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7 79 compensation insurance, building and equipment maintenance, and health insurance. Mr. Joyce told the Council that right now is the time for a rate increase. Your residential, commercial, and industrial rate have an increase, and winter increase allow the customers a chance to adjust to the rate structure. The wholesale contracts, Tenaska, Lamar County, Campbell requires a study to be performed and the rates updated the first quarter of the year, and we also have a new Campbell Soup contract. Mr. Joyce said discussed the sewer inflow /infiltration and the programs that City Engineer, Earl Smith, has implemented which should cut down on the inflow /infiltration. Mr. Joyce on the water side, they recommend that all customers included the optional charge customers pay cost for basis rate, and the situation we have right now is there are several large customers that are under take or pay with a minimum requirements every month::, and recommended that they go to cost based rate. They recommended maintaining the current uniform rate structure. Mr. Joyce said that on the sewer side and, rate side, they were recommended modifying the basis for residential billing from the winter water average to 80% of their monthly usage. On the commercial accounts, he recommended modifying their basis for their billing from 75% of the water usage to 100% of the water usage. Mr. Joyce said that under the proposed rate structure, the wastewater rates of the average residential customer with .400 cubic feet of wastewater contribution will increase from about $9.99 to $12.86 per month or about $2.87. Commercial customers with 25,000 cubic feet of flow will experience rate increase from $514.60 to $606.45. The rate increases for industrial customers will vary from customer to customer because of surcharges built into the rate structure for wastewater of higher strength than the domestic wastewater. After the presentation, it was the recommendation of Mr. Reed and Mr. Joyce that these rates be adopted as presented in the rate study report, and that will insure that revenue covered during the year will equal to the budget that you have approved, and you will have balanced budget of a financial operation assuming basic average rain fall year and temperature. The Council instructed Mr. Reed and Mr. Joyce to check the status of P. U. rates for a municipality, and to conduct a survey of water cost of the City of Paris comparative to other cities in Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Louisiana. A motion was made by Councilman Jim Bell, seconded by Councilman Shelton to table action on Agenda Item No. 13, consideration of and action on adoption of the City of Paris 1994 Water and Wastewater Rate Study prepared by Reed -Stowe and Company, Utility Rate Consultants, and Agenda Item No. 14, consideration of and action on authorizing the