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Wausau Board of Public Works approves payments, authorizes $10,200 change order for Fulton Street work
Summary
At its July 23 meeting the Wausau Board of Public Works approved final and interim contractor payments for the Riverfront Trail and multiple street projects and authorized a $10,200 change order on the Fulton/First/Second Street reconstruction after staff described an unanticipated utility conflict.
The Wausau Board of Public Works on July 23 approved final and interim payments to contractors working on the Riverfront Trail and city street projects and authorized a $10,200 change order for work on Fulton, First and Second streets.
Board members voted to approve the minutes of the July 15 meeting and then moved through several contract items, approving a final payment for Ron Christiansen Trucking Inc. on the Riverfront Trail Project, an interim pay estimate to RC Pavers for asphalt patching, and a change order and pay estimate related to the Fulton/First/Second Street reconstruction handled by Switlick and Sons.
The board authorized a change order (Change Order No. 2) for the Fulton/First/Second Street project that increased contract costs by $10,200. An unnamed staff member explained the change was needed after crews encountered shallower-than-expected groundwater in an intersection that conflicted with existing sanitary sewer lines, requiring the project team to lower the water main. The staff member said, "once we got into the intersection, the water was shallower than we expected, so it was in conflict with our sanitary sewers. We had to drop the water main." The staff member also described a revision to manhole sizing that increased costs: two planned 4-foot-diameter manholes were replaced with two 5-foot-diameter manholes, a net increase of $3,000 for that work. Earlier in the change order the project added four bends (two 45-degree and two 22.5-degree) billed at $1,800 each, accounting for the remainder of the $10,200 total.
The board approved Switlick and Sons' pay estimate No. 3 for work to date on the Fulton/First/Second Street project in the amount of $519,146.97, a figure recommended by project inspector Kurt Gabor. The transcript does not specify amounts for the Riverfront Trail final payment or the RC Pavers pay estimate; those amounts were not stated during the meeting.
All listed motions were made, seconded and approved by voice vote. After completing the agenda items, the board made and approved a motion to adjourn.
The approvals move forward payments and contract adjustments on multiple ongoing public-works projects affecting downtown roadways and the riverfront. The meeting record contains no formal roll-call vote totals; approvals were recorded by voice vote and the transcript records the board responding "Aye."
