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515 <br />MEMORANDUM <br />TO: Board of Commissioners and Manager <br />FROM: Alice Gordon <br />DATE: April 10; 1993 <br />SUBJECT: Monitoring and Maintenance Assurance Program (M&MA <br />Program) <br />Moses has asked me to write down the results of the meeting. on the <br />M&MA program which Verla and-I had not long ago. This memorandum <br />is written for that purpose. <br />At our meeting Verla and I agreed that four principles should guide <br />our decisions on the M&MA program. We also agreed that we needed <br />to have certain questions answered before we could make our <br />decisions. After the meeting I thought a littleomore about the <br />program and concluded that the decisions could be grouped into five <br />different areas, so I have used those five"'areas and the four <br />principles as a framework for this memorandum. <br />FOUR PRINCIPLES TO GUIDE OUR DECISIONS <br />1, Fiscal responsibility. The program should be implemented in a <br />fiscally responsible.way. For example, fees collected should pay <br />for county services rendered. The role of performance bonds should <br />be considered where appropriate. <br />Questions to be asked for each of the five decision areas given <br />below: What does the inspection fee cover (employees, materials, <br />other) ? Why are the same fees charged for all kinds of systems? <br />Can we really recover all of our own costs? If we do not recover <br />all costs,' when does that-occur and what is the reason? What are <br />the broader fiscal impacts of the M&MA program? (e.g. Does it <br />encourage residential growth? If so, what is the fiscal impact?) <br />2. Role of local government. The role of local government should <br />be minimized. For example, when the county considers new programs, <br />there should be minimal bureaucracy created. Also, there should be <br />minimal conflict of interest in internal county functions. <br />Finally, the county should not take on functions which could be <br />effectively handled by private enterprise or the state. <br />3 <br /> <br />Questions to be asked for each of the five decision areas given <br />below: What is the justification for the inspection frequency?