Finance Committee - 08/05/2020 Page 11
Mayor Donchess
Anyone? Could the Clerk please call the roll?
A viva voce roll call was taken which resulted as follows:
Yea: Alderman Klee, Alderwoman Lu, Alderman Harriott-Gathright, Alderwoman Kelly,
Alderman Laws, Alderman O’Brien, Mayor Donchess 7
Nay: 0
MOTION CARRIED
From: Kelly Parkinson, Purchasing Manager
Re: Pavement Management Engineering Services Contract Change Order for Sidewalk Construction
Contract
MOTION BY ALDERMAN HARRIOTT-GATHRIGHT TO ACCEPT, PLACE ON FILE, AND APPROVE
CHANGE ORDER NO. 1 TO THE 2020 SIDEWALK PROGRAM CONTRACT WITH RWC ENTERPRISES OF
NASHUA, NH, IN AN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED $40,000 FUNDED THROUGH THE SOUTHEAST
QUADRANT FUNDS ($31,000) AND CAPITAL ($9,000). FUNDING WILL BE THROUGH DEPARTMENT:
160 ADMIN/ENGINEERING; FUNDS: TRUST AND CAPITAL; ACCOUNT CATEGORY: 54 PROPERTY
SERVICES AND ACTIVITY: SIDEWALKS, BY ROLL CALL.
ON THE QUESTION
Mayor Donchess
| believe this would be Mr. Hudson again?
Mr. Hudson
Yes itis, thank you Mr. Mayor. So this year we engaged on a sidewalk reconstruction project on East Hollis
Street, it is about 900 feet of concrete sidewalk we are replacing. It was in terrible shape and it needed to be
done. As we got into the work we identified some additional work that needed to be done and that includes
some additional ADA ramps. We are trying to make better matches to some of the properties by widening the
sidewalk areas, installing some back curb in other areas. And then there was a section of sidewalk that had
been damaged over the years due to trucks turning on the corner and that section we are trying to thicken up
so it can better handle that abuse that it is getting. So these changes were unforeseen at the time of the
original contract so that’s why we bring this change order and respectfully request your approval.
Mayor Donchess
Alderwoman Kelly?
Alderwoman Kelly
Thank you and thank you for giving the necessary attention to our sidewalk. My question is, let’s see if | can
phrase this in a good way. Is it kind of like a house where it is ok unless you start messing with things and
then you have to come up to code? Because | was looking at the ADA thing and thinking that obviously it is
not mandated but it must be when you start doing work?
