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Committee approves multiple public-utilities contracts for maintenance, chemicals, equipment and software
Summary
Committee approved a package of emergency ordinances covering pipeline-inspection-truck maintenance (MTech), polymer and hauling for Crown Water residuals (Polydyne), valves and actuators purchases and services, tree-trimming for Cleveland Public Power, mail-extractor hardware support (OPEX), and payment-processing software (Bank Tech). Estimated annual costs mentioned include about $150,000 for MTech and $104,000 over two years for Bank Tech.
At its March 30 meeting the committee cleared a series of public-utilities ordinances authorizing contracts and requirement purchases across the water and power operations.
Director King described several items: ordinance 1368-2025 authorizes requirement contracts with The Safety Company LLC (doing business as MTech Company) to maintain CUES pipeline-inspection (TV) trucks — maintenance the director called "critical to the services" with an approximate cost of $150,000 per year. Ordinance 1513-2025 authorizes Polydyne Inc. and vendors to supply polymer chemicals and hauling for dewatering and disposing of residuals at the Crown Water Works Plant; the director explained Crown’s unique treatment process requires the specific polymer and routine removal of dewatered and partially dewatered residuals to keep the plant operating.
Ordinance 30-2026 covers valves, actuators and related services for the Division of Water; the director noted hundreds of thousands of valves across the distribution system, with roughly $600,000 budgeted for plant operations and about $1 million through engineering for distribution work. Ordinance 184-2026 authorizes tree-trimming services for Cleveland Public Power to reduce outages and supplement in-house crews; the committee discussed coordination with the Division of Forestry and avoiding unnecessary removal of significant trees.
Ordinance 237-2026 authorizes maintenance and support contracts with OPEX Corporation for mail-extractor and scanning equipment used by the utilities billing functions; ordinance 280-2026 authorizes Bank Tech Inc. to provide software support for payment processing, estimated at about $104,000 for the two-year period referenced in the transcript. All items were recommended for passage by staff and approved by the committee as recorded.
Most items were presented by the director with brief council questions; the committee recorded approvals and forwarded the ordinances for signatures.
