Finance Committee - 6/20/2018 Page 3
Ms. Marchant
We are adding an additional, in grant funding, about $70,000.00 and the City is putting in about $80,000.00 so
it will be in total about $650,000.00 to complete the project.
Alderwoman Kelly
Thank you.
Mayor Donchess
And this is a contract for $502,000.00.
Ms. Marchant
Correct, for final construction.
MOTION CARRIED
From: Dan Kooken, Purchasing Manager
Re: Purchase of Air Bags for all Ladders (Value: $21,285)
MOTION BY ALDERWOMAN KELLY TO ACCEPT, PLACE ON FILE AND AUTHORIZE THE PURCHASE
FROM HARRISON SHRADER ENTERPRISES IN THE AMOUNT OF $21,285. FUNDS ARE AVAILABLE IN
DEPARTMENT 152, FIRE; GENERAL FUND
ON THE QUESTION
Mayor Donchess
And NFR is here if anybody does have questions on this. Are there any questions or comments?
Alderman Laws
| am just curious, what are the air bags?
Mayor Donchess
Come on up Deputy.
Kevin Kerrigan, Deputy Fire Chief
Kevin Kerrigan, Nashua Fire. The airbags are just another tool that we have, we care about our ladders
because the ladders are strategically through the City and they respond to all car accidents. That is most of
the time where we use our air bags to lift heavy objects. So it can be an industrial accident or usually it is a car
rollover or something like that. They are at their end of life, they have about a 15 year life span and ours are
near that or at that. They are not something you can kind of test so we really should just replace them
because we don’t want them to fail if we are using and we know that they are at the end of their life.
Alderman O’Brien
If | may say so | had a situation where a lady came out of her apartment and went on to the concrete precast
stoop and got her foot wedged in-between the building and the stoop. The way to try to get that precast away
from the building so as to get her leg removed, we used the air bags and it worked famously and there was no
additional injury. They are multi-use.
