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Finance committee approves staff procurement recommendations, moves watershed plan and equipment purchases forward
Summary
The Bangor City Finance Committee voted to accept staff recommendations for a $31,071 digital sign purchase, a sewer utility vehicle low bid, and to proceed with updating the Birch Stream Watershed plan; the airport reconstruction contract was referred to the full council for final approval.
Councilor Dean, chair of the Bangor City Finance Committee, on May 4 told the committee it would accept staff recommendations on several low-bid procurements, including a new digital sign for the Public Works Building and a replacement utility vehicle for the sewer department, and approved using a local vendor to update the Birch Stream Watershed plan.
The committee approved a staff recommendation to purchase a two-sided digital sign for the Public Works Building from Golden Rule Signs for $31,071. A city staff member told the committee the sign will reach "tens of thousands of cars" each month and can be controlled remotely by multiple city desks, support graphics, and dim automatically at night. Dean said the committee had "no objection" and would proceed with the staff recommendation.
On the sewer-department utility vehicle, staff said the RFP drew eight bids and recommended the low bidder. A committee member asked about vendor references; staff said the units are shipped directly from the factory (Polaris Direct) and that staff would call references after approval. Chair Dean stated the committee would go with staff's recommendation to award the contract to Jave Brothers Management LLC; the transcript records the payment amount in unclear terms, and the final contract amount is not specified in the record provided to the committee.
For the Birch Stream Watershed plan update, engineering steward Jeff Davis said the update is required by the city's MS4 stormwater permit and that the last plan was completed in 2015. Staff told the committee they received a single response from a local vendor the city has used before and recommended awarding the work to that firm. Committee members moved and seconded the staff recommendation and approved the selection.
The committee did not take any unrelated policy actions; most procurement approvals were moved on staff recommendations. The items approved or forwarded will appear on the full council agenda as required by the city's purchasing rules.
Next steps: the digital sign and vehicle awards will be finalized by staff procurement; the watershed plan vendor will proceed with plan updates subject to any required permitting and MS4 approval.
