The Columbus Board of Public Works and Safety met on March 3, 2026, to consider several routine approvals, a sole-source equipment purchase, engineering contracts, and community announcements. All items were approved unanimously with no public comments or opposition.
Not here. So I'm sure he'll join us. We can do approval of the minutes. We don't need him for that. I'll move to approve the minutes. Second. We have a motion, second to approve the meeting minutes is presented. All in favor, please say hi. Aye. Aye. Aye. Opposed same sign. Motion carries. Come up to the table, Brian. Can we talk about a brine machine? Brian machine. That's as fascinating. Actually, I tell it's sort of interesting. All right, are we ready or wait a minute? Go ahead. Okay. So uh we are looking to purchase a brine machine. That's what makes our mixture for the uh the road treatment when we treat the roads uh prior to a storm, uh snowstorm. Um this machine will be um put at the new Arcadia S DPW site that we're gonna um have this installed out there at the new DPW site. Um so we did not get quotes, so this would be a sole source because the equipment that we have now um is from this manufacturer, Vera Tech. Um so we still have our current machine at our old facility, but it's got age on it. I think it's 2004, so that's why we're updating. So this is all in the 2026 capital budget, and the cost is 43,250. We like the board's approval to move this machine. So it makes fine or it spreads brine. It makes the brine. So it's actually the brine machine that they got the augur agitator, and we put salt in there and some water, and then it's got the big tank outside, then we fill our trucks from this machine. Can you use it for anything else? No, that's uh basically what it's used for is just the brine. You think that Shilly Cooking like can I tell you that I have special words when I see the brine on the roads? Special words words that I say to myself in my road. Just so you know. So you're replacing the current one that you have rather than moving it to your new location. Correct, because it's uh 22 years old, and uh so we'll be purchasing this new new machine. This has got updated stuff, so the consistency is gonna be the same. This is electronics, electronics have approved, and so on. Right now they got a barometer and they our guys have to mix it and then they have to test it and so on so forth. Oh better. We won't have to do that anymore to be automated and stay consistent. 43,000, that's a little salty. I think a new building deserves a new brine machine. I'll move that we approve the quote for or the purchase of the brine machine for public works. Oh, second. So we have a motion, a second to approve the um the brine brine boss quote from Bureau Tech Industries as presented. All in favor, please signify by saying aye.