11/08/82 Board of Public Works Minutes

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33 REGULAR MEETING NOVEMBER 8, 1982 APPROVE CONSULTING AGREEMENTS - COLE ASSOCIATES (ETHANOL PLANT) Mr. Leszczynski advised that Cole Associates has submitted for Board approval two contracts for consulting services for the design of public improvements for the Ethanol Plant Project, including all site improvements, and access roads and utilities at a cost of6o.67% of the total construction cost. Upon a motion made by Mr. Kernan, seconded by Mr. Leszczynski and carried, the contracts were approved. RELEASE OF INDIANA & MICHIGAN ELECTRIC COMPANY EASEMENT - SALT STORAGE FACILITY Mr. Leszczynski advised that it had been necessary to relocate the existing Indiana & Michigan Electric Company power line from over the Municipal Services Facility property because of construction of the new salt storage building on the site. Therefore, I & M Electric was releasing its easement rights previously given to it by the Studebaker -Packard Corporation which was the owner or the property at the time the easement was given. Upon a motion made by Mr. Leszczynski, seconded by Mr. Kernan and carried, the release was accepted. APPROVE CHANGE ORDER NO. 2 (FINAL) AND PROJECT COMPLETION AFFIDAVIT - RIETH-RILEY CONSTRUCTION (CENTRAL BUSINESS DISTRICT IMPROVEMENTS. PHASE II) Mr. Leszczynski advised that Rieth-Riley Construction was submitting Change Order No. 2 (final) in the amount of an increase of $1,544.05 on the Central Business District Improvements Project, Phase II, which involved landscaping and paving. The revised contract total, including the above change order, was $94,599.27. Also submitted was the Project Completion Affidavit for the project indicating a maintenance period until November 8, 1985. Upon a motion made by Mr. Leszczynski, seconded by Mr. Kernan and carried, the above Change Order No. 2 and the Project Completion Affidavit were approved, and the three-year Maintenance.Bond was filed. APPROVE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CONTRACT - PROJECT FUTURE Mr. Leszczynski stated that a contract between the Community Development Department and Project Future was being submitted for Board approval in the total amount of $30,000.00. Under the terms of the contract, Project Future would provide technical assistance to the city regarding economic development strategy, labor supply, developable sites and buildings, business prospects, local business expansion and potential local plant closings or reductions. Upon a motion made by Mr. Leszczynski, seconded by Mr. Kernan and carried, the contract was approved. REJECT BIDS FOR PSYCHOLOGICAL AND PROFESSIONAL TESTING OF POLICE RECRUITS In a letter to the Board, Police Chief Dan Thompson requested the Board to reject all the bids received by it on October 25, 1982, for psychological testing and professional testing of police recruits because of. the apparent confusion caused to the bidders in utilizing the formalized bidding process. It was noted that the bids, once rejected, would be treated as proposals or quotations and a decision would then be made in-house on the proposal deemed most acceptable. Upon a motion made by Mr. Kernan, seconded by 11r. Leszczynski and carried, the bids received by the Board on October 25, 1982, were rejected.