After earlier repairs failed to correct the water flowing into the rear of city hall, the city council Monday night hired an engineering firm to try and find the problem.
City Manager Annette Sola says Foresight will utilize site inspections, roof core samples, and drone flyovers.
“(They will find) the scope of work for us and tell us what items need to take place first so that we’re not spending good money for no reason,” Sola said. “We’re just working to try to get a plan. I think the plan will be a multi-year plan, because it’s obviously going to be quite expensive.”
Sola believes the problem is associated with an area where several brick walls come together, and water is flowing down between the walls between the back wall of the city council chambers and the employee break area.
A portion of the back roof caved in during a heavy rainstorm. After repairs were made, water continued to get into the building damaging the newly applied paint on one of the walls.
Foresight will be paid $2,730 for their work.
In other action, the council declared a movie projector and outdoor movie screen no longer used by the city as surplus property. Bids will now be sought for the equipment that at least one area business is interested in acquiring.
The board approved a change in the TIF agreement with Bromley Excavating to properly date the closure on the property as June 14th of this year instead of the original date of March 23rd that was originally planned.
