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Regular City Council Meeting January 23, 2006 Page 3 A Motion to approve this item was made by Council Member Wilson and seconded by Council Member Poston. Motion carried, 7 ayes - 0 nays. 5. Presentation on status of revising mobile home ordinance. Lisa Wright told Council that Planning and Zoning had requested her to do additional research and wanted to review this item again at their February meeting. 6. Presentation by City Staff regarding the wage and salary survey and possible update thereof. Tony Williams presented Council with a salary survey to Council. He explained the survey included ten other cities, as requested by Council. Tony asked Council to study the survey and set a workshop session to go through the survey position by position. In small cities, there are many times that a person does several jobs. Council Member Wilson asked for additional information regarding the budget of those other cities and their benefit packages. He also asked for supplemental information outlining details of the EMS and Fire Departments, because some cities have them under one department. Council agreed to include this item for discussion in the special session for Monday, February, 6, 2006 at 6:00 p.m. 7. Discussion on the status of trash service within the City of Paris. Tony advised Council that beginning October 2005, changes were put into place. We have gone to four ten hour days and reduced the trucks and routes to four. We kept the same pick up days. We have changed our bulk pickup service from Wednesdays to the second pickup day of the week for that residence. Tony showed Council fifteen photographs of bulk waste. Those photographs included construction debris, four refrigerators at one house, old tires, and bulk trash left behind when tenants were evicted. Tony told Council that it costs the city to dispose ofthese tires, because they cannot be placed in the landfill. Tony further stated the fee of $14.00 per month does not cover the costs and labor ofthe service, but that it is more like $18.00 per month. He asked Council to consider making changes to the bulk pickup service to address the number of items and the fees involved, so as not to allow the abuse to our taxpayers to continue. Tony informed Council that the landfill would allow the customer to take a pickup load of bulk to the landfill for free, as long as they exhibited a copy of their water bill. Council Member Manning suggested allowing two free items for bulk pickup and charge for the service thereafter. Council Member Wilson thought it would be a good deal to charge according to dimensions ofthe bulk. Council Member Ray thought a flat fee would be better. Mayor Fendley said that he thought a flat fee would still leave room