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City Council Meeting January 8, 2001 Page 14 station, which enabled them to pump the wastewater into the Flow Equalization Basin in orderto maintain the wastewater system. Therewas 144 hours worked by personnel of the Wastewater and Lift Station Divisions. The City Manager advised that the city did have to employ outside Sanitation Companies to come and pump some of the lift stations at a cost of approximately $8,600.00. Total cost in wages and materials was $24,497.00 and the value of the lost water production brought the total estimated lost of $46,497.00, and he felt that Mr. Campbell and his employees did an outstanding job in keeping this situation from being worse than it was. City Manager Malone also complemented Rick Hundley, the Electrical Inspector, for the City of Paris, as many of the electrical services were pulled away from homes and had to be restored, and in most cases, inspected before the power could be reconnected to citizen's homes. Mr. Hundley did a total of 244 electrical inspections totaling 71 man hours from December 26t" through December 31St City Manager Malone said the Street, Traffic, Parks & R.O.W., Water and Sewer, and Engineering Divisions worked 959 total overtime hours for this payroll, and on the evening that the ice storm occurred the crews came in and were ready for the storm by sanding the streets. They also assisted with brush pick up, with the exception of the Water and Sewer Division, because they were working on their problems. City Manager Malone had an estimate of about 100,000 cubic yards of brush on the ground and that would be five times the annual amount of brush that the city would pick up. He said the city began staging the brush to be brought to the Public Works back lot and as it filled up, arrangements were made to utilize the city's property at the Lamar County Fairgrounds and asked the public to bring their limbs and brush to that location. Also a great deal of the brush that the city picked up was taken to the city's compost site. The City Manager said they were still encouraging citizens to take their brush to the fairgrounds site. City Manager Malone advised that the trash pick up was postponed on Tuesday, December 26t", but it did resume on December 27t" with the crews working through Saturday.