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Item No. 17 <br />memorandum <br />TO: Mayor & City Council <br />FROM: John Godwin, City Manager <br />SUBJECT: DRAINAGE <br />DATE: June 21, 2016 <br />BACKGROUND: We have been working on drainage projects for several weeks now, utilizing <br />a combination of city operating crews, our CIP crew, and contractors. Our current contractor is <br />charging us $150 per day for each four - person crew, and is doing a good job. However, we <br />cannot exceed $50,000 without competitive bids, and we will hit that limit fairly soon. Also, in <br />order to address the cleanup and remediation work more quickly we need more people on the <br />job, which may require a larger out -of -town contractor. <br />STATUS OF ISSUE: As indicated on the attached tentative drainage schedule, much of the <br />work we need to do will be using our CIP crew to perform major channel work to improve <br />downstream volume. However, there remain significant amounts of clearing and grubbing, <br />disposal, and plain cleanup. A contractor will allow us to complete that work much more <br />quickly, and also allow our regular operating crews (parks water & sewer, and streets) to get <br />back to their regular duties so we do not get too far behind on those. <br />BUDGET: Funds will come from the $1.8 million set aside by the city council for drainage <br />repairs, cleanup, and improvements. <br />RECOMMENDATION: Authorize bids to procure a cleanup contractor. <br />