Memorandum 17-100 Security Fence at Sewer Treatment Plant

Memorandum 17-100

TO:                        Katie Koester, City Manager

FROM:                 Carey S. Meyer, Public Works Director            

DATE:                   June 14, 2017

SUBJECT:          Fence Relocation at Sewer Treatment Plant

                                                Sewer Reserve Funding Request for $16,000

Twenty-eight years ago, chain link fence was installed around the sewer treatment plant as part of the project.  A four hundred foot stretch of the fence is along the roadway adjacent to the STP operations building.  The fence prevents our ability to maintain the ditch along the roadway which has filled over the years, and now causes periodic flooding of the operations building.

This memo is a request for $16,000 from the sewer reserve fund (approximate balance $1.9 million) to relocate the fence so that Public Works crews can do the necessary ditching and roadway shaping to move water away from the sewer operations building.  The new location on the other side of the ditch will allow for periodic maintenance of the ditch without having to move it in the future.  We have a proposal from Four Seasons Fence of Kenai to do the work for $15,600.  They will demo the old fence and posts, install new posts (old ones cannot be used) and reinstall the existing barbed wire and fence matting material.  

Public Works will obtain additional quotes for the work as required by the Procurement Policy and request award of the low bid at the July 24 City Council meeting.