HomeMy WebLinkAbout1977 11-23 Public works building bid is awarded THE REVIEW In Maplewood i,,oU .?3, i917
Public w
building bid
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is awarded
by Anne Skinner — $6,000 for a drains error in bid
After a lengthy discussion regarding specification,as a result of the wrong size
added costs,the Maplewood City Council specified by the architect from Setter,
Nov. 17 awarded a bid for a new public Leach, Lindstrom, Inc.
— $3,000 for earthwork that will be
works building to Langer Construction city crews.
Company of West St. Paul. The bid for —$completed byr thesign yequipment.
construction was received more than a — $4,2003,800 for welding equ equipment.
month ago by the city for$982,870.tation, —$920 for public works superintendent
In the city staff's presentation, City office equipment.
Manager Mike Miller noted, "Contractor The councilmthen further deleted the
costsstiare for co over the referendum following items until found to be finan-
even thougho (foreobuirung sizen costs only lone) cially feasible for the city.It also directed
even the building is 200 the city staff to begin negotiations with
square feet larger than originally plan- contractor for their deletion:
ned. This difference is accounted for by the $10act,000 foro landscapedleallowance
nstruction costs rising faster than —which includes only trees and shrubbery
anticipated and the original estimated to screen and minimize the building project cost being too conservative. fects on adjacent
af-
"The small range between the low bid —$2,500for a sign properties.the building for
and high bid indicates that rebidding the id— 001 op signeo,
project would probably not result in a — $1ca identification
for a new fence around the
lower bid." The resulting award breaks building.The fence currently surrounding
down to aboutrefoot a squarefoot for the the public works storage buildings will be
32,000Earlier thishbuilding. removed to the new garage which will be
year residents of the city located on White Bear Avenue off of
passed a referendum in favor of issuing County nhi
$995,000 in bonds to construct the new — Road$4,000 or an entry vestibule. The
B.
garage which will consist of two floors, council voted instead to tabule. the
one underground, office space and ex- vestibule's footings for later construction.
city
tensive
and work space for the —$3,000 for two dwyer units which are
In the staff proposal, Miller detailed a
city crews. refrigerator,stove and sink units for each
number of potential "deduct" items of the building's two lunch rooms.
$2,000 for a folding partition in the
which might be cut from the building building's conference room.
budget to bring it more in line with the — forn a second entry road which
referendum allowance. The alternative, would have come from the east end of the
as proposed, would be to finance the
funbuilding.
s additional $200,000 through other city bThe city staff was also directed to study
The council discussion focused
funds. on the possibility of cutting the$1,725 allotted
cutting the "frills" from the building's for curtains.
design. Mayor Burt Murdock said, The total amount deleted from the
"These are items I feel could be cut back. budget is $57,380 or one-quarter of the
I've always felt we should have a basic additional costs.Additional financing will
building.But we should show some effort come from any number of budgets in-
on our part to cut some of these things out. eluding: interest on bond proceeds, 1977
"Our priorities are to get the building revenue sharing monies, employees'
up and get it done,"he added.The amount salaries which were budgeted for the new
of itme it has taken the city to award the building on the presumption the building
bid had been a subject of debate during would have been completed at an earlier
the recent Nov. 8 city election. date, savings on smaller police cars and
Councilman John Greavu urged the amount saved in utilities for the new
council to direct staff to look into the cost building's probable limited 1977 use.
ratio of a pre-engineered building. "I Construction on the building,located on
think we could have saved about 30 White Bear Avenue,south of County Road
percent," he said. B, is expected to begin this fall and be
An estimated $17,920 was cut through completed next summer.
the following design revisions proposed The bid was awarded with a 3-2 vote,
by the city staff and adopted by the Greavu and Councilman Norm Anderson
council: dissenting.