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Trevor Miller With the provisions for upgrading homeowners' tanks, and the possibility of a few emergency pump-outs per year, this sounds like a fair compromise. I think most people can see that two to three pump-outs per week isn't reasonable for the city to absorb indefinitely. Giving homeowners a year is a fair amount of time, and the subsidy will cost the city much less in the long run than what we spend currently. If an in-town resident used two to three times more water than average, it would be fair if his water bill reflected that extra use; it's not unfair for Channing residents to have a similar cost. Ken Mansell This would seem to be a fair proposal at one pump out per week. Subsidizing for larger tank upgrades also should help those needing more. When I came to Flin Flon 34 years ago, nearly every councillor and mayor promised water and sewer for Channing at election time; looks like this is as good as it is going to get. We got a multi-million dollar water treatment plant without even asking for it. We were told we had to have it. The price tag on this could have easily brought water and sewage pipes for every Wally Heights and Channing home. Denny Hyndman Absolutely. Right now I'm actually staying at a place that requires pump-out services, and even if it is just a small number of Channing residents getting two or three pump-outs a week, it's excessive and it's an abuse of the system. You want to make sure that everybody is on an even playing field for future development, and to make sure that the system is fair. Things have to evolve. Flin Flon has a dwindling tax base and we have to pull together, all of us, to make things as cost-effective as possible for everybody and better for everybody.
