The Fall River Sewer Commission convened remotely on December 7, 2021, with President Ned Almeida, Commissioner Rennie Hawiik, and Commissioner Richard Souza in attendance. The commission approved the minutes from its August 18, 2021, meeting, while the minutes from July 25, 2021, remained tabled. A request from P. Palace Parties to haul septic to the wastewater treatment facility was approved after a discussion confirming their temporary use and compliance with payments. A significant portion of the meeting focused on financial matters. Change Order #5 for Contract #1 of the Wastewater Treatment Facility Project was approved for $125,927.87, bringing the project's total cost increase to approximately 5% of the initial $19 million. Paul, a representative, detailed the necessity of these changes due to unforeseen conditions like corroded structural elements and extensive concrete repair, alongside owner-requested modifications. Additionally, Amendment #7 to the contract with Wright-Pierce for the Wilson Road Pump Station and Water Booster project was approved for $825,000. This $6.9 million project, which includes a water booster pump station (35% cost allocated to the water department) and a main line replacement, is partially funded by a $2.5 million MassWorks grant. Updates on other projects included zero-net change orders for the President Avenue and South End Pump Stations, and an administratively approved amendment for Stafford Square to pursue a FEMA grant for a $46 million flooding mitigation project. The commission also reviewed a $45,000 contract with CDM Smith to ensure compliance with an EPA administrative order regarding permit applications and monitoring plans, particularly noting the challenging Birch Street drainage area project. The meeting concluded with an acknowledgment of the $2.5 million MassWorks grant and appreciation for the city's grant writer, Jane Diaz Dibiasio.
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welcome to welcome to the uh december 7th meeting of the forum vessel commission pursuant to the open meeting law any person may make an audio or video recording of this public meeting or may transmit the meeting through any medium attendees are therefore advised that such recordings or transmissions are being made whether perceived or run perceived by those present and are deemed acknowledged and permissible
0:28uh mr uh furling would you do the roll call please hello
0:41i've can you can you people hear me yes yes all right paul paul's not coming on i wonder if they were disconnected i don't see them listed anymore no don't no i don't i don't either
1:11ned hello sorry they just got logged out so they're logging back in right now okay apologize again okay um paul yeah okay could you could you do the uh roll call please i did the open meeting law okay excellent uh president almeida here remember is not attending this meeting okay um the members of the city of fall river saw a commission are participating in the seventh two thousand twenty one meeting remotely
1:58i president ned almeida commissioner rennie hawaiik and commissioner richard souza are all participating remotely commissioner ron bernier is not attending now that takes us we all have i believe our agenda uh the first item on the agenda was citizen input i understand that um there's been no request for citizen input am i correct that is correct okay that takes us to item number two which is for um table matters
2:37that basically references the minutes of the july 25th 2021 meeting um my memory serves me correctly this is something that had to be done at the time that meeting took place i think was rightly pointed out by renee that there was some changes that was made within 48 hours of the scheduled meeting to the agenda so it was something that had to be tabled at that time am i correct yes all right so um now
3:16we're at the point where we have to uh approve the minutes of that meeting so um if anybody unless anybody has any questions or comments about it i'll entertain a motion to approve the minutes of july 21st i would recommend that it be lifted from the table a motion to be lifted from the table maybe in order and then it could be voted on second okay all in favor roll call on this ball yes
3:47i just wanted we have a second on it i i was no i wasn't seconding i was absent at the meeting so i don't know if i can approve the minutes okay they could stay tabled till the next meeting as well they could be voted on at that time okay so um let's i'll entertain a motion to table them question the meeting yeah i just wouldn't lift them from the
4:13table they could just stay on the table and we'll lift them at the next meeting i was going to say if the uh if the items are in the packet that we got uh we could look through it pretty you know pretty quick but never mind we'll table it thank you all right we need a motion to table it though right uh there wasn't a motion to lift from
4:32the table so it would just stay on the table until the next meeting we'll bring it back all right so we don't need a motion to handle it nope i don't think that motion ever was uh was was passed to lift it from the table so we're good we can move on to item three okay item number three minutes of the previous meeting held in august 18 2021. um if you've
4:55had the opportunity to read through it or have any comments about it um make a you know mention it now if not i'll maintain a motion to approve the minutes of the meeting held on august 18th make a motion to approve the meeting of august the 18th 2021 second okay roll call number here yes remember how yak yes president yes thank you okay thank you item number four was a request to haul septic to the
5:33wastewater treatment facility located on bay street the company that's requesting um uh the use of the facility is a company called p palace parties um the only question i have at this point in time is that they're looking for a temporary um approval um it's the first time i've ever seen anybody requesting to use a facility on a temporary basis um any idea paul what you know what the reasoning is on this
