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2f TUESDAY JANUARY 24, 1984 -- Likewise, talk of parallel systems for domestic and industrial waste is naive. And prolonged discussion of significantly different pretreatment requirements on local industries will prove to be dead-end, for financial and political reasons. - 6. There is much talk of "region" and new calls for City-County cooperation. But the financial interests of the City and County's respective rate payers are not identical in this case. If the Council agrees to have us return to negotiations with P.S.A. on the idea of going to Koehler first, this should not be viewed by anyone as an irrevocable commitment to that idea. Otherwise, there won't be any negotiation to it. You should, in short, remain willing to expand our plant, with or without P.S.A. 's participation, if a mutually favorable new sewage agreement can't be agreed on speedily. Any renewed negotiation should be left to the administrators and engineers. With all due respect, the involvement of policy makers in technical negotiations is almost always counter-productive. If you don't get in the middle of the nitty-gritty trade-offs, you can maintain your independence and objectiveness when it comes time to decide about the overall result of the negotiations. Recommendation I concur with Wiley & Wilson's recommendation of January 10, 1984. You should immediately authorize Wiley & Wilson to proceed with detailed plans for digester and odor control improvements at our plant. You should simultaneously authorize us to resume negotiations with P.S.A., to cut the best deal we can for diverting the Jones Creek interceptor to Koehler. Failing that, you should stand ready to authorize without delay the expansion of our plant from 6.0 to 8.0 MGD. - At the conclusion of this report presentation, Councilman West offered a motion, seconded by Vice-Mayor Oakes, that Council accept the City Manager's recommendations, as set forth in the report. In the ensuing discussion of the motion and the report, a number of questions were posed, such as: 1. What will be the City's cost (of implementing the recommendations), who will pay, and what will be the effect upon the City's customers (i.e., service charge rates)? 2. Why is authorization needed "....to resume negotiations with (the) PSA...."?