City of Charleston SC Ways and Means, 28 Jan 2020

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City of Charleston Ways & Means Meeting - January 28, 2020

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Good evening, the January 28th meeting Committee on ways and means is now called to order. I will call on councilmember here for our invocation.

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We ask for your blessing look upon upon us with kindness and mercy help us do the will of the people of Charleston your name. We pray, amen.

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The approval of the minutes, December, 17 and 19 that which the January 14th minutes were just placed on your desk of us upon your death. Should we defer it up? You had a chance to go through it. Okay, so move all in favor.

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Yeah been moved and properly seconded that we approved the December 17th and December 19th 2019 minutes all in favor. Aye opposes the eyes, have it bids and purchases who for.

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Approval second,.

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Any discussion all in favor.

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C

I'm Chad, McQueen, Auto beacon, say four and five together.

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It number four the mayor's office for children, youth and families approval to accept the grant.

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Office for children, youth and families of approval, it's been properly moved dry here. Second,.

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Okay, four five taken together, all in favor opposes who did a second okay, been properly moved and seconded that we approve number four and five number: six stormwater management rule been properly moved and seconded that item six, all in favor, so move number seven stormwater management approval all in favor poses so move.

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Back in there, okay, okay, all right. Okay number, eight people, approval set any discussion question guys all in favor aye oppose it. So move parks, capital projects is properly moved and seconded that we approved item number nine, all in favor, any unread enos, not so move I did that a little backwards, approved: okay, I guess, item 11 and item 10, its improperly moved and seconded that whip. Okay, question.

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Of the West Ashley Greenway was frankly taking forever, because it's was some federal funds involved. They call it an LPA project and the amount of bureaucracy and red tape would just astound you and- and so what we decided to do was move forward with that, paving with some of our own unencumbered city funds and and transfer this money to another LPA project, which will be the new sidewalk that'll run along wafu Road from from the Greenway over to Savannah Highway, which is a bigger project. It's along the d-o-t roadway and so that kind of scrutiny.

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Frankly, I felt was more appropriate, then, along a bike way that it wasn't even along a DOP Road. So anyway, we do lose so to speak, the $12,000 that we have to reimburse the d-o-t, but we fully can can transfer the rest of the funds to that other LPA project.

G

Thank You, mr. chairman, you know I rode by this part of the Greenway on Stinson in Parkdale. It looks like we've already paved. It is that that's correct.

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Is already completed, Council.

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Approved aren't using our own funds about three or four months ago, and the work is now I think almost been completed. If not already this just kind of cleans up the paperwork, I guess you would say- and it recognizes to $12,000 that we have to return to the d-o-t okay.

G

And then the 250,000 we have the ability to choose whatever we want, we don't have to apply and be accepted or anything we can use it 250,000. The way we would like well.

F

It goes to another LP, a project, basically on our request. Chat's has to technically approve it, but we talked to mr. Mitchum and and there's no problem. Okay, counsel,.

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Had a little follow up with what the mayor was telling us, so is this like a one-for-one use, we're going to use up all of these funds on one LPA, or is there any opportunity to put them like where we want to do the bikeway crosswalk or something like that on so.

F

The the Whopper road project was in fact much more expensive than this one. So all the funds would go to that one project. We had some other LPA funds for that already yeah. So what adds to them that make sense any.

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More questions, I.

C

Just want to thank the me if we're doing it frankly, um it's beating it up. I appreciate that, and obviously the project go Vaughn walk, pool road would subscribe more to those expenses anyway and you're right. That's right, wakfu, road bike. We compared to the the Greenway. It makes a whole lot of sense of speeded up. Thank you. Thank you. It go.

F

Ahead become frustrating if you want to know the truth, yeah.

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I have a motion: okay, all in favor, so move number 10 I.

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G

Thank You mr. chairman I just wanted to ask when I was looking at this and maybe I read it wrong, but it looked like ipw was 1.5 million cheaper. Was that correct and I guess it just opens up to do? Are they fully understanding in comparison to whatever the others were offering, but it appeared that they were 1.5 million dollars cheaper than the all the other bids, and that just brought concern of making sure that they understood what they were bidding on when I guess.

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We're going to ask mr. Krantz, Berg or mr., most or.

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Competence I'm going to ask Matt to come speak to this, but the project budget and the bids are are two different things. But Matt can kind of give you the details on a.

D

Good evening the we did ask ipw the same question and they went back over their numbers and they looked at them and our estimate for the job was within about 3% of what their bid was that we had at the pre-bid.

D

We had 12 to 14 qualified general contractors show up and it was a mandatory pre-bid and sometimes that can result in a change in competitiveness at the bid, and you get some folks that are going to give you a price that they know that they can cover the cost and make some money, and so that we talked to some contractors that didn't bid afterwards and while they they wouldn't give us what their number was. It was in between those two, so I mean we did ask them. Specifically, we were going in.

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I was wide open, but it's also it's it's within the budget, and if we had to go to the second or the third bidder, we would not be able to complete the project. Thank you very much. You up.

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Any other question all in favor opposed eyes: have it item number 12, the parks, capital projects, the provost city market said and properly moved and seconded any questions, if not all in favor, hi suppose the eyes have it any question, not all Dean.

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Question, if not all in favor aye, there anything else to come up before this committee, so so.

F

Mr. Chairman I would just like to point out a couple things for for our guests here that we just approved so they'll know number seven included the completion of the engineering which was discussed today in the Public Works Committee of the Earhart Street tunnel project, or really an extension of the Fitch burn tunnel over to Earhart Street. So right now and I just want to publicly shout out and thank governor McMaster and so far I'd like to report to Council that both members of the house and of the South Carolina Senate have contacted me to.

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Let me know that they were putting it in their House version of the budget and the Senate version of the budget, and so I wanted to give counsel and our citizens some some some confidence. Even though it's not a guarantee that this project should be moving forward. This year. In.

A

There I think we owe you thank you I remember when you talked with the governor down in the hole I totally.

F

My one, don't let him get out unless you promise to do this right.

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If there's nothing else,.

C

Yes of millions of dollars, if this is a house working on it, the mayor spoke of putting it in the Senate budget allies over on the house side relationship with the governor. If there were this will work to wait until calhoun west funding came through, it would be tens of millions of dollars.

C

Yeah many y'all may see the deep water retrieval vehicle that medica Universe has actually bought to ferry doctors and nurses back and forth doing the rain bomb events that we sometimes get I mean this could help out even eliminate at least an act 30 acre corridor. They use the need for that. So, okay, it saves the city I, think tens of millions of dollars creating this.

C

These designs right now. So thank you very much for thanks for that. You know help on this one. All.

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About the water folks, this is adjourned.