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In C":l ~ interest -- the school district, the city, and the county. The school district will have to bear the largest costs of the expanding population. Total education costs will rise from $75,000 in 1975 to $1,737,000 in 1977; this increase is due largely to the need for additional capital construction to meet the peak demand of 1977. In 1978 and thereafter no additional capital construction is seen as necessary, but operating costs will average an estimated $405,000 annually. (It has been assumed that certain capital costs are actually incurred prior to 1977; otherwise these figures would increase.) Revenue will increase slowly through 1976, then begin to increase quite rapidly as plant and housing construction is assessed and taxed. These early low revenue years are when great capital expenditures are needed for school construction purposes. However, tax revenue catches up very quickly: it triples to $1,462,500 in 1978, and nearly doubles agairt in 1979. It should be noted also that the annual property tax due just to plant and plant-related housing and commercial activity in 1979 is greater than the total operating and capital expense needs for the period 1975-1979 inclusive. It seems clear, therefore, that what is needed is some temporary source of funds for a three or four year period while school construction and operating costs rise rapidly. If the school mill levy remains at approximately 43 mills as it is in 1973, the financial bind should be over by 1979. Total costs will be lower for the City of Craig, ranging from $108,000 in 1975 to $957,000 in 1977. However, plant-related revenues for the city are also much lower never exceeding $100,000 until 1978 after the expendi- . ture needs have passed. The main reason for this is that the city will be required to provide most if not all of the social services for the greatly expanded population, but will not be able to tax the power plant installation iv