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City reviews amendment to wastewater plant contract
By NATALIE JOHNSON
natalie@masoncounly.com
The City of Shelton Commis-
sion reviewed a proposal Monday to
amend a contract related to its proj-
ect to rebuild the city's wastewater
treatment plant.
The city has amended the con-
tract, with Parametrix Services, be-
fore and plans tb amend, it at least
two more times, City of Shelton En-
gineer Mike Michael said.
"You may be wondering why
we've been making so many amend-
ments," Michael said to the com-
mission during its regular meeting
Monday evening.
When the city put out bids for
its wastewater treatment plant up-
grades, it left out several "enhance-
ments" -- items that were not nec-
essary to the plant's operation -- in
the interest of saving money.
After bids came in lower than the
city expected, it can now add these
enhancements back in, Michael said.
"This one tonight is particularly
related to computer control enhance-
ments that were left out," he said.
The project amendment also in-
cludes programming and computer
hardware updates for the facility, as
well as the city's satellite water rec-
lamation plant.
These changes will make sure
both plants are running on the same
hardware, "so all the facilities will
be able to talk to each other system-
wide," Michael said.
The amendment adds $175,908.09
to the cost of the project.
Mayor Gary Cronce clarified
to members of the public that the
amendment will be covered by grant
funds already approved by the U.S.
Department of Agriculture (USDA)
for the project.
The entire project was paid for
with loans and grants from the
USDA Rural Development program,
Michael said.
"We're at the point now where
we've used up the loan money. We're
moving into grant funds," he said.
The city commission plans to
vote on the contract amendment in
its consent agenda at the Monday,
March 12, meeting.
Journal photos by Natalie Johnson
City of Shelton Engineer Mike Michael briefed the city commission on an amendment to
a contract with Parametrix Services to add enhancements and computer software to the
city's wastewater treatment plant project.
From left,
Shelton City
Commissioners
Mike Olsen,
Mayor Gary '
Cronce and
Dawn Pannell,
reviewed a plan
to amend a
contract to allow
an additional
contractor to do
extra work on
the city's
project to rebuild
its wastewater
treatment plant. •
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to work more on
transportation planning
By NATALIE JOHNSON
natalie@masoncoun~y.com
While the Port of Shelton com-
mission did not take any action
during its regular meeting on
Tuesday afternoon, Chair Dick
Taylor gave a brief presentation
on his activities working with
the Regional Transportation
Planning Organization (RTPO).
The organization is a part of the
Washington State Department of
Transportation (WSDOT).
"In recent history we haven't
done much with it," Taylor said.
"We're starting to change that
now."
Taylor serves as the port's rep-
resentative with the RTPO board.
The City of Shelton commission
and the Mason County commission
also have representatives on that
board, he said.
At the last RTPO meeting on
Friday, Feb. 17, Taylor said the
group discussed "freight mobility,,'
or the ability to transport goods
around Olympic Peninsula.
"There are some major hiccups,
or problems in moving freight
around," he said.
Taylor said the RTPO is work-
ing on studying bottlenecks on the
Olympic Peninsula - including two
major sources of congestion, one in
Belfair and the other in Port An-
geles.
"Those are the only two (WS-
DOT) list on the peninsula," Taylor
said. "There are many more bottle-
necks that you can see. There are
bottlenecks all around that aren't
addressed."
Taylor said he and other
RTPO representatives in Ma-
son County have come up with
a list of sources of traffic con-
gestion in Mason County, and
are looking at good locations to
count trucks traveling through
the county.
',It's not going to be tomorrow
but we're going to start looking at
it," he said.
The RTPO has been helpful to
Journal photo by Natalie Johnson
Dick Taylor, Port of Shelton commission chair, gave a report during the port's regular
meeting on Tuesday about his work to improve transportation in Mason County with the
Regional Transportation Planning Organization (RTPO).
"We kept pushing and pushing and pushing and we
have an interchange down there that is 100 percent
safer than it was/
Mason County in the past, and is County Chamber of Commerce presentation on the state of the
responsible for obtaining the fund- and its She]ton Alliance for Vi- racetrack at Tuesday's port com-
ing to build the Wallace Kneeland able Economic Revitalization mission meeting.
interchange with U.S. Highway (SAVER) committee to make im-They brought a display of the
101, Taylor said. provements to downtown Shelton history of racing in Mason County,
"We kept pushing and pushing that could make a positive impact which showed pictures of sports
and pushing and we have an in- on the port's Oakland Bay ma-cars racing at the port's Sanderson
terchange down there that is 100 rina. Field in the 1950s.
percent safer than it was,!' he said. Rod Powell, co-owner of the Powell said the racetrack's 20:12
"We need to do that for a lot of Ridge Motorsports Park, and Matt season is fully booked, and will of-
things." Matayoshi, executive director of ficially begin with an event on Fri-
Taylor said he also wants to the Economic Development Coun- day, March 16.
work with the Shelton-Mason cil of Mason County, also gave a
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