09-13-1976 Council Meeting Minutes

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ORONO COUNCIL P1IEETING HELD SEPTEMBER 130 1976 Page 19 Please have your subcontractor or his supplier 1976 SEAL COATING PR0�12AT�1 forward to the City a letter of gu•arantee for (Continued) �conformance within these guidelines. At such time as the City has received the above letter, the authorization to proceed with hauling of � material will be given. August 30 , 1976 memo from John Gerhardson to Dick Benson, stateso � S February 27, 1976, the City of Orono received and opened bids for the 1976 seal coating and bituminous � overlay program. �t that bid opening, Skeets Held seemed to be the low bidaere Other bidders � complained that Skeets Held could not meet the specifications because he did not have a self- � propelled chip spreader as called for in our specifications. P1r. Joe P�7elsness from Skeets Held argued that his equipment did meet specifications. ilr. t�. R. Benson instructed me and the engineer to r.take a physical inspection of their equi}�mento � I tried to contact P�ir. TZelsness that same afternoon to find out where the equipment was. P•�r. Tlelsness was not available and I u�as not able to find their • equipment. I could not find their equipment yarde i�Iarch 1, 1976, the City of Orono received a letter �from Skeets Held, Inc. listing various municipalities they have done work for and stating that cae could inspect their equipment at their yard ��ithin � thirty dayso i�Iarch 2 , 1976, the City of Orono received a letter frorn Skeets Held, Inc. stating that the_y will use a Flaherty Chip Spreader for the Orono sealing program. � iiay 13, 1976, the City of Orono received a letter � from Blacktop Construction Company stating that they ��ere going to do the sealcoating for themo T•Zay 17, 1976, I received a letter from Blacictop ' Construction listing references we could check. By tdiay 21, 1976, the City Engineer and I had checked ` with these different municipalities and received favoraule comments from all of them. Shortly after that, we discovered the contracts had not been signed and returned by Skeets Held, Ince Everything to do with contracts, insurance and subcontractor was resolved and anproved by the Orono City Council June 14, 1976. July 20, 1976, Shealy Construction hauled in �approximately 190 ton of granite chips aggregatee July 21st I checked the material and felt a gradation test should be done. 1�IcCombs-I:nutson �icY.ed u� two sariples and sent them to Twin City Testing and Engineering Laboratory, Inc. for analysis. The results of that test indicated the aggregate did not meet specifications. (Continued)