To approve.

So move.

Move.

Second in any discussion.

All in favor say aye.

Aye.

Minutes are approved.

Item number one is approval change order number two with Mark Johnson construction.

For the Fletcher phase two improvements project, the total is 943, 883, and an additional 304 days.

Brian, welcome.

Hey, good afternoon.

Good afternoon.

So I'm gonna walk through some of the history and how we got here.

Um as a reminder, this the phase two project at the Fletcher plant is to rehab the digesters and to rehab the aeration basis.

So the aeration basins are done, that's that's complete.

Uh the remaining scope is to replace the lids on digesters one and two.

Um the change order that we're asking for will add digester three back into the project.

And I'll explain that.

But so about this time last year, we took third digester out of the project to cover the cost of lid uh replacements for digesters one and two during construction.

Once we had the sludge removed from those digesters, we had in the constructor project to inspect the lids because we couldn't do it outside construction.

We did the inspection showed that the lids needed replacing.

So that time the decision was made to pull digester three out to help cover the cost of the lid replacement for digesters one and two.

You with me?

Okay.

So for reluctant for uh so there is an accompanying finance committee item for to transfer monies from the wastewater lagoon project to Commodore Changer.

Uh the this time last year, since then we've done a study for that project on the lagoons.

Um the intent of the city was to determine the scope for improvements and correct preliminary cost estimates.

Uh and it so a component of those improvements is restoring some of the lagoon capacity by sludge removal.

Um the study indicated we could restore eight to ten years of capacity within the proposed modified budget.

So, in other words, we take what we're proposing 943,000 dollars from the lagoon project.

We still can remove the amount of sludge we need to to restore 10 years worth of capacity and do the other components of that project we want to do.

Um and then another note is that the digesters and the lagoons are they're interconnected systems, so the lagoons basically serve as an overflow for sludge that can't be processed by the plant.

Um, or if the solids facilities overload it, so restoration of the third digester will help to reduce the transfer of sods to the lagoon and reduce the amount of capacity needed for the lagoon to be restored.

So any questions?

You understand all that?

I do that's good.

Remember how the athlete done went basically at the time when we established the review budget.

How much did they originally for the cost?

Yes.

Five million five the six million dollars of that budget through two sources.

So six million dollars is the answer to your question.

So at that time we didn't have this study.

We so now we're increasing that another million nine forty.

Uh I was talking about the legume project.

Okay.

That we're taking money from so for that project.

We had six million dollars.

Since then, we've done a study.

The study shows that we have enough money to remove sludge, restore it.

There's other components of that project we can do as well.

And so that's I guess that's the the bottom lines.

We're we we have plenty of money in that budget, so we're you want to use that extra money.

I'm just trying uh we're we're bumping something up 943,000.

Gotcha, okay.

And we're increasing it another 304 days.

Yes.

What was it original?

So originally all the lagoon repairs.

No, we're uh the uh the digest digest digest.

Original budget was 706-194.

No, is that not what you're saying?

Yeah, originally we had right now if the with the proposal the budget will be 14.2 million.

That'll be the contract amount for the constructor.

So it would be approximately 13.3 million was the original contract.

What is it we're creating 943,000?

What's that?

What is it?

We're increasing 943,000.

The phase two and what planet phase two originally.

Yeah.

I don't know the okay.

You didn't have one.

If you're looking for it by a line item, it's the just digestive mixing upgrades.

So Mr.

Bowie, it was it was when we originally bid it, it was roughly 12 million dollars, 12.2.

Then we did the lid the lid uh swap out, which increased it to 13.3 ish, and now we're at the 14 point uh two proposal and all right.

I'm not gonna do that.

And is that is that is that separate from the other proper we're taking money away.

You guys with this deal keep it up, huh?

Are we tracking?

No, there's the engineer's not here.

Okay, well, but we're just taking away money from what was the other project you were talking about.

The lagoon and proof.

The lagoon.

So are we still able to do the lagoon project?

Yeah, that was the six million, correct?

But but we're okay with taking this money away from that and putting it over here to do the number, whatever the other digester, correct?

And that still leaves us enough money to complete that other project.

That's correct.

That's what I was trying to walk through our yes.

Can I add one thing?

So we originally did this project.

So we have three digesters.

So the original project is only gonna do we're only gonna do two.

We started out originally doing three, but we thought we were gonna be able to reuse the lids on them.

Right.

And you can't really inspect the lids until you get everything out.

So once we got everything out and did the inspections of it, we realized that we were gonna have to replace the lids.

So instead of trying to reuse lids that didn't work, we opted to get two fully rehabbed, and we would come back at a later date and do the third.

Now we've gotten a study back on the lagoon, and we realize that we don't have to have as much money as we thought we had, or that we have budgeted.

