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MRS. KENNEDY ASKED IF ORCHID ISLAND WERE INCLUDED, WHO ACTUALLY <br />WOULD BE INCLUDED AS THERE IS A LARGE AMOUNT OF GROVE LAND THERE AND NOT <br />MANY RESIDENTS. <br />CHAIRMAN WODTKE REPLIED THAT THE TOWN OF ORCHID IS NOT INCLUDED <br />;.IN THIS PUBLIC HEARING, AND WHO IS EVENTUALLY INCLUDED WILL DEPEND ENTIRELY <br />UPON THE PEOPLE LIVING IN THAT MUNICIPALITY WHO WILL HAVE TO VOTE. HE <br />POINTED OUT THAT ORCHID ISLAND IS NOT INCLUDED. <br />COMMISSIONER Loy INFORMED THOSE PRESENT THAT ANY MUNICIPALITY <br />THAT WANTS TO BE PART OF A DISTRICT HAS TO VOTE TO BECOME A PART, AND IT <br />WOULD BE NO PROBLEM ONCE THEY VOTE TO ADD THEM TO AN EXISTING DISTRICT. <br />SHE $SATED THAT SHE WAS ENCOURAGED BY THE TOWN OF ORCHID'S INTEREST. <br />COMMISSIONER SIEBERT NOTED THAT AT THE PRESENT TIME, UNLESS SOME <br />UNKNOWN GRANT PROGRAM COMES ALONG, IT WILL BE QUITE SOME TIME BEFORE <br />SERVICING THIS AREA CAN BE CONSIDERED AS THERE IS NOT ENOUGH POPULATION <br />TO SUSTAIN IT ON A REASONABLE BASIS. <br />MRS. BOURNE SAID THAT SHE DID NOT INTERPRET THE LETTER FROM THE <br />TOWN OF ORCHID TO MEAN THAT THEY WERE ASKING TO BE INCLUDED IN THE TAXING <br />DISTRICT, BUT JUST THAT THEY WERE INTERESTED IN GETTING A SOURCE OF WATER. <br />CHAIRMAN WODTKE NOTED IT MIGHT BE POSSIBLE TO CONTRACT WITH <br />THE TOWN REGARDING A WATER SUPPLY, <br />MRS, BOURNE ASKED IF -JOHN'S ISLAND COULDN'T SUPPLY THEM AS THEY <br />HAVE WELLS AND PIPE. <br />COMMISSIONER SIEBERT NOTED THAT WHEN .JOHN'S ISLAND RAN THE PIPE, <br />THEY WERE VERY INTERESTED IN SUPPLYING SUMMERPLACE WITH WATER AND THEY <br />PROBABLY WOULD STILL BE INTERESTED IF A GROUP GOT TOGETHER AND APPROACHED <br />THEM. <br />MR, DAMEROW POINTED OUT THAT THE WATER THEY ARE DISCUSSING IS <br />UNTREATED WATER. <br />MRS. KENNEDY ASKED WHETHER SUMMERPLACE COULD NOT JUST ASK FOR <br />WATER LIKE THE TOWN OF ORCHID INSTEAD OF BEING INCLUDED IN A WATER DISTRICT. <br />ATTORNEY COLLINS POINTED OUT THAT THE PURPOSE OF ESTABLISHING <br />THIS DISTRICT TODAY IS JUST TO PROVIDE A POSSIBLE SOURCE OF REVENUE IN THE <br />FUTURE AND HE DOES NOT FEEL WE SHOULD SPECULATE ON JUST WHAT THE TOWN OF <br />ORCHID WILL DO. <br />m <br />i`161976 <br />