Finance Committee - 1/2/2019 Page 6
From: Dan Kooken, Purchasing Manager
Re: Purchase of Replacement Grinder for Primary Digester Recirculation Feed Line
MOTION BY ALDERWOMAN KELLY TO ACCEPT, PLACE ON FILE AND APPROVE THE PURCHASE
FROM JWC ENVIRONMENTAL IN THE AMOUNT OF $13,282. FUNDS ARE AVAILABLE IN
DEPARTMENT 169, WASTEWATER WERF
ON THE QUESTION
Alderman Caron
Thank you | have a question, some of these change orders because of the fact that you are asking for
replacements of broken-down equipment. Has any of this equipment been maintained over the years or is this
just normal wear and tear that would cause these things to break?
Mr. Boucher
Yes these do get maintained, there is very little maintenance on these particular grinders and normally they
can be sent out and rebuilt. Unfortunately, the way this one broke the drive broke and it broke to the point of it
can’t be rebuilt anymore. You could rebuild it but on some of these things it becomes the same cost to get a
new one, so it is more beneficial to get a new one. It is all new parts versus rebuilding it.
Alderman Caron
Just a comment so that people understand that the money that we are spending over here at Wastewater is to
benefit the City as a whole. This is a facility that is run 24/7 and without it we’d have some real problems. But
we also want to make sure that we are maintaining this equipment to its standards so that we are not spending
a lot of money sooner rather than later. I’d like to see a 30-year hold on most of the upgrades.
Mr. Boucher
On these unfortunately not.
Alderman Caron
Ok thank you, thank you Mayor.
Mayor Donchess
You are right, if this plant shut down, we’d be in, the City would be.
Alderman Caron
Especially in my neighborhood, absolutely, literally.
MOTION CARRIED
From: Dan Kooken, Purchasing Manager
Re: Contract for Gas Tank Evaluation
MOTION BY ALDERWOMAN KELLY TO ACCEPT, PLACE ON FILE AND AWARD THE CONTRACT TO
MCDERMOTT-CBI SERVICES IN THE AMOUNT OF $18,820. SOURCE OF FUNDING IS DEPARTMENT
169, WASTEWATER; WASTEWATER-COLLECTION
MOTION CARRIED
