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By DAPHNE HUTCHINSON
Rappahannock News Staff Writer
“We could conceivably have $1.5 million in this landfill,” Supervisor Mike Massie noted, as the Board of Supervisors received construction bids and operational estimates last Friday that outstrip proposed allocations by $35,000 to $40,000. “We'll have more money in trash than we do in education . . . The costs are entirely too high. We’ve got to figure some way to keep it safe and cut our costs.”
Earlier that afternoon at the zoning office, administrator John McCarthy and consulting engineer Leonard Joyce opened bids for constructing the recently permitted county landfill on the 99-acre Stover tract near Amissville. Although eight firms purchased sets of plans and specifications and “five seemed very interested in the job,” only two companies actually bid on the work, Mr. McCarthy told the supervisors.
The first bid opened, from General Excavation in Haymarket, totalled $962,500, almost double the construction estimate. “We thought we were going to die!” Mr. McCarthy remarked. However, the second bidder, Rappawan Construction of Front Royal, offered $495,459.
Confirming that the bonds, references from comparable jobs, and other documentation required by the board had been included with Rappawan’s bid, Mr. Joyce said he found the $495,459 figure “a little high” but still “a reasonable price.”
While unanimously accepting the low bid, the board members nonetheless authorized Chairman Hubert Gilkey to negotiate with Rappawan on the price.
But the formal acceptance clears the way for the notice to proceed to be issued and the actual contract to be signed and work to begin by June 1. Construction is to be completed within 60 days; $500 a day in penalties may be
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