And the way that I will do that is I will bring in a commercial base and work on more commercial businesses that come to the region to offset our residential tax base. Currently, there's about we pay about 70% on the resident side, 30% on the commercial side. Cities like Austin, it's 70% on the commercial, 30 on the residents. So we've got to flip that. So we need more commercial base to come to El Paso. (01:39–01:46)
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