Finance Committee — 08/03/2022 Page 6
these tanks. We can do the best we can but we brought in our safety equipment inspection company. They test all our
harnesses, our hoist to come up with the best way to enter all these tanks. We came up with the - it's a mobile anchor.
Basically it’s a davit arm. Its trailer mounted. It can be extended over 90% of the areas in our facility and can also be
used out on the street. Basically, you hook up a person to the harness to this equipment so they can safely go down into
these tanks.
The other (inaudible) tank that we’re looking at, it's probably going to involve attaching davit arm bases to concrete. We
couldn't do that everywhere at the facility because some of these tanks are aged. We'd have to have structural studies
done and load testing done on all these areas we attach to the concrete. Fortunately, the last 10% is newer structures
like our wet weather facility so the concrete is in good shape. We put together some (inaudible) for this equipment. We
tried to find different companies that could meet the specs. Unfortunately, only two could meet the specs so we requested
quotes and Mass Crane was the low bidder on this. I’d be happy to an answer any questions.
MOTION CARRIED
From: Amy Girard, Purchasing Manager
Re: Sewer Replacement Project Change Order #1 in the amount not to exceed $500,000 funded from Bond
MOTION BY ALDERMAN MORAN TO PLACE ON FILE AND APPROVE CHANGE ORDER NO. 1 TO THE 2022
SEWER REPLACEMENT PROJECT WITH SUR CONSTRUCTION WEST, INC., OF WINCHESTER, NH, FOR AN
AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED $500,000.00. FUNDING WILL BE THROUGH DEPARTMENT: 169 WASTEWATER;
FUND: BONDED; ACTIVITY: SEWER REPAIR
ON THE QUESTION
Dan Hudson, City Engineer
Thank you, Mr. Mayor. So we run two types of sewer projects. One is lining and the others is a dig contract. This is a
change order to the dig contract. We recently approved a new CTV contract so we're going to be doing a lot of video
inspection. We would expect to find problems as part of that. So this change order is to bump up our dig contract so that
we're able to quickly respond and make repairs when we find issues.
Alderman Klee
Thank you again, Mr. Mayor. I'm going to ask you Mr. Hudson the same question that | asked Mr. Boucher. According to
this, the contract or the final payment would be December of 2022. Are we on schedule for that? | would assume this is
something you can't do in the cold weather either so are you looking for this to be also done September/October?
Dan Hudson, City Engineer
Yes. | mean we've been working all summer on the various improvements that we had identified previously. They're
getting close to wrapping up that work that we had bid out and planned for. This is really to address unforeseen issues
that come up. This contract does go till December. Should we not fully exhaust the contract and there’s work to do in the
spring, | think we can carry it over just through a contract time extension. The key here is to be able to respond to issues
that we find and to do that, we need to increase this budget.
Alderman Klee
Thank you.
MOTION CARRIED
From: Amy Girard, Purchasing Manager
Re: Canal Street Bridge Repairs, Change Order #2 in the amount not to exceed $34,000 funded from 54210
Construction Services/Capital & Grant Funds
MOTION BY ALDERMAN MORAN TO PLACE ON FILE AND APPROVE CHANGE ORDER NO. 2 FOR THE CANAL
STREET BRIDGE CONSTRUCTION REPAIRS CONTRACT IN AN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED $34,000. FUNDING
WILL BE THROUGH DEPARTMENTS: 160 ADMIN/ENGINEERING & 161 STREET; FUNDS: CAPITAL & GRANT;
ACTIVITIES: INFRASTRUCTURE IMPROVEMENTS & HIGHWAY BLOCK GRANT