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The Reporter covers Miller, Morgan and Camden County in Central Missouri's Lake of the Ozarks and is published once per week on Wednesdays.

Published February 13, 2019

Board approves tower painting

OSAGE BEACH – It’s time to paint the Bluff Road Water Tower and the Board of Aldermen passed the first reading of the bill agreeing to the work last week.

The project will include painting the interior wet and dry and the exterior.

The city requested bids on the project and those bids were opened on January 8 with six companies wanting the job. Those companies and their bids were:

• $668,000 from TMI Coatings, Inc
• $330,000 from SES Infrastructure Services LLC
• $294,520 from Viking Painting, LLC
• $288,400 from Utility Service Co, Inc
• $280,000 from Central Tank Coatings, Inc.
• $251,800 from Maquire Iron, Inc.

“We have done work with Maguire Iron, Inc. in the past but it has been over 5 years,” Nicholas Edelman, Public Works Director said in his report to the board. “We checked references and they came back good.”

This is a budgeted item for fiscal year 2019 and was budgeted at $380,000. The second reading should be held at the next board meeting currently scheduled for February 21.

In other business at last week’s Board of Aldermen meeting:

• Passed the second reading vacating a portion of the right of way of Osage Beach Road.
• Passed the first reading of a contract with Central Bank of The Lake of The Ozarks for the option of making electronic commercial payments directly to vendors who request the service.

According to City Treasurer Karri Bell, the city is increasingly receiving requests from vendors asking to be paid through an electronic option. This service “Commercial Payments” will provide an electronic payment option for city vendors but it will not be mandatory.

“The City will receive from .4% to .6% from these transactions and reduce expenses associated with processing manual checks and postage cost,” Bell told the board in her report. “The city will also gain an alternative credit card system for city staff that includes credit cards designed to meet the temporary, approved travel/training needs.

The second reading should take place at the next board meeting

• Approved the purchase of a 2019 Ford F150 from Joe Machens Ford.

This is a replacement truck for the construction inspector. The existing vehicle is a Chevy
Colorado and will be replaced with an extended cab Ford F150.

The vehicle will be bought from the MODOT state bid from Joe Machens Ford in Columbia for $28,296. This is a budgeted item and the cost will be divided between all three departments within the Department of Public Works.

• Approved the purchase of a 2019 Kubota SVL95 Compact Tract Loader from the NJPA contract in the amount of $46,193.95.

The details are similar to a budgeted purchase of a Case backhoe the city made in January.

This purchase is for a Skidsteer for the Transportation, Water and Sewer Departments. Public Works Director Nicholas Edelman said they received a quote from Crown Power and Equipment and obtained pricing from Machinetrader.com website

“It appears on the surface that the City could save money on the purchase of a used skidsteer versus a new one,” Edelman said. “However, when buying this type of equipment for the City, it is ideal to for the equipment to have below 1,000 hours and even better to be below 500 hours.”

He said this is because the Public Works Department will keep this equipment for several years and will put 1,500 plus hours on it.

The equipment, with 1,000 hours or less, range in cost from $50,195 in Missouri to $65,311 in Connecticut. The city’s cost for a new 2019 Skidsteer is $61,193.95.

Crown Power and Equipment has also offered $15,000 for trade in on the city’s current one.

The city budgeted $70,200 for the new skidsteer. With the trade-in of the old one the city will be paying $46,193.95, which is well below the budgeted amount.