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Finance Committee - 09/04/2019 Page 7
Mr. Kohalmi

Well the treatment plant is designed to handle probably 95% to 99% of the storms. But we seem to getting a
10 year storm about every year. Part of the problem is just the drainage infrastructure, the pipes and the catch
basins are inadequate. So this plan, this is a long-term plan that is going to partly help to solve that as well.
But what the EPA cares more about are discharges into the Nashua and the Merrimack Rivers. So more than
anything this plan is going to clean that up or trying to eliminate any kind of dirty discharge from getting into the
rivers. This is a long-term plan; this is a plan we will be using probably for the next 10 to 20 years to upgrade
pipes, catch basins. It is a significant contract but we need a comprehensive plan to do it right, 5, 10, 20 years
from now we will be relying on this document.

Alderman Klee

May I? And | agree with you and | am glad to see we are going to have a plan and so on. | Know even over by
where your residence is Mr. Mayor, | have gotten some people that have called and complained about the
overflow of that type of thing. | know that even some of our drainage areas that we have, we have 2 and 3
catch basins close together and because of the land tilts, after a while there totally inadequate, there is no
water even going into them. They are just draining right by them and so on. Will this plan look into any of
those types of — the drainage the catch basins at all? Or is this straight off the CSO?

Mr. Kohalmi

We have a plan we called CMOM and that plan is more geared towards the maintenance and operation of the
pipes and the catch basins. That plan is fairly new; we received it about a year ago. So we are just taking first
steps to implement that.

Alderman Klee

| won't belabor, thank you so much, appreciate it.

MOTION CARRIED

From: Dan Kooken, Purchasing Manager
Re: Digester Gas Tank Coating Project

MOTION BY ALDERMAN O’BRIEN TO ACCEPT, PLACE ON FILE AND AWARD THE CONTRACT TO JB
SAFETY, INC., IN THE AMOUNT OF $136,400. FUNDS ARE AVAILABLE IN DEPARTMENT 169
WASTEWATER

ON THE QUESTION

Mayor Donchess

Maybe you could provide an explanation?

Bill Keating, Wastewater Project Engineer

Sure, my name is Bill Keating | am the Wastewater Engineer for the Wastewater Department. We have a
digester gas tank which stores gas from the digester during the decomposition of the solid material; generates
gas, methane gas primarily. We want to feed that into, we are in the process of upgrading the Energy
Recovery Facility and it will feed into two gas digesters when they are installed. So this is just one part of the
big overall upgrade of the whole anaerobic digesting system. The gas tank is 20 years old and it has a lot of
rust both inside and outside it. Right now it is down, it is not being used because we are upgrading the Energy
Recovery Facility. So it is a perfect time to get inside and paint it, recoat it inside and outside so it lasts
another 20 years or more.

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Alderman Laws

| agree with you that the timing sounds perfect so | am supporting it. | am just curious as to how many pieces
are there of this puzzle that we are going to be seeing coming down the pipeline?

Mr. Keating

Well when we are done coating the tank we have another project on the gas tank itself, upgrading it because it
is kind of hard to explain. But there is an internal diaphragm and it’s kind of a felt like material where the gas is
compressed. It is like an internal cup that rises up and down and it is attached to a diagram and there are
counterweights on the outside and it kind of maintains a pressure a low pressure system of not even a 1 PSI, it
is a little less than a PSI. So we are going to upgrade that when we are done with this and that will be a more
costly project. We are going to also recoat our primary digester and we have a secondary digester as well;
those both need to be recoated next year, 2020, not this year.

Alderman Laws
Thank you.
MOTION CARRIED

From: Dan Kooken, Purchasing Manager
Re: Phase III Landfill Expansion Construction — Change Order #1

MOTION BY ALDERMAN O’BRIEN TO ACCEPT, PLACE ON FILE AND APPROVE CHANGE ORDER #1
TO THE CONTRACT WITH CHARTER CONTRACTING COMPANY, LLC, IN THE AMOUNT OF $175,000.
SOURCE OF FUNDING IS DEPARTMENT 168, SOLID WASTE; PHASE III LANDFILL BOND

ON THE QUESTION

Mayor Donchess

Jeff LaFleur is here.

Jeff LaFleur, Superintendent of Solid Waste

The bulk of this change order is a result of DES not approving our permit in a timely fashion. They have been
shorthanded up there. It took them over a year and a half to approve my design for this project. Even when the
project wasn’t approved we were going forward with getting the project moving with the necessity of the landfill
that we have right now we are running out of air space. So this put the contractor behind by 33 days and again
that’s the bulk of the change order.

