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MINUTES OF THE <br />ORONO CITY COUNCIL MEETING <br />Monday, March 8, 2021 <br />6:00 o’clock p.m. <br />_____________________________________________________________________________________ <br /> <br />Page 4 of 23 <br /> <br />they want them, continue funding their building fund, and all the other things technology-wise they are <br />doing in the City. <br /> <br />Johnson asked about the piece in the budget that Walsh does not like to count. <br /> <br />Seals said the chip sealing. <br /> <br />Walsh said it is the chip/crack sealing. <br /> <br />Johnson noted they have $224,000 to put towards it now. <br /> <br />Walsh said if they notice in looking through the budget, Edwards has a discretionary fund of $100,000- <br />$200,000. It is a roads non-dedicated fund for fixing things. <br /> <br />Crosby thinks the roads are a little more stressed this year so they will need it. <br /> <br />Olson said if the Council remembers back in July when they received their first half tax settlement, he <br />was pretty worried as he did not know what would happen with sales and property taxes. To finish the <br />year during COVID at 99.1% which is really pretty much where the City ends up, is a very good <br />indication on how property taxes will go forward this year, which eases his mind. <br /> <br />Walsh said that even gives flex on what was collected this year. <br /> <br />PUBLIC WORKS DIRECTOR/CITY ENGINEER REPORT <br /> <br />22. 2021 ROAD MAINTENANCE PROJECT AWARD <br /> <br />Edwards said tonight they have the 2021 Roads Project Award before the Council. He pointed out this <br />particular project, unlike past years, is actually a conglomerate of several projects the City wanted to <br />undertake. They are asking not only to award the streets project as it was originally envisioned, but also <br />combined three other projects with the bid package that was sent out: the Casco storm water project, the <br />Fagerness Point storm water project, and the Navarre parking lot project. The nature of all of those <br />projects was such that the same contractor would be bidding on those. By putting them all together, the <br />idea was to get a better price for bulk. Edwards said they solicited bids and had 7 bidders, the low bid <br />was from the Omann Brothers for $1,389,000 and would bring a project total with both the work by <br />Omann Brothers and the work by Bolton and Menk on the engineering design and oversight to <br />$1,600,000. That fits within the projected numbers when combining all those projects together and there <br />is a bit of movement in what the projections were for individual funds. They are a little lower than what <br />they thought they would be putting towards the pavement fund and are a bit higher in what they thought <br />they would put towards the storm water fund and the community investment fund. Overall, it comes just <br />under what they were projecting for that group of projects. He said there is a lot of focus on roads in the <br />Navarre area and Casco Point Circle. The biggest challenge on the road project side will be the Park Lane <br />project which is basically a full reconstruct to include utilities and will be very challenging based on the <br />physical constraints of that neighborhood and that road. <br /> <br />Seals asked if that is the really narrow one. <br /> <br />Edwards said it is very tight with about 16 feet of asphalt.