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CHAIRMAN WODTKE COMMENDED COMMISSIONER SIEBERT FOR THE MANNER <br />IN WHICH HE CONDUCTED HIS PRESENTATION LAST EVENING AND FOR THE <br />RESEARCH HE HAD DONE. THE CHAIRMAN STATED THAT HE NEEDS SOME FURTHER <br />DIRECTION FROM THE COMMISSION, AS DOES THE ATTORNEY, IN DETERMINING <br />EXACTLY WHAT OUR APPROACH IS GOING TO BE IN REGARD TO THE DECISION <br />THE CITY HAS MADE. <br />COMMISSIONER SIEBERT STATED THAT IT IS OBVIOUS FROM THE <br />MEETING LAST NIGHT THAT THERE IS STILL DISAGREEMENT AS TO THE <br />INTENT OF THE TRIPARTITE AGREEMENT AND THE CITY'S RESPONSIBILITY <br />UNDER'THIS AGREEMENT. APPARENTLY WE DO NOT AGREE ON THESE, AND, <br />THEREFORE, AE WOULD LIKE TO AUTHORIZE AND INSTRUCT THE COUNTY <br />ATTORNEY TO REVIEW THIS MATTER WITH THE PARTIES INVOLVED, BOTH <br />PRESENT COMMISSIONERS AND COUNCILMEN AND PAST COMMISSIONERS <br />AND COUNCILMEN WHO MAY HAVE BEEN INVOLVED IN THE TRIPARTITE <br />AGREEMENT, AND AUTHORIZE THE ATTORNEY TO ESTABLISH A LEGAL POSITION <br />FOR THE COUNTY AND MAKE A RECOMMENDATION AS TO WHETHER THERE HAS <br />BEEN A BREACH OF CONTRACT. IN ADDITION, COMMISSIONER SIEBERT FELT <br />THE ATTORNEY SHOULD CONSULT WITH ALL OTHER INTERESTED PARTIES, <br />THE DER, ETC., AND THAT THE BOARD SHOULD AUTHORIZE THE ATTORNEY AND <br />ANY PERSON OR PERSONS HE DELEGATES TO MAKE ANY NECESSARY TRAVEL <br />ARRANGEMENTS TO GATHER THIS INFORMATION AND REPORT BACK TO THIS <br />BOARD ON WHAT THE COUNTY'S. LEGAL POSITION IS AND BY WHAT AVENUE <br />THE COUNTY SHOULD PROCEED. COMMISSIONER SIEBERT ALSO FELT WE <br />SHOULD IMMEDIATELY START ,DISCUSSING WITH OUR ENGINEERS THE PHYSICAL <br />ti - SOURCES OF WATER AND PERHAPS EVEN AUTHORIZE A PROJECT BY THE <br />ENGINEERS TO DETERMINE OUR SOURCES OF WATER AND WHAT THE POSSIBILITIES <br />ARE FOR OBTAINING TREATED WATER FOR THE BALANCE OF THE COUNTY. HE <br />FELT THAT WE HAVE SOMETHINGS IN JEOPARDY. COMMISSIONER SIEBERT <br />NOTED THAT IT WAS HIS UNDERSTANDING THAT THERE WILL ONLY BE ONE <br />TREATMENT PLANT IN THE SOUTH OF THE COUNTY UNDER THE REGIONAL <br />CONCEPT, AND INASMUCH AS THE REGIONAL• PLAN DESIGNATED THE EXISTING <br />WASTE WATER PLANT OWNED BY THE CITY.AS THAT PLANT, THERE WILL.BE NO <br />GRANT FUNDS TO CONSTRUCT ANOTHER ONE. <br />MAY 10 li <br />aooK 34 PA F501 <br />H <br />