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HomeMy WebLinkAbout03/17/1998 Study Session Minutes MARANA TOWN COUNCIL MARCH" 17, 1998 PLACE AND DATE Marana Town Hall, March 17, 1998 L CALL TO ORDER By Mayor Ora Harn at 6:10 P.M. II. PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE Led by Mayor Ora Harn III. ROLL CALL COUNCIL Ora Harn Bobby Sutton, Jr. Ed Honea Herb Kai Sherry Millner Michael Reuwsaat Roxanne Ziegler Mayor Vice Mayor Council Member Council Member Council Member, excused Council Member Council Member, excused STAFF Hurvie Davis Michael Hein Dan Hochuli Sandy Groseclose Roy Cuaron Dick Gear Town Manager Assistant Town Manager Town Attorney Town Clerk Finance Director Annexation Coordinator IV. APPROVAL OF AGENDA A motion was made by Mike Reuwsaat, seconded by Vice Mayor Sutton, to approve the agenda, as written. The motion carried 5/0. V. GENERAL ORDER OF BUSINESS A. Distortion of Water Recharge and Sewer Issues Mayor Harn: This is not going to be that formal. If there are questions, feel free to ask or write them down, how ever you want to do it. Brad and Byron are here to give us some information. Mike Hein: Sometime ago, over the last several months, members of the Council, and the Mayor, had talked to us about sewer issues and what is happening in the area. There are a lot of projects involving water, effluent recharge and sewer collection systems in this area. We have arranged the study session tonight to talk to you and give you a little bit of background, which is what Mr. Howard will do. He will give you background as to how we got to where we are today. Mr. Dave Atler will go over some of the current projects, current sewer systems, and some current planning processes that are underway. Mr. DeSpain will, then, talk about some water recharge and effluent issues. At the end, we will try to tie it all together and make somewhat of a recommendation, during the study session, asking to establish a body to oversee everything. Byron Howard: Our region has enjoyed a very unique situation, whereby, the Statehood through about 1950, and now the Greater Metropolitan Tucson area, which includes the entire Valley, was served by the City of Tucson through their charter government. That lasted until right after World War I1. At that time, there was a request for the establishment of a sanitary district through the State Legislature and it was granted through the State Legislature. One of the reasons that happened was the beginning of the identification of rural communities starting to emerge. Some of those are Corona de Tucson, Green Valley, Marana, and Ore Valley. Some of these smaller entities actually turned into towns or cities. Basically, the Sanitary District served all of the outlining areas, outside of the Metropolitan Tucson area. You have to go back to the 50's and 60's to remember the size of Tucson and how much was outside the City of Tucson, including places like Ajo and Sells, who have their own facilities. This lasted until about the middle of the 60's, when the growth explosion in the Valley got so difficult that the Sanitary District got into some very serious financial problems, they were on the brink of bankruptcy. At that time, Ken Charmin, the founder (or godfather) of the Sanitary District, went to the Pima County Government and asked if Pima County would consider getting into the sewer business. Their only other option was the City of Tucson and, by that time frame, the political relationship between the City and the County was already colorful so they did not really want to go to the City. They had to go to the State Legislature, once again, in order to get approval to put Pima County into the sewer business. They understood the entire issue at hand and also understood the financial obligations and ramifications of the Sanitary District to go bankrupt. Needless to say, the Legislature granted Pima County authorization. Pima County is the only county in the State of Arizona that is authorized to be in the sewer business. All other cities and towns run their own operations and the counties contract them. That is not the only area in which Pima County is unique, compared to the rest of the State. From there, that was called the Sanitation Department, and by the mid-60's, Marana was very much on the road to being an identified community and Green Valley, even though they did not incorporate, was certainly an entity of growth in itself and it continues to grow, as well as Avra Valley and Corona de Tucson. At that time, they went from the Department of Sanitation to the next phase, where both city and county in Marana had some input, and so did Ore Valley, to create MUM (Metropolitan Utility Management). The intent was that the City/County wastewater situation was not in the best interest in long range planning for the Valley and they were trying to put it together. They went through a very elaborate and intricate IGA so they could physically move the directors of both City and County into one housing unit. They actually merged Personnel into one housing unit and transferred the ownership of City owned treatment facilities, lines, debts, bonds, connection fees and user fees into the County. They also did something that most people remember now as the infamous "1979 Agreement," whereby there was a 90/10 split of the effluent, which Brad will get to. That was the other component of this whole thing. The 90/10 was under a severe litigation of EPA for a number of non-compliance of development issues, which we might be starting to face now for lack of proper service. Then it all blew up. It was supposed to be a regional