(3) THREE-YEAR DISASTER MANAGEMENT CONTRACT WITH 2 - 1 YEAR EXTENSIONS WITH TETRA

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(3) THREE-YEAR DISASTER MANAGEMENT CONTRACT WITH 2 - 1 YEAR EXTENSIONS WITH TETRA TECH General Manager Shadden - We put this in the paper once before and we did not receive any responses, so we put it in the paper again and then started calling everybody for a list from the HGAC to bid on this ad Tetra Tech came back and so we are asking the Board to approve Tetra Tech to be our disaster management company. Everyone I spoke with recommended them. They are a large company. Vice President Nicely - Where are they out of? General Manger Shadden - They offices all over the United States. President Caraway — Like the other similar contracts, there is no expense unless we need them? General Manager Shadden - No, unless we activate the contract, they are only on retainer. FEMA requires you to have them all under contract, that way you're not trying to do it while the Hurricane is happening. They will be the one that manages it and we have Crowder Gulf that actually picks up the debris. Secretary Hankamer — That’s the labor. General Manager Shadden - Yes. They have the trucks and track hoes. We have a push package with them that has generator sets and anything we may need within 24 hours. We had $10,000,000.00 worth of debris during Ike. All the debris from Boliver Peninsula came across and ended up in our ditches, so we have a special rider in the contract for marine type things where they can go in sonar and radar and they can locate and remove the debris. They pick everythi