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~~ ~~ June 7, 2005 The Mooresville Town Council met in regular session on Tuesday, June 7, 2005 at 6:30 P.M. at the Mooresville Town Hall. Town Council members present were: President, Tom Worthen, Toby Dolen, John L. Clark and Eric Shields. Councilman Troy Bryant was absent. Town attorney, Tim Currens was present. Gene Deverick of Grace Church gave the prayer. A motion was made by Councilman Clark, second by Councilman Dolen to approve the minutes of the May 17, 2005 meeting. Motion carried 4-0. The first item on the agenda was the opening of the bids for the reworking of the Wastewater Treatment Plant. Chris Gale, from HNTB, who wrote the specifications far the bids, was present. There were five bids turned in. Chris Gale has provided the Tawn with a bid tabulation sheet, which shows the name and address of each company who bid, as well as the breakdown of their bids, with the lump sum base bid and mandatory alternates 1 thru 4. It will be attached to these minutes for review. Chris Gale explained the mandatory alternates to the Council. He stated that the project contains a sludge thickening building which is designed to have redundant systems to thicken the sludge, pump it to and from the thickener and add chemicals. Because of the town's limited funds for the project, the option they chose was to have the mandatory alternates. Alternates number one and two are pumps, three is the chemical feed equipment and four is the rotary drum thickener. The equipment is in place to treat the sludge and wastewater without any of the mandatory alternates, it will just have to work harder than it would if it had the redundant system alongside. If the rotary drum thickener or one of the pumps goes out of service we would not be able to thicken sludge until they were fixed, whereas if the redundant equipment was in place, it would still be in operation. It is not something that would keep the town from meeting permit limits unless it wasn't fixed for a long time, however treatment plants and collection systems are typically designed to have the redundant systems in place for down time during cleaning yr servicing. The Town can move forward with any number of those alternates in place and the contract can be awarded an any combination of the lump sum base bid or the lump sum base bid plus one or more of the mandatory alternates. President Worthen recommended that the Council take the bids under advisement, give Chris Gale and Dan Tingle time to look the bids aver and possibly award the bid at the next council meeting. Chris Gale said that would give hirn sufficient time to review them. Councilman Dolen made a motion to take the bids under advisement. Motion was second by Councilman Clark and carried 4-0. Susan Crouch, who lives at 545 N. Indiana Street, was present to ask the Council not to lower the speed limit an Indiana Street from Main Street to County Line Road to 20 mph from 6:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. She stated that traffic is already congested on Indiana Street to the point that she has a hard time leaving her home and that this would only make it worse. Tim Currens stated that Police Chief, Tim Viles had already met with him on this issue and had similar concerns as Susan and that before an ordinance could be passed and enforced, a study needed to be done. He stated that this should be coordinated with the school, to establish where and how many students are crossing the streets on the way to school and develop a plan to direct them to specific areas where crossing guards would be present and then determine the time period and area for the 20 mph zone. Tim Viles is getting with the school on that and also planzung to have the police department to be more involved in the process of selecting the crossing guards and providing them with some formal training. Susan stated that in reverting to her "judge rate" she would like to point out that it is much less confusing for everybody if the specific hours of enforcement are posted instead of just saying "when children are present". She has had people come in with tickets who did not know they were in a school zone because the blinker light wasn't working and they thought that indicated when children were present. She also raised the question if the hours were posted as 6:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. would that also mean all summer long? As recommended by Tim Currens, this will come back for discussion after the study has been done.