council with people represented from every entity that was incorporated in Pima County, or take the entire entity and turn it into an independent authority with an elected body and hopefully take it out of the political arena. That was in 1979, basically, everything broke apart and everybody went back to their own ways, except all the ownership of sewer stayed in the County and the ownership of water stayed in the City. Basically, that brings us up to current day. Without being too critical, I think there has been a lack of regional planning in the last 20 years. Everything that is currently built, may it be the Ina Road Treatment Facility or the major interceptors, was built 20 years ago. Like water, nobody really wants to address the complications and politics. In the North Valley, we are there. There are various options and potential recommendations that Mr. Hein will bring up through this process. The North Valley really needs to take a hard look at how we are going to serve for the next 20-50 years. The anticipation is that 54% of all growth in the Valley is going to be in the North Valley. The question is, "Can we serve it? Can Oro Valley serve it? Can the Town of Marana serve it? Where would interim treatment facilities be? Where would your major interceptors be?" There is a whole host of issues. That kind of gives you the history. The League of Cities and Towns never forgets to remind anybody, in politics or government that, Jack DeBolske, the godfather of the League of Cities and Towns, was opposed to the legislation allowing Pima County to be in the business, even in retirement he continues to dislike the idea that Pima County is so different from the rest of the State. That is a brief history and, unless there are questions, I turn it over to Dave Atler, who will make a presentation of current services and expected projects on the drawing board that will be coming to you in the next 3-5 years. Dave Atler: I will use this map that the Planning Department was good enough to prepare, one of their GIS projects. As Byron mentioned, the planning effort has been somewhat lacking in the County. The only thing they have really done is react instead of plan, with the exception of a few 208 plans which exist at La Mirage over on Mr. Palkowitsch property at Tangerine and 1-10, the plans at Adonis, the plant north west of Berry Acres which is currently over capacity by several gallons per day, and a piece of property they own by the County line and the river which is for an open plant in the future. Those were more the planning level from the development committees. La Mirage wanted to be developed and the only way to develop without having the sewer infrastructure out here was to build themselves. La Mirage approached it the same way that Marc Palkowitsh did. Other projects that are really developing today are the RedHawk area, Dove Mountain, and Continental Ranch. Those areas are sewered. The RedHawk area has gravity flow down to the Ina Road plant and the Continental Ranch area is pumped back up to Ina Road, the sewage is treated and the effluent is run back down the river, down through almost to Pinal County. What we have been doing with the County, to date, is trying to get them to update a 208. Their perspective is a 208 and the Town's perspective is a waste water master plan. We negotiated an IGA last year and their consultant, Malcolm Pirnie and Associates, is working on that update. What that encompasses is an area that is essentially the same as the general plan planning area. We only go, with the sewer study, up to Camino de Oeste because, in that area, the flow is a tributary to the sewer collection in Camino de Oeste. We would not be bringing that back over to the west. That process has been underway for about 5 months now and we have gone through the background checks, the inventories, the population projections, and things of that nature. They are getting the data collection completed. I have been reviewing the plans, technical memos, each time they come out and getting them back. We are trying to get them out of the mindset, such as on the Sabino Springs project coming up. This is a project that they asked to have pumped through Rattle Snake pass, through Continental Ranch and up to Ina Road. As civil engineers, we can pump just about anything anywhere, but we definitely don't like to. The County's perspective is, which is correct, and Byron was the director of waste water in the sanitary district and can back me up on this, you have a lower cost per unit by going through one plant rather than having it go through a number of plants. You reduce the number of employees and equipment and everything else. The problem is you can over extend that, you get to a point where it is just not cost effective anymore if you are pumping everything upstream. The County's plans right now are working on this 208 plan. We have an equal right of ratification, or rejection, of their 208 plan, which has to go through PAG. We are looking at this as a master plan for the build-out of the City of Marana. That is the way we have been approaching this and it is supposed to identify our ultimate plans, interim plans, sewer interception and things of that nature so we can go through the development process and say we have identified where this has to go, that we need an easement, that we need the property, that we need this that and the other thing. The only other thing the County is actively doing up in the area is planning to expand the existing evaporation ponds up north of Berry Acres. The first phase is going to happen in the next 2 years and that will roughly double