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Council committee hears that EPA, DEC requested extra work on sewer flow study; $25,000 shifted to cover scope
Summary
Finance committee members were told extra engineering and reporting work was added to the city's flow-monitoring sewer study at the request of EPA and DEC; the original contract was $350,000 and the proposal transfers $25,000 from professional services to cover the added scope.
Finance Committee members discussed RL26-151, a proposed supplemental scope for the city's flow-monitoring sewer study, after Chair Kavanaugh asked whether the project cost had increased.
Doug Jensen, a treatment-plant engineering representative who addressed the committee, said regulators requested additional analysis and reporting work. "This is an additional scope of work that was asked, of us by EPA and DEC," he said, and described the extra tasks as project coordination, data review, CSO activation (overflow) analysis and a final report prepared to meet consent-order requirements. Jensen said the original study was $350,000 and that the current proposal would transfer $25,000 from the city's professional-services line into the flow-management-study budget to pay for the added work.
Committee members asked for clarification on why the extra work surfaced after bidding and whether the professional-services line typically funds such additions. Jensen said the material came to the city after the study was sent to bid in May. No formal vote on RL26-151 was taken during the work session; discussion closed and the item was left in committee pending any required paperwork or further detail from staff and the firm.
