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50 BACKGROUND AND PAST OBJECTIVES The Board of Commissioners directed staff to complete a study of the Efland area to determine means of: a) financing sewer expansion construction; b) getting existing low income customers tapped onto the existing system; and c) assisting low income households to pay plumbing and tap-on fee costs. Once strategies were developed and implemented and grant funding was available, staff was directed to begin the process of constructing the expansion of the sewer system. 1. In 1992 and 1993, staff provided two reports to the BOCC outlining construction cost estimates and financing strategies for expanding the sewer system. The 1992 report developed the cost estimates and provided an analysis of capital cost recovery through sewer use rates. The 1993 report provided an analysis of capital cost recovery through an assessment process and through development of sewer district and district tax. This information was also provided to the Efland Environmental Committee through the committee's attorneys in May 1993. 2 . Staff's sewer expansion reports to BOCC ( 1992 report on financing through sewer rates and 1993 report on financing through assessments) indicated that existing Efland development patterns and potential sewer system customer base was not capable of generating sewer use or assessment revenues sufficient to provide all of the construction funding for system expansion. Funding all construction costs through sewer use rates, assessments or some combination thereof would prove to be prohibitively expensive to most existing and potential sewer system customers. 3. In 1991 and 1992, the County submitted CDBG funding applications for the section of Eland designated as Phase IV in the Efland Sewer Master Plan. Although the area was qualified to receive grant funding, both applications were unsuccessful. County staff initiated the process to submit a new CDBG application in 1994, but discovered that the area no longer qualifies for housing rehabilitation and utility development grant funding. Staff determined that new construction and demolition of several sub-standard dwellings in the target area have raised the overall housing standard in the area to a point above that which could qualify for CDBG funded improvements. The Phase IV area was the only area in Efland which is not currently provided with sewer service and which could have qualified for CDBG funding. A 1994 CDBG application was not submitted for Efland and staff does not anticipate any further CDBG funding application activity for this area in the future.