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Council Minutes of 2-1"Y7 -7- many residents who p+~y ~~ b~,~,~a•, ~~~ pf onr x~t#~~ed people and those living on filed income, fir '~,~'~~ wild get ~~ ~~~-~; * ern it~pluding the lOX discount; and if theta Is~ ~~tb~t}~ u~4~+~ec~.p~}p~.R - tt~inka this is really hitting these kind of p~op~,e, ~}~ pe~tple o t~As guar 16,000 cu. ft. under this Ordinance will aetps~.~.~ get ~ }~e~ucti4~ ~ ~~y w~;ll pay Ieas, not more. Let us compare some o€ ~#~ Estee under hie oFs~~}anq~a: The homeowner using 8,000 cu. ft. pays $8.54 p~~ cu, ft.; the Apart~gt User using 10,000 cu. ft., and most of them do not .quite use that, pays only $b.50 per cu. ft.; and the Commercial are down at $7:45 to $7.25. The Commercial hasn't gotta up - they are payiag that same th~,~}g noK, The only ones that have really taken a beating here are the people who Dave been trying ~o conserve water; and he feels very strongly that water is like u~.l of our ott}+~r noeNxa,1 resa~rcee - we' t}r~e going to haver fio rt'y to: conserve on fit and use Iesa eP it and any incentives we give these people to do that is in the right direction. Mr. West continued stating he feels that people paging for what they use and based on the cu. ft. they use is the best way to do it and that is why he voted for it. Another point is when you take off the limit to people on using more water qou are going to have more liquids going dawn thru the Plant and the mare liquids you have the mare expense you are going to have because every drop has to have chemicals added to it and has to have utilities and labor added to it, and we are going to have to go right back to the people stating our coats have gone up tremendously because the through-put on the P1aat has gone up tremendously and we need more for it. For these reasons Mr. West voted for the other ordinance. Mrs: Beringer stated she cannot see liow you can cotls`cientiously say we do not have the money in the General Fund to put toward this and thezt to a month or so pass a pay raise for all City Officials: Thinks that that should be tabled -~ no pay raises and let's tighten our belts and use the money from the General Fund. Mr. West explained as Mr. Wilaaiosky has said the 64~ will not cover it and we are going to use the General Fund money to supplement this: Alx. Beaty stated we are going to have a lot of bad streets from this Wttte~'weather and one bad Spring and we are going to need sos~e of those general tutsd monies for streets. Mr. Fairfield stated he would like to give his comments: First of all, it has been explained that people will have to tighten' their be~Its and use less water aAd those using the adnimum are' going to get hit t~4e hardiest; but aren't we right now hitting the hardest tyre people with large f~ilies•? Are they supposed to pay more because they use pwie water or because thej- happen to give ehildren baths and wash clothes. Is this fair too? Aave to disagtee,.Edo, that basically if anyaare water is used on the flat rate charge most of it will ga itt~to the .awns that haven't been watered in a Long time. Do not think people are going to Start taking more baths or start driiYking more water: Think basically they are going to water their lawns and thinks it wilt improve it. Never understood why it is connected to your sewer rate charge - seems like a silly way to bufld a plant or to keep it functioni-g. Would much rather have it on real estate faxes but unfortunately we caa't gut it all on there. Does not think the usage correlates at all with your sewer rate charge and that is why there are two meters in army homes today because we reaxize that. Mr. Wilamasky stated he would like to give his comaa~nts: We talked about percentages, etc. and have to agree with comtacmfa made by Mr. Fairfield. Because we Have a family in North Olmsted that ~s 2 or 3 children and has to wash clothes, do not think we certainly want to cause them anymore hardship than we want to cause someone that uses IO~000 cu. ft. per year. Getting back to the subject of 10,00 cu. ft. of water usied per year b+ssed on a rate of $11.92 we are talking somewhere near $119. for a sewer ctiar~e aiscl out of that there isn't a dollar of that aatount that can be appl~.esd to tlteix income taxes: i