Report of the Finance Committee Page 6
April 6, 2016
Alderman Clemons
What happens if it is not good?
Mayor Donchess
The testing is done before it’s laid down so they have to make it conform.
Alderman Clemons
Is that acommon practice? It seems odd to test a product that they are delivering to us.
Mr. Kooken
It’s a fairly common practice that we have not been doing in the past. | think there have been some cases
where if we were to have had this kind of information we would have made some adjustments that would have
made the quality better on some of the roads.
Mayor Donchess
| think the answer is we have not done this before. My recollection is that it first came up when we were
discussing the major paving program that was proposed at the end of 2015; one that will be renewed in the
near future.
Alderman Clemons
So it’s not really something that we have done but other communities maybe have done it. My question is that
if we find fault; we just passed the contract for Charron Avenue, so if we find fault what happens to that
contract? Are we going to have to pay more? Wvill that project increase in price or what?
Alderman Siegel
Just so you know, this is not for Charron Avenue, this is testing for the FY 2016 Paving Program so this is all
onus. We are just making sure that the paving that gets laid down is to spec and will last so we are not laying
down a bunch a junk. | think it’s fairly prudent given the millions of dollars we are spending on this just to make
sure that we are getting our value. That’s what this is about.
Alderman Cookson
Within the documentation that we received, Table 1 identifies the street list which also identifies the testing
locations or at least the number of testing locations for each one of the segments. For example, Blackstone
Drive from Amherst Street to end of pavement has two testing locations so they are going to be doing 6” core
samples of the pavement. Everything is documented.
Alderman Siegel
That’s why we get these sheets.
Alderman Cookson
It’s helpful to have a conversation about it.
