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• HERKES: I don't like the reasons that you've given for having a Commission. SANTANGELO: Which ones? All of them? HERKES: The fact that you have to figure out how to do sewers, and have to figure out how to do this. SANTANGELO: No, fees. HERKES: Because the County Council won't do it. That's no reason to have a Commission. The reason to have a Commission is to manage it better. The fact is that we are all willing to pay for sewers because we know that that protects our water supply, and our water supply is really important to us. No matter how these people scream and holler, and they love to scream and holler, but the fact is that it's protecting their water supply, like everybody's water supply. SANTANGELO: 1 have a couple of questions, Marni, if I could, real quick. How are you paying for sewers? HERKES: I don't own - I guess I do own a piece of the property in Volcano. I don't own any other property. SANTANGELO: But they don't pay for sewers up there. IRVINE: Nobody pays for sewers except those of us who have a pipe in front of our house. HERKES: That's all right. IRVINE: It's all right by you. You don't have a pipe in front of your house. SANTANGELO: So, it's just that, duties and - RAY: I think what we're trying to focus on is would a Commission help in terms of dealing with these dynamics, and in terms of planning, in terms of administration, in terms of fee structure. That's what we just threw out on the table for discussion. Let John finish. SANTANGELO: A real quick thing. Just to read a couple of these things. The primary responsibility of this committee, or Commission, is to recommend actions to the Department of Public Works regarding solid waste management or environmental issues which the committee has reviewed and warrant the department's consideration. It's just putting something there that does liaison between the two, and again, it was wrong of me to bring up the pay -as -you -throw issue, which was separate from Recycle 32