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Finance committee flags $41,821 change order on Grama Road project; council to consider credit-card fee recovery policy
Summary
Council finance chair reported a $41,821.23 increase in the Grama Road turn-lane project cost (bringing the total to $249,747.10) and previewed an ordinance to allow recovery of certain credit-card processing fees; both items remain under committee consideration.
Finance Committee Chair Humphrey told the council that change orders for the Grama Road turn-lane project with Barbicus Construction increased project costs by $41,821.23, taking the pre-change order contract from $191,152.93 to $249,747.10. Humphrey said the change orders resulted from sanitary manholes that had to be adjusted to grade because of unanticipated topography.
Humphrey also summarized a proposed ordinance to amend chapter 30 of the codified ordinances to authorize recovery of credit-card processing costs and associated bank fees. He said the policy will be narrowed by the time the ordinance receives third reading and that parks and recreation transactions will be treated differently because those units actively encourage credit-card payments.
Both items were on second reading and the committee requested more time; the council granted the request. No final appropriation or adoption of the card-fee ordinance occurred at this meeting.
Next steps: the council will schedule third readings for the change-order appropriation (if required) and the payment-fee ordinance; the finance committee will provide recommended language before final action.
