High School Co-Op Students Hired By The City
August 16, 2024 at 4:32 p.m.
High school students are getting to experience what it’s like to work for the city of Warsaw.
In presenting the new hire and change in payroll report to the Warsaw Board of Public Works and Safety on Friday, Human Resource Director Denny Harlan said there were a “couple good things going on with this one.”
First, there’s two probationary patrol officers joining the Warsaw Police Department, Randall Finney and Isiah Faurote. The full-time officers start Sunday at $2,439.83 biweekly.
There’s two part-time firefighters, who Harlan said are students from the high school in the co-op program. They are Reed Nelson and Cohen Heady and they started Aug. 12 at $10 per hour. “We’re happy to bring them on,” Harlan said.
Ethan Young also is a co-op student and is a laborer at the street department, beginning Monday at $17 per hour.
Two other co-op students - Jake Rhoades and Noah Wilkins - are working out at the airport for $10 per hour. They started Aug. 12.
“Super excited to have those guys on board, be able to show them a little bit about what city government’s like,” Harlan said.
Chloe Taylor, who is not a high school student, is starting out as a part-time WPD officer, and Harlan anticipates that she will become a full-time officer. “We wanted to start her training with the other two so that’s where Chloe is coming in at. She’s just waiting for her physical to come back from PERF,” he said. As a part-time park bike patrol, her salary starts at $14.92 per hour and she begins Monday.
On the high school co-op students, board member Diane Quance said, “I anticipate that with the new graduation requirements, we’ll have more of these and that’s great, if we can get them interested in working here and staying here.”
Harlan thanked Public Works Superintendent Dustin Dillon as Dillon had a meeting with a representative from the high school Friday, along with Montana Gardner from Harlan’s office, to discuss what the city can do more to make the program even better.
The board approved the new hire and change in payroll report.
Sidewalks Bid
Dillon’s presentation to the board was his recommendation that the bid for the construction of the Kincaide and Union streets sidewalk improvements project be awarded to Pulver Asphalt Paving Inc. for $334,987.
He reminded the board that bids for the project were opened Aug. 2. The other two companies that provided bids were Brooks Construction Co. Inc. for $482,719 and Phend & Brown Inc. for $417,971.34.
Dillon said Pulver’s bid came in about 35% under the engineering estimate and he was very pleased with the bids.
“(Pulver) is an INDOT (Indiana Department of Transportation) certified contractor as well, so they’re qualified to pursue,” he said.
City engineer Aaron Ott said it’s the first time they’ve seen Pulver here in Warsaw, but they do a lot of work to the east, such as Whitley, Noble and Allen counties.
Dillon said the actual construction of the project won’t start until the end of May 2025 once school is out and will be completed before school starts in fall 2025.
“It’ll happen during the summertime next year,” he stated.
Parking Consultant
Assistant City Planner Jackson Longenbaugh presented a consultant contract with Parking Whisperer for a $5,000 consulting fee and a $1,500 travel fee each time the consultant makes a trip to Warsaw.
He said Parking Whisperer is the consultant they would like to work with on the next steps regarding downtown parking they want to refine.
“This contract is pretty simple. They’re going to help us compare these companies that we’ll hopefully work with in the future, find us our best option for enforcement, technology and all those types of needs that we have,” Longenbaugh said.
With each travel fee being $1,500, Quance didn’t want to leave the amount open ended. City Planner Justin Taylor said they expected the consultant to only make one trip to Warsaw to help with the software, but he didn’t expect it to exceed two trips. Quance made a motion to approve the contract, not to exceed $8,000, which would include the consultant fee and two trips. Her motion passed 3-0.
Road Closures
Two road closure requests were presented to the board, both of which were approved.
The first was for the closure of Canal Street, between the parking lot entrances, for the 23rd ceremony memorializing Sept. 11. The road closure will be from 5 to 8 p.m., with the ceremony starting at 6 p.m.
