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'- Mr. Haws moved, seconded by Mr. Hamel to establish a public hearing February 28, 1977 to consider the proposed revisions in the City's water policy. Motion carried unanimously. Mr. Bradley asked what responsibility the Boundary Commission has in the role of extending water service outside of the city. Mr. Chenkin replied there wil1 be an addition to the proposed rovisions which the Council will receive shortly addressing this problem. He said the Boundary Commission approves extensions) but cannot order them. VII. Report of Joint Affirmative Action Work Committee Proposed report format distributed to Council 2/10/77. Mr. Gary Long of the Personnel Department indicated that a joint meeting of the staff and Human Rights Council had agreed on the proposed format. He said the implications will be to try to produce a report with an initial cost of $5)000 for the first report, and an ongoing annual cost of $2,000 thereafter. The report should be ready in about eight weeks. He said the report would include role definitions between Council and staff and Human Rights Commission. Mr. Obie brought up a concern about the necessity of spending money in this way to which Mr. Long replied he felt it was necessary to show conformance to federal regulations. He said there was a possibility of losing federal monies if the city was not in compliance with affirmative action, and that such a report would meet compliance with federal regulations. '-- Andy Clement of the Human Rights Commission read a letter from the Aging Commission indicating they did not accept the affirm- ative action report and did not support it. Copies of the letter will be supplied to Council members. Mr. Martin said that the concerns expressed by the Aging Commission will be dealt with in a written part of the report. VIII. Boundary Commission Council received a draft letter for a request of a joint meeting with Council and Boundary Commission. Diane Nechak indicated that the Boundary Commission would prefer to have an evening meeting. It was the consensus of the Council that the draft letter be approved as written, and a joint meeting be scheduled some even1ng. IX. Request by Joint Housing Committee for $8,000 from Revenue Sharing for Palace Hotel Memo distributed to Council. Manager said the money had been appropriated for the Housing Committee out of revenue sharing funds and had been unanimously approved by the Joint Housing Committee for this expenditure. Mr. Obie said that if the funds had been set aside and are available and had gone through a process of approval by the Joint Housing Committee and HCDC, then he was in favor. l ~" 2/28/77 --30 Pub. HI File - Aff i rm -