Finance Committee - 8/2/2017 Page 5
Bill Mansfield
You can lift it to stand.
Alderman Cookson
Thank you so much. This is already approved in their budget that we just passed, correct? They’re applying
funds that we’ve already approved in the 2017 budget right?
Bill Mansfield
No. These funds are coming out of a capital upgrade project that was for the upgrade of the radio system. So
part of that there was money budgeted specifically in there for furniture for furniture for both police and fire to
replace it.
Alderman Cookson
Alright, very good. Thank you for that clarification.
MOTION CARRIED
From: Dan Kooken, Purchasing Manager
Re: Contract Award for Roadside and Trail Mowing (Value: Not-to-Exceed $26,000)
MOTION BY ALDERMAN O’BRIEN TO ACCEPT, PLACE ON FILE AND AWARD THE CONTRACT TO
KOHL FARMS IN AN AMOUNT NOT-TO-EXCEED $26,000. SOURCE OF FUNDING IS DEPARTMENT 177,
PARKS AND RECREATION; GENERAL OPERATING AND TRUST FUNDS; PROFESSIONAL SERVICES
($22,000); AND, DEPARTMENT 169 WASTEWATER; 55, OTHER PURCHASED SERVICES ($4,000)
ON THE QUESTION
Alderman Cookson
Of all the pieces communications that are before us this evening, | think | have many concerns about this one
in particular. First off while it may not exceed $26,000 which is relatively small change, | have no idea about
where we’re focusing our attention on and what areas are going to remedied or rectified by the purchase of this
service. | know for one that for the past ten years when | first began as a ward alderman, | was very much
concerned about Broad Street and how Broad Street looked. There are areas on Broad Street that are
completely overgrown where sidewalks are impassable because the weeds go out. So now we're waiting until
| believe that it was September/October that this work is to be done?
Alderman Caron
Yes.
Alderman Cookson
Thank you. So September/October that the work is to be done. | guess and we had talked at one point about
Exit 8 and Somerset and how that was overgrown at one point in time. We had done this back when Alderman
McCarthy was doing these 20/20 vision sessions and we were going around to the four quadrants and trying to
figure out how are we making an impression on the city, and what kind of impression are we leaving, and what
do we want the city to look like? | specifically remember Somerset being one of those as it approached
Southwest Boulevard in that area. Broad Street is another section that |’ve spoken to Superintendent
Caggiano several times about previously not recently. Then just this evening as I’m driving the Broad Street
Parkway to come here, again we expended funds to make sure that there was going to be a sidewalk on the
