Work is continuing on the Fleet Maintenance Facility Project with a few recent changes.

Included were flagpole modifications and the electric vehicle charging station conduits to the new City of Ripon corporate yard located on Doak Boulevard.

Diede Construction Inc., which was awarded the project back in December 2022, issued a credit from the original contract consisting of skylights – the translucent panels in the plans are no longer manufactured and, thus, cannot be installed – for $5,306, according to the staff report from Tuesday’s Ripon City Council meeting.

No discussion was necessary as elected leaders signed off on this change order (including other credits) for $11,920, to be paid via Corp Yard AB1600 Fund, Enterprise Capital Funds, and the General Capital Fund.

Under the original bid, the facility consisting of a 12,500 square foot maintenance building and parking lot called for a flagpole to fly a 5- by- 7- foot flag that did not require lighting. That changed as the City now plans to install a larger flagpole in the future requiring lights – the contractor, instead, installed the required conduit for the future flagpole lighting.

The removal of the flagpole ($5,288 credit) and the addition of the conduit ($3,901) provided a net credit for this change at $1,387.

The Electric Vehicle charging station conduit came at a cost of $18,613.

“The original bid package included conduit for future EV charging station locations, but none of the locations were in parking spaces intended for larger vehicle,” said the report prepared by Associate Civil Engineer Christiana Giebb.

Staff requested the change order for four conduit lines to the larger parking stalls for the future EV charging stations.