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. ti Task 2 Once these reviews are conducted and the consultant becomes knowledgeable about the background information and data, the consultant will meet withproject management staff to identify additional information needed (if any), to access spreadsheets and models, and to determine additional evaluations and/or calculations that should be completed. Task 3 The consultant will identify any situations in the State of Oregon in which municipal wastewater services were extended from a defined service area to a new user outside of that service area, preferably involving a regional wastewater system of similar size and structure to the MWMC. The consultant will identify any case examples which provide some degree of basic comparability to the current evaluation. Comparability would be assessed on the basis of those situations involving the same basic policy parameters that have been established for this project, in order to achieve an "apples-to-apples" comparison. Particulaz emphasis will . be given on the direction to avoid any subsidies from current or future Eugene/Springfield customers. Case examples should be relatively recent (within the past 5 years), and should be able to reveal clearly identified costing methodology and related policy decisions. If the consultant is able to identify parallel case examples, they are to summarize the methods, analyses; and policy choices that were relevant to determining the connection costs that were ultimately applied in the example. Task 4 The consultant will meet with project management staff to surnrnarize the results of the case example survey, discuss the findings, and recommend a methodology for developing the final connection cost estimates for the expansion of wastewater services from the local (Eugene) and regional (1vIWMC) wastewater systems to the City of Coburg. Task 5 The consultant will provide a final draft report and accompanying documentation to project management staff for review. - Task 6 The consultant will prepare the final report, and present the report to governing bodies and answer any questions they may have. Proiect Assumptions and Base Line Parameters Certain assumptions and parameters have been established by the elected officials for this connection cost analysis. The following project pazameters have been reviewed by the city councils and serve as the foundation for this cost calculation. • Existing,and future wastewater customers within the current MWMC service azea will not absorb or subsidize the costs of providing capacity, infrastructure or service to Coburg's wastewater customers. • Cost calculations will be done with the purpose of establishing equity among all customers, MWMC and Coburg. (The MWMC IGA expresses this as a financial planning/implementation requirement as follows: Section 3.f.4.-"Ensuring equity between newly connected andpreviously connected users for their total contributions toward the Regional Sewerage Facilities," and Section 3.f.5.-"Ensuring equity between various classes of users based on the volume, strength and flow rate characteristics of their discharges together with any other relevant factors identified by the Commission.") Coburg's connection charges will be based on the aggregation of each new sewer user connected to the Coburg collection system, in terms of user category, flow, and load. Coburg will pay a prorated share of the local and regional system capacity used, as well as the facilities, buildings, planning, permitting and other appropriate costs.