MOTION CARRIED

From: Dan Kooken, Purchasing Manager
Re: 2019 Landfill Gas System Expansion Project (Value: $323,470); Department 168, Solid Waste;

MOTION BY ALDERMAN O’BRIEN TO ACCEPT, PLACE ON FILE AND AWARD THE CONTRACT TO SCS
FIELD SERVICES IN THE AMOUNT OF $323,470. FUNDS ARE AVAILABLE IN DEPARTMENT 168,
SOLID WASTE, LANDFILL GAS EXPANSION BONDS

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ON THE QUESTION
Alderman Klee

Yes | just have one quick question. | always have one quick question. Did the expansion of the landfill gas
collection, | just recently had someone who told me that there always used to be a very bad gas smell and so
on coming from there and it doesn’t seem to be happening anymore. Is that what does this, so it keeps it from
killing the neighbors, sort to speak?

Mr. LaFleur

Exactly this system is what is drawing in the gas which is limiting our emissions going out into the atmosphere
around our area. That’s why | try to an expansion every year when it is needed. We do the trash and cells or
lifts. So after you reach so many lifts by permit we have to put in so much gas collection. Last year we didn’t
do any of this, it is FY19 funds that we are using right now. We didn’t have the amount of area that we
needed. We had enough well collection where we were; it seems to be working. Now that we are going up
another lift, we are putting in this gas collection now.

| will tell you though that within the next 2 or 3 months we will be coming back for another gas expansion. We
found a header, a 12 inch header that collects the main part of the gas, is starting to collapse. | am getting
bids right now to get that changed. Most likely it will SCS doing it for us, they are already on site. So | am just
trying to get the funding; as soon as the funding comes through for FY20 | will be doing that. But your
assessment on the odors being under control, this is something that we do every year. We are spending
$300,000.00, $350,000.00 a year just to keep our neighbors happy.

Alderman Klee

It is worth every penny, Ward 5 is not my Ward but I’m sure Alderman Jette appreciates it as do the neighbors.
And it bodes better for Nashua to keep that up, so thank you.

MOTION CARRIED

UNFINISHED BUSINESS — None

NEW BUSINESS — None

RECORD OF EXPENDITURES

MOTION BY ALDERMAN O’BRIEN THAT THE FINANCE COMMITTEE HAS COMPLIED WITH THE CITY
CHARTER AND ORDINANCES PERTAINING TO THE RECORD OF EXPENDITURES FOR THE PERIOD
FROM AUGUST 2, 2019 TO AUGUST 15, 2019, AND FROM AUGUST 16, 2019 TO AUGUST 29, 2019
MOTION CARRIED

GENERAL DISCUSSION _- None

PUBLIC COMMENT - None

REMARKS BY THE ALDERMEN

Alderman Klee

| was going to wait until the next Board of Aldermen to bring this up but it has nothing to do with the Finance
Committee. But for those that are listening | would like to address the cat mania issue as it was put in the

Telegraph. It pained me to say that somebody did something was very nice, sending a mailer to scare the
citizens that the City was going to come and capture your kitties and to harm them in some way.

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That isn’t the case. | have posted on Facebook, | have sent out e-mail messages, many other media groups
are on Facebook, including Southern NH Emergency and Community Services, as well as the Nashua Civic
Sounding Board has debunked this and has said that this is not true, put out all the right ones. Today |
received a phone call, somebody very upset that | was going to hurt, | personally is the way it was put, was
going to hurt their cat. | can assure everybody | am not going to hurt anybody’s kitty. As well as the law that
exists now is not going to change; the amended Ordinance does nothing more than to clarify the current law
that says “impoundment of dogs, cats, ferrets and chickens at large”. “At Large” meaning off premises; we are
supposed to keep all of our animals under control. If they are off premises they should be on some type of
leash, within your arms or in a carrying case, etc.

But cats do get loose, we can’t help it. Cats are prey animals and they are nighttime hunters. So they are
going to try to get out. | strongly suggest anybody who has a cat, a dog, even a ferret, get them chipped.
Humane Society and Shelters have the ability to scan your animal to find the chip and they can unite you much
easier. Many of these chip organizations also have the ability to put in the rabies license so that would be
proof of rabies vaccination. It will save a whole lot of time. So | strongly suggest if you have a cat that gets out
or is out, that you take the time to have them chipped and please make sure that they have their rabies
vaccination. | will be repeating this at the Board of Aldermen meeting but | needed to get this out, thank you
very much for indulging me.

Mayor Donchess

Just to add to that, the mailer was inaccurate in several respects. One, it does not change the City’s Policy or
Procedure with respect to cats. Our Legal Department believes that the City currently has the right to pick up
cats if someone believes that they are sick, for example they have rabies or some other disease or if they
seem to be a stray without a home or something like that. So very few cats are picked up currently; it is
probably handful in the course of a year. There is no intention to change that. But the person who apparently
sent the leaflet contests the City’s ability to pick up cats, even cats that are sick, even cats that have rabies.

