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Mounds View City Council March 28, 2005 <br />Regular Meeting Page 8 <br /> <br /> 1 <br />Mayor Marty asked whether it could then come back as $6,500 or $7,000. 2 <br /> 3 <br />Public Works Director Lee stated that the original estimate was around $5,000, but they had 4 <br />given the worst case estimate. 5 <br /> 6 <br />Council Member Flaherty asked if they knew what the cost of a new one would be. 7 <br /> 8 <br />Public Works Director Lee stated that he didn’t have that information, but he could look it up. 9 <br /> 10 <br />Council Member Thomas stated she had also wanted to pull this item because the numbers were 11 <br />jumping out at her, and this company has been maintaining this piece of equipment for three and 12 <br />a half years, and it keeps failing. She asked why there wasn’t better planning on this unit since 13 <br />there has been constant work on it. 14 <br /> 15 <br />Public Works Director Lee stated that UHL was hired to fix all the corrections that were 16 <br />identified in their report that was put together 3 ½ years ago. He stated he didn’t know how 17 <br />detailed that report was, but he didn’t think this particular one had been identified in that report. 18 <br />He stated there were a lot of issues with it at the Community Center, and they had been making 19 <br />corrections over the last three years. 20 <br /> 21 <br />Council Member Thomas asked if this was the same unit they had been talking about before. 22 <br /> 23 <br />Mayor Marty stated he didn’t recall specifically. 24 <br /> 25 <br />Council Member Thomas stated she didn’t mean to say they were falling down on the job, but 26 <br />she felt this was the same unit they had been having trouble with significantly over the last four 27 <br />years. 28 <br /> 29 <br />Public Works Director Lee stated that the breakdown was caused by plastic gears that sheared 30 <br />and broke and the shutter door didn’t open. He stated that the proposal was to put metal gears in 31 <br />to make sure this didn’t happen again. 32 <br /> 33 <br />Mayor Marty asked if they had looked into if they had plastic gears, if they could do some 34 <br />preventative maintenance. 35 <br /> 36 <br />Public Works Director Lee stated he would have to look into that. He stated he could research 37 <br />that and make sure that the other units are checked so they don’t have the same failure. 38 <br /> 39 <br />Mayor Marty stated he would prefer to have them check it and maybe do some preventative 40 <br />maintenance so they wouldn’t have to spend more money later. 41 <br /> 42 <br />Council Member Flaherty stated that it seemed to be a lot of money to replace a heat exchanger. 43 <br />He asked if they had ever contacted Carrier and asked them for a recommendation. 44 <br /> 45