Details Meeting Name: Board of Commissioners Agenda status: Final Meeting date/time: 4/9/2015 10:00 AM Minutes status: Final   Meeting location: Board Room Published agenda: Agenda Published minutes: Minutes   Agenda packet: Not available Meeting video: Video eComment: Not available   Attachments: Agenda Packet 04-09-2015 Meeting Items (57) 57 records Group Clear sorting Clear grouping Group by Type Group by Result Export Export to Excel Export to PDF Export to Word Show: Legislation only Legislation only All agenda items File # Ver. Agenda # Type Title Action Result Action Details Video 15-0396 1 1 Report Report to the Board of Commissioners on The Boeing Company’s Request for Reimbursement in the amount of $109,442.47 pursuant to the terms of a Tax Reimbursement Agreement approved by the Board on September 6, 2001 Published and Filed Pass Action details Not available 15-0392 1 2 Agenda Item Authority to add Non Core Capital Projects to the Construction Fund, estimated cost of the projects is $2,956,843.72 Approved Pass Action details Not available 15-0341 1 3 Report Report on advertisement of Request for Proposal 15-RFP-10, Procurement of Natural Gas Services, estimated cost $7,200,000.00, Accounts 101-66000, 67000, 68000, 69000-612160 Published and Filed Pass Action details Not available 15-0344 1 4 Report Report of bid opening of Tuesday, March 17, 2015 Published and Filed Pass Action details Not available 15-0345 1 5 Report Report on advertisement of Request for Proposal 15-RFP-14 eLearning Courses for Return-to-Work Program for a One-Year Period, with an option to extend for an additional year, in an amount not to exceed $20,000.00, Account 101-25000-612820, Requisition 1396181 Published and Filed Pass Action details Not available 15-0384 1 6 Report Report on rejection of bids for Contract 15-988-11, Inspection, Testing and Repair of Railroad Crossing Signal Systems, estimated cost $69,000.00. Published and Filed Pass Action details Not available 15-0399 1 7 Report Report of bid opening of Tuesday, March 31, 2015 Published and Filed Pass Action details Not available 15-0347 1 8 Agenda Item Authorization to enter into an agreement for Contract 14-RFP-35 with EnergyConnect, Inc., a Johnson Controls Company to provide energy curtailment services Approved Pass Action details Not available 15-0348 1 9 Agenda Item Authorization to enter into an agreement with a successful Proposer(s) for the Request for Proposal (RFP) 15-RFP-10, Procurement of Natural Gas, Accounts 101-66000, 67000, 68000, 69000-612160 Approved Pass Action details Not available 15-0349 1 10 Agenda Item Authorization to amend Board Order of March 19, 2015, regarding Issue a purchase order and enter into an agreement with David Mason & Associates of Illinois, LTD for professional engineering services for Contract 14-110-5C Preliminary Engineering for a Flood Control Project at 61st Avenue and 36th Street in Cicero, Illinois, in amount not to exceed $175,334.00, Account 401-50000-601410, Requisition 1387540, Agenda Item No. 8, File No. 15-0300 Approved Pass Action details Not available 15-0355 1 11 Agenda Item Authorization to enter into a Contract of Commitment with Illinois-American Water Company for the development of a project for beneficial reuse of effluent water at the Calumet Water Reclamation Plant, in relation to 14-EOI-11 (Re-Advertised), Request for Expression of Interest for A Development Project for Beneficial Reuse of Effluent Water at the Calumet Water Reclamation Plant Approved Pass Action details Not available 15-0383 1 12 Agenda Item Authorization to forfeit Contract 14-030-11, Furnish and Deliver Miscellaneous Lubricants to Various Locations, for a One (1) Year Period, Items 1 and 2 to Intek Technology Inc., in an amount not to exceed $4,971.75, Account 101-20000-623860 Approved Pass Action details Not available 15-0334 1 13 Agenda Item Authority to advertise Contract 15-318-11, Furnishing and Delivering Washing Machines and Dryers, To Various District Locations, estimated cost $40,000.00, Account 201-25000-634990, Requisition 1393446 Approved Pass Action details Not available 15-0340 1 14 Agenda Item Authority to advertise Contract 15-753-11 Contract Farming at the Hanover Park Water Reclamation Plant, estimated cost $374,000.00, Accounts 101-67000-612520/612530, Requisition 1392683 Approved Pass Action details Not available 15-0358 1 15 Agenda Item Authority to