Roselle board approves wastewater design and upgrades, authorizes water meter purchase

The Village of Roselle board on July 14 approved a series of measures to advance local wastewater treatment upgrades and to replace water meters. The board approved a resolution authorizing the mayor to execute a $40,000 design engineering services agreement for the Devlin Wastewater Treatment Plant secondary feed and authorized a notice of award and related contract with John Burns Construction for the Boderman STP biological nutrient removal upgrade project. Separately, trustees adopted a resolution authorizing payment to Badger Meter Inc. for water meter purchases in an amount not to exceed $125,000. Those items were part of the meeting's consent and public works portions and were moved and approved by roll call without further discussion. The motions carried by voice/roll call votes recorded as “aye” in the transcript; no roll-call tallies tied to individual names were introduced in the record provided. The Devlin project authorization listed a design-services contract for the plant’s secondary feed in the amount of $40,000. The Boderman item included both a notice of award and an agreement for John Burns Construction to perform biological nutrient removal upgrades at the Boderman STP; the board approved both documents as part of the consent agenda. The water meter resolution authorized purchasing meters from Badger Meter Inc. with a payment not to exceed $125,000. No formal discussion of contract terms, timelines, or funding sources for the construction award and Devlin agreement was recorded in the spoken portions of the meeting. The consent agenda language identifies those items as routine and noncontroversial; trustees approved the consent agenda by motion and roll call. The board also approved other routine consent items that night, including adoption of minutes and an ordinance declaring certain village personal property surplus; those items were handled in the same motion approving the wastewater actions. Looking ahead, the motions authorize staff to execute the listed agreements and payments; the board did not record additional direction or implementation deadlines on the public record during the meeting.