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Minutes of the Regular Meeting of Council <br />Monday, September 18, 2023 <br />Page 13 <br />Mr. Cappello replied, yes, we were within the engineer's estimate. <br />Mr. Meyers stated, it's $8,000 more than you said it would be <br />Mr. Cappello replied, right. You can accept up to 10%. <br />Mayor Bodnar stated, I don't think we are going to do better if we rebid it. It's going to cost money <br />and time. I don't see any prospects of someone who was asleep the last time to submit this time. <br />Mr. Wynne stated, this will also require a budget adjustment. I don't know the exact amount yet. <br />When we put the budget together we budgeted $160,000 for the Grove parking lot improvements <br />and the lighting. When the paving of the parking lot improvements were passed by Council, it <br />came in much higher than we had anticipated which is why we pulled the lighting at the time and <br />decided to go out for bid at a subsequent date. There will be a budget adjustment needed to cover <br />the cost of this. <br />Council President Schutt stated, thank you Mr. Wynne. Any other discussion or comments? <br />Mr. Meyers asked, so can it be rebid or not? <br />Mr. Coyne replied, why would it be worth it. If it's within the range of the estimate then you don't <br />have to rebid it at all. It's only over 10% that you should rebid. If it were $15,000 above, then <br />you would consider rebidding, but if you had six come in to take out the applications at the pre - <br />bid meeting that came within the estimate, why would you re -bid it again? <br />Mayor Bodnar stated, as a general comment, my experience with this, any time you are bidding <br />something another week goes by and a month goes by and the prices of things in this post-COVID <br />economy just keep going up and up and up. I don't know if we would get anything close to <br />$148,000 if we rebid it. <br />Mr. Murphy asked, Tom, is this the same company that did the parking? <br />Mr. Cappello replied, no. <br />Mr. Murphy asked, because originally they were going to do it, right? <br />Mr. Cappello replied, the original contractor who did the parking lot subbed it out. When I put it <br />back out to bid, I contacted those two people and they took out plans. I ended up getting four <br />others, but only one put a bid in. <br />Mr. Murphy asked, so neither the one that did the parking lot nor that initial — <br />Mr. Cappello replied, the ones that did the parking lot didn't do electrical. <br />