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Town Council approves sewer pay applications, OKs $16,776 change order and 30-day extension for rehab contractor
Summary
The council approved pay applications for two wastewater contractors and authorized Work Change Directive No. 2, a net $16,776 increase and a 30-day time extension to address added point repairs discovered in CCTV work; councilors pressed engineers about slow contractor progress.
The Town Council on June 2 approved pay applications for the two contractors working on the town's wastewater projects and voted to authorize Work Change Directive No. 2, which the engineers said results in a net increase of $16,776 and a 30-day extension to the contract timeline.
Engineers from Commonwealth Engineers, represented at the meeting by Karen Wells, told the council that Patterson Hort has been focused on concrete work for new secondary clarifiers, the influent pump station and related pads, and that Insight has completed cleaning and CCTV and begun cured-in-place pipelining on collection-system segments. Wells said the additional items discovered during CCTV work—point repairs and a thicker liner where pipe sizes change—are the reason for the requested price adjustment and time extension. "We think the 30 days is commensurate with the work that's being requested," Wells said.
Council members questioned whether the contractors could meet the original July 5 substantial-completion date given earlier slow progress on Division B. One council member said it was "hard for me to swallow that pill" that a contractor already behind schedule would ask for more time; Wells responded that the owner has limited control over contractor means and methods and that some added work was not foreseeable until the CCTV inspections. Engineers also cited discovery of an unrecorded storm-sewer connection that will require corrective work.
The council moved and approved Pay Application No. 6 for Patterson Hort (Division A) and Pay Application No. 4 for Insight (Division B) by voice votes; the transcript does not record individual vote tallies or the names of the member who moved and seconded each motion. The council then approved the work change directive authorizing the net $16,776 price increase and granted a 30-day extension, shifting the Division B substantial-completion target from July 5 to August 4 as presented.
Clarifying details provided in the meeting packet include the pay-application figures and retainage; the transcript contains typographical errors in several dollar amounts reported verbally in the meeting (these figures are recorded in the council packet and are noted in clarifying_details). The council asked staff to monitor contractor progress closely and said they could approve the extra money while withholding additional time extensions if problems continue.
The council recorded the approvals on the meeting record; engineers said they will return next month with updated counts for additional point repairs found during recent inspections.
