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MINUTES OF THE SPECIAL MEETING OF THE CITY COUNCIL March 15, 2004 The City Council of the City of Paris met in regular session, Monday, March 15, 2004, 5:30 P.M. at Paris Junior College, Bobby R. Walters Applied Technology Building, Room 1206, 2400 Clarksville Street, Paris, Texas. Mayor Curtis Fendley called the meeting to order with the following Council Members present: Jim Bell, Jay Guest, Joe E. McCarthy, Francine Neeley, Willie Weekly, Sr. and Benny Plata. Also, present were City Attorney Larry W. Schenk and City Clerk Mattie Cunningham. Resolution No. 2004-058, approving and authorizing the award of a contract for medical, dental, vision, life, and long-term disability for the employees and employees’ dependents of the City of Paris, was presented. Gene Anderson, Director of Finance, came forward reviewing his previous memorandum, stating what criteria he used to do the initial recommendation, which had to be those bids meeting all specifications that the city asked for. Then he selected the company based on the lowest cost. Mr. Anderson advised that he sent another memorandum out this week, and it should be in the City Council’s packet. This memorandum addressed the issue that if the City Council wanted to consider other criteria they certainly could under the law as long as they made those criteria known to all qualified bidders and they all had equal opportunities to negotiation on that basis. He said additional numbers were provided to him dealing with the number of the topics, and the most important one that he perceived out of that group had to do with Direct Writers verses Managing General Underwriters or MGU’s. Mr. Anderson stated that he was not sure if that issue would be a deal breaker for him. He did do some checking and tried to get a better understanding of that concept. Mr. Anderson checked with TML to see what their thoughts were on that and about the only thing they told him was Safeco was one of the other Direct Writers that was under consideration. He said that TML is an approved administrator for Safeco, but he did not see anything in the review that would make him change his recommendation. To him it was still an issue of whether or not the City Council wants to go fully funded or self funded.