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34 TUESDAY MARCH 8, 1977 has been authorized by the Chamber's Board of Directors, to which Mr. Gardner responded by stating that the Chamber's Board of Directors has been apprised of the building financing plan and program and, too, such plan has the full approval of the Chamber's Executive Committee. A motion by Vice-Mayor Cole, seconded by Councilman West, to authorize the City's participating in the accelerated membership dues- financing phase of this program but to withhold action on the request for a contribution until such time as it is determined that the dues-financing phase is insufficient to carry the cost of the building program (with an invitation to the Chamber of Commerce to return to Council at such time), along with Councilman Greene's motion to "table" Vice-Mayor Cole's motion, was (or were) withdrawn at the request of Chamber of Commerce President Gardner in order that the Executive Committee might resolve Councilman West's concern expressed in his foregoing inquiry and (in order) that the Executive Committee might amend and/or re-frame its initial request. The request of Mr. Gardner, i.e., for permission so to do, was granted. Upon recommendation of City Manager Noland, Council authorized the expending from 1977-78 Revenue-Sharing (Entitlement) Funds (to be received by the City) the sum of $20,000.00, which sum--with a current appropriation of $7,000.00 within the City's General Fund budget--will finance the cost of "re-powering" a 1951 American-LaFrance fire engine or pumper and, in so doing, would bring this pumper back to a first-class standard and would be regarded as new equipment by the Fire Underwriters Bureau. As a matter of information, City Manager Noland apprised the Council that the original plan (of the City's Fire Department) to rebuild the motor and/or engine of this pumper has been necessarily discarded because parts--maintained by the American-LaFrance Company for such purpose(s) in its storage facility in or near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania-- were destroyed several years ago by a devastating flood in that area and such parts are no longer being manufactured. City Manager Noland also pointed out that to replace this pumper with a new pumper of comparable rating would require an expenditure of some $70,000.00, with two years' delivery.