Memorandum 14-173(S) Funding to Provide Potable Water for Floats K - Q at the Harbor and Electrical Upgrades to Floats HH & JJ

Memorandum ID: 
14-173(S)
Memorandum Status: 
Backup

Details

Memorandum 14-173(S)

TO:                       MAYOR BETH WYTHE & HOMER CITY COUNCIL

FROM:                 BRYAN HAWKINS, PORT DIRECTOR/HARBORMASTER

DATE:                  NOVEMBER 7, 2014

SUBJECT:         FUNDING AMENDMENT FOR K THRU Q WATERLINE EXTENSION AND          ELECTRICAL/STRUCTURAL UPGRADES TO HH AND JJ FLOATS

 

During 2015 budget requests to City Council, Port and Harbor Staff submitted a department budget request of $100,000 for the purpose of extending potable water to floats K through Q.  In this request, we explain that there are significant advantages to completing this work while the contractor is already mobilized for replacing the main float’s water system for our System 1 project along with the improvements to System 4.  After reviewing the timeline with Public Works Project Manager and the contractor, we have found it necessary to ask for this funding in an appropriation from the Port and Harbor Reserves, instead of a budget request.  This appropriation is necessary in order to receive the benefit of not having to re-mobilize the workers to this site after the first of the year when the 2015 budget is passed.

Potable water and electrical service is the most asked-for amenity from our annual, 32 foot stall lessees.  This project will bring water to 228 additional vessels that provide the Harbor Enterprise approximately $364,000 annually in moorage.  Along with supplying water this appropriation will bring much needed electrical and structural upgrades to the ongoing improvements to the system four customers.  Harbor staff also believes that this improvement will work to save the Harbor Enterprise operational costs due to water loss from the continuous drips and leaks that occur from the “daisy chained” garden hoses that are stretched out across these floats.

 

Recommendation

Deny the 2015 budget request for extending potable water to Homer Harbor floats K through Q, and approve Ordinance 14-54(S) appropriating $100,000 $255,000 from the Port and Harbor Reserves for the fiscal year 2014 for the purpose of issuing a change order to Harris Sand and Gravel to extend potable water to the ends of floats K through Q and to make electrical/structural upgrades to HH and JJ floats in the Homer Harbor.

 

 

Fiscal Note: Port & Harbor Reserves 456-380