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Contract Change Order/Amendment #8 with Itron, Inc. for the City-Wide Automated Metering System installations in the amount of $1,959,158 (this item was tabled at the October 17, 2017 Council Meeting)
Presenter
Ron McCuller, Director of Public Works
Recommended Action
Approve
Analysis
Several years ago the Public Works Department recognized that the water metering industry, which had been working on evolving Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) for some time, had matured to the point that the additional efficiencies for the city and customer benefits to be derived from such a system could not be ignored. These advantages include 1) elimination of employees having to physically go to each of the almost 50,000 water customers each month to obtain a meter reading for billing purposes by having readings electronically transferred to a central server. 2) hourly meter reading instead of monthly, that will help with customers concerns over high water bills by the ability to pinpoint the day and time of high water usage, allowing the customer to relate the time of high usage to some event causing the excess usage. 3) Customer interface where the customer can log into their account and monitor their water usage from their personal computer, this giving them more control over their water consumption. 4) Such monitoring can only enhance our water conservation efforts which are state mandated and essential to the future of our water deficient area.
After analyzing numerous proposals, a select committee of City employees guided by an expert consultant, selected Itron,Inc.for the installation of Advance Metering Infrastructure in the city. The entire cost of the system proposed was $11,242,204.23 based on the detailed description of the materials, labor, software and managed services provided by the through its' consultant.The proposal made it clear that the entire project was to be in phases to be fully completed within a 5 year period.
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