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A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO ADVERTISE FOR
BIDS FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF SANITARY SEWERAGE IMPROVEMENTS IN
BELLEMEADE ADDITION, AND PRESCRIBING THE TERMS AND MANNER IN WHICH
SAID BIDS SHALL BE RECEIVED
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS OF THE CITY OF
PADUCAH, KENTUCKY:
SECTION 1. That the City Manager be, and he is hereby,
authorized to advertise for bids for the construction of sanitary
sewerage improvgments in Bellemeade Addition as follows:
The work to be performed consists of 10,, and $11 extra strength
V.C.P. gravity flow sewers, 4" cast iron force main, ejector unit
lift station, with attendant 6" V.C.P, extra strength house service
lines, and miscellaneous fittings, all briefly described as follows:
Approximately 2041 feet of 1011 extra strength V.C.P. and 6"
house sefvice lines on the Kennedy Road and Blandville Road; approx-
imately 72 feet of $" extra strength V.C.P. laterals from manholes
on Kennedy Road at Peachtree and Miller Dfive; approximately 3030
feet of 4" cast iron force main along the 01andville Road from the
ejector unit site near Perkins Creek to the existing cities manhole
near Hilldale Road on the Blandville Road; ejector lift station
complete including electrical, site grading, access road and
miscellaneous piping and raising existing manhole casting on the
Blandville Road at the terminus of the 4" cast iron force main.
Copies of the plans, specificationa dnd other proposed contract
documents are on file at the office of the Consulting Engineers,
1$00 Kentucky Avenue, Paducah, Kentucky. Contractors desiring plans
and specifications for use in preparing bids may obtain a set of such
documents from the Engineers at the address stipulated above upon
deposit of $20.00. The full amount of the deposit will be refunded
such
to each bidder who has made/deposit and who has filed his bid
with the Owner as directed in this notice and upon the formal as
prescribed, upon the return of all documents not filed with his bid.
A cashiers check, certified check, or acceptable bidder's bond,
payable to the Owner in an amount not less than 5 per cent of the
total for the bid submitted, must accompany each bid as a guarahtee
that, if awarded the contract, the bidder will promptly enter into
a contract and execute such bonds as may be required.
Each bidder to whom a contract is awarded will be required to
furnish a performance bond acceptable to the City in the amount of
100 per cent of the contract, in conformity with the requirements of
the proposed contract documents.
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The right is reserved by the City to reject any and all bids and
to waive informalities therein. No bidder may withdraw his bid for a
period of 30 days after the time set for receipt of bids.
SECTION 2, The City Manager shall advertise for sealed bids
by posting a notice at the City Hall door and by inserting notice of
the request for bids in the Sun Democrat to be published not less
than seven (7) days nor more than twenty=one (21) days before the date
fixed for the opening of bids. All bids shall be sealed and no bid
shall be received after the hour fixed in the norice for the opening
cC same. All bids received by the City Manager up to the time fixed
in the notice for the opening of same shall be filed with the Board
of Commissioners who may let a contract to the lowest and best bidder,
The Board of Commissioners shall reserve the right to rOjectany and
all bids, and the City shall not become legally obligated to award a
contract until the adoption of an ordinance authorizing the execution
of same.
SECTION 3, This Resolution shall be in full force and effect
from and after its adoption.
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Winston 9hilson, Commissioner
Passed by the Board of Commissioners October 25, 1960
Recorded by Sarah Thurman, City Clerk, October 25, 1960