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DEC <br />BOOK t 736 <br />staff, made the decision two years ago to go in the direction of <br />building the infrastructure for centralizing, etc., and what they <br />proposed and got grant money for is exactly in keeping with where <br />the industry is headed. He believed the way the City is headed <br />is uncertain. <br />Commissioner Scurlock asked if he thought it is in the best <br />interests of the county, not only from the standpoint of cost but <br />from the standpoint of the city being a part of the county, that <br />we should try to encourage the City to participate in our plan <br />for the long term economic reasons. He noted that, as a <br />Commissioner, he would have a hard time going over to tell the <br />City something that is not in their long term best interests. <br />Mr. Munksgaard felt the hard part about the City versus the <br />County issue is that they have to spend dollars also, and their <br />consultant calculated the impact to their wastewater customer <br />base at 14% and that the impact from participating with the <br />County would be 20%. That is only a 6% differential, and he <br />personally felt the numbers are too close to call. <br />Commissioner Scurlock believed it all comes down to 6% of <br />what base. <br />Director Pinto advised that the 14% and 20% is of the <br />typical sewerage bill in the City, and there you are talking <br />about cents, not dollars. He continued to stress that he and CDM <br />are very sure that for the long term our solution is better for <br />the County and would be better for the City. He further <br />explained that the City in making their decision to remove <br />themselves from the system because of the sludge treatment part <br />of it, has ignored that we are also talking about the septage <br />part of it. In effect, they have said we are going to choose <br />half of it which we think is better for us, but the other half <br />that we know we can't handle and we know will be expensive to <br />operate, we will let the County worry about that, and there are <br />about 3,000 septic tanks in the City. Director Pinto stressed <br />that we think the disposal of sludge in the City boundaries is <br />10 <br />