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Nov 5 NM <br />ADMINISTRATOR JENNINGS STATED THAT THE PURPOSE OF THE SIX MONTHS WAS <br />-TO GIVE THE PEOPLE IN GIFFORD WHO ARE NOT ON THE SYSTEM AT THE PRESENT TIME <br />AN OPPORTUNITY TO GO ON THE SYSTEM AFTER THEY SEE THERE IS PROPER WATER <br />THERE. <br />CHAIRMAN LOY POINTED OUT THAT WE ARE NOW WAITING FOR AN ANSWER FROM <br />F.H.A. ON THE AGREEMENT SENT THEM BY ATTORNEY COLLINS. <br />ATTORNEY HERRING STATED THAT U.D.U. HAS ALREADY MET ON THE "LAG" <br />SITUATION AND IT WAS NOT AGREEABLE TO THEM. <br />COMMISSIONER SIEBERT STATED THAT HE WOULD LIKE, AT THIS TIME, TO <br />COMMENT ON ATTORNEY HERRING'S STATEMENTS TO THE PRESS LAST WEEK, HE FELT <br />THEY WERE TOTALLY IRRESPONSIBLE AND UNCALLED FOR, ESPECIALLY IN REGARD TO <br />CHAIRMAN LOY, AND HE REGARDED THEM AS AN ATTACK ON THE INTEGRITY OF THIS <br />BOARD, THE PHRASE "BLACK WATER FOR BLACK PEOPLE° PRESENTED RACIAL OVERTONES <br />THAT SHOULD NEVER HAVE BEEN BROUGHT INTO THIS SITUATION. <br />COMMISSIONER $CHMUCKER STATED APPARENTLY THE DEVELOPMENT HINGES ON <br />WHETHER THE SEWER SYSTEM IS IMPROVED OR NOT, AND AS LONG AS WE HAVE THE <br />PROTECTION THAT THE SYSTEM HAS TO BE IMPROVED IN ORDER TO GET THE WATER <br />ALLOCATION, HE DID NOT SEE WHERE THE SIX MONTHS LAG IS NECESSARY. <br />CHAIRMAN LOY STATED SHE FELT WE SHOULD WAIT UNTIL WE HEAR FROM F.H.A. <br />THEY ASKED US TO COME BACK WITH SOMETHING AGREEABLE TO US AND WHEN THEY HAVE <br />REVIEWED THE AGREEMENT SENT BY ATTORNEY COLLINS, SHE FELT SURE WE WILL BE <br />ABLE TO WORK SOMETHING OUT AGREEABLE TO ALL. <br />ATTORNEY COLLINS SAID HE COULD NOT RECOMMEND GIVING IN ON ANYTHING <br />BEFORE WE HEAR FROM F.H.A. <br />COMMISSIONER MASSEY POINTED OUT IF THE ORIGINAL SYSTEM HAD BEEN DONE <br />PROPERLY THE FIRST TIME, WE WOULD NOT HAVE THIS SITUATION NOW AND WE NEED TO <br />BE SURE IT WILL BE DONE RIGHT THIS TIME. <br />VICTOR HART, SECRETARY -TREASURER OF U.D.U. APPEARED AND SAID, YOU <br />KEEP TALKING ABOUT F.H.A., THE COUNTY AND CHARLES HERRING AGREEING ON AN <br />AGREEMENT AND EVERYBODY SEEMS TO FORGET U.D.U. THEMSELVES, <br />COMMISSIONER SIEBERT REMARKED THAT CHARLES HERRING HAS STATED THAT <br />HE IS U.D.U.'S REPRESENTATIVE AND THUS WE ARE NOT FORGETTING U.D.U. <br />MR. HART STATED HE FELT THERE SHOULD BE A REPRESENTATIVE FROM U.D.U. <br />IN ADDITION TO ATTORNEY HERRING, TO WORK ON THIS AGREEMENT AS AFTER EVERY- <br />BODY AGREES, U.D.U. STILL HAS TO GO OVER IT AT THEIR BOARD MEETING <br />BECAUSE THEY ARE THE ONES WHO HAVE.TO.SIGN THE AGREEMENT, <br />ATTORNEY HERRING STATED THAT HE DISCUSSED THIS AGREEMENT WITH U.D..U. <br />AND IT WAS NOT AGREEABLE. F.H.A. IS THE BANKER; U.D.U. HAS TO PAY IT BACK. <br />-22- <br />80131 24 PMM[ 118 <br />