Finance Committee - 01/15/2020 Page 9
Alderman Klee
Thank you.
Mayor Donchess
Anything else?
MOTION CARRIED
From: Dan Kooken, Purchasing Manager
Re: Contract for Phase III Landfill - Engineering Amendment #1 (Value: $89,700); Department: 168 Solid
Waste; Fund: Solid Waste
MOTION BY ALDERMAN HARRIOTT-GATHRIGHT TO ACCEPT, PLACE ON FILE, AND AUTHORIZE
CHANGE ORDER #1 TO PROVIDE THE SOLID WASTE DEPARTMENT WITH CONSTRUCTION QUALITY
ASSURANCE (CQA) SERVICES FOR THE PHASE III LANDFILL CONSTRUCTION TO SANBORN HEAD &
ASSOCIATES IN THE AMOUNT OF $89,700. FUNDS ARE AVAILABLE IN DEPARTMENT 168 SOLID
WASTE; FUND: SOLID WASTE
ON THE QUESTION
Director Lisa Fauteux
Would you like to these together Mayor because they’re related. One is the consulting...
Mayor Donchess
Yes. We'll have to vote separately but why don’t you discuss them together.
Director Lisa Fauteux
It's hard to understand the consulting if you don’t understand the charter. So this is related to our Phase II
landfill which we have finally completed. We're just waiting now for DES to give us approval to start putting
trash in this cell. Without getting into too much detail, there’s a certain amount of soil that needs to go between
the groundwater table and the liner. That was very difficult to determine until we were actually in it.
Unfortunately the water table was a bit higher than we had hoped so we did have to put additional fill. That
took some time so we had to do an extension for charter and that included also not only more fill, more time,
and also more liner. That’s part of what this is.
The other part of this change order is that they wanted us to be able to hook up our ability to pump leachate to
our generator in case we had a power failure. That is why we have this change order primarily. It is all
complete now and we’re just waiting like | said for approval to start placing trash.
Alderman Klee
| just went to a solid waste program and | just learned about leachate. Do we monitor that? | know they said
this was one of the bigger issues that are coming up with the leachate. | didn’t quite understand what it was
but when you were talking about this, water levels and having to do the excess tanks and so on, do we release
these?
