The City of Yorkton is proceeding with the installation of five additional manholes on the city's North Sanitary Trunk Main.
Yorkton Council unanimously approved the work at its regular meeting Monday, after having tabled the matter at its Sept. 12 meeting.
The project was tabled pending the outcome of a request to have engineering costs on the project waived.
Associated Engineering contacted companies in the area which have the ability to construct the manholes and the time to do so. Two companies responded to the inquiry.
The lowest tender was from Wyonzek Brothers Construction at a cost of $34,290 for two manholes, or $111,780 for five.
When engineering and a contingency fund were added the total cost of the project was set at $150,903.
The installation of these manholes was not covered in the capital budget. The funding to cover the expense associated with the additional manholes will come from higher than expected revenues from the waterworks account.
At the Sept. 12 meeting Councillor Chris Wyatt was not happy with the City facing additional engineering costs ($16,780), terming it "a little upsetting." He reasoned then the City followed Associated Engineering's (AE) recommendation that the manholes were not needed initially, and to find out they now do, he was not happy with again paying fees.
Wyatt suggested the City look "to have the engineering fees waived."
Monday Council received good news regarding the engineering fees.
"The engineering fees for the manhole installation work is expected to be nil provided that the city works with ACME and the construction company for the placement of the manholes and inspection services are not required. If this is the case, then it should be in the order of $5,000 just in case there are unforeseen issues that come up during construction that requires their attention," detailed a report circulated at Council Monday.
The lower engineering cost brought the project cost down to $139,136, which Council approved without further discussion.
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