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Finance committee recommends three contracts, including $649,021 Union Street resurfacing, to city council
Summary
The Bangor City Finance Committee voted to forward recommendations to city council for three contracts: a three-year mowing contract, the Union Street resurfacing project (90% MDOT-funded), and an emergency hangar-door repair funded from parking-lot savings.
The Bangor City Finance Committee on May 19 recommended that the City Council consider three vendor contracts: a three-year mowing services contract for the business enterprise park, the resurfacing of Union Street, and an emergency replacement of a hangar door at Building 600.
City staff told the committee they received nine proposals for mowing services and recommended awarding a three-year contract to 207 Property Maintenance and More LLC for $90,970. “We were pleased. We received nine responses to our request for RFP,” city staff said during the presentation, noting reference checks were favorable. The committee moved and seconded the recommendation for approval; committee members indicated the award will be forwarded to city council for final action.
For Union Street, city staff recommended awarding the contract to the lowest responsive bidder, Hopkins Paving LLC, for $649,021.40. The project covers Union Street from Griffin Road to Davis Road and includes curb and sidewalk replacement. Staff said about 90% of the project funding comes from MDOT under a Local Program Administration (LAPA) arrangement and the city would provide a roughly 10% local match.
Committee members discussed the emergency repair of a hangar door on Building 600, located on Odland Road. Staff said one of the door-lifting cables had failed, preventing reliable use of the door and impeding access to equipment used in the city’s cargo operation. Staff obtained three quotes ranging from $450,000 to $675,000 and recommended awarding the work to the lowest bidder, identified in the materials as Achille’s Contracting; one later utterance in the transcript referenced the name “Chili’s,” which appears to be a transcription error. Staff said reference checks for the low bidder were positive and that savings from the Montaigneuse parking-lot project would be repurposed to cover the cost. The committee moved and seconded the recommendation to authorize the contract and send it to city council for consideration on the upcoming council agenda.
Each of the three recommendations was moved and seconded at the committee meeting and will be placed on the City Council agenda for final approval. The committee did not record a formal committee vote tally in the meeting transcript; staff said the items would go to council on the next council meeting date.
