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Regular City Council Meeting <br />July 14,2003 <br />Page 19 <br /> <br />our work, and also, to pay that way. Mr. Bray said there were other sheets that <br />backup where they paid overtime money all during this job. He said if the city <br />is paying overtime money, and it has to be over 40 hours a week, somewhere <br />someone has a problem. <br /> <br />Councilwoman Neeley asked if this was all on one job, and Mr. Bray said this <br />is on one project. <br /> <br />Mr. Bray advised that he is also showing overtime on the job on Clement Road. <br />Mr. Bray said there was a quotation for 36 inch sewer pipe on the next page. <br />The city purchased 36 inch vylon pipe for that job and there is an invoice where <br />the city paid $47.85 a foot for that pipe. Mr. Bray said he called one of the <br />suppliers, Diamond Plastics, who makes big sewer pipe. He was told that the <br />company who made vylon pipe had closed its plant. He said Diamond Plastics <br />quoted $36.00 a foot for 500 feet of pipe. He said the best estimate that they <br />could get when they went through these jobs folders on all these invoices they <br />came up with around 13,533 feet and the city paid $47.85 a foot and could have <br />paid $36.00 a foot. He said there is a tab sheet on the back of this handout <br />showing the difference in money on this material alone is $160,366.00. Mr. <br />Bray advised that they are out there looking out for the best interest of the <br />citizens of Paris. The city should not have gotten one price on this job. He <br />said if this pipe company that makes this other pipe meets the same specs, and <br />the supply company said they do, then why didn't the city get a quote from <br />them. Mr. Bray said this is regardless of day rate or whatever you want to talk <br />about. Mr. Bray said he is talking about the money that belongs to the citizens <br />of the town, and the city does not even get a second bid, but we don't have <br />money to do these projects, but here we spend $160,000.00 more than we had <br />to for this project. <br /> <br />Mr. Bray advised that the if city had bid this project out, he would have, and <br />any contractor would have had to meet the ATSM specs for the 36 inch pipe. <br />Mr. Bray said they are not limited to who could bid on a project and they are <br />not having to restrain the trade situation by saying that we are not going to buy <br /> <br /> <br />