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6~4 meeting to d scuss the matter and the payment of the hook-on fee, the lateral at their expense, and greement to annex. The Town will provide installation of the line azzd will need an answe zoo later than Mttrch l5, 2004. President Warthen asked if the counci wanted to go ah ad and get quotes from engineering firms and Councilman Bryant sked for the Town or 'or this project. Councilman Warthen said this project. Counci an Bryant answered es, that would help speed things along. Council agreed. C ncilman Bryant asked Joe B ikman if he had. talked to Swizzney's on the two propos ways to install the sewer line. Mr. Beikman's answer could not be heard on the rec rder. Councilman Bryant s~ "d he had what Swizzney had told him on the phon a ut did not know if he hacl faxed o er azay other information on his quotes. Attorney Ctirrens told Pr ident Warthen the wage board would ticed some appointments, one representing industry t at is appointed by the council and one representing the taxing district, the taxpayer, appoi.zt ed by the council and ozze from the county commissioners and they will ask for a sugges ion. Councilman Bryant asked if this had to be done because we were spending $1 ,OOU. Attorney Currens said yes, and this needed to be done for aaaother project comin up on the church, so we will roll all of these into the same one. Council. President as d about Boyd Heights. Attorney Currens said we would just make it Sewer Project f 2004 and use the same folks '.for the Methodist Church. Council President Warthe ~ told the council that. the last wage board Jim Ransozne and Greg Swinney served. Councilman Bryant asked what they determine. Attozl~ey Cun'ens said. there is by sta to when you set wage scale there are fzve members on the board, one representi g labor a goo meet appointmezat and they have a meeting to determine what the conzmo wage scale , hould be. Basically it is a way of setting a wage scale consistent with uni ~ a wage. It does z~ot coma back to the council at any point. Also a suggestion of a name the co my comxz~issioners can appoint needs to be given tv Tim Currens. Councilman Bryant id he might have somebody in nand but he would have to ask hire f rst. President W~ hen explained to Mr. Mudd the council had authorir,ed the acceptance of quotes for girreering services for the project and authorized legal counsel to send a letter ask~ng for attendance at the February 3, 2004 meeting and at that time it will be explainefi tv the residents the proposals the Town would like to do and will get a feel l'or w}~o will and who will not annex into the Civil Town of Mooresville and request an an~vver back by the March meeting. Mr_ Mudd asked. if he could take a petition around to get names, would that help his situation. He said as far as he knew there were twoiout of eight en homes against this: Attorney Currens said if that is done the Town would prepa a petition to set forth the things the Town would want. Councilman :[3ryant asked if 1Vl .Mudd should bring this to the next meeting. Mr. Currens said yes. lblr. Mudd said the e a lot of homeowners for this, but cost was the issue. Eric Rogers, a resident in the addition, asked how annexation would affect them. Cost is an issue with him. Councilman Bryant said this information would he provided in the petition Attorney Currens was going to draft and this information would be discussed at the meeting. He told Mr. Rogers the hook-on fee would be $900 per house, then they would have the cost of the lateral from their house to hook into the main, cost of the lateral will depend on how many feet from their house to the main. Mr. Rogers asked if there was a requirc-lxent to hook onto the sewer or if they could stay on the septic. Tizn Currens said there would be a requirement to hook-on. Councilman Bryant said the homeowner would ~llsv be required to puri~tp out septic; tank, fill with sand, and bust up the cement lici. He also told IVir. Rogers`~the tax rate would be different, the nixes would b,e going to the town of NCoaresville (the r.~1te between Brown Township and Mooresvill~j was minimal.), plus you get services, polio and fire protection, leaf pick- up, voting righ~s, and snow rerTZOVaI. _ F Councilmar~~Bryant reported to the council about the Christrz~~s bights. We received some information from different rnmpanies on this and he e some: phone calls and looked ar~iund; he did not see at~y he liked any better that the ecorations in Plainfield. They range in price and as much as you want to spend they wi~make for you. He put numbers together for 48 poles and the cost for banners for the new antique street lights and ~t<~ing conservative with a 30°li> discount for under $20,000 Iwo could get nice ones. Ther'e.~"znight bean additional cost irz h~urdware. The C1crk-Treasu~'er said they could encumber $40,000 from the Town Hall budget.:l~le is also getting a price on storage. A motion was made by Councilm~u~ Bryant and a second by Cc~imciln~an Claxk to approve encumbering $40,000 from Town 1-1a11 budget for Christmas Decorations. Motion carved 4-U. ;