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so this is calling the december 14th
uh bexley board of control meeting to
order
and uh present we have our auditor bill
harvey here
and uh president of city council uh lori
ann fibel here
and myself ben kessler um
we are reviewing
sorry also present with us uh just for
the record is the service director andy
bayshore via phone
we have our auditor elect matt mcpeak
and we have councilman matt klingwood
welcome to the board of control meetings
um
mr bayshore i'm going to read the letter
from the city engineer if you want to
add anything let me know
sure
this is a review of the city of bexley
south drexel avenue water main
improvements project so south drexel
opwc project consists of
some sewer lining work which has already
been completed was built separately
the
street
project which will be next summer has
not yet been bid
the water line project itself
which was bid recently
um
we received
bids from dan burke
let's say this incorrect with this
dive i've never heard of this dagiola
suburban excavating
connie construction company
and shelly and sans
making sure i have all these
uh
those are the those are the four bidders
the lowest and best bid uh for the sunny
city engineer is for danber at a bid
price of 2 504 234
and 92 cents
the bid by dan burt is about eight
percent higher than the engineer's
estimate of 2.3 million roughly
dansbert's bid was complete and all
information requested was provided
just to further clarify for the record
the danvert bid
at
sorry
two five oh four two three four
includes the base bid and alternate two
so we're referring to the base bit in
alternate two
it is the lowest bid
as well as being the lowest and best
just to be clear so the the second
highest second lowest bid was from
daisia suburban and excavating at 2.525
um and then it goes up quite a bit from
that with connie and showing stance
for base bid only it is also the lowest
at 2.157
uh the the next high next lowest is
2.209
alternate too it's been a little bit
since i've looked at that
uh
andy can you remind us which one is
ultra oh here it is the storm sewer
extension from bride and defer is that
right
yes so um
andy do you want to explain what that
storm sewer extension is and what it
will accommodate accomplish
yeah we're trying to bring the storm
sewer up and with that
we will be able to increase
the size and
it will also i mean what it's going to
accomplish is get some of um just get
the water away quickly quick quicker and
keep some of that uh area some flooding
um a lot of the
previous floods and surface water we've
had it been right at fair and drexel has
always been a crop intersection in the
city and this line will help yeah
the storm sewer system
between brighton and fair on drexel
do you anticipate any of the other
alternates being done if the money
comes in
by that i mean if if they get it done
less cost than they expect
i don't know what the other also so the
the other alternates to remind you are
multi-cell conduit which we put in
because we're going to have the street
open that we would put in conduit for
fiber
and then the other one is a uh ductile
iron water line via directional boring
as opposed to open trench
um
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the reason that we are not
option exercising those options we don't
believe is that we won't have sufficient
funds in the project okay so you might
do it if money is available if it's
lower cost or something it's possible
andy do you have anything to add to that
um coming down on these alternates at
all and one of our concerns is as we do
this so the next phase will be the
street and that's going to have some
traffic coming
installations and stuff so it's going to
be some money and there's going to be
storm sewer improvement part of that as
well
unlike the early access capacity
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maybe later this week
so
the motion
the recommendation is to use danber and
then the city engineer points out that
we have experience with them as a
contractor as well
they uh
they did the northeast quadrant
improvements in 2014 the east broad
street water main and 15 south reservoir
avenue 17 stanwood and 18. south
roosevelt 19 south casting m2020 so
we've had a good amount of experience
with them
and i've seen them lots
in our streets right so they know
actually
i was going to move to accept the
engineer's recommendation
i will second hit motion emotions
remaining seconded to accept the
engineer's recommendation
any comments or thoughts from
the audience
if they're going to have the street
opener
would it be worthwhile yeah to look at
using maybe
some sort of existing funding we have to
do alternate one so the alternate ones
are at two hundred seventy thousand
dollars if i recall yeah which is like a
hundred and thirty thousand dollars less
than the engine right so it seems like
that i'll tell you what i i am a little
skeptical i i did ask them to include
this as an alternate because we put
fiber down main street we put fiber down
sheridan and drexel is a natural place
for us to go north south for fiber or
sorry conduit conduit
but in the ensuing years our main street
fiber conduit that was put in place was
has been wrecked by right-of-way users
so it's totally full we can't even use
it practically
and drexel has above ground
infrastructure that's easily accessible
so lashing to those poles is really easy
as long as we have above ground so i
think that like and it will be invisible
so anyone who's you know you won't know
the difference between us having fiber
versus
telecoms around that area so i i don't
think it's a great return on investment
but it's
that's the logic in part and not
pursuing it no i see that i just thought
just just looking at numbers right now
right into your destiny
it's a bargain yeah we could still
always exercise it so if you want to
kick it around some more and it's not
it's not closing it by not taking that
right now we still have the option to
add that to the project
so motion's been made and seconded
um all in favor say aye
aye opposed same sign
motion passes this bid is approved
uh mr bayshore thank you for joining us
motion
to
adjourn was made by president fiable and
it was seconded by ms