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Regular City Council Meeting <br />April 14, 2003 <br />Page 4 <br /> <br />Mayor Pro Tem Manning asked if Mr. Vest was working to get another large <br />water user, similar to Campbell Soup, to help off-set the situation. Mr. Vest <br />said that they do target this type of industry but often there is a problem with <br />the large amount of sewage that this type of company produces. <br /> <br />City Manager Malone announced that the Council had been furnished minutes <br />for the Paris Public Library Advisory Board, Paris/Lamar County Board of <br />Health, Historic Preservation Commission, Board of Commissioners of the <br />Housing Authority of the City of Paris, and the Band Commission, with no <br />action being required. <br /> <br />City Manager Malone advised that the minutes from the City Council Water <br />and Sewer Subcommittee had also been included. Council member Plata was <br />Chairman of this committee and he said would bring forward the findings <br />through the Water Study Committee. <br /> <br />Mayor Pfiester said that the city can not continue to tax and burden industry <br />to finance city business. He said the Wage and Benefit Committee had the <br />time and opportunity to do their work and he would like for Councilpersons <br />Plata, Weekly, and Neeley to finish their work on the Water and Sewer <br />Subcommittee before the City Council takes action on the water and sewer <br />rates. <br /> <br />Councilman Plata advised that his committee needed two or three more <br />meetings to complete their work. He asked that the water rate increase vote be <br />postponed for one month. He presented a rough draft of some of his <br />recommendations: <br /> <br />Eliminate $18,000.00 budgeted for a new truck when the old one is still <br />operable. <br /> <br />Eliminate $40,000.00 budgeted for equipment to remove sludge when <br />conventional methods have worked for years. <br /> <br /> <br />