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Regular City Council Meeting <br />August 11,2003 <br />Page 15 <br /> <br />Councilman Bell said when the city had the water break at the plant, within <br />minutes the City Manager was on the telephone calling because everybody was <br />tied up. First he considered that an emergency. The city had a severe loss of <br />water that the people had to pay for. That was clearly an emergency. The City <br />Manager called the City Council and let them know what was going on. <br />Mayor Fendley said the City Attorney is wanting to know who was to make <br />the call. Councilman Bell said he did not see any reasons why the City <br />Engineer could not make the call. Mr. Bell said he needs to inform the City <br />Manager and the City Council if there is danger to life, property, or if it is <br />going to be a major problem of denying services to certain industries in the <br />city and it should not be that hard. Mr. Napier advised that they also should <br />add the Director of Public Works, as well as the Director of Utilities because <br />he is over the Water and Sewer Plants. The City Attorney suggested that staff <br />make recommendation to the City Manager who will notify Council about the <br />emergency. <br /> <br />City Attorney Schenk said take for instance, that a water line breaks adjacent <br />to a home and that one home is deprived of water, or you have a sewer line <br />stoppage that is at a private house. Mr. Napier explained that what Mr. <br />Schenk is leading up to is that we have this situation quite a bit where they <br />will have two main water breaks around town and water breaks sort of stack <br />on top of each other. If you get one break in one part of town you lose the <br />pressure a lot of times. The older pipes will collapse on you, which leads to <br />more problems. In that case, the city crews are tied up and we have to have <br />help from someone else. <br /> <br />Councilman Guest stated that this was started with a major project and now <br />the city is getting it down to a micro-managing process. This Council does not <br />want to do that. They don't have to do that, just clear the major projects. <br /> <br />City Attorney Schenk moved to Section II, Item No. D, if, in instances other <br />than emergencies, what would those instances be? The Council has decided <br />that it could be more than $25,000.00 and certainly in the instance of an <br /> <br /> <br />