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:3 ~ TUESDAY MAY 8, 198'+ -- that of itself would not lessen the need for the City to expand its treatment plant to 8 mgd and, further, if the City accepts the City Manager's recommendations (to expand, in which cost the PSA has indicated it will not share) and if the two-plant concept prevails, "diversion" still remains a viable possibility, nor would expansion of the City's plant do violence to continued cooperation between the City and the County of Henry and/or the Public Service Authority. At this point in this meeting, Councilman West offered his motion that Council accept City Manager Edmonds' recom- mendation "...to forego further negotiations on diversion-first and authorize Wiley & Wilson to proceed with all deliberate speed to develop drawings and specifications for expansion of our (i.e., the City's) plant to an 8.0 MGD capacity", with the under- standing that such authorization would extend through the point of receiving construc- tion bids. In offering a second to this motion, Councilman Reed observed that the Council has sufficent data on this matter on which to make a decision and (that) his seconding of the motion reflects his reliance upon data supplied by the City Adminis- tration and the City's consulting engineers. In the ensuing discussion of this motion, Councilmember Severt reflected her hope that negotiations (with the PSA) would have been successful on the "diversion" concept, the result of which would give more time to all parties concerned to study all other ramifications (related to meeting the sewage treat- ment demands of the area) and, further, indicated no objections to continued negoti- ations, particular on the "control" issue. Mayor Cole posed questions as to the type of plant the City will operate (aerobic or anaerobic, now under study and yet to be decided) if the City's treatment plant is expanded and as to its operation. Mayor Cole also noted registered opposition to the expanding of the City's treatment plant as well as asserted that the plant should be guaranteed against offensive odors. In addition, Mayor Cole, deeming the present site of the City's plant as a obvious mistake, urged Council to de- fer action on Councilman West's motion until such time as serious study will have been given to the "third plant" idea (and its advantages, if any, to the City) now under -