Pleasant Hill okays low bid on street jobs
Posted By J.T. on June 10, 2009
City contracts and “safe room” ordinance
from the Pleasant Hill Times:
The Pleasant Hill City Council last week awarded a $197,395 contract for the city’s 2009 street overlay program.
Hanrahan Asphalt, Inc., of Grandview was the successful bidder. Six Kansas City-area companies bid on the Pleasant Hill street work.
The contract calls for a 2-inch asphalt overlay on Pine Street from Commercial to Randolph and from Vermont to 7 Highway and on Lexington Road from Matthes Street to Woodlawn.
The project also includes cape seal surface on five blocks of Armstrong Street from Pine to Olive, four blocks of Randolph Street from Locust to Harper and on Campbell Street from Cedar to Harper.
The special City Council meeting was held on Monday, June 1, because the regularly scheduled meeting on May 25 was cancelled because it fell on Memorial Day.
Later, the councilmen okayed a $98,188 contract with Team Excavating of Pleasant Hill for a stormwater project on Locust and Independence streets. Team Excavating was the lowest of two companies bidding on the project.
The councilmen also okayed a change order to add 610 feet to the north water line project at a cost of $21,310.
In other business at last week’s meeting, the mayor and councilmen indicated that they would have no objection to a developer’s request to lower the speed limit from 55 mph to 45 mph on 7 Highway from 163rd Street north to the Cass- Jackson county line.
The councilmen agreed that the Missouri Department of Transportaion would be unlikely to approve an entrance for a development on 7 Highway unless the speed limit was lowered.
The councilmen continued their discussion of the city’s “safe room” ordinance and Mayor Terry Wilson challenged a task force made up of councilmen Larry Rosanbalm and Pat Bates to come up with a compromise that everyone can live with.
Under the present “safe room” ordinance, homes built without a basement are required to have a storm shelter that meets FEMA standards, but there has been concern that some builders are not fully meeting those requirements.
At the same time, builders and real estate agents feel that the expense of the safe room requirements will make homes in Pleasant Hill less competitive that those in neighboring communities.
“I want homes in Pleasant Hill to be safe,” Mayor Wilson told the councilmen, “but I also want them to be affordable.” “There has to be a happy medium,” he said. “Surely, we can come up with an alternative that all of us can live with.”
In approving the consent agenda at the start of the meeting, the councilmen okayed a real estate transfer agreement with Steve Bricker for an exchange of Bricker’s property at Cedar and Lake streets for property owned by the city at 400 Pine Street.
Also included in the consent agenda was authorization for the Pleasant Hill Police Department to apply for a $32,777 traffic enforcement grant from the Missouri Department of Transportation.
The mayor and councilmen met in executive session following the regular meeting to discuss personnel matters, but no action was taken.
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