HomeMy WebLinkAboutTB 2024-035TBS IAWWTF - Enginneering Study CIPMEETING OF THE ITHACA TOWN BOARD
March 25, 2024
TB Resolution 2024 - 035: Approval and Authorization to sign an Engineering Agreement for the preparation of the IAWWTF Capital Improvement Plan Project
Whereas, the IAWWTF is a 38-year-old, technically complex, and environmentally important facility that is jointly owned by the City of Ithaca, the Town of Ithaca, and the Town of Dryden,
and
Whereas, the IAWWTF has both short- and long-term capital needs to help maintain compliance, meet energy goals, and provide adequate planning for necessary repairs, opportunities for
better efficiency, and a look toward the future, and
Whereas, plant staff and the Special Joint Committee (SJC) are desirous in developing a proper Capital Improvement Plan Project (CIPP) to assist in planning, budgeting, and the procurement
of potential infrastructure related grants and low interest loans afforded to municipalities, and
Whereas, a Request for Qualifications (RFQ) was made to regional consulting firms and four responses were submitted, and
Whereas, plant staff interviewed and evaluated presentations from each candidate, and
Whereas, at itsFebruary 14, 2024, meeting, staff and the Special Joint Committee (SJC) recommended to its municipal boards the approval of Barton & Loguidice, D.P.C., 443 Electronics
Parkway, Liverpool, NY, as the consultant of choice to prepare the CIPP, and
Whereas, on February 21, 2024, B&L provided an Engineering Agreementproposal of services which included an estimated project cost of $300,000, with anticipated 50% funding through a
NYSERDA Flextech grant, and anticipated local cost match of 50%, and
Whereas, staff endorses the funding of the Three hundredThousand Dollar ($300,000) project with anticipated 50 % cost match, in the interests of better plant operational efficiency,
and longevity; now, therefore, be it
Resolved, that the Town of Ithaca approves its share of the project in the amount of One Hundred Twenty Two Thousand Six Hundred and Forty Dollars ($122,640), and, be it further
Resolved, that the Town Supervisor is authorized to execute said Agreement on behalf of the Town.
Moved: Rich DePaoloSeconded: Rod Howe
Vote: ayes- Howe, DePaolo, Johnson, Levine, Gutenberger & Rosen