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MINUTES OF THE WATER & SEWER RATE STUDY ADVISORY COMMITTEE February 25, 1988 The Water & Sewer Rate Study Advisory Committee met in special session, Thursday, February 25, 1988, 6:00 P. M. Council Room, City Hall, Paris, Texas. Chairman Kent called the meeting to order with the following members present: Councilman Bone, City Attorney, T. K. Haynes, City Manager, Michael E. Malone, Director of Finance, W. E. Anderson, Director of Utilities, Herb Campbell, James Farris, Citizen, and City Clerk Mattie Cunningham. Jack Stowe representing Reed & Stowe presented a draft of the segments completed by his firm regarding the water and sewer rate study, and cautioned the Committee of the fact that this being a draft, it would be subject to change, and attached hereto as part of these minutes as exhibit A. Mr. Stowe called attention to the first three pages of the draft, the first page showing raw water pumped daily - average to the peak day from 1983 through 1987 stating that it has been rather static until 1987 when we reached a large raw water peak which they can not account for other than there must have been an extremely hot day, or some of the raw water could have gone to storage. Mr. Stowe went to the next draft showing treated water pumped daily - average vs peak day, and again stated that it stayed static with the exception of 1986 with a slight increase. The average treated water pumped is approximately 11 MGD, and peak treated water pumped is approximately 16 -18 MGD. Mr. Stowe said this information was needed to get them familiar with how the city's system is operating so they will be able to make decisions when they get ready to allocate such as characteristic of the water treatment plant. On the next schedule, Mr. Stowe pointed out the raw water vs treated water pumped, stating you expect to see differences due to storage that takes place, lag in measuring, and they were not to concerned with what they saw. Mr. Stowe went to page one of the draft advising they had taken the assets or investments that the city has in the Water & Sewer Fund and for the most part, is broken down fairly well for them between water and sewer except for investments in billing and collecting, and that is one of the things they went back in and allocated 50% of the investment over to the sewer side of the investments. Mr. Stowe stressed the importances of remembering that they were only looking at one half of the picture tonight, that being water not sewer. Mr. Stowe said that when the committee meets in two weeks he will have the figures for the sewer investments completed, and will be presented them at that time along with the water, and will be able to show the committee what he will give the engineers, and what they will use to do the customer class allocation study.