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Amendment to the Capital Improvement Program (CIP) for Improvements to the Household Hazardous Waste Facility.
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Recommended Action: Approve the amendment to the 2013 Capital Improvement Program
The requested amendment to the 2013 Capital Improvement Program include improvements to the Sedgwick County Household Hazardous Waste (HHW) facility. Heating and air conditioning units capable of serving the entire HHW facility would be installed, as well as a second bathroom with a shower facility. The cost of the requested project is $152,360 which would be funded by a transfer from the Solid Waste Fund. Illustrating the need for the requested improvements, during the summer of 2012, temperatures in the HHW facility reached 120 degrees Fahrenheit on several days. The temperatures are dangerous to the employees and customers utilizing the HHW facility and are just above the flash point (lowest temperature at which chemicals give off vapor to form an ignitable mixture in the air). Customers have complained that the facility is very hot and employees have been sent home sick because of the heat. Additionally, space heaters are used during the cold days. The second bathroom shower is needed enable six employees to shower and change prior to leaving the worksite, as required by law (OSHA 3114). The HHW facility is currently equipped with only one shower, which is insufficient for six employees to all use at the end of the shift.
Sufficient expenditure authority exists in the Capital Improvement Fund to fund the requested project.
Alternatives: The BoCC may elect to not approve the amendment.
Financial Considerations: Sufficient expenditure authority exists in the 2013 Household Hazardous Waste and Environmental Resources budgets to be transferred to the Capital Improvements Fund to fund the requested project. The authority is available due to fluctuations in contractor fees for the disposal of hazardous waste and the redemption of fewer con...
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