Unidentified Speaker said city crews completed a repair of a guardrail on Meander largely using in-house labor, saving the city substantial contractor costs.

The speaker said the city initially sought bids but received none; a local contractor later offered to do the job for about $140,000. Instead, the city bought about $13,000 in materials and used trained staff from the street department and help from wastewater, parks and the water treatment plant to complete the work. "We saved the taxpayers $100,000," the speaker said.

The speaker described training the city provided in flagging and guardrail work that allowed crews to perform the repair. He listed a series of city employees who assisted, naming staff from the street, wastewater, parks and water treatment departments and identifying the street department superintendent in the remarks (the meeting transcript contains two spellings: "David Cavella" and later "David Covello"). The speaker said only a few diagonal warning bars remain to be installed as drivers approach the guardrail.

The speaker framed the repair as a cost-saving example of cross-department cooperation and training; no formal vote or contract action was reported during these remarks. The city did not provide additional procurement or engineering documentation during the meeting.