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The City Council approved two contracts on Monday’s shortened consent calendar.
The sweep motion passed a $550,000 contract to VCI Utility Services for the construction of an oil containment system at the city’s Villa Substation which would bring the site into EPA compliance.
The EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) requires that regulated facilities, including electric facilities, have spill prevention, control, and countermeasure plans in place to ensure that potentially large oil spills be contained within the immediate area.
The substation was built 41 years ago prior to current EPA regulations regulating the sites.
A large oil spill could prove costly to the city, and has the potential to seep into the city’s groundwater.
According to a city staff report, the construction of an oil containment system at the site is included in Pasadena Water and Power’s Electric Distribution System Master Plan to prevent environmental damage resulting from potential mineral oil spills originating from transformers or electrical equipment.
The City Council also authorized a $662,421 maximum contract with Impex Technologies for computer server and storage hardware equipment.
Regarding the Impex Technologies contract, the city’s Department of Information Technology (DoIT). The department is responsible for citywide information technology operations and support services of the computer server systems.
The server and storage systems aid the city’s 16 departments in critical business applications such as financial, land and document management, and public safety systems.
The current infrastructure hosting the systems was implemented more than eight years ago and is fast becoming obsolete.
“As part of DolT’s standard hardware lifecycle replacement policy, new hardware is necessary to replace aging equipment to maintain optimum performance levels with the ability to expand for future systems and services,” according to a city staff report.
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