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MINUTES OF THE REGULAR MEETING OF THE CITY COUNCII, CITY OF PARIS MARCH 11, 2002 The City Council of the City of Paris, Paris, Texas met in regular session, Monday, March 11, 2002, 6:00 P.M., at the Paris Junior College, Applied Technology Building, Room 1016, 2400 Clarksville Street, Paris, Texas. Mayor Michael J. Pfiester called the meeting to order with the following Council Members present: Mayor Pro Tem Richard Manning, Kevin Gray, Joe E. McCarthy, and John Carter. Also present were City Manager Michael E. Malone, City Attorney Larry W. Schenk and Assistant City Clerk Thomas E. Haynes. The invocation was given by Richard Hart of Christian Fellowship Church. Mayor Pfiester called the Council's attention to the minutes of previous meetings, which were approved. City Manager Malone presented the minutes of the Paris Public Library Advisory Board, the Airport Advisory Board, and the Paris-Lamar County Board of Health, with no action being required. Donna Dorough, Rt. 1, Box 253, Powderly, appeared as an alternate for John M. Kelley, representing the Agape House Worldwide Ministries, International, a non-profit medical organization, which has been seeing patients once a month for four (4) years at Faith Presbyterian Church. Mrs. Dorough related that many local doctors, medical personnel, and over one hundred unpaid volunteers donate their time and services to provide health care and free prescriptions to those of the community who have no medical insurance or who are senior citizens that have medicare with no prescription coverage. The doctors see approximately ninety (90) patients a month, with many more coming in to pick up prescriptions. Since the Police Building will be vacated in the near future, the Agape Medical Clinic believes this building would be the ideal location and facility to expand their health services to the needy of the community. She emphasized that they would like to be the first ones on record to request the use