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<br />1~ <br /> <br />TUESDAY FEBRUARY 9, 1971 <br /> <br /><- <br /> <br />Water Control Board. City Manager Noland also reviewed matters relating to <br /> <br />contractual negotiations with the Henry County Public Service Authority for <br /> <br />the treatment of sewage from the County's Villa Heights area as well as the <br /> <br />State Water Control Board's position thereon. City Manager Noland then reported <br /> <br />on events and negotiations subsequent thereto, indicating that there now appears <br /> <br />good reason to believe that the City and the Henry County PSA can negotiate <br /> <br />successfully on the Villa Heights sewage contract, thus making both agencies <br /> <br />eligible for Federal-State financial assistance on their respective projects. <br /> <br />Even so, as the City Manager pointed out, the Water Control Board expects to <br /> <br />receive Federal grant applications for funds eight times greater than monies <br /> <br />available. In order to finance the City's 20% share of the cost of constructing <br /> <br />a secondary treatment facility, and pointing to anticipated needs of the City's <br /> <br />water system, City Manager Noland presented a proposed water tariff schedule <br /> <br />which, coupled with the City's regulations imposing a sewer charge of lOO% <br /> <br />of the water charges, will provide sufficient funds within slightly over two <br /> <br />years to finance the City's 20% share of said secondary treatment cost; or, <br /> <br />in the event State-Federal financial assistance is not available, will provide <br /> <br />funds to meet debt service on twenty-year serial Sewer bonds, should the City <br /> <br />have to resort to this financing method. Meanwhile, Council agreed to consider <br /> <br />further the proposed revised tariff at its next meeting. Several citizens <br /> <br />present offered suggestions and comments in connection therewith, including <br /> <br />that which would give some financial relief--or exempt from higher service <br /> <br />charges--those families with fixed incomes, and including that which would give <br /> <br />consideration to broadening the City's economic base in order not to increase <br /> <br />the tax burden upon residential property owners. <br /> <br />.- <br /> <br />Mr. William A. Mason, on behalf of himself and other owners of property along <br /> <br />Route 220 North, north of the City's north-west corporate limits, presented <br />