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MINUTES OF THE SPECIAL MEETING OF THE CITY COUNCIL July 27, 2004 The City Council of the City of Paris met in regular session, Monday, May 10, 2004, 6:00 P.M. at Love Civic Center - North Hall, 2025 South Collegiate Street, Paris, Texas. Mayor Curtis Fendley called the meeting to order with the following Council Members present: Jim Bell, Jay Guest, Mary Ann Fisher, Don Wilson, Karen Wilkerson, and Rick Poston. Also, present were Interim City Manager Terry Townsend, Finance Director Gene Anderson, City Attorney Larry W. Schenk and Assistant City Clerk Sherian Dixon. Mayor Fendley indicated the first item was to discuss City Policy, recommendations of the Benefits Committee and direction to City Staff on accrued vacation time. Mayor Fendley pointed out that the Council was furnished a copy of those minutes from July 23, 2004 Benefits Sub-Committee meeting and said the term forty (40) hours midway on the first page should read forty (40) days. Councilman Guest, chairman ofthe Benefits Sub-Committee, related it was the recommendation of the Committee that the accrual of vacation time for all City employees be limited to forty (40) days maximum. He said this would be the maximum number of days an employee would be entitled to be paid for when leaving work for the City. He continued that the Committee recommended that the City Staff investigate and propose a process to manage down the amount of accrued vacation time for those employees who currently have vacation days in excess of forty (40), such as encouraging employees to take the vacation time, paying the employees for the accrued vacation time, etc. Councilman Guest said the managing down of vacation time could potentially take as much as five years. He also said the Committee requested that the Staff review and report the economic impact of reducing accrued vacation time. Councilman Wilson asked how the Committee came up with forty (40) days.