The agenda for the July 21st Common Council meeting is available on the City's website. It is not a very busy agenda but there are a few items that may be of interest. Besides the continuing issues regarding the flooding that is.
Probably the item most people will be interested in is an update on the change orders for the construction of the new fire station. When we approved the project in 2007, we placed a requirement that if the change orders grew to exceed $100,000 all subsequent changes need to come before the Council. I have a memo that outlines the 13 change orders to date for a total of $73,420. There is however, an unrealized anticipated savings of $34,375 that brings the total to $107,795. I don't have any real detail on any of the individual change orders, just one sentence descriptions. There was a total of $280,000 in contingency included in the costs of the project. As of July 9, there was $172,205 remaining. From this point forward, any change orders need to come before the Council for approval.
This is probably only of limited interest, but I find it interesting that we have one the agenda two separate items where we are looking to draw upon a developer's letter of credit. The Council has already addressed on of the issues in the past, the Wethersfield Condo Development. In that one, The developer has failed to complete the required storm water management facilities as required. After a significant amount of time, the City intends to complete the work and draw upon that letter of credit. In the second situation, a developer again has failed to complete necessary work. The problem with this one is... the bank cancelled the letter of credit without the city's approval. Now we have to get the City Attorney involved. It just seems a bit odd that, as far as I can remember, it has not been necessary to draw upon a letter of credit very often, now suddenly we have two.