the existing capacity and then it will double again. That is the interim facility according to George Brinsko, until they do the big plant further downstream. The only problem with that is that extra capacity might be another 650 houses worth, even on this half of the second phase, compared to La Mirage's 508 units. You could have just one subdivision eat up every bit of capacity on there and that locks everything else out. Some of the projects that we have that you have all been seeing come through the process are Dove Mountain, Adonis, Marana Estates and Continental Ranch. Those are all existing developments, so there is not a lot in Town. The areas that they are estimating to develop in the next 1-3 years are in the Dove Mountain area. It is not all of the Rancho Marana specific plan area, but it is portions of it. The 3 and 5 year area is out in the Bajada part of RedHawk, or Dove Mountain, the Foothills specific plan, Mira Vista, Marc Palkowitsh's property, and Sahuaro Springs. It probably spans a couple of these, probably from 1 to 5 years, for example, although they have projected that it probably won't be built-out until 10-12 years. One of the areas that is greater than 5 years is Acacia Hills, I believe that is the one Estes did a number of years ago that was platted and they walked away from it. The paper part has been done but probably not the improvement plans. Clearly, you can see the pattern here and some of these areas are already taken care of. We are trying to discourage the use of individual treatment facilities, for example La Mirage, because we would like to have that facility to tie into for other developments. That way we will not be proliferating all of these little plants. If that is how it has to happen, then that is how it happens, but the private systems are generally not good for the public that has to help maintain them, for example. We are looking for something that is a little better plan, something a little more focused on the reality that everything flows down hill. We are trying to prepare for the growth, particularly when the levee comes in, we want be able to have some infrastructure in to be able to work with it. Brad is going to talk about some of the effluent projects. Brad DeSapin: I will be fairly brief. This is the infrastructure for eastern Pima County, the flags are where existing facilities are. 4 MARCH17¢1998 : Dave Atler: Some of them might be existing but some of them are planned projects that have come up to the process of the group made up of various water agencies, Pima County Wastewater, Indian Nation Bureau of Land Reclamation and chosen likely projects. Brad DeSpain: This is the wish list, then, of everybody concerned. I won't dwell a whole lot on that. I will talk a little about the importance of effluent and wastewater and how that ties into the designation of assured water supply, which we have visited with you before. That is a renewable resoume, just as CAP water is, so it is extremely important to us, as the Town of Marana, to be able to utilize that effluent to our advantage for helping maintain and caring for our designation of assured water supply. There are several recharge projects that, I am sure you have heard about from time to time, we have discussed with you. The lower Santa Cruz replenishment project is probably the largest. That is the one that will be closest to the existing channel, between the CAP canal and the existing Avra Valley pilot project. It is a pretty big basin recharge project, it will be utilizing CAP water. Pima County and the Town of Marana are co-applicants for that facility. The CAWCD will be brought into that, along with the Arizona Water Bank, for recharge and replenishment. Just below that, right close to the edge of the existing stream bed, where the effluent runs on the west side of the Santa Cruz, and closer to Sanders Road, will be the High Plains Effluent recharge project. The County has moved that from the Rillito area to out here. There is several ways that the effluent can be utilized, but that will probably be the first effluent recharge project, other than what we, now, talk about as the in-bed recharge of the Santa Cruz River. There is a siphon project that is being talked about that will be right on the west side of the siphon, as it comes out from under the Santa Cruz River, down closer to the Rillito. It is a small project that Metro and the Town of Marana have been talking about. Metro did some experiment work there with percolation tests and what have you. That will be talked about and brought to you a little later this year. As that progresses, it will be small, but it will be a CAP project, also. The in-river recharge you have heard a considerable amount about. Part of the SAWRSA settlement is involved with that. There is some that Pima County has been interested in and been trying to obtain. I think the City of Tucson has also been working on that in-river recharge, trying to get permits and so forth for that. That will probably progress and come to a head pretty quick, I think within this year. Also, with that, is an agreement with the City of Tucson. Mr. Rule and I have been working with Mr. Hein, Mr. Davis, Hugh Holub and Loretta Humphreys and there is an agreement that will be presented to you for effluent from the City of Tucson. I think it is an agreement that you will be pleased with. We will get that in your packet, it is to the point where we want to present it to you. Mr. Rule will also take it to the City Council and then we will see if we can get the two bodies to agree and get a draft that everybody will be happy with and carry forward