6:18so they requested that we issue that we allow them to temporarily dump because they were already approved by the border health and everything uh so this would be for formal approval um so prior to this prior to the meeting i did allow them a temporary revocable uh ability to dump uh because they were hauling out of the uh within the city of fall river already um so it would be up to the board to allow
6:46them for a final approval so that's essentially what they're requesting here okay um all right just struck me kind of kind of funny that the wording on it was temporary um so they have been using the facilities at this point in time on a temporary basis yup for the status any problems uh no they've been very good or they've kept up to uh they've kept up to date with payments and everything like that
7:13so they've been good to deal with i haven't heard any complaints from our staff that receives from them okay um anybody have any problems with this richard i have a question as to uh now this company's evidently they've been in business uh prior to coming to fall river i would assume how come they didn't know that they needed permission so i guess they came into the city and they didn't
7:42go through the full process to be able to they didn't somebody didn't direct them towards us health department went and inspected their trucks to be able to haul within the city they thought that's all that was needed to be able to dump they thought that's all they needed to be able to dump at the wastewater treatment facility uh they didn't know that they needed sewer commission approval also to dump okay fine thank
8:07you hey you um i have no problem with it at this point in time um on that basis renee you okay with this sure all right um on that basis there i'll obtain a motion to approve um the pea palace parties company to uh uh allow septic to be brought to the uh wastewater treatment plant anybody want to make that motion motion made second emotion uh roll call remember yes yes president yes thank you thank you
8:54all right moving along this takes us to item number five i change order number five in the amount of 125 000 almost 126 000.
9:08for the wastewater treatment facility project contract number one now um paul uh with respect to this uh do you anticipate this to be the last change order uh we may have one final uh close out balancing one um as they go through punchlist items and some final closeout things there has been a a couple of minor um things that have come up uh nothing close to this magnitude um i'm hoping that we'll be able to uh
9:47we'll be able to support our case that there's no cost increase related to those um but uh as of this point right now we don't have any other formal pending change orders so okay so from what i can when i surmise from what this is all about we started with almost 19 million on the project and if right now with this change order we're uh we're up to approximately uh 19.9
10:26uh which is approximately about a five percent increase that's right a little better than five percent increase from where we started um as at this point in time with this change order being approved would have it well let's take us to the you think the completion of the project yeah with respect to contract number one yeah yes my expectation is this will uh take us through again there's just a couple
10:57of other minor things that we're working through with contractor i'm hoping for no no cost uh changes on those but the project isn't closed out yet so i don't want to say that we're not going to have any anything else but if they are they'll be very minor okay um is west construction still on the site uh they do have limited staff on the site right now it's more of a part-time
11:24basis uh for their superintendent and uh subs it's a couple of subs that uh are closing out so compressor close out of the compressor uh final training of the compressor uh still needs to be completed uh we have training in relation to uh security and control access system that was installed in this contract uh so it's a little bit more training uh some updating of asset management
11:54that's required through the contract uh and asset uh uh input into our asset management system um so it's it's some of the closeout stuff uh so it's limited they're on the site limited right now they don't have a full-time presence okay good that's good um just just for my recollection um the contractor for contract two is who uh daniel o'connell and sons yeah okay i couldn't remember that um all right
12:33how do you feel about how do you feel about what's what took place um do you think west has done a good job yeah overall i think west west has done a very wes in the the subs that they had uh one of them which was very uh very big within this contract one levange electric um all very good to deal with uh you know the uh you know you talked about five percent of change
13:00orders within the contract some of those things too as as you well know our owner requested um you know originally uh when we were going through and you had the uh psa building uh the psa building uh electrical had to be rerouted so it went across the roof um i was i wasn't going to put you know and i didn't think it was in the sewer commission's best interest to put uh you know all
13:26electrical cables across the roof on a 20 year old roof that was something that we added to the contract so that was almost a request on our pot uh which added a cost into it another roof that we got replaced in this contract that needed to be done was on the intermediate pump station uh that was imperative that it be completed um just because of the condition of it as
13:51we got into a couple of storms and things that came up um so we were able to get that completed um replacement of our uh incoming uh wet weather pumps uh or something else that through this contract something that came up that needed to be done uh that was in our best interest to do it through the contract uh and that was an old owner requested so that whole five percent change wasn't uh just
