Substation package approved

By BECKY BROOKS

Enterprise Editor

clydenews@bizwoh.rr.com

On Tuesday night, Clyde City Council approved a near $575,000 transformer-substation project, hired a new council clerk and said farewell to late County Sheriff David Gangwer.

The Council's first legislative action was to hire a new council clerk to replace Tami Steinbauer, who resigned last month.

The council hired Janet Dickman at a bi-weekly salary of $231 for the position. The motion to hire Dickman was unanimously passed. "I know Janet," City Manager Dan Weaver said. "I was here the last time she was here as clerk for council.

The council also approved a resolution to award a contract for the Revere Plastics electrical substation and 69 KV transmission line project. The contract went to Vaughn Industries, LLC. of Carey for the bid amount of $574,614.

"There were six companies that bid for this project with Vaughn being the low bidder," Weaver reported. "Vaughn Industries has done a lot of work here in Clyde," he added. "Back in the '80s Vaughn build the transmission system for the city back then," he pointed out.

Bids on the project for Revere Plastics on Elm Street ranged from Vaughn's low bid up to $810,196.

According the bid review document, Vaughn projected completing the project in 240 days.

"We were projecting this project to be $1.1 and $1.2 million," Weaver said. Even with the transformer already on order, the project total will be several hundred thousand dollars under the engineers estimate, the city manager commented. The city is completing the new substation and then will bill Revere Plastics for the expense.

The city manager said that Vaughn will be informed the project needs to be completed much quicker than 240 days.

Keegan commented that Vaughn had just completed another substation for Evergreen Plastics.

In other business, Mayor Scott Black asked the city manager to investigate a law to permit golf carts to travel the streets of Clyde.

"I've been approached by several people about what can be done by resolution to license or a law to use golf carts in Clyde like they are in Sandusky," the mayor said.

Councilwoman Carolyn Farrar on Tuesday noted the death of Sandusky County Sheriff David Gangwer.

"As a city we will definitely be experiencing the loss of Sheriff Gangwer," she pointed out.

Weaver added, "It was a shock to everyone in law enforcement and anyone." The city manager, who was a former Clyde Police chief, said he had known Gangwer for 30 years.

"He is a guy who went to work six days a week," he said. "It was just his life; it was really sad. He is going to be missed."

In administrative comments, Weaver pointed out that the city and Whirlpool Corporation have been approached by the sponsors of two new biomass energy projects.