WEBVTT 00:00:07.139 --> 00:00:09.139 friends and neighbors and citizens of Metropolitan phoenix. Next Tuesday 00:00:13.220 --> 00:00:18.977 August 17, you will make an important decision on that day. You will vote 00:00:19.010 --> 00:00:24.846 for progress in our community. If you live in the city of phoenix, you 00:00:24.879 --> 00:00:30.416 will vote on the Metropolitan sewer proposal by voting to issue bonds to 00:00:30.449 --> 00:00:35.567 construct the trunk line sewer systems north and northeast of phoenix. If 00:00:35.600 --> 00:00:39.396 you live in one of the sanitary districts, you will vote to ratify the 00:00:39.429 --> 00:00:44.436 contract under which the residents of the sanitary districts will repay 00:00:44.469 --> 00:00:50.217 the city the cost of those trunk lines sewers. If you vote yes for these 00:00:50.250 --> 00:00:56.717 proposals, you will be voting for a coordinated interrogated community 00:00:56.750 --> 00:01:01.737 plan, which will eliminate the cesspool Menace, do away with the 00:01:01.770 --> 00:01:05.546 inconvenience of pumping cesspools of having them back up and flood your 00:01:05.579 --> 00:01:10.697 homes and which will materially improve the public health conditions in 00:01:10.730 --> 00:01:17.426 our community. In the studio, we have mister David Campbell, chairman of 00:01:17.459 --> 00:01:23.367 the board of directors of Phoenix Sanitary District # one Mr Campbell, a 00:01:23.400 --> 00:01:26.986 good citizen of our community, has worked on this project for more than 00:01:27.019 --> 00:01:30.917 two years. He has been a party to all the negotiations between our 00:01:30.950 --> 00:01:37.147 district and the city of phoenix. And we've asked mr Campbell to tell us 00:01:37.180 --> 00:01:40.926 of the beginning of this sanitary district, the development of the 00:01:40.959 --> 00:01:46.296 contract and his opinion of the present proposals. Dave Campbell. Well 00:01:46.329 --> 00:01:51.206 steve the beginning of the district as far as I was concerned, started 00:01:51.239 --> 00:01:55.786 with the building of the camelback high school, I live just a short 00:01:55.819 --> 00:02:00.387 distance from the school and thought that they would be putting in a sewer 00:02:00.420 --> 00:02:05.807 line to connect with the city uh disposal plant. As so many schools have 00:02:05.840 --> 00:02:09.626 done outside the city limits. You mean Camelback High school is not on a 00:02:09.659 --> 00:02:15.297 sewer. Camelback high school is not on a sewer line. And we were willing 00:02:15.330 --> 00:02:21.186 to pay a share of that cost in order to hook up to a sewer because we've 00:02:21.219 --> 00:02:28.106 been there five years and we definitely have a terrific cesspool problem. 00:02:28.139 --> 00:02:33.580 We did not know that other people in the area. We're doing the same thing. 00:02:34.139 --> 00:02:36.139 We found out when we went to the board of supervisors that there were a 00:02:37.979 --> 00:02:43.707 number of areas that had asked to hook up to a sewer line in one way or 00:02:43.740 --> 00:02:48.596 another and that was the actual formation of the sanitary district. When I 00:02:48.629 --> 00:02:51.457 got into it at the start, I thought it was just a small neighborhood 00:02:51.490 --> 00:02:56.177 affair and now I'm convinced that has gone into one of the greatest things 00:02:56.210 --> 00:03:00.247 that's ever happened to phoenix in the entire valley. Dave. How big is 00:03:00.280 --> 00:03:06.126 phoenix sanitary district, number one, it's estimated at 26 square miles 00:03:06.159 --> 00:03:12.027 Dave. How many people live In that area? 35,000 people. And I believe 00:03:12.060 --> 00:03:16.457 they're served now by about 15 Cesspools. Is that right? That is correct. 