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Show Landfill operation County awards contract year would be closer to 70,000 or 80,000 square yards. He felt that he should be able to charge the Commission $2 per yard for the excess, above his original bid of $51,720. This would bring the total bill to the County to approximately ap-proximately $130,000 to $150,000. The Commissioners disagreed but also admitted ad-mitted something they had suspected from the initial awarding of the contract: that Cornelius had bid far less than it would actually take to run the operation up to standards. However, the Commission Com-mission gave Cornelius the option of dropping the contract, which he took advantage of. PAROWAN The Iron County Commission has awarded, once again, a contract for the maintenance main-tenance of the new County-wide sanitary landfill west of Cedar City. A contract for $85,995 per year was tentatively awarded Monday to Utah Earth Moving Company of Cedar City to operate the landfill, said Commission Com-mission Chairman Dee Cowan. This was the low bid submitted, coming under the next bid by only $455. D&O Sanitation bid $86,450. Although not everything is final, said Cowan, the contract will probably be for two years, with the possibility of renewal upon the agreement of both parties. par-ties. One technical hitch did come up during the meeting, said Ccwan. An addendum specifying pit rules was mailed out to all bidders after the other specifications; however, Utah Earth Moving didn't get one. Iron County Attorney James L. Shumate, however, said there would be no problem if the company would sign the addendum. This is the second time the Commission has awarded such a contract in the last year, but this time all involved hope the contract is more workable to everybody. The first contract was awarded to Cornelius Brothers of Kanarraville. However, Tony Cornelius of the contracting firm appeared at a Commission Com-mission meeting in February concerning the terms of the contract. He was under the impression that he would te paid extra for any garbage brought to the pit over the 30,000 square yards per year specified in the contract. He estimated at that time that the total for the The Iron County Landfill pictured above has been a that all the problems have been solved with the source of contention for the County Commission for recent awarding of a new contract for the operation some time now. However, the commissioners hope of the pit. |