Councilman Gonzales is absent.

Councilwoman Ryan is absent.

Crystal Limber.

Present.

Helene Richards.

Present.

Joseph Depina.

Patricia Poinfake.

Shamari husband is absent.

John Arzominian.

Dante Bellini.

Present.

Tyrell Stevens is absent.

You have eight present and four absent.

We have four.

Thank you very much, Madam Chair.

I'd like to entertain a motion to myself as chairperson of this meeting.

Some will motion made by Deputy Commissioner Richards, second by controller Bellini.

All those in favor, please say aye.

The eyes have it.

Madam Clerk, I'd like to let the record reflect that we're joined today by Mr.

Michael Khaleesi, Deputy City Slistener.

Thank you very much.

I'd now like to entertain a motion to move uh to move to Section B, opening of bids.

Motion made by Deputy Commissioner Richards, second by Director Coinbag.

All those in favor, please say aye.

The eyes have it.

Section B, opening of bids.

Item number one, Department of Housing and Human Services, Postpartum Care for Equitable Maternal Health Outcomes, one year contract with two one year options for renewal.

There are no bids, this then will be readvertised.

Thank you very much.

We'll be re-advertising item number one.

Item number two in shelter or providence police department in shelter dog trainer slash evaluator for providence animal control, three-year contract with two one year options to renew.

One bid.

There is one bid for item number two.

Item number three, Providence Police Department, purchase of ammunition and supplies, fiscal twenty-six.

Five bids.

Five bids for item number three.

The first bidder is Hutton Tactical Arms and Ammo LLC, and they've bid one hundred fifty-seven thousand four hundred and eighty dollars.

Second bidder is uh Thomas J.

Morris the third.

And their bid is a unit price for a total of one hundred twelve thousand four hundred and nine dollars.

Yeah.

Uh the third bidder is Brian Tart Ammo L L C and they have provided a unit price spin.

Um the next bidder is Aries Integrated Resources LLV, who have provided a unit price bid.

The next bidder is Jerk Brothers, Inc.

And their bid is one hundred twenty-six thousand nine hundred and nine dollars.

Item number four, Department of Public Property, Municipal Facility Roof Replacement at Five Five Two Academy Av, Providence, Rhode Island, Zero Two Nine Zero Eight.

Thank you very much.

We'll be extending item number four.

Item number five, Department of Public Property, Owners Project Manager Phase for Providence Public Schools Project.

Nine bits.

There are nine bids.

I think we just should read the name of the company.

The next is uh left field project management.

We need to physically open them.

Yeah.

Yeah, I would say we would and is there wrapping on this?

There was wrapping on that.

Can I have it?

Thank you.

So you want to open physically open it up.

Uh so the vendor, the name of the firm bidding is left field LLC, and it's a technical proposal.

Thank you, Madam Clerk.

Uh the next is Accenture Infrastructure and Capital Projects LLC.

I'll go from the back.

Okay, so we agree.

Okay.

The name of the next bidder is the Vertex Companies LLC.

There you go.

Okay, the next bidder is uh Lauren Blond P E the name of the bidder was Lauren Blonde P E.

Oh, I'm sorry.

Oh, the name of the entity is L O Libro Program and Construction Management P E P C.

Thank you, Madam Clerk.

Did you get that?

Okay.

Okay.

Uh the next bidder is Arcadist US.

The next one is Colliers Project Leaders, USA, New England, LLC.

Prov City Group is the next bidder.

Prov City Group.

Okay.

And the final bidder is Turner and Townsend Harry.

Item number six, Department of Public Works, lease land for sodium chloride storage.

There are no bids.

This item will be readvertised.

Thank you very much.

We'll be readvertising item number six.

Item number seven, screen sand for ice control, twenty-five twenty-six winter season.

One bid.

One bid for item number seven.

The bidder is G lopes Construction.

And they've bid a unit price bid of thirty dollars per ton.

