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City Council Water & Sewer Subcommittee <br />May 15, 2003 <br />Page 31 <br /> <br />these managers were hired to do to do. He said that is not the way it is set up. <br />He said that the city will not run properly, if you want to do that; you will lose <br />your good managers. He said that it is the City Manager's job to do this. He <br />told Mr. Plata that it is his job is to set the budget and tell the manager how you <br />want it run and make sure the city doesn't get in trouble and that is basically <br />it. <br /> <br />Chairman Plata said that the city would be better situated to put the lift station <br />employees in the sewer maintenance department of Public Works and sewer <br />maintenance could help them and that would take a big relief for some of them. <br /> <br />Anna Wims explained that this crew is essential. She said that you have to <br />have them, depending on whether they can break away from the wastewater <br />treatment plant. She said that you are going to have sewage cut off at houses <br />and you will have upset citizens. Ms. Wims said you would not want that to <br />happen at your plant because it will stop production. Chairman Plata said they <br />were still leaving two people dedicated to lift stations, but they are working out <br />of the sewer maintenance. He said he did not believe that they are that busy. <br />Ms. Wims said that these men work hard. She said she works with these men <br />and they are necessary. She said Chairman Plata needs to come out and see the <br />facilities, because he did not understand it. She said he was talking about <br />eliminating things from the budget, and he was talking about peoples' health. <br />There are things in the water such as Cryptosporidium, this can kill people, <br />and we are suppose to be preventing that from happening. She said that the <br />biggest priority is safe drinking water. Ms. Wims said that if you do not <br />understand the need for things that you want removed from the budget, you can <br />potentially kill people in this town. <br /> <br />Councilwoman Neeley said that she did not think that any of the committee or <br />the people who voted to create this Ad Hoc Committee and have them serve on <br />it meant in any way, shape, or form for the committee to be micro-managing <br />what goes on at the water and sewer plants. She said that, as City Manager <br />Malone indicated earlier, she was as much a water person as anybody else due <br />to living with Charlie Neeley for all those years. She said they were elected by <br /> <br /> <br />