So because the contractors still out there, we still have some components that we are that we had originally bid for the digester three.

We're using some of that money that we don't need on the lagoon project and using it as an opportunity to go ahead and get all three digesters up and rehab.

But at the end of the day, the digesters and the lagoons are both part of the solids handling process.

So we're doing the front part of the solids handling process instead of the back part of it.

Or we're still doing both of it, but that's where the money's coming.

So it's still all part of the solids handling process that we're using money for.

Right.

We believe that number is 943 883, which you will see a budget amendment and finance.

Okay.

Between yin and yang, that was a pretty followable explanation.

Is that recorded over there when we play it back?

We might need to play her back again.

No.

I don't have any other questions.

Are you sure?

Mr.

Lonair, are you away?

Yeah.

Would you like to explain it?

Would you like to give me a summary of what we just talked about?

Yeah.

Motion.

That was motion and second.

All in favor say aye.

All right.

Item number one is approved.

Item number two is approval.

Balancing change order with Mark Johnson construction for the Ed Love Raw water pump station project, a deductive total of 1265605.

Right?

We like deductive totals.

This is more straightforward, yes, sir.

Merry Christmas.

This is uh the closeout change order for the raw water pump station project, the raw water pump stations uh just north of Ed Love water treatment plant.

Uh we retrofitted the existing pumphouse building with four or five hundred horsepower pumps replacing the old 1976 pumps, and uh we've redone all the electrical components, added a new generator.

So the project uh was originally contracted for 18.5 million.

This puts it coming in at 18.4-ish.

Um finished in August.

The deductive amount, I believe, will go back to the funding was DWSRF and 2022 B bonding.

So the remainder believe we'll go back to the 22 B bond contingency.

Any questions?

So motion second, all in favor say aye.

Aye.

Item two is approved.

Item three is approval of a professional services agreement with Jacobs Engineering for services related to water and wastewater total not to exceed 50,000.

Right?

Yes, sir.

So this is uh on call contract.

We had this for several years.

Uh Jacobs will assist us with uh things like water distribution system modeling, uh water treatment planning assistance.

Uh they'll assist us with uh screen software reporting, scream software is the software we use to uh when we do video inspection of our sewer collection system.

Uh it helps us prioritize where we need to uh you know do preventive maintenance or do rehab or replacement.

Um the project's funded through our operational budget water and zero and outside services.

Frontiers up for the the remainder of the fiscal year, or is that for upcoming calendar year or what?

It's for the a year from execution.

Okay, and we'll execute as soon as it's approved.

Yes, sir.

Okay.

Second.

Motion second.

All in favor say aye.

Aye.

Item three is approved.

Item four is approval of a minor public works contract with Dixie painting and sandblasting.

Total is 28,761 dollars.

Bright?

Yes, sir.

Um, so Dixie was contracted to paint the west end tank, and while they were doing that, they discovered some areas that needed some more uh intensive rehab work, some metal replacement.

So this is to cover that.

Um the the project that's funded through the Ed Love Capital Repairs Improvement Operations budget should take 15 days to complete once it's approved.

Questions?

Motion.

Uh is this the 28?

Is this the additional amount?

Is that it's we're doing it in a separate contract.

Okay.

Second.

Motion second.

All in favor say aye.

Aye.

Item four is approved.

Item five is approval of contract amendment number one with McGiffert Associates for the East Over Drainage Project.

Totals 198,520.

Mike, welcome.

Good afternoon.

Uh so the East Over Drainage Project uh was funded uh about 18 months ago.

I think I'm a number of time right.

This is one of the drainage projects that we're tackling with the Noah's Ark 2.0 project.

We initially budgeted uh $350,000 and engaged uh McGiffer to go into design services.

Um we are wrapping up the design service, and this contract amendment is then to move forward with acquisition and both construction phase services.

Their total contract amount addition uh is 1985.

Um that puts us a little over the original 350.

There'll be a corresponding finance amendment today as well.

Um get this project ready and go to bid this summer.

Uh, the estimated construction cost on this is around 2.1 questions that that account number in there.

What account number is that?

That's just general fund account.

Yeah, it's mine.

I've been bigger.

All right, I'm good.

You got a motion second.

Second, all in favor say aye.

Aye.

Item five is approved.

Item six is approval.

Professional services contract with bullet environmental for maintenance of the soil vapor extraction system at the Mercedes Benz AM.

Total $7,500, Tim.

Well, thank you.

Good afternoon.

Good afternoon.

So this is funded by the River District uh improvement account for amp maintenance, and this is to perform just some routine inspections and um maintenance on the soil vapor extraction system that is on the amphitheater site.

Uh consists of you know a series of vented pathways, blowers, and an exhaust system that exhausts everything on the west side of the property.

