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� � � �� 24 problem. I know you cited a lot ef villages like Hopkins� Fridley� Brooklyn C�nter. Their problems are a lot different. I suppcse you might even goia the Village of New Brighton and say how dc we compare to New Brighton. In New Brighton th�y'ra paying $7.5C per front foot plus somQthing on gen�ral taxes plus 570.00 extra for a service charge run out te your prop�rty line. I hava talked to many engineers and they said with tha problems we have in eur village that's what we're faced r,ith. Nde're either geing tc livo up to them or d�_: withcut tfiem. There's nc simple way cf dcing these things. Water jusi doesn't flc�v up hill. You he,ve to put in lift statiens. We talked about private treatment plants - ccnsidQxed gcing throuqh the r'tirsenal, and as far as we have been able tc determine, this is the most economical and feasible way cf doing it. If there are any cther experts on hew it can be done cheaper. - I know I for one weuld be one of the first to find it and de it. MR. CHRISTENSEN: The thing I was wcndering abcut is this. If I go to build a house I get estim�tes frcro several contractors and on a thing like this I wonder why ��e cnly have an estimate frcm one firm avhen there are so many around us that sre engaged in the same businQss. !��?. 'rdILLIAk BFNISTEA, B, nister Engineering Company: I'm � Air. Sanister, onQ of tho partners af the Banist6r EngineeTing Cempany. I^ the fi.rst place, we have nothing tc do with the building of the sewers. '��Q design it and dc not build it. To call ir, differen�. engineers - we d:n't do this work for nothing. W� have raada this prQliminary study and have been paid for it. As far as cur position is ccncerned, �ue act - I think T might clarify it for you - we act in the same posfticn as you wouid expect an architect tc act fcr ycu if ycu hsd an architect design youn c�use. And if you calied in cthe= engineers, you would heve tc pay each one to make an independent