Ashland commission approves a slate of utility contracts and procurement ordinances
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Summary
The City of Ashland approved multiple second-reading ordinances covering pump station repairs, sewer change orders and chemical supply contracts. Votes were taken by voice; commissioners requested additional budget and project accounting on several items.
The City of Ashland commission on April 16 approved a series of second-reading ordinances that authorize contracts and final change orders for water and wastewater work and routine chemical purchases.
Clerk read each ordinance and commissioners moved and seconded the measures. Items approved included a contract with Service Pump and Supply to remove and replace lower units at the 10th Street and 26th Street pump stations for the Department of Utilities, Division of Wastewater Collection ($78,848.57) and a final adjustment (change order No. 2) with Southern Ohio Trenching & Excavating Inc. that decreases the Spring Park sanitary sewer contract by $60,920 and extends the contract by 46 days.
The commission also approved a change order with Gullick Sanitation Services Inc. for removal and dewatering of reservoir solids at the Ashland Water Treatment Plant (net decrease of $142,960.12 and a 56-day time increase) and adopted multiple procurement ordinances authorizing purchases of treatment chemicals at vendor prices listed in the ordinances, including caustic soda, sodium hypochlorite, potassium permanganate, powdered activated carbon, aluminum sulfate, sand, phosphoric acid, liquid polymer and polyaluminum chloride for water production and wastewater treatment.
Most items passed on voice votes with no roll-call tallies recorded in the meeting transcript. Commissioners asked staff for additional detail on several approvals: Mark, a utilities staff member, described operational constraints that affected the reservoir solids project and explained why weather and Division of Water deadlines limited the amount of solids the contractor could remove. Commissioner discussion also requested clearer accounting for how funds were spent on prior waterline and related utility projects.
What happens next: The mayor will execute the contracts authorized by the ordinances. Commissioners asked staff to bring more detailed budget and scope information on utility projects — particularly the reservoir solids work and the Spring Park sanitary sewer adjustments — to the budget work session scheduled for April 16 at 1:00 p.m.