00:03:16.490 --> 00:03:21.316 There is no other, a way of sanitary waste disposal available to these 00:03:21.349 --> 00:03:26.036 people. There is none, whatever. Dave, can you imagine those of us who 00:03:26.069 --> 00:03:30.237 live out there being content to live in a community of that size with that 00:03:30.270 --> 00:03:35.767 many people and have only cesspools and septic tanks. I can't, and that's 00:03:35.800 --> 00:03:41.397 why I put so much work in on it and I can see one of these days, it's 00:03:41.430 --> 00:03:45.286 going to hamper the development of the area. Do you know that certain 00:03:45.319 --> 00:03:48.557 insurance companies won't make loans out here because we don't have a 00:03:48.590 --> 00:03:52.897 sewer system? I've heard that, but I know definitely that uh, there are 00:03:52.930 --> 00:03:56.196 certain industrial developments that haven't come here because we don't 00:03:56.229 --> 00:04:01.166 have sewage disposal and a phoenix sanitary district number one does 00:04:01.199 --> 00:04:04.936 extend down into that industrial area lying southeast of phoenix along the 00:04:04.969 --> 00:04:10.376 railroad tracks, doesn't it? Yes, we do. Well, Dave, if these people need 00:04:10.409 --> 00:04:14.737 a sewer system and certainly that should be obvious to all of us and if 00:04:14.770 --> 00:04:18.337 there is a health menace and there again, that too is obvious. The thing 00:04:18.370 --> 00:04:22.536 which I think concerns most people is the cost. Is this going to be an 00:04:22.569 --> 00:04:28.606 expensive proposal? It is not. I believe it's the most economical proposal 00:04:28.639 --> 00:04:33.637 that can ever be attained. Now, I've been in a number of negotiations with 00:04:33.670 --> 00:04:39.176 the city. Uh, we have investigated thoroughly the possibility of our own 00:04:39.209 --> 00:04:45.246 disposal plant and we have come up with a plan With the city of Phoenix in 00:04:45.279 --> 00:04:50.906 cooperation with them, that will actually save us over $200,000. 00:04:50.939 --> 00:04:54.806 Now, there are a lot of people that advocated the independent plan. I was 00:04:54.839 --> 00:04:59.916 one of them. I was hard to convince, and we have come out with what I 00:04:59.949 --> 00:05:03.676 think is the finest contract that's ever been negotiated? Well, David, 00:05:03.709 --> 00:05:07.137 first, the city wasn't willing to give you that excess plant capacity. 00:05:07.170 --> 00:05:11.036 That is correct. On the other hand, the city was not anxious to have us 00:05:11.069 --> 00:05:16.796 build our own plant. So now, as I understand this proposal, The city is 00:05:16.829 --> 00:05:20.837 making available to those of us who live in the Phoenix Sanitary District 00:05:20.870 --> 00:05:25.627 #1 and also our neighbors in North Phoenix, the excess plant capacity in 00:05:25.660 --> 00:05:29.457 the present city disposal plant at no cost. That is correct. We will have 00:05:29.490 --> 00:05:34.627 a plant capacity of 7.5 million gallons per day. And that will cost us 00:05:34.660 --> 00:05:38.717 nothing that will cost us nothing except the actual cost of treating the 00:05:38.750 --> 00:05:42.127 service, treating the surge. And then we're going to be expected to pay 00:05:42.160 --> 00:05:46.257 for our own trunk lines, sewers. That is correct. We will repay the city 00:05:46.290 --> 00:05:50.496 of phoenix for the bonds that they issue to pay for those top lines Today. 00:05:50.529 --> 00:05:55.687 Let's take a typical situation out north, A man who owns a nice home in 00:05:55.720 --> 00:06:00.346 an average subdivision with a lot 75 ft wide. About what's it going to 00:06:00.379 --> 00:06:08.379 cost him? Well, he is going to pay a 30 cent uh per 100 valuation tax rate 00:06:08.800 --> 00:06:14.697 and the average home out there is assessed at $3,000. Mine is not, I have. 00:06:14.730 --> 00:06:20.967 Well, possibly, it's a not quite average. My assessment is 2700 but 3000 00:06:21.000 --> 00:06:26.527 fair figure. And that will cost him $9 per year. You mean $9 a year or 75 00:06:26.560 --> 00:06:29.556 cents a month is all it's going to cost him for the trunk line sewers. 00:06:29.589 --> 00:06:35.056 That is all. Until he actually hooks up well out in order to hook up. What 00:06:35.089 --> 00:06:40.637 must he do? He must form an improvement district with his neighbors the 00:06:40.670 --> 00:06:44.007 same as he would have to do inside the city limits of phoenix. In other 00:06:44.040 --> 00:06:47.257 words, people in neighborhood get together and say, let's build a lateral 00:06:47.290 --> 00:06:52.137 down our alley or down our street to enable us to discharge our sewage 00:06:52.170 --> 00:06:55.777 into the lateral, which will carry to the trunk line. That's right. And in 00:06:55.810 --> 00:06:59.827 that way they save a lot of