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20 JULY 28, 1981 TUESDAY and almost on schedule, and upon Mr. Fitts' and City Manager Edmonds' recommendation, Council unanimously authorized the purchase of four additional CRT terminals, estimated to cost $3,200.00 each, to meet the system implementation and expanded usage of the system. This purchase, plus an amount which will be due Southern Data Systems upon contract completion, will place the City's total investment in the data processing system at $202,842.00, which is proposed to be financed on a lease-purchase arrangement over a five-year period, for which the sum of $44,625.00 has been budgeted for 1981-82, the first of five years, which budgeted amount is estimated to be sufficient to cover the City's obligation (once a lease- purchase contract is entered into, probably within the next month or two) for 1981-82. In response to a recent request that the City's minimum monthly water and sewer service charges be reduced, as filed by Mr. Howard Lenderking of 1118 Corn Tassel Trail, who pointed out that he and many other like-retired consumers use less than the 4,000 gallons minimum each month but are charged for the minimum, City Manager Edmonds presented an analysis, by consumption groups of water customers, which indicated that 52.7% of the City's custome~are within the minimum consumption bracket (i.e., 4,000 gallons or less per month), using 8.6% of the water sold and producing 19.36% of the revenue. This analysis continued in the same manner, again, by consumption- usage groups, further indicating that those users of 100,000 gallons or more per month constitute .5% of the total customers, who account for 66.7% of total water sold and 42.73% of total water revenue. City Manager Edmonds pointed out that, for the City to meet its water budgetary requirements, any reduction in the minimum charge would necessarily have to be passed on to