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TUESDAY MAY 8, 1984 I strongly urge the Council to forego further negotiation on diversion-first and authorize Wiley & Wilson to proceed with all deliberate speed to develop drawings and specifications for expansion of our plant to an 8.0 MGD capacity. Such authorization would extend through the point of receiving construction bids. I consider this recommendation to be privately rendered to the Council, but I am fully prepared to make it public if such is your desire. Either way, I assume full responsibilty for it, as it is based on my best pro- fessional judgment and the advice of our consultants. At the invitation of Mayor Cole, Mr. Madison V. Hubbard, Jr., Chairman, and other mem- bers of the Henry County Public Service Authority, along with its Executive Director Robert W. Grant, appeared before Council, with Chairman Hubbard offering comments re- flecting the Public Service Authority's position on the City's counter-proposal, generally as follows: 1. The PSA does not agree with the City's proposal to purchase 1/8th of the PSA's "Koehler" plant's treatment capacity and yet receive or use 25% of its treatment facilities but, rather, the City should purchase treatment capacity on the same basis that the PSA purchased treatment capacity from the City and the City's Wastewater Treatment Plant under an existing contract or agreement; however, Mr. Hubbard indicated that the PSA remains flexible on this issue. 2. The PSA maintains that it should construct and retain sole con- trol over the proposed diversion line from the City's Jones Creek Interceptor to the PSA's "Koehler" treatment plant. On this point Mr. Hubbard indicated that the PSA is inflexible. - 3. The possibility of the PSA constructing a "third" sewage treat- ment plant (downstream from the City's treatment plant) becomes more of a reality as time passes because of increasing demand in that area, with Mr. Hubbard not only inviting--but also requesting--the City to conduct its own feasibility study there- on to ascertain whether the City might desire to participate. On the 1/8th-versus-25/o "buy-in" point raised by Mr. Hubbard, Mr. Tom Crush (of Wiley & Wilson, the City's consulting engineers on this matter) noted that the 1/8th proposal represented the purchasing by the City of 12~/o of the PSA's "Koehler" treatment plant when expanded to 8 mgd, as set forth in the City's April 10th counter-proposal. 34