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TT ,~: • • Minutes Regular Meeting La Porte City Council June 27, 1994, Page 3 Mr. Gillett and BFI's Bay Area District Manager, Mr. Larry Goswick, answered Council's questions regarding the roll-off service coat increase. increase as requested by BFI. Second by Councilperson Thrower. The motion carried, 8 ayes and 0 nays. Ayes: Councilpersons Cooper, Thrower, McLaughlin, Porter, Gay, Maxwell, Clarke and Mayor Malone Nays: None 7. Consent Agenda - Council considered awarding contract and bids as follows: (A) Consider awarding annual contract to Excell Materials Inc., for concrete; (B) Consider awarding annual contract to Stabilized Products for cement stabilized sand; (C) Consider rejecting bids for items 1 and 3, and award annual contract for items 2, 4 and 5 to Cues, Inc., for manhole chemical sealing materials; (D) Consider awarding bid to Dow Fence and Supply for fencing at Bay Forest Golf Course. Councilperson McLaughlin requested item A be removed from the consent agenda for further discussion. Councilperson Clarke requested item C be removed for further discussion. Director of Public Works Steve Gillett led discussion regarding bid tabulations for cement stabilized sand. After discussion Councilperson McLaughlin recommended that the contract be awarded to the local contractor DorBett Brothers. City Manager Robert T. Herrera stated, "Let me qualify a couple of the statements that were the staff's point of view. We clearly understand that it has been this council's direction to try to do business locally. Each time we tabulate bid responses, where there is a local vendor involved we attempt to try to do business with them. One of our responsibilities, from the staff point of view, is to insure that we are not criticized by the open public for doing business in such a fashion as someone can come back and have a legal remedy against the City. That is why staff has been careful over the years to recommend what we believed to be the low responsive bidder. That does not necessarily mean that the City Council has to take the recommendation of the City staff. Our job is to recommend what we believe is the low bidder. The Council can accept it or reject it. If you were to reject it, we would ask that you reject it and name a party to receive the bid."