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Regular City Council Meeting July 12„ 2004 Page 14 that if and when this event happens, that they understand there is going to be a charge and make sure that they are insured for that. He said that the Haz-Mat team is never going to go out to that industry unless they have and accident, and when you have an accident they should have insurance to cover that event. At that time the city will recover for providing the service even though we are a city and the city is suppose to provide certain safety feature. Councilman Wilson said in this town, there is only three or four industries that have a possibility of this happening and one of those is our water treatment plant. Mr. Wilson said the city should have a Haz-Mat Team and he was just looking has to how that can be done, but don't give up money if we don't have to. Mayor Fendley said that one industry offered to participate in the training and wanted to know if Mr. Grooms had been contacted. Mr. Grooms said they would like to participate in having some of their personnel trained along with the city's. Mr. Grooms said there was some dialog about some finances that one of the industries was willing to talk about, but he has not received any further information regarding that. Mr. Grooms said at the last meeting, the Council voted to move forward and he and the Interim City Manager had discussed it and they were looking at a deadline of having all of that completed prior to the next fiscal year. He said they have been halted in that process and they are trying to determine what procedure to go. Mayor Pro Tem Guest said he did not think we needed to halt that even though the city is under budget contraints, but there are certain things that have to be done, and he felt that there are ways to negate those cost and they can address that as they go forward. Mayor Pro Tem Guest said he did not see stopping this process because industry has to have this in place. Mayor Fendley agreed with what Mayor Pro Tem Guest had stated. He thought there had been discussion after the fact about the actual physical requirements and that is what he is not clear on. He asked if there was a requirement for a basic physical to get the Haz-Mat Team established, or is it the equipment and the training and the staff is already capable of doing that without the physical training in to play at this point.