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CITY OF WATERLOO, IOWA
Community Planning and Development
Department
Notice of Public Hearing on the Proposed
Specifications and the Notice to Public
Bidders For the 2020/2021
Residential/Miscellaneous Areas
Snow Removal Contract.
General Description
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
to 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 loUper
occurrence price) for all city owned lots.
All bidders should know that the list of
properties fluxgates as the city is
confinualty acquiring and selling proper-
ties.
SCOPE OF WORK
The Contractor shall provide all labor,
equipment and material necessary for
snow removal and application of sandlice
melt for approximately 215 Residential
and miscellaneous 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 46 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 sate{ particularly
by the
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November 12, 2020, until 1:00 P.M., for
the 2020/2021 Snow removal season, as
All proposals received for
Fici Conference Room in the City of
Waterloo City Hall, 715 Mulberry Street,
Waterloo, Iowa, on Thursday, November
19, 2020, 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 2020/2021 Residential
Lots Snow Removal at the City Council
Meeting, Monday November 16, 2020.
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 Watedoo City
Hall, 715 Mulberry Street, Watedoo, 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.
The City of Waterloo will continue to hold
participate via videoconferencing with
elected officials and city staff dialing in to
the meeting to participate.
The public is invited to speak an public
hearing items in the following ways. Call
the City Clerk's Office at 319-291-4323 by
4:45 p.m. to obtain conference call
information. Alternatively, you may email
your comments to comments water-
loo-ia.org and they will be read during the
public hearing. Please state the public
hearing item on which you wish to speak.
Members of the public may also attend
the meeting in person but will be strongly
encouraged to wear a mask and practice
social distancing.
CONTRACT PERIOD
The period of time Covered under this
proposed contract shall be approximately
November16, 2020 through June 30,
2021.
PROPOSALS SUBMITTED
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NII mos must oe suommeo or terms
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 tial per unit price (per IoUper
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
Slates 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,
candied 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 furnish the required bonds, and in
case the successful bidder shall fail or
refuse to enter imo the Contract and
furnish the required bonds, the bid
secunry may be retained by said City as
agreed liquidated damages. If a rid 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
2nd day of November, 2020.
City of Waterloo, Iowa,
Kelley Felchle, City Clerk