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City councilors address disaster debris removal issues
By BOB McCLURE
Article published on Tuesday, Oct. 2, 2007 |
SEMINOLE – The City Council approved two measures for disaster debris removal and disposal services and another for disaster debris management and consulting services during its last meeting on Sept. 25.
City officials agreed to a mutual benefit and use agreement with Pompano Beach-based Ashbritt Inc. for 2007 to 2012, which allows the city to piggyback on the same rate structure offered to Pinellas County.
The city also agreed to a cooperative purchase agreement with DRC Emergency Services of Mobile, Ala., which allows the city to piggyback on an existing contract for debris disposal that DRC has with the City of Largo through 2010.
“FEMA requires municipalities have contracts in place with monitoring and cleanup companies to receive consideration for repayment of expenses,” explained City Manager Frank Edmunds. “There is also a firm FEMA requirement that all loads must be inspected for us to receive repayment.”
The city also approved a four-year contract through 2010 with Patton Harris Rust & Associates of Virginia Beach, Va., for debris management and consulting services.
The agreements with Ashbritt and DRC Emergency Services cover unit price proposals for various equipment and labor.
For example, the Ashbritt rate for use of a 16-inch brush chipper is $47.25 per hour and $65 per hour for a crane operator. The weekly rate for a 1,500-kilowatt generator is $30,172.
Meanwhile, DRC would get $2,415 per day for use of a Vermeer SC752 stump grinder, $420 per day for a 1-ton pickup truck and $3,000 per day for a mobile kitchen. The agreement even covers dead animal removal and disposal at a rate of $1.98 per pound.
The contract with Patton Harris Rust & Associates is strictly for documentation of debris collected according to guidelines established in FEMA Publication 325.
The unit price for a project manager is $95 per hour, debris monitor supervisor, $70 per hour; debris monitors, $47 per hour; and debris management consultant, $85 per hour.
City OKs law enforcement contract
SEMINOLE – The City Council voted unanimously Sept. 25 to approve a proposed contract for law enforcement services for 2007-08 by the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office.
The annual contract is for $1.62 million and covers service from Oct. 1 to Sept. 30, 2008.
The amount represents a 3.77 percent increase over a year ago.
“I request a motion that it be amended to say an ‘amount not to exceed’ $1.62 million,” said City Manager Frank Edmunds. “That’s because the sheriff’s office is deleting one of the posts for school crossing guards and the full $1.62 million may not be necessary.”
Edmunds said the location affected is Ridge Road at Seminole City Park where one student, who is now in middle school, previously crossed the street.
The contract calls for the sheriff’s office to provide three deputies in patrol cars 24 hours a day and three additional deputies in patrol cars for one eight-hour shift seven days per week.
The sheriff also will provide one deputy specifically for performing community police services five days per week and eight hours per day, and two deputies 40 hours per week for traffic enforcement.
The Sheriff’s Office also will provide seven school crossing guards near schools.
The contract also calls for the Sheriff’s Office to maintain uniform crime reporting records for the city and to provide a monthly report of crime activity in the city limits.
The city will make monthly installment payments of $135,192 to fulfill the contract.
In other action, the council:
• Approved an ordinance on second and final reading setting the 2007-08 property tax rate at 2.48 mills, which is 9.8 percent less than one year ago.
• Approved the city’s $17.9 million budget for 2007-08, which is 3.7 percent less than the previous year.
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Article published on Tuesday, Oct. 2, 2007
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