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A t 1 Mayor Clifford said he has checked with City Attorney Haynes and he is checking some of the vario .cgordj�n�� ,tes that other communities have passed to give the city some power to do something to the property owners, and feels that the City of Paris will do something in the near future after further research. A motion was made by Councilman Fulbright, seconded by Councilman Boyd authorizing preparation of an ordinance providing for the establishment of maximum, reasonable and prudent rates of speed on certain portions of certain streets and highways and public places in the City of Paris based upon the Texas Department of Transportation Traffic Study and Survey. The motion carried 6 ayes, 0 nays. City Manager Malone announced that the next consideration of and action on authorizing ordinance revising Section 16 -42 (a) (1) of providing that the Solid Waste Health and Saf shall not apply to residential units which are complex consisting of three or more units. item on the agenda was the preparation of an the Code of Ordinances ety Service Fee of $4.50 a part of a multi - family Mayor Clifford said he placed this item on the agenda because he has been hearing about this from people since his first time on the Council eight or nine years ago, and he said that he was always explaining to people why they are paying a city sanitation fee when they do not pick up the trash at these units. Mayor Clifford said it may be a fair tax, and that is what it is, but it is a grossly misunderstood tax by the property owners of these units. Mayor Clifford said back in the fall this matter was discussed, and he felt that the only way to get this off high center and try to come up with either alternate funding or something to get this matter resolved. Mayor Clifford said there were several people present who wanted to speak. regardiag this matter, and there were several people who could not be here tonight, and he is going to ask that this be tabled. Jim Bell came forward stating that this is more of a tax instead of a service fee, and the reason being, it is levied on a multi - family basis against units whether people are in the units or not, and people are the ones that are generating the trash, not the property. It is not levied against vacant property in which there is no water meter. There are a number of methods that makes this particular cost of this item unfair. Mr. Bell recommended that the City look at alternative methods. In fact, he said it would be appropriate to look at taking that entire portion and moving it over to a tax supported as opposed to a fee based item because everyone in the City of Paris benefits from the type of services that this fee goes to pay for, and that would be the sweeping of the streets. Councilman Neeley said he pays approximately $12.00 at his house, and Mr. Bell has apartments and he is charged $4.50 for the street sweeping services per units. Mr. Neeley said it would not be proper to change it in the middle of a budget year. Bill Bone came forward explained to the City Council as to how the fee was established. Mr. Bone said this started out as a fee, to pay for