<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"><HTML DIR=ltr><HEAD><META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"></HEAD><BODY><DIV><FONT face='Arial' color=#000000 size=2>Beth and I were looking at our city utility bill and
noted once again that our sewage treatment bill is significantly larger than the
water bill. I guess we must be paying off the cost of the last upgrades
still?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>When the upgrades were nearing completion we had a
conversation with an engineer from the treatment plant that, at the time, made
me proud of what our city facility managers were doing with the upgrades and
all. It was this engineers thought, as he learned the ropes of the new system,
that there would be less need of man-power at the new station because it was
mostly automated and only required a minimal amount of physical labor for
operation.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>My thoughts now have hardened. I expect that the
potential savings from the more efficient plant will be eaten up by empire
building administrators who will not only have more people hired for
the operation of the plant but will also have a much thicker coating of
administrator payroll to tap off the excess monies that will tragically happen
when the bond expires.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Administrators do need bigger boats and their
relatives do need income.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Just a little synical, paranoid thought based on
nothing more than the observation that almost all administrators are at least
somewhat of the</FONT> self-serving empire building cloth so I might
as well get a head start on this issue.</DIV>
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<DIV>James Reynolds</DIV>
<DIV>Moscow</DIV></BODY></HTML>