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Meeting of April 11, 2024

4-11-24 Ohio County Fiscal Court Special-Called Meeting · Watch on YouTube ↗

Summary

Ohio County Fiscal Court Special Meeting – April 11, 2024

This special-called meeting had a single purpose: opening and considering bids for replacement of the community center's aging cooling tower and HVAC system. Justin, representing Complete Comfort Heating & Cooling, presented two pricing options — a three-zone system tied to each floor (basement, second floor, third floor) for $772,500, or a more flexible per-room heating/cooling option for $869,500.

After extensive discussion about efficiency, water savings (eliminating the current water-cooled system), duct work improvements, and how the new system would better accommodate rooms that have been subdivided over the years, the court leaned toward the more cost-effective floor-by-floor option, which was also seen as more compatible with funding expectations tied to a reimbursement arrangement with ARPA/AOCC-related grant funds (referred to as ALC/AOCC in the transcript).

The court approved accepting Complete Comfort's bid of $772,500, conditioned on execution of a formal contract with standard terms, insurance, and a requirement that no work begin until the funding authority (referred to as ALC) approves the plan consistent with the county's grant reimbursement agreement. Charlie Shields was appointed as the local point of contact for the project.

For residents, this means the community center — home to several county offices and courtrooms — should see a significant HVAC upgrade in the coming months, replacing an aging, costly-to-maintain boiler and cooling tower system with modern, efficient heat pump technology. The project is expected to take roughly 6 months to complete once funding approval is secured, and it should resolve long-standing issues with uneven heating/cooling and mixed-up ductwork throughout the building.

The meeting concluded shortly after the vote, as replacing the cooling system was the only item on the agenda.

Agenda (6)

  • 0:02

    Opening, prayer, and pledge

    Judge Adam Bennett called the special meeting to order and Kenneth Callaway led a prayer and the Pledge of Allegiance.

  • 0:53

    Opening of bids for community center cooling tower replacement

    The court opened sealed bids from Complete Comfort Heating & Cooling for replacing the community center's cooling tower and HVAC system, noting two proposals had been submitted, with the most recent one meant to be considered per the advertised bid process.

  • 2:26

    Presentation of Complete Comfort bid options

    Justin from Complete Comfort explained two pricing options: a three-zone floor-based system for $772,500 and a per-room flexible heat/cool system for $869,500, detailing installation of heat pumps, ductless mini-splits, and removal of old boilers and cooling tower equipment.

  • 7:53

    Discussion of contract terms, ALC approval, and timeline

    County Attorney Justin (referred to as Justin/attorney) advised that any accepted bid must be formalized in a contract satisfying the memorandum of understanding with ALC/AOCC funding requirements, and the court discussed adding a completion timeframe of about 6-10 months, contingent on funding approval and allowing for delays outside the contractor's control.

  • 11:38

    Discussion of system options, efficiency, and existing building issues

    The court and Justin discussed the tradeoffs between floor-zone and per-room systems, cost savings from eliminating water usage, the age and inefficiency of the current boiler, duct work quality, and how the new system would address rooms that had been subdivided over the years without proper HVAC zoning.

  • 24:19

    Adjournment

    With the sole agenda item concluded, the judge thanked attendees and adjourned the meeting.

Motions & votes (1)

  • 18:26

    passedMotion to accept the Complete Comfort bid of $772,500 (floor-zone option), conditioned on execution of a contract satisfying the memorandum of understanding with ALC, no work beginning until ALC approval, and appointing Charlie Shields as local contact for the project.

    Moved by Judge Adam Bennett · seconded by Jason · Bennett yes, Callaway yes, Morphew yes, McKinney yes, Pollock yes, Johnson yes - unanimous

Transcript (20 segments)

  • 0:01

    [Music] okay call this meeting of I count F Court to order on this 11th day of April at 2024 at 400 p.m. um and I'm going to ask uh Kenneth callway if he'll lead us in a prayer and a pledge of flag y God we thank for to say you give it to us Lord I pray you help us in our decisions tonight give us the wisdom that we need in order to able to make them correctly and please bless us good s pray to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with li jusice for all Adam a vis for special call meeting is open the bids on the community center cooling tower and Miranda do do we have the bids we have one I know I'm holding two but there was two from complete Comfort but one came in a couple weeks ago this one's the newest one you want to use the

