Special Board of Aldermen 12-07-2021 Page 24
are for engineering of the expansions and the new permit for Phase 4. This will get us all the way through to construction.
DES has been giving us a real hard time trying to get the Phase IV permitted so this will be for the engineering and, you
know, answering questions for DES and public hearings when that finally comes to fruition.
Recycle area upgrades is another big ticket there. Our recycling area - | don't know how many of you have come to our
landfill but it is starting to deteriorate very, very quickly. We need to do some repairs there. Pavement some buildings are
starting to fall apart. We want to make it safe for our residents.
The wheel loader that we're asking for is a very intricate piece of equipment at the landfill. It's very much needed. It ships
all of our equipment. We load all of our recycling. We haul all our daily cover to cover our landfill and then the refuse truck
is one of our CNG sideload trucks that is needed to collect recycling and trash.
Chairman Dowd
Any questions from the Aldermen? Thank you. Seeing none, I'll open the public testimony for testimony in favor.
TESTIMONY IN FAVOR
Laurie Ortolano
Yes can you just tell me what the cost of the vehicle is relative to between the projects? I'm just wondering whether the
split is.
Chairman Dowd
The class of vehicle?
Laurie Ortolano
No the cost? This is a $1.8 million and it's for various projects with the landfill as well as a vehicle. What's the vehicle
cost?
Jeff Lafleur, Superintendent of Solid Waste
Jeff Lafleur, Superintendent of Solid Waste. The refuse truck that we're purchasing is $423,990.
Laurie Ortolano
And was that - so was that separate? That wasn'ta CERF item? It's here being proposed because it wasn't proposed in
the CERF budget?
Jeff Lafleur, Superintendent of Solid Waste
No, it's proposed as part of our CERF but the city decides to bond some of our equipment since they're such highly priced.
Laurie Ortolano
Okay. Okay. | gotcha.
Jeff Lafleur, Superintendent of Solid Waste
And just to answer the first part of your question, | am getting a wheel loader - the large wheel loader and that's $495,450.
Laurie Ortolano
Okay.
Chairman Dowd
All set?
