Thank you, Madam Chair. With regard to the comment that it's a growing community and they need more land; in the case of Fort McPherson, for instance, we don't have any more lots within the community for residential areas. We're now moving out towards the airport, to look at developing a subdivision there. In our capital for that subdivision, in 1998-99, we're getting $8,000; in 1999, $39,000. 1 don't see anything in the range of $1 million. We're talking slow projects and another $20,000 to develop that, with a total of $143,000 for a community of over 1,000 people.
The balance isn't there. They are stuck in the same boat as Rankin, with regard to finding new areas to look at developing residential lots. It seems like there is a real discrepancy; everybody is probably stuck in that scenario today because the communities are growing, we have growing populations, we have a need for infrastructure. The communities are expanding, but for my community of Fort McPherson, we get $143,000; and in the case of Rankin, you get $12 million. Isn't there a balance here to justify residential development? It costs $500 a cubic yard in Rankin and it costs $1 in McPherson. Is there that much of a difference? Something isn't jibing here.
At the appropriate time, I would like to look at tabling a motion on this item.