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about the combination. Have any of the candidates <br /> given us a fixed fee for providing work for the <br /> next year? <br />Phare: Some of the proposals addressed fixed fee and they <br /> basically say that the complications to water <br /> transfers really don't allow them to give fixed <br />f <br /> ees for typical agricultural transfers. I have <br /> talked to all three applicants and they have <br /> stated that there is some willingness to work with <br />the cit <br />i <br />th <br /> y g <br />ven <br />e work over the next two or three <br /> years, to discuss a more permanent arrangement. <br />Sackett: The fixed fee was a big question that we need to <br /> deal with. Maybe we should have the finance <br /> committee tell us how much we are going to spend <br /> on a fixed fee and then based on that see which <br /> attorney group will give us the discount off that. <br />Mayor Fauson: It would be difficult to have a fixed fee for the <br /> water attorney. <br />Davidson: In comparison to other cities, it wasn't that the <br /> other cities had a fixed fee, the other cities <br /> also pay an hourly rate. It is the way in which <br />the <br />r <br />i <br />h <br /> y <br />ev <br />ew w <br />ich case they will be involved in <br /> and the extent of the Way they will be involved in <br /> those cases, this is a result of the much lower <br /> attorney fees. It was my opinion that Mr <br /> . <br />Williamson had a different view of how the City of <br /> Louisville should be involved in water cases and I <br /> felt that was the problem. So that is how we <br /> sustained higher water fees than almost every city <br /> in Boulder County. All three of the attorneys <br /> stated that they would prefer to negotiate their <br /> cases instead of going to court. <br />Williams: Council can also set up as part of the <br />relationship with the water attorney some form of <br />communication and council approval or staff <br />approval before involvement in any new case. You <br />can also require as part of that an anticipation <br />from the attorney as to what that involvement will <br />be, what the reason for it is, what the nature of <br />the case is and a fee estimate. <br />Carnival: If we control the cases as the attorney suggests <br />then we would have control over the amount of fees <br />that the city will be spending. At the direction <br />of the council Mr. Williamson choose to enter into <br />each and every case that he felt would affect the <br />city. From the interviews with the water <br />attorneys I heard that was the right thing to do <br />in most of the cases. If all the attorney's <br />charge the same amount and you choose to control <br />3 <br />