Finance Committee - 03/04/2020 Page 13
ON THE QUESTION
Jeff LaFleur, Superintendent Solid Waste
Thank you Mayor, thank you Committee. This is my annual expansion that | do at the landfill every year for our
gas expansion to collect all the gas to help with emissions and any odor controls. You see that this is a
change order to, | did a change order one in the fall for a header replacement that had failed. We just barely
have them coming in now, we had to wait for our funding. They are in now, so by me doing a change order
two, | am actually saving us a mobilization charge anywhere from $20,000.00 to $40,000.00. That’s why | did it
this way. SCS Contractors have historically been our lowest bidder for any of our gas expansion projects so
that’s why | justified going with them with a change order just to get this project moving and saving us the
$20,000.00 to $40,000.00 mobilization charge.
Mayor Donchess
Discussion?
Alderwoman Kelly
Thank you, can you just explain what mobilization charge is for people who don’t necessarily know?
Mr. LaFleur
Yes sorry, mobilization charge, that would be all the equipment needed to do the work. So they bring in
excavators, backhoes and trucks, tractors, whatever they need to do the work. That would be the mobilization
charge and it’s fairly high expense every time we have them come in just to get that equipment mobilized.
Alderwoman Kelly
So you are saying they are already there?
Mr. LaFleur
They will already be here, that’s why by doing the change order, I'll be saving that money. Instead of having
them demobilize and then remobilize.
Alderwoman Kelly
Yeah that makes more sense, thank you.
Alderman Klee
Thank you very much. This system here that we have the gas collection and control system, as you pointed
out it is to control odor and the emissions that come out. This gas is it recycled to be able to use for energy or
anything of like that nature.
Mr. LaFleur
Yes absolutely, we have a company that is at the landfill, EPP, Energy Power Partners. They take the gas
from the landfill, they generate electricity and then we get a certain percentage of that back. I’m not sure of the
exact percentage but they are using landfill gas to generate electricity and put it back out to the grid.
