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6. NEWIBUSINESS_(Cont ' d) things should be done to protect the panels which are down below, as far as the elevation is concerned, or down below these lights, there is a little pinhole where the water can trickle down and get into these panels. So Colip in doing this work - -1 asked him all through his work time, which took a week and a day- -that he advise me and recommend to us what we should do to prevent this in the future, and he said that even though Kim and I have their manual, and everybody is welcome to see it; they are the manufac- turers. They told us how to prepare the pools, and even 'though we didn't have all the time that we should have had to do it, we should have, at least, kept the water out of the panels. Then Colip told me that we should put waterproof coverings over those pools, before the trees were set on the pools, to keep the water out of the pools and not take the lights out, and to hrre Colip to periodically- - say, two or three times a month - -to check and make sure that the water is kept out of the panels from the pools - -any snow water or ice - -and there are heaters to keep all the distribution panels and all the pool pit panels dry; that is, moisture free, and.that we would check them every day and they would check them periodically to make sure that everything is functioning properly. They would mark them so that we would turn them on; we were manned to do that. If we keep the water out, we will not have this repeat cost. I wrote my annual report in advance, practically covering that. President Nimtz.asked for any comments o of the Commission, to which Commissioner I am glad to hear that it appears that w e situation, because I think this probably of the breakdown of the pools in the pas tr questions by the members Wiggins responded, "Well, are now on top of the was one of the big causes year." Mr. Slabaugh responded, "That's right! They had a low - threshhold ground circuit breaker and there are some technical things that went into that; I believed they weren't necessary to go in there then, but they are now. But, at the time this contract was written, it wasn't necessary to have them, but the pedestrians down there have a conditional safety - -if they touch a hot wire, the ground vault is going to go and not the pedestrian (audience responded with laughter). I know it sounds sort of heartless, but it's very true. President Nimtz said that Mr. Soltesz had a discussion with him the other day on this matter. "Mr. Soltesz, I'll call on you." Mr. Ed Soltesz, Chairman of the Governmental Coordination Committee of the River Bend Plaza Advisory Committee, said, "Sometime back, I sat in this same meeting and opposed the payment-to Hickey's for the completion of the pools, and I stated, at that time, that there were many things wrong with the pool area, and I'said that there were cracks, fissures in the pool down by Dainty -Maid; also, on the electrical aspect of what was wrong with the pools. I- was told, at that time, that the only thing that remained to be done with those pools was the inclusion of a motor that had to be re- wound, and the pools would be ready to be run on April 15th. Is that right, Mr. Slabaugh, it's a matter of record!" - 22 -