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Now the amended contract states Rappawan will be paid $8 per cubic yard “if they hit rock” in excavating the fill area and $20 a cubic yard for removal of any rock in the trenches where the leachate collection system is being installed, Mr. McCarthy explained.
By dropping from the contract the portions of the project which Rappawan would subcontract, amending the provision for rock removal, and reducing the amount of bond concurrent with those tw'o steps, the money the county will pay Rappawan dropped $129,276. Although part of that will be expended by the county directly for liner installation, well, and fencing, “we’re still looking at a cost savings of approximately $50,000,” Mr. McCarthy predicted.
The actual dollar figures won’t be sure until Mr. Joyce secures a “firm price” from the liner company and until the county receives and accepts bids on the well and fencing.
But if Mr. McCarthy’s figures hold, the savings will match the shortfall in funds for solid waste disposal in the proposed 1988-89 budget with its advertised real estate tax rate of 52 cents. And it will give the supervisors the option of considering retention of at least two dumpsters after the new landfill opens later this summer.
Decision on dumpsters to wait
After a far-ranging discussion on alternatives for the
See BIDS, p. 16
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