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24 TUESDAY. JANUARY 12, 1993 could serve the purposes for which the Disability Services Boards are ~ibeing established and questioned the additional costs associated with administration of the Boards° In response to a question by Councilman Williams, Dr. Gouse stated that any grant applied for by the Board requiring a local match would only be approved if local funding were also approved. After further discussion between representatives of the Department and members of Council, Mayor McClain asked if any member of Council wished to offer a motion to adopt the Resolution. There being no motion offered, further consideration of the issue was ended. Council considered a presentation by Duane Dahlquist, President of the Blue Ridge Power Agency, on the status of the Agency's efforts to obtain alternate sources of energy and on the potential benefits to the City of participating in these efforts. Mr. Dahlquist stated that the Agency was formed in 1988 with five charter members who purchased wholesale power from Appalachian Power Company: the cities of Martinsville, Danville, Bedford, and Radford, as well as the Town of Richlands. Subsequently, the cities of Salem and Bristol, as well as Virginia Polytechnic University have joined the organization. Currently all members, with the exception of VPI, Bristol, and Martinsville, have joined in the Agency's efforts to obtain alternate sources of energy° Mro Dahlquist stated that in 1989 the Agency's members decided that they were paying too high a cost for wholesale power from APCo, which resulted in the filing of a "206" case at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. That case was won by Blue Ridge and members received a refund in November, 1992. Following the "206" case, the group began to explore alternate power supply possibilities, resulting in the issuance of a Request for Proposals in October, 1991. Currently the agency is involved in negotiations with two vendors of