In addition to approving a two year agreement between city police and the local school district, the Sandusky City Council will be meeting Monday, July 17 to discuss the tentative awarding of the city’s water system project contract to Boddy Construction Company, Inc.
The water system project, as approved and adopted in May of this year, is to be paid by the state through its Drinking Water State Revolving Fund, so the contract will be contingent “upon successful financial arrangements” with the state’s fund. With that in mind and in writing, the council plans to award the contract to Boddy Construction, on recommendation of the city engineer, with Boddy Construction having the “low bid” of a little over $3.2 million for the work.
In addition to this agreement, the council will also be discussing the approval of issuing capital improvement bonds and the borrowing of almost $60,000 from the state’s finance authority for the water system project, to be issued at the end of August 2023.
Meanwhile, with Sandusky’s interim district superintendent Jeff Hartel signing on behalf of Sandusky Community Schools last week, the two year school resource officer contract only needs City Manager Dave Faber’s signature to go into effect.
The council will also be asked to approve the purchase of a columbarium for the city’s cemetery. While the city and cemetery board hope to eventually install two columbariums for urns, which would cost about $70,000, including the cement foundation work for both, only one will be paid for by a donor. As such, the second one is on hold to generate the funds for its payment.
