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David Henderson was introduced as the wastewater treatment plant operator Friday during the Warsaw Board of Works meeting.
He is a Jones & Henry Engineering employee. The engineering firm has been responsible for employees and improvements to the facility since a number of violations occurred there last year.
Henderson, formerly of West Lafayette, said the CR 150W facility would be treating sewage Sept. 15.
He presented quotes for transportation and handling of biosolids and activated sludge as given by Merrell Brothers and Hoffman Farms. Merrell Bros. Was awarded the land application contract at $0.0147 per gallon and the transfer of activated sludge from the old plant to the new, to "seed" the new wastewater treatment plant.
Hoffman was awarded the job of transporting sludge from the old plant to the Fort Wayne municipal lagoon system at $0.65 per gallon.
The board also gave permission for the fire department to take the 1912 American LaFrance fire truck to out-of-county parades and musters with a memo to the mayor's office instead of asking formal permission to attend each event.
Fire Chief Matt Warren said the vehicle is the oldest owned by any fire department in the state.
It will be in the Bourbon Sesquicentennial parade and the Ligonier Fire Truck Muster.
The fire department's purchase of a flash over chamber from Swede Survival Systems and a burn building from Fire Facilities Inc. Funding for the units will come from a FEMA grant.
In other business the board:
• Approved a 5-year, $260 per month, $15,600 total, contract for a postage machine in the clerk's office.
BOW member Charlie Smith asked about other city postage machines and clerk Elaine Call said there was one at the planning and building office and another at the police department, but they didn't cost as much.
Smith asked if it wouldn't be cheaper for the offices to bring mail to the clerk's office and use one machine. Call said it was just a matter of keeping track of the separate accounts.
• Heard firefighter Fred Parrett has completed probation and is elevated to a first class firefighter.
• Approved police department grant applications: $20,000 for a DUI pullover; $8,000 for Operation Pullover to check seat belt compliance; and $4,200 with the Esther Pfleiderer Charitable Trust for a portable radar detection device or speed board.
• Approved a request by the planning and building department to hire Gawthrop Excavating, Leesburg, for $3,000 to demolish the residence at 708 Brown Drive.
Damaged by fire Feb. 17, 2002, the building has been found unsafe, vacant and in a state of disrepair.
• Approved Ken Herceg & Associates engineering services on the Lake City Greenway project. A contract dated May 13, 2003, was increased by an additional $11,850. Engineering costs for the project are $110,931.
• Approved several entertainment contracts as presented by the parks department: $100 to Chronic Chaos, $250 to The Phenoms, and $150 to Steve McKinley for sound production during the Aug. 23 Mantis Skate Park Competition; and $750 to Pro Audio Services for sound production, $800 to a Mariachi Band, and $1,000 to Gropo Invenzible for the Sept. 13 Celebrate Latin Culture in Central Park.
Board of works members are Mayor Ernie Wiggins, Jerry Patterson and Charlie Smith.
