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City Council Water & Sewer Subcommittee <br />March 25, 2003 <br />Page 9 <br />never be able to sustain that. <br />Councilman Plata wanted to know how much water loss, treated water loss, <br />the city is experiencing. Mr. Campbell responded that overall it had been <br />about 17% and after a lost water study was performed, it was now down to <br />about 15 %, which is probably due to recent repairs to water lines. <br />City Manager Malone passed out a chart depicting the Water Distribution <br />Division, excluding capital expenditures. The chart compared the areas of <br />personnel, personnel costs, supplies, contractual, maintenance - building, <br />maintenance - equipment, sundry charges, and total budget for the years of <br />1987 -88 through 2002 -03. He explained the chart and also noted that the <br />chart showed the overtime for those years for this Division. <br />Mr. Malone then passed out another chart containing the same information on <br />the Sewer Maintenance Division for the same period of time. It also reflected <br />the overtime for this division for each of the years. <br />City Manager Malone also gave the Committee an Overtime <br />Comparison/Savings in the Water and Sewer Division since Mr. Townsend <br />made changes in his departments. This document reflected a $32,330.82 <br />savings in overtime since November 1, 2002. This is when Mr. Townsend <br />implemented a new shift that ends at 10:00 P.M. The change was made <br />because there are a lot of problems that occur between 5:00 P.M. and 10:00 <br />P.M. which resulted in more overtime being used. <br />City Manager Malone then passed out a Water and Sewer Survey excluding <br />Capital Expenditures. It compared Terry Townsend's water and sewer <br />departments with other cities in the area of square miles, miles of water line <br />maintained in service area, water customer /accounts, miles of sewer line <br />maintained in service area, sewer customers /accounts, personnel <br />requirements, annual general budget requirements, service line miles <br />maintained per employee, and annual cost per mile of service lines. City <br />Manager Malone said it looks as if the City of Paris is in line with most of <br />