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CR 92-132 Approve Sanitary Sewer Improvements Ramsgate / r "' "'( y 0 1 \ ..~.' , .y '" ' . June 10, 1992 o P K \'~ council Report 92-132 APPROVE PLANS AND ORDER BIDS SANITARY SEWER IMPROVEMENTS RAHSGATE APARTMENTS ProlJosed Action. Staff recommends adoption of the following motion: Move that council adopt Resolution 92-49. Resolution Approvinq Plans and Specifications and Orderinq Bids - Sanitary Sewer Improvements at Ramsgate Apartments. Overview Council at its August 20, 1991 meeting authorized plans to be drawn up for a sanitary sewer improvement at the Ramsgate Apartment complex. The proposed project called for rerouting of sanitary sewer facilities through the Ramsgate site and requited the granting of a utility easement to the city. RCM Associates was designated to draw up plans and specifications and staff was. instructed to undertake negotiations for easement acquisition. Those tasks are completed and the City should now proceed with a project. . Primary Issues to Consider 0 Has an easement been acquired? Although the document is in need of signatures, the City has reached agreement in principle with the owners of Ramsgate Apartments. The cost of acquisition will be $25,000. 0 What is the estimated cost and how will it be funded? The engineer's estimate of cost has been revised downward slightly from projections in August 1991 to $42,000. Funding for the project is slated to come from sanitary sewer utility funds. 0 Timetable. The engineer recommends advertising bids in the Sailor and the Construction Bulletin, a bid opening at 10 a.m. July 8 and award of the contract at the July 21 Council meeting. . supporting Information 0 Plans and Specifications 0 Resolution 92-49 . . ~s~ . Engineering superintendent ~...... . CITY OF HOPKINS Hennepin County, Minnesota RESOLUTION NO: 92-49 RESOLUTION APPROVING PLANS AND SPECIFICATIONS SANITARY SEWER IMPROVEMENTS - RAMSGATE APARTMENTS AND AUTHORIZE THE ADVERTISING FOR BIDS WHEREAS, pursuant to a resolution passed by the Council on August 20, 1991, plans and specifictions for reconstruction and rerouting of sanitary sewer at the Ramsgate Apartments, have been prepared by RCM'Associates, and they have presented such plans and specifications ,to the Council for approval, NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, by the city Council. of Hopkins, Minnesota: 1. Such plans and specifications, a copy of which are attached hereto and made a part hereof, are hereby approved and ordered placed on file in the office of the city Clerk. 2. The city Clerk shall prepare and cause to be inserted in tha official paper and in the Construction Bulletin an . advertisement for bids upon the making of such improvement under such approved plans and specifications. The advertisement shall be published twice, at least twenty-one days before date set for bid opening, shall specify the work to be done, shall state that bids will be received by the clerk until 10:00 a.m., on the 8th day of July, 1992, at the City Hall and that no bids shall be considered unless sealed and filed with the clerk and accompanied by a certified check or bid bond, payable to the City of Hopkins, Minnesota for 5% of the amount of such bid. The clerk and engineering superintendent are hereby authorized and instructed'to receive, open, and read aloud bids received at the time and place herein noted, and to tabulate the bids received. The Council will consider the bids, and the award of a contract, at the regular city Council meeting of July 21, 1992, in the Council Chambers. Adopted this 16th day of June, 1992. Nelson W. Berg, Mayor ATTEST: . James A. Genellie, city Clerk --.. --'-