with that approval. Any questions on the recharge projects or effluent issues? Ed Honea: I have one question, after reading this article this evening in the Star. It is talking about the City of Tucson recharge project in the Rillito, which would be a mixture of Avra Valley Water and effluent. It states that it is necessary to blend them because there are too many nitrates and it limits the recharge of effluent by itself. How come the City has been running effluent right through the middle of our town for twenty years and it is not safe for them to recharge effluent for their well fills? But 5 they can run their effluent right through our town and into our assured water supply. I have a problem with that, if this adicle is correct. Brad DeSapin: I think it would be interesting to see the facts and figures that come out from the procedure that will occur. I think the City of Tucson, part of their problem is probably Proposition 201, which states they need to meet Avra Valley Water quality standards. That might be part of their blending. There is no doubt that nitrates in the effluent water have come to us. We have been able, to this point, to survive with those nitrates, so to speak, by blending and some other work done on wells of isolating off part of the aquifer where the nitrates are probably high. I am not totally convinced that may be as big a problem with recharge because I think we have seen that nitrates maybe do effect recharge a little, but that is probably not the limiting factor. In my experience, the limiting factor is some of the other detergents and products that are in the effluent that tend to seal. The nitrates are probably not welcome to the water table for the aquifer, but my experience has not been that they help seal, it is more the other constituents of the effluent. Byron Howard: I think, in t~ying to wrap up what we believe to be the issues of interest to the Mayor and Council of Town of Marana, I'll just briefly mention some of the ones that we have identified. Obviously, the importance of updating the 208 regional plan for the North Valley, I have to honestly say that this should have been done ten years ago, let alone five years ago. We have eight to ten projects ready to pop in the North Valley and we do not have a 208 plan. This is very critical, it will tie into bonding programs and service capabilities. There is no question that if it is not provided in the right location, in identifying the new facilities, especially with the bank protection going in, quite frankly, because of omission, we could be sending development in areas that are more sensitive and not in the best interest of the Town. The second item, along with that, would be identifying and obtaining approval, in conjunction with Pima County and the State, through the 208 process for interim treatment facilities. When we are talking about interim treatment facilities, we are talking about cost effective and environmentally sensitive to be able to serve the projects that we are at least hearing about between now and the next five years. We are not talking about building a treatment facility at the County line that would take literally millions and millions of dollars of out-fall to get to. We are talking about an organized effod, like they did in the rest of the Valley (Tanque Verde, Corona de Tucson and Green Valley). I think the issue is trying to convince us that you are providing the same type of consideration and service in the North Valley as you have in the other elements of the Valley, a specific plan and timeline to eliminate the temporary lift station in Continental Ranch. That is an entire community, a master plan community, that basically is served by a pressure system back to the Ina Road treatment facility. That was always planned, in the original 208 plan, even before Ina Road was built. Ina Road was the determination of that basin, everything north of that was the new basin and Continental Ranch was given approval. Dow Chemical owned it, Si Schorr presented the case, I was director at that time, and the lift station was supposed to last no longer than three years. It was supposed to go to a new treatment facility and, I think new administrations and elected officials came in, and that lift station is probably headed toward its second decade of service. Finally, updating the IGA between Marana and the Pima County Board of Supervisors to identify specifically what we are looking for and what we would anticipate Pima County as a service agency. That is what they are in, wastewater service. They are a service agency and you are the governing body. I think the thoughts, visions, policies and politics need to be in that IGA so they are clear as to what you are looking for. If that cannot be worked out, then, obviously, one of the options maybe to go as an independent party. Mike Hein: Obviously, Byron and the rest of the staff have outlined a lot of the issues that are facing the community. These are issues that are going to impact the future of the community significantly. The Town of Marana has existed and continued to grow based on foresight. We need foresight right now, when it comes to wastewater planning. Dave and his staff have been doing an admirable job in bird dogging, if you will, the 208 plan. But, my suggestion would be that we need to get more community involvement and more education out to the community about these issues that are facing us today. With my limited experience with the Town, I have been favorably impressed with your Water Users' Citizen's Advisory Group that you have under water. One thing I would like to suggest is, maybe at