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City Council Water & Sewer Subcommittee <br />May 15, 2003 <br />Page 25 <br /> <br />employers is going to have on this water and sewer rate. City Manager Malone <br />said they are going to try to figure out a way to work with the committee and <br />try to find ways to be innovative and to do the best that they could do. He said <br />they are going to take a close look at it and that staff was talking with Campbell <br />Soup and felt that they can come up with a rate for them that is a little more <br />palatable. <br /> <br />Mr. Campbell asked Chairman Plata if Mr. Olson told him how much it cost to <br />produce a thousand gallons of water? Chairman Plata said he got the charge for <br />how much they charge for water. Mr. Campbell said the City of Paris <br />produces water for $0.56 per thousand gallons; Greenville produces the same <br />amount of water for $0.79 per thousand gallons; Corsicana produces it for <br />$0.62 per thousand gallons; Mt. Pleasant produces for $0.55 per thousand <br />gallons; Denison produces for $0.48 per thousand gallons, but 25% of their <br />water comes from water wells and it is going to be lower. The person he spoke <br />to in Sherman was the Director of Engineering in Utilities and he said to have <br />Mr. Plata call him so he could explain it to him because it is too complicated <br />to talk about on the telephone and to get it second hand because they have a lot <br />of different cost areas that goes into their water production rate. He said, for <br />example, Sherman has wells which furnish only part of the city with water and <br />they have a plant which furnishes the other part of the city and on the tail end <br />of that plant, they have a another system that takes salt and other chemicals out <br />of the water because they get their water from Lake Texoma, which has salt in <br />it. Mr. Campbell said, not knowing their cost, but take Greenville for instance, <br />they have fewer people, but it cost more money to produce their water. <br />Relating it to people does not have a lot to do with it as far as that goes; that <br />part of it, but it is not all of it by any means. Chairman Plata said the way he <br />sees it putting maintenance on instead of operators will only benefit the city. <br />Mr. Campbell said it depends on what they are doing. Mr. Campbell asked if <br />Chairman Plata has a problem with them doing maintenance during day light <br />hours, he said he did not understand what the problem is. Chairman Plata said <br />he had a problem with all of the people on maintenance out there being on day <br />light hours because there cannot be that much work to keep all those <br />maintenance people busy. City Manager Malone said he had been dealing with <br /> <br /> <br />