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BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS AND SAFETY OF THE
CITY OF RICHMOND. INDIANA. NOVEMBER 4. 1993
1 The Board of Public Works and Safety of the City of Richmond, Indiana, met at 9 a.m.Thursday, November 4,
2 1993, in the Municipal Building in said City. Chairperson Janet Hibner presided with Dennis Grimes and Earnest
3 Jarvis in attendance.The following business was had to-wit:
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5 APPROVAL OF MINUTES
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7 Jarvis moved to approve the minutes of October 28, 1993, second by Grimes and the motion was carried on a
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10 CLAIMS FOR PAYMENT
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12 Claims were submitted by the City Controller's office for$647,132.91 most of which was for payroll and payroll
13 taxes. Also submitted were claims for$382,360.64 which included $232,226.10 payable to Contractors United
14 Inc. for paving, $76,000 as payment of health insurance claims, and $39,819.70 to the Indiana-American Water
15 Co. for the City's monthly fire service contract. Grimes moved to approve the claims for payment, second by
16 Jarvis and the motion was carried on a unanimous voice vote.
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18 REQUESTS
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20 A. Grimes read a request from Robert Hankosky, distribution engineer at Richmond Power& Light,to
21 the Common Council's Street Light Committee for four 150-watt sodium street lights which would
22 represent a $45.72 monthly increase in the City's street light bill. Jarvis explained the lights will be
23 installed near the grassy area behind Richmond Fire Department Station No. 4 on South 8th and M
24 Street.Jarvis said the fire house fronts on South L Street and the green area fronts on South M Street
25 behind it to the south. He explained that the City intends to turn that into a parking lot for Primex
26 Plastics which is trying to expand and needs additional space to park. He said it would afford them
27 about 40 more vehicle spaces in that area which is unlighted now. Grimes noted that the street
28 between South 8th and 9th Streets is yet unnamed before moving to approve the request, second by
29 Jarvis and the motion was carried on a unanimous voice vote.
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A.Jarvis noted that three bids had been received for the computer system in the Finance Department.
He opened the bids, handed them to Chairperson Hibner to check to make sure they were
35 accompanied by the proper papers and the actual bids were read by Grimes.The first bid,from Rosa's
36 Inc.of Richmond,did not include the software,Grimes said, noting that the bid on the hardware was for
37 $12,125 and it also contained an alternate bid of $10,500. The next bid opened was from NCR of
38 Carmel. After searching through the papers, Chairperson Hibner said she found a surety bond and
39 guessed it might be a bid bond, adding that the Board reserved the right to review all of the bids for
40 completeness prior to actually awarding the bid. Grimes said there was no bid on the software.Actually
41 were three options with the first being for $27,245.75, the second at $24,655.75 and the third for
42 $18,998.75. The third bidder was Governmental Systems Inc. of Macon, Ga. The bid for the software
43 was $7,000 and the bid for the hardware was for $14,879. He added that the bid contained a
44 conversion cost set at $10,000. Jarvis moved to take the three bids under advisement, second by
45 Grimes and the motion was carried on a unanimous voice vote.
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47 OTHER MATTERS
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49 A. Rich Cody, General Manager of TCI, gave an update report to the Board after first presenting a
50 check for$39,154.91 along with the franchise fee payment worksheet which is the third quarter report
51 for franchise fees. He gave an update on the must-carry and re-transmission consent channels, noting
52 that October 5 had come and gone and no channels had been taken off the air. He said all channels
53 that TCI is carrying now will stay. He added that negotiations with Channel 6 were finalized only
54 recently and as of this time TCI has no designs to get Channel 6 back which was the intent before the
55 re-transmission negotiations. Cody said the only thing that may possibly change is that Channel 14,
56 WPTO out of Oxford, has asked for Channel 4 and TCI is trying to work that out. He said Channel 14 is
57 now on 19 and if the change is made it would mean merely a flip flop of the channels and that may
58 happen in the very near future.
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60 Cody also gave an update on the rebuild, noting that TCI is still expecting to technically complete that
61 by Dec. 1. He added that the intentions initially when TCI set out to do the rebuild was to add a number
62 of channels and it still has that vision in mind sometime after the first of the year. However, a couple of
63 things have happened since that time which include the benchmark calculations by the FCC which,has
64 mandated that some things TCI does and the way it does them needed to change after September 1,
65 1993. He explained that is why there was a change in the customer's billing as of September 1. He said
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1 the benchmark rates were established and nobody right now, including the FCC, with the addition or
2 deletion of the channels knows what that will do to the benchmark rate. Obviously, he said, TCI is
3 approaching that much more cautiously than what it had been looking at before. He said how adding
4 those new channels to its lineup for its subscribers will affect the rate now as mandated by the federal
5 government it has no idea.
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7 He noted that this Board is well aware of the filing with FCC Form No. 328 which gives the City the right
8 to regulate the rates, adding that that also will take place prior to the first of the year. He suggested that
9 the addition of new channels may fall back on this Board at that time or the Telecommunications
10 Council. He said TCI will be prepared to add channels and sit down with this Board or the
11 Telecommunications Council to determine what can possibly be done. Cody added that in bringing the
12 check to the City each quarter it gives him an opportunity to report to this Board.
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14 B.Jarvis read a letter from Fire Chief James Sticco recommending for approval the hiring of Firefighter
15 candidate Kyle W. George effective Tuesday, November 2, 1993.Jarvis moved to approve the request,
16 second by Chairperson Hibner and the motion was carried on a unanimous voice vote. Chief Sticco
17 said George had served on the Greens Fork Fire Department and had completed his 24-hour
18 mandatory training with that department which meant he only had to do a four hour mandatory on this
19 department. He added that he had completed second class and first class firefighter training and is also
20 an advanced EMT. After being sworn in by City Clerk Norma Carnes, George was introduced to the
21 three Board members by Chief Sticco.
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23 C. Jarvis read a curb cut request made by Smarelli General Contractors at 136 South 2nd Street. He
24 noted that only recently Council had passed an ordinance vacating an alley in the area of the Smarelli
25 business and Smarelli is now asking for a curb cut which has been approved by the various City
26 deparments. However, he said, the stipulation was made by the City engineering department that the
27 applicant needs to be aware of the fact that the new curb cut will be in the planned radius to the new
28 planned approach to the new Main Street bridge.Jarvis said a drawing was included along with the City
29 Engineer's report which noted that Smarelli is aware of that fact and has agreed that the curb cut will
30 meet with that proposed approach. Based upon that information Jarvis moved to approve the request,
31 second by Grimes and the motion was carried on a unanimous voice vote.
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33 ADJOURNMENT
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35 There being no further business, on a motion duly made, seconded and passed on a unanimous voice vote,the
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