Finance Committee - 07/10/2019 Page 10
ON THE QUESTION
Mayor Donchess
Mr. Boucher is here, come on up please. The purpose here is pretty self-evident but maybe you want to give
us a little more substance.
David Boucher, Wastewater Superintendent
Alright, David Boucher, Wastewater Superintendent. These are 3 chemicals that we add to our process daily
throughout the year. This is for the purchase for chemicals to last the fiscal year 20. One is a polymer that we
use in our process to bind sludge which assists in us removing the water before it is taken off site. The other
one is a sodium hypochlorite which is a disinfectant that we add to the treated water before it goes to the river.
And the sodium bisulfite takes the chlorine back out of the water before we send it to the river so we don’t add
chlorine to the river. The two, the sodium hypochlorite and the sodium bisulfite are purchased through a
consortium so there is a bunch of companies that bid and we take the lowest. Unfortunately the polymer, no
two polymers are alike so we have companies come in and test them with our sludge and the one that works
the best in our facility is the one we go with.
MOTION CARRIED
From: Dan Kooken, Purchasing Manager
Re: FY20 Purchase of Trash and Recycling Toters
MOTION BY ALDERWOMAN KELLY TO ACCEPT, PLACE ON FILE AND AUTHORIZE THE PURCHASE
FROM TOTER, INC., IN THE AMOUNT OF $145,000. FUNDS ARE AVAILABLE IN DEPARTMENT 168,
SOLID WASTE
ON THE QUESTION
Mayor Donchess
Mr. Lafleur is the Superintendent over at the landfill. This is pretty self-evident as well but how many toters are
represented by $145,000.00?
Jeffrey Lafleur, Superintendent of Solid Waste
It is hard to say with the fluctuation with prices in the markets, it is plastic so it goes along with the fuel prices. |
usually go for, it is my annual purchase of $145,000.00 | go for the approvals for this. | don’t spend the
$145,000.00 if not needed. | usually keep a stock of about 1,000 recycling carts on hand and then probably
about 1,000 to 1,500 trash carts so once we start depleting those levels, | replace them as needed. The
reason why we want to keep the price same is our toters right now are trash ones that were purchased in
2003. They are 16 years old, they had a life expectancy of 10 years, we have over-exceeded that. So we are
expecting some kind of an influx of damaged carts here happening soon. They were warrantied for 10 years
and we did go over that so we did really well with what we have.
Alderman Caron
Yes thank you. So if someone wanted a new toter or recycling bin how would they get that?
Mr. Lafleur
The recycling carts they contact the Solid Waste Department or they can come in right to the scale house. It is
a $60.00 purchase for that. Recycling carts, | mean for trash carts if it is damaged by our employees or a City
