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<br />402 <br /> <br />TUESDAY <br /> <br />AUGUST 14, 1984 <br /> <br />In connection with this joint statement and the recommendations therein, City Manager <br /> <br />Edmonds posed certain strategical questions and reiterated various issues, as follows, <br /> <br />which he deemed cannot be "very well ignored in your future consideration of this <br /> <br />matter": <br /> <br />The Proposal <br /> <br />The proposal calls for further study and negotiations between <br />the respective staffs. It is not clear whether this is intended <br />to include the Henry County staff, in addition to the Henry <br />County P.S.A. staff and City staff; but because the proposal is <br />addressed formally to the three governing bodies, it is presumed <br />that all three staffs are to be involved in this go-round. If <br />so, it will be the first time the County Administrator and his <br />people will have been actively involved in these negotiations <br />since they began almost four years ago. <br /> <br />Although additional study is being called for, the Mayor and Mr. <br />Hubbard have already concluded "that the better way is a third <br />plant located in an undeveloped area of southern Henry County". <br />With this preconception, what is apparently in mind is to: <br /> <br />1. Abandon the idea of expanding the P.S.A.'s Koehler <br />plant. <br /> <br />2. Build a diversion line immediately to utilize existing <br />capacity in the Koehler plant and temporarily reduce <br />the pressure of demand on the City plant. <br /> <br />3. Abandon the idea of expanding the City's plant. <br /> <br />4. Jointly build a third plant. <br /> <br />Diversion Issues <br /> <br />The original concept of diversion was that the City would buy <br />capacity in the Koehler plant and pay 100% of the cost of the <br />facilities required to divert up to Koehler about 1.50 MGD of <br />sewage emanating from City customers. But, we finally came full <br />circle at one point in our previous negotiations to where the <br />P.S.A. was wanting permission to take the City's sewage and pay <br />all the costs of diversion. <br /> <br />In the end, the more we talked about diversion, the more obvious <br />it became that P.S.A. was simply trying to gain capacity in our <br />plant, and we could never agree on the mutuality of benefit. <br /> <br />On May 8, 1984, (the night that the Council authorized Wiley & <br />Wilson to proceed with expansion plans for our plant) Chairman <br />Hubbard appeared personally before the Council. He called for <br />