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509 Chair Eckman noted that Ramsey - Washington Metro WD was highly respected in the 510 metropolitan area and among other WMO's and WD's. 511 512 Member Westerberg opined that it was a "Cadillac" organization. 513 514 Based on her observations, Chair Eckman expressed her favorable impressions with 515 Ramsey/Washington as an organization; and concurred with Member Miller that they 516 would be obliged to take care of GLWMO geographics; and had sufficient expertise on 517 their staff to accomplish goals of the GLWMO. 518 519 Member Westerberg opined that the GLWMO Board majority had made their 520 recommendation; and suggested that the respective City Councils be allowed to sort it out 521 since they had the final say. 522 523 Member Barrett advised that he was not comfortable making a formal presentation for the 524 majority opinion at the November 20 meeting; however, he expressed his willingness to 525 respond to questions of the City Council on the majority recommendations. Member Miller opined that this would be appropriate rather than a formal majority report. Member Westerberg suggested seeking an opinion from Task Force member LaBresh, since he was of the impression she supported local control; even though she was not in attendance at the November 4, 2011 meeting. Member Barrett advised that, if he was serving on the City Council and had asked for a recommendation from the GLWMO, he would like to have one recommendation that the full Board concurred with. Chair Eckman spoke in support of the objective report written by Member Miller and expressed confidence in his ability to make an objective presentation to City Council members. Additional Item: Ms. Correll/EOR E -mail to Mr. Petersen dated November 17, 2011 (continued) Chair Eckman resumed discussion, for Member Miller's benefit, and referenced the FOR e -mail entitled " GLWMO Plan Follow -up;" attached hereto and made a part hereof, and related timing consequences and FOR questioning whether the detailed work required for GLWMO remaining independent would be worth EOR's time and effort if the member cities decided not to approve the revised JPA and revised budgets for the next three (3) years. Chair Eckman asked for Member Miller's opinion as to whether additional FOR work on revising the Third Generation Plan should be held off until the governance issue had been resolved. Chair Eckman noted EOR's rationale that they had already far exceeded their contract budget with the GLWMO Board; and if a City Council's decision was to dissolve the GLWMO, they would not have to complete the amount of detail being required by BWSR for the first three (3) years of implementation, since BWSR would be confident that Ramsey - Washington Metro WD would be aware of resources required to implement the GLWMO Plan. Chair Eckman reiterated the anticipated formal decision - making of the respective member City Councils, as previously noted Discussion included the submission deadline for the final draft of the Third Generation Plan to review agencies and consequences of delaying that submission for another few weeks; potential negative impacts to 2012 grant cycles incurred by not having a Plan in place; and the process for BWSR dissolving the GLWMO for lack of performance and at what point that would be initiated. 11