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charge, not just your retail customers, but also your large user customers, and a couple of the City's large user customers, actually there is a contractual method that is different than the base extra capacity methodology. Mr. McClain said there are two or three major components that drive your financial plan in a city, and since most of your cost is fixed, one of them being growth, one of them being your salaries and benefits, and thirdly the debt service, so on page number five you can see where they are expecting minimum growth of about fifty units a year. On page number six, they have driven salaries and benefits with an average annual rate of 5% per year, all other Operational and Maintenance 4% per year with no additional staffing, granting all things being equal, the City's cost of service is going to go up 3% to 5% every year over that five year period; however, the major assumptions that do impact the future are on page seven. There is within the financial plan, they have incorporated two plan debt issues, one of them in physical year 1999, and another one in the physical year 2001, one of them being 2.3 million which will increase the cost of service by a couple $100,000.00 a year. The other one in the year 2001, 2.4 million which will also increase the cost of service about $210,000 per year. Mr. McClain said pages 8 and 9 of the rate study incorporate and show details of what drives the debt services issues. Mr. McClain said he could go into detail if it is the pleasure of the Council. He said it was incorporated from the capital improvement plan put together by the city staff. Page ten is basically a capital funding other than infrastructure finding, and it is to give ybu an idea of the other capital which is typical of things that you would not finance with a bond issue. On page eleven, the bottom line is, except for this year, the City is going where the total cost of service is going from about eight million to 9.9 million, and part of that is just simply because of the debt issue that was issued last year, and we are feeling the full impact of that. Mr. McClain said that basically the cost of