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Council delays decision on Carolina Pines street-improvement bids after resident concerns
Summary
Raleigh City Council voted to hold action on the Carolina Pines Avenue Street Improvements (agenda item D4) until a planned work session, after staff said bids came in roughly 24% over engineers' estimates and two related bid alternates were proposed.
Raleigh City Council on March 11 voted to hold action on the Carolina Pines Avenue Street Improvements project (agenda item D4) until a staff-led work session next week.
City Engineer Byron Sanders told council that three bids returned after re-advertising were “all in the same ballpark” but came in about 24% above the city’s engineer estimate. Sanders said staff plans to reimagine the project scope, advertise a base bid covering Lake Willow Road to Henslow, and add two bid alternates to…
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