Works Board Advances City Projects
May 17, 2020 at 10:09 p.m.
By Teresa [email protected]
• For the clerk’s office, a postage machine lease with IMPAC/Quadient Leasing for 63 months at $152.92 per month.
• For the Warsaw–Wayne Fire Territory, an annual inspection of the smoke detectors in the living quarters and administration offices, heat detectors in the apparatus bays and baby box monitor for $337.50 as provided by Cottage Watchman of Pierceton.
WWFT fire chief Mike Wilson also received permission to apply for 350 doses of naloxone for 2020 distributed through an Indiana State Department of Health grant. WWFT also will be the host department, distributing the doses and offer training for the county’s fire departments, law enforcement agencies and emergency medical services staff.
City planner Jeremy Skinner presented several pay applications:
• For work on the Buffalo Street Plaza in the amount of $346,446 to Selge Construction Co., their first pay request. The total contract is $2,511,264.30. Skinner noted progress is being made on the project, which is scheduled to be finished in October.
• Pay application No. 1 for preliminary engineering services on the Lincoln neighborhood sidewalk project for $11,694.50 to the Troyer Group. The Indiana Department of Transportation will pay 80% of the invoice, $9,355.60, for this bike-pedestrian sidewalk reconstruction on Sheridan, East Clark and East Fort Wayne streets between Colfax and Cook streets.
A memorandum of understanding between the Warsaw Police Department and Lexis Nexis Coplogic Solutions was explained by Warsaw Police Chief Scott Whittaker.
Individuals who need an accident report can access it on the BuyCrash.com website, Whitaker said. People pay $12, $8 of which comes back to the WPD to the continuing education fund. The chief said people can save $2 by coming to the station for an accident report, once the station reopens to the public.
Lexis Nexis recently acquired Holt, Sheets and Associates, the company the WPD had contracted with for the last 13 years.
Street Superintendent Jeff Beeler recommended the Board of Works accept the Phend & Brown bid of $752,132.60 for the road work and improvements on Lincoln Drive and Johnson Street. The other bidder was Nibloc Excavating, whose bid was $987,761.
Beeler said the work starts June 1 and should be complete in October. The construction costs will be paid by motor vehicle highway funds, $376,061.80, and a state community crossing grant, $376,061.80.
Wastewater Utility Superintendent Brian Davison presented a three-year agreement with McAllister Machinery to service the Briar Ridge lift station, $3,025; a portable generator, $5,355; the Anchorage lift station, $7,470; Biomet lift station, $5,970; three Center Street units for $7,710 each; the Kosciusko Community Hospital lift station, $5,535; Leesburg lift station, $6,135; plant generator, $10,905; and another portable generator, $5,655.
Wastewater treatment plant expansion project pay application No. 14 in the amount of $1,066,746 to Kosing Industrial, along with two engineering service invoices to Wessler Engineering, were approved in the amounts of $7,240 and $54,092.
Davison said the plant has to meet phosphorus limit compliance by June 1 and that date will be met with a temporary set-up at the plant.
Also approved was a Wessler Engineering claim for the sewer rehabilitation project for $710.
In personnel matters, Brent Fifier was promoted to lieutenant in the WWFT with a pay of $2,228.86 biweekly; Michael Damjanovic was hired as a probationary patrol officer for the WPD with a pay of $2,000.58 biweekly; Linda Seiss was hired as a part-time administrative assistant for the aviation department for $20.80 per hour. Seiss was a full-time employee but retired.
Mayor Joe Thallemer and Board of Works members George Clemens and Jeff Grose discussed the receipt of up to $484,000 in coronavirus relief funds from the state. Thallemer said expenses incurred during the state lockdown could be recouped following specific perimeters.
The board also noted the receipt of a K21 Health Foundation grant award for $236,130, which will pay for 17 AutoPulse System Pass-Thru Cardiopulmonary resuscitation units plus batteries, charges and cases. The WWFT will distribute the machines to county fire departments. ZOLL?Medical Corporation of Massachusetts is the manufacturer and will be paid when the machines arrive.
