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Board clears routine finances, multiple contract amendments and change orders
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Summary
The Utilities Board approved standard invoices, utility claims, wire transfers, customer refunds, a special check run, consent-agenda contracts and multiple contract amendments and change orders, including approvals for Flow Solutions, SSW Enterprises, Lane Christiansen, Donahue, Kokosing Industrial, T.Y. Lynn, T. Lai Lin, and VET Environmental.
The Bloomington Utilities Board on March 23 handled a slate of routine finance items and multiple contract approvals.
The board approved a nine‑page standard-invoice list totaling $844,502.01 after discussion about a mechanical street sweeper rental and related insurance claims. The utility claims list for $206,714.83 and wire transfers of $583,288.27 were approved. The board also approved customer refunds totaling $16,069.03 (staff explained many refunds were leak adjustments or overpayments, including a resident question about a Renwick HOA refund) and a $1,888.93 special check run.
Staff presented and the board approved a consent agenda for nonchemical contracts totaling $20,651 as presented by Director Catherine Zager. Individual contract approvals and amendments approved during the meeting included an on‑call services agreement with Flow Solutions (air compressor work), an amendment to SSW Enterprises doing business as Office Pride (cleaning schedule adjustment), an amendment to Lane Christiansen Company (about $4,200 increase to correct motor winding size), amendment No. 4 for Donahue (Monroe Water Treatment Plant chemical feed design; ~$51,500 increase and time extension), Kokosing Industrial change order No. 3 for safety improvements at the Dillman wastewater plant (about $62,534 addition), a $59,284 contract with T.Y. Lynn (formerly Greeley Hansen) for rate-evaluation consulting, a $445,096 electrical engineering design contract with T. Lai Lin for the Dillman upgrade, and amendment No. 2 with VET Environmental to support litigation work on the Leonard’s Linens contaminated‑soil discovery.
Board members asked practical and fiscal questions on several items, including staffing, whether some costs were in the rate case, and the timing of invoices. Where specific votes were recorded the actions carried by voice vote; roll-call tallies were not read into the transcript for these routine approvals.
