The Columbus Board of Works met on August 25, 2026, with members Melanie Henderson, Eric Fry, and others present. The meeting covered approvals of minutes, a DPW equipment purchase, a weed abatement letter, event applications, engineering change orders, a controversial masonry bid for Fire Station 1, rejection of bids for Fire Station 3 roof, task orders for traffic signal and bridge replacement, an MOU with the county, and opening of bids for overlay paving. All votes were unanimous.
Oh, she's going with you just oh god it she's a good egg. I thought you might she was going to like wow nice yeah people like it I was glad to hear you guys and the bit and the stores okay Tom didn't mess it up I don't think so I'm just that was really 10 o'clock and since like well right I'd like to call the uh uh August 25th uh Board of Works meeting together. Uh and first I'll start with roll call Melanie Henderson. Thank you. I'm here Eric Fry is present, and we will then go to approval of the uh August 18th meeting minutes. I move to approve the August 18th meeting minutes as presented. I will second. All right, we have a motion and a second to approve the August meeting, August 18th meeting minutes. All those in favor say aye. Aye, aye. Opposed. All right. DPW uh knuckle boom loader truck. Again, you gotta tell me what one is. Brian with more toys. I know, right? I like this. Our knuckle boom's got the uh the boom in the back with the claw. So we'll it's the one I want to drive want to use a claw. That's right. Yep, yep. So we got that. So uh so we yeah, we opened that uh bid up a couple weeks ago. Uh we'd uh we skipped a week and we just did some more research because we had two uh bids, uh, two responses, and they were very close is to $2,211 difference in price. Uh the higher bid is from Best Equipment Company Incorporated, and we're gonna ask that we award to the higher bid of 2211. Uh the reason being that the uh municipal equipment that bid the other truck, they had uh 22 exceptions on our bid spec. Um some of them were comparable, some were not. Um so it just depends on which ones that you looked at. And then also the main reason is just consistency. So we have three of these trucks by the brand of Peterson, which is who uh best equipment sales. Um so we've already got training, our operators are familiar with equipment, and we have parts in stock. So one cylinder alone could cost over 2200 for replacement, and we have that in stock for the other three trucks, and they all still use the same the boom is not changed. Um so it's still the same parts for that that boom. Um so that $2200. We could save it up front, but we're gonna it's gonna cost us later. Um, so we do have those parts in stock, and that way all four of our vehicles would be the same manufacturer and be consistent with what we have. So you'll have four o'clock trucks? Well, four claw trucks. So we're eliminating some of the flatbed trucks that we have without the boom, and then just adding uh this would be the fourth one with a boom, and then like the storm that we had a month ago or whatever it was. We wish we had had six or seven of them. So I mean when the time comes, and we run two of them. There's two goes out every day at a minimum. Uh one will pick up all the debris, like couches and mattresses and stuff like that, and then the other one picks up brush, so we have one for each uh application and then announces yes. Well, um is that a fun with the couch in the software? Yeah, okay. So I missed it. And it's in the amount of 249,000 even. And this is in our 26 capital budget. I'll move for approval of the contract or purchase as described. I will second.