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CITY COUNCIL DRAINAGE STUDY COMMITTEE MEETING FEBRUARY 22, 2001 The City Council Drainage Study Committee met in a special session on Thursday, February 22, 2001, 6:00 P.M., Paris Junior College, Applied Technology Building, Room 1016, 2400 Clarksville Street, Paris, Texas. Chairman Benny Plata called the meeting to order with Mayor Pro Tern Richard Manning and Councilman John Bell being present. Also present were City Manager Michael E. Malone, Mattie Cunningham, City Clerk, and Director of Public Works, Terry Townsend. Chairman Plata announced that the first item on the agenda would be a discussion of storm water drainage problems throughout the city as identified by staff and citizens. City Manager Malone stated that he would review all of the drainage issues brought to the Committee through the public hearings and that some of them had been resolved. Some of the issues would be major drainage projects and that the staff would be making recommendations concerning those that required some minimal engineering. City Manager Malone said that the City had received good news from Ronnie Tidwell who works with United States Department of Agriculture representing the Natural Resources Conservation Service. Mr. Tidwell contacted the City about funding available because of the emergency declaration in connection with the ice storm - funds that can be used for mitigation of future drainage problems. These funds would be available to come in and help clean up ditches, repair culverts, or unblock culverts and things of that nature that might cause a lot more damage to public structures or homes in the future. The City Manager said that Mr. Tidwell and personnel from their Dallas office had accompanied Terry Townsend and identified a lot of different areas in the city where their program could assist. Included would be many of the old concrete drainage ditches constructed by the WPA during the Great Depression and also some of the drainage ditches in Paradise Estates and the 42 "d Street area. Through this program, NRCS would take bids and bring in contractors'to clean out all of the trees and brush that are blocking the ditches. He said they are not going to put any concrete in, but may remove that which is damaged. City Manager Malone advised that this is a 75% grant with a 25 % local match. In talking with NRCS, it was found that if the City of Paris takes the brush to the compost site and runs it through the City's horizontal cutter mill, that this contribution would probably make up the