DATE: November 12, 2014
TO: Board of Mayor and Aldermen
FROM: Eric Stuckey, City Administrator
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Acknowledgement of Repair to 2nd Ave. Parking Garage Elevator
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Purpose
The purpose of this memo is to provide information to the Franklin Board of Mayor and Aldermen (BOMA) concerning the contract with Nashville Machine Elevator Company. Approval on behalf of the Board of Mayor and Aldermen was given to replace the main hydraulic line from the elevator equipment room to the elevator pit in an amount of $17,425.00.
Background
In the weeks or month prior to August of this year, the COF maintenance department had been making checks of the elevator equipment and noticed a drop in hydraulic fluid levels. Staff began monitoring the system, observing differences of hydraulic fluid levels at miscellaneous times.
These hydraulic lines are made of heavy gauge ductile iron and that is what seems to be currently installed on the system traveling underground from the elevator equipment room to the elevator pit. Nashville Machine currently has the maintenance contract for the Second and Fourth Avenue garages and was contacted to perform a test. Nashville Machine did a high volume air test the beginning of September and determined that there was a break under the slab in the garage. The original repair quote was over $ 25,000.00 (twenty five thousand dollars) and would require a shutdown of the area for up to a week based upon the original proposal. Facilities personnel determined with staff that the best way to approach this along with saving money would be to mount the piping to the bottom of the parking lot deck from the elevator room to the pit. This direction saved us approximately $8000.00 dollars (eight thousand dollars) and only one day of shut down for the exit from the City Hall temporary parking lot as work was performed on a Saturday.
Financial Impact
The project will be paid out of the Facilities Budget.
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