At the meeting, a staff member raised a question about whether development in a neighboring town would affect the agency's wholesale water customers, using the example of "a town 15 miles away" planning to build four new schools.

Staff member (unnamed), a staff member, said, "I don't think this makes a difference," in response to the question, though a subsequent remark in the same exchange acknowledged uncertainty and that "you can only have a service area that's basically within your" [jurisdiction], an incomplete statement in the record.

The discussion focused on whether regional development outside the agency's typical service area should be considered when evaluating impacts on wholesale customers. The transcript shows a questioner asking how a development 15 miles away that includes four new schools would relate to wholesale customers and a staff speaker responding that they did not believe it would make a difference.

No statutes, ordinances, or formal policy citations were referenced during the exchange, and the meeting record contains no motion, vote, or formal direction tied to the topic. The comments as recorded left the issue partly unresolved: the staff response expressed an opinion and a partial procedural point that service areas are generally confined to an agency's limits, but the statement was not completed and no follow-up action was recorded.

Because the exchange was brief and inconclusive in the transcript, the record does not establish whether the agency will seek further analysis, consult legal or planning documents, or change planning assumptions in response to nearby development.