Explanation
1. BACKGROUND:
A. Need. This legislation authorizes the Director of Public Utilities to modify the construction contract with Crace Construction Company, Inc. for the Southerly Wastewater Treatment Plant Digester Rehabilitation Project. A Water Pollution Control Loan Fund (WPCLF) supplemental loan for these purposes is tentatively scheduled for the Ohio Water Development Authority (OWDA) on the December 11, 2008 board meeting. This legislation will additionally authorize the appropriation of funds from the OWDA Loan Fund; and authorize the expenditure of funds from the loan for the construction modification contract.
The Crace Construction Company, Inc. modification amount requested under this ordinance is $2,499,619.00. The contract total including this modification is $37,440,596.00. These additional monies will fund the cost of needed additions to the contract work, which includes the global settlement of all known and open claims, time delays, inefficiencies, and schedule impacts through September 5, 2008, electrical improvement modifications, emergency eyewash modifications, process pipe layout revisions, boiler room louver modifications, biogas foam separator code modifications, rehabilitation of the six sludge digester tanks, construction of three new sludge digester tanks, installation of new process equipment including piping, valves, pumps, grinder, mixing system, and boilers; rehabilitation of the existing Sludge Control Building, and demolition of process facilities that are to be replaced or are no longer needed, and other associated costs of needed additions to the contract work that have become necessary to complete the Digester Rehabilitation construction, the total of which would exceed the contract contingency amount. It was planned that this contract could be modified to proved needed monies, if necessary, for any anomalies in the work which may become evident as the work progressed. Due to the complex and comprehen...
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