$600,000

The bid(s) were opened Friday for the Entrance Monuments for Eastside @ City Hall and Kerns. An email from Jim Miller is bouncing around the net announcing the results...one bid was received and the bid was for $600,000 without landscaping. You might recall estimates given by the Entrance Advisory Group Committee originally were in the $600, 000 for the entire project, all monuments including landscaping.

To quote committee chairman Miller, "The results are disappointing".
"So we did not get the result we hoped for and need to figure out why not! It has been suggested that when we started our project, the severe downturn in the economy had caused many firms to be hungry for projects to keep their employees working. Since then most firms have cut back and now there is a shortage of resources to do projects. So the terrific result we had with the original RFP---9' qualified firms formally responding----was just not going to happen. We all know some contractors who do this type of work in and around the Northland, and we probably fell short in not informally asking them to take a look at our project. The bidding process may have been too cumbersome for them at this time."

There will be a meeting of the Infrastructure sub-committee on Wednesday May 26 at 8AM @ City Hall.

"Although this is a setback, it can be a positive for us as we increase our flexibility in rethinking how to get this work done. We have a terrific project and just need to collectively figure out the best way to get it completed!"
Jim Miller