Ripon City awards West Ripon Road overlay contract to Knife River Construction

Ripon City’s council voted to award a contract for the West Ripon Road overlay project to Knife River Construction after staff disqualified the apparent low bidder for noncompliance and recommended Knife River as the lowest responsive, responsible bidder.

Engineering staff described the project as restoration of West Ripon Road (between Jacktone Road and South Highland Avenue, extending toward county lines) using a 2-inch grind and overlay, deep-lift asphalt reconstruction at failure locations, and new thermoplastic restriping. Staff said the public bid was opened April 1; Consolidated Engineering was found non-compliant with material terms of the invitation to bid and was disqualified. Staff reported Knife River’s bid as $342,852; the transcript contains an unclear extra "300" prefix before that figure.

Council members asked whether Knife River had previously worked for the city; staff and council members confirmed Knife River had completed recent local projects, including the Rapone area, and described past performance positively. Council also confirmed the project would be full-width (both north and south sides), with deep-lift repairs focused where the north side has significant deterioration.

A council member moved to award the contract as recommended by staff; the motion was seconded and approved by voice vote (Mr. Zuber: Yes; Mr. Restuccia: Yes; Mr. Uecker: Motion passes 3-0). The transcript does not identify the mover or seconder by name.

Next steps: staff will proceed with contract award and project scheduling; the meeting record did not include a construction start date.