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Otsego council approves fire station contracts after heated debate over creating a city fire department
Summary
Council voted 3–1 to accept construction bids and authorize contracts for a new fire and emergency services facility, despite objections by a council member who said independent department plans ignored an independent study favoring continued contracted services with neighboring cities.
The Otsego City Council voted 3–1 on Nov. 12 to accept contractor bids and authorize final contracts for a new fire and emergency services facility, advancing the long‑planned project toward construction.
The council acted on Resolution 2024‑83 after a presentation from project staff and the city’s construction manager. Mike Phillips, representing the construction manager, said the project was packaged into 28 work scopes and reported a confirmed low aggregated construction bid of $14,018,369, about 14% under the construction document estimate of roughly $16.4 million for construction costs alone. Phillips described three bid alternates council could choose to deduct, including removing a sixth apparatus bay (confirmed deduct ≈ $269,085) and removing four‑fold overhead doors on certain bays (deducts of $239,805…
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