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<br />: i' 4 <br /> <br />TUESDAY <br /> <br />JULY 8. 1980 <br /> <br />increases in the City's water and sewer tariffs. <br /> <br />Council was adjourned. <br /> <br />;'~.~' <br />W. H. Y m~ .' Clerk of Counc11 <br /> <br />ADDENDUM <br /> <br />This report is to review the current status of the City's ongoing water improvements <br />project, being funded substantially by a grant from the federal Department of Housing <br />and Urban Development (DHUD), under the so-called UDAG program. It will briefly <br />summarize the history of the project as a whole and then view the project in detail <br />in terms of the six basic elements originally described in the grant application. <br />Finally, recommendations for immediate and future Council actions will be made. <br /> <br />OVERVIEW <br /> <br />The project was conceived in late 1977 by the City Administration. It was triggered <br />by the advice of several local industries of their plans to expand and their needs <br />for substantially more water. With the authority of the City Council and the assistance <br />of the City's consulting engineers, Public Works Director George Brown and others on <br />the City staff exerted a rather remarkable bit of grantsmanship to secure a UDAG grant <br />in the amount of $3,090,000. This amount of federal dollars was to be coupled, <br />according to the application, with $150,000 in local cash from the City to pay for the <br />necessary water system improvements, plus various legal, administrative, and engineering <br />costs, and providing for a contingency fund of $275,000. <br /> <br />The DHUD application deadlines were tight, and the original cost estimates were, of <br />necessity, hurriedly developed, without the benefit of plans and specifications. They <br />were. however, based on known design considerations and factored for inflation. <br /> <br />Although DHUD received it well, apparently, it was questioned by the County in terms <br />of long-range City-County cooperation, as to water supply. This debate centered on <br />the West Piedmont Planning District Commission's (WPPDC) regional plan, but WPPDC <br />ultimately commented favorably on the application in its A-95 review process. This <br />acrimony subsided somewhat after DHUD officially decided to fund the project. However, <br />certain long-range water supply questions still exist and will have to be addressed <br />by all governmental parties concerned sooner or later. <br /> <br />The project, as finally approved by DHUD, included six major elements and proposed <br />expenditures, as follows: <br />