The Greenbrier County Commission met on the morning of Tuesday, March 9, for their regularly scheduled bi-weekly meeting.
After the standard opening invocation and pledge of allegiance, the meeting began with officials from various county agencies, including, among others, animal control, Greenbrier county Homeland Security Emergency Management and the Greenbrier County Sheriff’s Department, presenting their budget requests for the 2021/2022 fiscal year.
Upon completion of all agency proposals, which in several instances included pay increases for employees, the county commission accepted them as submitted. The commissioners will now review all agency budget-proposals, and vote to approve at a later date.
In points of new business, the commissioners opened the sealed bids received for demolition of the jail building.
A total of four licensed contractors chose to bid on the project, including Reclaim Company of Fairmont, LLC., L.D. Hanna & Son, Inc. of Lewisburg, All Construction, Inc. of Caldwell and Lynch Construction Co., Inc of White Sulphur Springs.
“This is for demolition of the old jail building, in preparation of our addition on the end of our building,” said Commission President Lowell Rose. “We’re trying to get this down and out of the way before the contractor-showing for that project, which is April 7.”
In all, six contractors attended the mandatory job-showing for the jail demolition project. However, only four chose to submit bids for the completion of the work.
L.D. Hanna & Sons, Inc. submitted a bid amount of $198,461 for removal of the jailhouse, and $18, 450 for removal of the former extension office, for a total of $216,911. All Construction, Inc. submitted a bid amount of $77,706.15. However, All Construction’s bid proposal did not include a break-down of services. Reclaim Company submitted a bid amount of $58,880 for removal of the jailhouse, and $16,588 for the removal of the former extension office, for a total of $75,468. And Lynch Construction Co. Inc. submitted a bid amount of $58,000 for removal of the jailhouse, and $16,000 for the removal of the former extension-office, for a total of $74,000.
“As it would appear, Lynch Construction is the low bid,” Rose said.
Rose then stated that the commission would have to discuss accepting All Construction’s bid amount as being for the jailhouse only, as accepting an additional bid for removal of the former extension office at this point “wouldn’t be fair to the other contractors.”
The West Virginia Daily News will provide updates regarding the demolition project as additional details are made available.
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