What is a soil vapor extraction system?

So um with the sound like something extracts vapor from the soil.

Well, correct, but uh it uh with the nature of the site and previous uh garbage now.

Correct.

This is very common for sites that were formerly in that landfills or are currently landfills, yes sir.

So any any gases or what have you that are in the ground residual from the past, it will extract those and safely get them off.

And is there an ongoing process or is that something you do for a certain period and then it's done and you stop doing it?

It is a continual process, yes, sir.

So I mean this the system works continually, yes, sir.

Will there come a time when you don't need it?

I suppose there could come a time where with the right amount of um geotechnical investigations, you might be able to not have it anymore, but uh we would we would need to perform those investigations, and you're probably looking at at least a hundred years from the last time it was uh used as Tim.

You said this was the river district one, yes, sir.

Okay second motion is second, all in favor say aye.

Aye.

Item six is approved, item seven is approval, minor public works contract with Amison and associates for overhead door repair at environmental services for totals $38,500.

Tim.

So this is funded from the facilities maintenance outside services, and this is to repair a roll-up door and sidewall of the building that was damaged by um being hit accidentally by a driver on the side of PSD.

Insurance, yes, sir.

We have applied for insurance coverage, so that should be uh reimbursed reimbursed less than the $1,000 devotee.

Motion motion and a second, all in favor say aye.

Aye.

Item seven is approved.

Item eight is approved of a minor public works contract with Ryan Metal Works.

The total is $34,700, Tim.

Yes, sir.

So this item and the next two are all kind of a collective project.

This is funded by the security improvements account, and this is to do several items.

It's going to install a new handrail on the front of City Hall.

It's going to install new fencing between City Hall and Chom.

It's going to install new fencing at the Annex 1 parking lot where there's a yellow handrail right now, and it's going to install a new three swing gate at the entrance of that parking lot.

Questions.

Second.

Motion and second.

All in favor say aye.

Aye.

Item eight is approved.

Item nine is approval of a minor public works contract with fast signs for city city seal plaques for the gate between City Hall and Chom.

Tim.

Yes, sir.

This will install two plaques on the new fence between City Hall and Chom.

These will be cast aluminum plaques.

Questions.

What are the plaques?

It's the city seal.

Okay.

Okay.

Motion.

Motion second.

All in favor say aye.

Aye.

Item nine is approved.

Item 10 is approval of a minor public works contract with building specialties for gate hardware for new fencing between City Hall and Chom.

The total is $2,670.

Tim.

Yes, sir.

So there will be a new man gate between City Hall and Chom, and this will be this work here will install the gate hardware, the emergency crash bar, hinges, uh closer, all the electronic devices associated with that gate.

Questions?

I think one of the things that we've looked at is just improved uh pedestrian uh entrance to the parking lot.

Right now we have a lot of wanderers.

We also want to make sure we've got a secure parking lot.

Uh the gate itself right now is not conducive.

Yeah, right.

You can't use it.

Currently you do.

Uh so it's not conducive to egress away from the building.

We want to put a crash bar on that.

They'll have mesh inside where you couldn't put your hand through and use that crash bar.

Um, but right now, if we were to put gates up at the driveway and someone used the exits of the building outside, there's no egress out unless you happen to have your uh credential and have appropriate access, but we've got to get them to a public right-of-way if someone were to exit the building, so that's the purpose of this gate and doing the adjustments to the egress on it.

Is this security driven or yes, sir?

Motion motion is second, all in favor say aye.

Aye.

Item 10 is approved, item 11.

Authorization for a professional services contract with the appraisal and consult a group to perform appraisals regarding the Northern River Walk Project Phase 2.

Totals $20,000.

Mr.

Bobbitt.

Couldn't have said it better myself.

That's what we're doing.

We want to get ready to uh begin the request to be northern river.

So you can start to go ahead and get the appraisals going.

You have an estimated time.

No, yeah.

Uh with the appraiser, hopefully, we can get them not by the end of the year, but certainly by the first quarter.

Yes, sir.

Questions?

Motion.

Second.

Motion second, all in favor say aye.

Aye.

Item 11 is approved.

Item 12 is authorization for professional services contract with southeast appraisal to perform appraisals regarding the east over drainage project.

So it's 10,400.

This is in tandem with what Mr.

Gardner presented, so this is to uh get the appraisals to require the right of way.

Questions?

I'm sorry, say it again, please.

Get the appraisals to acquire the easements we need for.

Okay.

Motion.

Motion second.

All in favor say aye.

Aye.

Item 12 is approved.

Item 13 is authorization to amend the airport lease agreement with Ascension FBO at the Tuscaloosa National Airport.

Afternoon.

Well ascension is also known as Hawthorne Global.

They're on the east side of the airport.

