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CITY COUNCIL DRAINAGE STUDY COMMITTEE MEETING May 14, 2001 The City Council Drainage Study Committee met in a special session on Thursday, May 14, 2001, 4:30 P. M. Paris Junior College, Applied Technology Building, Room 1016, Paris, Texas. Chairman Benny Plata called the meeting to order with Mayor Pro Tem Richard Manning and Councilman John Bell. Also present were City Manager Michael E. Malone, Director of Public Works Terry Townsend, and City Clerk Mattie Cunningham. Chairman Plata announced the first item on the agenda was discussion of Wade Park, Lamar Avenue, and 24th Street S. E. Drainage Improvement Project. City Manager Malone advised the Committee that the City Council has been authorized to have Hayter Engineering gather information about the plan f rofile of the ditch that runs through Wade Park and under Lamar Avenue, and parallel to 24th S. E. and on into Big Sandy Tributary No. Four, and to also the city cost estimates and comparisons between doing the project one way and doing it another. Reaves Hayter with Hayter Engineering, came forward telling the Committee that they have been looking at the drainage problem from Wade Park, under Lamar Avenue to 24' Street S. E. and on to Big Sandy Tributary No. Four. Mr. Hayter presented photographs of the drainage area and discussed those with the Committee. Mr. Hayter pointed out that it is his feeling that improvements should begin with the unimproved ditch beginning at Culbertson and Simpson and work towards the park area. Mr. Hayter advised that the estimated cost of the project is 1.4 million dollars. Mike Tibbits, an Engineer with Hayter Engineering, was also present, Tibbits referred to the photographs pointing out that what they tried to do is break the project down into blocks so that the Committee could see the improvements in phases, if the city wanted to do the project in phases, as