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Meeting Date:	11/13/2017
HOLT Utility Transfer Switch Upgrade
Submitted for:	Adrian Montemayor	Submitted By:	Tom Sanchez
Department:	Water Utilities

Subject:

Discussion and possible action to award a contract in the amount of $48,995.00 by sole source service provider HOLT CAT to modify and upgrade our current backup transfer switch sequence of operation programming for power outage generators at the Rio Bravo Water Treatment. [Account #7220-7280-001-474501 (2016 Bond Series Construction in Progress)]

Issue: When the Rio Bravo Water Treatment Plant was built and was put online in 2006 Generators were installed and programmed as being the primary use and the electrical utility as the secondary backup source. We currently have system running with Utility because it is cheaper than running with Generators due to the cost of Natural gas but we have no capability to automatically switch from Utility to the Generators when we ever have Power outage because the system was programmed to where Utility is our Backup.

Solution: Approve and authorize the Backup Generator upgrades to our Transfer Switch Station.

Result: Department will have the ability to automatically transfer from Utility to the Backup Generators when we ever have a Power Outage and will never stop our Service for both communities of Rio Bravo and El Cenizo.

Background:

N/A

Previous Court Action:

Fiscal Impact

Budget Account Number:	7220-7280-001-474501
Funding Source:	2016 Bond Series
Balance:	NA
Financial Impact:
NA

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