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PROCEEDINO3 OF THE VILLAGE COUNCIL VILLAGE or MOUNDS VIEW RAMSEY COUNTY, MINNESOTA The regular :vgating of .the Mounds Viow.:Village Council ^•waa• o0104 to order by Mayor Crane at 8:00 P.D. June 26th, 1961 at the Mod Oak School, Sherwood Rd. and Red Oak Dr., Minneapolis, RS*SOta. Present were: Mayor: Allan D. Crane Clerk: Lloyd J. Blanchard Administrative Clerk: Paul Boog Trustees: Melford Christensen Perry Malvin Donald Hodges Attorney: Richard Meyers Engineer: Les Knutson Public Works Supt: Walter Skiba 000076 Motion by Hodges to approve minutes of June 12th meeting as presented. Seconded by Malvin. 5 Ayes for approval. Motion by Blanchard to accept the low bid for the water filtration plant from D.'1. Hicke'y Company in the amount of $44,660,00. Seconded by Hodges. The Council, Engineer, and Attorney discussed at great lengths the pros and cons of the motion. The "opinion of the t•!o w 't id- cr: r_..id citizen's were preOented. The Engineers explained their views as follows: Mechanical Equipment Mounds View Water Filtration Plant Regarding the bide for the above mentioned project, we deem it advisable to inform the council of certain facts concerning the equipment as bid by the low bidder, Turb?matic Co., D.W. Hicke Co. equipment, •and that of the second biddethe Layne- Minnesota Co., .General Filter Corp. equipment. The bid of the Turbomatic Co. was in`the amount of $44,660 for'equipment which was an alternate to-that proposed in the base bid.'. This equipment cannot be con strued to be comparable to that of the base bid due to the follow- ing features: 1. The piping arrangement of the raw water line is such that the flow to the individual cells cannot be separately controlled. The raw water line itself within the tank is calibrated for a 1,000 gallon per minute flow. Should the rate of flow be in- creased to 1,200 gal. or reduced to 000 gal. per minute, this calibration would not equally distribute the water to the res- pective individual cells. 2. The under drain systea is connected in the manner which makes it mandatory to back wash the entire unit rather than by an individual cell basis as proposed in the base bid. Should it be necessary to back wah the unit with filtered the additional cost over a 25 year period will approach ?9,000. in power alone.