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MINUTES OF THE STREET & DRAINAGE COMMITTEE MEETING OF THE CITY COUNCIL January 21, 1987 The Street and Drainage Committee of the City Council of the City of Paris met in Special session, Wednesday, January 21, 1987, 5:15 P. M., Council Rim, City Hall. Chairman Mike Folmar called the meeting to order with the following Councilman present: Mayor Billy J. Burnett, and Councilman Travis Wortham. Also present was City Manager, Michael E. Malone, City Attorney Haynes, Director of Engineering, John Buss, City Engineer, David Tompkins, and City Clerk, Mattie Cunningham. Chairman Folmar announced that the special meeting was called to consider the effect of proposed improvements to be make by the Church of Christ of Latter Day Saints adjacent to Pine Mill Road. After a considerable amount of discussion, Director of Engineering, John Buss made the following recommendations as a procedure to follow: 1. Support off side drainage improvement where it is necessary to prevent harm to down stream property owners. 2. Where it is necessary for easements to be obtained, to do that a. The easements needs to be a natural drain. b. The Developer has to have expired all efforts on his own to acquire those through the private market. c. He has to hire an independent certified appraiser to to appraise the cost and drainage of the easement, and he must have offered the property owner that amount. when these conditions are met, then they can approach the City Council on an individual basis to see if the City will use their condemnation powers to acquire the easements. This is not guaranteed, and the Developer should not go forward with purchase and construction assuming that it will be condemned. d. The Developer will pay all cost for the condemnation cost and the off side drainage improvements. e. The developer should also use an appraiser approved by the City Attorney. Mr. Buss stated that this seems to be a workable written policy. After further discussion, the Committee was in agreement with the procedures recommended by Mr. Buss. Councilman Folmar requested that the possibility of selling the Lake Crook property to a developer be placed on the agenda of the next regular Council meeting for discussion. Councilman Folmar also requested that the discussion of Hotel -Motel Occupancy Tax be placed on the agenda of the next regular council meeting.