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- 4 - 1 The Metro Council spokesman discussed some of the changes he perceives , • with the appointment of a new Metro Council Chair who he indicated would be chairing all appointment committes herself. He announced there would be a public hearing June 11 to establish a 15 member Regional Transit Board for which a chairman would be sought, a position for which Mr. Wiger believes Alice Rainville is the current forerunner. The Manager reiterated his appreciation of the assistance the Metro Council had given staff related to the development of a housing plan for bonding and in the pre- paration of the City's six year Capital Improvement Plan and said he was most pleased with the innovative methods the Mosquito Control Agency had implemented this year. Ms. Fletcher who told the Council she had only been on the Metro Waste Control Commission for ten months, indicated she was in attendance to review the MWCC's cost allocation system and to answer specific questions about the rates charged the City. She was accompanied by Ray Odde, Engineer, and Dick Berg, Finance Officer, from the Metro Waste Staff, who addressed some of the technical questions which were raised during the discussion. I. In the middle of her presentation, Brad Bjorklund of the Planning Commission �. arrived and expressed his displeasure with not being able to get into the building because all the doors were locked and lights in the hallways turned off. He questioned whether other persons who were interested in the Council business that night might also have been prevented from attendance. He was told the doors had been open at 6:30 when the Council conducted the Board of Review, and at 7:15 p.m. when the secretary had arrived, and the janitor • must have mistakenly locked up the building sometime in the interim. Mr. Childs promised to investigate the matter and to notify Mr. Bjorklund in writing of what he found. Ms. Fletcher distributed copies of the presentation she gave orally, in which she had addressed the City's charges for MWCC's treatment; the Area I service costs; and the costs estimated for the City in 1985. There was also a comparison between estimated and actual sewer charges from 1971-1983 and Mr. Odde had provided the final sewage. figures for 1983; a. graph depicting flow figures from 1974 through 1983; and a comparison of flow and cost figures for the 101 communities serviced by MWCC. Included in the agenda packet was Mr. Hamer's March 28 report on his attendance at a MWCC costs meeting in which he had addressed certain area of concern which he perceived required further clarification. He. reiterated that staff still had serious concerns about the accuracy and reliability of the metering of the City's discharge versus the water pumped by the City -- and-said-the-repet-it-i-on-of-estimated-bill-s-was--the-basi-s—for-some-of these concerns. The discrepancy in these figures, as well as the fact that the City's population had decreased by 2,000 persons in the last few years, had caused him to question the accuracy of the MWCC estimates, especially in view of the fact that the highest figures seemed to occur in the winter months when only a minimum of infiltration from residential footing tile and sump pumps would be expected. The Public Works Director told Mr. Odde the City had undertaken a program • of televising the City's sewer lines and repairing any defects in them, and he therefore, no longer believed that type of infiltration could be a major factor in the flow figures. Councilman Makowske wondered if the decline in school age population in the community should not have reduced the use of water for showering and washing hair to some extent, to .which Mr. Odde I