Finance Committee - 08/05/2020 Page 16
ON THE QUESTION
Mayor Donchess
Mr. Boucher?
Mr. Boucher
Thank you Mr. Mayor. This is the same project | just mentioned earlier, the Energy Recovery Project. Due to
several changes and additional testing that are needed there has been several proposed change orders.
Change Order 7 is a combination of several smaller change orders. | will just kind of go through the change
orders that make up the total cost of this. Change Order 7 — we had a fuel blending skid, unfortunately it
couldn’t be located where we initially wanted it on the plans due to underground utilities, or it couldn’t be
moved. And with that move of the blending skid, we had to additional piping installed it was an additional
installation of an oil mister, this was required on the generators that were purchased. It was an additional
protective feature; we want the generators to last as long as possible. So this was recommended by the
generator company Milton Cat.
We have piping relocation for the generators, one of the generator had to be relocated, again due to some
unforeseen electrical conduits under the concrete floor. So with that we had in-house fabrication of piping.
There was extra wiring to a switch gear that had to be done. This was required by Eversource before we can
connect to the grid. Fuel train fabrication this was also required by the generator company just because of the
relocation of it, we needed to extend out some of the fuel train.
There’s another one of coring for our generator stacks, we wanted to use the existing core through the ceiling;
unfortunately it was a bad core from the existing generator at the wrong angle so we had to do an additional
core. We had electrical costs due to damaged wires. Unfortunately it wasn’t caused by the contractor it was
damage before the construction had begun but they are willing to fix it at a reasonable cost. We had a large
amount here is upgrades to the SCADA System Interface. Unfortunately this was going to be done by a staff
member who left us last April so we have to hire out a company to do this interface. The company that the
contractor was using is one we are familiar with, they have done other work for us. This came at a reasonable
cost we so we are going to have them do it.
And then Reconnection of the Gas Pressure Transmitter; initially this wasn’t in the contract, it was a transmitter
that hadn’t been used. But after discussion with our engineer it would be beneficial to reconnect it. We had it
checked out and it is in good shape and it can be connected to our new equipment so we’d like to do that. So
I'd be happy to answer any questions you have. | know that was a little wordy.
Mayor Donchess
Well that was fine. We have got three different change orders. Alright, | don’t see any questions, 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
