City Council accepts bid for water treatment plant piping improvements

Wednesday, January 9, 2019

Nevada’s City Council met in regular session on Tuesday evening with councilmen Ryan Watts, Blake Hertzberg, Carol Gallgher, Lyndon Eberhard and Mayor Brian Leonard in attendance. Also present were City Manager JD Kehrman and City Clerk Johnna Williams.

Alliance Divisional Manager Gary Johnson introduced incoming local Manager Dan Scherer to the council. Scherer, who is replacing Eric McPeak, is scheduled to begin on Monday. In a brief introduction to the council, Scherer emphasized his goal of keeping projects on schedule and, hopefully, under budget.

The council passed on second reading Bill 2018-042 in which property owner Michael Voigt requested rezoning property located at 911 E. Highland from M-1 Light Industrial to C-3 Commercial. Voigt is trying to sell the property but since it is considered a nonconforming use the potential buyers cannot obtain financing. The Nevada City Code does not allow residential dwellings in Industrial zoning.

In new business, the council passed on first reading acceptance of bids for water treatment plant improvements, sewer improvements and a pavement condition survey.

The lowest bid for water treatment plant piping improvements, from Southard Construction Company of Joplin, was accepted in the amount of $419,088.

The city solicited bids for the Clay, Sycamore & Alma Street sewer improvements and received bids from four contractors. The lowest bid was from McInroy Contractors, LLC, of Nevada, in the amount of $522,673.93.

Bids were solicited to perform a pavement condition survey to determine the structural integrity and overall riding quality of city streets. Five bids from qualified vendors were received. The best bid by their determination was from Infrastructure Management Services, LLC, of Tempe, Arizona in the amount of $24,990. While the lowest bid was from PMG in Branson for $17,550, it was determined that since IMS will provide additional technical resources and use more specialized equipment that their bid was the better one.

Following the recommendation of Infrastructure Committee, the council voted the following streets be improved in 2019 with Transportation Sales Tax Funds: 1600 W. Maple 100 W. Sentinel; 1700 – 2000 N. Main; 100 E. Edwards; 100 and 200 W. Edwards; 1300 and 1400 E. Cherry; 100 S. Woodland 500; 700 E. Lee; 500 and 600 N. Commercial; E. Highland from MoDot to Click Street and 1900 N. Elm Davis Park.

There were no department reports to discuss.

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