Remarks by Lois Fruhwirth
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Lois? Thank you, Mayor. Thank you, Senator Fincham, for your advocacy and help on behalf of the city of Prescott. I particularly appreciate the money that you've secured for us, especially as you see our airport aviation economic development plan coming to life, and the future plans that we have are big. The other thing, though, I do want to bring to your attention, and it goes with what you said about the education needs, We are also super interested in advanced manufacturing technology and healthcare. Healthcare continues to rate, we just are fielding right now another survey, biannual…
I see an editorial cartoon in the future.
Thank you. One other point, and I don't know if this new infrastructure funding mechanism might be of value, but I did have a chance last week to touch base with Congressman Crane and also mentioned it to Congressman Gosar's office. We received two weeks ago an update of what we would need to do here in the city of Prescott to remediate PFAS in time for the current federal government. I don't know if you got a chance to see that presentation. If not, I'll send it to you as well. But it was just little old Prescott. It was about a $70 million hit over the next two to three years. Totally not…
Congressman Crane was kind of totally caught off guard. And I said, now think about everybody in CD2. How are they going to pay for this if the lawsuits are only giving us, you know, a sixteenth or eight more or less of what we need? Right.
Understood. I think this council is very pro the rodeo. It was a 7-0 vote to approve the master plan. So we will be working with them and trying to find win-win solutions. It is part of our economic development plan to maximize TPT. So thank you.
Lois? I would love if at some point you have an hour or two in the next few months for us to be able to give and our staff to give you the work we're in process on on our long-term water management plan. And I think that would be helpful to you as you're hearing legislature emerging or negotiations emerging to understand where we're starting to work our way towards and the amount of really great engineering and science that has gone into, you know, and projections, I should say, of how much water do we have left in the city of Prescott for all of our plants. Yeah. moving forward. So I think…