So the Board of Health and the Legal Department recommended that we make it absolutely clear that the City
does have that authority which the Legal Department believes we already have. So there is no intention here
to change anything, to start picking up cats, to harm cats or anything like that. The leaflet really
misrepresented the intent and the language of the Ordinance, which if you read it, it is very clear that we are
talking about sick cats or cats that seem to be strays which means cats that seem to have a home, which most
cats you see seem to have a home would not be even covered by the Ordinance.

Alderman Klee

And nuisance cats; | have gotten as many phone calls that | have gotten, that were angry at me, I’ve gotten
some “thank you | want this to go through” and it’s like “it’s already there”. But the nuisance of, sometimes cats
want to see other cats and they see them through the glass and they will tear through somebody’s screen
which can get costly year after year when this is happening. So nuisance cats also.

Mayor Donchess

This would enable the City, which we already have the ability to pick up feral or wild cats, the Health
Department, the Board of Health, Director Wolf-Rosenblum has testified that feral cats can spread disease.
These are wild cats without an owner. So this would make it clear that the City has the authority to pick up a
cat under those circumstances and take it to the shelter, that’s all. So anyway | think we have clarified this,
you have clarified it on-line. | think most people understand it at this point.

Alderman Klee

Hopefully.

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Mayor Donchess

| guess that’s all we need to say at the present time.

Alderman Klee

Thank you.

NON-PUBLIC SESSION — None

ADJOURNMENT

MOTION BY ALDERMAN O’BRIEN TO ADJOURN
MOTION CARRIED

The Finance Committee meeting was adjourned at 7:34 p.m.

Alderman-at-Large Michael B. O’Brien, Sr.
Committee Clerk, pro tem

FINANCE COMMITTEE
SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

7:00 pm Aldermanic Chamber

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Mayor Jim Donchess
Contract for Construction of the Heritage Rail Trail to Mine Falls Park Trail and Pedestrian Bridge
Change Order #3 and #4

Dan Kooken, Purchasing Manager
Approval for a Contract to hold an Online Auction of Surplus Equipment at Ultima Nashua Industrial
Corp

Dan Kooken, Purchasing Manager
Low Floor Cutaway Van (Value $123,894); Department: 181 Community Development; Fund: Transit
Grants; Activity: CERF

Dan Kooken, Purchasing Manager
City Hall Front Door Renovations (Value: $27,169); Department: 129 Building Department; Fund:
Building Trust Fund

Dan Kooken, Purchasing Manager
2019 Paving Program — Local And Collector Roadways — Change Order #1 (Value: $300,000)
Department: 161 Streets; Fund: Bond; Department: 169 Wastewater; Fund: Wastewater

Dan Kooken, Purchasing Manager
Marshall Street Roadway Improvements — Change Order #2 (Value: $20,000); Department: 169
Wastewater, Fund: Wastewater

Dan Kooken, Purchasing Manager
Monica Drive Drainage Improvements (Value: $129,900); Department: 169 Wastewater; Fund:
Wastewater

Dan Kooken, Purchasing Manager
Consent Decree — 2019 Updated Long Term Control Plan (Value: Not-To Exceed $487,760)
Department: 169 Wastewater; Fund: Wastewater

Dan Kooken, Purchasing Manager
Digester Gas Tank Coating Project (Value Total Of: $136,400); Department: 169 Wastewater;
Fund: Wastewater

Dan Kooken, Purchasing Manager
Phase lil Landfill Expansion Construction — Change Order #1 (Value: $175,000); Department: 168
Solid Waste; Fund: Bond

Dan Kooken, Purchasing Manager
2019 Landfill Gas System Expansion Project (Value: $323,470); Department: 168 Solid Waste;
Fund: Bond

UNFINISHED BUSINESS — None

NEW BUSINESS — None
RECORD OF EXPENDITURES

GENERAL DISCUSSION

PUBLIC COMMENT

REMARKS BY THE ALDERMEN

POSSIBLE NON-PUBLIC SESSION

ADJOURNMENT

Prepared By Date Checked By Date Project No
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Sheet No
East Abutment Repairs 1 of
Original Quantities
LOCATION TYPE I OR II HEIGHT (ft) | WIDTH (ft) | DEPTH (in) | AREA (SY) | VOLUME (CY)
1 I 5.50 7.50 12 4.5833 1.5278
2 Ul 6.50 6.50 12 4.6944 1.5648
TYPELQty= 0.000 SY
TYPE I Qty = 9.278 SY
Concrete Qty = 3.093 CY
Field Measured Quanuties
LOCATION TYPEIORH HEIGHT (ft) | WIDTH (ft) | DEPTH (in) | AREA (SY) | VOLUME (CY)
1 Ul 5.63 12.00 12 7.5000 2.5000
2 ll 6.13 7.25 9 4.9340 1.2335
6 it 3.50 4.00 6 1.5556 0.2593
TYPE 1 Qy = 0.000 SY
TYPENQtry= 13.990 SY
Concrete Qty= 3.993 CY
Item 512.02 - Class IL Qty Increase = 4.712) SY
USE = 5.0 SY
Item 520.01 - Concrete Qty Increase = 0.900 CY
USE = 1.0 cY

