With many meetings over the past two weeks about multiple projects, Sandusky City Manager Dave Faber had several updates for the city council at Monday’s meeting.
In addition to a reminder from Faber that he’ll be out of town for a personal vacation soon, the Sandusky City Council heard updates on the city’s wastewater treatment plant’s handling of last Friday’s storm. Faber noted that the weather had maxed out the WWTP with the rain, plugging two pumps and causing staff to work through the night. City staff also worked through the rain for the Worth Street Project.
In council actions, the council also met last night, July 17 to approve a two year agreement between city police and the local school district, as well as approving 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 tentatively awarded 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 approved the issuing of 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 needed City Manager Dave Faber’s signature to go into effect.
The council also approved 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.
The council also voted unanimously to approve a consent to construction from the Michigan Department of Transportation, with the city teaming up with the agency for the upcoming street work improvements.
