A long-awaited project to replace a storm drain at the Redwood Empire Fairgrounds that many residents have reported causes flooding in the facility’s parking lot and nearby school grounds moved forward this week when city of Ukiah staff members opened bids submitted for the work.
Nine bids were submitted and opened on Tuesday, July 1, with the “apparent low bidder” being Ghilotti Construction of Santa Rosa with a bid of $591,204. However, the contract will not be awarded until it goes before the Ukiah City Council for approval, likely at its July 16 meeting.
Last month, the City Council approved the plans for the repair as part of the Consent Calendar prepared for its June 4 meeting.
Prior to its approval, Council member Susan Sher asked why the city was helping pay for the storm drain replacement, as she “always assumed that the (Redwood Empire) Fairgrounds was owned by the state of California, so I’m wondering why are we paying half of that large maintenance fee for a new (storm drain)?”
“The storm drain collects a lot of water from the city area, then it goes through the fairgrounds, where it also then collects some runoff at the fairgrounds,” said Public Works Director Tim Eriksen, explaining that the storm drain was built in 1962 as a “joint effort” between the city and the fairgrounds, “and we’re trying to reflect some version of (joint effort) as we try and get this thing fixed.”
And while he went on to explain that “the negotiations to actually get it fixed are not finalized, the city agreed that we would get the plans and specifications done, so we’re moving forward with that. But I have (told fairgrounds officials) that if we don’t have an agreed-upon negotiation on the actual funding, we won’t award the bid.”
The council then approved plans for the replacement of the storm drain, which was estimated by city staff to cost $823,630.
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