ms. ufner, the counties and cities are facing a lot of issues when comes to water resources and trying to aggressive these. i know other states, not just the the state of oklahoma had some of these problems. in the city of bartlesville oklahoma the community is going and needs additional water storage. we had water storage as a result from one lake in that city, and as a result increased the rates to the customers over 100%. but when we try to open up another one, and i'm not sure you're familiar with this particular issue that went to the corps of engineers and increased, they had a rate increase of 3000% which obviously that particular city of bartlesville was not able to do anything. when asked the gao to investigate how the corps comes up with the prices, they reported back that they couldn't because the agencies record-keeping was so bad and buried they could that actually study of the agency arrived at the numbers. does that shock you? >> i almost feel like that's a trick question, senato

ms. ufner, the counts ties and cities are facing a lot of crises when it comes to water resources and address these. i know other state, not just oklahoma, have some of these problems. in the city of bartlesville, oklahoma, the city is growing and in need of additional water storage. now, we had water storage. and a result from one lake in that city. and as a result increased our -- the rates to the customers by over 100%. but when we tried to open up another one, and i'm not sure if you're familiar with this particular issue, but we went to the corps of engineers. and they increased -- they had a rate increase of 3,000%, which obviously that particular city of bartlesville was not able to do anything. when i ask the gao to investigate how the corps comes one their prices, they reported back that they couldn't because the agency's recordkeeping was so bad and varied, they could not actually study how the agency arrives at their numbers. does that shock you? >> i almost feel like that's a trick

so to ms. ufner, what are the consequences to counties and local governments and the taxpayers it would fail to properly assess risks both current and future? planning to build and floodplains? >> thank you, senator, , for yor question. ultimately, counties are responsible for a public health and safety of our communities, and probably if you look at what's happened in santa barbara county california within the last day with the flooding that is due from the wildfires, there's a limited things that you can do after i wildfires to address risk, but it demonstrates that when floods happen people die, homes disappear, roads are gone, memories are gone. this is something that local governments want to prevent, and they want to be there to help with their residence. >> are we doing enough to ensure that we are adequately protecting ourselves and our assets from future storms and floods? and what can we be doing better? >> it's a combination approach. there is a responsibility on the local governments. i'm