Finance Committee - 02/17/2021 Page 9
From: Kelly Parkinson, Purchasing Manager
Re: Engineering Services for EPA MS4 Permitting in the amount of $187,550 funded from account 81700
Infrastructure Improvements
MOTION BY ALDERMAN HARRIOTT-GATHRIGHT TO ACCEPT, PLACE ON FILE, AND APPROVE THE
ENGINEERING SEVICES CONTRACT FOR TASKS REQUIRED BY THE EPA MS4 PERMIT WITH HAZEN
AND SAWYER, PC, OF MANCHESTER, MA, IN THE AMOUNT OF $187,550. FUNDING WILL BE
THROUGH DEPARTMENT 169 WASTEWATER; FUND: WASTEWATER; ACTIVITY: STORMWATER
ABATEMENT, BY ROLL CALL.
ON THE QUESTION
Mayor Donchess
Alright, is Mr. Hudson here?
Dan Hudson, City Engineer
Yes, sir. Thank you Mr. Mayor. So the City is under a number of EPA permits. This one here is for the
municipal separated storm sewer system, otherwise known as MS4. And this is for all the storm water
discharges that aren’t part of our combined sewer systems. So this is for closed drainage systems that
discharge to the river and that sort of thing. So this permit is focused obviously on water quality. As part of that
permit, there’s a number of things that we need to do as a City, you know, record keeping, testing of storm
water outfalls, making sure we are implementing best management practices from treatment and storm water
and things like that. This is a large permit, it requires a lot of effort to comply with and so this is hiring an
engineering company to help us stay in compliance for that permit.
Mayor Donchess
Discussion/questions? Alderwoman Lu? You’re muted. Sorry.
Alderwoman Lu
No I’m sorry about that. Is this a charge to Solid Waste or to Wastewater?
Mr. Hudson
Wastewater.
Alderwoman Lu
Thank you.
Mayor Donchess
Anyone else? Alright Madam Clerk, could you please call the roll?
A viva voce roll call was taken which resulted as follows:
Yea: Alderman Klee, Alderwoman Lu, Alderman Harriott-Gathright,
Alderman Laws, Alderman O’Brien, Mayor Donchess 6
Nay: 0
MOTION CARRIED
