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. . . . ~ EN HILLS MEMORANDUM DATE: Agenda Item 7.B May 6, 2003 TO: Aaron Parrish, Interim City Administrator Thomas J. Moore, Operations & Maintenance Director -Jty...'AA ~ , ~. Purchase of a Portable Televising System for Sanitary and Storm water)\jnes. FROM: SUBJECT: Backl!round The City of Arden Hills does not own a Portable Televising System for sanitary and storm water lines, In the past, televising work that can be scheduled have been contracted out and in emergency situations where televising is needed, a system is rented. In the past 29 months, the City has spent over $57,000 for the use of a Portable Televising System. (The City annually budgets $100,000 for sewer lining and repair, in which $20,000 is allocated for televising), The 2002 Sanitary Televising Project, which was expanded to include the entire Glenpaul Neighborhood, incurred a $35,000 televising cost. In 2003, we have had to date, four emergency situations where 0 & M Staff could have used a Portable Televising System. Only once were we able to "borrow" another city's Portable Televising System, We were later informed by that city that we would be charged for future use of their system, The charge would be at the rate of: time and half for two employees (minimum of three hours), gas mileage and a rental fee for the equipment. In two of the other situations, the rental stores were not open. In the fourth situation, we hired Visu-Sewer at a cost of$I,500, Specifications and EQuipment Model: Aries Saturn III Portable Pipeline Televising System · Pan & tilt color camera . Commercial grade VCR · VDIOOO data display system with report writer . 1000 feet of mainline video cable . 12 ft x 7 ft insulated tandem axle trailer · Ten hours of operator training