1987-1991 - Laserfiche WebLink

Home Browse Search

MINUTES OF THE SPECIAL MEETING OF THE WATER & SEWER RATE STUDY ADVISORY COMMITTEE January 7, 1991 The Water & Sewer Rate Study Advisory Committee met, Monday, January 7, 1991, 5:00 P. M., City Council Chambers, City Hall, Paris, Texas. Chairman, Billy Joe Burnett called the meeting to order with the following members present: Councilman E. W. (Bill) Booth, Councilman George Fisher, Jr., Director of Finance, W. E. Anderson, City Engineer, Earl Smith, Director of Utilities, Herb Campbell, Jim Farris, City Manager, Michael E. Malone, City Attorney, T. K. Haynes, and City Clerk, Mattie Cunningham. Chairman Burnett announced the purpose of the meeting was to receive briefing from Keith Reed, a partner in Reed -Stowe & Company that has been engaged to conduct a Water and Wastewater Rate Study for the City of Paris. Mr. Reed came forward and gave each member a questionnaire to fill out and return to them. Mr. Reed told the Committee the questionnaire would give them input on some of the thing that will take place in the rate calculation study. Mr. Reed told the Committee that the first thing they plan to do is an exact cost of service study based totally on actual cost where there is no substitution or cross substitution between classes of customers, that the residential, and commercial customers pay all their share, and the contract customers pay all their share according to their contracts with the City of Paris. Mr. Reed said there were several other thing they needed to get the committee's input on because they have agreed in their proposal to calculate the rate for the residential customers within the City of Paris, and the commercial customers that are not under a contract, that they will provide the City with three rate fall alternatives, and the Committee's input on the questionnaires will give Reed and Stowe the insight as to what the desires of the Committee are as far as the three rate fall alternatives. Mr. Reed announced the next thing they would like to do is set the time for the next committee meeting. After discussion, it was the consensus of the Committee to call the meeting for March 4, 1991 at 5:00 P. M. Mr. Reed advised that at the March meeting they would have a draft report for the Committee to look at and review, and have the Advisory Committee give them their thinking on the rates, and it would give them adequate time to incorporate the Committee's suggestions into the rate calculations. Mr. Reed said the final report would be complete by the first of April for the final presentation and adoption by the City of Paris. City Attorney Haynes reported that there was a change being made to the Tenaska contract regarding the audit period, but felt we could go forward on the rate study.