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which we provided. The owner is very interested in Centerville because of our location, freeway access and proximity to their major accounts. They will be working with the owner to try and acquire this site. * Our cable access equipment blew up during our last power outage. We had the cable commission technician look at the equipment and he indicated that it could be the keyboard or the modulator that was damaged. He indicated that they did not have the ability to solve the problem themselves and referred us to a technician from the White Bear Lake system. We are exploring the costs of repairing our current system. The equipment we now use is original equipment dating back to when the cable commission purchased equipment for all of the cities. Of the seven communities in the cable system, I believe we are one of two communities that have not upgraded the cable access equipment. It may be to consider this option. * A meeting was held with Gerald Rehbein on Thursday to discuss the water and sewer extension down 20th Avenue. The item is going to be placed on the agenda for next Wednesday. A timeline has been prepared for this project, based on bidding the project in mid February. We would have to hold an assessment hearing, before awarding this project. I have asked the Engineer to prepare a cost estimate of deepening the gravity sewer proposed to be installed by Met Council versus constructing our own lift station to serve this corridor. The Engineer will be prepared to present this information at our next meeting. I have been reviewing the joint powers agreement that we received from Lino Lakes. I believe we should include the interconnect, temporary service to the proposed convenience store and a proposed utility rate policy in one agreement while we have some leverage with Lino Lakes.