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| MEMORANDUM 4

MAY 12 1980

TO: Mayor and Council May 8th, 1980

FROM: Public Works Committee

Report from the Public Works Committee Meeting held Tuesday,
May 6th, 1980.

IN ATTENDANCE: Alderman E.W. Mabbett

Alderman L.M. Traboulay

F.E. Peters, P. Eng., City Engineer
ITEM T
Re: Sprinkling Requlations

This is the time of year that we usually impose
sprinkling regulations throughout the City. This is normally
done on the Engineer's initiative as a matter of policy with~-
cut reference to Council. Nowever, in 1979 we were faced
with a special situation in Mary Hill in that we imposed
additional restrictions limiting the hours during which
sprinkling could oceur. The special restrictions were imposed
midway through the summer when it became apparent that the
normal restrictions were not sufficient.

The Committee has discussed this and feels that it
would be bast to wait again and see whether Special restrictions
are necded. Therefore, the Committee recommends that only the
normal even-odd sprinkling regulations ba imposed this year.

ITEM II

Re: Use of Propane in City Vehicles

After five months of testing of propane on the cne~
ton van and the dump truck, wo find that the costs so far do
not justify the conversion of our vehicles to pipane. Although
propane is cheaper than gasoline, wa find that the mileage we
get with propane is so much less in the case of these two
vehicles that it mora than compensates for the difference in
price between the two fuels. According to the supplier of the
equipment, this is because we are testing it in the large
engines which hava a lew mileage to start with. The loss in
mileage would ba proportionally much less were we to use propane
in the smaller vehiclas,

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