14:18totally driven by the contractor i want to make that clear um you know i would have to say potentially we'd be looking at maybe a two percent two and a half percent uh you know was driven by uh other issues so if i had to throw a guess at the board um within this change order there's a couple of different things and a lot of them have to do with uh things
14:41that we couldn't see during the design process or uh you know that you couldn't see till you really got in there and start taking stuff apart um one thing that i wanted to point out to the commission so within here there's two things the psa building uh revised concrete repair which is a large portion of this change order 114 000 and then also dewatering building uh additional miscellaneous work
15:11this uh this piece right here you should be able to see it clearly this is an angle uh plate that comes down so it sits on some of the beams that go across in our dewatering building it actually sits at an angle like this sits into a corner with beams and it's bolted through so the beam it's bolted through a cross bracing and then welded to the beam on the bottom
15:38this hole right here is not supposed to be there this is supposed to be a solid plate except for these four bolt holes that are there um this was encased in concrete uh in a spot where we couldn't see um it wasn't through the original contract uh it wasn't slated to be replaced uh because you know we couldn't see or couldn't anticipate the condition of this piece of metal um without doing extensive work during the
16:07design period so this is just some of the stuff that we run into as we do these contracts you come across across a structural cross-bracing member you know a flange like this that is totally rotted away um i don't know if you can see it on the edge but you go from probably quarter inch 3 16 down to almost nothing we don't have a full picture all we have is a little uh quarter inch picture
16:38yeah yeah so i that's i you know i wish we were in person and i'm going to keep this in the office so as you commission as anybody wants to come in and see this they're able to um but you know this is just some of the unforeseen things that we come against as we go into these projects and we start renovating some of these older buildings um you know one of
16:59the the biggest ones the psa building um there was a section of concrete floor with as you come in the garage door within the psa building you walk into that doorway and we had within our main contract uh there was some spalling to the top layer of concrete and stuff like that so we had to remove that spalling um you know get to clean concrete and then uh and then
17:23replace that so we were figuring in the contract that it'd be a two inch uh repair just above the top layer of rebar once we got into removing that top layer then we could see that the spalling in the you know what caused that actually leaked down further we ended up going down below two layers of rebar within the uh two foot thick concrete floor uh having to splice in
17:51some of the rebar that was embedded in the concrete was so corroded away they end up having to splice new pieces of rebar in and then having to repair that floor bringing it back up uh the area just about tripled um the area that we had to do and then you also had uh you know the additional work going down the additional rebar repair and stuff like that um so just to let you know
18:18again it's a lot of times you know we can do the designers and everybody can do their best looking at the project and trying to think of all the possibilities um but that's not always going to be ever once you get down into there and i think most of the commission knows that i just want to you know make it known to the people that you know a lot of these change orders aren't
18:38just somebody coming in saying i want more money for something you know once you start to get into the project and start to get into the work then you can sometimes see the full extent which goes farther than originally anticipated so okay thanks for that paul but just so that you know um my feelings with respect to change orders on a project of this magnitude i i myself am not surprised about the
19:12fact that that these change orders of this nature have come in front of us uh initially when i when i when i saw what was being done down there and i went down here on several occasions and i i was kind of taking uh take i guess you could say taken back by the by the fact that that i felt that there was going to be a lot of unknowns that
19:40was going to come up in this project but a simple fact that you're we were digging and taking out and removing what we thought was what was there and i felt and pretty strongly that uh there's gonna there was gonna be some surprises because um because of the amount of excavation and and uh work uh to the terrain and what was there so i'm not surprised by this and when i when i mentioned the fact that
20:17that we were looking at at this point in time uh probably uh change orders in the amount that increased the uh final product by a little better than five percent um i'm not being critical of it um i'm just in effect saying that this is in some case in this particular case the nature of the beast and that um i'm i'm pretty glad that we're at the point where the project is moving into the
20:46next phase and i think all in all i think i think west construction did a i thought a very good job um considering um what uh what you know with the elements and and what we ended up finding as we dug you know came about so um at this point i you know i have to say i don't have any problem um anybody have any questions about this or comments they want to make about it i
21:18have a question oh okay paul i'm sorry uh richard you got a question richard yes uh paul yes um on the electrical i noticed that there was an uh increase of 136 000 for grounding to what extent did they that bill come to and and why is it that high if they had already grounded certain areas so i think you're talking about on one of the one of the previous change orders
