Discussion and possible action on any and all matters regarding the purchase of new Pureflow Chemical Feed Systems for water treatment sites. (Jorge Perez, Assistant Director of Public Works)

The City of San Luis water system is composed of seven well sites, which include the following major components:
All the treatment units at these sites use a briquette form of chlorine (calcium hypochlorite) for the water disinfection process. The water department is seeking council approval to upgrade systems to a liquid chlorine form (sodium hypochlorite).

Currently, San Luis has one well site that uses a Pureflow Iron and Manganese treatment unit at its well site No. 7. An additional Pureflow treatment unit has been purchased and will be installed at well site No. 5. Along the same lines, the City of San Luis has retrofitted some of its water treatment systems at different well sites to Pureflow systems.

The Department of Public Works and its Water Division consider that acquiring Pureflow Chemical Feed Systems for well sites #3, #4, #6, and #7 will bring benefit in the continuity of the water system, commonality of the system, operators' knowledge of the system, ease of operation, and maintenance, availability of supplies given the redundancy of parts among well sites and treatment units and stellar customer service and support from Pureflow. For these reasons, the Public Works department would like to consider Pureflow as a sole source vendor for this equipment purchase and is asking authorization from the Mayor and City Council to waive the formal purchasing procedures as authorized under San Luis City Code, Section 3.05.010 (F) Procedures Waived.