  • 1:15

    newest one oning and we have to take the one that was advertised for in the today something this morning this one came in several weeks ago with the first ad before we met here before we met here yes I you can open up both if you want both the same the other one got an option for another okay let's just give it to Bo I'll pass it down he was the chairman of the Charlie good he got stuff in the nursing school going nursing school I seen him [Applause] finishes [Applause] Madison's about last [Applause] all [Applause] right uh bids from complete uh Comfort Heating

  • 2:26

    Cooling uh looks like there's two options here uh option one tire building will have to be in either heating or cooling mode install price $772,500 option two gives you the flexibility for each thermostat to be set on heat or cool the price $869,500 um it lists drain cooling tower demo demo all water source uh gives a lot of different um you want to read the whole thing judge U if it's I would say maybe maybe should uh demo all Bowlers and circulating pumps and demo cooling tower install 54 heat pump ducted many split systems fabricate and install duct transitions on each system tying into existing duct install filter

  • 3:40

    rack for each system there will be Refrigeration distribution boxes on each floor located in the hallway install three outside heat pump condensers on a concrete pad one for each floor install high and low voltage wire running to all new equipment run copper refrigeration lines and drain for new equipment clean up and hallway old equipment debris price includes equipment maintenance for one year complete Comfort employees will attend and be VF manufactured certified Factory author authorized startup and commissioning will be performed which is required for the manufacturer's 10-year warranty no we are not including any material other than what is specifically listed on this quote if additional material or accessories are desired priest requests an additional quote all standard terms and conditions apply complete Comfort requires new construction that a deposit of oneir of total install be paid upon signing of contract another third will be due when

  • 4:54

    rough in is complete the final third will be due upon the installation of equipment one system change outs deposit is half down and half when change out is complete credit card transactions $3.99 will occur an additional 2% fee so what what is the difference in option one I'm glad you asked so that's that's one reason I want to be here to explain so this system is a three Zone meaning the basement will have its own system second floor will have its own system and the third floor will have it own system meaning if the basement needs Heat and the third floor needs cooling it will operate that way that's the first option that's what I priced the last time that's what's in that proposal but today I was thinking I wanted to go ahead this morning uh we put in if we decided to go with a the the two that means each room or each thermostat can be on heat and cool on each level right now third floor will have to be on

  • 6:08

    either heat or cool second heat or cool second option each thermostat can be on heat or cool on each level does that make sense yeah it does but it kind be bad if the door was open in between them on the toat and it's a distribution box that has to go in the ceiling with a control that each thermostat can be on on heat or cool I really think uh the first option that we gave last time will work here fine and uh that also fits the uh original stuff that we've sent to a for their for their match and all that it's more compatible with a little bit higher but it's more compatible with the number everybody's expecting yeah what was those two prices again 7726 for the option one which is the for and then 8697 for individual room uh I don't think we're exactly prepared for that part of it but uh I think that if we just had it on each four that would be I think that's good enough because matter of fact I could

  • 7:23

    see it detrimental if it had it room to run yeah and just a just a few things considering the the uh amount of the the uh bid in the project I mean Marty will probably have you execute a contract if this bid is accepted you'd have to execute a contract as the normal terms and conditions idity clauses and all that with regard to your work um the other thing is is U there is a memorandum of understanding with aocc with us for us to get reimbursed within that uh we are under certain obligations to follow those terms and so uh probably the contract would need to indicate and I've indicated this to some of them that you know consistent with your bid whatever the work bid you did but but also satisfying we before getting Works done that aocc satisfied with whatever you've got because not to not to kind of surprise you or anything I went back and looked at the memorandum of understanding just to see section 3B says agrees to uh the County agrees to use the construction documents prepared by architect engineer and approved by

  • 8:37

    ELC it doesn't give an indication as to you know what type of architect or engineer or anything of that nature uh but ALC would would have to approve that right you know and so uh you know I just recommended to them that before any work's done they give you the project manager gives you the okay of whatever you proposed uh cuz that's a lot of money they're not going to pay if they're not satisfacted sure absolutely that's 400 some odd 4 439 I think 439 of the of the of the amount to be 439 80255 Charlie you have talked to ALC and they didn't understand what y I sent J in the email and what we talked what I when I talked to them they told what they told us is once this got done today to scan everything in send them the everything that we've done and they will go over it and they will either a accepted or B not accepted and they will send us an email back confirming that and they will give us the understanding approval to go for it from there so you may want to talk to them already just in between they may need some explanation