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Aqenda Items - February 11, 1974 Page 3 Browns Bay area to correspond with the incoming Metropolitan interceptor line, or, are they just saying they want the Village to inform them whether the line is going to go in now or possibly sometime in the future. The second issue that arises concerns Minnetonka Beach. If sewer goes into Minnetonka Beach and hooks into the Orono system, then that line should be defined as an interceptor. There is some argument on this with some members on the sewer board and I am trying to iron those definitions out at this time. The Council should bear in mind that under the State law they have six months after a public hearing on a public improvement project to order the project in. If it is not ordered in within the six month per.iod of time , the Council would have to hold public hearings again should it ever consider the same public improvement. This means then that the last day �t}t the Council could order in a project from the 1973-1 proposal would be May 8 , 1974. 13. In your packet is a statement from the County asking the Village of Orono to set the date of June 3, 1974 for the Tax Board of Review. If there are no objections from any members of the Council, I will so notify the County that this date is acceptable. �{� , 14 . You have in your packets a letter from the Chief of Police concerning the use of funds for the Police Reserves. During the budget work sessions last year, the issue of outfitting the mounted patrol came up and at the time the Council felt that we would only spend Village funds to provide them with the badge and an identification card. This we have already done. While the Chief' s letter is asking that a radio be purchased to give the mounted patrol contact back with the Village, +,� the issue of outfitting them in clothing is also coming back again. Now � it is true that the Village of Orono in 1973 received more money than it had anticipated in the Minnesota State Aid to Police Departments. It now also appears that we have underestimated the amount of the State Aid that we would receive in 1974 . I think that it is quite possible that the $500 request could paid out of the Minnesota State Aid to Police Departments. On the other hand, we also have available to us some Federal Revenue Sharing Funds and it would be my recommendation at this time that if the Council agrees to spend $500 for a citizens band radio, that it come out of the Federal Revenue Sharing Funds. The reason for this is that it is my feeling when the Village is faced with unbudgeted and unanticipated capital outlay items , that it is better to use Federal Revenue Sharing Funds for it as opposed to the anticipating of additional revenue from a State Aid sour.ce. We do not know at this time what other,,�•a�rr emergency or unforseen expense may arise in which we may need the State Aid Funds to be applied. There is a�so the fact that the Federal government is literally forcing us to spend the Federal Revenue Sharing Funds within certain time limits and I would certainly perfer to see the Council consider the use of Federal Revenue Sharing Funds for the unbudgeted capital outlay items. ,E •, •. , fl�, �s.