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City water supply, Paddy Creek both currently OK

Council to hear reports and updates, approve budget adjustments at Tuesday night meeting.

Tuesday night's meeting will include consultant reports that our water supply is "sufficient" even in the event of a multiyear drought, and that Paddy Creek in northernmost Benicia is currently safe from an underground toxic plume that threatened it in the 1990s.

The council is also expected to make two advisory board appointments and authorize replacement of an eight-year-old staff automobile costing as much as $24,370 at the meeting, which begins at 6 with a closed session that is expected to last until 7.

The council's work will start Tuesday evening with the closed session on negotiations for contract give-backs with all city staff, then an update on the Benicia Arsenal cleanup and the appointment of John Johnsen to the Economic Development Board and Anthony Shannon to the Community Sustainability Commission.

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After three proclamations and a five-item Consent Calendar that includes the staff car, the council will hold a public hearing on the mandatory five-year update of its Urban Water Management Plan and then hear the status report on the IT Panoche dumpsite's toxic plume.

The latter items on the Tuesday agenda include consideration of some adjustments to the city budget and reserve policy, the latest revision of the 2011-13 Strategic Plan Update, and council subcommittee reports.

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