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good evening I'd like to call the Board
of Public Works of this December 2nd
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meeting to order we'll start with roll
call clerk if you could take the role
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Alderman sck here Alderman Perkins here
Alderman Lewis Alderman Marshall here
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Alderman gr here Alderman repella
Alderman Nichols here alderman
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here all are present thank you
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clerk the first item we have here is
anyone from the public that would like
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to speak oh all
right keep your yeah um push your mic
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then is that
working no something told me it wasn't
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going to so cuz it's it's yellow here on
my screen listen I can project yeah all
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right okay there you go um Eli Wickman
710th Street um so I want to talk about
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the Jefferson Park shelter awesome looks
great everything with Jefferson Park is
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going just amazingly and I'm not biased
at all not being on the parkboard it's
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fine but I do want to use this time to
illustrate the importance of City staff
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and department heads in conjunction with
the common
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Council I
think early in another meeting we were
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talking about maybe what may or may not
have gone wrong with Water
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Street compared to let's say Jefferson
Park where every single step was
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monitored and looked at and analyzed and
gone to a meeting then another meeting
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then another meeting and then if a
softball Diamond got rotated it was a
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weekend phone call and then it was
another meeting so I'm saying I think
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there might be a happy middle ground
between the two where some things can be
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delegated fairly successfully because
common Council has what 14ish committees
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TW 13 12 committees that they have to
have their fingers in at all times you
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have to keep that information in your
heads at all times and that's a lot no I
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don't expect any human to be able to
keep all details of all projects in
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their heads at all
times that being said I watched the same
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questions get asked four different times
in the last meeting
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it's a lot of information to hold and
delegation is important to City staff
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and they're doing tremendous jobs again
incredibly biased towards Parks but I
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think director sacket is doing a great
job and I think it's really really
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important that like when you decide what
responsibilities to take on what comes
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to committee what goes to police chief
what goes to coun
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council can that reasonably be managed
at all time can you honestly say you can
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dedicate as much time as you dedicated
to the Jefferson Park project as all
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other things can you have those separate
meetings can you be able to do that and
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I'm not criticizing at all I think
everything's going pretty dang well I'm
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just saying when you are delegating task
keep in mind that that is more on your
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plates more on City staff plate where do
you want to have to have meetings that
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go until you know it's pushing 8:30
some of us have been here a while some
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of us have you know haven't left or gone
home
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yet are you able to handle that and
again it's just food for thought because
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it's a lot of things and I want to make
sure as a citizen that everyone is
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performing at their best that things
aren't going to slip through the cracks
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that things aren't going to be forgotten
which again is human it's just
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mitigating how much is forgotten and how
much is slipped through but overall I
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think it's going good it's just
something to keep in mind moving forward
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and I think the Jefferson part of the
reason Jefferson Park is going
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incredibly well is because there was a
level of attention to detail and
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discussion and all that stuff that
was that made it go like every decision
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was pretty much discussed to death by
either City staff or and then brought to
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Common Council many many many many times
you've heard me several times coming up
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here being like hey this is why we
should approve this or this is why we
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should go ahead with that so I'm just
thinking there's a middle ground between
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the two and that's all I got thank
you so basically what we just would like
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to see is better
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communication so moving forward we have
uh minutes to approve uh for the Board
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of Public Works I would entertain a
motion Alderman repella uh thank you
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very much uh Alderman sck I'll make a
motion to approve the Board of Public
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Works minutes from 111
1824 is is there a second second made by
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Alderman Ted
gr any corrections or changes Alman
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Nichols thank you chair I have no uh
Corrections or changes but just wanted
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to note that the common Council rules
spell out um that we follow Robert's
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Rules rul of order and friendly
amendments are not um found within
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Robert's Rules of
Order okay they are noted in the minutes
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I will offer
Corrections if it's unanimous and
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there's no objection they can so
is there's been a motion and a second
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any other changes Alman repell your
light is still on your good okay then
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we'll take
um all those in favor say I I I opposed
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those are
approved um discussion and action item
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this is uh a change
order is there a motion Alderman Rella
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thank you very much I'll make a motion
for the change order of for Cardinal
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Construction contract unit number 20
24-10 and this is in regards to the
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Jefferson Park shelter and we're going
to add a total of
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$969
196 uh to the
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uh charge and this is charge change
order number one sir
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second second second by Elman Perkins so
this is an addition of
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$969
196 and um I will have the
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director uh explain to the community
what the change order is for sure thank
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you for the opportunity um in your
packet it outlines the different changes
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really it boils down to about three
different changes and this is in regards
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to the new Pavilion so you if you've
been out to Jefferson Park recently
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you've seen that they've started
mobilizing around that site for the new
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Pavilion on the East End of the park so
as we've gone through some of the
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specifications um that were outlined and
that our contractor brought forth there
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are some uh changes that we're looking
one of them is on kind of some of the
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interior walls it was noted to just have
plywood we're looking to put in um
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they're called t111 panel so more of
just a kind of a textured planel just
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versus plain plywood that's where it
added some of that additional cost in
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labor and painting so you see a minimal
change there um you see a deduction of
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concrete polishing we want it to match
um the epoxy floor that we put in the
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existing Pavilion if you would go into
the existing Pavilion in the renovated
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kitchen it has an epoxy floor we wanted
it to match that in the specification
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had just a concrete polishing which was
not our preference and then um that had
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noted that the cores did not match the
cores that we have in some of our
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existing facilities so the why you see
the change of the $2,800 for the cores
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on some of the locks regarding the doors
so really just matching some of our uh
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specifications and standards that we
wanted throughout our facilities is what
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this change is you will see another
change order coming um in the future
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when I talk about that epoxy floor
they'll be getting us that price um to
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add that epoxy flooring in so you will
see a future change order so BAS
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basically what the director has
indicated is that we've actually
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deducted about 8,000 from here made some
changes and the
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change um is an add then of just
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$969 so they're improvements basically
to this
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facility any questions from the
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committee I have a question for you
Alderman repell oh you you pulled your
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battery out already
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all right if there's no further
questions uh we'll take a roll
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call motion carries 8 Z all right thank
you clerk um with that I'll