City of Bloomington, Indiana Utilities Service Board, 17 Aug 2020

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From YouTube: Bloomington Utilities Service Board, August 17, 2020

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meeting agenda: https://bloomington.in.gov/onboard/meetingFiles/download?meetingFile_id=7466

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I'm going to call tonight's meeting of the utility service board.

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To order and uh first item on the agenda is approval of the minutes from the.

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Previous august 3rd meeting are there any.

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Questions or changes or additions to the minutes.

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All right see, none, then, is there a motion to approve last board.

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Meetings minutes no move. Second,.

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All right uh and all in favor uh latrina can you please call the roll.

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Yes, uh bannock, yes, chairman, yes, prime minister,.

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Yes, kepler. Yes, all right minutes are approved. Thank you.

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uh Yes as well- oh I'm sorry, that's right!.

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Julian, thank you, julie, roberts. I've been gone.

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For a long time, so that's all right all right so much.

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All right uh next step is approval of the claims.

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um We have standard invoices in the amount of one million five hundred and.

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Sixty-Five thousand one hundred and eighty two dollars and.

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Twenty-Five cents are there any questions or concerns about the invoices.

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Hearing none, then, is there a motion to approve.

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The standard invoices, second all right and latrina- please call.

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The roll eamon, yes parmenter.

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Yes, kepler, yes, roberts, bannock,.

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Yes, chairman: yes, all right utilities, invoices are.

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Approved next up are utility bills and the amount of and 178 dollars and sixty six cents. um Any questions on utility bills.

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See none is there a motion to approve second, okay and latrina.

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Sherman? Yes, roberts, yes, kepler! Yes,.

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Yes, parmenter, yes, manic, yes,.

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All right utility bills are approved next up for wire transfers in the amount.

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Of 465, 610 and 45 cents.

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Any questions on wire transfers seeing none is there a motion to approve.

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Warrior transfers second and latrina prime answer: yes, eamonn.

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Yes, sherman, yes, bannock, yes, kepler.

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Yes, okay, where transfers are approved, uh customer refunds in the amount of.

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Eight thousand three hundred and twenty one dollars and 48 cents.

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Are there any questions on customer refunds.

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Seeing none is there a motion to approve.

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Second and like trainer, please call the roll.

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Kepler, yes, chairman, yes, spanic, yes,.

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Yes, robert, yes commenter. Yes, all right refunds are approved.

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uh Next up, we have approval of the consent.

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Consent agenda um and I'll have vic talk to us about that.

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Oh big here, muted.

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Do that every time good evening, everyone I'm happy to bring the.

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Consent agenda for this week it totals twenty one thousand nine hundred. Seventy.

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Five dollars. uh The first item is two thousand dollars to wesler engineering, for validation of our water audit. For.

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2019, uh nine thousand dollars to biochem.

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Incorporated for jar testing trials at the billman plant.

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And then all seasons uh for hvac uh replacement at lucha pool and the.

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Amount of 10 975 dollars does any.

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Board member wish to hear any of these items separately.

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Hearing none uh if there's no opposition, uh the.

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Entire consent agenda will be approved as.

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Recommended by staff hearing no uh opposition, uh these items are.

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Approved. Thank you. Thank you, big all right. Next up.

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We have james hall to talk with us about a request for approval of an agreement.

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With kevin huntley, excavating llc uh regarding the demolition of.

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The incinerator building on the winston thomas property.

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James hi, james hall, cbu environmental, um it's a demolition of the incinerator.

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Building that sits just uh west of the new water station.

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That we have there and just south of the new police building um and as we passed, I think two board.

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Meetings ago, the police department has agreed to pay a majority of the demolition, if almost not all of it,.

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um And it shouldn't be that long, there's, no environmental issues, we've kind of.

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We've done sampling of all over and inside and we've had.

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Found no issues, so it should be.

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Straightforward, okay, see no questions. Is there a motion.

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To approve this agreement with kevin, only excavating.

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Second and latrina: please call the roll roberts, yes, kepler.

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Yes, eamonn, yes, prime minister, yes sherman.

