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MINUTES OF THE REGULAR MEETING OF THE CITY COUNCIL February 15, 1993 The City Council of the City of Paris met in regular session, Monday, February 15, 1993, 6:00 P. M. City Council Chambers, City Hall, Paris, Texas. Mayor George Fisher called the meeting to order with the following Councilmembers present: Don Shelton, Jim Bell, Wayne Brown, Billy Joe Burnett, and Rondie Williams. Also present was City Manager, Michael E. Malone, City Attorney, T. K. Haynes, and City Clerk, Mattie Cunningham. Invocation was given by Ron Byers, Police Chaplain. Mayor Fisher announced that if there was anyone in the audience who had business to bring before the Council that is not listed on the posted agenda, to please let it be known so that the information can be made available in compliance with the Open Meeting Law. Mayor Fisher asked if there were any corrections to the minutes of the previous meetings, there being none, the minutes were approved as present. City Manager Malone announced that the first order of business would be receipts of reports from committees, boards, and commissions, with minutes from the Paris Lamar County Board of Health, and Paris Public Library Advisory Board being presented with no action required. Dr. Richard Swint, 2510 Stillhouse Road, appeared before the Council stating that he would like to propose that he and the City do property exchange reducing boundary lines on property that he recently acquired on Stillhouse Road. Dr. Swint said current there is 6,363 feet of mutual property line, and the exchange that is proposed was reduce boundary line by 1,675 feet, this would move the property line form a creek channel. Dr. Swint said this would follow a property line that would make it easy to build a fence, it is along another old fence line, crossing the channel only in one place, and it would mean that he would pick up approximately five acres of land, which he would pay the city $650.00 an acre. Dr. Swint proposed that he and the City enter into a fifty -fifty percent cost sharing basis or restructuring the fence. Dr. Swint said that there is not a fence line along the entire 6,300 feet at current time. City Attorney Haynes pointed out that the agreement that was entered into on February 4, 1992 where the City agreed to pay $2,605.00 towards the cost which we estimated as fifty percent of the total cost, and asked Dr. Swint if that has been constructed. Dr. Swint advised that most of that has been constructed, but the check has not been cashed because we have been waiting to see if a better agreement could be reached and work out a better boundary line. Dr. Swint produced a plat of the property in question showing the Council his proposal of the boundary line of the property.