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t 1 ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS Action Agenda Item No -� ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT Meeting Date: August 3, 1995 SUBJECT: Saddle Club Road Solid Waste Convenience Center Construction Bids ----------------------------------------------------------------------- DEPARTMENT Purchasing & Central Svcs PUBLIC HEARING YES NO X Public Works County Manager -------------------------------- ------------------------------- ATTACHMENT(S) INFORMATION CONTACT Bid Tabulation Pam Jones, ext 2650 Wilbert McAdoo, ext 2625 Paul Thames, ext 2300 TELEPHONE NUMBER Hillsborough 732-8181 Chapel Hill 968-4501 Mebane 227-2031 Durham 688-7331 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- PURPOSE: To consider awarding or rejecting bids for construction of the planned Saddle Club Road Solid Waste Convenience Center. BACKGROUND: At the June 26 regular meeting, the Board of Commissioners decided to postpone action to award or reject bids for construction of the planned Solid Waste Convenience Center on Saddle Club Road in Cheeks Township. Bids were received from four companies on June 13, 1995. The bids ranged from a low of $151,290 to a high of $259,000. The low bidder was Burlington Mechanical. Bid quotations are valid for 60 days from the date received. If the low bid is awarded, the total capital project costs for developing and implementing the Saddle Club Road site are estimated at $211,290. This cost would be about $60,000 higher than estimated in the 1995-2000 Capital Improvement Plan, and would leave insufficient funding to develop a second solid waste convenience center in 1995-96. Given the unfavorable construction market, and potential changes in local strategies for solid waste handling since the Saddle Club Road plans were initiated, it appears that the County's best course of action at this time is to reject the proposed construction bids. At a joint meeting with the Landfill Owners' Group on June 20, 1995, the Citizen Solid Waste Advisory Committee that is working with the LOG and Weston, Inc. transmitted recommendations on which combinations of solid waste collection, processing, and disposal options should be more closely evaluated by Weston as part of the countywide Integrated Solid Waste Management Study. One of the collection options that Weston has been directed to study is universal curbside collection, which if implemented, would likely lead to weekly at-the-street collection of household waste and recyclables throughout the unincorporated portions of Orange County, as well. as in municipal service areas.