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I'm going to call this meeting to order.

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Selectmen meeting, July 1st, 2026, at

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4:30 PM, at the Community Center on 46 Church Street.

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Item number one, to consider, and if appropriate, approve the

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Board of Selectmen minutes

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from June 17th, 2026.

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I'll move it.

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Second. All those in favor?

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Aye.

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Aye. Item number two is executive session for tax

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appeals, and item number three is to consider if appropriate,

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approve proposed settlements of pending tax appeals.

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We have none, so we're going to

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just move past those

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items.

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Item number four, to consider and act upon the

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recommendation of the tax collector and tax assessor

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to approve a refund of motor vehicle late fees paid pursuant to

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Connecticut General Statute

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12-129, based on an administrative

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address record error affecting

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issuance of a tax bill.

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Motion to approve.

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I second.

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All those in favor?

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Aye.

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Aye. Motion carries. To consider, and if appropriate,

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approve a request from Jennifer Aquino, assistant town

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engineer, to waive the bid for permanent pavement patches

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on call service pavement

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parches,

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the name of the company, I assume, Pavement Parches, on-call services,

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and award the contract to William M.

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Leyden Construction at the following prices:

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asphalt patch per square foot at $7.46,

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asphalt curb at

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$13.47, asphalt

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sidewalks

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at $6.44,

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and asphalt aprons at $6.44.

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All of those are square foot prices.

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Good afternoon.

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Hello, Jen.

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Jennifer Aquino, assistant town engineer, before you today for a

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request for a bid waiver.

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I'm sure you're aware William Leyden Construction has been our on-call paving

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contractor since I've been in this role.

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The last bid we did was a fiscal year '20 bid.

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They were the low bidder for that.

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For four years following that, as allowed by contract, they extended their

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bid with no cost increase.

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In fiscal '25 and fiscal '26,

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they extended their bid with a requested 3%

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escalation, which was awarded by the Board of Selectmen during those two fiscal

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years. The company has once again requested to extend their

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contract, and have asked for a 3% escalation,

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which results in the pricing that First Selectman Brooks just went over.

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When reviewing their request, we take a look at a lot of factors, and

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one of those is

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DOT's weekly asphalt monitor, which I gave you a

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copy of with the package. That lists the

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average cost of asphalt for

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every year

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for these contract years. I broke it down with just per year.

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So the average cost, there's the high and the low is there, but the average is what

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I was looking at when determining whether or not this was advantageous for

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the town to continue this contract.

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As you can see,

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from the time that our bid was put out and they won their original

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award, there's been

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over a 34% increase in asphalt prices.

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So I thought it was prudent of us to entertain the

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request with this minimal increase of 3%

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in order to keep this contract going.

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I called around a couple of different towns.

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They're seeing significant price increases with their recent bids.

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And we're like, "Wow, you're getting a really good price for what you're

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getting."

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So I'm here before you today for this request.

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And I think one of the key points with this particular

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type of work that we do, this is asphalt patches that we do,

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curbing, driveways, sidewalks, different items that we use

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from the town's perspective for our work, but this also

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includes work when a homeowner has work done and has a

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water connection done or sewer connection done.

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This pricing is what the homeowner is directly charged for the repairs

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that the town does.

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From our contractor, they put a bond up when they get the excavation permits.

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Our contractor does the repair work to ensure that that's done to our standards,

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and then we pass that cost directly on to the homeowner.

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So this isn't just the town's project. This is also direct cost to homeowners.

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So it's kind of prudent for us to try and keep those costs as low as we

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can. And I definitely feel that if we were to go out to bid this year, the cost

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would significantly increase.

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We were seeing costs in the $10 per square foot at the

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time this bid was done in fiscal '20 by the other contractors that

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didn't win. So I can only assume that that would be

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significantly more than the pricing that they've offered us for this

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contract again.

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Any questions? Any other questions?

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Jen, thanks for your due diligence on this.

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excellent, and I would agree to move forward.

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I'm good.

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They do good work. Can I get a motion?

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I'll make a motion to approve.

