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buying that will clean out catch basins, and help to fund that $200,000 budget. If we can go and justify being able to take care of the surface water throughout the Town in your new plan and also fund some plant improvements. If we could not raise the rates and use some of this captured money and if we take an average sewer bill of $20 a month and we don't have to raise it twenty percent or $4 a month that makes $48 fight there. Lauren is saying seven cents if we pass thru $35 million we are going to save $52.00. Lauren said actually that amount is not even with the credit, it we take the credit that is about $40. Councilman Warthen said so we could possibly save more by not raising rates for the homeowner. We could also maybe cut back on that $200,000 because we figured each penny was worth around $83,000 so possibly by amending this and being able to use some of that funding we could possibly lower the tax rote by cutting back our utility departments general fund property tax revenue. We also need a thickener for the sludge and may~ome revenue as far as man-hours for hauling waste to the Belmont So ~e lowering our operating expense at our wastewater treatment plant and allow us to build up our sewer improvement fund just by money saved there. The total plan that was proposed to the Town was 6 million dollars and I'm not saying we are going to do that plan. We have asked our wastewater superintendent to break this down into projects over the next five to seven years. Also, throughout this system we have already had to address this once on South Street. If we can take care of the infiltration problem throughout the system, we have some areas where the slip lining is actually bottling up the water and not allowing the water to go thru. We can't really address that today because we have to get the infiltration out. We did address this on South Street. We have technology today that we didn't have ten years ago to go in there and bust the pipe out and pull in a new line. It may be such a thing, we funded that South Street project with Food and Beverage, but should have been funded by the Redevelopment Commission but at that time there was any money in your funds to pay for the project. As your funds build we may come back in here and say this line here we slip lined it and now we are getting a bottle neck up line and say let's go ahead and pull in a new line. The pass thru is great, but I think we can save more money by using these funds in a different manner. I think we can target some areas we need to address, especially if we can address them on the storm water. Chairman Kollmeyer said as we amend the plan do we have to give exactly what we are going to do or can we talk in generalities like helping with some things for the wastewater treatment plant, some sewer renovations, purchasing land, do we have to identify specifically? Attorney Tim Currens said specific details were needed with the extent someone comes to a meeting and asks what you are doing, you need to identify those. You can say some general problems you intend to cure with the amendment. You need to be relative specific because that is what the outline of the plan is, your intent. On purchases of land the requirement is you need to at least have some estimate by the time you finalize that plan of what the cost of that land would be and that is because if you going to have a public hearing on this and have a plan people deserve to know how much you might be spending because this is certainly relevant. You need to have what you plan to do and an estimate of the costs to be able to explain to anyone the purpose. If you say you are ultimately going to save money in doing the plan you also need to say how C you are going to it. If you are making a finding of 'blight' you to you do need show how