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Little Canada <br />Fire Department, Inc. 325 Little Canada Road East <br />Little Canada, Minnesota 55117 <br />Office: (651) 792-7680 <br />Fax: (651) 766-7092 <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />To: Mayor Fischer and Members of the City Council <br />Chris Heineman, City Administrator <br />From: Don Smiley, Fire Chief <br />Date: October 14, 2024 <br />RE: Fire Station Vehicle Exhaust System <br /> <br />ACTION TO BE CONSIDERED: <br />Accept the low bid of $37,280.00 to Nordic Mechanical Services for the installation of a new <br />vehicle exhaust system at the fire station. Also accept the optional manual start up for the <br />makeup air system in the amount of $1,500. <br /> <br />To assist with the ventilation and air movement in the apparatus bay we would also like to <br />replace the 2 ceiling fans with new commercial grade ceiling fans. The fire department would <br />purchase these directly and have an electrician install them. The fans and installation would <br />be no more than $7,500. <br /> <br />Total cost of the project $46,280 <br /> <br />BACKGROUND: <br />The vehicle exhaust system is the fire station apparatus bay was installed in 1991 when the <br />building was built. The system is undersized, and the technology is antiquated, also the <br />system currently does not work correctly. Firefighters have a 9 percent higher risk of being <br />diagnosed with cancer and a 14 percent higher risk of dying from cancer than the general <br />public. <br /> <br />The new vehicle exhaust system is a large piece of things we can do to help reduce firefighter <br />cancer. <br /> <br />SOURCE OF FUNDS: The vehicle exhaust system will be funded out of the fire equipment <br />fund. $206,000 was ear marked and approved for this project in the 2023 CIP Budget. The <br />bid for this project was well under the proposed cost. <br /> <br />We received 2 bids for the vehicle exhaust system itself: <br />Nordic Mechanical Services $ 38,780.00* <br />NAC Mechanical Services $ 48,108.00* <br />*These two bids do not include the new ceiling fans.