Finance Committee - 10/16/2019 Page 5
From: Dan Kooken, Purchasing Manager
Re: Snow Plowing Contract — City Parking Lots (Value: Not to Exceed $26,000) Department: 166 Parking
Operations; Fund: General
MOTION BY ALDERWOMAN KELLY TO ACCEPT, PLACE ON FILE AND AWARD THE CONTRACT TO
ACCURATE DIMENSIONS, LLC. AN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED $26,000 FOR PLOWING CITY PARKING
LOTS. FUNDS ARE AVAILABLE IN DEPARTMENT 166 PARKING OPERATIONS; FUND: GENERAL
MOTION CARRIED
From: Dan Kooken, Purchasing Manager
Re: Contract for Purchase of Playground Surfacing for the Jeff Morin Fields at Roby Park Playground
(Value: $109,790) Department: 177 Parks & Recreation; Fund: Grant
MOTION BY ALDERWOMAN KELLY TO ACCEPT, PLACE ON FILE AND AWARD THE CONTRACT TO
GREEN INK LLC DBA INTELLITURF NEW ENGLAND IN THE AMOUNT OF $109,790 FOR PLAYGROUND
SURFACING FOR THE JEFF MORIN FIELDS AT ROBY PARK PLAYGROUND. FUNDS ARE AVAILABLE
IN DEPARTMENT 177 PARKS & RECREATION; FUND: GRANT
ON THE QUESTION
Mayor Donchess
And | think this is why Mr. Caggiano is here.
Mr. Caggiano
Nick Caggiano Park & Rec Superintendent; as you know the Morin has been very generous to the City for
many, many years. When they lost their son they put a scholarship program in place and they included Park &
Rec and it has done quite well and they are quite generous. What this is going to do is remove the wood
carpet that is underneath the playground which was the first ADA playground in the State. We are going to
have an artificial turf under the playground with a pad. It is going to be easier for the children to roll around in if
they need it. It will be a long-term surface; we don’t have to replace the wood chips and it is just going to make
the park that much better.
Alderwoman Kelly
Thank you. So this is my daughter's favorite park in the City and it is often very wet, so I’m wondering if this
will help with that, like a lot of times after the rain we can’t go there because there’s so much water.
Mr. Caggiano
Yes it will help. We did take care of the wet problem last year, we put in drainage and we replaced the wood
chips. We are going to repurpose those chips when they pull them out, bring them to another park that needs
some work. But it is going to help with that as well because there won’t be the material to absorb water. It is
going to just drain.
Alderwoman Kelly
Excellent, thank you.
