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Groves Council accepts Texas Materials bid for HMAC overlay and striping after questions on scope and vendor market
Summary
The Groves City Council voted Sept. 8 to accept a Texas Materials bid for a hot‑mix asphalt overlay and striping project and authorized the city manager to execute the agreement after asking staff detailed questions about scope, bidding and costs.
The Groves City Council voted Sept. 8 to accept a bid from Texas Materials to perform HMAC overlay and striping on specified city streets and authorized the city manager to negotiate and execute related documents.
City staff explained that a number of local asphalt producers consolidated or left the market, reducing competition and limiting bid responses. A staff presentation identified segments proposed for milling and 2‑inch overlay on streets including Taft, McKinley, Van Buren and Simpson and striping from Highway 73 along 39th to Twin City Highway. Staff estimated roughly 15,000 square yards of work and said the scope was chosen to avoid sections with known underlying utility or drainage failures.
Council members pressed staff about mobilization costs, how bidders were solicited and whether the work could be performed by city crews. Staff said the city lacks the hot‑mix paving equipment and would need to lease or hire, and that mobilization costs are paid to bring contractor equipment to the area. Staff also said a full rebuild (tearing out base, compacting and reconstructing) would be considerably more expensive; an earlier estimate for a full rebuild along a comparable length was about $476,000 for one scenario and “a little over a million dollars” for a larger rebuild estimate.
Council discussed how traffic volumes and proximity to schools and businesses influenced the selection of these higher‑priority segments. Staff stated the proposed overlay would largely exhaust the current fiscal year streets budget.
A motion to accept the Texas Materials bid passed in a recorded vote with one no: Mayor voted aye; Council member Holmes voted no; Council member Gay voted aye; Council member McKeown voted aye. Staff said work could start next week and estimated a typical useful life for the HMAC overlay under normal conditions at roughly 10–15 years, with shorter life possible in extreme conditions.
The council authorized the city manager to negotiate and execute all necessary documents with Texas Materials.
