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ORONO CITY COUNCIL MEETING HELD JUNE 10, 1991 OTHER-STUBBS BAY SEWER CONTINUED Sewer Committee were present this evening (Candace Ro\/lette, John Thiesse). Peterson reported that Committee members had gone door-to-door to the individual houses within the proposed Stubbs Bay Sewer area and talked to the residvents about the project. The consensus is that sewer is a problem and is needed in the Stubbs Bay area. The major.ly of people desire to have sewer, but do not want to pay for it. He said, "The Committee agrees that there is a sewer problem and requests that the project be pursued. We would like pursuit of the project to include working with the City Engineer to better define where sewer is most needed, and where it could be stubbed in now with laterals installed at a later time. We would like to see some options in that sense, as well as financing options. If the City could devise some methods of creative financing, it may eliminate future litigation." Jabbour stated that this item must be put on the Agenda of an upcoming Council meeting to be further discussed. Mayor Peterson stated that the actual area has not been officially defined. Goetten indicated that it is up to the Council to decide how important it is to provide sewer to the Stubbs Bay area. The Comprehensive Plan refers to this area being sewered, and Goetten believed it should be done. Butler asked if the City Engineer has studied the area to determine which areas should be included in the project and where the sewer lines should be located. Callahan advised that the City Engineer had performed such a Study and had reached several conclusions about the area and where the lines should be located. He asked Staff to again provide Council with the City Engineer's findings. Bernhardson further explained that five primary areas for the project had been defined, three of which are in serious need of sewer, East Lake street, VJest Lake Street, and Crestviev/. The other two areas arc che east Bayside area, which nee. sewer, but not the degree of the three areas mentioned previously. The Bnderwood area falls in between those areas and has the lar^jer lote. Bernhardson stated that criteria was developed to allow c^i^^nin properties in that area to "opt-out" of the project. The nisaller properties to the east of Leaf street were also considered for inclusion in the project because of the lack of area for additional drainfield sites on each property. The (••idents on Oxford Road were sent a letter asking if they would like to be included in the project. Inclusion of the Oxford Street properties would result in a $600 reduction off of what t»^s been estimated to be between a $9,000 and $16,000 assessment - 14 -