Department of Public Works, Sodium Chloride, twenty-five twenty-six winter season.

Four bids.

Four bids for item number eight.

The first bidder is Cotency Global Inc.

Oh, I'm sorry.

The name of the bidder is Morton Salt E.

Um, and they have provided a unit price bid.

Um okay, this is a submission that they are not submitting.

So do I read them into the record?

Okay.

Um, so we have received a response from Cargill Incorporated that they will not be bidding on this item.

Uh the next bidder is Eastern Salt Company, and they've provided a unit times bid of seventy-one dollars and ninety cents per ton.

Uh and the last bidder is Minicare Mid-American Salts LLC, and they have also provided a unit price bid of sixty-five dollars and sixty-three cents per ton.

Item number nine, Office of Sustainability, Decarbonization, and Renewable Energy Market Building Activities.

One bit.

There is one bid for item number nine.

The bid is from Power Options, Inc., and they have bid two hundred twenty-four thousand nine hundred and eighty dollars.

Item number ten, Office of the City Solicitor, appraisal surfaces for defensive litigation expires December thirty first, twenty twenty six with two one-year options for renewal, open enrollment.

One bid in this item will also remain on the agenda until further notice.

Thank you very much.

We have one bid this morning for item number ten.

Item number 11, Department of Public Works, interested suppliers of snow/slash ice control 25-26 winter season.

Two bids in this item will also remain on the agenda until further notice.

Thank you very much.

We have two bids on this meeting agenda.

Okay.

So the first.

Oh like those two stuff here jumps all of them.

That's okay.

Um so the first is Rosario's multi-services LLC.

Uh and the second is John Rosa Construction Eight.

That completes the opening of bids.

Madam Clerk, are there any unmarked bids?

No unlocked.

Thank you very much.

Um, I'd like to entertain a motion to refer all bids to the city clerk's office.

So we'll motion made by Chief Depina, second by Deputy Commissioner Richards.

All those in favor, please say aye.

The ayes have it.

I'd like to entertain a motion to move to section C advertisements.

Madam Chair, may I ask a question about this section really quick?

You might allow to ask a question about this section.

Just really quick.

Yeah.

Um, on item five, for the for the open for the phase four, you know, um, for the schools.

Yep.

Just from my understanding, I also stand on school building committee.

Um technical proposal submissions as opposed to like unit or bid pricing.

Can we explain what those are and then what's the process for evaluating those and like apples to apple evaluations on the rules?

So qualifications are qualified in hand in the situation.

Okay.

So in their initial bid, there's no pricing in those bids, is just a submission of the entity of the company and then S frame both.

Okay, you just add for quality cases.

We look at like their portfolio, prior work, or things like that.

There will be an evaluation committee that probably people who work for the council and our uh meeting will be invited to participate in the evaluation.

That's pretty much this.

Okay.

Thank you.

That's all.

Okay.

So I would like to entertain a motion to move to section C advertisements.

So move.

Motion made by Director Delgado, second by Deputy Commissioner Richards.

All those in favor, please say aye.

Aye.

The ayes have it.

Uh, I'd like to entertain a motion to approve the advertisements in section C as well as re-advertising items number one and six from section B.

No.

Second.

Motion made by Deputy Commissioner Richards, second by Director Delgado.

All those in favor, please say aye.

The ayes have it.

Uh I'd like to entertain a motion to move to section A for review.

Motion made by Chief DePena, second by Deputy Commissioner Richards.

All those in favor, please say aye.

I'd like to entertain a motion to enter um the bid protest for item number one into the record.

So move.

Seven.

Motion made by Director Delgado, second by controller Bellini.

All those in favor, please say aye.

I'd now like to entertain a motion to continue item number one.

So moved.

Second.

Motion made by Director Delgado, second by controller Bellini.

All those in favor, please say aye.

Okay, thank you all.

Members of the board, are there any items on today's agenda that you would like to discuss in section A?

