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Member Jerry Pedlar introduced the following resolution and
moved its adoption:
RESOLUTION APPROVING PAYMENT TO THE AWWA ASSESSMENT FUND
WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of Brooklyn Center is committed to
protecting the health and safety of the public, including those who rely on the
municipal water utility for drinking water; and
WHEREAS, the City Council is committed to providing cost effective water
service to its utility customers; and
WHEREAS, the City Council wishes to ensure that standards proposed by
Congress and the Environmental Protection Agency are cost effective, practical,
and based on the best data and technological expertise; and
WHEREAS, the recently organized Water Industry Coordinating Committee,
consisting of the American Water Works Association, National Association of
Water Companies, Association of Metropolitan Water Agencies, National Rural
Water Association, and the National Water Resources Association, has proposed a
United for Safe Drinking Water campaign, with a goal of participating more
proactively and extensively in the regulatory process; and
WHEREAS, this campaign has been proposed to be funded by the Water
Industry Technical Action Fund, supported by one -time assessments to the
members of the various associations in proportion to the size of their
utilities; and
WHEREAS, the American Water Works Association has informed the Brooklyn
Center municipal water utility that its fair share, should the City wish to
support the Technical Action Fund, is $1,000.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL of the City of Brooklyn
Center, Minnesota, that the sum of $1,000 shall be appropriated from the Public
Utilities Fund for payment of the City's assessment to the Water Industry
Technical Action Fund.
28, 1989
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RESOLUTION NO. 89 -168
The motion for the adoption of the foregoing resolution was duly seconded by
member Celia Scott and upon vote being taken thereon, the following
voted in favor thereof: Dean Nyquist, Celia Scott, Jerry Pedlar, Todd Paulson,
and Philip Cohen;
and the following voted against the same: none,
whereupon said resolution was declared duly passed and adopted.