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City Council Water & Sewer Subcommittee <br />Feb. 18, 2003 <br />Page 11 <br /> <br />Chairman Plata said he was handed a study at the last meeting which was the <br />City of Paris WaterAVastewater Cost of Service and Rate Design Study, <br />October 1999, from a company called Navigant Consultants. This study said <br />that the metered water consumed by Toco, and any consumption of 178, 571 <br />gallons, will be charged at $0.84 per gallon. It goes on to say that the contract <br />guarantees minimum rates and there is a way to provide a minimum charge. <br />Further, their recommendation was to deem the contract null and void and to <br />start charging Toco the right amount for wastewater. Mr. Plata asked if this <br />had been done. <br /> <br />Mr. Anderson advised that they did have some meetings to look at that and that <br />was at the time that City Attorney Schenk had his accident and at this time, it <br />has not been done. <br /> <br />City Attorney Schenk explained that part of the problem is the city is not going <br />to escape their obligation to provide the wastewater service. Chairman Plata <br />said the study states that in 1969 the city was currently charging a rate of $0.84 <br />per thousand gallons of metered water for service in excess of minimum <br />charge. Mr. Campbell said that is the sewer charge also. Chairman Plata said <br />the study recommended that the city begin charging Toco the residential <br />wastewater volume exit rate of $3.57 per thousand gallons. He said the current <br />contract does not have a definite termination date. Chairman Plata stated he <br />does not want to be subsidizing Toco. City Attorney Schenk advised they have <br />had negotiations to do with several entities over the outside city services, which <br />he hopes to turn to the city' s advantage. The City Attorney said they have been <br />focusing primarily on the Lamar County situation because they are the largest, <br />single entity and generally what is going to happen is the city is going to <br />establish whatever the city' s policy is going to be for that entity and the others <br />will have that expectation that the city will follow that same policy with regard <br />to them. He said his primary concern, from a legal standpoint, is the folks in <br />Lamar County, because they have brought a number of issues that Mr. <br />Anderson has spent months going through trying to resolve charges that we <br /> <br /> <br />