Finance Committee - 03/04/2020 Page 14
Alderman Klee
Just one more thing. So what you are saying is that we are actually kind of getting revenue from this too but
we don’t know off-hand what that kind of revenue is?
Mr. LaFleur
That was a contract that was done throughout the City.
Mayor Donchess
| don’t think we get revenue because there was a dispute with the prior contractor and it was a very serious
dispute over their performance. | am trying to think of who that was.
Mr. LaFleur
It was Foristar.
Mayor Donchess
There was a dispute about the quality of their work, who was supposed to pay for the improvements, all those
kinds of things. And it was compromising the system and there were odors escaping so it was quite a problem.
And there was litigation in the US District Court over this contract. So our current contractor came in and
agreed to pay off | believe the number was $500,000.00 to the previous contractor. Now this was 5 or 6 years
ago, when | was an Alderman | remember, pay off the previous contractor and settle the litigation and take
over the contract. | think the agreement was, at that point, that in consideration for the fact that they paid out
$500,000.00 to settle the matter for us, they get the revenue from the gas | think.
Alderman Klee
Thank you.
Alderman O’Brien
Thank you for taking my question. Any of this work that is going on now we will be keeping a leather eye on
the future project of the expansion of the DPW Facility where we may have the ability to have a combination
system of propane and the gas that we are collecting, the methane from the landfill So if anything doing it is
now is the time to kind of look at that and try to see if there is anticipation of the future. Would it be now or in
the future?
Mr. LaFleur
Yes sir. We are actually talking with EPP the company that is using the gas to make electricity to come up with
some ideas. What would be beneficial for us? | don’t think we will ever use the gas that is coming out but we
will use the heat from the engines that are generating electricity to help the new DPW facility.
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