Amador County -- The Plymouth City Council will consider canceling a water utility rate increase in a special meeting Monday, November 3rd, after receiving a bid that was 3 million dollars less that estimated for the construction of its water pipeline. The joint project with the Amador Water Agency received nine bids last week, with the lowest from Mountain Cascade Construction coming in at 5.3 million dollars. City Manager Dixon Flynn said staff is preparing a study of the proposed rate increase for the meeting Monday, with the intent to recommend canceling the November 17th meeting and raising city water utility rates. Flynn said some of the bidders are analyzing the Mountain Cascade bid to see how they were undercut in bidding. The AWA is also evaluating the bid to see if all of the information is correct. Plymouth will look at the bid in terms of whether the current water rate structure will be sufficient to fund Plymouth’s portion of the pipeline. Flynn said Plymouth staff will use the low bid to determine what its rate structure will be. “You assume that everything will be fine, but you don’t know that until you go through all the pieces,” Flynn said of the bid analysis. He said staff will find out at the end whether the city council can cancel the rate increase meeting. Mayor Jon Colburn called the special meeting for 5 p.m. Monday in Plymouth City Hall, 9426 Main Street in Plymouth. -- Story By Jim Reece (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.).
Friday, 31 October 2008 02:33
Plymouth Considers Canceling Water Rate Increase
Amador County -- The Plymouth City Council will consider canceling a water utility rate increase in a special meeting Monday, November 3rd, after receiving a bid that was 3 million dollars less that estimated for the construction of its water pipeline. The joint project with the Amador Water Agency received nine bids last week, with the lowest from Mountain Cascade Construction coming in at 5.3 million dollars. City Manager Dixon Flynn said staff is preparing a study of the proposed rate increase for the meeting Monday, with the intent to recommend canceling the November 17th meeting and raising city water utility rates. Flynn said some of the bidders are analyzing the Mountain Cascade bid to see how they were undercut in bidding. The AWA is also evaluating the bid to see if all of the information is correct. Plymouth will look at the bid in terms of whether the current water rate structure will be sufficient to fund Plymouth’s portion of the pipeline. Flynn said Plymouth staff will use the low bid to determine what its rate structure will be. “You assume that everything will be fine, but you don’t know that until you go through all the pieces,” Flynn said of the bid analysis. He said staff will find out at the end whether the city council can cancel the rate increase meeting. Mayor Jon Colburn called the special meeting for 5 p.m. Monday in Plymouth City Hall, 9426 Main Street in Plymouth. -- Story By Jim Reece (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.).
