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<DIV>Others who are more closely connected to this issue can probably offer more
precise comment to allay your cynicism, James, but my sense is that your fears
are mostly misplaced. My understanding of the sewer bill "problem" is that
there has been almost no development of long term planning and capital fund
building for sewer "issues' and that the sewer system is approaching 100 years
of age and is in dire need of significant and expensive repairs. I think
we are looking at a massive capital expenditure and that the increases in sewer
bills relate to that in some fashion. Could someone who is not speculating
based on a vague recollection, (as I am, admittedly), please fill us in?</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Bruce Livingston</DIV>
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<A title=jreynold@vetmed.wsu.edu
href="mailto:jreynold@vetmed.wsu.edu">Reynolds, James</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=vision2020@moscow.com
href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com">vision2020@moscow.com</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Sunday, January 08, 2006 11:19
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [Vision2020] sewage treatment
cost</DIV>
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<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>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<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>
<DIV> </DIV>
<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>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Administrators do need bigger boats and their
relatives do need income.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<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>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>James Reynolds</DIV>
<DIV>Moscow</DIV>
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