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City Council Water & Sewer Subcommittee <br />Feb. 18, 2003 <br />Page 7 <br /> <br />past sixteen years the cost of water has gone up $0.30 per thousand per gallons <br />and if you totally cut that out, what affect does that have on the water rates. It <br />is insignificant. Mr. Jim Bell said we need to be looking at our debt services. <br /> <br />Mr. Campbell went to page nineteen of his handout and stated that this is not <br />Campbell Soup's water rates; they are all contractual. He said he had gone <br />back to 1985 and looked at the water rates and compared for 5,000 gallons, <br />which is a typical user in the City of Paris, and in sixteen and a third years the <br />water rate has gone up $5.61 or $0.34 per month per year on the water. He said <br />that is not even keeping up with inflation on the water side. Mr. Campbell said <br />on the wastewater end, the sewer increase in that time is $12.10 or $0.74 per <br />month per year, which is a 139% increase, which really does not mean a lot. <br />He said the over all increase in the lower right hand corner for water and sewer <br />has gone up $17.70 which is $1.08 per month per year for the last sixteen and <br />a third years, and he did not think that is going to kill anyone in this town. Mr. <br />Bell said that needs to be looked at because when you look at that, you will <br />have to turn around and tell the people they have to face a rate increase. <br /> <br />Chairman Plata felt there is a way to try to get leaner that would drive the <br />water and sewer cost down. <br /> <br />Mr. Johns wanted to know what the percentage of labor and benefits were. Mr. <br />Anderson advised that on the water side labor and benefits are 20.4%, and on <br />the wastewater side labor and benefits are 33.3%, which includes the Lift <br />Stations. <br /> <br />Chairman Plata stated that he did not want anyone to lose their job, but he felt <br />that too many people have been hired out there. He did not see how other cities <br />are doing the same thing with a lot less personnel. Mr. Campbell said they are <br />not doing the same thing that the City of Paris is doing. Mr. Campbell said no <br />city on that list is producing 11.6 million gallons a day. <br /> <br />Mr. Anderson stated that they were asked at the last meeting to produce a <br /> <br /> <br />