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P 600Y 15 prsE 816 Commissioner Wicker, the meeting resumed. 0 014 Commissioner Stafford moved to hold a public hearing for the creation of water districts for county wide water. Upon a vote, the results were as follows: Aye: Dossenbach, Garner, Matthews, Paschal, Reives and Stafford Nay: None The Chairperson ruled the motion had been adopted unanimously. County Manager William Cowan gave an overview of the purpose for the public hearing and explained the reason for the public hearing was to give the public the opportunity to hear the engineers proposal for the development of a Lee County Water District. The purpose is three-fold for having the hearing; (1) to determine if there is a demonstrative need for providing water services in the unincorporated areas of Cape Fear, Deep River, East Sanford, Greenwood, Jonesboro and Pocket Townships; (2) to determine if the residents in said area to be included in the district will benefit from the districts creation; (3) to determine if its economically feasible to provide the proposed water services in the said district without unreasonable and burdensome annual tax levis. The district would be formed by all the unincorporated areas of the County with the exception of West Sanford Township. West Sanford will not be included due to being not grant eligible for Farmers Home Administration Grant Funds which makes an average bill to a customer in the range of $20-$22 per month. Phase I of the project would include a water distribution line in the Greenwood and Jonesboro Townships, 71 miles of line, 1,324 potential customers for an approximate cost of Phase I at $4 million dollars. The water supply demands for those districts would be approximately 150,000 gallons per day. Phase II of the project would be the Townships of Pocket, Deep River and a small area of East Sanford. Pocket Township will include 40 miles of line, 1,284 customers and a total cost of $1,634,000. In Deep River and a small area of East Sanford there will be 24 miles of line and 325 potential customers for an estimated cost of $1,021,000. Total water demand for this district would be approximately 150,000 gallons per day. The total cost for Phase II would be $5,260,000 and the total for both Phases will be $9,322,865. The project will be funded by a combination of grant and loans from the Farmers Home Administration and would require a bond referendum approved by the voters in that district for the loan portion of the project and that vote would take place, if everything progresses well, sometime in the early spring or early fall of 1995. Project Engineer Eric Weatherly from Hobbs, Upchurch & Associates told the Board Lee County approached Hobbs, Upchurch & Associates with the feasibility of applying for money through Farmers Home Administration for this project, which is a federal agency that has the capability of giving grant money to projects such as this. 14