Finance Committee - 08/19/2020 Page 16
Alderwoman Kelly
Making sure I’m not on mute again. | appreciate the conversation around this and | think that Alderman O’Brien
brought up some good Infrastructure questions that were also on my mind. So | am inclined to be ok with this
for now but | want to make sure we are doing our due diligence and | know we will to make sure that we have
these conversations and make sure traffic is appropriate amount of parking, we are not getting completely
down the line with revenue and that also is pushing — | think some of the things | have heard from other
businesses too is that it works great for the outdoor diners but some of the retailers are feeling like there’s not
parking in front of their retail establishment. So | think is a fine first phase, but | want to make sure that all
those concerns come up and we talk about it because as the Memo stated, this was originally supposed to be
a temporary solution and when you start to think about it as permanent it is a very different conversation or
semi-permanent.
Mayor Donchess
Anyone else? Alright, could the Clerk please call the roll?
A viva voce roll call was taken which resulted as follows:
Yea: Alderman Klee, Alderman Harriott-Gathright, Alderwoman Kelly,
Alderman O’Brien, Mayor Donchess 5
Nay: 0
MOTION CARRIED
From: Kelly Parkinson, Purchasing Manager
Re: Radio Communications Tower
MOTION BY ALDERMAN HARRIOTT-GATHRIGHT TO ACCEPT, PLACE ON FILE, AND AWARD THE
CONTRACT FOR THE FABRICATION AND DELIVERY OF AN 88' MONOPOLE PUBLIC SAFETY
COMMUNICATIONS TOWER WHICH WILL BE RELOCATED FROM THE WATER TANK ON KESSLER
FARM DRIVE IN THE AMOUNT OF $35,426 FROM VALMONT INDUSTRIES, INC. FUNDING WILL BE
AVAILABLE IN CITYWIDE COMMUNICATIONS CAPITAL PROJECTS ACCOUNT 57.5050.81300, BY
ROLL CALL.
ON THE QUESTION
Mayor Donchess
And Mr. Mansfield has outlined in a communication from Mr. Mansfield to Kim Kleiner dated August 16. 2020.
Let’s have Mr. Mansfield explain the project.
William Mansfield, Radio Systems Manager
Good evening, | want to thank you Mr. Mayor for allowing this to move forward. And | also want to thank Kim
Kleiner for her assistance and Ms. Parkinson for her assistance in the RFP process in this. For those of you
who don’t know, | am the Radio Systems Manager for the City. Basically what we do is we handle all of the
radio communications for Police, Fire, DPW anybody who has a radio that is attached to the City, that is our
responsibility. We have three sites in the City, 3 tower sites in the City. One of the tower sites is located on
Kessler Farm Drive. Since 2017 the City has been told by Pennichuck Water Works that they had intended on
tearing down the water tank on Kessler Farm Drive. This particular water tank has housed one of the City’s
antenna systems for the last 20 years. It has been a very viable location for us to operate the radio
communications for the City.
