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Regular City Council Meeting <br />August 11,2003 <br />Page 13 <br /> <br />and get estimates on it from at least two companies on an hourly basis not to <br />exceed the $25,000.00. <br /> <br />City Attorney Schenk said the answer to the first question is ~yes" the city <br />would do work-by-the-day and that was the consensus of the City Council. <br /> <br />The second question staff is asking the Council is do you want work-by-the-day <br />only in an emergency situation or do you want the City to do work-by-the-day <br />in non-emergency circumstances? The answer of Council is to do work-by-the- <br />day in both instances. <br /> <br />City Attorney Schenk asked what the Council considered an emergency. He <br />asked for input on this since it is subject to interpretation. Councilman Plata <br />said Council said it was specifically a bid process. The City Attorney said <br />what he would like to do is pencil that in, and he asked whether it is only in a <br />situation connected to a bid process and, if so, we are actually bidding that out. <br /> <br />Mayor Fendley asked Councilman Bell if he said to bid anything over <br />$25,000.00. Councilman Bell said he was finding out that most projects can <br />be estimated and it is not difficult to get two estimates in the file whether it is <br />$5,000.00, $25,000.00, or $35,000.00. Mr. Bell said to take these projects <br />where the Paris News has actually reported that one was a million-dollar project <br />and it was busted up into little $25,000.00 segments and it does not work. <br />They did the same thing on the Fire Department. Mayor Fendley said we can <br />address it as a job. <br /> <br />City Attorney Schenk said if the Council is going to allow work by the day in <br />emergency circumstances, that is clearly not a bid circumstance, and the most <br />extreme case is the big break that the city had at the Water Treatment Plant. <br />Councilman Bell said you would use your contractor that was the low bidder <br />if available. If not, get a statement that he is not available and go to the next <br />low estimator. The city will have estimates and price lists that are available to <br />the city that states the cost per hour, <br /> <br /> <br />