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CONSENT ITEM MEMORANDUM DATE: May 13, 2013 TO: Honorable Mayor and City Councilmembers Patrick Klaers, City Administrator FROM: Terry Maurer, Public Works Director SUBJECT: Water Towers/Booster Station Controls Budgeted Amount: Actual Amount: Funding Sources: $35,000 $30,420 Water Utility Funds Requested Action Authorize the purchase and installation of a High Tide Technologies - Water Communication System from Electric Pump Company in the amount of $30,420. Discussion In 2011 and 2012 the City changed the way we monitor our 14 sanitary sewer lift stations by replacing the Electro Watchman alarm monitoring system with the Omni System. The Omni System not only notifies the City when there is a problem but it also indicates what the problem is, allows for web-based monitoring of the lift stations and tracks history at each lift station. Since this change was made, the only thing in the City system still monitored by Electro Watchman is the water system; the two water towers and the booster station. There is an item in the 2013 Capital Improvement Program (CIP) to change the monitoring system of the water system to a similar computer-based program as the Omni System. Attached is the detail sheet from the CIP. When this project was programmed in the CIP it was thought by staff that we would just extend the Omni System to the water system. However, attached is a proposal from Electric Pump Company (the same company who represents Omni System) to install a High Tides Technology - Water Communication System. This system will provide the City all the flexibility of the Omni System for lift stations which includes notification of alarms, web based monitoring and historical information which can be presented graphically. 12 Page of