North Judson Town Council members were provided with a financial update related to their water project when members met Monday night.
CommonWealth Engineer Intern Sarah Prizio shared the associated figures with Town officials. She explained that for Division A, which deals with the installation of the well, crews are requesting $28,500 with a retainage amount of $1,500 for a total of $30,000.
For the completion of a portion of Divison B, the water tower element of the project, $456,833.63 is being requested plus a retainage of $24,043.88. She mentioned that cost is related to the completion of the design work on the West Tank and mentioned that it is about fifty percent of the project value for the water tank relining.
In addition to those pay applications, Prizio presented members with a change order worth $19,500. She stated that change orders are factored into funding when officials signed the loan for the project.
She noted that it was necessary because of a change at the site where the altitude valve was installed. She said when the pipes were dug up, everything was closer together than expected so it resulted in a change order.
The present members voted unanimously to approve the change order as well as the pay applications. Prizio also left copies to be signed by Council President John Rowe.
Prizio added that with design work on the west water tower complete, crews will soon start on the downtown tank. She mentioned that some color changes were proposed.
She said, “I know we had talked about the bluejay head being cadet blue like the lettering. However, I think they felt as if it would be too close to the black color so it was all going to look black from far away so they suggested the true blue/safety blue for the bluejay head against the black outline.
Park Board President Nick Radtke agreed that the cadet blue, which was utilized for the lettering on the West tower, does appear to be black from a distance.
Councilwoman Wendy Hoppe and Councilman Josh Brown explained that the amended bluejay design appeared to look like what they would want to see on the tank. However, they agreed that they wanted to wait until the full council was in attendance before finalizing the design plans.
Examples of the proposed designs for the downtown tank appear above While it shows the tank as light blue, it will actually be white just like the redesigned west tower.
