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s -2- The Manager said he was compiling a complete listing of projects for which Revenue Sharing funds had been used as well as the amount the City may anticipate receiving for 1975-76. The Council discussed Mr. Dulgar's comments and recommendations regarding the replacing of boulevard trees lost to disease, etc. Before acting on the measure, the Council asked the Manager to provide a cost analysis as well as a report on how other communities handle their similar problems of tree replacement. Councilman Sundland questioned whether the City might end up replacing any tree which died of old age or whatever cause and wondered if the City would be assuming complete responsibility for the trees it planted. Action on budgeting for tree replacement was tabled to enable the Manager to provide a cost analysis as well as a report on how other communities handle the same problem. Motion by Councilman Sauer, seconded by Councilman Sundland to adopt the Rules and Regulations for the Police Department as presented by the Manager. Motion carried unanimously. Motion by Councilman Haik, seconded by Councilman Sauer to adopt the recommend- ations of the Manager regarding the hourly salary to be paid to the City's parttime firefighters. Motion carried unanimously. A •group of residents who had water and sewage backed up in their basements at various times during the heavy downpours experienced throughout the metro area the last few months were in attendance to discuss their problems with the Council and ask what the City was doing to prevent a recurrence of the flooding. Among these were Dick Fillion, Dale Myhran, Mr. & Mrs. Michael Fitzgerald and Martin O'Brien of West Armour Terrace; Norman Cavanaugh and Gerhard Bentler of 29th Avenue N.E.; Frank Budnicki and Ray Eklund of Wilson St. N.E. and Rodger Ness of Pahl Avenue N.E. The points they raised included whether the problem could have resulted from the hooking up to the new storm sewer system; the possibility of the storm or sanitary sewers being damaged when Hwy 8 was being reconstructed; whether the Industrial park sewage had overtaxed the lines, and whether a break in the sanitary sewage lines allowed storm water to infiltrate. The Manager told of the City's efforts to lower the catch basins and rod all the lines where a problem had developed. He said the City planned to borrow a closed television system from Columbia Heights and City Maintenance personnel were being trained in its use so that the lines could be televised in an effort to spot trouble areas. He stated he didn't believe the sanitary system for the Office Park was in any way connected with that which served West Armour Terrace and did not think the installation of the catch basins on 29th Avenue would solve the problem. Mr. Cavanaugh, a former member of the City Council, said he felt the wrong decis- ion was made by the Engineer when the sanitary system for the city proper was combined with that of the Industrial Park. He and several of the others present did not believe the drain tile flow into the sanitary system could be the cause of the problem since the flooding occured with such a force all at once many of them experience no similar incidences in identical storms previous years.