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Votes at a glance: Olive Branch aldermen approve soccer-complex bid, airport site work, equipment and utility contracts
Summary
At its Feb. 4 meeting, the Olive Branch Board of Aldermen approved multiple procurement and professional-services contracts, including a $4.54 million Phase 2 soccer complex bid and agreements for airport site work, a gas regulator design, and specialized trucks for public works.
Olive Branch — The Olive Branch Board of Aldermen approved a series of bids, professional services agreements and change orders during its Feb. 4 meeting, moving forward with park improvements, airport infrastructure, public-works equipment and utility system design.
The board voted to accept the low bid for Phase 2 of the George Harrison Soccer Complex in the amount of $4,539,340.56 and to fund that bond with the city's 1% tourism hotel-motel tax. City staff said the Phase 2 work will add four soccer fields, two of which will be lighted, new parking, restrooms and a concession stand.
Other approvals included a $1,500,000 allocation for a corporate hangar (funding the hangar project with state-provided dollars), a master professional-services agreement with Garver LLC for airport development site work in the amount of $224,190 (federal grant funds cited), and a construction engineering and inspection contract with Fisher and Arnold Inc. for $165,620.60 for a multiuse path along Church Road.
Equipment purchases approved after reverse auctions included a LEAF vacuum truck with a low bid of $227,000 from PACMAC and a truck-mounted combination jet-vacuum machine with a low bid of $500,625 from VA Call Sales and Service (vendor names as listed in the packet). The board also approved change order No. 1 to A and B Construction in the additive amount of $133,285 for backfilling and site work at the Olive Branch Public Works Complex.
The board approved a professional-services agreement with Cruz Engineering and Consulting LLC for design of a gas regulator station near Highway 178 and Center Hill Road at an hourly, not-to-exceed amount of $20,000; staff said the regulator is intended to improve gas-system resiliency and address low-pressure events from earlier years. The board approved all listed items by voice vote; each motion concluded with "All in favor? Aye." as recorded in the meeting.
The board also approved minutes from its January meeting and the consent agenda. At the meeting's close the aldermen voted to enter executive session to discuss specified personnel matters and pending litigation.
Votes at a glance (motions, movers, seconds, outcome as recorded): - Approval of minutes from January meeting — mover: not specified; second: not specified; outcome: approved. - Consent agenda (multiple consent items) — mover: Mister Collins; second: Miss Hamilton; outcome: approved. - Phase 2 George Harrison Soccer Complex — motion to accept bid from "grinder table grinder" in the amount of $4,539,340.56; mover: Mister Collins; second: Miss Hamilton; outcome: approved. Note: funding source cited as 1% tourism hotel-motel tax. - Corporate hangar (12,000 sq. ft. hangar; $1,500,000 from state appropriation) — mover: Mr. Earhart; second: Miss Henderson; outcome: approved. - LEAF vacuum truck (reverse auction, low bid $227,000, PACMAC) — mover: Mister Dickerson; second: Mister Wallace; outcome: approved. - Truck-mounted combination jet-vacuum machine (low bid $500,625, VA Call Sales and Service) — mover: Mr. Earhart; second: Mister Collins; outcome: approved. - Professional services agreement: Cruz Engineering and Consulting LLC — hourly NTE $20,000 for gas regulator station design — mover: Mister Dickerson; second: Miss Aldridge; outcome: approved. - Master agreement: Garver LLC — $224,190 for airport development site work (federal grant funds cited) — mover: Mister Wallace; second: Mr. Collins; outcome: approved. - Construction engineering & inspection: Fisher and Arnold Inc. — $165,620.60 for multiuse path on Church Road — mover: Mister Collins; second: Miss Henderson; outcome: approved. - Change order No. 1: A and B Construction — additive $133,285 for Olive Branch Public Works Complex site backfill — mover: Mister Dickerson; second: Mister Collins; outcome: approved. - Motion to enter executive session to discuss personnel and litigation items — mover: Miss Henderson; second: Miss Hamilton; outcome: approved (board entered executive session).
No motions failed or were recorded as tabled in the meeting minutes provided to the board.
