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LAKE ELMO CITY COUNCIL SPECIAL MEETING JUNE 9, 1992 6 My conversation with him indicated and he stated again,. that the only communication he has had on this is through by reading the newspaper and then, secondly, that the only thing he knows of is that perk tests were done on his property and he does not know what the purpose of those perk tests were, but he stated that he had no problem with the city doing the perk tests. That makes me a little incredulous, but none -the -less it also tells me that our whole MSA project which relies on us taking care of surface water may be out th window and down the tubes that is repair of the streets, repair of our city water service pipes, to people of the old village as well as our community drainfield. I need, I suppose not, in present company, tell you that this is the street part of it is the 100 percent MSA funded project. I should also tell you that if you are not aware we have an election coming up in 1992 and we have a proposal to be voted upon Thursday in the U.S. Congress for a constitutional amendment that will appear likely to pass, or something to that effect, a law that will call for a reduction in the federal budget and probably some tax increases. That reduction in the federal budget will likely be an across the board which means that state revenue sharing will probably suffer and like manner if that suffers sharing of revenues with the communities with the cites that is already massively reduced from previous years likely to be reduced even further and MSA funds may not be available. I say this the reason for haste in taking action now is that we have an opportunity to assist some people with the assistance of state funds. If we don't take some action very shortly, we may lose the whole works here. That was the purpose of the meeting and the need for us to act rapidly. Sue Dunn: Could I get some history on that? Dave: Excuse me, excuse me, be quiet or I will have you removed. You will remove yourself unless you keep quiet. Dave: I am going to make a motion to recess and I will call our two absent council members and see if we can get a quorum. Those in favor, aye, motion carried. We are in recess. Sue Dunn: There are several different scenarios. You are just looking at the one.