21:55correct yes the increase that was included in there so when the prints were done there was there was uh the grounding wire was sized to a certain size that ran with all of the uh all the high tension cables on the ground around the uh around the plant uh yeah as they went through the project i didn't realize they had to go all through the whole plant yep yeah so they had to resize those in the
22:26uh and uh that was the increase um at that time we thought it was very fair with the market of copper actually okay and and and when you consider um what richard was just re you know asking about that that's just another example of of um right an item that comes up you didn't expect um you know they're like you said like to say paul something had to be rooted all
22:55the way around the property or whatever the case may be um and in a project of this nature uh this is what happens you know the thing that the thing that has to be watched is that you know in dealing with situations like that you're trying you try and do your best to keep the cost down as much as possible yeah that would that had to be done uh because of the voltage in place okay um
23:26rene you have any problems with um this change order as far as and you're in everything looks good okay um okay then i'll obtain a motion to approve change order number five in the amount of 125 927 dollars and 87 cents to contract number one motion made second motion roll call remember yes yes president yes thank you all right moving along this takes us to item number six the wilson road pump station and water
24:17booster um with respect to amendment seven to the contract with right pierce um we're looking at uh an amendment to their contract in the amount of 825 thousand dollars yes okay um before we get into dealing with that do we do we have any rough idea paul as to what the actual cost to in terms of construction uh for replacing that uh pump station yeah so so wilson wrote overall when we
25:04put the project uh project costs together uh it was about uh 6.9 million um was the total project cost uh that's higher than any of and that's including uh this design contract uh as well as construction contract okay because i i i hadn't seen any number which was you know any estimated total estimated cost on it at this point in time yeah it wasn't included on on the layout for the 123 million dollar uh
25:39bond issue and so forth so okay um all right that that answers my question with respect to that um just a little bit on this again the cost of this station is uh higher than any of the ones that we have done in the past um so half of this station a portion of it is going to be used as a water booster pump station so the building will actually be bigger
26:03than our uh bigger than our stations that we've done so far the building water will be paying for a portion of it it portions out to about uh a 60 40 split 60 percent sewer uh 65 percent sore excuse me 35 water uh the other thing that we're doing we're doing with this booster station which we haven't had to do with any of the other ones uh one of the main lines that feeds from
26:27sykes road cross country all the way into the back of this station needs to be replaced so in this contract we're going to be replacing the outline too so that's where those additional costs come from um okay i you know i've seen the i've seen that station up on wilson road it's it's um it's kind of kind of small yeah kind of small i was kind of surprised as to well you know just
26:56what the size of it was but in comparison when this whole thing's said and done are we looking at something that's going to be comparable to in size i'm saying to maybe what's up at um present avenue or the one at the south end pump station yep so so this still falls into size-wise flow-wise one of our medium-sized pump stations uh just like president ave is in south end um
27:25the building size will be about the same except they'll be in about another 20 feet longer and that will be for the water booster pump station section of the building but just for for me to understand that section that you just mentioned uh will be will be helpful for for feeding water to the citizens am i right yeah that'll be right and that's that that's that 35 um portion of the uh
27:59project that will be allocated to the water department is that right yes correct okay so and just one other thing in relation to this project uh we did receive a mass works grant for this project uh in the amount of 2.5 million dollars i saw that that's good yeah so that's that mass works grant goes towards this project so it'll be allocated between the water and sewer um okay 60 65 35 for that that's right
28:28all right so um the eight the 828 five that we're looking at with respect to wright pierce now right pierce right now as i understand it they won the they basically won the contract to go in and do the engineering design and so forth for these these three pump stations that we have been working on or will work on right yeah so we did an rfq process a while ago for these for these pump
28:59stations along with other projects and they were selected for these projects yes okay so this port this this portion of the contract they're doing um they're going to go out and do what they got to do to start designing and uh you know determining costs and so forth with respect to the one on wilson road only so the design has already been complete um the design a while ago a contract was approved for
29:34design of the wilson road pump station we're at about with 99 complete so the design is pretty much complete uh this includes the uh the construction inspect the bidding phase um construction inspection as well as construction management of the project uh again you know it's there's there's a couple of different things involved within this project because we're talking a water booster pump station so that needs to be
30:01dep full underneath the p regulations approved by them uh we're talking the sewer pump station just like the other ones we did we're also talking sewer line replacement so there's a lot of different disciplines from the engineer that need to be brought in for this project okay um once the bits are in when you when do you expect the construction to start on this once the bids are um so i'm planning on bidding this
