HomeMy WebLinkAbout1990-10-10 MinutesSPECIAL MEETING OF THE CITY BOARD OF DIRECTORS
A special meeting of the Fayetteville City Board of Directors was
held on October 10, 1990 at 8:30 a.m. in Room 326 of the City
Administration Building at 113 West Mountain Street, Fayetteville,
Arkansas.
PRESENT: Mayor William Martin; Directors Michael Green, Ernest
Lancaster, Russ Kelley, Shell Spivey, and Fred Vorsanger;
City Manager Scott Linebaugh, City Attorney Jerry Rose,
and City Clerk Sherry.Thomas.
CALL TO ORDER
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Mayor Martin called the meeting to order and noted that the purpose
of the special meeting was.,for the Fire Station business and stated
that no other business would be considered without the unanimous
approval from the Board of Directors.
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Martin introduced for consideration a resolution awarding Bid 90-47
to the low bidder Jay Graves Insulation Company in Ft. Smith, at a
price of $25,220.00 for removal of asbestos. in Fire stations 1, 3
and 4.
Staff has recommended 'awarding 'the bid to the low bidder.
Environmental Enterprises 'Group, Inc., a firm that had been
retained to coordinate and oversee the abatement project and to
prepare the job specifications to•the bid, concurs with the
recommendation.
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Kelley, seconded by Vorsanger, made a motion to approve the
resolution.
Linebaugh explained that he did not want to run the resolution
through at the Agenda meeting without giving any notice and
requested permission to bring it before the Bbard at this special
meeting. He stated that the times to vacate the buildings have
already been scheduled with the fire stations, and awarding the
contract needs to be done so the project can proceed.
Linebaugh stated that there were five different bidders, and he
presented a handout of the different schedules of work to be
completed on the buildings.
Director Green asked if Station No. 1 would still be in partial
operation or would the entire building need to be vacated.
Linebaugh stated that all offices were required to be vacated for
the completion of the project.
The Fire Chief and the Inspector's offices are new offices, free of
any asbestos. It was explained that those two offices would be
sealed off with plywood walls and plastic sheeting to make it
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possible for them to use their offices while the project was in
progress.
Equipment will be moved from other stations to a building on
Mountain Street owned by Raymond Mitchell. This would provide
temporary quarters for one station at a time.
Firs Chief Mickey Jackson addressed the Board and explained that
after tasting, the asbestos was not causing contamination to the
firefighters working on the premises, but it was decided that the
material did need to b. removed when funds were available.
Mayor Martin stated that he wished to make it clear that the Board
was not knowingly subjecting the personnel to clear and present
danger by remaining in the buildings.
Upon roll call, the motion to approve the resolution passed
unanimously.
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RESOLUTION NO. APPEARS ON PDMS OP ORDINANCE AND RESOLUTION
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ADJOURNMENT
The meeting was adjourned at 8:41 a.m.