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City Council Water & Sewer Subcommittee March 25, 2003 Page 3 Campbell advised that the water rates have changed on an average of $0.34 per month per year and the wastewater rates have changed $1.08 per month per year. He said that on page 20 there is an example of the monthly report that he had to fill out when he came to the city, which is one page typed with a typewriter. Pages 21, 22, 23, 24, and 25 are the current reports that have to be completed today and all the data has to come from his people. Mr. Campbell said that on page 23, they have added a lot about individual filter performances. Now they have to keep information on individual filters. He asked the committee to look at filter number one. Every four hours they have to take a sample for turbidity and run a test on it. Chairman Plata asked if all cities have to do this testing. Mr. Campbell responded that if the population is more than ten thousand a city has to run these tests if it is a surface water treatment plant. If they get their water from wells they have to fill out a different report. Mr. Campbell asked the committee to go to page 26 which is a listing of the changes that have been made in the lift stations. The left side shows the 11 lift stations in 1987; the right shows the 17 lift stations in 2003; and the bottom shows the proposed lift station for the Paris Golf and Country Club. The city is working with them as there is a possibility that the city might take over their lift station. Chairman Plata said this page shows that between 1987 and 1990, a computerized Scada System was installed at each lift station. Chairman Plata stated that this is saying to him that this was monitored by WTP personnel at the WTP on a special computer. This means that anytime something is wrong it tells them by computer. Mr. Campbell said that was correct. Chairman Plata said he was still confused as to why you have people just working the lift stations. Mr. Campbell advised that the three employees maintain the lift stations. He said the budget shows four, but the city only has three. Mr. Campbell asked Chairman Plata to look at the next chart which shows that prior to 1987 noone reported overflows in the sewer system. This is