Wheeling City Council Moving Ahead With Police Headquarters Bid
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WHEELING -- City leaders in Wheeling are expected to take action this week to get the ball rolling on renovations that will transform a Center Wheeling building into the new police headquarters.
Last week, bids were opened for the Wheeling Police Department headquarters project, with Waller Corporation of Washington, Pennsylvania, submitting the lowest bid of $6,570,700. The bids were reviewed, and an ordinance to enter into contract with Waller is slated to receive a first reading during Tuesday's meeting of Wheeling City Council.
Council is scheduled to meet at noon on Tuesday at the City-County Building on Chapline Street. A second reading and a final vote on the police headquarters legislation is expected to occur Aug. 17.
The new police headquarters will be located at the Valley Professional Center on the former campus of the Ohio Valley Medical Center, which the city acquired last year. Money to pay for the renovations will come from borrowed funds to be repaid through the city's new user fee, implemented last year.
Construction is being completed through use of the city's new Municipal Building Commission, which is overseeing a number of new building projects by the city for which municipal bonds are being issued to finance the work.
The contract with Waller includes two of six add alternates that city officials plan to accept. Those include $24,200 for cleaning of external masonry and $8,800 for owner occupancy of the first floor, where the police department's patrol division is currently operating.
Officials indicated that the construction is expected to continue through the end of this year and much of 2022 before the new headquarters is finally completed.
In other action slated for Tuesday's meeting, an ordinance is being introduced authorizing City Manager Robert Herron to enter into an amendment to the owner-engineer agreement with CT Consultants Inc. of Mentor, Ohio, for professional engineering services and wastewater system improvements for the Phase III B portion of the city's long-term wastewater control plan.
The plan addresses the "failing infrastructure needs in the municipal wastewater system" in Wheeling, brings the city's aging system up-to-date and into compliance with Environmental Protection Agency regulations and is scheduled to include more than $200 million worth of improvements over the course of more than 20 years.
According to the ordinance being introduced for a first reading on Tuesday, the amendment to the CT Consultants Inc. contract is in the amount of $3,516,000.
An ordinance is also scheduled to be introduced Tuesday to bring repairs to the 10th Street Parking Garage downtown. The ordinance authorizes the city manager to spend $139,700 with Carl Walker Construction of Pittsburgh for the repairs, which are being paid out of the city's Project Fund.
Carl Walker Construction was the low bidder for the project among four regional contractors that submitted bids for the job.
Council members also will vote on resolutions providing cost-of-living increases to municipal employee pension funds for 2018 and 2019, as previously discussed by the Finance Committee of Council last month.
Also Tuesday, council is scheduled to:
∫ Adopt a resolution accepting terms and conditions related to the W.Va. Department of Transportation, Division of Motor Vehicles Region 4 Highway Safety Program in the Northern Panhandle grant of up to $241,600.
∫ Hear a first reading on an ordinance authorizing the city manager to negotiate terms of a master consulting services agreement with Stromberg Garrigan and Associates and a related service loan agreement pertaining to the redevelopment project at the Robrecht property. Plans have been proposed to develop property along the mouth of Wheeling Creek at the Ohio River into an outdoor recreation area to be called Robrecht Park.
∫ Hear a notice of application to operate a private club as submitted by Sarah Lydick at 2122 Main St. The application seeks to meet requirements for Sarah's on Main to sell alcohol for "weeknight dinners and Sunday brunch," Lydick told members of the Development Committee of Council last month. City staff and the Development Committee unanimously recommended support for the request.