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lowest bid. Regular City Council Meeting September 4,2003 Page 15 Mayor Fendley announced that the Council would adjourn out of the Planning and Zoning's portion of the agenda and go back into the budget workshop. Mayor Fendley announced that they would take a 10 minute break at 6:25 P.M. Mayor Fendley reconvened the meeting at 6:36 P.M. Councilman Bell said he would like to go back and request that the electricity in the Water and Sewer Department be cut. Mayor Fendley advised that he asked Mr. Anderson to look at that because that number looks high. They have also gone to a new utility service. Mr. Anderson came forward giving the City Council a handout concerning the detailed account for the Water and Sewer Department where the city has made ten payments. Mr. Anderson said they have had a problem, as discussed before, with the electrical provider not billing for all the accounts every month, and it looks like in February that they caught up. That is the only adjustment that they have seen and they have been pretty consistent since then. He said the number there is $299,069.00, which represents ten payments. Mayor Fendley said that $375,000.00 would be a realistic figure. Councilman Bell made a motion to cut this account by $400,000.00 to $375,000.00. Herb Campbell, Director of Utilities, appeared before the City Council and stated that he wanted to go back and look at the year 1998-99. What he has done is add up the budget for the whole department. He said that in 1998-99, the electrical budget was $800,700.00 with TXU. Mr. Campbell said in 2000-01 the actual expense was $1,030,000.00 and the actual in 2002 was $900,013.00. At that point, they had switched over to First Choice. He advised that the budget for this year was $1,026,000.00, and the budget for last year was