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MOUNDS VIEW CITY COUNCIL FEBRUARY 22,1999 PAGE 12 • Risk Management program was put forth by the EPA with the clean air act and that was just brought in as legislation late last fall. Mr. Stigney questioned the prices are $16,000 to $18,000, just what does this program consist of. What is the justification for that type of cost. Mr. Ulrich stated the Process Safety Management is actually a majority of the cost. If that would have been depleted back in 1992, about 80% of that Process Safety, which is the standard operating procedures, and training and cautions and building maintenance, and equipment maintenance, and all those procedures all wrapped up into a manual that the City follows on all confined space entry, water treatment facilities, and waste water collection facilities. That is a vast maj ority or bulk of the actual risk management program. We received the threshold point for chlorine storage and process at water treatment plant one. The threshold that pushes us into the Risk Management program is 2500 pounds of chlorine. We have a capacity of storing 4000 pounds. That pushes up to basically forces us to do the Risk Management Program. We have looked at the options of lessening our chlorine amount there, which would only increase staff time in changing chlorine tanks, would raise the price of our purchase for chlorine as chemicals, and also raises the incidence that we have to go down and actually change chemical tanks, which in some cases you could conceive as increasing the chance of an accident or a release. Mr. Ulrich stated by doing the Risk Management Program, we have to consult and use profiles that would determine the amount of people or air affected will by a sudden release of that chemical. A ten minute release, from 4000 pounds of chlorine. • It is merely a precautionary step. It involves the community. There is some community education. Fliers will be sent out. It does not get real specific, because there is a certain amount of caution to anybody that may be interested in some of those facts. We are required to put our Risk Management Program on the Internet so it is all filed electronically, so anybody, in any city, state, or any place in the world could find out what our Risk Management Program is. Mr. Ulrich stated it is merely a safety program in which everything has to be documented. Motion/Second: Coughlin/Stigney. To authorize consideration of risk management and process safety management proposals. Ayes - 3. Nays-0. Motion carries. ITEM 9E: Consideration of the catering services at the Community Center, both the food service and the liquor service, to be taken off the agenda be brought before us at the next available work session and then for future consideration at another time at a Council meeting. ITEM 9F • Consider authorizin the urchase of additional e ui ment for Communit Center with TIF funds. g P q P Y