advertise Contract 15-632-11 Furnishing and Delivering Sodium Hypochlorite, estimated cost $8,271,630.50, Accounts 101-67000/68000/69000-623560, Requisitions 1394416, 1393461, 1396208, 1393431, 1388449 and 1393031 Approved Pass Action details Not available 15-0360 1 16 Agenda Item Authority to advertise Contract 15-813-21 Rehabilitation of Buildings at the Prairie Plan site in Fulton County, Illinois, estimated cost $250,000.00, Account 201-50000-645680, Requisition 1389635 Approved Pass Action details Not available 15-0361 1 17 Agenda Item Authority to advertise Contract 15-620-11 Radio Communication Equipment Repairs, estimated cost $82,200.00, Account 101-69000-612840, Requisition 1380480. Approved Pass Action details Not available 15-0362 1 18 Agenda Item Authority to advertise Contract 15-636-11 Furnishing and Delivering Hydrogen Peroxide, estimated cost $225,000.00, Accounts 101-69000-623560, Requisition 1394928 Approved Pass Action details Not available 15-0365 1 19 Agenda Item Authority to advertise Contract 15-416-11 Providing Operating Engineering Services to the Main Office Building Complex for a Thirty-Six (36) Month Period, estimated cost $3,065,400.00, Accounts 101-15000-612370, 612390, Requisition 1395251 Approved Pass Action details Not available 15-0368 1 20 Agenda Item Authority to advertise Contract 15-340-11 Services to Furnish, Deliver and Install Exterior Electronic Signs at Various District Locations for a Two Year Period, estimated cost $200,000.00, Account 201-50000-634990, Requisition 1388441 (As Revised) Deferred   Action details Not available 15-0372 1 21 Agenda Item Authority to advertise Contract 15-715-11 Furnish, Deliver, Install and Modify Handrailing at the Kirie Water Reclamation Plant, estimated cost $50,000.00, Account 101-67000-634600, Requisition 1394963 Approved Pass Action details Not available 15-0379 1 22 Agenda Item Authority to advertise Contract 15-683-11 Furnishing and Delivering Crushed Stone, Sand and Gravel to Various Locations, estimated cost $295,300.00, Accounts 101-66000/67000/68000/69000-623130, Requisitions 1376697, 1394962, 1376964, 1394646, 1392170, 1376718 and 1393017 Approved Pass Action details Not available 15-0382 1 23 Agenda Item Authority to advertise Contract 15-004-11 Furnish and Deliver Structural and Stainless Steel to Various Locations for a One (1) Year Period, estimated cost $117,000.00, Account 101-20000-623030 Approved Pass Action details Not available 15-0388 1 24 Agenda Item Authority to advertise Contract 15-090-11 Furnish and Deliver One New Fork Lift at the O’Brien Water Reclamation Plant, estimated cost $80,000.00, Account 101-20000-634990 Requisition 1393438 Approved Pass Action details Not available 15-0389 1 25 Agenda Item Authority to advertise Contract 15-017-11 Furnish and Deliver Electrical Supplies and Wire to Various Locations for a One (1) Year Period, estimated cost $124,000.00, Account 101-20000-623070 Approved Pass Action details Not available 15-0336 1 26 Agenda Item Issue purchase order to InterSeeder Technologies, LLC, to Furnish and Deliver a crop interseeder, in an amount not to exceed $42,750.00, Account 101-16000-612490, Requisition 1394929 Approved Pass Action details Not available 15-0386 1 27 Agenda Item Issue purchase orders to Serpentix Conveyor Corporation, to Furnish and Deliver Repair Parts for Serpentix Conveyors, to Various Locations, in a total amount not to exceed $102,900.00, Accounts 101-67000, 68000, 69000-623270 Approved Pass Action details Not available 15-0391 1 28 Agenda Item Issue purchase orders and enter into an agreement with Nu-Recycling Technology, Inc., to Provide for a Full-Service Lease and Maintenance Agreement for Two Nu-ReTec8800 Automatic Misting and Odor Control Systems at the Stickney Water Reclamation Plant, for a total amount not to exceed $136,500.00, Accounts 101-69000-612490, 623560, Requisition 1387577 Approved Pass Action details Not available 15-0387 1 29 Agenda Item Authority to award Contract 15-618-11, Specialized Repairs for Large Motors, to Midwest Service Center, LLC, in an amount not to exceed $149,178.00, Accounts 101-67000, 68000, 69000-612600, 623070, 612650, Requisitions 1376685, 1385814, 1387213 Approved Pass Action details Not available 15-0335 1 30 Agenda Item Authority to increase purchase order and amend the agreement with Veolia Water Solutions & Technologies North America, Incorporated, to design, furnish