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Kenyon council accepts low bid and adopts assessments for 2025 street and utility improvements
Summary
Kenyon accepted Fitzgerald as the low bidder for the 2025 street and utility project, approved alternates 1–3, and adopted assessments with a 15-year repayment option and a stated interest rate tied to bond projections (about 5.25%).
Kenyon’s City Council on July 8 approved awarding the rebid for the 2025 street and utility improvement project to Fitzgerald and adopted the updated assessment roll for the work, which included the base bid plus alternates for additional paving and sidewalk work.
City Engineer Derek Olinger said the rebid produced lower numbers than earlier solicitations and recommended moving forward with Fitzgerald and awarding alternates one through three (Fifth Street overlay, additional pavement on Forest Street and a sidewalk extension on Redwing Avenue). “The low bidder on this rebid is Fitzgerald,” Olinger said, recommending the council approve the award by resolution 2025-9. Council voted by voice to accept the recommendation.
The council then adopted the assessment resolution (2025-15) that locks in individual property assessments based on the updated bid amounts. City Administrator Scott Lanner told the council that many property assessments fell roughly 5% from previous estimates — “there’s a consistent kind of a consistent number of around $500, $600 reduction from previous ones” — and that the method of calculating assessments is unchanged from earlier notices.
Under the resolution the assessment repayment term for property owners who do not prepay is 15 years. Lanner said the interest rate applied to assessments is generally set at about 1 percentage point over the projected bond rate; working with finance staff the rate used in the presentation was stated as about 5.25%. Residents may prepay their assessment in part or in full without interest through Nov. 15; after that date unpaid assessments will be submitted to the county for tax certification.
Council also approved a construction engineering services agreement (agenda item 4.2) to provide on-site surveying, staking and record documentation during project construction. The agreement amount was described as already included in prior budget discussion and aligned with previous estimates; the action passed on a voice vote.
The council recorded voice votes for the motions; the record in the meeting shows Alana, Lee, Kim and Mayor Kirchman responding in the affirmative when the clerk took the vote. No written objections to the assessments were reported during the hearing.
The next procedural steps identified at the meeting are final contract execution with the awarded contractor, initiation of construction engineering services, and the standard pre-construction coordination between city staff, the contractor and affected property owners.
