Finance Committee - 04/15/2020 Page 16
Mayor Donchess
For our landfill, Superintendent is here.
Jeff Lafleur, Superintendent of Solid Waste
Yes Mayor, thank you so much. This is for the rebuild of our compactor, our 1999 compactor. It is no longer in service.
Right now we are using our dozer as a back-up. The back-up dozer is not heavy enough to compact trash the way we like
to or we need to. So this $500,000.00 will completely strip the 1999 compactor right down to the frame, repaint it, put in
all new parts and pieces and give us a four-year warranty on it.
Mayor Donchess
As | recall in our discussion, the rebuild compactor is as good as a new one. A new one would cost $1 million dollars.
Jeff Lafleur, Superintendent of Solid Waste
That is correct and it seems like we get even a better warranty on it. A new compactor we would only get a three-year
warranty. With this rebuild, we’d be getting a four-year warranty.
Mayor Donchess
What this thing does is clamps down the trash as you bring in every day.
Jeff Lafleur, Superintendent of Solid Waste
Exactly, it is the big steel-wheeled loader that we have.
Mayor Donchess
Any questions or comments? If not, could you please call the roll?
A viva voce roll call was taken which resulted as follows:
Yea: Alderman Klee, Alderman Lu, Alderman Harriott-Gathright, Alderwoman Kelly,
Alderman Laws, Alderman O’Brien, Mayor Donchess 7
Nay: 0
MOTION CARRIED
From: Dan Kooken, Purchasing Manager
Re: Contract for (Value $1,271,700) Department: 170 Hydroelectric Operations; Funds: Bond
MOTION BY ALDERMAN HARRIOTT-GATHRIGHT TO ACCEPT, PLACE ON FILE, AND AWARD THE CONTRACT
FOR TURBINE REPLACEMENT AT JACKSON FALLS IN THE AMOUNT OF $1,271,700 TO MAVEL AMERICAS, INC.
FUNDS ARE AVAILABLE IN DEPARTMENT 170 HYDROELECTRIC OPERATIONS; FUNDS: BOND, BY ROLL CALL
ON THE QUESTION
Sarah Marchant, Community Development Director
Good evening, thank you all. So this is a project we’ve been before you several times with. Deb is here with me too if we
have more complicated questions that | can’t answer off the top of my head. But last June we were here before you for
the Bond Approval for Hydroelectric Facilities which included the rebuild of the Jackson Turbine. It also included funds for
the relicensing process of Mine Falls which we are well underway with. So this contract to rebuild Jackson Falls, this is
one of the three parts that go along with this. We were before you in January to bring on Turner Construction who is our
Construction Engineering Firm. This contract with Mavel is for the actual widget, the giant widget of the new turbine. It
was a long process with amazing help for Risk and Legal and Turner and certainly all of our efforts to get us here it is a bit
of a different kind of widget than we normally buy. But we are very much looking forward to this product, it is the best from
