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Commissioner Halkiatis wanted to know who ultimately would be responsible for maintaining this system. Paul Thames said that this is a system that falls within Environmental Health's purview. If they do not do oversee this then we would be looking at hiring a base water company. He said that the good thing about this system is that you do not have to be there everyday. There are all kinds of telemetry that gives you operational parameters and automated remote system malfunctionlfailure notifications. This information will be downloaded on a website and can be checked there. He said that we would need someone to visit the site in terms of looking at the field and making sure that we don't have any surfacing effluent, testing the monitoring wells, etc. It would be necessary to hire a base water operating company to be out there about once a week for 4 or 5 hours; for 2 guys it would cost approximately $800.00 per week. Commissioner Halkiatis asked who would decide if Environment Health would ar wouldn't take care of this. He wanted to know what the decision making process was in all this with respect to what options people have. Paul Thames said he assumed that the Commissioners would make this decision. He said that all waste water systems under a certain size or with certain types of technology have to have a certified operating entity. There is no technology fora 6,000- gallon system that would avoid that. Commissioner Halkiotis said he understood all this but that he remembers several years ago when the guy from North State came before them far about three meetings trying to sell their products to handle the problems with Piney Mountain and he does not want this to happen again. Paul Thames said that at the very least Environmental Health would be providing the oversight. But it is the Board's choice whether the Board would want them to be the operating entity. They can and are certainly qualified to be the operating entity. Chair Carey asked if they have to submit monthly reports an our behalf and Paul Thames said yes. Commissioner Jacobs said that the Board needs to model whatever behavior they might want in the future so the public is assured that it is being done in the mast responsible and most above board manner passible. Chair Carey asked if these containers, which will be about 1 foot above ground, could be seen from the road. Paul Thames said that they will be in the middle of the field, several hundred feet from the road, with tree buffers and the chances that you will be able to see them from somewhere off the site are very small. He said that once you get on the site you will be able to see them. a) Proposed Northern Park Master Plan Dave Stancil said that this is a follow-up from the proposed master plan for Northern Park report the Board received an May 3rd. He said that at several community meetings they engaged approximately 30 citizens who were asked what type of park they would like to see. Tonight they would like to follow-up with more specific questions that the Board had on May 3rd with the goal of having a sense of what modifications and changes the Board feels need to be made to the Master Plan. He said that they would also like to talk about prioritizing facilities. He said that they tried to design this plan bath in terms of what the community wanted to see as well as what might be practically possible and in the end they asked the public to prioritize what they thought were some of the top issues. (7ne of the things that they heard mast from the public at the meetings was that there was a real need for baseball and softball fields. On May 3rd some of the