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Council hears single, higher-than-expected bid for downtown traffic-signal modernization; options include award or rejection
Summary
Engineers received one bid—about $1.3 million—for a downtown traffic-signal modernization project, notably higher than the city estimate; council and staff discussed reasons (timeline, pole costs, maintenance-bond effects) and next steps without recording an award in the provided transcript.
The Le Mars City Council considered bids for a downtown traffic-signal modernization project on May 14 and heard that only one bid was submitted, at roughly $1.3 million, which exceeded the city’s estimate of $885,800. The project scope in the bid included optic cabling between intersections, new signal heads, pedestrian equipment, controllers, poles and mast arms at key intersections.
Administration outlined two options: accept the single higher bid or…
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