At the July 16^th general meeting, the following people signed up to be on the committee:

Chuck Warick, Sarah Williams, Dave Decker, Michelle Ellis, Auburn Gallagher, Lisa Blanda and Linda Hambrick.

Lisa Blanda asked to drop out because after rethinking her situation, she has too many commitments to take on another. Michelle Ellis can’t meet on Saturdays because she is a realtor and that is one of her busy days.

Chuck and his family had already planned a vacation starting this weekend and Sarah and her family had already planned a visit from friends.

So, Linda, Dave and Auburne met and spent an hour discussing what should be done to begin to cope with these problems.

Auburne is going to order two years of her billing statements to try to track Aqua’s rate increases and her usage. She will also call her contacts at Aqua and TCEQ and ask for information. She will try to get Aqua to designate a staff member to come out to our next general meeting.

Dave is going to try to find out what type of attorney we need to contact at a later date if it is decided that we need to have one. He had designed two petitions, one to Aqua and one to TCEQ, and he will have them printed up in preparation for a signature drive when our data gathering is finished. He will also contact Aqua’s local employee and work with him to get his subdivision to stop watering and find out about the well plans if Larry knows them. He will also contact a political person he knows well and ask her what she recommends that we do.

Linda will contact her friend who does signs and get him to do some that have our various contact information, such as the web site, nextdoor and the face book pages plus the statement that we are collecting signatures on petitions to be sent to Aqua and TCEQ. She will call or go to the City of Liberty Hill and get copies of relevant litigation files between the city and Aqua so we can see what they went through on their way to losing the suit.

Meanwhile, we should all be sending or bringing to Linda any correspondence with Aqua or TCEQ. Linda will serve as secretary but does not want to take the lead. We intend to accumulate as much data as possible and organize it in a binder so copies can be made, and we can scan what is decided that needs to be shared.

We welcome any advice, suggestions, and information. We could also use two other committee members to take the place of those who can’t do it.