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HomeMy WebLinkAbout2019/2020 Snow RemovalSTATE OF IOWA, } Black Hawk County, SS CITY OF WATERLOO, IOWA Commu``riity Planning tIFU'"''-` r" Development Department • Notice of Public Hearing on the Proposed Specifications and the Notice to Public Bidders For the 2019/2020 Residential /Miscellaneous Areas Snow Removal Contract. Gener ascription The City of Waterloo has acquired approximately 215 Residential Properties using Iowa Code 657A. This section -of the code allows cities to petition the courts for possession of abandoned and dilapidated Residential or Commercial Properties with intent of either selling the properties for rehabilitation or demolition go remove blighted properties from neighborhoods and provide infill lots for new homes, and other improvements that an adjacent homeowner may wish for. Annually, the city sends out Requests for Proposal for snow removal of city owned lots and miscellaneous areas. The bidder shall bid per unit price (per lot/per occurrence price) for all city owned lots. All bidders should know that the list of properties fluxgates as the city is continually acquiring and selling proper- ties. SCOPE OF WORK The Contractor shall provide all labor, equipment and material necessary for snow removal and application of sandfice melt for approximately 215 Residential lots in accordance with bid specifications. Assigned areas shall have snow removed each time there is a snow event of at least 1 inch, which shall be completed within 48 hours from the end of the snow event. The bid specs require that the full width of the side walk be cleared along the full width of each property (lot) down to the pavement. A good -faith attempt will need to be made to clear down to the pavement. In the event that it is impossible, because of ice or other hazard, then sand or other abrasive material, (such as Ice Melt or another approved product) may be used so pedestrian traffic is safe;. particularly along school routes. RECEIVING OF BIDS Sealed proposals wit be received by the City Clerk of the City of Waterloo, Iowa, at her office in City Hall, 715 Mulberry St, Waterloo, Iowa, on or batons Thursday, November 7, 2019, until 1:00 P.M., for the 2019/2020 Snow removal season, as described in the plans and specifications now on file in the City Clerk's office and the Planning and Zoning Department. OPENING OF BIDS All proposals received for the 2019/2020 Snow Removal will be opened in the First Floor Conference Room in the City of Waterloo City Hall, 715 Mulberry Street, Waterloo, Iowa, on Thursday, November 7, 2019, at 1:00 p.m. After the opening of bids the proposals will be referred to the Planning and Zoning Department for recommendation of award. PUBLIC HEARING Notice is hereby given that the Waterloo City Council will conduct a public hearing on the proposed specifications and form of contract for the 2019/2020 Residential Lots Snow Removal at the City Council Meeting, Tuesday, November 12, 2019. The hearing will be held in the City Council Chambers on the second floor of Waterloo City Hall. The contract docu- ments are on file on the first floor in the City Clerk's office, City Hall, 715 Mulberry Street, and in the Planning and Zoning Department, second floor in Waterloo City Hall, 715 Mulberry Street, Waterloo, Iowa for public examination. Any person interested may file written objection with the City Clerk before the date set for the hearing or appear and make objection at the meeting. CONTRACT PERIOD The period of time covered under this proposed contract shall be approximately November 12, 2019 through June 30, 2020. PROPOSALS SUBMITTED All bids must be submitted on forms supplied by the Planning and Zoning Department with the exception that the required list of adequate equipment available for the proposed project may be submitted as a separate attachment. The bidder shall bid per unit price (per lot/per occurrence price) for all city owned lots and miscellaneous areas. BID SECURITY REQUIRED All bids must be accompanied, in a separate envelope, by a certified or cashier's check drawn on an Iowa bank chartered under the laws of the United States or the State of Iowa, a certified share draft drawn on' a Credit Union in Iowa chartered under the laws of the United States or the State of Iowa, or a bid bond payable to the City of Waterloo, Iowa, in the sum of Fifteen Hundred Dollars ($1,500.00), which certified check, certified share draft, or bid bond will be held as security that the Bidder will enter into a Contract for the snow removal work and will fumish the required bonds, and in case the successful bidder shall fail or refuse to enter into the Contract and furnish the required bonds, the bid security may be retained by said City as agreed liquidated damages. If a bid bond is used, it must be signed by both the bidder and the surety or the surety's agent. Signature of surety's agent must be supported by accompanying Power of Attorney. Published by order of the City Council of said City of Waterloo, Iowa, on the 21st day of October, 2019. - City of Waterloo, 'Iowa, ; Kelley elctrle;zCftsrCterl ' .nc I do solemnly swear that the annexed copy of legal City of Waterloo Public Hearing: 2019/2020 Snow Removal Contract Notice was published in the Waterloo -Cedar Falls Courier, a daily newspaper printed in Waterloo, Black Hawk County, Iowa, once commencing on the 1st day of November, 2019 in the name of said newspaper, and that the annexed rate of advertised is the regular legal rate of said newspaper, and that the following is a correct bill for publishing said notice. Printer's Bill $69.68 uokkk Signed Subscribed and sworn to before me this Day of u,QbIJ A.D., 20 l9 &El/Nut-Lc' Notary Public Received of the sum of Dollars. In full for publication of the above notice. • s4, JODI E MCKINSTRVF COPAM1SSION .78241':; BAYOQ RES