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Regular City Council Meeting <br />July 14,2003 <br />Page 21 <br /> <br />that they tied on to was given by him to the Civic Center from up there in front <br />of the high school, but he is not good enough to even give a proposal to lay <br />down a water line there for the city, but he can give that other line flee. He did <br />not think that is right. It is legally wrong and he felt it was ethically and <br />morally wrong, just like not having a pipe price and paying a person $20.00 <br />more for a track machine than he asked to get paid. If you have two of them on <br />a job that is $40.00 an hour or $400.00 and at that rate, we are burning up <br />hundred dollar bills. Mr. Bray said he did not think that anyone sitting around <br />this table would not get a second price in the process of buying a new car, that <br />wouldn't check around and get another price. He did not think that any of them <br />would pay that much more money for the same product, especially when it is <br />not your money, it is public money. Mr. Bray said whether it is legally wrong, <br />he thinks it is ethically and morally wrong for the city fathers not to be taking <br />care of this business, and if you were out here in the business sector doing this <br />work, you would want to know to. <br /> <br />Mr. Bray said he can go all over Northeast Texas and bid jobs anywhere from <br />one hundred to three or four hundred thousand dollars, and when you see these <br />jobs running seven and eight hundred thousand dollars in Paris, and we don't <br />even bid them out, the city does not even get a pipe price and save a <br />$160,000.00. The city does not pick up a phone and try to save our city some <br />money. He felt that something is wrong with what we are doing. Mr. Bray said <br />there is not a citizen in this town that has to pay a higher water bill and more <br />taxes that appreciates the city not looking into those issue. Mr. Bray said these <br />are not his records, they are the city's records. Again Mr. Bray said that if the <br />city paid the overtime, which the city did with this contractor a number of <br />times, there is no way you are doing day rates anywhere you owe anybody <br />overtime because there is no way to get 40 hours in a 24 hour a day and that is <br />a Federal Statute; that is how you pay overtime money. He felt the city has a <br />real issue and the person either owes money back or something else on those <br />things. <br /> <br />Councilwoman Neeley said she would like to see the discussion of the City <br /> <br /> <br />