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MAR 18 1987 Chairman Scurlock did not see how Mr. Little can say that when the City has already lost some wells and had to go to a stripping process in the wellfield. Also, that plant will not last forever. City Manager Little stated emphatically that none of their problems are that difficult to deal with. He pointed out that the City wastewater plant was built in 1975; the last expansion of the water plant was only 4 or 5 years ago; and you don't start retiring things that cost millions of dollars and have a 30-40 year life expectancy in a 4 or 5 year period. Commissioner Eggert noted that Councilman Macht suggested that we need a workshop on this subject, and she did agree. Commissioner Bird believed we have pretty well outlined our intended course with or without the City. He felt the City should work with their staff to decide what is in their best interests, and then when they have that worked out, get back to us, hopefully as soon as possible. Chairman Scurlock commented that this was only put on the agenda because he got the impression policy had not been set. (4_) Malfunction of Wholesale Billing Meter Wastewater, 6th Ave. Utilities Director Pinto explained that the previous meter was malfunctioning and apparently had done so from the day it was put in. To make things easier in trying to resolve what should be done, we hired the City Engineers to develop a new metering system. This was done, and it was intentionally installed to be a temporary system, but not only is the meter itself not working, it is causing a severe problem back in our force main system. We now have our engineers running a computer model to see how we can alleviate the problem, but that analysis has.not been completed. City Manager Little believed that at this point we now are back to billing on water meter readings, and this was confirmed by Director Pinto. 14