please take that in mind and come November when it gets back on the ballot. This is very important to consider that. Thank you all much. Thank you. Thanks. Thank you, Councilman Nakhine. I don't know if the administration you want to take a moment to talk about the milleges in next steps. So I also want to thank the three people up here as well as their teams behind them. Drainage is a simple word but it's a very complex area and as you can see there are a lot of different efforts coming from a lot of different directions. The millages are critical, Councilmen, not can't, because one of our goals, right, we have a lot of different moving parts when it comes to drainage, but it's really to position the people we have and the skill sets we have in a more proactive manner, rather than a reactive manner. And today we are good when we get complaints about going out and checking on and addressing it, but what we'd really like to be is a more of a reactive manner where we are analyzing the whole system, putting the technology in place, and really being able to make strategic decisions. The millages are the only thing that can fund that kind of work. You have to know that you're going to have money this year, you're going to have money next year and the following year to put out a multi-year plan for a review and upgrade or review and clean to put those kinds of processes in place. It is important to have consistent funding and that that's what those meals will allow for. These guys have done a tremendous job with what they have and what we hope to do is with their help, with their knowledge, with the whole body of work that they bring to the table, is even elevated and support them with the technology and with the resources to do it at an even higher level. There are a lot of factors we can't control. We can't control wind. We can't control tides. I live on the river and my husband is very keen on watching it. And so I get a report from him. When the wind is blowing, what the tide is doing. And that river is rising. And if the Vermilion Bay is pushing it up, it's coming up. There's not a pond or a project that's really going to mitigate that. And that's what happened in 2016. I think I've said that before. There was a current stuck at the bottom of our watershed holding water. And that's why it didn't drain for so long. There is no project that we can do to fix what happened in 2016. And I don't want to pretend that that's the case. But can we create better systems? Can we create processes and clean the ditches and clean the coolies and keep things moving in a healthy way? The Corps of Engineers has been a good partner. One of the fundamental changes that has happened with the help of Congressman Higgins is the expansion of Alexander to the Gulf. Alexander to the Gulf was a very skinny landmine from Alexander to the Gulf of Mexico. And I think it was in last year's term. Congressman Higgins had that expanded to the entire Tesh familiar Marmotel watershed, which what that does is authorize the Corps of Engineers. It gives them legal capacity to come into our watershed and help us find the problems, identify those problems, and then help us pay and fix those problems. They didn't really have authorization to go beyond that skinny landmine that, you know, just flowed from Alexander to the Gulf of Mexico until last year. And so Rachel mentioned the three by three by three study. They have a new capacity to support us legally. And, you know, Congressman Higgins, I cannot shout out enough. It is one of his big priorities. and he is true to his word on pushing it, staying with it, being consistent. It's very fascinating what Warren was talking about in that this tilt level in the Vermilion River. What is causing this? It's throughout the entire river, and it's happening faster than what we were used to. But is it something coming out of the bay? Is it really understanding it before we go on and spend millions of millions of dollars is critical? So that we're not just throwing money at a problem, but we're actually very intentionally trying to solve the problem and protect our property. You know, getting those people who, for whatever reason, are built in a floodplain, out of a floodplain, or higher in the flood plate? That's important That's very important Rachel said that I want to reiterate that there are some properties that That need to be either lifted or moved Or taken down because they are going to flood out they have always flooded over and over and over if you have been flooding for many years I don don't think we can actually mess with Bill Levy around your house, which we're not in the Levy business. And so really being comprehensive, really being intentional, and maybe tonight we are talking a lot about it, but Rachel and I both come out of the Akadina watershed, working at the state level, working at the regional level, really understanding what it takes to put a solid plan together, and that is our intent. And the LCG is so lucky because of what we have in public works in the drainage department and as well as community development, because we've got drainage assets in all three of those departments. So how do we leverage that even more? Put the right resources under them. Support them. community development because we've got drainage assets and all three of those departments and so how do we leverage that even more? Put the right resources under them, support them and even take their work to an even higher level and so Thank you all and thank you all. I appreciate it. Thank you. I'm not seeing other speakers again Thank you all for coming tonight. Thank you for the presentation. It's wonderful if you don't mind sending a copy of that to the council office through Joseph that way we can store and share it and keep everyone posted. Thank you all. Thank you. Thank you.