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Utilities board approves routine invoices, several vendor contracts and hazardous-waste pickup
Summary
The City of Bloomington Utilities Services Board approved payable invoices, utilities claims and wire transfers, and authorized service agreements including an amendment to Clark Deats Inc., a Stantec amendment, a three-year Swift Comply contract, a Ratio Architects sampling agreement for Miller Showers Park, an on-call agreement with Blans LLC, and a hazardous-waste pickup contract with Arborwood/Arcwood Environmental.
At its Jan. 29 meeting the City of Bloomington Utilities Services Board approved routine financial items and multiple vendor agreements.
Financial approvals included acceptance of payable invoices, the utilities claim list dated Jan. 22 (printout showed $21,321.93 among line items), wire transfers for February totaling $515,390.70, customer refunds totaling $3,489.30, and a special check run for $3,166.31. Board members moved, seconded and approved each item during roll-call vocal ayes recorded on the record.
On contracts and professional services, the board approved several items presented on the consent agenda and in open discussion: Amendment No. 1 to Clark Deats Incorporated’s professional-engineering agreement (to extend the contract expiration while staff fills a vacancy), Amendment No. 2 to Stantec Consulting Services Inc. for additional rate-design discovery work, and an on-call service agreement with Blans LLC for towing and record services.
Kelsey Latony, assistant director for environmental, described a three-year renewal with Swift Comply (pricing covers 2026–28) for the department’s pretreatment and fats, oils and grease (FOG) tracking software; the board approved the three-year agreement (transcript lists contract amount of $36,253). Latony also presented a proposed partnership with Ratio Architects to sample Miller Showers Park after recent dredging; the sampling will include sediments, suspended solids, nutrients, E. coli and oils/grease, and the team hopes to obtain limited PFAS testing through a partnering lab at Indiana University. The board approved the service agreement with Ratio Architects LLC to fund the sampling and permit the firm to collect data for a conference presentation.
Isabel Quiroz, hazardous materials coordinator, presented a biannual hazardous-waste pickup contract for CBU locations with Arborwood/Arcwood Environmental for $47,274.10 (transcript reads “47,274 with 10¢”), noting the contractor must document cradle-to-grave chain-of-custody and will report disposal pathways. The board moved and approved the hazardous-waste services agreement.
All contract approvals were moved, seconded and carried; the transcript records vocal approval but does not show roll-call tallies by member name. Several items had minor clarifying discussion about contract scope, hourly billing practices (Stantec) and timing for deliverables.
