Food Equipment Maintenace Contract

Heights seeks bids for shelter

Contract awarded to build salt barn

by Laura Bollin
staff reporter

Palos Heights’ Community Park improvement project will go out to bid this month.

At the City Council meeting Tuesday, aldermen voted to direct the Parks and Recreation Department to advertise for bids on the $194,000 project.

Plans are to build a new, larger picnic shelter, storage space, security lighting and two new restrooms on the site.

Aldermen also Tuesday accepted the low bid for the road-salt storage facility to be built behind City Hall.

Schwartz Construction was awarded the contract, at a cost of $398,000. At a meeting on Aug. 4, aldermen viewed eight bids, ranging from $398,000 to $584,976.

The new facility will hold more than 1,000 tons of salt, about a year’s supply of salt for city roads.

The salt barn will be built behind City Hall next to the Public Works garage. City officials hope to have the facility built by December.

For nearby Community Park, the council’s Parks and Recreation Committee approved replacing the shelter in mid-July.

Parks and Recreation Director Mike Leonard said that the new shelter will be larger because the two current shelters, which hold 15 people each, are undersized for the amount of activity that goes on at the park. The shelters are also more than 20 years old and in need of repair, Leonard said.

The new single shelter will be able to hold 50 people.

Mayor Bob Straz said the park project was a continuation of improvements at Community Park over the last few years.

“We have made a number of improvements in the park, from the pool to upgrades to the baseball field,” Straz said. “We are trying to pay more attention to the park, and the shelter is another compliment to Palos Heights in making the park a central point for recreation.”

Plans for the project also include the construction of one men’s and one women’s restroom on the site. There are currently no restrooms near the shelters. The shelter area is used March through October, with it being heavily used May through June, when children are in the park for summer events, such as swimming or baseball and softball games.

Duraweigh? Scales From Gainco Gain NTEP Certification ...

Gainesville, GA (Vocus) May 2, 2007

Gainco, Inc., the manufacturer of DuraWeigh™ scales and Infiniti™ weight indicators, announces that NTEP certification has been achieved on both the load cell electronics and the weight indicator elements.

Two NTEP (National Type Evaluation Program) Certificates of Conformance, awarded by the National Conference on Weights and Measures, recognize DuraWeigh™ scales and Infiniti™ weight indicators as “legal for trade” components for pricing products based on the weight information recorded by the equipment. NTEP certification covers five DuraWeigh™ models featuring weighing platforms ranging from 8″x 8″ to 20″x 20″in size.

The perfect solution for meat, poultry and other food processing environments, DuraWeigh’s innovative scale design improves calibration accuracy, operating performance and equipment durability, while reducing equipment downtime, operating costs and simplifying sanitation and maintenance operations. DuraWeigh™ bench scales are designed for general weighing, portion control and manual batching. The load cells feature tension and compression overload stops that dramatically reduce load cell failure. Fast weighing response prevents production bottlenecks and improves productivity. Reliable accuracy and the ability to easily “zero” the scale help to minimize under weighing and product giveaway.

Exclusively available on the DuraWeigh™ line of scales, the special design of Gainco’s Infiniti™ weight indicators enable the equipment to thrive in the environmental extremes of food processing. Cold work environments, hot chemical washdowns and high pressure washing do not affect the performance of the equipment, which is IP69K-rated for 100% ingress protection against both water and dust. Thus, the need for double boxing, bagging or removing the indicator from the processing floor during washdown is eliminated.

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