SAC CITY, IOWA - NOVEMBER 28, 2011
Barb Powell - Bloes
Thank you. Item number 4 is projects, and that is A, street improvements project. Number one consideration of hiring team services to perform geotechnical services. Discussion around that?
Adam Ledford
Sure. One of the things that the street and Ali committee talked about at their last meeting was the potential, and this was presented by K&P, potential of hiring out for geotechnical services on the street project. This would include a core sampling on the streets that are into anticipated to be included in the project. The advantages of geotechnical work of course gives us an opportunity to know what the condition is below eye level and have a better understanding of what needs to be done and what the costs associated with that would be. Being that we don’t have a clear understanding at this point of how deep some of our particular roads might be because many of them are got considerably several layers underneath.
Barb Powell - Bloes
Council, got any questions around that?
Nick Frohardt
The only one I had was, time element a long did we say he was going to take here?
Adam Ledford
The bigger issue has to do with the weather issue for them. My understanding is is that if they can get this approval they’ll try do this before this next month to get as many of the core samplings done as possible.
Nick Frohardt
How many are they going to take?
Adam Ledford
Yeah I believe it was 19 or 20.
Duane Huster
19, that’s what they [UNINTELLIGIBLE]
Bill Brenny
Is that, do you think that’s enough points to ascertain that there might be some variation on a given street?
Adam Ledford
It was the opinion of Kuehl and Payor that that was a sufficient for them. I think one of their greatest concerns here is the depth as much as the condition because we do have those, and Bob would be much better at explaining it then I would be, but we do have a lot of that red granite makes underneath our streets that was the streets long, long ago and of course they didn’t take that out to put in new street so we do recognize that there are a handful of our streets in town that are considerably thick on those sub surfaces.
Nick Frohardt
I guess my only question was, the time element, you know we were hopefully to start within a month-
Adam Ledford
Within, they would like to be, they hope to get as much done as possible in the next month.
Nick Frohardt
Otherwise were going to have to wait until next spring?
Adam Ledford
No they can typically end up doing these in the middle of winter. They like there to be, they like there to be some moisture in the ground when they do this so that they can kind of assess the status of the sub grade, but for the most part they can do these, granted they don’t want to be digging through 2 foot of snow to try to do it but if they can get started now and we don’t foreseeably have snow in the future, they would like to be able to get this done before, by the end of the week.
Barb Powell - Bloes
Is there any other discussion or questions?
Nick Frohardt
How far away was the other bidder in this?
Adam Ledford
Actually both of them are in here. One was $1573 and the other one was $2300
Nick Frohardt
OK.
[MOTION BY HANSEN TO HIRE TEAM SERVICES TO PERFORM GEOTECHNICAL SERVICES, SECONDED BY BRENNY – ALL AYES]