Madam Chair.

Yes.

I just curious.

Um, item number 21.

I know this is not being paid for by the city.

Seems like it's a grant, but we opened toye.

Um, can you just explain what number 21 is?

Yeah, this week you have things a thing's a little bit bigger.

I'm sorry, can you come up to the table and state your name and title for the reference?

Thank you.

Uh the sustainability item on the list today is for top of a supplier for Providence Union to get electricity, which is our community choice aggregation program.

Uh, it's an electricity supply program or provided that province residents can take advantage of and businesses.

And Providence and six other municipalities all participate in the same kind of aggregation program under their same under a different name in each town, different brand in each town.

But every so often we have to go back up a bid for a supplier to make sure that you know we want to continue on with the same flyer.

Maybe there's a better option on the market.

And so we're in we're about halfway through to three bits of the way through all our five-year contract term with the current supplier.

And that supplier uh starting in the purchases of electricity that they're going to be making for the residents and customers of Province will start to impact terms beyond their their contract.

So even though it's a couple years out, we need to um award a supplier now so that they can start buying electricity for us in 2020.

Um the reason that we don't uh manage this RRP through the sustainability department is because we are one of seven towns that are doing this with the programs in good energy that manages the procurement process for us uh and all the other towns.

So they do a competitive process.

Uh they got two bidders, um they analyze the you know uh bids and provide a kind of an executive summary of them back to all the towns who they gathered on the uh onto a uh virtual meetings uh and all the towns agree that our existing supplier next to our energy remains the best option.

Um so now at this point we're uh each town goes to their own kind of through their own kind of procurement uh and agreement uh process, which is what we're doing now.

So uh we're requesting British to enter into an agreement with next era or continue our agreement with next era for the next five-year rate term to the project.

Yeah, of course.

Uh you mentioned an impact.

Do you just speak to like what the benefit of reference of the problem presents are?

Sure.

So the the purpose of the program is uh to provide an alternative and competitive supply program to what the utility offers.

So if you aren't in our program, you're kind of defaulted into Rhode Island Energies uh program.

Uh so we try to provide a lower rate.

We've been able to do that for the first uh five or six rate terms um compared to the utilities electricity rate, uh so slightly cheaper for our residents typically, but we're also adding in a little bit more renewable energy into our supply, um, which is helping us transition to a cleaner great back within otherwise.

Okay, I just thought it was fascinated.

Sure.

Right.

Any other questions?

No.

All right, excellent.

Um, so hearing no additional questions, I'd like to entertain a motion to continue item number one and approve items number two through 22 in section A on a roll call vote.

No mote.

Uh motion made by Director Delgado, second by Chief De Pina.

All those in favor, please say aye.

The ayes have it.

Madam Clerk, will you please call the roll?

Courtney Hawkins.

Kyle Delgado.

Aye.

Councilman Gunselves is absent.

Councilwoman Ryan is absent.

Crystal Lindbergh.

Aye.

Elaine Richards.

Hi.

Joseph Depina.

Patricia Queen Faye.

Uh Shimari Huspin is absent.

John Rs Mavian.

Hi.

Dante Bellini.

Tyrell Stevens, please absent.

You have eight guys or absent number one is continued, and then items two through 22 are opposed.

Thank you very much, Maggie Clark.

I'd now like to entertain a motion to move to section D, approval of minutes.

Motion made by Deputy Commissioner Richards, second by controller Bellini.

All those in favor, please say aye.

All right.

The ayes have it.

I'd like to entertain a motion to approve the minutes of September 22nd, 2025.

Motion made by Chief Depina, second by Deputy Commissioner Richards.

All those in favor, please say aye.

The ayes have it.

And finally, I'd like to entertain a motion to adjourn.

Second.

Motion made by Deputy Commissioner Richards, second by controller Bellini.

All those in favor, please say aye.

The ayes have it.

This meeting is adjourned.

Thank you all.