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Meeting Name: Committee of the Whole Agenda status: Final
Meeting date/time: 6/20/2013 10:05 AM Minutes status: Final  
Meeting location: Board Room
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13-0626 11ReportReport of bid opening of Tuesday, June 4, 2013RecommendedPass Action details Not available
13-0653 12ReportReport on rejection of bids for Contract 13-675-11, Janitorial Services at the Calumet and Egan Water Reclamation Plants, estimated cost $229,500.00RecommendedPass Action details Not available
13-0658 13ReportReport of bid opening of Tuesday, June 11, 2013RecommendedPass Action details Not available
13-0673 14Agenda ItemAuthorization to amend Board Order of February 7, 2013, regarding Authority to advertise Contract 10-716-3P Lemont Wet Weather Treatment Facility and Reservoir, Lemont Water Reclamation Plant, estimated cost $27,430,000.00, Account 401-50000-645620, Requisition 1354032 Agenda Item No. 14, File No. 13-0081RecommendedPass Action details Not available
13-0639 15Agenda ItemAuthority to advertise Contract 13-937-11 Furnishing and Delivering Rebuilt Motors to the Stickney Water Reclamation Plant, estimated cost $180,000.00, Account 101-69000-612650, Requisition 1361444RecommendedPass Action details Not available
13-0640 16Agenda ItemAuthority to advertise Contract 10-885-AF, Streambank Stabilization of I&M Canal Tributary D, estimated cost $394,575.00, Account 501-50000-645620, Requisition 1361988RecommendedPass Action details Not available
13-0648 17Agenda ItemAuthority to advertise Contract 06-357-3S, Upper Des Plaines Intercepting Sewer 20B Rehabilitation, North Service Area, estimated cost $6,300,000.00, Account 401-50000-645700, Requisition 1358245RecommendedPass Action details Not available
13-0634 18Agenda ItemIssue purchase order and enter into an agreement with John Anspach Consulting, for professional engineering services for Contract 06-212-3M Calumet TARP Pump Station Improvements, CWRP, in an amount not to exceed $26,500.00, Account 401-50000-601440, Requisition 1360616 (As Revised)RecommendedPass Action details Not available
13-0655 19Agenda ItemIssue purchase order for Contract 13-927-21, Furnish and Deliver a Remote Racking Device to the Stickney Water Reclamation Plant, to Steiner Electric Company, in an amount not to exceed $49,977.77, Account 201-50000-634780, Requisition 1351227RecommendedPass Action details Not available
13-0656 110Agenda ItemIssue purchase order for Contract 13-106-11, Furnish and Deliver Phosphorous Removal Monitoring Equipment, to Memeco Sales and Services Corporation, in an amount not to exceed $72,743.00, Account 201-50000-634650, Requisition 1353151RecommendedPass Action details Not available
13-0659 111Agenda ItemIssue purchase order for Contract 13-816-21, Furnish and Deliver One Steel Cutting Shear to the Calumet Water Reclamation Plant, to Cincinnati, Incorporated, in an amount not to exceed $170,850.00, Account 201-50000-634560, Requisition 1353988RecommendedPass Action details Not available
13-0676 112Agenda ItemIssue purchase order and enter into an agreement with Thermo Electron North America LLC, for a Unity Limited Support Plan for Thermo Helios Instruments and Consumables, in an amount not to exceed $18,178.00, Accounts 101-16000-612970 and 623570, Requisition 1361725RecommendedPass Action details Not available
13-0645 113Agenda ItemAuthority to award Contract 13-690-11, Services to Rebuild AC and DC Motors at Various Service Areas, to Koontz-Wagner Maintenance Services LLC, in an amount not to exceed $116,966.00, Accounts 101-67000, 68000, 69000-612650, Requisitions 1356198, 1356199, and 1356207RecommendedPass Action details Not available
13-0657 114Agenda ItemAuthority to award Contract 13-924-21, Furnish, Deliver and Install Torque Limiters on Final Tanks at the Stickney Water Reclamation Plant, to Key West Metal Industries, Inc., in an amount not to exceed $184,860.00, Account 201-50000-645750, Requisition 1355519RecommendedPass Action details Not available
13-0660 115Agenda ItemAuthority to award Contract 13-814-21, Furnish, Deliver and Install a Sawdust Collection System and Modify a Shop Fume Exhaust System at the Calumet Water Reclamation Plant, to Tal-Mar Custom Metal Fabricators Corp., in an amount not to exceed $93,663.75, Account 201-50000-634650, Requisition 1353511RecommendedPass Action details Not available
