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Regular Council Meeting August 25, 2014 Page 11 not work. Mr. Godwin said at this point Neel Shafer was working on the design for Phase 1. Council Member Hashmi inquired if it was possible to have a sewer system with a small package plant. Mr. Godwin said yes, at the airport. Council Member Hashmi inquired about service to those residents who requested disannexation and Mr. Godwin said that was a priority, but at this time there was not enough flow due to the number of customers. Council Member Grossnickle said this project was earmarked as costing five million dollars and was to bring prosperity to the airport, but it did not look like that was going to happen until there were more customers at the airport. Council Member Hashmi said if they were only going to serve the ball field and the vet clinic, that it did not seem like the right thing to spend this amount of money. Mr. Godwin explained the long range plan was to serve the whole area including the airport, but they did not know when the airport would develop. Council Member Plata confirmed with Mr. Godwin that the engineering would be done and when the airport began to develop. Mr. Godwin suggested the City continue to get easements from property owners. Council Member Hashmi said he was not sure that package plans had been explored and asked that be explored for the area. Mayor Frierson wanted to know how long it was going to take for the engineering on the design and amount of money had been spent thus far. Mr. Godwin replied a little over $100,000 had been spent and the whole project contract was about $800,000. He said the engineers had completed about 30% of the design and would take another couple of months to complete. Mr. Godwin said they had not been given authorization to proceed with construction plans; and it would be 2015 before they could bid anything out. It was a consensus of the Council not to take any action at this time. 20. Discuss the 2014 -2015 Budget for the City of Paris, and act on RESOLUTION NO. 2014 -029: A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PARIS, TEXAS, CALLING A PUBLIC HEARING FOR SEPTEMBER 8, 2014 ON THE CITY MANAGER'S PROPOSED BUDGET FOR FISCAL YEAR 2014 -2015; MAKING OTHER FINDINGS AND PROVISIONS RELATED TO THE SUBJECT; AND PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE. Mr. Godwin explained because he was recommending a flat tax rate, there was a requirement of two public hearings and he was proposing those be scheduled for September 8 and September 18, which was item 21. In addition, Mr. Godwin said he was proposing the required public hearing on the proposed budget for September 8. Mr. Godwin said the budget included only one new employee and that was an employee to work on drainage. He also said the budget included the one garbage truck, the utility rate that was deferred in June, some compensation changes in emergency services, and an additional $50.00 for insurance and an eighth step to the pay plan. Council Member Plata said he had a problem when some employees got raises and not all of the employees. Mr. Godwin said in the past they had given lower paid employees a raise and there was a problem doing it that way because the pay scale was flat. Mr. Godwin also said that everybody deserves a raise, but the problem was the City could not afford it without raising taxes. Council Member Lancaster confirmed one new fire truck was in the budget. She asked Chief Wright how many fire trucks were needed and Chief Wright said two. Council Member Lancaster asked Chief Wright if the fire department could respond to two fires at one time and he told her not with full equipment. She asked if there was full assurance if the