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M em <br />To: <br />From: <br />Doie: <br />Re: <br />FoxhUIResidents and City of Orono Council Members anJ Mayor <br />Carfieid Clark <br />August 27,1995 <br />Froposed Foxhill Connection to Sewer System <br />On August 3, 1995, City of Orono staff people and city council people asked the Foxhill <br />residents to attend a meeting to discuss their proposed sanitary sewer system. <br />Ordinarily, people who spend "other peoples money"* have a discussion with those people to <br />determine whether their money should be spent. In this instance. Orono City Council members <br />and staff decided to spend our money on engineering, plans, paper, mail and stafT time to devise <br />a plan to connect Foxhill residents to a proposed sewer system, without prior discussion with the <br />affected parties. <br />It is useful to try to establish why our City leaders want to bring us a "plan in progress" for our <br />approval, as well as estimating the cost to each resident. <br />You can tell it is important to these city people because they made the plans without prior <br />discussion and they try to sell their concept with fear. Suggesting that prospective home buyers <br />might call the city officials to determine if the house they were interested in is in "confomtance" <br />and the city people might tell the prospective buyers that a home might not be in "contormance", <br />therefore we should all agree to hook up to the proposed sewer system. <br />They show the cost without including interest, showing an artifically low number, a question of <br />"truth in borrowing". They also state that the costs of upgrading a non-conforming system <br />"normally is payable in full to contractor on completion" to suggest that financing of the <br />improvement is not available and that all older systems would be obliged to pay these costs upon <br />completion. <br />These tactics suggest undisclosed purposes. <br />You can see from the city provided maten.il, that those homes along County Road 15 are <br />insinuated a part of Foxhill. Foxhill residents might be interested in those homes becoming a <br />part of Foxhill if (i) they all agree to become a part of Foxhill. (ii) they contributed their <br />lakeshore pioperty to the Foxhill Cutlots and (iii> they pay the annual dues and maintenance <br />charges as a member of the Foxhill Homeowners Association. <br />P'is insinuation of adjacent County Road 15 homes as "Foxhill" could be one of the undisclosed <br />purposes for the "plan in progress" Fractionalizing the cost of serving these homes over the <br />Fo.xhill residents to reduce their pei home costs may be the intent.