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MINUTES OF THE CITY COUNCIL WATER & SEWER SUBCOMMITTEE MAY 15, 2003 The City Council Water & Sewer Subcommittee met in special session, Thursday May 15, 2003, at 4:00 P. M., Paris Junior College Applied Technology Building, Room 1211, 2400 Clarksville Street, Paris, Texas. Chairman Benny Plata called the meeting to order with the following members present: Councilwoman Francine Neeley and Councilman Willie Weekly, Sr. Also present were City Manager Michael E. Malone, City Attorney Larry Schenk, Director of Finance Gene Anderson, City Engineer Shawn Napier, and Director of Utilities Herb Campbell. Invocation was given by Councilman Weekly. Chairman Plata said the first order of business was a report by the committee members regarding water and sewer related matters, but went to the next item on the agenda, and called for reports from city staff regarding water and sewer related matters. Mr. Campbell advised that Chairman Plata had given written recommendations previously to Council and advised that City Manager Malone is prepared to address those issues. City Manager Malone passed out a memorandum regarding Councilman Plata' s Recommendation Number One: '~ Eliminate $18,000.00 budgeted for a new truck when the old one is still operable".'~ City Manager Malone stated that the committee is making every effort to gather information to try to find ways to decrease the impact of a rate increase on the citizens and industries. The City Manager said everyone is looking for ways to share in that task of holding costs down. He said they had spent a lot of time in previous workshops in the past few years and had lean budgets and the water and wastewater budgets have been very static for a number of years. The employment level has remained the same for the past ten years even while the city has had tremendous increases in tasks for our employees to perform due