The second was for One Warsaw to host their Celebrating US annual event on Sept. 21. The road closures, from 2 to 10 p.m., will include Buffalo Street, between Center and Main streets, and Center Street between Buffalo and Lake streets. The event is 4 to 8 p.m.
For the monthly service anniversary recognition, Harlan recognized Jesse Hite for his 15 years with the Warsaw Public Works Department.
Pay Apps & Contracts
In other business, the board approved:
• The purchase of an additional grapple truck from Truck Centers Inc. for $217,647, as requested by Dillon.
• Pay application #1 for $198,281.16 to G & G Hauling & Excavating for alley improvements from Miami to Union streets, and improvements to Miami Street from Center to Main streets, as requested by Ott. He said that’s the amount after holding a 10% retainer.
• Pay application #11 for $30,653.07 to The Troyer Group for construction inspection services for the Lincoln neighborhood sidewalk project. Taylor said the project is winding down. INDOT is paying 80% of each pay application for the contract.
• An agreement with Graycraft Signs for $11,060 to put wraps on the stormwater utility’s street sweepers, as requested by Utility Superintendent Brian Davison.
• An agreement with Stantec Consulting Services Inc. for $7,680 for 2024 best practice maintenance on the shoreline projects completed at Lucerne, Center and Pike Lake, Eisenhower basin and Beyer-Brady Trail, as requested by Davison.
• An agreement with the U.S. Department of the Interior for $4,300 for operations of the Pike Lake stream gage, as requested by Davison.
• The maintenance agreement with Cummins Sales and Services for the generators that power the three Warsaw-Wayne Fire Territory stations and the Warsaw Police Department in the event of power loss, as presented by Fire Chief Joel Shilling. The total price is $2,707.37.
• The three-year service agreement with Howell Rescue Systems, out of Dayton, Ohio, for the fire territory’s Genesis equipment (Jaws of Life), as requested by Shilling. The cost is $1,495 for 2025; $1,552 for 2026; and $1,614.18 for 2027.
Shilling said with the agreement they also get a 15% discount on parts.
• A three-year service agreement with Koorsen Fire & Security for sprinkler system inspection services for WWFT station 15.
Shilling said the service is just to make sure the station stays up to the Indiana fire code for the sprinkler system. It has to be inspected annually.
“In 2025, you will see a significant price jump from the other two years for 2026 and 2027. That’s just due to some of the requirements that happen at a five-year basis, so they have to do an internal pipe inspection and run a camera through all the pipes to make sure that the pipe isn’t degrading and there’s no debris build-up in the pipe,” Shilling said. “We require the public to do this, we want to follow the same code that we require them to do, so that’s what this is for.”
For 2025, the cost is $1,287; and for 2026 and 2027 the cost is $505 each year.
• An agreement with CivicPlus for $4,995.89 in 2024 and $6,000 in 2025 for agenda and meeting management solutions, as requested by Staci Young, assistant to the mayor.
Young said a few weeks ago the city was notified by its current agenda management company that they are retiring BoardPaq by the end of October.
“So, we have just a couple months to figure out a new product and get it fully implemented. So we quickly went to research mode and we would like to recommend working with CivicPlus with their agenda management software,” she said.
The city uses CivicPlus now for its website, Parks and Recreation software and some other city services. “So it’s going to give us some implementation integration that we don’t currently have with BoardPaq that will help our city departments, and we think it’ll be a solid choice moving forward, but we need to move quickly so we have time to build that out prior to the end of October when we lose access to BoardPaq,” Young said.
• Accepting a $4,000 grant from the Indiana Arts Commission to the Warsaw Parks and Recreation Department for the Summer Concert Series, as requested by Recreation Director Stephanie Schaefer.
• A 63-month lease agreement with Quadient Leasing for a postage machine for $731.64 annually, as requested by WPD Chief Scott Whitaker.
• A pay application for $100 for right-of-way services by American Structurepoint for the Anchorage Road Project. It is an 80/20 Indiana Department of Transportation project so the city will be reimbursed 80%.
