Minutes-04/25/2012

1 L j.. e y w CITY OF TIFFIN Minutes Special. Council Meeting Wednesday, April 25, 2012 6: 30 p. m. Springmier Community Library at CCA Middle School The Tiffin city council met in regular session' on.Wednesday, April 25,- 2012 at the - Springmier Library* at the°CCA Middle School: Mayor Berner called meeting to order at , 6. 30 p. m. Roll call vote: Mike Ryan, Chris, Ball, Travis Weipert. Absent:- Jim Bartels , ` and Peggy Upton. Also present: Michon Jackson and Brett Mehmen Motion Ryan second Weipert to approve the agenda. Carried unanimously Community Forum Robert Siems addressed the council concerning the lack of water for fire protection at the Tiffin industrial" park. Stems, plans to build more warehousing in the industrial park this year. and asked the council when the issue will be resolved. Council indicated that the next-capital improvement project is to provide water to the industrial park and the A item will be; on' the agenda soon. Water.Tower Agreement Phase II' 3 Andrew Marsh, engineer with HR Green, addressed the council concerning the phase II agreement for the water tower project. There will be a 20% contingency built into the' design phase. to cover design changes- prior to. the bid and those changes will reduce the contingency throughout the design phase. HR Green' s recent history with change orders on water related projects is about 1. 6% increase to the original bids. Some of those changes were due to the owner' s' requests HR Green' s fee is not based upon a percentage of the construction costs. TM Weipert introduced a Resolution 2012- 11 Approving a Professional Services Agreement Amendment No:~1 with HR Green, Inc. for water tower pressure upgrade phase' II in the amount of$ 236, 000 for design, bid and construction by of a new water tower.. Second a° Ball. Roll call vote: Ryan; aye; Ball, aye; Weipert, aye; Bartels, absent; Upton, absent. t Computer Equipment I Network Upgrade Brent Gorton, owner of Brent' s Computer' Services,'°addressed the counciliconberning his quote for computer° equipment and network upgrade at city hall.- He reported that the server has more than sufficient hard drive space to meet the city' s requirements. A a pair of solid state 180' s drivers' are` disaster resistant and not sensitive to vibrations and mill provide mirrored' data. The city currently uses the Carbonite backup service' which is probably the mostcost way to provide backup. The network has enough effective capacity for up to six users. If necessary, a machine will be purchased for the maintenance shop in order to utilize the new-time clock software. y ia 1: R• L K