89-80 Apply to EPA to amend Step II Grant - retention basin at WWTP

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ORDINANCE NO. 89-80 BY:Chinnock, Gallagher, Graham, McBride, Salmon, Wendling, Brown AN EMERGENCY ORDINANCE authorizing the Mayor to make application to The Environmental Protection Agency to amend the City's Step II Grant so as to provide additional design effort required to increase the size of the retention basin at the Wastewater Treatment Plant and correspondingly reduce the size of retention basins located elsewhere in the system, to accept the Step II Grant as amended, and to enter into a contract with Watermation, Inc. to perform the additional work required by said amendment. WHEREAS, it is necessary for the City to comply with Public Law 92-500, the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, and WHEREAS, the Value Engineering view of our Step II Design of the Lakewood upgraded wastewater treatment system has revealed that a substantial overall savings can be effected by increasing the size of the retention basin at the wastewater treatment plant-site and making corresponding reductions in size of retention basins located elsewhere in the system, and WHEREAS, the City has a proposal from Watermation, Inc. to carry out the necessary additional design effort at a cost of $39,477.02 to. be added to their existing Step II Design Contract, and WHEREAS, The Environmental Protection Agency has advised the City 'that additional Step II funding can be made available upon the City's application to undertake this additional work and this Council is of the opinion that it is in the best interests of the City to so undertake this additional work, and WHEREAS, this ordinance constitutes an emergency measure providing for the usual daily operation of a municipal department and for the further reason that it is in the best interests of the public health, safety and welfare of the City to proceed with the Step II work relating to the City's wastewater treatment facilities without delay; now, therefore, OHIO: BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF LAKEWOOD, STATE OF Section 1. That the Mayor be and he is hereby authorized and directed to make application to The Environmental Protection Agency to amend the City's Step II Grant in the amount of $29,607.77 to provide for the 75% federal share of the estimated cost to make design changes in the retention basins which are to be a part of our upgraded wastewater treatment facilities. Section 2. That the Mayor be and he is hereby authorized and'-directed upon approval of the aforementioned amendment to the City's Step II Grant by The Environmental Protection Agency to accept said Grant as amended. Section 3. That upon acceptance of the aforementioned Step II Grant, as amended, the Mayor be and he is hereby authorized and. directed to enter into a contract with Watermation, Inc., 2304 University Avenues St. Paul, Minnesota, as Consulting Engineers for the purpose of performing the'work necessary to redesign the aforementioned retention basin. Section 4. That the total estima'ted cost of the aforementioned additional work is $39,477.02, of which the City's 25% share is $9,869.26, which is to be paid from the Sewer and Wastewater Treatment Plant Improvement Fund. Section 5. It is found and determined that all formal actions of this Council concerning and relating to the passage of this Ordinance were adopted in an open meeting of this Council, and that all said deliberations of this Council and that of any of its committees that resulted in such formal action, were in meetings open to the public in accordance with all legal requirements including Section 121.22 of the Ohio Revised Code.