30:32probably in the january february time frame and then we'll uh we'll probably be looking at i would imagine depending on the contract in this schedule i would say spring start time and uh how long do you figure before it's complete uh you're probably about a year and a half on this project 18 months to two years until it you know probably 18 months until it's up and running in two years till it's closed out okay um
30:59and we and the land in which this is all going to be you know put on and so forth um this is all property owned by the sewer commission or it's already nope it's all it's all property that's deeded to us uh with the exception of the line that comes from sykes road and feeds over uh that we have easements for where that line is okay all right like
31:27yeah we're at the point where we need to get this going and now this is going to be the third and final or is there one more pumping station that has to be done uh so within 123 million dollars there was this one the other one that was labeled in there was also ferry street uh so that would be the fourth one that was included within the 123 million dollar authorization excuse me which street was that
31:52ferry street okay yep uh so that would be that would be the final one we've already started some preliminary looks at that uh looks like that station will most likely be a a rehab uh rather than a reconstruction just because of its location and some site constraints that we have it in there um so that's what we're looking at for that facility that's is that the one that's done as you're heading down towards um
32:22uh battleship cove it's on the left uh nope so if you continue down and if you're heading uh down ferry street so if you go uh up water street um rather than taking a left on eagle and going over broadway you take the right you go down the hill yeah like you're heading towards borden light marina right right as you get to south almond street there where you have to take the left it's
32:46right on your right hand side uh two small gray buildings a round building connected to a small square building okay all right so all right i got you i was i was confused about that yeah already central street you were thinking anybody have any questions or comments about this if not i'll attain a motion to uh award uh the contract uh uh let's just i guess you want we
33:17want to say this is an amendment is it yup amendment number seven yeah award amendment number seven to wright pierce in the amount of eight hundred and twenty five thousand dollars for work to be done on the wilson road pump station upgraded in the water booth system
33:49thank you okay that takes us to updates on ongoing projects for president avian with a pump station replacement change order um with dnc construction um it's you know from what i can what i've been able to surmise from the information presented to us that the change order basically nets out to zero um and i think that's a great thing um is anybody have any questions about this paul there any any comment you want to
34:30make about it yeah this is getting pretty uh you know we've been working with the contractor there's been a couple of warranty issues that we've been dealing with but this will close out the contract uh uh other than that the pump station has been functioning very very well okay no questions um go ahead richard no all set all set um all right uh i guess paul the fact that it's at
35:01zero we still have to do um an approval to the change order correct so i put this as update of uh ongoing projects so since it was uh below 10 of the project cost or um uh zero um it it can be administratively approved by the boards uh so that's i i kind of put it under updates just to update the board on these changes all right okay i i got i can
35:30i can go with that um we have another item uh the south end pump station change order number three uh which um i guess there was initially 115 000 of expenses that was basically balanced out with material that ended up not being necessary and so forth we also ended up with a um a zero change order so um you know as a matter of information i again i think that's that's very commendable um
36:07anybody have any questions with respect to that okay uh the other item is the stafford square amendment number one um what do we what are we saying about that paul so this is an amendment uh so this was uh under five percent uh this was under 10 and also under 50 000 i was administratively approved um but i just wanted to make the commission aware of it i'm using one of the consultant to
36:37assist us with preparing cost benefit analysis and some other narrative and information for a grant that we're applying for uh we'll be applying for a grant um with mema a fema grant almost exactly like the one we had for middle street to do that construction project uh except with a lot of this different types of federal funding uh federal funding coming through uh we feel that these grant programs are going
37:05to be um uh uh you know they'll they'll be out there a lot more and be able to fund some of these larger projects um so that's why we have this in place to be able to use them to move forward with uh a lot of the um aspects of the uh grant application okay um what we're talking about here though is is the flooding problem that that's at staffordshire yep yeah
37:36going down the road i i think i think uh it's a big problem we all know it's a big problem and that you know the final solution to it it's probably a long way down the road but it's going to be a pretty high price item yeah you know ray pierce has done the initials you know initial evaluation uh they were right right below 46 million dollars for the full project completion
38:10you know i think we'll be very competitive through some of these uh through some of these different grant programs uh to try to get that is a uh is uh the cost benefit analysis so far have been working out very uh beneficial to us with some of the impacts to business impacts to the community impacts to uh commercial and residential properties that occur so okay you'd be competitive all right um would you anticipate
