The City of Indianola awarded the bid for a major street paving project that could start this fall.
The board did so during a special called meeting on Tuesday, where Grenada-based Double S Inc. came under five other bidders at just under $1.3 million.
The project will include the paving of Main Street from Highway 49 to perhaps the fire department.
It will include all of Second Street from Highway 49 to Front Street.
Portions of Wiggins, Oak and Sunflower will also be repaired. Those are concrete streets, and the worst sections will be repaired on those.
Adair was in the original project, but because underground piping had to be replaced and relocated in order for the street to be paved, the city opted last month to do that street separate from the others.
City Engineer Lake Baird told the board on Tuesday that the project was advertised for a base bid, and an alternate bid was included if the board decided that it wanted to repair all of the worst spots on Wiggins Road.
Double S’s base bid is $1,016,025. Its alternate bid
is $264,387.
Baird told the board that was within their total budget, and the board approved both bids.
Others bidding were Gregory Companies LLC out of Tupelo ($1,567,125.89; $781,240.430; Central Asphalt Co. Inc. out of Vicksburg ($1,120,533; $306,028); Mississippi Paving & Construction out of Mathiston ($1,256,438.60; $333,012.49); APAC-Mississippi out of Jackson ($1,364,560.50; $311,300); Falcon Construction Co. out of Columbus ($1,396,964.50; $574,452).
Also, the city voted to finalize the contract to hire former county comptroller Stephanie Washington as its financial advisor.
Washington has proposed a 20-hour minimum per week at $75 per hour. The contract on Tuesday was for $6,000 a month, which is essentially the same in terms of dollars, but some aldermen questioned how she would be paid if she did not work a full 20 hours.
Washington is supposed to work on and off site for the city, at this time mainly helping to get the city through its budget season.
