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Corona council clarifies, approves amendment to hazmat contract to add homeless-encampment cleanup
Summary
After a public question about bidding, the city’s emergency chief told council the amendment will expand an existing hazardous-material contract with HCI by $280,000 to let police, community services and public works abate hazardous homeless encampments; council moved to approve the amendment after clarification.
Corona’s City Council heard public concern about whether expanding contractor work was competitively procured before approving an amendment that will add homeless-encampment abatement to an existing hazardous-material cleanup contract.
At the meeting, resident Mr. McQuade told council the staff report did not make clear whether the work had been competitively bid and warned the omission created an appearance of favoritism: “It doesn't say there was a competitive bid…If we're only doing one, then this is a sole source,” he said.
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