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Minutes of the Regular Meeting of Council Monday, January 28, 2019 Page 18 Dr. Parker asked, as far as the other boiler is concerned, are we going to just leave it the way it is. Are there any plans to replace that? Mr. Metzung replied, not for the time being. We will want to replace it when we redo the building. I am sure they are going to want to replace that. But for now the new boiler they are looking at wiil provide the bulk of the heat. I don't know if anyone remembers last year when we had a real cold spell. We had some issues with the boilers and they lost some pressure and getting pressure all the way into the theater. It did not have enough pressure to push it all the way into the theater. There was quite a bit of damage done and repairs to get that back functioning. Probably in the $15,000-20,000 range then. That's the fear. Council President Saponaro asked, and we did have Deluxe Heating and Cooling or Comfort Control come in and tell us it failed, it's not repairable. It's an emergency. Mr. Marrelli replied, that's correct. We had Midwest Welding come out. They are a boilermaker. They took the boiler apart and clunbed inside and took photographs of the back wall of the boiler where the tubes are flared to seal. It's all corroded and rotted out. He said, I can't really do anything with it. If I start hammering on it trying to put tubes in it; the whole thing's going to collapse. He could have done it and we would have let him do it, but he said, I won't touch it because as soon as I start trying to pull tubes out or hammer out a new tube, it's just going to fall apart. Our feax is the other boiler which is the same age but has not been used as much, if that's in the same condition which we don't know unless you drain it and tear it down. We are going to have 5 degree temperatures this coming Wednesday. We won't have anything in there by Wednesday, but we could have the old boiler start to be demolished and get it out the way so that if we get a warm up we could maybe do a quick changeover. Council President Saponaro stated, okay. Any other questions or discussion on this matter? Everyone should be in receipt of the memo from Mayor Bodnar on January 25?' regarding this. Mr. Schutt stated, if we are going to replace the one now and we said when we have the renovations to the building to do the second one, the one that's currently running, is there any efficiencies or cost savings if we had both of them done now if we are going to do both anyway later? Mr. Marrelli replied, possibly. There has to be some repiping done. Theoretically if you do it a11 at once you might save $1,000 or so having the guy still here doing the repiping for both of them. But right now, we are just trying to get through the winter and then have Brandstetter Carroll do their studies and let us know, put in a second boiler or leave the old boiler as a backup because the new boiler is going to be guaranteed for so many years. That's when we are going to let the experts «leigh in on whether we do another one or leave the old one as a backup as we have been doing and then they will go iiito the mechanics of it and talk about air handlers and cooling capacities and heating capacities and the room configuration. There's a lot to go into it. So for right now it's kind of like an insurance policy. You need something so that if the old one goes down we are not without heat. That's why we are doing it under emergency.