High school students are getting to experience what it’s like to work for the city of Warsaw.
In presenting the new hire and change in payroll report to the Warsaw Board of Public Works and Safety on Friday, Human Resource Director Denny Harlan said there were a “couple good things going on with this one.”
First, there’s two probationary patrol officers joining the Warsaw Police Department, Randall Finney and Isiah Faurote. The full-time officers start Sunday at $2,439.83 biweekly.
There’s two part-time firefighters, who Harlan said are students from the high school in the co-op program. They are Reed Nelson and Cohen Heady and they started Aug. 12 at $10 per hour. “We’re happy to bring them on,” Harlan said.
Ethan Young also is a co-op student and is a laborer at the street department, beginning Monday at $17 per hour.
Two other co-op students - Jake Rhoades and Noah Wilkins - are working out at the airport for $10 per hour. They started Aug. 12.
“Super excited to have those guys on board, be able to show them a little bit about what city government’s like,” Harlan said.
Chloe Taylor, who is not a high school student, is starting out as a part-time WPD officer, and Harlan anticipates that she will become a full-time officer. “We wanted to start her training with the other two so that’s where Chloe is coming in at. She’s just waiting for her physical to come back from PERF,” he said. As a part-time park bike patrol, her salary starts at $14.92 per hour and she begins Monday.
On the high school co-op students, board member Diane Quance said, “I anticipate that with the new graduation requirements, we’ll have more of these and that’s great, if we can get them interested in working here and staying here.”
Harlan thanked Public Works Superintendent Dustin Dillon as Dillon had a meeting with a representative from the high school Friday, along with Montana Gardner from Harlan’s office, to discuss what the city can do more to make the program even better.
The board approved the new hire and change in payroll report.
Sidewalks Bid
Dillon’s presentation to the board was his recommendation that the bid for the construction of the Kincaide and Union streets sidewalk improvements project be awarded to Pulver Asphalt Paving Inc. for $334,987.
He reminded the board that bids for the project were opened Aug. 2. The other two companies that provided bids were Brooks Construction Co. Inc. for $482,719 and Phend & Brown Inc. for $417,971.34.
Dillon said Pulver’s bid came in about 35% under the engineering estimate and he was very pleased with the bids.
“(Pulver) is an INDOT (Indiana Department of Transportation) certified contractor as well, so they’re qualified to pursue,” he said.
City engineer Aaron Ott said it’s the first time they’ve seen Pulver here in Warsaw, but they do a lot of work to the east, such as Whitley, Noble and Allen counties.
Dillon said the actual construction of the project won’t start until the end of May 2025 once school is out and will be completed before school starts in fall 2025.
“It’ll happen during the summertime next year,” he stated.
Parking Consultant
Assistant City Planner Jackson Longenbaugh presented a consultant contract with Parking Whisperer for a $5,000 consulting fee and a $1,500 travel fee each time the consultant makes a trip to Warsaw.
He said Parking Whisperer is the consultant they would like to work with on the next steps regarding downtown parking they want to refine.
“This contract is pretty simple. They’re going to help us compare these companies that we’ll hopefully work with in the future, find us our best option for enforcement, technology and all those types of needs that we have,” Longenbaugh said.
With each travel fee being $1,500, Quance didn’t want to leave the amount open ended. City Planner Justin Taylor said they expected the consultant to only make one trip to Warsaw to help with the software, but he didn’t expect it to exceed two trips. Quance made a motion to approve the contract, not to exceed $8,000, which would include the consultant fee and two trips. Her motion passed 3-0.
Road Closures
Two road closure requests were presented to the board, both of which were approved.
The first was for the closure of Canal Street, between the parking lot entrances, for the 23rd ceremony memorializing Sept. 11. The road closure will be from 5 to 8 p.m., with the ceremony starting at 6 p.m.
