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The friendliness is gone from the neighborhood, but that is all incidental - the important thing is that we find a better way to get water spread throughout the county. Mr. Pearce again wished to express his personal opinion, which is that when you have a system for getting water into old established neighborhood with decaying tanks and wells, he does not feel that the petition method works. Virginia Spangler informed the Board that she is very upset by the tactics that have been used and felt strongly that they do not conform to the dignity of this chamber. She expressed her belief that if some of the people in the neighborhood do not have good water, it is probably due to the fact that they have very shallow wells. Her well is 96' deep and she has no problems; so, she did feel those with water problems have an alternative. Chairman Scurlock advised that the depth.of the well depends on the strata in the neighborhood. He personally has a good well at 27'. Mrs. Askew inquired about the possibility of adjusted terms as she felt they might be in favor of the water if some of the terms could be adjusted. Chairman Scurlock emphasized that our utility system is not supported by taxes; it is totally self-supporting. We cannot talk about price, but we can talk about such things as length of payment. Administrator Balczun believed 5 or 10 years is rather immaterial to us as far as interest and cash flow for this particular project is concerned, and it was pointed out that actually people can get better terms through a home equity loan or through some institution other than the county. Commissioner Wheeler noted that it appears we have got 16 residents quite evenly split, and it seems there is some effort towards neighborhood reconciliation. He intends to support our petition system as there doesn't seem to be a dire emergency. While he personally disagreed with those who don't want the water 46 BOOK 9 3 F.��F 186 ,JUL 1