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rat, POPOVICH: No. <br />• <br />COUNCILP9AN 6400DBURN: A much shorter and better answer <br />than the question. <br />MAYOR CREPEAU: I4e did get a federal grant for between <br />$400,000 and $450,000 on sewer, I don't know how we qualified, <br />but we did. I think they had an excess in Washingtone <br />P4R, POPOVICHo Some of the money that's available today is <br />really for more rural areas - some of the smaller communities. <br />Tha Farmers Home Administration makes loans or grants - like <br />Esko, Thomson - but we don't get that. <br />COUNCILP9AN CRICHTON: Mr, Husnik said a lot of it was <br />rural, <br />P+1R, HARRY SCHROEDER, Gay Realtys I guess I'd like to <br />comment and have Mr. Christoffersen verify this, Since 1975 the <br />cost of cast iron has doubled. Labor costs increased about 50� <br />and the general increase in labor is about 12� to 15� a year. <br />If this project is delayed it will certainly (inaudible) <br />development in that area, and the ultimate installation of the <br />line would certainly cost more - substantially more than if <br />done in 1978, <br />�4R, CHRISTOFFERSEN: The last time I looked at the construc- <br />tion index, it's goinq up about 8� a year - contract costs. <br />11R, DAN VAUGHN, Arden P4anor Mobile Homes: It looks like <br />the costs have doubled in 20 years, and it's a known fact that <br />the consumer price index has increased 70& in the last ten <br />years> That doean't include the burden of income taxes, but <br />�ans the purchasing power of the dollar in the last ten years <br />has been cut in half, so it means, therefore, that you're more <br />able to pay for it today because of the purchasing power of the <br />dollar than you would have been 20 years ago under the same <br />circumstances, so Mr. Gay's argument has no (inaudible). <br />I�9AXOR CREPEAUe Things have gone up (inaudible). <br />• <br />MR, JOHN ?, (no address given); Some of us simply can't <br />afford to pay for it even today, and I think for others as well <br />as myself. <br />NIAYOR CREPEAUa If there are no more questions from the <br />floor - <br />MR, ELMER CP4IEL, 4549 Lakeshoree I get the feeling that <br />we°re doomed. Mr, Hanson pointed out that isn't a fact. <br />Everybody is getting a bad picture, T think. Tr�ould Mr. Hanson <br />say something about that? <br />COUNCILP�IADT AANSON: I'm not a water authority, but I have <br />the same well man that put in the well for Mr. Lawyer and I'm <br />(inaudible) city water (inaudibin) raised two children (inaudible) <br />25 <br />