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1" ~>~ ...L.- '--..... TUESDAY MAY 18, 1976 Specifically, new State regulations require the employment, by November 1, of four additional Filter Plant operators, plus the expenditure of $8,200.00 for additional laboratory equipment. Also, the new budget must provide $336,517.50 for Sewer debt service (there is no water debt), the peak in the bond retirement schedule, attached. However, for fiscal year 1978 this cost will drop to $74,880.00. So, we recommend balancing from Water Fund surplus, with the knowledge that the Federally mandated revision of the rate structure, and Capital projects, will most likely mean a rate increase, but, this is better than additional borrowing. GENERAL FUND: More about Federal and State mandates--By December one of this year we are required to have in full operation a "Cross Connection and Back Flow Prevention" Program, at City cost, which is a water system technical situation with the purpose of further guarding against contamination of water supply. Enforcement is stipulated in the new State Plumbing Code, and will therefore be an additional responsibility of the Inspection Division of Public Works. Sections 19.2-390 and 52-28 of the State Code, recently amended, together require additional and voluminous monthly crime reports to the State, and this new work volume is more than the present Police office staff can absorb, so one additional employee is needed. As to Brookdale Road, once again, we are led to believe this critically needed street improvement project is about to get underway. Had the original schedule been a reality, there would have been enough accumulated money, but now due to inflation, the approximately $245,000.00 available will almost surely be too little. Therefore, this proposal includes $75,638.00 for an addition to the Thoroughfare Fund, from which the City share would be drawn. The City will never fill its need for street improvements, but the effort must continue. As a corollary, an estimated $160,000.00 will be required to make changes in the water and sewer lines in connection with the Brookdale project, and possibly $100,000.00 of Electric system funds will be needed, to make planned system changes and improvements to coincide with the project. TO BALANCE: With respect to the Constitutional Offices, I believe it is Council's desire to hold payroll increases to the range of five percent, therefore I have reduced the budget of the Commissioner of the Revenue by about $3,200.00.