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City Council Water & Sewer Subcommittee <br />May 15, 2003 <br />Page 28 <br /> <br />worked for Earth Grains for a while and she worked those long shifts and there <br />were a lot of accidents. She said that in the water and wastewater plants we <br />do not have a lot of accidents because we do not have those long 12 hours <br />shifts. Chairman Plata said the night shifts you get tired and he thought that <br />there has been one accident occurred and it happened on days, but the normal <br />is muscle strains or pulled backs or things of that nature. David Wims advised <br />that for the most part, the people who work at the water plant are not people <br />who are geared for 12 hour shifts. He said that they feel pretty well brutalized <br />at the end of eight hours. Mr. Anderson stated that the other issue is the week <br />they work four days, that is 8 hours overtime. He said it does not work that <br />way with the Police Department because they fall under a different law. He <br />said that if they were called in to work a shift for someone that did not come in, <br />all of those hours will be overtime. Chairman Plata said that anything over 40 <br />hours is what Kimberly Clark did, you do not get paid hours over eight. Mr. <br />Anderson pointed out that would be 48 hours and the city would have to pay <br />for 8 hours overtime plus if someone is out and you called them back, that <br />would be all overtime. City Attorney Schenk advised that the Police <br />Department is under Civil Service law and they had to elect to change their <br />schedule. <br /> <br />At 5:56 P.M., Chairman Plata announced that the committee would take a short <br />break. <br /> <br />At 6:08, Chairman Plata reconvened the meeting. <br /> <br />Chairman Plata said that the schedule that he had given out is a Kimberly Clark <br />schedule. <br /> <br />Skipper Steely said, as a citizen, he is probably the only one who remembered <br />Bill King and the way it went before Mr. Campbell took over the Utilities, and <br />also the only citizen in here that has studied all these budgets from all these <br />towns, that you have mentioned. Mr. Steely said he could not find a <br />comparable way to ever compare any town in any category with Paris. He said <br />that Paris is unique, different, but he has seen this plant from the time where <br /> <br /> <br />