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The Board of Works and Safety approved Friday a bid for asbestos abatement work at the Jomac buildings.
City engineer Aaron Ott made his recommendation to the board after taking the bids under review.
At the Aug. 1 Board of Works meeting, two bids were received for the asbestos abatement but both were deemed unresponsive at the Aug. 15 Board of Works meeting so the work had to be rebid. At the Aug. 1 meeting, five bids also were received for the demolition of the Jomac buildings, but that was awarded Aug. 15 to G & G Hauling & Excavating, the lowest bidder at $322,896.
At the Sept. 5 Board of Works meeting, bids for the asbestos abatement the city received were Environmental Management Specialists Inc., $75,685; Environmental Assurance Co. Inc., $100,000; SSI Services LLC, $76,400; and ProTechs Inc., $130,083.57.
On Friday, Ott said after review, all bids received were responsive and responsible contractors. He recommended the board approve the lowest bid from Environment Management Specialists Inc.
Later in the meeting, Mayor Jeff Grose said the mayor’s office has been working with Language Matters to apply for a grant in order to extend multilingual help beyond Warsaw’s city limits.
The city was awarded a $10,000 grant from the Kosciusko County Community Foundation from their Community Funds grant program to fund the expansion of the Multilingual Help Center beyond city limits.
Grose said his office will be working with Language Matters to see how the money can be used effectively.
The board approved accepting the grant.
In other business, the board:
• Recognized Warsaw Police Department officers Ronald Nethaway for 15 years of service and Brandon Zartman for 25 years of service.
• Approved pay app #4 from Insight Pipe Contracting LLC for $168,158.17 for sanitary sewer/stormwater rehab.
• Approved pay app #3 for $15,727.72 to G&G Hauling & Excavating Inc. for the Timber Ridge phase one stormwater improvements.
• Approved pay app #3 for $406,882.28 to Robinson Construction Inc. for the Public Works facility project.
• Approved a service agreement for $1,176 to Tech Plumbing and Heating Inc. for servicing and inspecting six furnaces and six air conditioning units at the Zimmer Biomet Center Lake Pavilion.
• Approved an agreement with Core Mechanical for $3,185 for servicing and inspecting two furnaces, a mini split unit, tube heaters, electric heaters and direct water heaters in the parks office/maintenance building.
• Agreements with Cottage Watchman for inspection of fire and security systems at the parks office for $830, inspection of the fire alarm at the Pete Thorn Center for $370 and inspection and testing of the fire alarm system at the Zimmer Biomet Center Lake Pavilion for $1,900.
• Approved permission for the street department to solicit diesel and clean gasoline bids.
• Approved an owner-contractor agreement with Brooks Construction Company Inc. for $254,909.50 for paving and milling for several streets in downtown Warsaw.
