Appropriating $72,500.00 Sewage Works Improvement Fund

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CITY OF SOUTH BEND South Bend, Indiana 46601 Jerry J. Miller Mayor Rollin E. Farrand, Sr., P. E. Director, Public Works Members of the Common Council County /City Building South Bend, IN 46601 Gentlemen: Reply To; Department of Public Works February 17, 1975 There will be presented for your consideration on February 24, 1975, an ordinance appropriating the sum of $72,500 from the Sewage Works Improve- ment Fund for the construction of Phase I of the proposed laboratory expansion. If you will recall, this matter was discussed in caucus on December 9, 1975. Due to the increased work load placed on our present laboratory staff through more stringent testing and reporting requirements mandated by the State Board of Health, the Environmental Protection Agency; and because of the increased physical size of our Plant, our present labo- ratory space is no longer adequate. With the increased amount of testing required comes a need for increased floor space to perform the work. Originally we had approached this problem with an addition to the present laboratory as the answer. We soon found that this would be extremely costly. Engineering estimates placed the minimum cost of this approach at $170,000. Upon reevaluating our position, it was decided that a more cost effective approach would be to relocate our present garage facility and use this structure after remodeling as the laboratory addition. In using this approach, we are able to update our garage facility and laboratory facility for less than the original anticipated cost of expanding only the laboratory.