Finance Committee - 3/20/2019 Page 7
Alderwoman Kelly
Thank you, | apologize if this is a question that you covered when | was unable to attend last week, but do we
have a plan, like what is our contingency if this just continues and continues.
Mr. Lafleur
We will have to discuss that next year. We are trying to finish out a full year to see where the markets are:
they are fluctuating so much right now — hopefully it will start to stabilize. We just dropped another $14.00 a
ton, it went up $13.00; went down $14.00. So we are still in the ballpark where we should be. Over the fall it
went real high like almost $90.00 a ton which is crazy, we’ve never seen that before. Now we are down in the
$70.00 range where we budgeted for, real close to that. So we will just have to see what the markets are
doing and then we will have to make a touch decision at some point.
We did mention that one of the options at our last meeting was to landfill the recycling and it is just not the right
thing to do right now. We want to try to do everything we can for the environment and for the airspace, | mean
that will eat up a lot of airspace for the City of Nashua and our landfills.
Chairman O’Brien
Additional questions from members of the board? Mr. Lafleur if you saw the last Aldermanic Meeting there
was great interest in this and | think we are going to have to put our heads together with your division and
everything to try to come up with something. As the way it is, nobody foresaw, the reflect it had to do more
international trade and anything else, so we will get it done hopefully.
MOTION CARRIED
From: Dan Kooken, Purchasing Manager
Re: Phase III Landfill Construction Quality Assurance Services
MOTION BY ALDERWOMAN KELLY TO ACCEPT, PLACE ON FILE AND AWARD THE CONTRACT TO
SANBORN HEAD & ASSOCIATES, INC., IN THE AMOUNT OF $255,000. FUNDS ARE AVAILABLE IN
DEPARTMENT 168, SOLID WASTE; BOND FUNDS
MOTION CARRIED
From: Dan Kooken, Purchasing Manager
Re: Phase III Landfill Construction
MOTION BY ALDERWOMAN KELLY TO ACCEPT, PLACE ON FILE AND, CONTINGENT UPON BOARD
OF ALDERMEN APPROVAL, AWARD THE CONTRACT TO CHARTER CONTRACTING COMPANY, LLC,
IN THE AMOUNT OF $5,525,525. SOURCE OF FUNDING IS DEPARTMENT 168, SOLID WASTE; BOND
FUNDS
ON THE QUESTION
Chairman O’Brien
Mr. Lafleur where this is such a large dollar amount, could you just give us what the Phase Ill is, | know it is
increasing our life expectancy to the landfill correct?
Mr. Lafleur
Yes sir. This is going to be about a 5 to 6 acre expansion to our landfill, it is going to give us about 10 years
airspace. It is needed; we are at a point we are in our landfill right now that we can’t capture all the airspace in
Phase | and II until Phase III is built, we are building ourselves into our pyramid which is making our area
