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<br />I <br /> <br />to have to do it in proportion to the manner in which the metered people <br />have already paid for their facilities and have a justifiable increment <br />you can put onto their bills or some other benefit like I mentioned, <br />such as the 17,000 acre-feet. They should logically pay for it, taking <br />into account the fact that these non-metered people maybe should pay <br />$125 for the :minimum installation cost for a meter like.you and I and <br />everybody else have, and then let the subsidy maybe fall in the :category <br />of that special cost that they are subject to because of the increased <br />cost through no condition over which they had control but just because <br />they happended to live in a house that's seventy-five years old and the <br />cost is going to be that much greater. There might be the subsidy, <br />you see, that those people get. We don't have the studies to pinpoint <br />that for you, Bob, I am sorry. <br /> <br />MR. SPARKS: I might elaborate on that a bit. Before we hand out any <br />money, a final contract must be entered into between this board and' <br />the sponsoring entity. That contract spells out the rates and the . <br />method by which.the money will be used. This board actually will <br />retain ownership of the meters which.it installs until they are paid <br />for. .All of the .details of how the money is to be paid back and the <br />rates to be set are contained in the contract and must be agreeable to <br />this board before.the money is spent. <br /> <br />As far as turning down other cOllIlIlunities and saying "No" to them, we <br />haven't turned down any cOllIlIlunity in this state. We have approved <br />every application from a cOllIlIlunity which has been made to this board <br />and for which we have come up with a feasible project. I assume that <br />such will be the practice in the future. Actually, probably about <br />75 percent:of all the people in this state are already on meters, and <br />today we are.installing meters. In virtually every project which the <br />board has approved, we made that a condition. In Delta, most of the <br />money that we have there is for metering, and in many of the other <br />communities. Some of them are already metered. We are not put in the <br />position of having to turn anybody down at this point. .Our only <br />limitation is the amount of money appropriated by the General Assembly. <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />MR. SHERMAN: Bob, I would like to add that the bill is only for an <br />authorization. I don't think that there is any possibility in this <br />session that the legislature.will actually appropriate:money for that <br />use. I think we will have another crack at reviewing specific pro- <br />posals that are coming forward at the time an appropriation would come <br />up for legislative consideration. <br /> <br />MR. JACKSON: Well, I think that we should have a set of standards <br />because it would be unfair to do it otherwise. <br /> <br />MR. KROEGER:. Are there other questions from the board? Is there <br /> <br />-11- <br />