38:41oppa money going into that in the final run uh i'm sure as uh you've all heard of me in front of city council i would love to use our money for this project in all of our projects um i would hope that some money potentially if there's you know these grants do uh require matches uh i would hope that there would be some opera money uh or from the new infrastructure bill i know
39:09sewer got cut down great got cut down drastically on the new infrastructure bill from the federal government but there is still wording in there about csos but i would hope we would be able to get funding from both of those for a cash match if needed okay um unless you anybody has any questions respect that other animal i'll move on to regulatory support services agreement with cdm um
39:40when i when i fumbled through some of the information that was presented to us um am i right that this is the city is is under some type of um administrative order from the epa to start providing them with information with respect to performance of pumping stations and discharges at various csos and so forth and so on yeah am i right that in in and i saw the uh administrative order
40:21that was sent to us as part of our package um they're they're requesting an awful lot of information um some of which i saw was due to be completed sometime in november um i guess my question is as far as you know was that information they requested but i know i think it was november 15th or something william compliant so the actual signed one uh it was a minor change that was uh that was agreed
40:55to after uh the board and the council approved the consent daughters was extending that date out since we didn't have all the approvals and the order in actual place by that time um it was to extend it out uh to december 15th um we will be compliant with the december 15th deadline that's in the actual uh executed recorded order um so yes we will be compliant with those deadlines okay um what
41:28part of part of the order also talked about um us being able to complete various projects by certain certain times in the future um i think the biggest ones were what the ferry street project um and then i think there was another one where they wanted it to be uh completed by 2025.
41:57yeah is that something that you think is realistic so the projects that are within the uh consent order as well as the uh amendment to the federal court order with conservation law foundation um all came from uh the 123 million dollar authorization that was approved by uh referendum ballot back in november of 2017. that's where all those projects uh came from the only change as explained was rather than
42:30doing city pier and alton street we were doing birch street sewer separation we're on track to have all those projects completed that are laid out within those orders right contract one was one was a big project uh contract two going on at the wastewater treatment plant is a big project uh and then the other major project that we're gonna have to deal with is the birch street drainage area
42:58between design and everything like that that's probably going to be a three to three and a half year project uh probably a year to a year and a half of design two years of construction so that's the one that we're going to be bumping up against the edge with but i'm confident that we'll be able to stay with that timeline okay well they definitely have a lot of work ahead of us that for sure okay um
43:32unless anybody have a and that and by the way according to this here uh cdm has a 45 000 contract with without commission to stop providing some information am i correct yeah so to be to be able to meet those december 15th deadlines that we had in there uh one was to update our nipty's permit application including cove street and president ave as well as uh updating our flow monitoring on certain
44:08csos uh and then we have a december 30th deadline of updating our monitoring plan for cove street and president of csos um to comply with all those uh we we're working with cdm smith to make sure that everything gets completed uh and submitted by those deadlines okay all right um i guess the last item under that particular update of ongoing projects you have waste water treatment facility improvements project
44:46contract number one update um is there anything you want to add to that or i think we discussed a lot of it just in the uh just in the uh conversations we've had tonight yes correct all right um item number nine are the potential matters um we have been given notification from the state that um the commission will be uh participating in a 2 million with a 2 million 500 000 grant
45:22yes okay and i think that's something you already pointed out to us which is going to be very helpful in paying for part of the 6 million that we're anticipating that project to uh cause that's true yeah without a doubt you know uh mass works grants we've said them before in both water and sewer projects uh they're a great organization to work with through the state um you know with the
45:47uh with the development of the commerce park uh the bio park in the uh industrial pocket expansions of businesses in there that's what gives us the good edge to be able to uh be competitive for these grants uh this grant is an excellent grant that we're able to get it's 2.5 million dollars that our ratepayers will not have to pay back in loans moving forward so okay um paul who applied for the grant was it you
46:19yeah so it was me and my staff um the city we are very very lucky to have a good grant writer writer jane diaz dibiasio uh works out of the mayor's office and she's just phenomenal to assist us there you go very good good job um please send our appreciation to her as well i will um anybody have any other matters to discuss nope okay um then i'll obtain a motion to adjourn
47:07yes thank you everyone and uh i hope everybody has a um a good holiday season healthy and and um hopefully be all together when the next meeting comes take care bye thanks paul thank you very much thanks to the staff as well