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I'm sorry sherman, yes, fanuc. Yes,.

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All right, uh that is a proof.

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Thank you james. Next up, we have cindy shaw with a request for approval.

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Of first amendment to the agreement with electric.

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Plus for on-call electrical services, cindy hi, cindy shaw, purchasing.

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The we originally had a contract with electric plus for on-call services. This.

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Are these are generic services um that the plants may use a small.

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For small emergencies or small repairs, we originally had.

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A contract for ten thousand dollars we're asking the board to approve an.

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Extension of that contract for twenty thousand, which would.

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um Give them now an additional ten thousand dollars of services for the remainder of the year.

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Okay, any questions for cindy.

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All right see, none is there a motion to approve this amendment to the agreement.

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With electric plus, second, all right and latrina, please call.

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The roll chairman, yes hispanic.

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Roberts, yes kepler. Yes, prime minister. Yes.

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Eamon, yes, okay, this uh amendment is approved. Thank.

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You next is a request for approval of the.

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First, amendment to the agreement with bl anderson.

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For the purchase and installation of the chemical feed pumps.

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And cindy shaw is on this as well cindy shaw, again purchasing. uh This is a.

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um Unusual circumstance in that we approved, or the board approved a.

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Contract, I believe it was march for a total of 70 426 dollars.

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um And the pumps were ordered for monroe.

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Where they were shipped to monroe, but at that time was when.

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Covid uh sort of caused us to shut down, and while the pumps were at monroe, we.

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Were invoiced for the pumps, um but they could not come on site to do.

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Work for for uh safety reasons, so.

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We they they, the vendor, invoiced us for the pumps, but our original contract was.

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For a lump sum payment uh we have since uh are are amending the.

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Contract to ask for two installments that the contract will be paid in two installments. The first.

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uh For 6126, this is for the pumps only and then the second installment will be.

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For the labor for 1300 uh and we.

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Also extended the uh installation date so that.

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uh Vendor can safely come on site to do the.

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To do the installation we're not sure when that is right now, but.

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uh We extended it until december uh the work to be completed by december and.

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Then the expiration of the contract in february of 21.

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Does anybody have any questions? I.

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May have made that more confusing than I needed here.

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Well, actually, I I think I understood you and.

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And I think that's like a very reasonable response to unforeseen.

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Circumstances of covet, so thank you any other questions or.

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Comments all right see. None then, is there a.

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Motion to approve this first amendment second.

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And latrina I'm enter yes, sherman. Yes,.

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Eamonn, yes, bannock, yes, roberts! Yes,.

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Kepler, yes, all right! Thank you um that request for approval.

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Is approved um before we move on to old business, I.

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Just want to remind the public that, if you would like to make public.

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Comment um for our meeting via our facebook live.

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Stream, you can do that by writing. Your comment in our comment section on the.

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Live stream and holly will read that aloud.

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Here on the zoom meeting and in the future, if you ever want to attend a.

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Meeting to give public comment, you can request a.

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Zoom link for any future uh board meetings.

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So um just be thinking if you would like to make a public comment.

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You can start putting that in the chat box right now in the.

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Live feed. Okay! uh Is there any old business from the board.

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Any old business from staff, okay, any new business from the board; a new.

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Business from staff, thank you. uh Are there any subcommittee.

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Reports this week, I don't think there are no no okay. Thank.

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You uh staff reports, rick.

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I don't have much to say tonight. uh The main thing is that.

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uh Our budget goes to council on thursday night.

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uh At six o'clock, so any board members who are interested.

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In uh seeing that and hearing uh what questions we might get from council.

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uh Please tune in it will be on zoom um beyond that.

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I really don't have any big news today, so.

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Thank you so much okay, I guess sometimes no news is good news. How big.

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So all right, um uh petitions and communications uh is there.

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Anyone in the zoom meeting that would like to make public comment.

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All right and uh holly is: are there any public comments in our.

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No questions or comments via facebook. Okay, thank you um well uh hearing, none.

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Then is there a motion to adjourn our meeting.

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Okay, we are adjourned. Thank you. Everyone.

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