The Clarendon Board of Aldermen awarded a contract for street paving to MH Civil Constructors, Inc., during their regular meeting last Tuesday, April 22.
The Amarillo-based contractor submitted the only bid for work that was authorized by city voters in 2012. The bid with alternates was for a total of $677,362.56.
The project will include Sixth Street from Koogle to Goodnight Street; Third Street from Allen to Bugbee Avenue; Allen Street, from Third to Fifth; Sims Street from Third to Fourth (west side of Broncho Stadium); and Carhart Street, from Sixth to Hwy. 287.
A two-block section of Sixth Street beside the baseball fields will be paved in concrete, while the rest of the streets will be two-pass seal coats with either rollover curb and gutter or standard curb and gutter. City employees will do the excavating for the curbing as well as the base work for the paving.
The project also calls for seal coating Clarendon Avenue from Bugbee to its west end (along the south side of the Clarendon College campus) and Regent Avenue from US 287 to Clarendon Ave. (which winds up the middle of the CC campus by the Bulldog Gym).
Mayor Larry Hicks told aldermen he hopes the project is completed by October 1.
In other business, Aldermen approved clean audits of the city and the economic development corporation; authorized the purchase of eight new computers for the Burton Memorial Library through the Harrington Library Consortium, and awarded $1,000 to the Christ’s Kids Ministry for its summer lunch program.
Aldermen resumed discussion of proposed regulations of gaming machines. Alderman Doug Kidd asked for more information and expressed reservations about the city making money on a business of questionable legality, but Alderman Larry Jeffers said he thought the city should regulate the business whether it made any revenue or not. No action was taken.
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