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Regular City Council Meeting <br />August 11,2003 <br />Page 23 <br /> <br />what staff is saying is, if you have a non-binding estimate and they say they <br />can get it done in three days by Mr. Napier's estimate, their estimate is <br />academic because each contractor can tell that he can get it done in the least <br />number of days, so you will give him the work. The City Attorney said that <br />is why he thinks the better estimate from the city's perspective, whether it <br />winds up being that or not, is our own engineer. He was not saying it has to <br />hit it on the nose, but to allow the contractors to give us the estimates almost <br />invites the fact that one contractor will certainly try to under bid the next, but <br />whether you get it done on a day basis for that amount remains to be seen. <br /> <br />City Attorney Schenk asked what the City Council thinks of this: if there is an <br />emergency, we want it fixed. If it is not an emergency, then what Mr. Napier <br />can do is identify for the month or two months kinds of projects that he sees <br />that needs to be done. They can bring those to the City Council with the <br />description as to the size and nature of the projects and what they think it will <br />be, a brief description, and the cost. The question is, do you want to do these <br />separately or do you want to try to aggregate them in a single deal; or do you <br />want the city engineer to make a recommendation? <br /> <br />Mayor Fendley said he did get those comments and thoughts and they will <br />bring that back at a later date with a recommendation as to how the Council <br />wants to go forward. <br /> <br />Mayor Fendley announced that the next item on the agenda deals primarily <br />with Budget Workshop items. He said they have another budget workshop set <br />for August 14, 2003, and the Council might want to go ahead at this time and <br />schedule what departments the Council would like to look at. <br /> <br />City Manager Malone said they could take the departments in order as they are <br />in the budget, or any order the Council would prefer. <br /> <br />Mayor Fendley said the main thing he noticed when going through the <br />department budgets was talk about a payroll increase of 3.43% but even if the <br /> <br /> <br />