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Sarpy County awards tree-grinding contract; board enters executive session on potential litigation
Summary
The board awarded a tree- and green-waste grinding contract to Terry Hughes for $45,500 (low bid) and approved an hourly rate for additional grinding; later the board entered executive session to discuss potential litigation and returned to open session before adjourning.
The Sarpy County Board of Commissioners awarded the tree and green-waste pile grinding project to Terry Hughes on June 9, accepting the low bid of $45,500. Beth Garber, assistant county administrator, told commissioners that purchasing opened three bids and that the high bid had been $114,000; she said the work is connected to the South Sarpy Expressway project and that crews removed trees in advance of the migratory bird season so the project could proceed without delay. The contract includes an hourly rate for new material grinding of $750 per hour as needed.
Following the contract award the board voted to move into an executive session to discuss potential litigation. The motion to enter executive session was made and seconded and the board left the public meeting at about 3:12 p.m. The transcript records the board returning to regular session around 3:20 p.m.; the motion to return passed. No public details about the litigation discussion were recorded in the open transcript and no substantive outcome was announced on the record after the executive session other than the return and adjournment.
The transcript records motions and that the contract award motion passed, but it does not include a recorded, named roll-call tally for the vote.