a future meeting, discuss the merits of developing the North Valley Wastewater Citizen's Advisory Group, where members of the staff can go to throw ideas off of and get feed back and garner community support. As we discuss the options that have been outlined, "Do we get into the sewer business?" "Do we put pressure on or work with Pima County?" "How do we work with developments like Sahuaro Springs (like Dave mentioned) and the requirements of wastewater that they pump back to Continental Ranch and Ina Road?" Sooner or later, for this community is going to continue to grow in an orderly fashion, we are going to need to assert ourselves in those discussions. Effluent is a very important and integral part of that equation, as well as the location of facilities, if Marana is going to become a growth corridor. As people start talking about constraining growth, obviously, Marana is full of fiat land, with a lot of availability to water. Our water department, and the Town, has done a great job securing that resource, now we need to start looking at wastewater. So, with that, I will open it up to any questions the Council may have and, again, we will probably be coming back to you and talking to you individually about establishing a group like you have in water to go to with some of the issues we are facing right now. Herb Kal: In regards to the sewer issue, Mr. Hein, I had lunch with Supervisor Boyd and he indicated that he would like to see target development areas. I think it is important for Marana to support this. Basically, we just picked a couple of areas out of the blue, south of the airport (Marana, for example). He thinks the County should actively pursue in building future new treatment plants to encourage growth in those areas and to keep growth away from sensitive desert areas. Marana, for example, has a transportation network that is already in place. I think he really needs our support. There are many questions that have to be answered. If the County puts a big treatment plant by Marana Airpark, it is a long ways coming in supporting that thing. If Marana gets behind some of these supervisors that are trying to target these areas of growth, I think our sewer problems will be answered, somewhat. Mike Hein: You are absolutely right. I was able to witness the Mayor talking to a supervisor and impressed upon that supervisor the need to develop orderly, and to plan ahead. There is disparities in philosophies, if you will, between the Town and the County, when it comes to how to develop growth orderly. I, of course, would endorse the theory that if we want to lead growth in a certain direction, away from the mountains and sensitive habitat, we should put the infrastructure in and lead 7 them in that direction. Some members of the County probably don't share that philosophy. We need to have some public deliberation of that. As we get into these issues, staff is going to need support. That is why I go back to the idea of developing a committee of members of this community to assist us in going to supervisors, policy makers and other jurisdictions, and to work with staff. Intuitively, staff can sit here and say that development is moving northwest along the interstate. That makes a lot of sense, and there is a lot of reasons for that. So, instead, as you say, of developing a master plan at the Pinal County line, why not develop the small kind of treatment plant, a package plant, a lagoon system or something that employs lower technology but will capture that wastewater? Then once that is maxed out, move further north, build another one and take the last one off line so you don't have marginal increase in your operation. That is something we would like to push, but we can't just do it as staff, we need the community to support that effort. Again, we are at such a critical juncture with this 208 master plan, which we view as our master wastewater plan, and would like to see a lot of members of the community involved in that and supporting our efforts so we can grow orderly and we can encourage the County to assist us. We may have to make the policy decision to do it ourselves, as Sahuarita does. Herb Kal: If the Town decides to get into the sewer business, there are private contractors that would come in and build a system and operate it, if that is the road we decide to take. We should explore those possibilities, too. Mike Hein: We may even have a meeting tomorrow to discuss those kinds of theories. Again, since there is so much going on and so many key policy decisions to make, we are going to recommend that we develop some kind of policy steering group, looking at wastewater in this area. The term, North Valley, is to include representatives from the County and representatives outside of just the Town of Marana. Mike Reuwsaat: Mike, are we at a juncture, then, where in order to move forward with the recommendation on a committee and, also Marana's interest in further studying it, in terms of the direction of growth it would like to see and the system it would like to see put in place, we need to notify the County Board of Supervisors of our intent so, as the 205 is developed and moves along, our intent is not lost in the amendment being processed? Mike Hein: I think the Mayor has already impressed upon the County that we have the intent to be inserted into that discussion. As Dave said, we have equal veto power, if you will, over the development of the plan. What we are saying is, before the plan starts moving along too quick, we need to be involved in it and work with the County. There is still opportunity to harmonize our beliefs and come up with a strategy