Finger Lakes Television
3325 Marvin Sands Drive
Canandaigua, NY 14424
Sarah Brown, Director of Public Works, will be in attendance to update Council on DPW efforts to inventory all water service lines within the City by October 16, 2024. DPW has identified 1,870 service lines connections as of July 12, 2024. An on-going question from residents that occurs while conducting the inventory involves the responsibility for required replacement service lines and a discussion on this policy is necessary.
The City operates multiple buildings, a water treatment plant, a wastewater resource recovery facility and maintains all street lights. DPW would like to contract with an electrical contractor in order to provide properly trained and equipped personnel with on-demand capabilities to assist in the maintenance and installation of electrical systems and components that City staff is not qualified or equipped to perform. The lowest bid was received from Schuler-Haas and DPW’s recommendation is to award the contract.
In partnership with the Canandaigua Lake Watershed Council, proposals were received for engineering services to update an existing hydrologic study of the Sucker Brook sub-watershed, evaluate the feasibility of upgrading critical bridges, expanding critical channel reaches, evaluate the potential for voluntary buyout of houses in the floodway most vulnerable to future flooding, and write grant proposals to fund these projects. We received three proposals from local firms for the study. City Staff is still working through evaluation of these bids and will present a recommendation at the meeting.
The 2024 Budget included a new Time and Attendance software that is currently being implemented. As part of the implementation an additional software module that would be fully integrated for scheduling was identified as another improvement that would replace current paper scheduling and other scheduling software. The Police Department currently utilizes a paper scheduling system with no nexus between time reported, schedules and time off/vacation/overtime requests. This enhancement will streamline the time reporting process, seamlessly integrate with our current system, minimize errors, aid in scheduling and reduce the time spent on time reporting. The initial cost of the module is $18,720 with a recurring yearly fee of $2,022. As an unbudgeted police expenditure, we would draw the funds from the Police Asset Seizure & Forfeiture Reserve. It should be noted that this module would also be utilized for other departments, including the Fire Department which uses an entirely different software platform with its own annual cost that would be eliminated.
Finger Lakes Television
3325 Marvin Sands Drive
Canandaigua, NY 14424
