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Regular City Council Meeting <br />July 14,2003 <br />Page 13 <br /> <br />Councilwoman Neeley asked for an example of day work. Mr. Napier said <br />right now they are doing a water line replacement on the project on 12th Street <br />NW between Graham and Bonham Street and a short stretch on Houston Street <br />because of the rusty water complaints. The crew just moved off of 3rd Street <br />SW where they were resolving rusty water complaints on four and one-half to <br />five blocks. Mr. Napier said they just finished putting in the water and sewer <br />lines at the Sports Complex. Those are plans that Terry Townsend had done <br />by Mark Spencer and they did a take off on that and designed the water and <br />sewer on that plan and then had a contractor come in and put it in. <br /> <br />Councilman Guest asked what kind of a number would it be for a typical 4 or <br />5 block rusty water leak repair. Mr. Napier said about $20.00 a foot with <br />everything included. There again, not having bid those specific items out in a <br />while, it would be roughly $20,000.00 to $25,000.00. Mr. Napier said they try <br />to use them on the projects where there is not much involved in it, such as <br />engineering cost and those are what we normally do in house or day work. Mr. <br />Napier said he went back to 1980, where the city was doing day work where a <br />contractor submitted prices like for a 3-man crew, a 3-man crew with a <br />backhoe, all different prices. Prices for any material or any piece of equipment <br />that they might have, they submit either a price by the hour or a price by the <br />day. Mr. Napier said they have not had a contractor to come in and make an <br />update or a change in that for a year and one-half and there is only one change <br />since he has been with the city and he has been with the city almost two years. <br /> <br />Gene Anderson, Director of Finance, came forward stating that he had a <br />handout to go along with that, and what he has been asked to do is explain the <br />mechanics and how the day labor is actually paid for, so he pulled one out and <br />it was for June of last year. Mr. Anderson said that in terms of paper work and <br />the terms of the day labor itself, which you see on the top page is the payment <br />voucher that each day labor job that is going on, an inspector from the <br />Engineering Department will bring this in toward the end of the day. This <br />project, as an example, was being supervised by Jack Rater. He was the one <br />on site, watching the project being done and signing off that the work had <br /> <br /> <br />