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MINUTES June 1, 2000 7 BOARD OF HEALTH
<br /> Mr. Mahoney responded, "It is right now."
<br /> Mr. Ball stated, "That's the way we always understood it."
<br /> Mr. Mahoney continued, "Okay, right. But, if there's a problem, if something goes
<br /> wrong because of all of this, we have a concern. What happens to us? We're left in
<br /> the middle. We're left holding the whole thing. Something far more expensive than
<br /> what we initially could have and should have at this point probably put in."
<br /> Ms. Matthews stated, "We have no reserves for that."
<br /> Mr. Mahoney continued, "We're not a 99 Restaurant that's going to increase their
<br /> every meal by 99 cents. The town has been excellent. During all of our processes we
<br /> have had give and take with the town, with all of the departments, you people have
<br /> been wonderful. Again, I apologize if we ever mislead you, to say that we would go to
<br /> the expense of a denitrification system, because we really wouldn't. Our engineer
<br /> talked to Elias many times in the process. What I don't want is any bad taste left in
<br /> our mouth, but believe me, clearly, reserve, Title V."
<br /> Mr. Ball stated, "I guess, talk to the Board members, if their full intent is to connect
<br /> into the Talanian property, and I think that's... we discussed that a lot."
<br /> Mr. Doherty stated, "I'm not confused, but I mean, in my mind it seems that the
<br /> Commission had gotten an erroneous impression, maybe it was based on ambiguous
<br /> minutes, I'm not sure, that Life was going to be required to have the denite anyway.
<br /> As a matter of technicality, we would have liked it, we would have encouraged it, but
<br /> we couldn't have required it. Hence, I know the issue becomes the denite credits from
<br /> the Talanian project. To, in my mind, to deny them is not fair, is not right. I don't
<br /> know if we can go to the extent to say it's not legal, but we certainly couldn't have
<br /> legally imposed a denite at the time. If anything, I'm just getting the impression that
<br /> you got the wrong impression based on possibly ambiguous minutes that we provided.
<br /> I'm not sure."
<br /> Mr. Eichner stated, "Well, I don't find the minutes particularly ambiguous. But,
<br /> that's... they were submitted as part of the public record during the hearings and that
<br /> lead to a re-examination of the situation."
<br /> Mr. Talanian added, "Whatever the minutes may have said, whatever individual Board
<br /> members may have said, I think you have heard tonight from a number of sources and
<br /> I think for you to acknowledge it that whatever people may have said in terms of what
<br /> they'd like to do and what they would hope would happen..."
<br /> Mr. Eichner interupted, "These are not discussion minutes, these are motions and
<br /> seconds."
<br /> Mr. Talanian continued, "Whatever the motions they made, the point is that at the end
<br /> of the day they didn't have the power to require it."
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