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be to hire an inspector that would work
for the city during the summertime to

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over to help oversee these construction
projects make sure that our paperwork is

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in order most of these projects are
funded by state or our own funds so

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therefore we don't have the federal
requirements which are quite vulnerable

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unded we almost need to have a
consultant do it because there is so

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much paperwork that has to be managed
and they have the expertise to do that

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we can follow state guidelines for most
of our projects in weed our needs and

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the requirements of our funding partners
so what I've provided is a potential job

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description for that position and if we
can advertise that position and try and

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get someone in here to help us out with
that during the summer it would be

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basically a will pay you
there's no benefits other than you show

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up you get your check it's you know you
can pay them the same as we would be

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paying our staff engineer and still be
money ahead when you start looking at

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the cost of these projects we will still
need the consultant for some work we're

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gonna have to survey state state the
projects make sure they get done and

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they have some expertise with the trail
we've got a bridge that's going in so

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there's a structural component to that

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we have the inspector for six months and
we're paying $10,000 a month

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there's $60,000 well we have two two to
two and a half million dollars worth of

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construction at ten percent there's
250,000 so there's a huge savings right

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there
we start approaching 20% on those costs

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and being you know considerably more but
as I said we will use the consultant for

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a few elements of the project to make
sure that it is stinked properly so the

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kind of tracker knows what they have to
do and there's some special instructions

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were going or special inspections that
have to be done it will have to hire ray

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and outside testing lab for some
elements but again it's that's my hair

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model the work the inspector would
report to the e to myself or the city

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engineer private company to do that if
there's the liability it was the design

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mistake yes there's the design year
there's still a design nerves the

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designers there you know responsibility
to do that is being built to the

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approved plans and specifications and
there's something's lacking in those

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plans and specifications it is the
designers responsibility I mean we would

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call them up and say there seems to be
an issue here we need to get this

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resolved but it's on them because there
are multiple a lot of projects you don't

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hired necessarily hire the design firm
to do it you hire a separate firm

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for that very purpose to sort of
double-check with the designer has done

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require to be bonded because waiting to
go nowadays I'm not paranoid the

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contractor would be bonded by the
inspector should be bothered to share

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the case marina I'm not quite this
typically you you haven't necessarily

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bonded an inspector I mean it's it's no
different than when we ourselves to

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inspection of projects that we've
designed that is always a possibility

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however the contract requires the
contractor to still do it right so let's

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say the project's all done and a month
later you find mistakes the contractor

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is still responsible because they were
supposed to build to the plans and specs

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and by having the inspector there in the
field all the whole time that the

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contractor is working I mean they may go
back and forth between two projects but

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they would be able to oversee that make
sure that it is being followed

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and there's a problem on what he's like
a dog who's while it's still the

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contractors responsibility to build it
to the plants inspector even if he was

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signed off on and they approve stuff or
miss stuff and contractors done and

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sometimes those mistakes aren't found
for five ten years down the road

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and now homeowners is trying to figure
out you know who's responsible for this

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mistake and it's never the inspector
city's never responsible for not making

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sure is built to the proper standard
always fifteen years ago where someone

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had a home built over Viking Harbor and
the County inspector signed everything

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long off and then while lately there was
some significant problems with the house

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the county was not responsible for that
it was still the contractors

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responsibility unfortunately in many
cases like that the contractors already

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filed bankruptcy because the laws for
construction are you go after the

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company but if they don't exist they
don't exist and they'll file for

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bankruptcy and start a new company the
next day with a brand new name and

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there's not much you can do about it

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laughter the inspector and everybody the
meantime the Congress went bankrupt so

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we were just that's why we require two
year bond

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maintenance bond to sort of be able to
find some if something not so we had two

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interviews this afternoon you know I
think we have a candidate that will be

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making him off or to within the next day
or so and as someone who has worked with

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the city before working for a consulting
firm and is gone went on from there and

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worked the city of Renton for a while
works for the FAA right now managing

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construction projects Chuck has left the
city he had an offer from the city of

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Edgewood first significantly more money
than he was getting hearing so he

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elected to go there he does didn't want
to play the game while I'm going to

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trying you know leverage this one
against this one they made him an offer

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and it was an opportunity I thought he
would take

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um my projects to add a sheet that I
used to give out the beginning of the

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month is here it sort of tells you where
we are with most of our projects I have

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not updated from the beginning month I
was prepared to do a couple of weeks ago

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and something came along it did probably
the one important thing in January he

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has a Saturday retreat to talk about our
strategic plan and we will have sort of

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a schedule for you probably the next
time that I come before you at the

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committee of the whole but we do have
the final report and so what I need to

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do with that is is try and condense
portions of it down to a couple of pages

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but and the whole report will also be
available for you to look at it you want

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to look at the whole thing or The
Reader's Digest version we have a

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walkthrough for the reservoir and repair
project tomorrow afternoon a three

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Thursday afternoon at 3:00 we have a
walk through for the sidewalk project at

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four o'clock we have a walk through for
the overlay project from third to

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Ellingson will start will be March first
is the current plan from the bid

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openings of those two projects probably
saw the plastic and signage on the

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Senior Center the asbestos abatement
contractor began their work yesterday

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morning they should have that finished
by the end of the week which means we

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can roll the other country
they're in starting next week I have no

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idea

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the level of the project that was being
done at that time I think there's when

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you have asbestos you've got a couple of
different ways to treat it you can

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encapsulate it if you put flooring over
the top of it so that it it does not

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become loose it's not a problem well you
had a couple layers of flooring in

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several spots in there so it was no
longer an option to just put another

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layer of flooring on top the plan was to
go to a vinyl flooring you had carpet

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throughout most that so you can't lay it
over the top that just doesn't work so

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because we were taking the carpet you
know we were now down to the mastic

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which is where the asbestos is and it's
under the whole floor