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South Padre Island council authorizes $1.398M side‑street contract after debate over timeline and incentives
Summary
Council authorized the city manager to contract with RBM for the 2025–26 side‑street improvements and approved a roughly $1.398 million budget amendment after a lengthy debate about contractor timelines and whether to add financial incentives for earlier completion.
The South Padre Island City Council authorized the city manager to enter a contract with RBM for the 2025–26 side‑street improvements and approved a budget amendment of approximately $1,398,952 after staff recommended RBM as the best‑scoring bidder.
Wendy Delgado, the city's director of operations, told the council that a selection committee reviewed five bids and that RBM “came out the highest on both of those” scoring measures and that staff contacted references for the top three firms. Delgado said the bid packets showed an unusually large spread in proposed construction…
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