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West Haven ARPA committee approves animal-shelter work and dozens of invoice payments
Summary
The West Haven ARPA Committee approved an animal-shelter addition design invoice and a slate of ARPA-funded payments — including library, security and housing-crisis grants — and scheduled a pricing-review meeting for a major construction job.
The West Haven ARPA Committee on March 3 approved a series of ARPA-funded invoices and moved toward design and bidding for an animal-shelter addition, the committee chair said.
Chair said the animal-shelter project will use funds from the committee’s police-shed ARPA bucket to add two adoption rooms — one for cats and one for dogs — and to create a cat room “set up with cat toys and towers” so cats can leave cages. The committee approved a design-related invoice for the architect identified in the meeting packet (an invoice described as $3,005.50) and the chair said he expected construction drawings this month with a plan to put the job out to bid by month’s end.
The committee also approved multiple professional and program invoices included in the meeting packet: a CARES Act invoice presented on pages 5–12, two UHY invoices (one listed on page 13 and another on pages 15–16), a library invoice the packet shows as requesting $43,651, a West Shore/contractor invoice identified in the packet as $9,607.50, a housing-crisis grant payment of $2,274.85 to SMG Corporation, and a CPS security-services payment for the site listed on pages 22–29. All motions carried on voice votes.
Chair expressed concern about pricing changes on the city’s largest current construction job, Westshore, saying, “they're gonna try and reprice the whole job, so I called for a meeting this Thursday … with the architect and [the contractor] to hammer through their pricing to make sure they're not getting a second bite of the apple.” He scheduled that pricing review meeting for Thursday at 1:00 p.m. in his office.
Committee members discussed administrative matters including the parks fund (no activity), an exhausted food-bank allocation, and pending stormwater invoices for which the city seeks reimbursement for labor. Chair said counsel and staff drafted a compliance form for ARPA claims that employees must complete and which the commissioner of public works will sign before invoices come to the committee.
The meeting packet also included items tied to City Hall windows and an electrical-main-breakers issue. The chair said a subcontractor claimed that the prime contractor, Newington Electric, had not returned calls for more than four months; he proposed reallocating that breakers work to the subcontractor if they agree to the same terms.
The committee adjourned after about 13 minutes. The chair and clerk confirmed motions carried by voice vote on each presented invoice and item; no roll-call tallies were stated in the transcript.
