Finance Committee - 07/10/2019 Page 14
From: Dan Kooken, Purchasing Manager
Re: Purchase of Catepillar 826K Compactor Teeth
MOTION BY ALDERWOMAN KELLY TO ACCEPT, PLACE ON FILE AND AWARD THE CONTRACT TO
CARON COMPACTOR COMPANY IN THE AMOUNT OF $34,250. SOURCE OF FUNDING IS
DEPARTMENT 168, SOLID WASTE
ON THE QUESTION
Mr. Lafleur
Sure, Superintendent Jeff Lafleur, Solid Waste. These teeth are for the compactor, our big trash compactor,
the one with the steel wheels and the big teeth on them. That is what crushes our trash and compacts it
properly. We weren’t really planning on purchasing teeth for these wheels this year or next year. We were
hoping to get a few more years out of them. But Caron Compactor, they are the sole source, those are the
wheels that we bought for the compactor; they actually negotiated with us and they gave us a set for 2 wheels
free last year. | negotiated that with them for them wearing down so quickly. So | had those installed last fall
ahead of this, before | could get this under my budget for this installation. So | ended up negotiating getting 2
for free. They are charging us $34,250.00 for two wheels now. Typically it would be a $60,000.00 or
$70,000.00 purchase and we are getting it for $34,000.00 that’s just the teeth. CAT out of Londonderry will be
welding and installing them for us for a charge of only $10,000.00 which is very cheap. We had a fabricator do
it and it took him 2 % weeks to do 2 wheels. CAT is telling me they can do it in 3 days so that’s another added
addition to this but this is what we are going for the approval for right now.
MOTION CARRIED
From: Dan Kooken, Purchasing Manager
Re: Contract for Canal Street Bridge Repairs to Abutment
MOTION BY ALDERWOMAN KELLY TO ACCEPT, PLACE ON FILE AND AWARD THE CONTRACT TO
WILLIAM P. DAVIS EXCAVATION IN THE AMOUNT OF $39,905. FUNDS ARE AVAILABLE IN
DEPARTMENT 160, ADMINISTRATION/ENGINEERING; CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS
ON THE QUESTION
Peter Kohalmi, Deputy City Engineer
Good evening Mayor, Committee Members, my name is Pete Kohalmi, I’m the Deputy City Engineer. The
Canal Street Bridge has sustained some damage, we call it spalling. Spalling is essentially concrete, chunks
of concrete that has broken off the surface of the abutment. Generally that is caused by water infiltrating the
concrete, freezing, expanding and then pushing the concrete out of place. So are proposing a relatively
moderate repair to drill some holes into the abutment to allow the water to escape and stop the spalling from
occurring. Then later on we do plan on making repairs, concrete repairs to the abutment. Davis Excavation
from Hampton has performed a couple of other contracts with DPW, they’ve done a good job for us and we
recommend accepting their bid.
Alderman Laws
How concerned are we with the integrity of the bridge while this is going on?
Mr. Kohalmi
The bridge is getting old, | believe it is 70 or 80 years old something like that. It is not in danger of anything
catastrophic happening anytime soon.
