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Costs rising for waste station
Halifax County Supervisors, meeting with Council members from South
Boston and Halifax on Tuesday evening, delayed acceptance of a bid
for
the County's transfer station for solid waste until they meet on
February 4. The station is to be located at the former
Georgia-Pacific
Company site.
With seven bids for the project received, the low bidder was J.
Harmon
Saunders of South Boston whose base bid came in at $1,847,000 with a
completion time of 180 days to finish the project. However that base
bid included two alternates, the first for an automated door system
at
a price of $4,418 and the second for a ventilation system priced at
$10,300. With those two items removed from the bid, Saunders would
then
be bidding $1,832,282.
The high bid on the project came in at $2,283,724 with a completion
time of 275 days. Another high bid at $2,201,200 placed completion
time
at 320 days or more than ten months.
"It's (the bid) definitely higher than the $1.5 million we had
budgeted
for the transfer station," County Administrator Bryan Foster advised
Board members. He suggested that Supervisors might want to try and
negotiate with Saunders on several items to see if the cost could be
reduced, thus the reason for the delay of the bid award.
According to Foster, plans for the station call for a 100 foot by
100
foot (10,000 square foot) pre-engineered metal facility with a
concrete
base. It will have three bays for the County's solid waste
collection
trucks to enter and exit. The trucks will dump their loads of waste
into a lower level where larger trucks will accept the waste for
transfer to the Mecklenburg regional landfill near Boydton.
The station will have no heat or air-conditioning since the bay
doors
will be open much of the day during operating hours with the
facility
being washed down and locked up at the end of each day.
The bid price does not include the cost of sewer connections which
will
be bid out separately and which likely will not hold up the
construction schedule, Foster said, noting that he expects that work
to
take no more than 30 days. Also not included in the bid is the
installation of a chain link fence which the Board had decided to
place
around the facility.
Supervisor Tom West asked about the cost of the county's direct haul
of
solid waste to the Boydton site, saying "we might want to look" at
continuing to do that instead of constructing the transfer station.
Foster quickly responded that he didn't believe that would be a
viable
option.
In addition to the trips that are being made by County haulers, the
Town of South Boston is currently hauling its solid waste to the
Boydton landfill. Public Works Director Allen Auld said the Town now
makes about nine trips per week to empty its trash although for the
first two weeks after the Christmas holidays, the Town made about 25
trips, which also included emptying of the green boxes at the
Hamilton
Boulevard site. Those greenboxes, he said are now being emptied by
the
County, just as are all the greenboxes throughout the County.
In other action during the Tuesday joint session, South Boston
Council
members and County Supervisors voted to consolidate their respective
Transportation Safety Commissions into one group. Their action came
on
the heels of a request from Ray Owen, chairman of the County
Commission, to consolidate the two. Supervisors and South Boston
Council members said they would like for members of the commissions
themselves to decide how many members will be needed for the joint
group and how they should be selected.
Supervisors also reappointed Ronnie Vaughan, Doug Bowman and Kenneth
Cassada each to serve another term on the William M. Tuck Airport
Commission and they also named Jim Davis to another term on the
County's Planning Commission. Victoria Jackson was also named to
another three year term on the Lake Country Area Office on Aging.
They
delayed taking action on appointments to the Industrial Development
Authority.
Board Chairman William Fitzgerald announced that Supervisors will
continue to carry out their same committee assignments as those of
last
year except that ED#6 Supervisor Wayne Conner will head the
Buildings
and Grounds committee in place of ED#1 R.E. "Dickie" Abbott who has
experienced some recent health problems. Abbott will remain on the
committee.
Supervisors and Council members also had the pleasure of formally
meeting the new Public Service Authority Executive Director, Willie
Jones.
The Halifax County Chamber of Commerce supplied Supervisors with a
list
of their newly completed leadership graduates, suggesting that when
appointments to help with county business arise, these people may be
considered for membership.
Both the Councils and Supervisors noted they will consider a
suggestion
to meet quarterly in joint session rather than bi-monthly, but they
delayed taking any action on the matter on Tuesday.