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A viva voce roll call was taken which resulted as follows:
Yea: Alderman Klee, Alderwoman Lu, Alderman Harriott-Gathright, Alderwoman Kelly,
Alderman Laws, Alderman O’Brien, Mayor Donchess 7
Nay: 0
MOTION TO TABLE CARRIED
Mayor Donchess
Now Alderwoman Lu, why don’t you go ahead and ask Director Bagley the question you were wanting to ask?
Alderwoman Lu
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Mayor Donchess
| think it has been $99,000.00 for a long time.
Alderwoman Lu
Yeah, ok. Well thank you, that’s all | wanted to know. | wondered so if was $99,000.00 before the chicken
came in?
Mayor Donchess
It was.
Alderwoman Lu
So | just wondered whether, we want to pay them at least the $99,000.00 so | wonder if this could just be
approved and amended but | don’t know what’s better. Thank you.
Mayor Donchess
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hard for them to manage. So | will have to find out if, in fact, we have seen a number of impoundments of
chickens and if, in fact, what the impact of that has been.
Alderman Klee
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Mayor Donchess
OK please just could you give the explanation then?
Director Bagley
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Alderwoman Kelly
| just had a question more from a standpoint of have you seen an increase in people requesting these? | know
Pest? are at home more now and are producing more trash and recycling potentially than they have in the
Mr. LaFleur
I’m sorry, are you saying lids or for more carts?
Alderwoman Kelly
Toters, yes.
Mr. LaFleur
Toters, yes. You know, | haven't really. People are following the guidelines of only filling it up so much and
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Mr. LaFleur
We buy them — it depends on the price, the fluctuation, it depends on the resin costs and everything. | can
probably purchase about 3,000 or 4,000 of these at that cost, not including lids. So | always keep 1,000 in
stock so that’s when it gets depleted, then | just resupply the stock.
Alderwoman Lu
Ok and do we replace people’s when they break at no cost?
Mr. LaFleur
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Mr. LaFleur
Exactly we use the NH State Bid, sometimes we go off the Mass State Bid, it gives us competitive bids and we
just compile that. And then we looked at this and it fell into one of those.
Alderwoman Lu
Great thank you.
Mayor Donchess
Anyone else; could the Clerk please call the roll?
A viva voce roll call was taken which resulted as follows:
Yea: Alderman Klee, Alderwoman Lu, Alderman Harriott-Gathright, Alderwoman Kelly,
Alderman Laws, Alderman O’Brien, Mayor Donchess 7
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Alderman Klee
Thank you, Mr. Mayor and just adding to that, not so much a question. | would assume that we would also be
using these for when we’ve been doing mobile testing or even to put up the messages as to where people
would be able to find information?
Mayor Donchess
We could do that yes.
Alderman Klee
We would be able to justify the purchase of these for COVID reasons in a multitude of manners, even if it is
just to put something up for the City of warning.
Mayor Donchess
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A viva voce roll call was taken which resulted as follows:
Yea: Alderman Klee, Alderwoman Lu, Alderman Harriott-Gathright, Alderwoman Kelly,
Alderman Laws, Alderman O’Brien, Mayor Donchess 7
Nay: 0
MOTION CARRIED
From: Dan Kooken, Purchasing Manager
Re: Purchase of 2 CMS-T333 Electronic Message Boards (Value $33,602) Department: 161 Streets;
Fund: GOFERR Grant
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Alderman Klee
Perfect, thank you so much, | appreciate your time.
Mayor Donchess
Anyone else? Alderwoman Lu?
Alderwoman Lu
Thank you, Mayor Donchess. The title, the company name, are they with the USDA in fact?
Mr. LaFleur
Yes, they are a subsidy of it, USDA APHIS is the name of the Company, so they are part of the USDA.
Alderwoman Lu
USDA APHIS, | see, because in the contract it said something about APHIS.
Mr. LaFleur
