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Regular City Council Meeting <br />August 11,2003 <br />Page 11 <br /> <br />estimated to cost $10,000.00, which is under the $25,000.00 limit, and staff <br />finds the project is more extensive and will exceed the $25,000.00 limit. She <br />asked that, if we get in there and find that, do we stop that project, fill that hole <br />up and go back and bid the project to fix it? Mr. Napier said they may have to <br />do exactly that. Mayor Fendley said that could be true unless you declare that <br />an emergency. <br /> <br />Mr. Bell said that a number of those problems, which have been proven, have <br />been taken care of. They dated back in the year 2000 and 2001 and they were <br />taken care of with day work and were converted to being billed and paid on <br />weekly-monthly basis to a daily basis. Mr. Bell said he has not seen anything <br />since Mr. Schenk has brought it to the attention of the city, which day work has <br />not been brought to him that says day work is not being paid on a daily basis. <br />Mr. Bell went on to say, that having been said, it has been clear that the City <br />of Paris, in these instances, paid $47.00 a foot for pipe where a pipe with the <br />same specs could have been purchased for $35.00 a foot. He said that is a <br />problem when we get into hundreds of thousands of dollars spent. He said that <br />there is a problem when we know and have price sheets out here that we have <br />machines and operators that the city was paying $85.00 an hour for when there <br />are other people very capable of performing the job for $$65.00 an hour. He <br />said that things like this tell us there is abuse. Mr. Bell said he was not sure <br />how it was handled by Mr. Napier but in the recent case just brought up in <br />Mack Ross's situation, Mr. Napier's estimate to do the work was $75,000.00 <br />and the actual cost was $45,000.00; therefore, what we have is a situation <br />where the cost is exceeding what they should be, considerable, and there is no <br />reason to be spending on day work. He said that day work can and is, in many <br />communities bid, not as a project cost, but bid with the city providing the <br />material and it is not hard to pick up the phone and get faxed in two cost <br />estimates that meets the specs, and that is not hard, you put them in the file and <br />you have them dated and you will have an estimate for the pipe and the other <br />materials. He said that it does not take much to look up the price list and say <br />that we have three contractors or four contractors that can perform this work <br />and this is what the charge is by the hour. It is also not hard for them to say I <br /> <br /> <br />