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The maximum principal amount of the proposed District <br /> bonded debt, the maximum annual repayment cost thereof and the <br /> maximum total repayment cost thereof are as follows: <br /> Maximum Maximum Annual Maxi ��;•' . a <br /> Principal Amount Reoavment Cost • _ A := • 4 - - <br /> 13 , 000,000 <br /> '$3 , 000,000 $264,830 6 ,576 <br /> The principal balance of total curren • •• .ded <br /> debt and its maximum annual repayment cost and roma o <br /> District repayment cost are as follows: <br /> Principal Maximum Annual Remaining Total <br /> Balance Repayment Cost Repayment Cost, <br /> $1, 040,000 $202,785 $1, 603,285 <br /> A summary of written comments in favor of Question <br /> filed with the District's Designated Election Official by <br /> October 6, 1995, is as follows: <br /> The eligible electors of Morgan County <br /> Quality water District should vote in favor of the <br /> proposed $3,000,000 revenue bonds because it will <br /> enable the District to purchase certain water rights <br /> presently under lease to the District, thereby assuring <br /> the District and its. customers of future availability <br /> of water supply and control over cost increases. <br /> The District was formed in 1976 and began <br /> providing water service to its customers in the Fall .of <br /> 1978. The District initially supplied 587 acre feet of <br /> water to 885 taps. Those numbers have grown, and in <br /> 1994 the District supplied 1334 acre feet of water to <br /> the equivalent of 2019 taps. <br /> The principal source of the District's water <br /> supply is the Hay Gulch aquifer. In 1977, the District <br /> entered into a Water Lease with the owners of the <br /> Krause Ranch to lease this water supply. The 1977 <br /> Water Lease provides that the District must pay for a . <br /> minimum of 1000 acre feet per year and that the price <br /> for water leased thereunder would be adjusted every <br /> five years based on the Consumer Price Index. Based on <br /> these automatic increases, the price per thousand <br /> gallons of water has increased 140%. For each of the <br /> first five years, the District's payment under the <br />