Township readies for more construction with several tenders awarded

Res­i­dents here are going to be seeing a large amount of dig­ging over the next few months.

On Monday, Centre Well­ington council awarded a tender for the reconstruction of St. David Street North and Gowrie Street North, as well as  construction of municipal sew­ers on Tower Street South, all in Fergus.

The work was won by the lowest bidder, Moorefield Ex­cavating Limited, of Harriston, at a cost of $703,978, inclusive of GST and a contingency allow­ance.

The reconstruction of St. David Street South is from Princess to Union Street. The work includes excavation, granu­lar base, hot mix asphalt, a sanitary sewer, watermain, and curb and gutter.

The work on Gowrie Street North runs from St. George to Hill Street east. The work is the same as for St. David Street.

On Tower Street, the work will service the old high school that is now being developed. That work is funded entirely by the developer, Reid Heritage Homes, of Guelph. The work includes excavations, sanitary sewers, storm sewers, side­walks, paving, and materials, as well as maintenance holes and catch basins.

Construction on the projects is expected to start by the end of the month and be completed by Oct. 16.

There were five bids for the work, with the highest bid set at $718,000.

Township Treasurer Wes Snarr said in his report that the actual cost to the township will be $667,586 because the devel­oper will be paying $63,869 of the total.

He added that the price is lower than expected. Council had approved a capital budget of $781,000 for the work, and it is $95,918 under that budget.

Work in Elora

Council also called for bids for work on two projects in El­ora.

The first is the recon­struc­tion of Church and Kertland Streets, and the building of parking spaces near the Dalby House building. The approved capital budget is $1.74-million.

The second project is the reconstruction of County Road 21 and Metcalfe Street from Clyde Street to County Road 7, which has an approved capital budget of $1.12.-million.

Snarr noted in his report to council that because there are no scheduled council or com­mit­tee of the whole meetings between July 13 and Aug. 24, staff requested council’s ap­prov­al for the work to be award­ed by the tender commit­tee subject to it being given to the lowest responsive and re­sponsible bidder and within the approved budgets.

“This is to facilitate the award of these tenders and avoid calling a special council meeting to deal with this mat­ter,” Snarr said in his report.

Councillor Fred Morris ask­ed if tenders have been formally called yet.

Snarr said the work on Metcalfe Street was expected to be let on Wednesday, and the Church Street project within two weeks.

Council unanimously ap­prov­ed all the tender recom­men­dations.

Mayor Joanne Ross-Zuj said, “That gets a lot of con­struction on the go for the summer.”

 

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