1983-04-20 Public Hearing and Regular Meeting

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V } . 1 • CI'PY OF LA PORTE INTER-OFFICE MEMORANDUM T0: Ja wen, 't' anager DATE: April 11, 1983 FROM: J JHod e irector of Public Works SUBJECT: L ax r e Improvement Project The City of La Porte has awarded the contract for street improvements in the Lomax area to McKey Construction for the bid price of FOUR HUNDRED FIVE THOUSAND SIX HUNDRED TEN DOLLARS AND SEVENTY THREE CENTS ($x+05,610.73). Pre-bid estimates by H. Carlos Smith Engineers and Surveyors amounted to FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND ($500,000). Mobile/Pasadena Chemical Corporation, in joint venture with BWF Contractors, has proposed an experimental street project, using a by-product as base material, for two (2) additional streets in the area of the street project awarded to McKey Construction. The City is to prepare subgrade and apply paving surface. • This would leave Monument Drive, a street located in the same subdivision, unpaved. Because budgeted amount for contract paving equaled the engineer's estimate, Monument Drive was left off the contract. The City requested H. Carlos Smith Engineers. and Surveyors to estimate the cost of including Monument Drive in the project. Estimated cost, including engineering, is FIFTY ONE THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS ($51,500), using unit prices bid by McKey Construction. The experimental .project requires the City to furnish lime stabilization of subgrade. Because of rain and .weather related delays, the Street Division is behind in planned street construction. The City .requested H. Carlos Smith to contact McKey Construction regarding adding subgrade preparation of Deaf Smith and Santa Anna to the Lomax Paving Project. Because the entire construction was not requested, McKey Construction advised that an additional THIRTY SIX CENTS ($0.36) per square yard of the unit price bid would be required. Estimated cost to prepared subgrade for Deaf Smith and Santa Anna would be TWENTY TWO THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED DOLLARS ($22,800). Total estimated cost to add Monument to the street construction project, along with subgrade preparation of Deaf Smith and Santa Anna would be SEVENTY FOUR THOUSAND THREE HUNDRED DOLLARS ($7,300). This would be less than 20% of McKey's total bid of FOUR HUNDRED FIVE THOUSAND SIX HUNDRED TEN DOLLARS AND SEVENTY THREE CENTS ($x+05,610.73), and would be within the • provisions of the contract, and within the FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS ($500,000) budgeted for contract street improvement.