• For the clerk’s office, a postage machine lease with IMPAC/Quadient Leasing for 63 months at $152.92 per month.
• For the Warsaw–Wayne Fire Territory, an annual inspection of the smoke detectors in the living quarters and administration offices, heat detectors in the apparatus bays and baby box monitor for $337.50 as provided by Cottage Watchman of Pierceton.
WWFT fire chief Mike Wilson also received permission to apply for 350 doses of naloxone for 2020 distributed through an Indiana State Department of Health grant. WWFT also will be the host department, distributing the doses and offer training for the county’s fire departments, law enforcement agencies and emergency medical services staff.
City planner Jeremy Skinner presented several pay applications:
• For work on the Buffalo Street Plaza in the amount of $346,446 to Selge Construction Co., their first pay request. The total contract is $2,511,264.30. Skinner noted progress is being made on the project, which is scheduled to be finished in October.
• Pay application No. 1 for preliminary engineering services on the Lincoln neighborhood sidewalk project for $11,694.50 to the Troyer Group. The Indiana Department of Transportation will pay 80% of the invoice, $9,355.60, for this bike-pedestrian sidewalk reconstruction on Sheridan, East Clark and East Fort Wayne streets between Colfax and Cook streets.
A memorandum of understanding between the Warsaw Police Department and Lexis Nexis Coplogic Solutions was explained by Warsaw Police Chief Scott Whittaker.
Individuals who need an accident report can access it on the BuyCrash.com website, Whitaker said. People pay $12, $8 of which comes back to the WPD to the continuing education fund. The chief said people can save $2 by coming to the station for an accident report, once the station reopens to the public.
Lexis Nexis recently acquired Holt, Sheets and Associates, the company the WPD had contracted with for the last 13 years.
Street Superintendent Jeff Beeler recommended the Board of Works accept the Phend & Brown bid of $752,132.60 for the road work and improvements on Lincoln Drive and Johnson Street. The other bidder was Nibloc Excavating, whose bid was $987,761.
Beeler said the work starts June 1 and should be complete in October. The construction costs will be paid by motor vehicle highway funds, $376,061.80, and a state community crossing grant, $376,061.80.
Wastewater Utility Superintendent Brian Davison presented a three-year agreement with McAllister Machinery to service the Briar Ridge lift station, $3,025; a portable generator, $5,355; the Anchorage lift station, $7,470; Biomet lift station, $5,970; three Center Street units for $7,710 each; the Kosciusko Community Hospital lift station, $5,535; Leesburg lift station, $6,135; plant generator, $10,905; and another portable generator, $5,655.
Wastewater treatment plant expansion project pay application No. 14 in the amount of $1,066,746 to Kosing Industrial, along with two engineering service invoices to Wessler Engineering, were approved in the amounts of $7,240 and $54,092.
Davison said the plant has to meet phosphorus limit compliance by June 1 and that date will be met with a temporary set-up at the plant.
Also approved was a Wessler Engineering claim for the sewer rehabilitation project for $710.
In personnel matters, Brent Fifier was promoted to lieutenant in the WWFT with a pay of $2,228.86 biweekly; Michael Damjanovic was hired as a probationary patrol officer for the WPD with a pay of $2,000.58 biweekly; Linda Seiss was hired as a part-time administrative assistant for the aviation department for $20.80 per hour. Seiss was a full-time employee but retired.
Mayor Joe Thallemer and Board of Works members George Clemens and Jeff Grose discussed the receipt of up to $484,000 in coronavirus relief funds from the state. Thallemer said expenses incurred during the state lockdown could be recouped following specific perimeters.
The board also noted the receipt of a K21 Health Foundation grant award for $236,130, which will pay for 17 AutoPulse System Pass-Thru Cardiopulmonary resuscitation units plus batteries, charges and cases. The WWFT will distribute the machines to county fire departments. ZOLL?Medical Corporation of Massachusetts is the manufacturer and will be paid when the machines arrive.
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