13-0662 116Agenda ItemAuthority to increase purchase order and amend agreement with Ricoh USA for services to provide maintenance, service, repairs and supplies for 15 Ricoh copiers in an amount of $10,571.20 from an amount of $8,123.71, to an amount not to exceed $18,694.91, Account 101-27000-612810, Purchase Order 8007248RecommendedPass Action details Not available
13-0668 117Agenda ItemAuthority to increase Contract 04-202-4F Connecting Tunnels & Gates, Thornton Composite Reservoir, Calumet Service Area, to Walsh/II in One Joint Venture in an amount of $45,308.98, from an amount of $135,435,715.49, to an amount not to exceed $135,481,024.47, Account 401-50000-645600, Purchase Order 5001136RecommendedPass Action details Not available
13-0669 118Agenda ItemAuthority to increase purchase order for Contract 06-418-11, Furnish and Deliver Thirty-Two (32) Multi-Functional Photocopier Devices and a Five Year Repair Service, Supplies and Maintenance Agreement at Various Locations, to Ricoh Americas Corporation, in an amount of $8,580.00, from an amount of $416,351.87, to an amount not to exceed $424,931.87 Account 101-27000-612810, Purchase Order 3041665RecommendedPass Action details Not available
13-0670 119Agenda ItemAuthority to decrease Contract 06-024-3M Effluent and Potable Water Piping Upgrades at North Side Water Reclamation Plant (renamed as Terrence J. O’Brien Water Reclamation Plant), to FH Paschen, SN Nielsen & Associates in an amount of $127,602.00, from an amount of $4,345,000.00, to an amount not to exceed $4,217,398.00, Account 401-50000-645750, Purchase Order 5001374RecommendedPass Action details Not available
13-0674 120Agenda ItemAuthority to increase Contract 10-046-3P Battery D - Aeration Tank No. 8, O’Brien Water Reclamation Plant, to IHC Construction Companies, LLC, in an amount of $32,773.63 from an amount of $6,528,000.00, to an amount not to exceed $6,560,773.63, Account 401-50000-645650, Purchase Order 5001366RecommendedPass Action details Not available
13-0675 121Agenda ItemAuthority to decrease Contract 91-177-CE Distributed Control System for Solids Processes at Stickney Water Reclamation Plant, Mainstream Pumping Station, and Other Remote Stations, SSA, to Divane Brothers Electric Company in an amount of $184,992.00, from an amount of $33,118,569.89, to an amount not to exceed $32,933,577.89, Account 401-50000-645650, Purchase Order 5000978RecommendedPass Action details Not available
13-0677 122Agenda ItemAuthority to decrease Contract 02-110-2E Electrical Distribution System and Conduit & Cable Replacement, SSA, to Divane Brothers Electric Company in an amount of $2,524.00, from an amount of $8,348,651.00, to an amount not to exceed $8,346,127.00, Accounts 201-50000-645700, 645750 and 645780, Purchase Order 5000890RecommendedPass Action details Not available
13-0678 123Agenda ItemAuthority to increase purchase order and amend the agreement with MWH Americas, Inc., for professional engineering services for Contract 06-363-3D CUP O’Hare Reservoir (renamed as Gloria Alitto Majewski Reservoir) Repair and Rehabilitation, North Branch of Chicago River and North Shore Channel Restoration, in an amount of $50,000.00, from an amount of $2,592,736.00, to an amount not to exceed $2,642,736.00, Account 401-50000-601420, Purchase Order 3049876RecommendedPass Action details Not available
13-0627 124Agenda ItemAuthority to transfer 2013 departmental appropriations in the amount of $40,000.00 in the Corporate FundRecommendedPass Action details Not available
13-0647 125ReportReport on change orders authorized and approved by the Director of Engineering during the month of May 2013RecommendedPass Action details Not available
13-0666 126ReportReport on negotiations with consultants for professional engineering services for flood reduction investigationsRecommendedPass Action details Not available
13-0625 127Agenda ItemAuthority to settle Marigold, Inc.’s 2010 User Charge liability in the total amount of $29,984.43, Board Appeal No. 12-B-002RecommendedPass Action details Not available
13-0663 128Agenda ItemAuthority to Settle Show Cause Action, Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago v. Glen Estates Homeowners Association, Violation Complaint No. 06-010-VC, Permit Application No. 1984-0081, and to approve the final order of the Hearing Officer with the recommendation of settlement and dismissal of the Show Cause Action.RecommendedPass Action details Not available
