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30 TUESDAY MARCH 14, 1978 Assistant City Manager-Public Works Director George W. Brown, commenting on a recent seminar (he attended) on Federal Community Development and Federal Urban Development Action programs and grants, inquired of Council as to whether it desires to apply (through a pre-application process) for Federal funds under these two programs, meanwhile noting that pre-applications under each of these two programs must be filed by April 15, 1978, preceded by two duly-advertised public hearings thereon (including the proposed projects to be funded by each of the two programs). Mr. Brown proposed that, in anticipation of local industrial expansion and the consequent demands upon the City's water system, the City apply for a grant of $3,000,000.00 under the Urban Development Action grant program to finance (100% of) the cost of (a) expanding the City's water treatment plant capacity to 10MG per day, (b) expanding the City's Beaver Creek Reservoir or provide other-and-additional storage, and (c) constructing an additional water transmission line from said reservoir to said treatment plant. Under the Community Development program, Mr. Brown proposed that several small projects included in the City's prior pre-application (but excluding the downtown project, the water system improvements project, and the funded Pony Place Extension project), coupled with fencing of English Field and the expansion of the Southside Park parking lot, be submitted for funding. Councilman West reported that, in confirmation of his understanding of the objectives attached to Federal funding under the two cited programs, Federal officials addressing this subject at a session of the 1977 Conference of the National League of Cities, held in San Francisco, California, this past December, at which he and Mayor Hobson were in attendance, stated that any Federally-funded single-purpose program requires of the locality a housing assistance plan and, among other things, a dispersal of low-income citizens. Mr. West contended, further, that acceptance of Federal funds under these programs, i.e., particularly the Community Development program, might subsequently and involuntarily involve the City in housing projects. Mr. West, further, included with his foregoing report a tape recording of said session, with a portion thereof, dealing with Mr.