The Watuppa Water Board convened on November 3, 2023, with President Terio, Member Colin, and Member Perera present, along with Paul Furland, Tom Tai, and Cy Gonzal. The meeting began with a roll call and a reminder that all votes would be by roll call. Following the standard Open Meeting Law statement, the board moved through its agenda, starting with citizen input, for which there were no participants. The board then unanimously approved the minutes from the previous meeting. The primary focus of the meeting was on water main and roadway improvements under Contract Number One, specifically two change orders. Change Order Number Two, totaling $49,444.00 for painting and traffic management, was presented by Mr. Furland and subsequently approved unanimously. Change Order Number Three, amounting to $2,223,248.84, was also approved unanimously. This change order, supported by ARPA funds, will facilitate infrastructure replacement from New Boston Road to Locust Street, including the installation of 100 feet of 12-inch water main and 2900 feet of 8-inch water main, as well as a 6-inch ductile iron lateral for Oak Grove Cemetery. Discussion ensued regarding the significant impact of the ARPA funds, which have enabled 20,000 linear feet of water main, roadway reconstruction, and sidewalks. Board members noted that this volume of work is equivalent to approximately five years of projects that would typically require bonding, thus preventing a significant financial burden on ratepayers. The work for Change Order Number Three is scheduled to commence in the fall, allowing the ground to settle over the winter, with pavement and sidewalk work to follow in the spring. The meeting concluded with a unanimous vote to adjourn.
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the clock I'd like to call the meeting to order um would ber call the rooll please president ter present member Colin present member Perera present and just a reminder since uh it is remote uh currently here uh in person at city of Hall president Terio myself Paul furland Tom Tai and Cy gonzal who will be taking the minutes for the meeting um all uh votes must be a roll call vote as well
0:37okay pursuant to the open meeting law any person may make an audio or video recording of the public meeting or may transmit the meeting through any medium attendees are therefore um advised that such recordings or Transmissions are being made whether perceived or UNP perceived by those present and are deemed acknowledged and permissable uh that brings us to item number one citizen input we do not have
1:10any citizen input so I would move to item number two the minutes of the previous meeting um if there aren't any questions considering uh concerning the minutes the chair would entertain a motion to accept the minutes as and we can where those second all in favor roll oh member C yes yes pres yes thank you okay item uh number three water meain and roadway improvements are for contract number one
1:59I'm going to um ask um Mr ferland to just give a very very brief oversight um of both change orders um you'll note one is in the change order number two is in the amount of $49,444 um that's an an adjustment for um I believe that's painting and traffic management um are there any questions on that bit if the done uh the chair would entertain a motion to accept the bid of $49,444 on a roll call
2:57vote I and make a motion to approve second all in favor col yes yes yes okay item number three subsection B um as we've been very fortunate to receive a lot of arer support um this change order number three will allow us to complete infrastructure replacement from New Boston Road to Locust Street um while I was going over the U specifications in the documents last night I came across 6inch ductal iron
3:52and I I hadn't remembered us ever installing 6in duct iron and then I realized that's the lateral go going into the Oak Grove Cemetery it's a long time since this department has installed 6in water M um we will re be replacing the water M um uh section of 12 in 100 foot and 2900 ft of 8 in um are there any questions or uh comments on the documents on the uh change order is this in one
4:30with their base bid um is it Apples to Apples uh for instance I guess we got what is it 29 uh 100 linear feet yeah so so so they had held all their base bid items and it'll be based on the items actually installed uh no adjustment to any of the prices I don't have any questions then thank you any other questions or comments or concerns no no thank you um hearing none
5:03the chair would uh request a motion to accept the change order uh in the amount of 2, 23,24 84 cents no moved SE second all in favor I oh M yes yes pres yes uh and so just one thing on that uh you know there meeting wanted to get it together they're going to be doing the waterw this fall yeah so it'll have the winter to be able to settle they'll be
5:49coming back in the spring when they do another uh pavment inside walk work uh throughout this project uh they'll be doing that in the spring so that like we wanted to get this in front and going right away to make sure that we're getting we're pushing against the winter here but make sure they get water made in this year absolutely this is going to be a great boom this this long overdue
6:12in this section I'm very pleased to see the oper funds being used in this place yeah you look at the OPA funds that we've received uh you know we're 20,000 Mia feet of water made roadway reconstruction and sidewalks that that is being done uh from this funding I don't know if there is a year where we've done 20,000 feet uh since uh since we started the program in the early in
6:372000 so yeah and in addition to that is is the fact that were we to have had to bond for this type of work we would be looking at a significant burden to the rate pay by using the aror to get wow that much walk work 20,000 lineal foot it's just incredible yeah I mean that's that's almost five years of of U bonding y you know that's so we're getting five years worth of work
7:19great um any other questions concerns or comments concerning um anything um if nothing the chair would entertain a motion to adjourn the reading mov second all in favor roll call vote Collins yes fera yes president yes thank you thank you all very much thank you guys very much for taking time out of your day bye guys have a good weekend thank you enjoy