and an approach toward the future. I don't want to see staff going out and working with the County on a plan, and then it comes to you all and everybody says that this does not look good for the future. The timing is now, the opportunity is now. If we miss that opportunity then we have failed to adequately impress upon the County our desires for growth. Mayor Harn: Mike, on these 205 plans, what kind of capacity (and don't tell me in liquid content) can one of these plants serve, in terms of 1000 homes, 600 homes, 300 homes, etc., for example? Mike Hein: That is a very good question. I think Pima County Wastewater would say that you can't run a plant economically unless you have a population of 20,000, or so. Byron, you're more of an expert at that. Byron Howard: Let me attempt to respond to that. One of the problems, as we are trying to grasp what size of facility, cost, economics, location and what have you, and the reason nobody can give that answer and Madam Mayor is frustrated, is that there is no regional planning. Example: the coordination of PAG, as well as Pima County, as well as the building community, the developers who build these projects, need to know over the next twenty years, which is what regional facilities are planned for, twenty year increments. Somebody has to start making the best guess possible where development is going to occur, how much commercial, how much industrial and how much residential, and where and in what sub basins. All of the sub basins get into the regional basin, called the North Valley. That data has not been developed and, as Mr. Atler mentioned, we are just now beginning to enter that phase, whereby the old story garbage in-garbage out. If we don't collectively give that data to the engineers doing that master plan, we are going to be in serious trouble because we are going to under size the facility, we are going to locate it in the wrong location, and, it could be a very serious problem. My humble opinion, based on my thirty years experience, is the plan had better account on an additional 20,000 homes in the North Valley (20,000 homes, residential). Mayor Harn: So, are we talking about one major plant, or are we talking about several 208 facilities? Mike Reuwsaat: In sequencing sewer, I think what staff is saying is that we don't know those answers now. What we need to make sure is that it is dear that we organize a group that will look at it from our standpoint, Marana's standpoint, and will evaluate how much, where and when and then look at those answers coming, not just from staff, but from the Valley. That may include someone from Ore Valley, or whatever, but try to determine how much, where and when so that when the 208 is amended, whether we do it, or whether it is some animal we own and lease out for operation or a company comes and whatever. Those are things that need to be determined, but most importantly, I think we need to get in gear and get some kind of community support so that when we come up with the answer it is a community consensus, which is what is best for development in Marana and it is just not the Marana Council doing this for the developers, again. We have to look at it from a metropolitan standpoint, which is, we are really regional and we have to look at both sides of the highway, Oro Valley, Casas Adobes, Tortolita...Those issues need to be looked at, and those basins, also. But, we need to move to get those answers and I think that will all filter out. I would be very comfortable in asking staff to come forward quickly with recommendations for that committee to move forward and then to forward formal notice to the County that we want to do it right and that we are concerned about it not only from a growth standpoint, but also from an environmental standpoint. With some of the issues that we are dealing with on our current rezonings, and sewer and so forth, maybe if we go ahead and be proactive and determine where service areas and where growth is going to occur, we can set some policies that will make it easier for our planning and engineering department to deal with new projects and rezones coming up. We can basically determine, possibly, where growth is going to occur. Mayor Harn: I certainly would support forming an advisory committee. I think, basically, I would like, with the Council's permission, to have Mr. DeSpain and Mr, Howard and Mr. Hein get together and put together some people that they feel would be appropriate people for that committee and review it with the Council and keep it from being an appointed committee by the Council, more of an advisory committee to the Council. That will distance us a little bit from it. How does everybody feel about that? (fine) We all have questions and we are only going to get them by putting together study sessions and putting together some good information that the Council can look at and come up with quality decisions. Mr. DeSpain, would you like to add something? Brad DeSpain: I would like to not let Mr. After off the hook with this, he has been part of our committee and he has considerable input so I would like to have him involved, as well. Mayor Harn: However you want to put it together and get some suggestions of people who you think might work on this committee and bring some intelligent decisions. VI. ADJOURNMENT A motion was made by Vice Mayor Sutton, seconded by Mike Reuwsaat, to adjourn. The motion passed 5/0. CERTIFICATION I hereby certify that the foregoing minutes are the true and correct minutes of the Marana Town Council held on March 17, 1998. I further certify that a quorum was present. ~'~-"~SECLOSE, TOWN CLERK l0