Common Council, Special Meeting

1. 2:02to cause the traffic instruction just to get this meeting outside. Please
2. 2:10are we on? Okay. Uh this is the special meeting of the common council for February 26th. It's now in session. Please rise for the pledge of allegiance. American
3. 2:46here. Earnhagen
4. 2:49here.
5. 2:50Ron
6. 2:50here.
7. 2:51Sar Foster Roberts Belton
8. 2:57here. Volo
9. 3:00cousin Maranti
10. 3:03here.
11. 3:04Forum present. Okay. Um so I request a motion and a second to receive the call of the meeting and place it on file. Do I have a motion to receive Jenny motion? Gary second. Uh all in favor
12. 3:18I
13. 3:20carried. Nobody's opposed. So uh we have a resolution uh which is authorizing a budget amendment. This is actually not transfer. It's a budget amendment uh to cover emergency repairs. May I have any questions on the on the uh resolution from anyone?
14. 3:43Quite a few
15. 3:45but um I'm reading it and some of them are being answered
16. 3:50horizontal rather than vertical venting
17. 3:53but it's a replacement of what was there.
18. 3:56So the last what is actually being done is a replacement
19. 4:00right? um because what is there cannot be presented appropriately. So, it's going to be I
20. 4:10think you mentioned that you're going to try to go out with the contractor or
21. 4:15Oh, whatever happens down the road is up to them. But for now, what we need is a budget because our code enforcement approved it. we have to ensure that it is corrected and so it will be
22. 4:30um yeah I real I understand it's our responsibility I'm obviously going to vote yes on this I guess my question is
23. 4:36can we get these answers after to the questions
24. 4:40the finan who financially who's going to
25. 4:42no who did the work
26. 4:45um we can get those answers I I did see correspondence but I don't recall the name of the vendor of
27. 4:52who chose the vendor and who approved the plans from the vendor because the but this that's probably questions for
28. 5:03I think I think those are questions for uh sitting down to understand how this happened and ensuring that it never happens again
29. 5:11and so one recommendation that I did make actually when I reviewed the issue was that all of the work done by this vendor that it be made and that code go out and reinspect any work done by this vendor.
30. 5:27Yeah.
31. 5:27To ensure that there aren't any other issues out there that we don't know about.
32. 5:31Yeah. Hi, I'm the new code enforcement office.
33. 5:33Hello. Oh, you might know these.
34. 5:35Um, so the contractor that installed it was KR Contracting out of Skenctity.
35. 5:42Um,
36. 5:43never heard of.
37. 5:45Me neither. Yeah.
38. 5:46Um, it looked like they specialized in carpentry. I think they subbed out the HVAC work. Can't find out who they subbed it to though. Um who selected them. Um from what Michelle had told me this afternoon, she sent these um grants out to bid to multiple multiple different contractors and they got very few response. This was one of the few companies uh that did respond to it. Um in regards I heard you asking the difference between the horizontal and
39. 6:16Oh no, I I understand that difference. I realize that. Yeah, there there was no ch there was the chimney had been taken out of that building a long time ago and so there's no more you cannot
40. 6:29vent vertically anymore
41. 6:30without just putting a stack in through the roof.
42. 6:33What's that?
43. 6:34Could they just put a chase and put an
44. 6:37there was it was going out horizontally out of the basement which wasn't to code. Yeah. And um the permit wasn't required because it was a like for like swap out for that unit.
45. 6:50Oh, so that would have been okay, right?
46. 6:52No, no, it it was already not to code. It already wasn't working. But it was it already wasn't safe, but it was working because it was an older furnace that didn't have the same sensors and stuff as the new one that they put in. Exhausted the same way. It started reading some malfunctions because it was installed improperly by that KN&R construction.
47. 7:17Oh, no. I'm I'm sorry. I was assuming like for like would then what was there prior to KN&NR? They didn't do a like for like for that.
48. 7:24Correct. It was like for like but the first one wasn't ever installed correctly in the first place.
49. 7:29Gotcha. Yeah.
50. 7:31Okay.
51. 7:31Yeah. So I think getting a list and uh checking whoever did that Hback work
52. 7:38go back go back over and check all of those and then the other thing would be uh to identify whoever did it and hopefully not use them again.
53. 7:47Definitely not use them again.
54. 7:49Absolutely.
55. 7:49And whoever approved well sorry I assume that would be maybe someone housing resources office who chose that vendor. I question.
56. 7:59Well, when Michelle was here the other night, she said that
57. 8:04multiple bids come in, they show it to the actual homeowner is what I thought she said.
58. 8:09She did say that.
59. 8:10And that, you know, they can choose someone who is not the lowest bid. They could, but then they have to pay the difference.
60. 8:18I don't think they chose the person that was chosen before them. That's where my worry comes in
61. 8:24because they were they were sub.
62. 8:28Uh possibly maybe it is because they were sub.
63. 8:30All I have on my records is the K contract and that's who the pro.
64. 8:34Yeah. So that person I don't think the homeowner may have had the final say in that.
65. 8:40So that is concerning as well because that would have been contrary to what we were told.
66. 8:46I my comment is that I want to thank Nick for addressing this as soon as he did. He he really he really stepped up. I know you two weeks probably not enough dust on you yet, but u dip my toes.
67. 9:01But he dressed it uh promptly and you know I think it was in his hands on Tuesday and here we are. Right. And so uh I think that's uh great and I think that we and family and whoever dodged this bullet uh and that what whatever happened you know we'll deal with how it happened but right now we have to resolve you know what it is right so we can sit here and quote back and forth and I'm sure Nick probably don't have the answers we won't have the answers today but I'm sure we need we need to put a plan in place of corrective action
68. 9:38so it doesn't happen again. We need a layer of a barrier that protects the homeowners and the city to make sure that something like this doesn't happen.
69. 9:49Okay.
70. 9:51Any other questions or discussion?
71. 9:54No, we've had a motion and second to vote on the uh resolution. We did not do a motion.
72. 10:02Oh, motion vote on this resolution. Second second from uh from Jenny.
73. 10:09We've been trying to get in for a while. It's okay.
74. 10:13That's okay.
75. 10:15All right. So, uh we need a roll call vote.
76. 10:20President Morris.
77. 10:21Yes.
78. 10:22Council member Hadab.
79. 10:23Hi.
80. 10:25Hen. Hi. Rooney. Hi. Sar Foster Roberts Belton. I
81. 10:36cousin Marson.
82. 10:38Hi.
83. 10:40356. Perfect. Okay. Okay. Uh and now if we can uh just have a motion and second
84. 10:48I'll take a mot to adjourn if that's okay.
85. 10:49Okay. Yeah.
86. 10:54Have a second to secondary.
87. 10:58Thanks everyone. Thank you.
88. 11:00Thank you. So you you haven't I don't you don't need I

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