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SPECIAL MEETING OF THE CITY COUNCIL WATER & SEWER SUBCOMMITTEE March 25, 2003 The City Council Water and Sewer Subcommittee met in a special session, Tuesday, March 25, 2003, 6:00 P. M., at the Applied Technology Building, Room 1206, West Entrance, 2400 Clarksville Street, Paris, Texas. Chairman Benny Plata called the meeting to order with Councilman Willie Weekly and Councilwoman Francine Neeley being present. Also present was City Manager Michael E. Malone, City Attorney Larry Schenk, Director of Finance Gene Anderson, Director of Utilities Herb Campbell, and City Clerk Mattie Cunningham. Chairman Plata called for a moment of silence in support of the war efforts. Chairman Plata said when they left off at the last meeting he told Mr. Campbell he would give him a chance to continue with some of his report. Mr. Campbell went back over page 6 of his report, pointing out that he has not added any personnel in the utility department since 1992. He said during that period of time, they had been asked to do more and more as state and federal government added more mandates and more equipment was added to meet the mandates. In his opinion, they have been doing more with the same amount of people and, to him, that is like doing the same thing with fewer people, because anytime the state or federal government would come in and place another mandate on the city, they would keep the people they had plus the budget that they had and do the job. Mr. Campbell went to page 7 of his report advising that he had done a lot of research on the internet so he could compare the City of Paris with other cities in the state. There are four pages of comparisons. Page 7 compares the City of Paris by average flow. Paris has an average flow similar to cities much larger in area. Mr. Campbell said page 8 shows all of the average daily flows. The City of Paris is at 11.6. Frisco is at 13.4 and it goes down to Lewisville and Temple. He said they compared different areas all across the chart. The right hand side of the chart compared the current water rate with all of the other cities