Finance Committee - 09/04/2019 Page 8
Alderman Laws
| agree with you that the timing sounds perfect so | am supporting it. | am just curious as to how many pieces
are there of this puzzle that we are going to be seeing coming down the pipeline?
Mr. Keating
Well when we are done coating the tank we have another project on the gas tank itself, upgrading it because it
is kind of hard to explain. But there is an internal diaphragm and it’s kind of a felt like material where the gas is
compressed. It is like an internal cup that rises up and down and it is attached to a diagram and there are
counterweights on the outside and it kind of maintains a pressure a low pressure system of not even a 1 PSI, it
is a little less than a PSI. So we are going to upgrade that when we are done with this and that will be a more
costly project. We are going to also recoat our primary digester and we have a secondary digester as well;
those both need to be recoated next year, 2020, not this year.
Alderman Laws
Thank you.
MOTION CARRIED
From: Dan Kooken, Purchasing Manager
Re: Phase III Landfill Expansion Construction — Change Order #1
MOTION BY ALDERMAN O’BRIEN TO ACCEPT, PLACE ON FILE AND APPROVE CHANGE ORDER #1
TO THE CONTRACT WITH CHARTER CONTRACTING COMPANY, LLC, IN THE AMOUNT OF $175,000.
SOURCE OF FUNDING IS DEPARTMENT 168, SOLID WASTE; PHASE III LANDFILL BOND
ON THE QUESTION
Mayor Donchess
Jeff LaFleur is here.
Jeff LaFleur, Superintendent of Solid Waste
The bulk of this change order is a result of DES not approving our permit in a timely fashion. They have been
shorthanded up there. It took them over a year and a half to approve my design for this project. Even when the
project wasn’t approved we were going forward with getting the project moving with the necessity of the landfill
that we have right now we are running out of air space. So this put the contractor behind by 33 days and again
that’s the bulk of the change order.
MOTION CARRIED
From: Dan Kooken, Purchasing Manager
Re: 2019 Landfill Gas System Expansion Project (Value: $323,470); Department 168, Solid Waste;
MOTION BY ALDERMAN O’BRIEN TO ACCEPT, PLACE ON FILE AND AWARD THE CONTRACT TO SCS
FIELD SERVICES IN THE AMOUNT OF $323,470. FUNDS ARE AVAILABLE IN DEPARTMENT 168,
SOLID WASTE, LANDFILL GAS EXPANSION BONDS