13-0629 129Agenda ItemAuthority to amend the lease agreement dated April 5, 2012, between the District and the Mount Prospect Park District on 34.239 acres located east of Elmhurst Road and south of the James C. Kirie Water Reclamation Plant in Des Plaines, Illinois, and known as Majewski Metro Park for public recreational purposes, to increase the permitted use of selling alcoholic beverages on the leasehold from five (5) to eight (8) times a year. Consideration shall be a nominal fee of $10.00RecommendedPass Action details Not available
13-0631 130Agenda ItemAuthority to pay 2012 real estate taxes in the amount of $65,067.02 for Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago’s real estate located in Fulton County, Illinois. Account 101-30000-667130RecommendedPass Action details Not available
13-0632 131Agenda ItemAuthority to issue a 3-month permit to Arcadis U.S., Inc. to use an approximately 3,000 sq. ft. area of District real estate located in Willow Springs, Illinois, and known as Main Channel Parcel 31.01, as a construction staging area for the maintenance and repair of Buckeye Partners’ 14” petroleum pipeline. Consideration shall be a document preparation fee of $2,500.00RecommendedPass Action details Not available
13-0633 132Agenda ItemAuthority to commence statutory procedures to lease approximately 0.57 acres of District real estate located at 2600 S. Laflin Street in Chicago, at the confluence of the South Branch of the Chicago River and Stetson Canal, and known as Lot 220 (Deferred from June 6, 2013 Board Meeting)RecommendedPass Action details Not available
13-0664 133Agenda ItemAuthority to issue a 10-day permit to DVG Productions, LLC to access and use a portion of the Silver Creek Reservoir site in Franklin Park, Illinois, to film scenes for a major motion picture titled “Catwalk”. Consideration shall be $7,500.00RecommendedPass Action details Not available
13-0665 134Agenda ItemAuthority to grant a 50-year, 2.83 acre non-exclusive easement to the Chicago Park District along the west bank of the North Branch the Chicago River between Irving Park Road and Montrose Avenue in Chicago, Illinois, for construction, reconstruction, operation, maintenance, repair and removal of an ecosystem restoration project called “Horner Park Section 206 Aquatic Ecosystem Restoration”. Consideration shall be a nominal fee of $10.00RecommendedPass Action details Not available
13-0667 135Agenda ItemAuthority to grant a 25-year non-exclusive easement to Kovas Communications, Inc. for use of 84,398 square feet of District property located within the Terrence J. O’Brien Water Reclamation Plant at 3500 W. Howard Street in Skokie, Illinois, for the operation and maintenance of four (4) freestanding radio transmission antenna towers, a transmitter building, an underground grid system and appurtenances related thereto. Consideration shall be an initial annual fee of $88,000.00RecommendedPass Action details Not available
13-0671 136Agenda ItemAuthority to commence negotiations to purchase 4.4 acres of real estate at 17001 State Street, South Holland, Illinois, adjacent to the Thornton Reservoir, to serve as an odor buffer and staging area for operating and maintaining a new gate shaft and the Thornton ReservoirRecommendedPass Action details Not available
13-0649 137Agenda ItemRequest for approval to initiate design of Project DPR-14D of the Lower Des Plaines River Watershed PlanRecommendedPass Action details Not available
13-0651 138Agenda ItemAuthorization to negotiate an intergovernmental agreement with the City of Chicago Department of Water Management and Chicago Public Schools to install green infrastructure at Dirksen Elementary School, Morrill Math and Elementary School, and Grissom Elementary School in the City of ChicagoDeferredPass Action details Not available
13-0679 139Agenda ItemAuthority to award Contract 07-030-3D, North Branch of Chicago River and North Shore Channel Restoration, at the North Service Area, to Lakes & Rivers Contracting, Inc., in an amount not to exceed $3,100,876.00, Account 401-50000-645720, Requisition 1296548RecommendedPass Action details Not available
13-0680 140ResolutionRESOLUTION sponsored by the Board of Commissioners recognizing Asian Pacific Islander MonthRecommendedPass Action details Not available
13-0681 141Agenda ItemAuthorization to negotiate an Intergovernmental Agreement with the Illinois Department of Natural Resources to participate in the Chi-Cal River ProjectRecommendedPass Action details Not available