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Second. All those in favor?

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Thank you. Motion carries. Thank you.

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Thanks, Jen.

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Okay, item number six, to consider, and if appropriate, approve

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A request from Blaise Levitan, Board of Ed Chief Operating

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Officer, and Brendan Letty, Board of Ed Facilities Director, to waive the

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bid for fiscal year '26, '27 electrical

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projects at Branford High School, and authorize the work to be

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performed by McMillan Electric using the pricing and terms

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as identified in contract 7214 between

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McMillan J. Orris LLC and the town of

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Greenwich, dated February 8th, 2028.

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Hey, everybody. How's it going?

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2020, sorry.

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2020.

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'22.

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'22.

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'22. Yep. I know there was an addendum in there.

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Yeah, so good afternoon, everybody. Good to see you.

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Never great following Jen,

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we will try our best.

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So we're back before you with a fairly similar request.

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And just for the public's background that's watching, we came

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here in February for a bid waiver under the same

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contract for a very specific project at the high school to do the

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switchgear.

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At the same time, we were working with the

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town administration on the solar project at the

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high school, and we ended up shifting gears from in

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front of the meter to a behind-the-meter approach that's now well

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underway, and that drives a lot of other decisions.

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So that project that we came before you to upgrade all of the switchgear

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this summer was put on hold and will now be part of a

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larger

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project that will be looped in with the cogen,

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and HVAC system replacement, as well as the

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solar.

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And so that way we can do some more engineering, building committee project.

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What we're doing instead,

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hopefully this summer, would be all of the ancillary

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electrical components in the building instead, so that we can still stay on

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schedule for electrical upgrades overall.

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They'll still be done in tandem. And so

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we're looking to really basically similarly issue an

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award under the town of Greenwich contract pricing,

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for the high school for the year, with the bulk of those

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projects being specifically completed

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this summer. Brendan is going to mention a

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few of those high-level projects. I also put them in the memo.

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For checking on pricing, so McMillan is based

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out of Stratford, Connecticut, and they have

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had a very competitive contract we attached.

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We have the approval from both

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the town of Greenwich,

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and McMillan to use this

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town contract. They still comply with all of our own

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insurance and our terms as well, but they've honored the pricing.

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We included in here the alternative, too,

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with the state contract that they have.

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That's the piggyback for electrical pricing for all

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towns to piggyback on, and we are obviously

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substantially lower per hour than the

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state contract.

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The Greenwich project, it's not like it didn't go through a competitive bid process

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as well. So it went through a competitive bid

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in Greenwich and this price is very

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strong. Brendan's looked around with other

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opportunities, similar to what Jen was just mentioning about

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people who are honoring prices from basically that are built on a

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base of 2022,

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instead of this escalation that you've really seen in the last few years.

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So we're able to take advantage of that.

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And so that's the logic behind the request in a

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summary. For additional context, that

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switchgear project

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that we were going to do this summer, the nice thing is, is by pivoting it and

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tying it to the HVAC and

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the

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power system of the building, we're able-- Typically, just

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replacing switchgear on its own because it's

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old and no longer at its useful life is not an

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eligible reimbursable expense in the school construction grant project,

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but HVAC and core mechanical systems are.

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And what we've been doing is working with our professional team to really

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line up

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including it so that it can be justified as part of that bigger renovation on

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the HVAC. So that portion of the project we

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anticipate to be now, since we're going to do it connected

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to and make the case that it's part of the power system, specifically of the

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building, and it powers the core HVAC components that we'll be

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replacing. We'll be able to get the state reimbursement on the

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non-priority grant back on top of doing it.

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So there's actually a two-step benefit, so it really connects

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the behind-the-meter approach that First Selectman Brooks

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has led, which is working out.

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Overall, the timing and everything hopefully will sync up well, and

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then we're able to lump that into that bigger project for the

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37% reimbursement rate back on that, too.

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I don't know if you want to give any additional context about this specific project

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and what they're doing at the high school.

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No, as Billy said, we're working on a lot of projects this summer.

