AUTHORIZING TO CONTRACT WITH HILL’S WIRING INC. FOR UPGRADING THE ELECTRICAL SERVICE AT THE TOWER ROAD TOWER SITE

RESOLUTION NO. _____ - 2021

AUTHORIZING TO CONTRACT WITH HILL’S WIRING INC. FOR UPGRADING THE ELECTRICAL SERVICE AT THE TOWER ROAD TOWER SITE

 Fiscal Impact: [ ] None [ X ] Budgeted Expenditure [  ] Not Budgeted 

Background: Sauk County owns and maintains nine (9) communication towers throughout the county. The Communications Engineer and Facilities Director have developed a capital replacement plan for tower infrastructure as a part of the annual budgeting process. In 2022 Building Services plans to replace the current 300-foot guy anchor tower at Tower Road with a 250 or 300-foot self-supporting tower similar to what is at the Hillpoint, Lake Delton, La Valle, and Spring Green locations. As a part of the upgrade of the Tower Road site, Building Services has been working with Alliant Energy to upgrade the current electrical service from an overhead to a buried electrical service. The upgrade will allow for future expansion on the new tower by co-locators. The current electrical service is a single phase 200-amp commercial service. Building Services uses an electrical consumption formula to bill back electrical usage to co-locators on the Tower road site. The upgrade of the electrical service will allow for six individual meter sockets, with (2) being used by Sauk County and the remainder used for co-locators. Proposals were requested for the service upgrade to be completed by the end of December 2021. The Facilities Director recommends accepting the Hill’s Wiring INC. proposal of $14,891.26 for the upgrade of the electrical service at Tower road.

            NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the Sauk County Board of Supervisors, met in regular session, hereby authorizes the County Administrator to contract with Hill’s Wiring INC. to upgrade the electrical meter sockets at the Tower Road communications tower at a cost of $14,891.26; and

     BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the County Administrator is hereby authorized to approve change orders for any potential unforeseen conditions and so long as change orders for each contracted portion of the project do not exceed 15% of the original contracted price and sufficient budgeted funds are available to pay the change order cost increases.

For consideration by the Sauk County Board of Supervisors on October 19th, 2021.

Respectfully submitted,

PROPERTY COMMITTEE

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CARL GRUBER, chair                                             sMOOTH DETTER

SHANE GIBSON                                                         JOEL CHRISLER                       

KEVIN SCHELL

Fiscal Note: Money for the service upgrade will be taken from the 2021 Building Services Communications Capital Outlay budget or funds available from Road to Recovery grant dollars.

Information System Note:  No fiscal impact.

Tower Road Service Upgrade

Vendor

Tower Rd. Upgrade

Hill’s Wiring INC.

$14,891.26

Action Electric LLC.

No Proposal

Service Electric II

No Proposal