and deliver an ANITA Mox Moving Bed Biofilm Reactor System and to provide start-up services for Contract 13-409-3P, Nitrogen Removal in Centrate, Egan Water Reclamation Plant, in an amount of $8,000.00, from an amount of $4,420,115.00, to an amount not to exceed $4,428,115.00, Accounts 401-50000-601420 and 645650, Purchase Order 3079128 Approved Pass Action details Not available 15-0350 1 31 Agenda Item Authority to decrease purchase order and amend the agreement with Christopher B. Burke Engineering, Ltd. (CBBEL), for Contract 13-809-5C Implementation of the Watershed Management Ordinance - Phase B, in an amount of $200,000.00, from an amount of $1,248,097.04, to an amount not to exceed $1,048,097.04, Account 501-50000-601410, Purchase Order 3079008 Approved Pass Action details Not available 15-0352 1 32 Agenda Item Authority to increase Contract 04-131-2D Rehabilitation of the A/B and C/D Service Tunnels - Phase One, Stickney Water Reclamation Plant, to F.H. Paschen/S.N. Nielsen, in an amount of $43,759.67, from an amount of $13,720,290.69, to an amount not to exceed $13,764,050.36, Account 401-50000-645750, Purchase Order 5001396 Approved Pass Action details Not available 15-0353 1 33 Agenda Item Authority to increase purchase order and amend the agreement with Hey and Associates, Inc., for professional engineering services for Contract 11-187-5C, Preliminary Engineering for Addison Creek Channel Improvements, in an amount of $39,801.00, from an amount of $1,182,333.72, to an amount not to exceed $1,222,134.72, Account 501-50000-601410, Purchase Order 3069386 Approved Pass Action details Not available 15-0357 1 34 Agenda Item Authority to increase Contract 11-054-3P Disinfection Facilities, Terrence J. O'Brien Water Reclamation Plant, to Walsh Construction Company II, LLC, in an amount not to exceed $566,776.55, from an amount of $60,093,131.29 to an amount not to exceed $60,659,897.84, Account 401-50000-645650, Purchase Order 4000005 Approved Pass Action details Not available 15-0373 1 35 Agenda Item Authority to decrease purchase order to LAI, LTD., to Furnish and Deliver Process Equipment Parts to Various Locations, in an amount of $15,830.77, from an amount of $615,277.89, to an amount not to exceed $599,447.12, Accounts 101-67000-623070, 623270, 623090, Purchase Order 3076288 Approved Pass Action details Not available 15-0374 1 36 Agenda Item Authority to increase purchase order to Xylem Dewatering Solutions, Inc., for the rental of two submersible pumps at the Kirie Water Reclamation Plant, in an amount of $16,870.00, from an amount of $3,374.00, to an amount not to exceed $20,244.00, Account 101-67000-612330, Purchase Order 3084361 Approved Pass Action details Not available 15-0376 1 37 Agenda Item Authority to increase purchase order and amend the agreement with AT&T Corporation for Co-Location Services in an amount of $54,000.00 from an amount of $1,191,244.98, to an amount not to exceed $1,245,244.98, Account 101-27000-612210, Purchase Order 3067251 Approved Pass Action details Not available 15-0377 1 38 Agenda Item Authority to increase purchase order for the WSCAJ/NASPO PC Contracts 2009-2014 with Oracle America, Inc. for the maintenance, support and acquisition of miscellaneous parts for the District's SAP Enterprise Servers, GIS Systems, the Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS), and the disaster recovery servers for a period of seventeen (17) months with option to extend for (4) additional one-year terms, in an amount of $73,806.94, from an amount of $357,475.39, to an amount not to exceed $431,282.33, Accounts 101-27000-601170, 612810, 612820, 634810, Purchase Order 3077612 Approved Pass Action details Video 15-0381 1 39 Agenda Item Authority to transfer 2015 departmental appropriations in the amount of $9,600.00 in the Corporate Fund Approved Pass Action details Not available 15-0375 1 40 Agenda Item Authority to settle the Workers’ Compensation Claim of Fatouma Ali vs. MWRDGC, Case 14 WC 9645, Illinois Workers’ Compensation Commission (IWCC), in the sum of $375,000.00, Account 901-30000-601090 Approved Pass Action details Not available 15-0394 1 41 Agenda Item Authority to settle Presence Saints Mary and Elizabeth Medical Center d/b/a Presence Saint Elizabeth Hospital’s 2006, 2009, and 2012 User Charge penalties for a payment in the amount of $5,000.00 and to waive $24,661.08 in User Charge penalties for 2006, 