making sure everything is accurate as possible," Markowsky said.

"There’s a considerable disagreement between the development and building community and the (consultant’s) report," Moore said following the three-hour meeting between representatives of the home building industry and Hemson Consulting.

"The reaction of the room — disappointed," Moore said. "Disappointed in the numbers, disappointed in the process. There was a fair amount of frustration in the room."

Two dozen home-builders and developers gathered at the St. James Civic Centre auditorium to review the data compiled by Hemson and then spent the bulk of the morning questioning the consultant’s methods and conclusions.

Hemson Consulting was hired to prepare a report examining the cost of projected city services over a 25-year time frame, broken down into several categories such as policing, parks and open spaces,carton in several material respects. Instead of applying the sealing coating after the carton is almost completely formed, the coating of thermoplastic is applied to a paperboard web by extruding it as a thin film onto the paperboard web as one of the earliest steps in the formation of the carton and before any of the other steps are performed such as cutting a blank from the web, scoring and folding it, and the like. After coating, the web is cut into blanks, which are scored and folded into cartons and its bottom structure is sealed by applying heat to the overlapping flaps or panels by which the bottom structure is formed, the heat bringing the thermoplastic between adjacent surfaces. Similarly where the carton has a gable top,