Title
Tornado Siren Installation at Carl Sandburg High School - Purchase
History
The Village Board approved $25,000.00 in the FY 2014 budget for an additional weather warning siren in the northern part of the village. This amount was carried over to the 2015 budget while staff attempted to locate a suitable site for the siren.
A site was ultimately located at Carl Sandburg High School within the secured area around the water tower. This site posed challenges to bringing electricity to the siren due to the amount of utilities infrastructure in the ground around the water tower. The additional cost of hand digging the trench to provide the electricity would have exceeded the budgeted project amount. The Public Works Department reviewed this problem and agreed to hydro-excavate the trench in-house to bring electricity to the siren. This approach will keep the project well within budget.
This project was sole-sourced to Fulton Technologies who has constructed and maintains the thirteen weather warning sirens for more than twenty years. The maintenance contract for telemetry also includes a daily remote siren inspection to ensure the sirens are operational.
On November 16, 2015 this item was reviewed and approved by the Public Safety Committee and referred to the Village Board for approval
Financial Impact
$25,000.00 was budgeted in the FY2014 budget and carried over to the FY2015 budget in account 010-7002-470300
Recommended Action/Motion
I move to approve waiving the bidding process;
And
Approve the purchase and installation of a T-128 weather warning siren adjacent to the water tower at Carl Sandburg High School at a cost not to exceed $22,300.00.