Res 87 8/15/1950RESOLUTION NO. 2-7-----
A RESOLUTION ACCEPTING BID FORT E CONSTRUCTION OF SENAGE
DISPOSAL PLANT IMPROVEMENTS, AND DIRECTING CITY MANAGER TO
EXECUTE CONTRACT FOR THE SAME
1IHER ,AS, Joe E. Ward, Consulting Engineer for the City of Wichita
Falls Texas has heretofore pre ared plans and specificationsspPp for the
following: One sewage disposal plant complete including connection to
existing force main, 24 inch force main from connection to bar screen,
grit channel, Imhoff tanks, dosing tanks, dosing siphons, trickling
filters with 4-arm distributors, sludge drying beds, grit drying bed,
final clarifier, Parshall flume, chlorinator house, and equipment,
outfall main and apron, piping, valves, fittings, manholes, etc.; and
including excavation and backfill of whatever nature encountered
clearing, grubbing, and constructing earth fill foundations for struc-
tures and piping, and performing grading as indicated on plans; which
plans and specifications were thereafter duly adopted and approved by
the Board of Aldermen and bids were by said body authorized for such
purchase and construction, and due notice of such proposed bids was
published for the time and in the manner required by the Charter of
the City- of Wichita Falls and the laws of the State of Texas, and said
bids were duly received and were, on the 10th day of August, 1950,
opened; and
vREASthe bids received have been fully tabulated, canvassedsy
and considered, and the Board of Aldermen, after fully considering the
same, is of the opinion that the bid of H. B. Zachry Co., of San Antonio,
Texas, is the lowest and most advantageous and should be accepted for
said roposed work.p P work;
NOW THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE BOARD. OF ALDERMEN OF THE
CITY OF WICHITA FALLS, TEXAS:
That the bid of H. B. Zachry Co., of San Antonio, Texas, for the
building and erection of one sewage disposal plant complete including
connection to existing force main, 24 inch force main from connection
to bar screen, grit channel, Imhoff tanks, dosing tanks, dosing
siphons, trickling filters with 4-arm distributors, sludge drying
beds, 'grit drying bed, final clarifier, Parshall flume, chlorinator
house, and equipment, outfall main and apron, piping, valves, fittings,
manholes, etc.; and including excavation and backfill of whatever nature
encountered, clearing, grubbing, and constructing earth fill foundations
for structures and piping, and performing grading as indicated on plans,
aggregating for all of such purposes the total sum of 501,500.00, be
and the same is hereby accepted, and that a contract in the form and
with the terms as set forth in said plans and specifications be made
and entered into in accordance with such plans and specifications and
in accordance with the Charter and Ordinances of said City of ihichita
Falls, Texas, and the laws of the State of Texas, and that the City
Manager of said City be and he is hereby authorized to execute said
contract for and on behalf of said City of Wichita Falls, Texas.
This resolution shall take effect and be i