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SOUTH BEND PUBLIC UTILITIES <br />224 North Main Street <br />P.O. Box 1714 <br />MICHAEL L. VANCE <br />Director of Utilities <br />Mrs. Beverlie Beck <br />President <br />Common Council <br />City of South Bend <br />Dear Mrs. Beck: <br />CITY ®f SOUTH BEND <br />ROGER O. PARENT, Mayor <br />COUNTY-CITY BUILDING SOUTH BEND, INDIANA 46601 <br />November 28, 1983 <br />219/284 -9322 <br />The attached ordinance will be presented for first reading at <br />the ,December 5, 1983 Council meeting. The ordinance approves a con- <br />tract between Autocon Industires, Inc. and the Board of Water Commis- <br />sioners in the amount of $265,085. This ordinance when approved will <br />allow us to substantially complete the repairs at the North Station <br />caused by the main break in the spring of 1982. The contract repre- <br />sents the replacement of the main control system which controls all <br />well fields in town depending on the demand placed on the system by <br />its customers. Currently those functions are being accomplished through <br />the use of supervisory personnel and mobile operators. Prior to the <br />1982 main break, the majority of those functions could be controlled by <br />the operator at North Station. <br />As an additional system benefit, the Fellows Booster Station will <br />become an automated facility under the proposed system. Currently <br />that facility is manned 24 hours per day, seven days per week. Through <br />that automation, additional savings may be realized as the new system <br />becomes operational. The system will operate much more efficiently <br />with the possibility of reduced staffing in the future. <br />It is anticipated that work will not begin until January of 1984, <br />yet it is critical that the ordinance be passed in 1983 because the <br />majority of funding for the project was budgeted in 1983, with the <br />balance in 1984. It is anticipated that the project would be completed <br />by October of 1984. Funding would come from the 1983 Depreciation Fund <br />budget line 416.0 in the amount of $194,655 with the remainder from the <br />1984 Depreciation Fund budget. If there are additional questions, please <br />feel free to contact my office. <br />Sincerely, <br />Michael L. Vance <br />MLV /mtw Director of Utilities <br />cc: John Leszczynski <br />Members of the Common Council <br />