|
|
|
It in a little over five months, Hannibal will stage its second annual spring cleanup.
During Tuesday night’s city council meeting, a bid of $63,455 was accepted from Allied Waste Systems to oversee the day-long effort. As was the case last year, Allied was the lone bidder for the entire project. That fact did not dismay Mark Rees, director of the public works department.
“You always like to get several bids, but this one was in the range of what we paid last year and within budget, so I don’t think we could be too disappointed with it,” he said.
Because of volatile fuel prices, contractors expressed reservations about providing bids far in advance of the cleanup program. Consequently, a “fuel index” was built into the bid specs. If the price of diesel is significantly higher in April, the cleanup program’s cost will rise.
“When you get to multiplying it out it really doesn’t amount to that much money it didn’t seem like. I think the city manager (Jeff LaGarce) calculated that it might be an additional $250,” said Rees. “To me it’s not even worth fooling with. I don’t think next year I will allow an indexing to fuel unless somebody can give me a lot better reason to do that.”
Rees does not believe a fuel increase will cause the program’s cost to exceed the $72,000 that has been budgeted.
“I don’t think it will push us to where we have to scale back the service or postpone the program,” he said.
The 2010 cleanup will be very similar to 2009’s, including offering just one dropoff point - the lot off of Orchard Avenue. In 2007, dropoff sites were provided adjacent to both Orchard Avenue and Warren Barrett Drive.
Last year’s cleanup provided dual services. Partnering with the city was Continental Cement, which accepted a variety of waste fluids. Will they be working together again?
“They haven’t approached us this year. They were proactive last year and approached us ahead of time and helped by piggybacking our advertising. They did some advertising and so did we to try to make sure everybody was aware they were welcome to bring paints and such down to their location. I think they were pleased with it, too,” said Rees.
Last year the city received 234 tons of items during the cleanup. Approximately 900 gallons of used oil and 800 gallons of used paint and paint-related materials were deposited at Continental Cement.
It in a little over five months, Hannibal will stage its second annual spring cleanup.
During Tuesday night’s city council meeting, a bid of $63,455 was accepted from Allied Waste Systems to oversee the day-long effort. As was the case last year, Allied was the lone bidder for the entire project. That fact did not dismay Mark Rees, director of the public works department.
“You always like to get several bids, but this one was in the range of what we paid last year and within budget, so I don’t think we could be too disappointed with it,” he said.
Because of volatile fuel prices, contractors expressed reservations about providing bids far in advance of the cleanup program. Consequently, a “fuel index” was built into the bid specs. If the price of diesel is significantly higher in April, the cleanup program’s cost will rise.
“When you get to multiplying it out it really doesn’t amount to that much money it didn’t seem like. I think the city manager (Jeff LaGarce) calculated that it might be an additional $250,” said Rees. “To me it’s not even worth fooling with. I don’t think next year I will allow an indexing to fuel unless somebody can give me a lot better reason to do that.”
Rees does not believe a fuel increase will cause the program’s cost to exceed the $72,000 that has been budgeted.
“I don’t think it will push us to where we have to scale back the service or postpone the program,” he said.
The 2010 cleanup will be very similar to 2009’s, including offering just one dropoff point - the lot off of Orchard Avenue. In 2007, dropoff sites were provided adjacent to both Orchard Avenue and Warren Barrett Drive.
Last year’s cleanup provided dual services. Partnering with the city was Continental Cement, which accepted a variety of waste fluids. Will they be working together again?
“They haven’t approached us this year. They were proactive last year and approached us ahead of time and helped by piggybacking our advertising. They did some advertising and so did we to try to make sure everybody was aware they were welcome to bring paints and such down to their location. I think they were pleased with it, too,” said Rees.
Last year the city received 234 tons of items during the cleanup. Approximately 900 gallons of used oil and 800 gallons of used paint and paint-related materials were deposited at Continental Cement.
