Minutes; Evansville Public Works: October 2010

PUBLIC WORKS COMMITTEE MINUTES
Tuesday, October 26, 2010, 6:00 p.m.
Public Works Garage, 535 S. Madison St.


1. Call meeting to order @ 6:12pm.

2. Roll call- Braunschweig, Culbertson, Sauer, Wartenweiler & Wietecha present. Ringhand absent.

3. Motion to approve the agenda as presented by Culbertson, seconded by Braunschweig, approved unanimously.

4. Motion to approve the minutes from the September 28, 2010 regular meeting as printed by Culbertson, seconded by Braunschweig, approved unanimously

5. Citizen appearances – none.

6. Construction updates – started on Creekside place with all necessary permits to begin.

7. Site plan reviews – none.

8. Communications from the City Engineer -

a. Update on WWTP construction – city engineer has given the committee a heads up on the next change-orders for next pay-out to contractor. Now we are estimated at $21,455 over the contract amount of $5.79 million, of which 50% is recoverable to the city. Many of the items to be completed are, but there are some things that still need to be worked out with the contractor.
b. Update on wind turbine – the city engineer, administrator and city attorney are working on the warranty issue for work needed to be done on turbine post-installation.

9. Communication from the Public works Director –

a. Discussion regarding sewer & water laterals for duplex’s and condo’s – problems have arisen as of late which call for a need for the City to change its current ordinance, potentially, so that some sort of definition of ‘new construction’ should require separate water and sewer laterals provided to each unit rather than the current requirements under the City’s code.

10. New Business.
a. City administrator brought up a couple of things; (a) new thing with department performance evaluations the administrator would like to have feed-back from committee members from the various committees, & (b) similarly the administrator would like feed-back on the professional contractors with the city , i.e. engineer, planner…etc..

11. Old Business – none.

12. Park & Recreation Report – the Park board chair summarized the last Park board meeting.

13. Motion to adjourn meeting at 7:01pm by Culbertson, seconded by Braunschweig, passed unanimously.

Submitted by;
Mason Braunschweig, member Public Works Committee.