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Commissioner. Poling stated that he believed staff, the consultants and the assistants involved in this project have put in a lot of time. He said this is an extremely technical information and his pdmary reason for voting in favor of the Resolution is to move forward, He said he was not totally convinced that MWMC is going down the dght road but MWMC is not absolutely "married" to this master plan. With different population growths and advancement in technology, it can be changed if necessary. He added that he is voting yes but he is not totally convinced that this is the right path at this time. He said MWMC did an excellent job in getting the word out to people. The people receive it, but they don't pay attention to it until it is up for a fina,~e. At this point,. Commissioner Meyer had to terminate the conferen,~. He said he appreciated the hard work done by staff. The very best consultants were h~e an extensive look at this project and he was confident that CH2M Hill did good work ?~~g the right thing. · Ms. smith made some comments on the next ~ id where ~es from here. She reminded the Commissioners that the preferred~i'., 91ected by the~ least cost system-wide set of improvements. As the Plan ~'6rwa 'd and is approve~ elected officials of the governing bodies, it will also be ! rough a review process possible that DEQ will require additional improvements. ~ Commissioner Keeler ~at his only the Plan, which would not change his vote, is that such a good e in layin! ~ltemative 4 that we doiYt want that to become something that is so wel it is )EQ to try and hold MWMC to that standard. He requests that staff kee ~ey go forward with the Plan. Ms. Smith added thl FY 04-(~ lis essentially going forward with the projects that ca ent Plan (WVVFMP), which is primarily pre-design ~nd elected officials, on an annual basis, will be able to check on thi lore ~n come.~ of the design process. The Public Hearing for Project List was closed. 8:45 left the g. IV~ ~ROVEMENT PROGRAM lVb. SEWER GE RATES Ms informed missioners that the Public Hearings for the FY 04-05 Budget/Capi ram and for the FY 04-05 Sewer User Rates were being combined as or that for the purposes of preparing the draft FY 04-05 budget, staff selected the scenario. Gary Colwell, Services Manager, made the staff presentation. He re-iterated that the proposed budget was based On the 24% scenario so it the Commission selected a different scenario, the changes will be made for the final document. President Ballew opened the Public Hearing for the FY 04-05 Budget and User Rates/Septage Rates. 4-61 .V:\ENVIR©SV~COMMISH~MINUTES\05-06-~4.D©C .~ M~v ~ ~nn,~