City opens bids for 2026–27 residential lot mowing contract

A city staff member opened and read bids for the 2026–2027 residential lots mowing and lot maintenance contract, which covers city‑owned lots generally maintained by the Planning and Zoning Department.

The staff member said the project’s estimate is $18 per lot per occurrence for lots under one acre and $75 per hour per occurrence for lots one acre or larger. The staff member announced there were three bidders.

The first named bidder was P & J Lawn Care of Waterloo, Iowa; the staff member said, “I don’t see that P&J submitted an actual proposal,” indicating no bid form was presented on the record.

Adams Outdoor Contracting, Inc., of Waterloo submitted a 5% bid bond and a bid reported as $949 per occurrence for city‑owned lots under one acre. The over‑one‑acre figure reads in the transcript as $6,949.09, but the figures were not clarified during the reading and appear ambiguous in the recorded text.

Taylor Construction of Cedar Falls, Iowa, provided a 5% bid bond and was read as bidding $1,248 per occurrence for lots under one acre and $49.89 for lots over one acre as presented in the transcript; the staff member did not state the unit or context for the latter figure during the bid read.

The staff member closed the reading by thanking bidders: “Thank you for your bids.” The bid opening record on the transcript does not include a tabulation, award decision, or next procedural step.

Clarifying details drawn from the reading — including the apparent transcription errors in some over‑one‑acre amounts — should be confirmed against the official bid tabulation and the submitted bid documents before awards or contract actions are taken.