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Council questions emergency wastewater purchase and timeliness of required notifications
Summary
Council members raised concerns that an emergency purchase for sludge/incinerator cleaning was issued without timely notice to council and possibly without controller approval, prompting requests for record review and compliance checks with the city's emergency purchase ordinance.
Council members on Tuesday pressed the administration for details after learning of an emergency purchase order related to sewage sludge, incinerator cleaning and clinker removal at the wastewater treatment plant.
A council speaker summarized the sequence in committee: the facilities engineer contacted vendors on Feb. 4, a vendor (listed in documents as Brinks Works Environmental and in some paperwork as Burke's Works…
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