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<br />~62 <br /> <br />JANUARY 24, 1984 <br /> <br />TUESDAY <br /> <br />3. Why is there an urgency to expand or enlarge either the City's <br />treatment plant or the PSA's Koehler treatment plant, or both, <br />when available data indicates--looking toward a combined or area <br />treatment capacity of 16.0 MGD twenty years hence--the City's <br />plant need not be expanded until 1989-1994 and the Koehler <br />plant need not be expanded until 1986-l987? <br /> <br />4. What will the cost be for preparing detailed plans and <br />specifications for the proposed odor-control improvements <br />at the City's treatment plant? <br /> <br />5. Does acceptance of City Manager Edmonds' recommendations <br />commit or bind the Council, should negotiations with the <br />Henry County Public Service Authority (for diverting the <br />City's Jones Creek Interceptor flow to the PSA's Koehler <br />plant) not be authorized, to authorize--and proceed with-- <br />the expansion of the City's treatment plant from 6.0 MGD <br />to 8.0 MGD? <br /> <br />In response, Mr. Edmonds indicated that the effect upon consumer rates depends upon <br /> <br />many variables and, also, upon the result of negotiations with the PSA; that, in light <br /> <br />of new concepts being recently introduced regarding a possible third treatment plant <br /> <br />and buy-in changes, on-going negotiations over the past several years are considered <br /> <br />terminated and, therefore, a new authorization from Council to resume negotiations is <br /> <br />deemed advisable; and, the need to expand the City's plant has already been stressed. <br /> <br />With regard to the cost of preparing detailed plans and specifications for the proposed <br /> <br />odor-control improvements, Mr. Tom Crush (who was present, representing Wiley & Wilson) <br /> <br />estimated the cost to be $60,000.00 (i.e., 6% of the estimated cost of $1,000,000.00 <br /> <br />for the improvements). And, as to the motion to accept City Manager Edmonds' <br /> <br />recommendations, Councilman West asserted that the Council would not be in any way <br /> <br />presently commiting or obligating itself to authorizing expansion of the City's <br /> <br />treatment plant. Concerns were also expressed, particularly by Vice-Mayor Oakes, <br /> <br />regarding capital costs, future operating-maintenance costs, the need to place the <br /> <br />City's treatment plant in a position to process present and increasing industrial <br /> <br />wastes, and the need for joint efforts (i.e., by the City and the Henry County PSA) <br /> <br />to prepare to meet future flow demands; whereas Councilmember Severt concluded that, <br />