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ADril 12, 1994 381, "The School Board of .the City of Portsmouth is requesting City Council to, appropriate $1,244,824 from the Capital Improvement Program for various capital improvement and maintenance projects. A copy of the request is attached, as is a list of projects for your information. Funds are available for this request within the CIP from past year's authorization as well as the present year. I, therefore, recommend approval of this request. Upon your approval of this appropriation, the balance in the CIP will be $16,756,116." Motion by Mr. King, and seconded by Mr. Hawks, to adopt the following ordinance, and was adopted by the following vote: "ORDINANCE TO APPROPRIATE $1,244,824.00 FROM THE CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS FUND FOR CAPITAL iMPROVEMENT AND MAINTENANCE PROJECTS AT PORTSMOUTH PUBLIC SCHOOLS." Ayes: Clemons, Epperson, Griffin, Hawks, King, Pitts, Webb Nays: None 94-123 Letter from the City Manager recommending adoption of an ordinance to appropriate $284,000 from the Public Utilities Capital Improvements Fund for preliminary design work facilities needed at the Lake Kilby Water Treatment Plant. · Last year the-Department of Public Utilities undertook a major pilot plant program at Portsmouth's Lake Kilby Water Treatment Plant. The major goals of this program were to: * Select and actually test on Portsmouth's water, new treatment processes necessary to insure compliance with the U.S.E.P.A.'s ~unended regulations to the Safe Drinking Water Act. * Develop the necessary operations criteria for the actual desitin of the new treatment processes that will be required. While some elements of the pilot plant program are still on-goingi the Director of Public Utilities has advised me that enough is known now for Portsmouth to proceed with the preliminary design of the new processes that will be required to meet the effective date of the E.P.A. requirements. The Director of Public Utilities has also proposed a schedule (attached) that will allow Portsmouth to achieve compliance on-time but in a phased, cost effective manner. The Director of Publi= Utilities has requested an appropriation of $284,000 for the preliminary design effort. While the majority of this effort will be aimed at the preliminary design of the facilities (to the 25% stage) and the development of good cost estimates for the actual physical construction to come, a portion of the funds ($97,231) is allocated towards changing Portsmouth's primary water disinfectant from chlorine to chloramines (a mixture of chlorine and ammonia). It has been Council's past direction to move in a phased, deliberate and well thought out manner in addressing Portsmouth's compliance with evolving water regulations. I believe that the plan presented by the Director of Public Utilities meets this criteria and is in keeping with our stewardship of Portsmouth's water resources.