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n L u v MINUTES OF THE SPECIAL MEETING OF THE CITY COUNCIL j April 21, 1988 1 The City Council of the City of Paris met in special session, Thursday, April 21, 1988, 5 :15 P. M. Mayor Billy .Joe Burnett called the meeting to order with the following Councilmen present: Travis Wortham, Curtis Fendley, Marshall H. Kent, Jr., Bill Bone, and Eric Clifford. Also present were City Manager, Michael E. Malone, City Attorney, T. K. Haynes, and City Clerk, Mattie Cunningham. Mayor Burnett announced that the purpose of the special Council meeting was received a report from the Bond Study Committee. Eric Clifford, Chairman of the Bond Study Committee, reported that Earl Smith and City Staff had prepared a report of needed projects for water and wastewater, and said all the projects were good projects, basically Category I Water System, and Categories I & II of Wastewater of the report are recommended. Chairman Clifford said as they looked at the report, there was not enough actual information regarding cost and rates, but basically the cost of all recommended p- rojects is approximately 10 million dollars. Councilman Bone questioned the fact if we do okay the projects, does this bind future councils to do what we are recommending? City Attorney Haynes answered yes, in the event we finance the project by Bond Issue, or Certificates of Obligation, the financing method other than total generated funds from the rates, when the Bond Ordinance is passed, or Certificates of Obligation have been issued, that money does not get budgeted, the bonds gets budgeted themselves, so we can authorize to do the type of projects listed in the endenture agreement. Councilman Bone commended Earl Smith and Staff on an excellent job in putting the report together. City Manager Malone stressed the importance of considering the wastewater needs which is the highest priority at this time due to an Administrative Order with the E.P.A., he has received telephone calls from Barbara Burrell with E. P. A., and they are very concerned with the number of bypasses that we are experiencing, and have informed them that we are working on our completion of scheduled construction on the lift stations, and that we are constantly working on eliminating infiltration/ Inflow. City Manager Malone said a great deal of the projects in this program concerns Infiltration and Inflow. City Engineer, Earl Smith, went over Category I of the Water Distribution System, and Category II of the Wastewater System of the proposed improvements. W. E. Anderson, Director of Finance, advised that city staff had met with Bob Day, Financial Consultant for the City of Paris, Jack Stowe and Keith Reed of Reed & Stowe Water and Sewer Rate Study Consultants to discussing the best means of financing the proposed improvements.