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Regular Council Meeting June 22, 2015 Page 4 participation and sale of property. Mayor Hashmi said he felt the fire department was working well. Council Member Frierson confirmed with Mayor Hashmi that these were his opinions of the City Council and city departments. Mayor Frierson said he found the list to be overly negative and somewhat unfounded. First of all, he said they were made up of a group of seven individuals from different backgrounds and sections of the community and he did not think they were going to think alike on every issue. He said he thought the rule of leadership was not to have unanimity all of the time, but rather come together and compromise and realize collaboration gives far greater reward than trying to always hope that one idea was going to be the silver bullet. He said he thought there were some key issues that they had not done a good job with respect of meeting in the middle. Council Member Frierson said they were an administrative, policy making board and hopefully their constituents trusted them. He said they had equal votes and that the mayor was ceremonial in nature. He also said he realizes that Shawn Napier bears the burden of a lot of things but between Mr. Napier and Mr. Godwin, he had confidence in them. Council Member Frierson said there was always two sides to every story and that they were all works in progress that should strive to get better each and every day. He said with respect to the City Clerk's Office, EMT and the Fire Department, he appreciated the compliments and personally agreed with them and he did receive good reports about them all the time, but he wanted to make sure Council wasn't overzealous in praising them in public in case Mr. Godwin had something he was internally dealing with that Council did not know about yet. Council Member Frierson said with regard to code enforcement, there were tons of issues, weeds, cars, etc. and he received a lot of phone calls, but in their defense they had a lot on their plate. He said he read the meeting notes from the meeting with Chief Hundley and the only crime statistics he was aware of was reported was on Facebook. He said he took the liberty to research and from three different related crime stats in Texas and Paris was not listed at all in any three articles. Council Member Pickle said a lot of this did not need to be brought out in the City Council meeting. He said he thought Council was getting back in the situation of micromanaging and the day -to -day operation of the City was the job of the City Manager. Council Member Clifford said he thought it was useful to point these types of things out, as people had a right to know. He said he did not have an issue at all with this presentation and that he agreed with a lot of what Mayor Hashmi brought forward. Council Member Plata said he could see both points. He said he knew that everybody wanted to do a good job and improvements are the result of them asking questions and exploring some of these issues, but he did not feel everything should be aired out in public but instead directed to Mr. Godwin for resolution. Council Member Jenkins said good points were brought out by both sides and as Council Members and leaders of the community, he hoped they could all come together and to the right thing for Paris. Council Member Lancaster said she thought it was good to bring out the fact they were not really together as a board, and could get a lot more accomplished in the town if they worked together. She also said she did not see a problem with any Council Member making a presentation on ways they could improve. Mayor Hashmi pointed out that the City Manager was fully aware of these meetings and none of the meetings were conducted without information being provided to the entire Council or the City Manager. Council Member Pickle said that was not true, because he was not aware of the meeting with the police chief and Council Member Plata. He said he accidentally found out about the meeting and they were not notified