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Budget Committee Meeting August 26, 1999 Page 8 County Water Supply. Mr. Anderson said he would get that information for Mr. Wilson. City Manager Malone said one of the possibilities for the Warehouse is the Lamar County Electric Coop's building will be available to us, and it would solve a lot of problems. City Manager Malone said the city needs an area for the Parks & Recreation Department to store equipment and replace the building they are in. It would give us room for program activities for the Parks and Recreation, administrative space for the Fire Department and storage space for the Fire Department. It would provide a replacement building for the Warehouse and it enjoins the Public Works property, which will give us excess to Center Street. Mr. Anderson said the Water Billing Department is the next department for consideration, and asked the Committee to look at the capital section of this budget. Mr. Anderson said he had $25,000.00 which is an estimate from Yoder Construction to either repair or replace the roof of the building. It also represents removing the air conditioners off the roof and placing them behind the building. Mr. Anderson said he has placed in this budget a new pickup, which is a replacement for one that has over 140,000 miles on it. Mr. Anderson said he was adding a meter reader, and if you will look at the personnel schedule you will see that we had four meter readers. One of the meter readers passed away, and he had tried to make do with three, and had difficulty maintaining the 30 day billing cycle. Mr. Anderson explained that with three meter readers in the winter time it throws them behind and we will have more than a 30 day billing cycle which tends to upset people. Mr. Anderson said in the summer time, they can keep up with it, and what they did when they had the fourth meter reader during the winter time and bad weather they can keep up with that, but during the fair weather they have three meter readers reading the meters, and the fourth one swaps out the old style meters with the touch meters. Mr. Anderson said that some of the old water meters can be re- worked. There being no further business, the meeting adjourned.