Finance Committee - 10/03/2018 Page 6
From: Dan Kooken, Purchasing Manager
Re: Contract for Scrap Metal Recycling (Value: $0)
MOTION BY ALDERWOMAN KELLY TO ACCEPT, PLACE ON FILE AND AWARD THE CONTRACT TO
EXCEL RECYCLING, LLC
ON THE QUESTION
Alderwoman Kelly
Yes thank you. | Know recycling has come up quite a few times, so | was just wondering if you could give us a
quick overview of what this is specifically and if it is affecting anything that is going on.
Mr. Boucher
This is the same company that the solid waste department uses to remove their scrap metals. We are looking
to get a scrap metal container left at the waste water facility. Wwe have been accumulating metals through the
projects. We have a lot of old equipment that has been sitting around that has to removed, it can no longer be
used. We have old piping that has been taken down.
Also, when they do paving jobs, manhole covers and catch basin castings get brought to the waste water plant.
We keep the good parts for re-use and the cracked stuff will go into this container.
Alderman Klee
| have just one question. Why don’t we sell the scrap metal? Or is it just not sellable? | know when my father
passed away and we were breaking down his home and so on, we literally scrapped metal. | mean | was the
scrap yard for every penny | could possibly get.
Mr. Boucher
That is what this is. They will remove it for us, we don’t have the equipment to truck it anywhere, at the Waste
Water Plant. So we will fill the container, a truck will come and pick it up and bring it, weigh it, we will get the
current market value for it and then out of that cost we pay for the truck. And it goes into the waste water
account.
Alderman Klee
| missed the one word, ‘revenue’. | apologize.
MOTION CARRIED
From: Dan Kooken, Purchasing Manager
Re: Management of Wastewater Biosolids — Amendment 1 (Value: $260,000)
MOTION BY ALDERWOMAN KELLY TO ACCEPT, PLACE ON FILE AND AUTHORIZE AMENDMENT #1
TO THE CONTRACT WITH CASELLA ORGANICS IN THE AMOUNT OF $260,000. SOURCE OF FUNDING
IS DEPARTMENT 169, WASTEWATER
MOTION CARRIED
