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City Council Water & Sewer Subcommittee March 25, 2003 Page 2 and Paris was in the middle. Mr. Campbell advised that cities like Frisco buy their water from other sources and that is why they have a large service pump capacity. Mr. Campbell said there were other cities that he compared by population, but the thing to look at is on page 9, which is the total cost of water and wastewater. On a question by Councilwoman Neeley regarding the distribution license grades at the top of the page, "D ", "B ", & "C", Mr. Campbell advised that the new rules and regulations require people who work in the distribution and collection system to have a certification or to work under a certified person. He said the best certification to have is a Water Treatment Operator because he covers at the Water Treatment Plant and in Distribution. Mr. Campbell said they start out with a grade "A" as being the best and "C" and "D" being the lowest and the city only has one "A" operator and six "C" operators and there are no "B" operators in Distribution. He said that these employees are in Terry Townsend's department and they are not included in the 26 employees for his department. City Manager Malone advised that this is Terry Townsend's Department and he could not be here tonight because he had to take certification training to continue his Parks and Recreation responsibilities and this training had been scheduled for some time before the meeting date was changed. Mr. Campbell explained there is more to the Water and Sewer Fund than just the Utility divisions. He stated that Mr. Townsend has two departments and Mr. Anderson has two departments included in this fund. Mr. Campbell pointed out that if the committee did a comparative study that everything is all over the board regarding different things such as cost, water rates, number of employees, different population figures, and different wholesale connections. Mr. Campbell asked that they go to page 19, which concerned the residential water rates. He advised that these are based on the current rates. Mr.