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Melissa Poole: You referenced the relationship with a municipality and under the current municipality plan, it is aligned. Is 1538 that correct? 1539 1540 Cy Stober: That is correct. We didn’t include it in our consistency statement but we did consult with WASMPBA but we 1541 can provide that in the future. 1542 1543 Lamar Proctor: So it is within the WASMPBA boundary to provide sewer and water? 1544 1545 Cy Stober: The primary service area, yes. 1546 1547 Lamar Proctor: Thank you for that clarification. 1548 1549 Steve Kaufmann: Still, the neighborhood will not be able to get water and sewer, even though it is in that region? 1550 1551 Cy Stober: They would have to voluntarily have to apply for connection and I believe annexation to the Town of 1552 Hillsborough, pay the connection fees as well as any associated annexation fees. 1553 1554 Adam Beeman: They wouldn’t be forced to hop on if the pipe goes by your house, you don’t have to get on the water, 1555 you could maintain your septic and well? 1556 1557 Cy Stober: I have been doing planning since 2007 and the state law changed in 2008 regarding voluntary annexation. 1558 Formerly that would have been an option, the town could have just annexed everyone but no, today you must voluntarily 1559 petition for annexation as an individual property owner or a group of property owners. The town cannot force you to be 1560 annexed to the town of Hillsborough. 1561 1562 Adam Beeman: Even if the pipe runs right by your front door, you have to ask for the annexation? I don’t want to see 1563 anyone be forced… 1564 1565 Cy Stober: Only in the event of well or septic failure which is a state environmental health regulation. 1566 1567 Beth Bronson: What is important though is that if the well fails and the septic fails and there happens to be a pipe by their 1568 house, they are required… 1569 1570 Adam Beeman: The old law was that if the pipe came by their house, they were forced to abandon their well. I want to 1571 make sure no one is forced to abandon what they already have. 1572 1573 Patrick Byker: That is not the case anymore and state law precludes it. 1574 1575 Lamar Proctor: Who is paying to hook up well and septic to the school? The town? 1576 1577 Patrick Byker: No, no, that is all paid for by the private development team. The school pays for every inch of pipe and 1578 everything that is associated with that. 1579 1580 Jim Parker: The cost of the water and sewer from any existing pipe that the town has is paid for by the school. 1581 1582 Patrick Byker: The pipe, the manholes the water line… 1583 1584 Applicant: The fees, permits, testing all of it is paid by the school, the town does not pay anything. They collect double 1585 the water rates for the usage. If you go on the town’s website and look at the amount of water that is treated by the town 1586 and their treatment plan, is on average about 1.2 million gallons per day and they are permitted for 3 million gallons a 1587 day on both plants. You can look at those reports for yourself online, it’s very clear. 1.2 million gallons a day is processed 1588 through the town’s treatment. This is .015 million gallons a day if both schools are there. It is extremely negligible. So 1589 capacity is not an issue. 1590 1591 Whitney Watson: I think a lot of folks on the board are conflicted about this proposal and one of their reasons is that 1592 under land use goal 3 is preserving the community and rural character and land use goal 5.6 is provide the county’s 1593 33