[0:00] be to hire an inspector that would work
for the city during the summertime to
[0:05] over to help oversee these construction
projects make sure that our paperwork is
[0:10] in order most of these projects are
funded by state or our own funds so
[0:17] therefore we don't have the federal
requirements which are quite vulnerable
[0:22] unded we almost need to have a
consultant do it because there is so
[0:27] much paperwork that has to be managed
and they have the expertise to do that
[0:31] we can follow state guidelines for most
of our projects in weed our needs and
[0:37] the requirements of our funding partners
so what I've provided is a potential job
[0:44] description for that position and if we
can advertise that position and try and
[0:52] get someone in here to help us out with
that during the summer it would be
[0:56] basically a will pay you
there's no benefits other than you show
[1:02] up you get your check it's you know you
can pay them the same as we would be
[1:09] paying our staff engineer and still be
money ahead when you start looking at
[1:15] the cost of these projects we will still
need the consultant for some work we're
[1:21] gonna have to survey state state the
projects make sure they get done and
[1:25] they have some expertise with the trail
we've got a bridge that's going in so
[1:30] there's a structural component to that
[1:45] we have the inspector for six months and
we're paying $10,000 a month
[1:51] there's $60,000 well we have two two to
two and a half million dollars worth of
[2:01] construction at ten percent there's
250,000 so there's a huge savings right
[2:06] there
we start approaching 20% on those costs
[2:10] and being you know considerably more but
as I said we will use the consultant for
[2:16] a few elements of the project to make
sure that it is stinked properly so the
[2:21] kind of tracker knows what they have to
do and there's some special instructions
[2:24] were going or special inspections that
have to be done it will have to hire ray
[2:29] and outside testing lab for some
elements but again it's that's my hair
[2:34] model the work the inspector would
report to the e to myself or the city
[2:46] engineer private company to do that if
there's the liability it was the design
[3:12] mistake yes there's the design year
there's still a design nerves the
[3:29] designers there you know responsibility
to do that is being built to the
[3:37] approved plans and specifications and
there's something's lacking in those
[3:43] plans and specifications it is the
designers responsibility I mean we would
[3:48] call them up and say there seems to be
an issue here we need to get this
[3:51] resolved but it's on them because there
are multiple a lot of projects you don't
[4:01] hired necessarily hire the design firm
to do it you hire a separate firm
[4:06] for that very purpose to sort of
double-check with the designer has done
[4:20] require to be bonded because waiting to
go nowadays I'm not paranoid the
[4:30] contractor would be bonded by the
inspector should be bothered to share
[4:34] the case marina I'm not quite this
typically you you haven't necessarily
[4:44] bonded an inspector I mean it's it's no
different than when we ourselves to
[4:53] inspection of projects that we've
designed that is always a possibility
[5:22] however the contract requires the
contractor to still do it right so let's
[5:29] say the project's all done and a month
later you find mistakes the contractor
[5:34] is still responsible because they were
supposed to build to the plans and specs
[5:55] and by having the inspector there in the
field all the whole time that the
[6:02] contractor is working I mean they may go
back and forth between two projects but
[6:07] they would be able to oversee that make
sure that it is being followed
[6:16] and there's a problem on what he's like
a dog who's while it's still the
[6:23] contractors responsibility to build it
to the plants inspector even if he was
[6:27] signed off on and they approve stuff or
miss stuff and contractors done and
[6:50] sometimes those mistakes aren't found
for five ten years down the road
[6:53] and now homeowners is trying to figure
out you know who's responsible for this
[6:56] mistake and it's never the inspector
city's never responsible for not making
[7:02] sure is built to the proper standard
always fifteen years ago where someone
[7:13] had a home built over Viking Harbor and
the County inspector signed everything
[7:20] long off and then while lately there was
some significant problems with the house
[7:25] the county was not responsible for that
it was still the contractors
[7:29] responsibility unfortunately in many
cases like that the contractors already
[7:34] filed bankruptcy because the laws for
construction are you go after the
[7:39] company but if they don't exist they
don't exist and they'll file for
[7:42] bankruptcy and start a new company the
next day with a brand new name and
[7:46] there's not much you can do about it
[8:04] laughter the inspector and everybody the
meantime the Congress went bankrupt so
[8:10] we were just that's why we require two
year bond
[8:18] maintenance bond to sort of be able to
find some if something not so we had two
[8:33] interviews this afternoon you know I
think we have a candidate that will be
[8:39] making him off or to within the next day
or so and as someone who has worked with
[8:46] the city before working for a consulting
firm and is gone went on from there and
[8:51] worked the city of Renton for a while
works for the FAA right now managing
[8:58] construction projects Chuck has left the
city he had an offer from the city of
[9:17] Edgewood first significantly more money
than he was getting hearing so he
[9:23] elected to go there he does didn't want
to play the game while I'm going to
[9:27] trying you know leverage this one
against this one they made him an offer
[9:33] and it was an opportunity I thought he
would take
[9:48] um my projects to add a sheet that I
used to give out the beginning of the
[9:54] month is here it sort of tells you where
we are with most of our projects I have
[10:00] not updated from the beginning month I
was prepared to do a couple of weeks ago
[10:04] and something came along it did probably
the one important thing in January he
[10:15] has a Saturday retreat to talk about our
strategic plan and we will have sort of
[10:21] a schedule for you probably the next
time that I come before you at the
[10:26] committee of the whole but we do have
the final report and so what I need to
[10:30] do with that is is try and condense
portions of it down to a couple of pages
[10:35] but and the whole report will also be
available for you to look at it you want
[10:40] to look at the whole thing or The
Reader's Digest version we have a
[10:47] walkthrough for the reservoir and repair
project tomorrow afternoon a three
[10:52] Thursday afternoon at 3:00 we have a
walk through for the sidewalk project at
[10:59] four o'clock we have a walk through for
the overlay project from third to
[11:05] Ellingson will start will be March first
is the current plan from the bid
[11:14] openings of those two projects probably
saw the plastic and signage on the
[11:22] Senior Center the asbestos abatement
contractor began their work yesterday
[11:28] morning they should have that finished
by the end of the week which means we
[11:33] can roll the other country
they're in starting next week I have no
[11:58] idea
[12:03] the level of the project that was being
done at that time I think there's when
[12:09] you have asbestos you've got a couple of
different ways to treat it you can
[12:13] encapsulate it if you put flooring over
the top of it so that it it does not
[12:19] become loose it's not a problem well you
had a couple layers of flooring in
[12:24] several spots in there so it was no
longer an option to just put another
[12:30] layer of flooring on top the plan was to
go to a vinyl flooring you had carpet
[12:35] throughout most that so you can't lay it
over the top that just doesn't work so
[12:39] because we were taking the carpet you
know we were now down to the mastic
[12:44] which is where the asbestos is and it's
under the whole floor