The second was for One Warsaw to host their Celebrating US annual event on Sept. 21. The road closures, from 2 to 10 p.m., will include Buffalo Street, between Center and Main streets, and Center Street between Buffalo and Lake streets. The event is 4 to 8 p.m.
For the monthly service anniversary recognition, Harlan recognized Jesse Hite for his 15 years with the Warsaw Public Works Department.
Pay Apps & Contracts
In other business, the board approved:
• The purchase of an additional grapple truck from Truck Centers Inc. for $217,647, as requested by Dillon.
• Pay application #1 for $198,281.16 to G & G Hauling & Excavating for alley improvements from Miami to Union streets, and improvements to Miami Street from Center to Main streets, as requested by Ott. He said that’s the amount after holding a 10% retainer.
• Pay application #11 for $30,653.07 to The Troyer Group for construction inspection services for the Lincoln neighborhood sidewalk project. Taylor said the project is winding down. INDOT is paying 80% of each pay application for the contract.
• An agreement with Graycraft Signs for $11,060 to put wraps on the stormwater utility’s street sweepers, as requested by Utility Superintendent Brian Davison.
• An agreement with Stantec Consulting Services Inc. for $7,680 for 2024 best practice maintenance on the shoreline projects completed at Lucerne, Center and Pike Lake, Eisenhower basin and Beyer-Brady Trail, as requested by Davison.
• An agreement with the U.S. Department of the Interior for $4,300 for operations of the Pike Lake stream gage, as requested by Davison.
• The maintenance agreement with Cummins Sales and Services for the generators that power the three Warsaw-Wayne Fire Territory stations and the Warsaw Police Department in the event of power loss, as presented by Fire Chief Joel Shilling. The total price is $2,707.37.
• The three-year service agreement with Howell Rescue Systems, out of Dayton, Ohio, for the fire territory’s Genesis equipment (Jaws of Life), as requested by Shilling. The cost is $1,495 for 2025; $1,552 for 2026; and $1,614.18 for 2027.
Shilling said with the agreement they also get a 15% discount on parts.
• A three-year service agreement with Koorsen Fire & Security for sprinkler system inspection services for WWFT station 15.
Shilling said the service is just to make sure the station stays up to the Indiana fire code for the sprinkler system. It has to be inspected annually.
“In 2025, you will see a significant price jump from the other two years for 2026 and 2027. That’s just due to some of the requirements that happen at a five-year basis, so they have to do an internal pipe inspection and run a camera through all the pipes to make sure that the pipe isn’t degrading and there’s no debris build-up in the pipe,” Shilling said. “We require the public to do this, we want to follow the same code that we require them to do, so that’s what this is for.”
For 2025, the cost is $1,287; and for 2026 and 2027 the cost is $505 each year.
• An agreement with CivicPlus for $4,995.89 in 2024 and $6,000 in 2025 for agenda and meeting management solutions, as requested by Staci Young, assistant to the mayor.
Young said a few weeks ago the city was notified by its current agenda management company that they are retiring BoardPaq by the end of October.
“So, we have just a couple months to figure out a new product and get it fully implemented. So we quickly went to research mode and we would like to recommend working with CivicPlus with their agenda management software,” she said.
The city uses CivicPlus now for its website, Parks and Recreation software and some other city services. “So it’s going to give us some implementation integration that we don’t currently have with BoardPaq that will help our city departments, and we think it’ll be a solid choice moving forward, but we need to move quickly so we have time to build that out prior to the end of October when we lose access to BoardPaq,” Young said.
• Accepting a $4,000 grant from the Indiana Arts Commission to the Warsaw Parks and Recreation Department for the Summer Concert Series, as requested by Recreation Director Stephanie Schaefer.
• A 63-month lease agreement with Quadient Leasing for a postage machine for $731.64 annually, as requested by WPD Chief Scott Whitaker.
• A pay application for $100 for right-of-way services by American Structurepoint for the Anchorage Road Project. It is an 80/20 Indiana Department of Transportation project so the city will be reimbursed 80%.