2009, and 2012. Approved Pass Action details Not available 15-0337 1 42 Agenda Item Authority to issue a 1-day permit to Friends of the Chicago River to access District land at 14 locations along the North Branch of the Chicago River, North Shore Channel, Main Channel, and Cal-Sag Channel, in Cook County, Illinois for its Annual Chicago River Day Clean-Up Event on May 9, 2015. Consideration shall be a nominal fee of $10.00 Approved Pass Action details Not available 15-0363 1 43 Agenda Item Authorization to commence statutory procedures to lease approximately 23 acres of unimproved District real estate located west of Lemont Road and north of the Main Channel in Lemont, Illinois; Main Channel Parcel 23.01 Approved Pass Action details Not available 15-0393 1 44 Agenda Item Authority to commence negotiations with the Village of Wheeling for the sale of an approximately two acre segment of the William Rodgers Memorial Diversionary Channel on District real estate located southwest of the intersection of Milwaukee Avenue and Lake Cook Road in Wheeling, Illinois Approved Pass Action details Not available 15-0395 1 45 Agenda Item Authority to issue a 12-month permit extension to Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company on District property located at 3548 South Ashland Avenue to continue to conduct confirmatory sampling and additional environmental remediation. Consideration shall be $2,500.00 Approved Pass Action details Not available 15-0397 1 46 Agenda Item Authority to grant to the City of Chicago a permanent subterranean easement on 3.398 acres on District North Shore Channel Parcels 9.02, 9.06 and 9.13 and a five (5) year construction easement on 4.444 acres on District North Shore Channel Parcel 9.02 in connection with the Albany Park Flood Control Project. Consideration shall be a nominal fee of $10.00 Approved Pass Action details Not available 15-0378 1 47 Memorial Resolution MEMORIAL RESOLUTION sponsored by the Board of Commissioners honoring Reverend Willie Taplin Barrow Adopted Pass Action details Video 15-0265 1 48 Resolution RESOLUTION sponsored by the Board of Commissioners recognizing the 48th Annual Chicago Business Opportunity Fair Adopted Pass Action details Video 15-0338 1 49 Resolution RESOLUTION sponsored by the Board of Commissioners celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Belgian American Club of Chicago Adopted Pass Action details Not available 15-0380 1 50 Resolution RESOLUTION sponsored by the Board of Commissioners recognizing the 10th Anniversary of the Loyola University Museum of Art Adopted Pass Action details Video IW15-001 1 51 Industrial Waste Ordinance Request Authority to Amend the Sewage and Waste Control Ordinance of the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago Adopted Pass Action details Video R15-003 1 52 Right of Way Ordinance Adopt Ordinance No. R15-003 Establishing the Right-of-Way for the Construction, Operation and Maintenance of the Des Plaines Inflow Tunnel (Contract 13-106-4F) connecting the existing Des Plaines tunnel system from 53rd Street and Joliet Road to the McCook Reservoir, in McCook, Illinois, in parts of Sections 11 and 14, Township 38 North, Range 12, East of the Third Principal Meridian in Cook County, Illinois Adopted Pass Action details Video 15-0371 1 53 Agenda Item Authorization to amend Board Order of January 8, 2015, for Authority to advertise Contract 15-655-11, Manhole and Infrastructure Repairs, estimated cost $600,000.00, Account 101-66000-612600, Requisition 1387968, Agenda Item No. 8, File No. 15-0035 Approved Pass Action details Not available 15-0400 1 54 Agenda Item Report on Participation in Multi-Jurisdictional Disaster Response Exercise Approved Pass Action details Not available 15-0401 1 55 Agenda Item Report on change orders authorized and approved by the Director of Maintenance and Operations during the month of March 2015. Approved Pass Action details Not available 15-0403 1 56 Resolution RESOLUTION sponsored by the Board of Commissioners recognizing the 2015 inductees into the Irish American Hall of Fame Adopted Pass Action details Video 15-0407 1 57 Resolution RESOLUTION sponsored by the Board of Commissioners recognizing Thomas Liston’s thirty years of service to the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District and congratulating him on his well-earned retirement (As Revised) Adopted Pass Action details Video