We've seen a growing interest in development on the east side, in particular south of Hawthorne.

That's the most likely way to initiate commercial or private development, and there's a 1.25 acre that kind of is in the way.

We've been in talks with Ascension to remove that one parcel of 1.25 acres and like to move forward.

And open for any further questions.

Are we adding that onto their lease or taking that?

We're taking it off.

Taking it off.

It started in 2013, Bama Air before Hawthorne, they had a Medivac of uh operation there.

They uh closed their doors in 2018.

And uh the property is just sitting there dormant.

We're trying to uh encourage a local developer to build some more hangars right there.

Okay.

Motion second second, all in favor say aye.

Aye.

Okay.

Item 13 is approved.

Thank you, Jeff.

Item 14 is authorization to enter.

The 12-month contract with a vital exam special services, physical wellness examinations and tests and Tusclose fire rescue first responders.

The total is not to exceed 166,000 dollars.

Chief Dell, welcome.

Good afternoon, council.

This is the third year that we've been doing physicals, uh health evaluations for our firefighters.

This is one of the one of the huge benefits, and I think recruitment tool that that somebody should look at the city of Tuscaloosa and say, you know what, this this might not be my paycheck, but this is going to get me to retirement.

This is going to get me to enjoy retirement.

Uh firefighters across the board, you look at every every cancer risk.

I think everybody in here has probably dealt with cardiovascular issues and cancer risk in your own families.

Um risk.

Every cancer category that you look at, firefighters are one and a half to two times higher risk than the normal population.

That's not two percent, that's two times that.

And so this is some of the stuff that that through ingestion, absorption, inhalation of some of the fires, some of the things that we run into, puts us at risk for that.

And so what this does is allow my guys to get tested early.

They do blood work, they do cardiovascular testing, cancer screenings, and hopefully we can catch some of these cancers uh, you know, early on in the process so that so that the treatment can be there and they can have that that long-lasting career and the retirement.

Um final exam comes in, it's a company out of Florida, they come in, we're gonna start doing blood work in December, and this will go uh every firefighter that we have is eligible for this, and so over the years, you know, the first couple years, it's you know, you could tell there were some guys that that weren't really getting on board.

Last year we had 165 guys uh actually step out and do this, and you know, no matter how old you are, how young you are, or how young you think you are, uh it's never too early to get tested for some of this stuff, and so I'm asking for your approval of this because this is a huge benefit and really firefighter safety issue for our guys.

So, chief, is this just the blood work or no sir?

They go through uh NFPA 1580 sets the standard for us, the fire protection uh sets the standard for for physicals and also the treatments there.

So, what this does is they do blood work.

So, so in December, these guys will get blood work, and it ranges from everything from a metabolic panel to tell them what their kidney, their liver, liver uh enzymes are doing, how their body's doing at that, uh a diabetes marker, hormone markers, prostate markers to figure out if they if they're higher risk for prostate cancer.

They also look at everything BMI blood pressure O2, uh, 12 leads, stress test, all of those things are doing ultrasounding arteries all the way down.

Uh is this contract annual biannual trying?

Annual, yes, sir.

It's annual.

I don't have any other questions.

Motion second.

Motion second, all in favor say aye.

Aye.

Item 14 is approved, item 15 is approval to enter into a 36-month professional services contract with sprout social for social media management software of the total $13,000, $33.8.

Sarah, welcome.

Good afternoon, counsel.

Good afternoon.

So Sprout Social is a platform that we have been using for several years now to manage our dozens of social media platforms or accounts that the city of Tuscaloosa has.

It allows us to schedule posts out in advance.

It gives us analytics and it gives us the ability to set up workflows so that one person on my team can schedule and another person on my team can approve.

Questions.

What accounts do we have?

Sure.

So the city itself has several, you know, on all the different platforms.

And then we have some uh departments and divisions that have their own.

So the airport has their own Facebook, for example.

The River Market has their own accounts.

Um we have a couple of city events that have their own accounts too.

And holidays on the plaza have their own accounts as well.

This is just for social media, not yes.

Instagram we have Instagram, uh Facebook, Twitter, formerly known as Twitter X.

We're on X.

Yes.

Um the mayor is on TikTok now.

I don't know if y'all heard that or not.

We're not we're not funding that all your turn with TikTok.

Yeah, we need to.

You know, we're we're on all the platforms anywhere we can reach.

Oh, that's worth $13,000.

Motion motion second, all in favor say aye.

Aye.

Item 15 is approved.

Is there any other business to be brought before this committee?

Hearing none, our next committee meeting will be in three weeks because of the holiday.

We will meet and reconvene again on Tuesday, December the 9th.

Are we are we ready to give a motion to adjourn?

We are motion motion or second.

All in favor say aye.