KENT COUNTY, MARYLAND
COUNTY COMMISSIONER'S

PUBLIC HEARING - 8/29/2000

COMPREHENSIVE WATER & SEWERAGE PLAN AMENDMENT

A Public Hearing was held on August 29, 2000 at 1:00 p.m. in the County Commissioners' Hearing Room, County Government Center, 400 High Street, Chestertown, Maryland. The purpose of the hearing is to consider application for amendment to the Kent County Water and Sewer Plan as follows:

Section I-8, of the County's Comprehensive Water and Sewerage Plan, "Recapturing unused Water and Sewer Allocations" also, revising appendix IV the, "Kent County Commissioners' Sewer Allocation Policy" by inserting and deleting language in the "Recapturing Allocations" Section.

The following is a summary of the proposed revisions: the Commissioners are proposing to allow projects exceeding 5000 gallons per day to post a Letter of Credit guaranteeing full payment within three (3) years conditioned on payment of the allocation fees in installments within the three (3) years.

The proposed revisions are for any new users and would not impact existing users of any system.

County Commissioners Ronald H. Fithian, Larry B. Beck and W. Michael Newnam were in attendance as well as Wayne Morris, Director, Department of Water and Wastewater Services, Ernest Cookerly Attorney representing the County, and Jim Wright, County Engineer,

Notice of the Public Hearing was read into the record by Commissioner Newnam.

Mr. Morris emphasized that the purpose of the amendment was to amend allocation fee procedures.

There was no other member of the general public that wished to speak for or against this amendment.

This hearing was taped for reference and adjourned at 1:11 p.m.