costs when they get together and yes, that's 00:06:59.860 --> 00:07:03.796 neighborhood improvement. What we do it for irrigation water and we do it 00:07:03.829 --> 00:07:07.856 for streets and we do it for sidewalks and curbs. It's the american way of 00:07:07.889 --> 00:07:12.527 improving our home neighborhood. That's right. And steve the, the cost of 00:07:12.560 --> 00:07:18.166 the district like that is not high. Your lines are not as large as your 00:07:18.199 --> 00:07:23.416 main lines And for the average home will go back the $3,000 assessed 00:07:23.449 --> 00:07:30.306 valuation. uh it will cost them about $2 a month For 10 years. That's if 00:07:30.339 --> 00:07:33.746 they elect the finances. If they elect the finances. If they want to pay 00:07:33.779 --> 00:07:37.926 it in cash, they'll get off without the Internet cash cost will be about 00:07:37.959 --> 00:07:42.337 $200 per lot or less. As a matter of fact, Dave, it has to be a good deal 00:07:42.370 --> 00:07:45.817 less, isn't it? I know we had one engineer today and it came out at just 00:07:45.850 --> 00:07:51.397 about $100 per lot for a nice subdivision which is located near 24th and 00:07:51.430 --> 00:07:59.096 Thomas Road. That is to the improvement costs do vary according to the 00:07:59.129 --> 00:08:04.717 size of a lot, the depth of a lot and how far the lateral lines after. Yes. 00:08:04.750 --> 00:08:08.906 And whether there's an alley available in which to put the lateral line 00:08:08.939 --> 00:08:13.317 Well Dave then this homeowner who's paying 75 cents a month in sanitary 00:08:13.350 --> 00:08:18.346 district number one for his trunk lines and who has elected to pay his 00:08:18.379 --> 00:08:23.567 improvement district On a 10-year plan is paying $2 a month or less for 00:08:23.600 --> 00:08:28.096 that has one more charge, doesn't he? He certainly does. That is what we 00:08:28.129 --> 00:08:33.337 call a service charge for a one bathroom home. It's a dollar 35 a month 00:08:33.370 --> 00:08:39.146 with two bathrooms and more as $2 a month. The reason for that is this, we 00:08:39.179 --> 00:08:43.797 feel that in this way the people are paying for the sewage only when they 00:08:43.830 --> 00:08:49.967 use it and also out in our area, we have a lot of undeveloped land that 00:08:50.000 --> 00:08:55.407 one of these days will be built up. Its building awfully rapidly out there 00:08:55.440 --> 00:08:59.927 and the new subdivisions going in through the service charge will help to 00:08:59.960 --> 00:09:04.246 pay for the initial cost. In other words, you're going to pay for the 00:09:04.279 --> 00:09:07.996 story if you use the sewer that we have a total maximum cost for this 00:09:08.029 --> 00:09:12.346 individual in a nice house. A house worth 10 or $12,000 in a nice 00:09:12.379 --> 00:09:19.327 subdivision of $4.10 for the 1st 10 years and $2 and 10 cents per month 00:09:19.360 --> 00:09:23.837 for the next 10 years. I might point out to Steve that in the event any 00:09:23.870 --> 00:09:29.797 part of the area is annexed. Uh the homeowner is relieved of his tax rate 00:09:29.830 --> 00:09:33.366 charge and his service charge. Yes. When he goes in the city, the city 00:09:33.399 --> 00:09:36.886 takes over the special charges of the sanitary district. That's correct. 00:09:36.919 --> 00:09:39.587 Dave. I think artists might be interested to know that just a moment ago. 00:09:39.620 --> 00:09:43.636 All the power went off in the studio, we sat here for about five minutes 00:09:43.669 --> 00:09:47.016 until it was restored and then we had to pick up our discussion of the 00:09:47.049 --> 00:09:51.307 sewer proposal just where we were. Uh Dave. It was not a great 00:09:51.340 --> 00:09:57.077 inconvenience, but what happens when your cesspool backs up? I don't know 00:09:57.110 --> 00:10:00.797 how many people have seen what has happened when assessed pull backs up. I 00:10:00.830 --> 00:10:07.537 have, I have a friend of mine who paid $600 to replace a rug. You don't 00:10:07.570 --> 00:10:10.837 get it fixed in five minutes either. Do you know? It takes a long time and 00:10:10.870 --> 00:10:15.317 it takes an awful long time to get that house cleaned up and those things 00:10:15.350 --> 00:10:19.657 do happen. We are so accustomed in our society to all