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') ')! .....' ......... ~ TUESDAY OCTOBER 10. 1967 hardship on the homebuilders for their present cOmnlitments and, too, represents too drastic an increase at one time. Council, however, having received a requested study report on this matter from City Manager Noland, who recomnlended that the effective date of the connection-fee ordinance (adopted July 25, 1967 and effective July 26, 1967) not be postponed, accepted the City Manager1s recomnlendation and directed that there be no delay in the implementation of this ordinance. In connection with the request filed September 26, 1967 by the Frith Family Trust (through its agent, the First National Bank) for water service for a new warehouse being constructed by the Frith Family Trust on a tract of land outside the City's Industrial Park but adjoining the northwest boundary of the Park along the seven-acre tract authorized sold by Council1s action of September 26th (to the Frith Family Trust), City Manager Noland presented the following recommendations thereon: 1. The City offer to provide domestic service (for drinking and sanitary purposes) under existing policy. 2. The City provide standby fire protection by filling any tank of at least 250,000 gallon capacity constructed by the applicant, provided that the tank and all pertinent phases of the project be installed to meet specifications of the State Health Department and of the American Water Works Association, that the piping be so laid out that after the tank is filled the supply line valve would be opened only at the option of and by the City, for test purposes or in the event of a fire which might set off the sprinkler system. This latter phase of the recomnlendation is in keeping with prior obligations to occupants of the Park, and with the City's policy which requires the City to give first consideration to in-city users in the event of a shortage, which could possibly occur as a result of a prolonged fire or main failure. 3. So that the Frith warehouse could be afforded fire protection at the earliest possible moment, it is recommended that the City pernlit the imnlediate installation of the fire main to the building from the site of the proposed tank, as well as the piping and valve arrangement suggested, if the proposed tank is to be installed within a specified but reasonable time. Thus, this would involve a calculated risk on the part of all concerned, that no serious fire or main failure would occur before a tank could be completed and placed in service.