LYNN HAVEN — The Lynn Haven Commission on Tuesday approved a task order from Phoenix Construction for advanced wastewater treatment filters.
Because the city used an existing contract with Phoenix, City Manager Joel Schubert projected a savings of about $2.6 million on the project.
The commission previously approved a bond of about $2.9 million for the job. The contract with Phoenix would save the city a little less than $400,000 just on construction, but Schubert said the filters are included at a cost of $747,000.
With the city purchasing the filters and saving on sales tax, Schubert had cut the cost of Phoenix construction’s work to $1.8 million.
Schubert said the rest of the bond amount would pay for other wastewater projects.
He also employed existing contracts in two other agenda items. A sheriff’s contract for $68,500 was used for a Rescue Truck for the Fire Department. An existing truck that has outlived its usefulness will be sent to surplus.
In another large vehicle purchase, the commission approved a $234,000 semi-automated garbage truck. A state contract was used to lower the cost.
Lynn Haven has five garbage trucks. The new vehicle will replace an existing vehicle.
“I just want to point out that we get about seven years to ride a truck into the ground,” Commissioner Joseph Ashbrook said.
Both vehicles were part of the 2014-15 budget.
In other business, the commission:
- Approved $40,000 to pay for box culverts for one section of the 17th Street ditch with Panhandle Engineering. Schubert said the entire 17th Street ditch project would cost about $5 million, although the city is searching for grants and other engineering methods to lower the cost. Resident Leon Miller said the intersection of 17th and Illinois Avenue is a particularly dangerous section of the ditch because children play in it when it floods.
- Approved $26,000 to pay for the replacement of cast iron pipes, also with Panhandle Engineering.
- Approved the annexation of Emerald Coast Fellowship and adjacent property to the north into the city and a land use change from general commercial of public institutional.
- Approved the vacation of a right of way in the new subdivision development behind North Bay Haven Charter School owned by D&H Properties. The right of way change is part of a change to the overall plan for the development.
- Approved keeping the hours for alcohol sales the same in Lynn Haven during March.
- Approved a Justice Administration Grant of $3,992 to the Police Department for thermal cameras.
- Approved the application of a grant of $24,966, which the city has to match $1,190, for laptops for the Fire Department.
