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George F. Rovegno, Jr. 2010 Shoreline Drive Wayzata, Minnesota 55391 US A September 16,1984 Orono City Council Crystal Bay, Minnesota In the matter of the Public Heat -inn on Sanitary Sewer in the Crystal Bay area: I regret that 1 am personally u, )le to attend the September 24, 19,4 Public Hearing on the above matter. However, I would like to make a few comments and suggestions. The Public Hearing Notice, as published and a, mailed, appears to be defective. ;t doesnot descrihe the same area as is reported upon in the feasibility report. As a result I suspect that action cannot ue taken without re -publication and notice and a new hearing held. As you know we have occasionally had to do thi; for Planning Commissiun public hearings. Two alternatives to the problems in the Crystal Bay area are apparent: construct sanitary sewer or make private systems work properl,i. Those with functional septic systems might prefer the latter, while those with failing systems no doubt would prefer the former to the alterna- tive of a holding tank system. 'is more systems fa l mare pressure will be brought to install public sewers. Socioer or later this area will be sewer-pd. In fazt, since costs would have been much less and the City certainly knew of the problems, this area should have been sewered years ago. For this reason I wi assume that :n my absence you will take action to cause the const.ruk.tion of sanitary sewer in this area. The passions that Surround this is:,ue arise largely from the cost of the project. Having read the minute, of your August meeting on this subjec_ and the feasibility report, as well as having spoken with Mike Gaffron, it would s• that the big problem is the $12,230 cost per unit. I have a fvv. ,ugge%tions. First the Council should carefully examine the costs estimated in the feasibility report. To my mind, *IV"5-,.loc for 11,7�"S— feet of sewer r+- e.4f<-37 per foot, is exorbitant. Perhaps a lift station $35.000, but $4,500 of innual maintenance on top of the cap, it seems iti reasonab 1 e . The Council must exercise its manage m 2n. We should find out why parts of this system will tx� 27 ` tr grade. We should ask these questions and many more before w,- sy*Nad a million dollars, a sum equal to the annual total City operating budget. If any of us was faced with this kind of expense at hove or at, work in the private sector. we would not accept this type of cost/benefit relationship.