 Before any official action could be taken, the Board was presented with a petition, signed by 95 percent of the district's membership, seeking to raise the fee.The Board conducted several public meetings in order to determine what it should charge to hook up the trailer court.After extensive negotiations between Mark's attorney, Phillips, and the District's attorney, Vehar, a contract was entered into on March 13, 1976, providing for the annexation of the Hopkinson property to the district and requiring the payment of a hookup fee of $300 per trailer.