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Budget Committee Meeting August 26, 1999 Page 2 the Street Department, $200,000.00 in the Water Department, and $150,000.00 in Sewer Maintenance for a total of $950,000.00 for the maintenance of all the streets, overlays, curb and gutter, anad buying base to repair the street from water and sewer lines in the street. Mr. Huddleston said they did about 18 miles of seal coat program and the asphalt and chip cover for this project is part of the cost. City Manager Malone explained to Mr. Wilson that this is not shown as a revenue to the General Fund. It is an expenditure in the Water and Sewer Fund. Mr. Huddleston gave the Committee a handout regarding Alternate Collection Method regarding the Sanitation Department, which covers what is being proposed in the budget to alter their method of picking up solid waste and processing brush in a more timely manner that is being done at the present time. Mr. Huddleston also handed out a nine year record of the landfill cost with the cubic yards being place in the landfill. Mr. Huddleston said they are considering an alternate method of sanitation and he is recommending this method. He has placed funds in the budget for equipment and personnel to accomplish that, and the handout will give you a brief overview of what they intend to do. Mr. Huddleston pointed out that the second page of the handout is the cost for one collector on the side, containers to go into an automated pick up system. Mr. Huddleston said there has been a lot of injuries in this department, and they felt they would join what other cities are doing by going to the automated solid waste collection system, which would mean one man on the truck and it will pick up the container that is set out in certain zones. Mr. Huddleston said this is a pilot program where they start in one area and see how it works for the first year, and if it works like we think it will, then, we will go into the second year with about four trucks. Mr. Huddleston said they feel four trucks will be able to pick up the waste in the City of Paris, but may have to have a fifth truck for back up. Mr. Huddleston advised to start off with, they would need one new person in the Sanitation Department with the existing personnel to accomplish this. Mr. Huddleston advised that when these trucks are fully automated in about five years, he felt the personnel will start coming down because they are using two people on a truck at this time to accomplish the work where we would only use one with the