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Thursday, 12 June 2014 09:15

City capital plan will not address dehumidifier

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The city's capital budget plan for the upcoming fiscal year will not address a new dehumidifier for the Aquatic Center.

City Manager Joseph Scherer confirmed this during council's budget work session Wednesday evening after presenting the capital budget, which will rely on installment financing for heating and air conditioning in a three-year plan and vehicles in a five-year plan.

Councilwoman Carl Cowen asked Scherer about the problem, saying, “I'm still getting questions about the pool.”

Parks and Recreation Director John Simeon said this morning he has received the engineering drawings for the project, which are a set of mechanical blueprints for the system. “The engineering drawings are needed to get the quotes in progress.”

Simeon said the city hopes to get at least two, if not three quotes, on the system, including one from a local engineering firm. “The blueprints will guide the companies on what they need to replace all the parts. It gives detailed information for the parts.”

Since the dehumidifier no longer works, Simeon said during the work session, the Aquatic Center is “being used very little.”

The dehumidifier works as a heating and air conditioning system, he said. “It keeps mold away from the pool area.”

Meanwhile Wednesday, Scherer unveiled the city's capital outlay plan for the upcoming fiscal year that includes three-year and five-year installment financing for several projects.

The three-year plan includes $149,000 worth of projects that will replace the roof at Fire Station 1; retrofit the heating and air system at the Jo Story Senior Center and put in a new heating and air system at the Lloyd Andrews City Meeting Hall.

The city, Scherer said, will get a 1.43 percent interest rate. Payment will be $51,000 a year starting in the 2015-2016 fiscal year.

The five-year plan would fund $662,000 worth of vehicles at a 1.85 percent interest rate with payments of around $140,000 a year.

The plan calls for seven new police vehicles; two public works pickups; one dump truck for the street department; one rear load trash truck; a maintenance pickup and and two parks and recreation pickups.

 

 

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