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PML Study Committee members: As requested, here is my transcript of the tape recording of the meeting of the Pat Mayse Lake Study Committee at 4 p.m., Thursday, Jan. 8, 2009: First item, committee chairman Reeves Hayter called the meeting to order. Hayter: "We probably are going to have a very short meeting today. We lost our meeting space temporarily, and we are unable to televise our meeting from this room. I didn't realize, but apparently there are people who watch us on TV. We have a Nielson's rating of some kind, probably single digits. I bet we're not up there with Monday Night Football. At any rate, we probably are going to restrict ourselves to very routine business. Do we have a roll call ?" Present were the following members appointed by the Paris City Council: Reeves Hayter, Dan Smith, Sharron Nabors, Jim Noble, Gene McWaters, Dennis Chalaire, John Kruntorad and Richard Quarles. Absent among the council's appointed members were Herb Campbell, Rick McDougall and alternate Joan Mathis. From the ex- officio members appointed to the committee, present were Robert Campbell, Lamar County Water Supply District; Frank Wright, Kimberly Clark; Jim Kays, Sara Lee; Renee Harvey, Chamber of Commerce; and Ray Ball, Lamar County Commissioners. Absent was Bryon Billman, Lamar Power Partners. A quorum was announced as present, and the meeting proceeded. Third item, approval of minutes. Minutes of the committee's last meeting on Dec. 11, 2008, were approved after a motion by Dan Smith and a second by Sharron Nabors. Hayter: "In connection with roll call and the approval of minutes, I don't know that I announced at the last meeting that Rick McDougall has resigned from the committee. Rick resigned because he has got some business activities that are going to take him on extensive travel over the next two months, so he thought it would be better if he did that. We hate to lose him." City Engineer Shawn Napier: "I did talk to the mayor about that. Because time is of the essence and we are near the end, we are not going to be replacing him." Fourth item, public forum. No one announced as wishing to speak to the committee, and the forum was closed. Fifth item: Discussion and possible action on the committee's PowerPoint presentation to the public. Dennis Chalaire said he is waiting on some data from HDR Consulting to complete a couple of the charts in the presentation. He said all the slides have been cut and modified. He said the number of slides is now 13. He said he had been uncertain whether the committee wanted to separate manufacturing demand from steam electric demand, and at this point there are separate slides. Hayter said he felt 13 is a workable number, and no need to consolidate the manufacturing demand from the steam electric demand.