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City Council Water & Sewer Subcommittee <br />May 15, 2003 <br />Page 24 <br /> <br />someone go. City Manager Malone stated that he was not being disrespectful <br />to people who are just learning. <br /> <br />Councilwoman Neeley asked whether when Mr. Plata called back to Greenville <br />and they talked employee numbers, did Greenville have people doing work in <br />the water and sewer that are not in the water and sewer budget, but located <br />somewhere else. Chairman Plata stated that they are in the water and sewer <br />budget but they are in another division off of water and sewer. City Manager <br />Malone said that further illustrates what we have been saying. You cannot <br />make simplistic comparisons with Greenville or any other city because they <br />have a different treatment process. City Manager Malone said he is willing to <br />look at anything, be conservative, cut back, and he felt that they have been <br />doing that, but we are always looking at ways to help the City of Paris. City <br />Manager Malone pointed out that this is an on going process. He said that if <br />they find a way to save money or solve a problem where they do not have to go <br />buy something off the shelf, they are going to do it. He said he has seen people <br />at the plants innovate things that are just unbelievable. City Manager Malone <br />said he went out there one time when he was on the City Council, and a man <br />had fallen off into the sewer channel and scratched himself because he was <br />laying down on a 2" x 12" board that was molded and wet and he could have <br />drowned if he hit on his head with no one out there. He said that has been <br />corrected. He explained that there are now safety rails, cat walks, automatic <br />greasers and they cleaned that place up and they have the proper people to do <br />the maintenance and training for the people and proper supervision. He said <br />that this also applies to the water treatment plant. He said he was proud of the <br />things these people have done and he did not think this should be taken lightly <br />that we just make a simplistic comparison and say that we are not doing a good <br />job. He felt that the Committee and the City Council, as a whole, they need <br />workshops and they needed to go out and look that what they are talking about. <br /> <br />City Manager Malone said there is a water and sewer rate increase before he <br />city, and these suggestions are not going to solve that problem. What is <br />driving that water and sewer rate increase is the mandates and the debt and <br />there is very little impact that any tweaking or major whacking on these <br /> <br /> <br />