Council considers task order for on-call electrical engineering support

City engineering staff presented a task work authorization to the council to provide on-call electrical engineering support for the city's electric distribution work.

A city engineering representative said the task order is meant to give the city access to electrical engineering "on call" to review the project's phase-feeding plans and to offer suggestions before materials are purchased. "We provided a task order here tonight, just to basically be able to provide, on call electrical engineering support to Andy," the presenter said.

The representative emphasized the work is expected to be handled on an hourly time-and-materials basis using the city's standard rate schedule and that, if the work becomes more complex, the firm would submit a fixed-fee proposal that would define scope and cost.

Councilors asked clarifying questions about scope and how the city would coordinate visits and inspections; the presenter said staff and the city's engineers would determine what level of involvement was appropriate.

No detailed vote tally for the task order appeared in the transcript; the item was presented for council consideration as a task authorization in the meeting packet.