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390 Account No . 485 -p General Debt Service : Approved as submitted . Account No . 486 - Other Non- Departmental Programs : Councilman Norris referred under " objectives " to the provi. s .ion for membership to Public Technology Institute , and questioned what benefits the City had received . City Manager advised that the Fire Station location and equipment maintenance programs were essentially complete , and those two programs alone were well worth the cost of membership . In addition , they are also involved in development of fire protection equipment , and two companies are starting to manufacture air pack breathing apparatus for fire departments , and have done the necessary research and finished a prototype of a fire engine interchangeable pump . He said that one of the historical problems was that different manufacturers had different pump construction , so parts could not be interchanged , and. after the prototype is proved out , it was hoped to use the buying pressure of cities to make manufacturers build common parts for pumps . Account No . 489 - Budgeted Reserves : Councilman Rhodes offered the motion , if the money could be found , to increase Budgeted Reserves to S250 , 000 . Council questioned where the funds could come from . Councilman Weymouth noted that the salaries were more or less fixed , and asked if salary increases were provided in Budgeted Reserves . City Manager indicated that funds were there for the purpose , but would be needed for only about 25% of the employees , since for two of the three groups , salary increases were built in because it was known what they will be . Councilman Weymouth noted that in last year ' s budget quite a large amount was needed for this purpose , so that in effect this year ' s budgeted reserves were greater than last year ' s . Motion died for lack of a second . BASSA : City Manager advised of a communication just received from The County Engineering and. Road Commissioner , S . H . Cantwell , Jr . , dated May 8th and received on May 10th , stating that the Board of Supervisors had been in- formed of BASSA preliminary apportionment to the County for F . Y . 1973-74 , and that public hearing on the Agency ' s budget would be held May 16th . He noted that the letter was dated about a month beyond the date City had put its budget together , and that it was necessary to call BASSA An order to get copies of their budget . Total budget was almost 5700 , 000 . He expressed concern that this agency , just recently created by State law , was proposing to do things that the Association for Bay Area Governments , which is a voluntary agency to which City pays dues , was already doing . Apparently the City ' s share of the obligation approximated $11 , 000 . He added that he wanted to bring this to Council ' s attention , inasmuch as it was unanticipated item . Councilman Henderson asked if the City Manager would obtain copies of their budget for the whole Council . 5/12/73 Adj . Reg . Mtg .