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A lot of these projects that the electrical team is focusing on are

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improving safety, security,

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and then core

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teaching elements, in our kitchen, in our CNA program.

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We're addressing some of these much-needed electrical upgrades in those areas.

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We've looked around. It's hard to beat a $68 an hour

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electrician these days.

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So he just partially answered the question.

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You did look around already, so everyone knows four different pricing.

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This was still the best pricing.

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Well, state contracts just says it's $80 an hour according to the presentation.

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Right. I often found, unfortunately, using state contracts in the past,

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that they're higher than-

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... we can get otherwise. So it

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seems to be convenience

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For us to look at state bids sometimes, but they are not-

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... the best prices.

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I agree. That's a good comparison. Is that $80 based on a prevailing wage?

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Do you know, Brandon?

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It is.

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It is.

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But we have had

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other electricians in the building.

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We've had other costs even on smaller projects where we may

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have a general contractor working.

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They're going to hire their own electrician. They're not being $68 an hour.

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Right.

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So oftentimes we're bringing in even McMellen.

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We may have a general contractor to frame out an area, build something, and then

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we're bringing in our own electrician just to save that money as well.

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Now, right now,

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because obviously

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you're trying to get this done this summer,

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are they already in the building doing other work where they can just transfer

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We only got a two-month window here, and this is kind of late for

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us

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to be approving a bid waiver. But I'm assuming you had to wait for funding

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anyway.

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But this is going to be able to get done in this time period, the project you

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want-

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Yes

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... by us doing this tonight?

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Yes.

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Okay.

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It's not necessarily late. It was a little bit of back and forth between the state

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contract and how we were finding the funding.

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So we've gone through, both with myself, our technology

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director, our director of security, which is where a lot of these projects are

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coming from. We walked the building with McMellen. They took a list.

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They provided several quotes for us.

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And now their main foreman is on vacation this

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week for the 4th of July holiday, and then they are dedicating, essentially

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starting next week through the end of the summer, they will have electricians on

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site nearly every day.

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That's what I was looking for. They're ready to go.

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Ready to go. On site, they have material all ready to go.

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They have a material list. They've run through everything. Yep.

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Thanks.

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Yeah.

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I like the way you piggybacked on Brandon's spot. I would like to move this.

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Second.

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All right. All those in favor?

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Aye.

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Thanks, guys.

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Aye.

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Thanks. Appreciate it.

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Thank you very much. Appreciate it.

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Much obliged.

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Good to see everybody.

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Take care, boys. Have a good holiday.

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See you. You too, man.

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Peace. Not much space for my computer.

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Okay, item number seven, to consider, and if appropriate, approve a request

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from Gino Carano, acting superintendent

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WPCF, to waive the bid for the purchase of two

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replacement 45-horsepower flight

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submersible dry pit pumps for the Damascus Road pump

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station and award the contract to Fleet Pump and Service Group,

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Inc., in the amount of $128,390.

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Just to give you guys background, this is similar to last month or

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two weeks ago, we did the same thing.

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This is the rest of those pumps in that pump station.

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It's replacing

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pump to pump. So getting multiple pricing makes no

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sense because you want the same pump doing the same job.

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I'm good with it. You did-

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I am, too

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... due diligence last month.

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Yep. I'll move it.

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I think we should just move it.

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Okay. All those in favor?

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Aye.

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Aye.

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All right. Motion carries.

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Thank you very much.

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Thanks.

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Item number eight, green use, to consider, and if appropriate, approve a

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request from the Society of Nepalese in America for

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the use of the town green on July 18th,

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2026, to hold the Nepal Festival,

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Nepal Day Parade from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

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This-

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I'll move it.

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I'll second.

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Any discussion?

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All those in favor?

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Aye.

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Aye.

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Motion carries.

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Item number nine, correspondence. We have none.

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Item number 10, other. Is there anything else

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to come before us?

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Okay. Item number 11, adjournment.

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I'll move it.

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Can I get a motion?

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Second.

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All those in favor?

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Aye.

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Aye.

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We're adjourned.

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