Board Of Works Accepts Bid For Trash Hauling From Waste Mgmt.
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Teresa Carrano-tcarrano@timesuniononline.com
Waste Management, the current Warsaw solid waste contractor, submitted the only bid for the city’s trash pickup at Friday’s Board of Works meeting.
With members Mayor Joe Thallemer and George Clemens in attendance and Jeff Grose attending virtually, the Waste Management proposal for $33.96 per ton, the current rate charged by the company, was passed on to Street Superintendent Dustin Dillon for review.
The bid is based on an annual estimate of 4,300 tons of solid waste and includes a 2% increase per year during the four-year contract, which begins Jan. 1.
At the end of the meeting, Dillon recommended the Waste Management bid be approved, which it unanimously was.
Thallemer introduced the Warsaw–Wayne Fire Territory agreement to be host agency for the distribution of 300 Naloxone rescue kits within Kosciusko County and be the training agency for using the NARCAN in overdose situations. Funding for this program is through the Indiana State Department of Health.
Jeremy Skinner, city planner, said HRP Construction has notified the city they have substantially completed work for the airport industrial park sanitary sewer project, which the board recognized and approved.
Work remaining includes a few surface restorations, Skinner said. A new lift station, force main and 3-1/2 miles of pipe have been installed and are functional.
Homeowners have 90 days to connect to the new line and letters to this effect will be mailed. They will be billed whether they connect to the new lines or not.
Also presented and approved was pay application No. 16 in the amount of $469,895 for Kokosing Industrial for work on the wastewater treatment plant expansion project. Utility Manager Brian Davison recommended payment.
Of the $25 million project, about $5 million in expenditures remains to be completed.
Davison said training on the new equipment starts this week and will continue for the next few weeks.
An open house is planned for people who want to see the enormous tanks while they’re empty. Flow through the new facility is expected Aug. 3; with all work complete in December or January.
Human Resource Director Jennifer Whitaker presented three travel requests. Fireman Brent Fifer’s travel to Bowling Green, Ohio, in October, was approved subject to the state lifting the ban on out-of-state travel. He will receive fireground company officer training at the Ohio seminar. Estimated costs were given as $1,115.
Police officers Clay Lane and Wayne Wilkie will travel to Tipton for two days in August to be certified as a PepperBall instructors - armoers at $196 each.
Three people were hired to work for the street department as equipment operators: Justin Ousley, Cody Eby and Chancelor Thurman. Whitaker said they all replace former personnel and will be paid $17.25 per hour. Hiring was delayed since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.
A special claim was approved for a 2020 Chevy Silverado for use in Oakwood Cemetery. Funds for the vehicle, $25,306 will come from the cemetery board’s capital improvement fund.
Claims of $3,655,166.79 were approved.
The next Board of Works meeting is Aug. 7 at 10:30 a.m. in City Hall.
