| Show DELAY WAS L LU NG 1 BUT MORAN WON WONt t Contracts Contra ts For City Improve Improvements Improvements ments Held Field Up t THE BIDS ARE LOWERED t LOCAL MAN RAiD HAD TO COME DOWN DOWiN I NEAR Y e Improvements ag gratINg In amount more mere than hung up for four months With a iet to the thc city of about N ol of oC 1 per pcr Why Members of the late board of pub lie Hc works work with one contend there Is i no legitimate excuse for It Ita a Mt they are re on record as the delay They pointed out that need needed needed ed In the WAY of exten siems son of oC the ter and sewer Jewer systems Would be bc delayed deloyed b W the failure Of at atthe the council to approve contracts sub last De and anU the tho colin coun JI figuratively gave the board the laugh Ute the cit city waited for the Improvements The season when prop proper or er H sewage and water ater service was needed to the health or of the cIty to say y nothing of great con to reSIdents or of Salt Lake haH Iia been Permitted to pass AM with work undone Now the council has approved con contracts contracts tracts that If carried out accordIng to their terms will insure the corn com completion of the improvements need needed d contracts provide for rOl doing the Work at figures lower than the bI 81 of one or of the last ast Dec m bor ber The coet or of for bRis making the n not t iK Bid Had to Be Lowered The bidder who no now agrees to do doU ille U w rk fOr asked for forthe forth the th me Work nork lait December which fill i 2392 less than his fIrst bid Since that time sewer pipe has hs decreased sef lit in price about 12 per cent and iron JIU about 6 per ton Th The V COAst coitt of labor remains ns the same t The nan man Who wo now geta t the con contracts tracts trets for was not the lowest bidder December firm offered to do the work for or WAS w 2501 lees than the man who ho now agrees ree to do the work for of offered to do It for hu t De ember December bid on 00 water mains were P J Moran City Street Improvement Jalna Co Bids oft 01 sewer W r construction we were p T I Mo Moran 10 ran City Street Improvement 2331 James Kennedy Kenned Co Outsiders Had No Show The bids bid of Kennedy Co taken to together ether were ere much lower than the oth others and the he board recommended at ab I K nn d Cos bId The had invited competItion amI succeeded in getting bids from tw Outside the CIt City Street Im m 1 f company and t Co Tile The council tor some Mm reason ap to let ide bidders rs I get Ket n a at the work ork despite the that I Kennedy ennedY Co offered to do o the work for 2501 less than Moran oran rhe rh matter was referred to th water ater k Works 0 rk committee of the old council So far as known the committee never met mett W t 9 er bly blis but a report d lS b nan of oC the committee that t ka aU all the tle bids be rejected ted was wa rl ic turned and by the councIl oun iI The Th reason reAltOn in the CIl ease of the bids bida was that iron pipe pip IY be cheaper It did not strike the mAjority of the bOard of pub lie works as M a Koo reat lm or ex excuse CUBe Clerical Error Was Pretext A different reason or excuse W wa given In hi the case of Ute the sewer MCwer bids Au An of the photographic du of Kennedy Cd Cs bid on sewer Her construction will show that in inthe I the ca caps of oC the pl pIpe the fig figurea ur urea 3 31 in the last column are poorly the 3 being not unlike a 2 though although in the preceding column the are cl clearly writ written written ten In these ft Chairman j L er ClaOn or of the boArd of pub 1 works Inadvertently read them 29 9 It w a clerical error a aa as asI I a h examination made mad clear but butth th the figure lIre was itS copied 2 9 in the b of oC bids The error was as m In favor fAor f of tM the city In an ra This ho how however ever wa was made the pretext for lit ing t that t Clerk Fred of the b board r Was In with K Kennedy nned Co Ce sad aM Ii accordIngly the bids were ere aU 11 or 01 rejected j ted availed t g Th There kP appeared to be II a de determination determination termination to reject th these e bids at aU all t ct and the they were ere re rejected ted Outsiders Stay Outside I ing for bids on sewer con construction brought from but butto two to both local The ouIde bid bidders de ders evidently concluded they stood lOO RO no show and Ad refrained from entering the I Moran orn bid a agaIn ain The Theother Theother other bidder wi L C ReIN I Co The member or of that firm Is the late lale city and the only mets mem I k her r of Ute the board that Oed the J a awArding w of the contract to Kennedy A Co last December Morn Iran hid bid WitS was tile the lower b by A narrow mArgin anti and was tI F tr oal firms bid on L I e C Kelsey Co Co 0 Gr Green n Reeve Co and P J Moran Moran was the lowest by a narrow margin again In this case as well and was awarded this contract His bids as stated above aggregate less Jess than the bids or of Kennedy Co lust December and less than Morans bids or of December WIth the co coot t or of de deducted the saving as also shown above Is 2 06 This was wasat wasat at the expense of hol holding up the Its Im Improvements for four months But everything considered enough has developed to convince many tax taxpayers payers l that thc they owe Co gratitude to the am amount of 2501 It If I Kennedy Co had not bId last De Dc ember the contract would undoubted h 13 hH ha i boon bean let to Moran at whereas h now w he agrees to do the same work for |
