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regarding the City's wastewater treatment facilities to update and expand currently available engineering reports so that a report which identifies all needed improvements to the City's current treatment facilities together with any necessary expansion of those facilities required to meet the reliability requirements for the City's wastewater treatment system as set forth in Cease and Desist Order 36-95 can be prepared and submitted to the California Water Resource Control Board, Santa Ana Region, no later than June 15, 1995; (3) upon receipt of the Engineering Report the City Council commit to a defined schedule to consider the recommendations presented in the Engineering Report and to decide how to proceed to assure the necessary reliability of the City's wastewater treatment system; (4) that City Council commit to implementing reasonable limitations on new commitments for connections to the City's wastewater system to assure that the City's treatment capacity is not exceeded during the decision-making process in which the City Council will ultimately determine how to proceed to assure full reliability of its wastewater system; that City Council approve and implement any required funding mechanism to cover the costs of any repairs, improvements or expansion identified by the Engineering Report; and, that the City Council commit to proceed to make the needed repairs, improvements or expansion and establish a schedule indicating a reasonable and specific time frame for completion. Mr. Cordova said he understood the Cease and Desist Order had been extended to November 15th. City Attorney Biggs clarified that the extension is for the tertiary treatment. Commissioner Cordova emphasized that the expansion is necessary in the near future. Councilmember Beltran questioned how an independent study could be made by engineering firms currently working for the City and he suggested the City do a Request for Proposals for selection of a different firm. Councilmember Hutton said he agreed with the Utilities Commission's recommendation as the three firms - Montgomery Watson, Kennedy -Jenks and Krieger and Stewart - collectively possess twenty plus years of knowledge and experience with the City's water and sewer operation and utilizing them would expedite compliance. City Attorney Biggs said there is no problem using any of them as they are independent firms and the City contracts with them. If they have done everything but an update, there would be no problem if one is chosen. Mayor Fulp stated he attended the Utilities Commission's first meeting. He asked if the City did the repairs and brought things up to date would the Water Board be lenient with the Cease and Desist date. Mr. Cordova answered "yes." The important thing is expediency. The problem appears to be capacity. There is nothing available to empty into and do the repair work. SARI is not expected to be ready until October. The plant has a total 6.4 MBG capacity and the city is currently to a level use of 4 MBG. City Manager Martinez reported that Mr. Addelson had heard him. He believed they want to know about (1) deferred maintenance; (2) the 2