Finance Committee — 02/02/2022 Page 5
Darrin Santos, Environmental Engineer
That’s correct.
Mayor Donchess
Could you give us a brief explanation of this item please?
Darrin Santos, Environmental Engineer
Yes, absolutely. You may recall we started the year out in a drought situation and come summer — July, August rainfall
certainly picked up and we had some high intensity events that lead to some leachates stresses in our system. The DES
wanted extra testing as a result of that including testing for p phos which I’m sure folks are familiar with now. This change
order is to cover costs for monthly monitoring going forward for this fiscal year. We're working to try to reduce that but for
the time being, | think we need to plan for the monthly monitoring until we get the go ahead from DES to drop it down.
Mayor Donchess
All right, thank you. Any comments, questions from anyone?
MOTION CARRIED
From: Kelly Parkinson, Purchasing Manager
Re: Interpretive Historic Signage in the amount not to exceed $35,731 funded from 81700 Infrastructure
Improvements/Bond (Engineering)
MOTION BY ALDERMAN COMEAU TO ACCEPT, PLACE ON FILE AND APPROVE THE AWARD OF A CONTRACT
FOR INTERPRETIVE HISTORIC SIGNS TO PRESERVATION COMPANY OF KENSINGTON, NH, IN AN AMOUNT
NOT TO EXCEED $35,731. FUNDING THROUGH DEPARTMENT: 160 ADMIN/ENGINEERING; FUND: BOND:
ACTIVITY: BROAD STREET PARKWAY
ON THE QUESTION
Dan Hudson, City Engineer
Yes Mr. Mayor. Dan Hudson, City Engineer. So this is one of the last remaining items from the former Broad Street
parkway project now known as Veterans Memorial Parkway. This is a commitment that was negotiated the Federal
Highway New Hampshire Department of Transportation and New Hampshire Division of Historic Resources. What it is is
due to needing to take down some buildings as part as the buildings in the Millyard, the commitment has been made to
prepare some historic interpretive signage so that visitors of the area can read about the history of the area.
This contract is for consulting services. The preservation company will design the signs and work with DHR to get their
final approval of language. They have a subcontractor which will construct and erect the signs. Two signs are
envisioned. With that, I’d be happy to answer any questions.
Alderman Clemons
Thank you. Was this the old boiler house? Is that what this is related to?
Dan Hudson, City Engineer
Yes. Thank you. There are two things we’re mitigating for. One was a removal of the Charles Gordon House at 40 Pine
Street. That’s in the French village historic district area. That’s an area that’s eligible to be listed on the National
Register. The other was for the demolition of Millyard Waste house. The sign there will talk about the waste house but
also talk about the canal and other unique features of the area.
Alderman Clemons
Thank you. Just briefly. | can remember when that was a controversial decision to knock that down and basically make
that parkway go through there. | remember that. It’s funny that’s it’s taken this long to get this compromise done. I’m
happy to see it.
