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Regular City Council Meeting July 14,2003 Page 18 based on the legal advise at the time and the methodology that was going on. He said as time went on questions were asked and the new attorneys came on board. City Attorney Schenk stated that the way he understood it, and the way it was presented on the agenda, if we are doing this process now correctly, the question is do we want to continue doing work by the day and he felt that is certainly a policy that the Council will have to decide, along with what projects and under what circumstances they do it by. Councilman Bell said he would like to go into it further, and Mayor Fendley asked if there was anyone who would like to speak regarding this matter. Barney Bray III, 3230 Mahaffey, came forward passing out a handout for the City Council. Mr. Bray said the front page is his equipment rental rates and on the next page the Council would see the figure of $16,338.54, which was overtime money the city paid for the transmission line going north of the city. Mr. Bray asked, if this is true day rate, working by the day, how can there be any overtime. He said the Federal Statute states you pay overtime after 40 hours a week. Mr. Bray stated that when people give you equipment rates, you do not pay overtime on equipment rates. He also stated that their obligations as city fathers and the people that work here, is to get the cheapest and best price if you are going to work by the day. Mr. Bray said if the City Council would look on the next page they would see where the gentlemen's machines are making $75.00 an hour on October 9, 2000. He asked the Council to look at the next page on October 24, 2000, all of sudden the machines are making $85.00 an hour. Mr. Bray said that in 2000 and 2001 he doubted that the city employees got in excess of a 3 or 4% raise, if they got a raise, and here the city is giving someone who is working for us about a 13% raise in the middle of a job, in the middle of the year, and increasing his other rates. Mr. Bray pointed out at the bottom of the invoice was a charge of $11,425.01 for overtime money. Mr. Bray assumed that the city paid this invoice. He said he did not understand why this is a day rate, how there is any overtime money based on Federal Statutes and based on the quotation that this is what is worked for by the hour. Mr. Bray said that, regardless of day rate, it is our financial obligation to this community and citizens to get the cheapest and best price for