Good afternoon.
I want to say that it has impacted our people's health and mental health and overall community wellness.
Like you mentioned, we have aging infrastructure. We often have water breaks. Today, we have a water break in our community affecting the whole school and community now. Kids have to stay home and the water line has to be fixed. Again, our own dollars don't even cover the ongoing repairs needed year after year, because we always have water breaks in the community. As I said, we have aging infrastructure.
We have fire hydrants that don't work properly. We have some fire hydrants that don't even have access to water. When we had a fire, I think, in February 2022, we didn't have an adequate water supply. Our water truck was down, so a whole apartment complex burned down. It was an eight-unit apartment, but we had 10 families living in there. They were all displaced.
Water has impacted the overall health of our people mentally. I heard the other chief mention diabetes and home dialysis. We're also having the same issue. We have a high death rate due to diabetes, and people can't do home dialysis. We just lost a mother who had five children and two grandchildren. She died from complications due to diabetes, and she was a young mother. We are impacted in so many ways.
Thank you.