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OGDENSBURG â The City Council on Monday night voted unanimously to approve a change order totaling $1.8 million for additional work to the cityâs Wastewater Treatment Plant Capital Improvement Project.
In 2019, Jett Industries Inc. of Colliersville was awarded the contract to overhaul the aging plant, which regularly empties partially treated wastewater into the St. Lawrence River.
Since bids for the contract came in substantially over what engineers had estimated, several alternate parts of the project were removed from the contract.
On Monday night, City Council agreed to fund Alternate A, which was one of the items dropped from the original contract. Alternate A is the construction of a new wastewater receiving facility and its associated equipment.
OGDENSBURG â In line with its plan to share and consolidate services as a cost-saving measure, the city is looking to do just that with the Development Authority of the North Country.
City Manager Stephen P. Jellie is looking to negotiate with DANC to create what he calls an intermunicipal agreement for management and operational support of the cityâs water treatment plant and wastewater treatment plant. Mr. Jellie sent a letter to DANC Executive Director Carl E. Farone Jr. requesting the development authority provide a written response to the cityâs request to explore the potential agreement.
âIt is my sincere belief that a partnership between our entities will significantly reduce costs for services, create efficiencies in work effort and remove redundancy,â the letter from Mr. Jellie dated March 1 reads.