the conveniences 00:10:19.690 --> 00:10:23.506 that sometimes we take for granted the wonderful convenience of 00:10:23.539 --> 00:10:27.866 electricity, of water. And certainly when you have a good sewer system it 00:10:27.899 --> 00:10:32.917 becomes just as dependable as all of the other utility service would mean 00:10:32.950 --> 00:10:38.136 so much to us. Dave some of the people in sanitary district number one are 00:10:38.169 --> 00:10:42.457 already on a city sewer and are paying a service charge to the city for 00:10:42.490 --> 00:10:48.106 that sewer. What happens to those people, those people 00:10:48.139 --> 00:10:54.146 in that area? Uh The contract they have with the city will be turned over 00:10:54.179 --> 00:10:58.577 to us and we have and the city has protected them to this extent. There is 00:10:58.610 --> 00:11:03.077 a clause in the contract which says that at no time can the sanitary 00:11:03.110 --> 00:11:06.697 district charge them more than what they are presently paying the city. 00:11:06.730 --> 00:11:09.707 Well, are you going to charge them more? No, we are going to charge them 00:11:09.740 --> 00:11:15.047 less. I'll give you an illustration now. We'll take the stag subdivision 00:11:15.080 --> 00:11:19.256 out on east thomas road. Yes, some lovely homes. Uh The builder, they're 00:11:19.289 --> 00:11:24.616 put in this line to the city. And as laterals, those people have sewage, 00:11:24.649 --> 00:11:28.207 they're being served by the city sewer And they are paying a monthly 00:11:28.240 --> 00:11:34.807 charge of 250 per month for one bathroom C50 for a bath and a half and 375 00:11:34.840 --> 00:11:39.707 for too bad. Now in the sanitary district 00:11:39.740 --> 00:11:44.337 uh Let's go back to facing that on a yearly charge. It costs them for one 00:11:44.370 --> 00:11:52.006 bath, $30 a year for bath and a half, $42. And for two bathroom home, $45 00:11:52.039 --> 00:11:57.217 onto the sanitary district charges. They would pay for the one bathroom 00:11:57.250 --> 00:12:03.417 home $23.20 a year as opposed to $30 a year at the present time, which is 00:12:03.450 --> 00:12:08.907 a savings of $6.80 For the bath and a half. They'll be paying $30 instead 00:12:08.940 --> 00:12:14.476 of $42. A saving of $12. And for the two bathroom home, they'll be paying 00:12:14.509 --> 00:12:19.817 $30 instead of $45, but an actual saving of $15 a year. Well, certainly 00:12:19.850 --> 00:12:24.116 those people should welcome the construction of this cooperative community 00:12:24.149 --> 00:12:28.606 plan. Dave is this plan designed just to take care of our problems today. 00:12:28.639 --> 00:12:32.297 This plan is not. This plan is designed to take care of the maximum 00:12:32.330 --> 00:12:35.967 population of the district in the future. Do you think there's any saving 00:12:36.000 --> 00:12:41.417 and building all these lines now as one central overall planned program 00:12:41.450 --> 00:12:47.547 over piecemeal construction as time goes on, there is a very definite 00:12:47.580 --> 00:12:51.717 saving as anyone knows when you move heavy machinery. If you can get the 00:12:51.750 --> 00:12:55.417 job done at once, you don't have to pay for moving the machinery again and 00:12:55.450 --> 00:13:00.006 again. However, all of the lines in the district will not be put in now, 00:13:00.039 --> 00:13:03.187 But all the lines where there are 50 connections per mile will be put in. 00:13:03.220 --> 00:13:07.976 That's right specifically north of the Arizona canal and be no lines put 00:13:08.009 --> 00:13:11.957 in until there are 50 house connections per mile. Thank you. Dave Campbell 00:13:11.990 --> 00:13:18.077 , good citizen who was interested in the community progress of this valley 00:13:18.110 --> 00:13:20.506 where we live, 00:13:20.539 --> 00:13:23.986 residents of the city of phoenix and the two sanitary districts. The job 00:13:24.019 --> 00:13:28.077 is up to you now by your ballot, you will decide whether we shall go 00:13:28.110 --> 00:13:32.167 forward with progress, protect our health, build our community, provide 00:13:32.200 --> 00:13:37.996 for expansion and develop this area in which we live as a modern community 00:13:38.029 --> 00:13:45.707 served by a modern sanitary sewer. 00:13:45.740 --> 00:13:47.740 Yeah.