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q. Major Issues to be Examined <br />Hew areas to be addressed in the Policy Plan will include fiscal impacts, <br />monitoring implementation of the plan, provision of service in a period of <br />declining growth rate and extensive infrastructure rehabilitation needs. Areas <br />of the existing plan that need to be reviewed include basic provision of ser- <br />vice, residuals handling, optimum system configuration, water quality, system <br />priorities and relationship to other metropolitan system plans. The planning <br />and investment strategy, geographic policy area recommendations, and forecasts <br />of population, households and employment in the 1986 revision of the Council's <br />Metropolitan Development and Investment Framework (MDIF) will be incorporated <br />into the issues discussion.- Tha intent is to address the issues to the level . <br />necessary to develop policy positions, as well as directions for the MWCC, who <br />will then carry out the necessary detailed investigations as part of its <br />Implementation Program. Some of the issues will be addressed jointly between <br />the Council and th? MHCC. Specific issues to be addressed include: <br />a) What are the Counoil's goals for providing sewer service throughout the <br />Metropolitan Area and how can the goals be best accomplished? How should <br />decisions be made providing service to previously unserved areas? <br />b) What are the fiscal implications of implementing the system plan? How will <br />the system cost be financed, given declining federal and state funds? What <br />will be the effects on sewer service charges and on bonded indebtedness? <br />Are the revenue sources being used to finance the sewer system appropriate <br />and are the financing mechanisms equitable and efficient? <br />c) How will new facilities, upkeep and rehabilitation of existing facilities, _ <br />and provision of excess capacity to meet future service needs be financed?; <br />How can the Council and the MWCC most responsibly acquire the funds to <br />properly operate the sewer service system? <br />d) Do he Council and the MWCC know enough about the physical condition of the <br />existing system to be able to plan for its rehabilitation or replacement in <br />a cost-effective manner? What are the fiscal implications of modernizing . <br />the system? What are the life cycles of new facilities and can the cycles <br />be extended through better management? <br />e) How does the sewer system relate to other metropolitan systems? What role <br />does it play in containing urban sprawl and shaping development? Can it be <br />used as an economic development tool? <br />f) Should a new priority system be developed to build projects, given the <br />increasing fiscal constraints caused by limited federal and state grants? <br />What facet(s) of providing sewer service and treatment should be given top <br />priority when funds are limited? <br />g) Should wastewater treatment residuals (that is, sludge) be incinerated, <br />land -applied or composted, or somehow used in the production of a saleable <br />product, such as asphalt? Should residuals continue to be hauled <br />longdistances between wastewater treatment facilities? <br />h) Should there be a continued effort to centralize treatment facilities to <br />gain economic efficiency or should facilities be decentralized to provide <br />smaller facilities close to residual use centers, such as farming centers, <br />and to diffuse effluent loadings among more reaches of the river system? <br />