East Abutment Repair Quanuties.xlsx

East Abutment Repairs

City of Nashua ‘Banga

Building Safety

Community Development Division Code Enforcement
City Hall, 229 Main Street, PO Box 2019 opan Programs ission
Nashua, New Hampshire 03061-2019 Transportation
www.nashuanh.gov FAX

589-3095
589-3090
589-3080
589-3100
589-3085
589-3105
880-0100
589-3119

Date: August 27, 2019

To: John Griffin, CFO; Daniel Kooken, Purchasing Manager

From: Jim Donchess, Mayor

Re: Contract for Construction of the Heritage Rail Trail to Mine Falls Park Trail and Pedestrian
Bridge - Change Order #3 and #4

The City of Nashua was awarded a NH Department of Transportation (NH DOT) Transportation
Alternatives Program (TAP) grant to design and construct a new pedestrian bridge across the
Nashua Canal with an associated crosswalk on Ledge Street and a trail along Everett Street
connecting to the Heritage Rail Trail. This pedestrian bridge will create a new access to Mine
Falls Park from the Tree Streets neighborhood improving recreation opportunities.

The Finance Committee approved the award of the contract for Construction of this project to
George Carins and Sons Inc. of Windham, NH at their May 16, 2018 meeting. The project began
construction in early September and the first change order was approved reducing the total
contract price from $502,622.75 to a new total of $487,820.75. The majority of this savings was
a result of the Department of Public Works re-paving Everett Street under a separate City paving
contract reducing the need for pavement as part of this project.

The second change order was approved in November 2018 which included additional fencing for
the rail trail ramp end, modifications to the handrails to deter damage, modifications required by
Eversource for the utility meter and most significantly the reconstruction of the Ledge Street
trench to include an additional 40+ feet of pavement as it was determined after the fact that the
street had recently been paved. The total price increase for this change order is $24,532.06
increasing the contract from $487,820.75 to $512,352.81, an overall increase in the project of
$9,730.06 from the original contract.

The third change order which reduces the overall contract price from $512,352.81 to
$506,374.73 by an amount of $5,978.08. The reduction in price is due a decrease in the amount
rock excavation, concrete, conduit and sedimentation basins.

The fourth change order is a balancing change order showing the final project closeout amount.
This change order reduces the overall contract price from $506,374.73 to $501,669.51. The
reduction in prices is due to decreases in materials required for the overall project. An itemized
list of the final contract costs is on file.

S\ THE CITY OF NASHUA | “The Cate City

Financial Services

Purchasing Department

August 29, 2019
FROM: DAN KOOKEN — CITY OF NASHUA PURCHASING MANAGER
TO: FINANCE COMMITTEE

SUBJECT: APPROVAL FOR A CONTRACT TO HOLD AN ONLINE AUCTION OF SURPLUS
EQUIPMENT AT ULTIMA NASHUA INDUSTRIAL CORP

The purpose of this communication is to inform you of and ask your approval for an online auction
contract (attached) between the City of Nashua and Quaker City Auctioneers, Inc. of Willow Grove, PA.
Once the contract is executed the specific auction dates will be announced. At this time it is expected to
be in early to mid-October.

§ 5-88. Surplus stock.
[NRO 1975, T. 4, § 1618; NRO 1987, § 2-253; amended 11-26-1977 by Ord. No. O-77-278; 4-22-1986 by

Ord. No. O-86-50; 6-28-1988 by Ord. No. O-88-43]

All using agencies shall submit to the Purchasing Manager, at such times and in such form as he shall
prescribe, reports showing stocks of all supplies which are no longer used or which have become
obsolete, worn out or scrapped.

The Manager shall have the authority to transfer surplus stock to other using agencies. The Manager
shall have the authority to sell, by sealed bid or online auction, all supplies which have become unsuitable
for public use, or to exchange the same for, or trade in the same on, new supplies.

[Amended 10-9-2012 by Ord. No. O-12-022]

With approval of the Finance Committee, the Purchasing Manager may donate, barter, gift or otherwise
dispose of surplus material, stock or equipment which has failed to be sold, exchanged or traded
pursuant to Subsection B.

Respectfully,

A Ve

“Iban Kooken
Purchasing Manager

Cc: J Donchess K Kleiner J Griffin

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