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HomeMy WebLinkAbout2006-11-13-CEC-min CEC 11/13/06, 7:30am, TOB 111 TE, CWL, RB, SS, BH Kanter, Ch. Wm. Middlemiss, Rob Adelson Kanter asked about polyvinyl leaking into the LFD Main Station. They're still in active discussions w/ Shell. Progress is being made but no $'s yet. Shell wants to move the tanks out of the fire station basement to a separate shed out back. New R-1 (Chevy Kodiak w/ Lifeline Ambulance body) went into service last June. The newest rescue unit will always be called R-1. $165K. R-2 is the International unit. R-3 (Ford) was traded in. It was costing too much to maintain it so they got rid of it. E-2 (2004 Pumper at Bedford Street made by E-one). This is on its 3rd F/E repair. It's going in for structural work on the cab. The F/E is not under warranty, but the rest of it is. LFD has started an annual examination program for the F/E with Waltham Spring. L-1 had to have the rear end replaced ($8K) due to the new "salt" that they use on the roads. Ch. Middlemiss reports that this is a common problem with all the area FD's. E-1, the new pumper that we appropriated for has been awarded to American LaFrance for $378K. It is in construction and will be here in June. The trucks will always keep their numbers (i.e. no rotation). Twice a month, the reserve trucks are put into active duty for a 10 hour shift. Except for those times, the new units are always on the front line. LFD Main Floor. The first analysis was cursory. A later engineering analysis says that the floor is worse than was expected. Now it looks like it will need a replacement floor. The $50K last year was for fixing the floor, but now it will be used for engineering design. Whatever work is ultimately done will be done over the summer when the trucks can be stored outside. The ambulances will have to be put under a tent because they have to be in a controlled environment all the time. FY08, E-5 (old International brush truck). They're currently spending a lot of money to maintain this truck and they can't use it for (e.g.) pulling trailers. There are six or seven major brush fires per year and they use this truck for going off in the woods. Sometimes they use mutual aid from Bedford or Burlington who have brush trucks. The proposed replacement is a "550" frame (like a Chevy Kodiak), 300 gal. 4WD vehicle with a crew cab. It would be a frame with the tank mounted on it. Estimate is $76K. They would also use this for pulling the hazmat trailer. $150K in FY07 requested for updating the municipal buildings to wireless fire alarms. They have the receiver at the dipatch center and now they need to install transmitters in the municipal buildings to provide a wireless signal to the dispatch center. Every time a pole is changed, they need 4 hours of O/T to deal with the current wired lines. The wireless system will give them a more exact location of the fire within a building since it can send the information from the fire alarm panel unlike the current wired system. The key enhancement was that the transmitter reports more than just location--whether building or zone--as it now augments with whether it's a system trouble, pull, smoke detection, or sprinkler activation/problem. 3 receivers are already in use (LFD HQ, Fiske, Brookhaven). This is just a new way of sending the information from the building to the fire department as well as provide status checks from the systems once a day. Commercial buildings have to switch over by July 2008. The unit cost is $5400 each. At Lex. High School, this consolidates all of the 4 master fire panels into one single panel. Antennas are fairly small, but there may be some HDC issues in a few cases. The contractor is LW Bills. This will get rid of all the pull boxes in town. We suggested that the list of municipal buildings perhaps shouldn't include the non-Town-owned buildings. FY09, Replace R-2 (the International unit). R-2 is a 2002 ambulance and has 105K miles on it. It's too heavy and it's a lemon. It has F/E problems. It has high mileage because there is a trend towards longer trips to hospitals. They are also supplying and using mutual aid from Bedford, Lincoln, and Burlington. When replacing this truck, inflation and the new diesel emissions standards will be issues. Suggested that perhaps they should go to a shorter replacement cycle, and Ch. Middlemiss indicated that they would probably do that with the current R-1. FY10, E-3 (1997 pumper). This will probably go on a 13 year schedule. They just had the engine rebuilt for $8k. Chief feels that $400K estimate is probably low given inflation and the year. Chief Middlemiss left at that point. Discussion of DPW. Kanter: PBC will not have the informational packet ready until 11/20. CEC would like to see a prioritized list of what the necessities, and "nice-to-haves" are for the DPW. Would like to have a transition plan, and a space relocation plan because they expect there may be follow-on costs that are as yet unknown. Waiting for a description of overall goals: where did we start, and how did we get to where we are now. Kanter: there's $5M of contingency and phasing lumped together. Need a breakdown of the contingency fee. There's concern that there's not enough time to ask a final set of questions. Sentiment seemed to be (a) Fund now (2006 STM) the conversion of the Design Development drawings into the full Construction Drawings, and (b) defer the discussion until a cost estimate is in hand based on Construction Drawings. Committee agreed to meet again on Wednesday 11/15/06. Adjourn at 9:50 am.