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HomeMy WebLinkAboutCC 1915-11-09 MinutesAdjourned meeting of pity oounoil, Tuesday November 9th, 1915. Members preeett: C. Hefty, F. G. Erfert, F. H. Wharton, H. G. Balaton, 0. t. Filer, Ei 0. Romfh. Engineer D. H. Klyoe reported that he had tabulated the bids received on November 8, 1915, for the oonstruotion of various sewers, the furnishing of castings, the grading .paving and oiling ,Of certain streets and also the permanent paving and the olerk read the tabulations as follows: For the conetruotion of permanent paving on Avenue 0, exoept the space between and for two feet on either side of the street oar rails, from 10th to Waddell St., and Avenue D from the Miami River to 20th Street, authorized by Resolutions No. 9o1 and 902 Gule paving Co. bid on Lake Asphalt, $36,651.52, Oil asphalt $34,770.76 Time 100 days Southern Asphalt & Const. Co. 36,709.63 34,872.14 180 F. G. Proudfoot, Meaioan Std. 35,378.52 Texaco, 35,848.71 45 In connection with these bide, the clerk read the following petition: Miami, Florida, Nov. 9, 1915. To the Hon. City Council. We the undersigned property owners on Avenue 0 between 10th and Waddell Streets have had called to our attention the fast that certain paving bids for Avenue 0 set a time limit of completion of one hundred eighty days, while other bidders have agreed to oomplete the work in sixty days. We are further informed that the differenoe in ooat to the property owners of accepting the sixty day bid will be less than $5. per lot. We have suffered patiently 4or many months from the torn up oondition of Avenue 0. We (refuse, however to have the wretohed condition oontinue for another one hundred eighty days, and hereby petition your honorable body to aooept the bid of the oontraotor (guaranteeing to finish this long needed wotk within sixty days. ID. Afremow, F. C. Brassier, agents for Witham properties; Annie C. Duffy, Lewis Tome, J. P. Toms, F. M. Brown, L. L. Gautier W. G. Perry, R W. Ralston, P. Ullendorff, lie. G. Meggs, F. G. Quigg, J. M. Green, C. Rooney, Sam T. Ypung. sand & oil surfac (:For the resurfacing and furnishing and app ying the extra stone neoessaryron the streets to be improved with Miami Rook as authorized by Resolutions Nos. 889 to 900, book inclusive, the bids were as follows: Bituminous surface, sand & oil Resurfaoing & extra stone R. B. Fickle, $20,072.25 9575.00 ;Edwards Const. Co. 15,732.50 !Becher As$+halt Paving Co. 14,105.00 ;Duval & Ashworth, 11,382.50 18840.00 !Gulf Paving Co. 13,020.00 14900.00 Freedlund Const. & Supply Co. 7,877.10 11160.00 w For furnishing oil John Baker Jr. 3868.00 Standard 0i1 eo. 5871.00 Duval & Ashworth!, 4750.00 Alternae bids were submitted on Bituminous surface by Belcher Asphalt Paving Co.; also an irregular bid by Guyton & Moore, which not being in accordance with specifioations, rare not listed. Bide on Storm Sewer District No. 3, Resoluton 905 and part of District No. 1, Resolution 'were as follows' .i. J. Quinn Co. 9200.40 60 days 'Gulf Paving Co. 5187.15 100 days F. G. Proudfoot, 6988.94 60 days :Duval & Ashworth, 7685.36 90 days R. B. Fickle, 7720.50 120 days For oaatinge u. H. Lyne, 360. uulf Paving Co. 560. ,Florida Machine Works, 304 Duval & Ashworth, After the tabulation of all the bids had been,ead by the olerk, the Chairman asked the Street Committeeman to advise what if any conclusions he had reached. Councilman Wharton said he would take up the permanent paving of Avenue 0 and D first, land presented the petition of the property owners shown above. After the reading of the !petition Mr. Wharton stated that it is from the majority of the business men on <:..e 0, ;that the street has been torn up more or less for the past twelve months, great iinoonvenienoing the people, and in view of these facts would recommend that the* ` oot bid be accepted as the lowest and best, the property owners being wilAng to pay ;small differenoe in coat to gain the great saving in time as between the bidders !uounoilman Erfert stated that the people along Avenue 0 have been badly handicapped and !some of them almost out of business beoause of the oondition of the street; that they ;want the work done quiokly. moved by F. G. Erfert, seconded by E. C. Romfh, that the bid of F. G. Proudfoot for the '!paving of Avenue C and Avenue D, be accepted as the lowest and•beet bid, Mexican Standard Asphalt to be used. 0n roll call all voted yes,, A210 : ne meeting of oounoil November 9, 1915, oentiiittid Oounoilman Wharton suggested 4„that council next take np the storm' a elte a Atiefiutl and Avenue D; that there are five bidders and he understood one bid'W.th'the" understanding and under .the impression that the storm sewers and .paN%it-Wee' ai.1.. itd► one and asked to be relieved of his bid on storm sewers; that the nezt lowest bidder is Mr. Proudfoot and made the following motion. • Moved by F. H. Wharton, seconded by H. G. Ralston, that the contract for the oonstruotion of storm sewers on Avenue 0 and Avenue D be awarded to F. 0. Proudfoot, On roll oall all voted yea. Councilman Romfh asked what is the time limit on the storm sewers and the paving. Engineer !Cayce replied that he understood it to mean if the council instructs him (the, contractor) to go ahead with the paving, he would have to wait until the storm sewers are out of the way. Mr. Romfh asked if that would mean the contractor has 105 days on the work or 60 days. Mr. Klyoe replied that he interpreted the meaning, that the time of the paving would - commence from the time he has oompleted the storm sewers, but that on suoh blooks as are now ready the contractor would have to go right ahead with the paving, and that there are now about five blocks from the railway down to loth St. which are ready. gar. Romfh: Within sixty days he ought to have it completed? mr. Klyoe: Yes, but I hardly think he oan do so in 45 days. I am sure he will push it for there is no great margin of profit. Mr. A. C? Broudfoot was present and stated that he expected to complete both the sewers and paving on both streets within sixty days, he would start both jobs at the same - time; that it takes about ten days to get the asphalt here and about the same time to get the rook and he would order them immediately; that he has part of the sewer pipe in stook now and will order the balance at once, and in the Meantime he will start the trenches.. Mr. Wharton; We will now take up the streets to be treateed with oil and sand; that the engineer had oalled for bide on resurfaoing and furnishing the extra stone and separate bids on the applioation of the oil, and separate bide had been received; that for the resurfacing and furnishing the extra stone R. B. Finkle is the low bidder and that there is a little misunderstanding in reference to this, that some of the bidders, while the resurfaoing and extra stone had been advertised separately, expected that work would be let together with the applioation of the oil; that on going into the matter he thought Mr. Fickle, the low bidder, was in error as he (Wharton) had been told that in submitting the bid Mr. Fiokle expected to furnish the rook as it name out of the pit while the speoifioations oallea for soreened rook. Mr. Fickle: No, I didn't make it as a mistake but I didn't figure on the soreened rook but am willing to take the oontraot as the bid stands. I understand you will require a certain olass of rook. dr. Wharton: 0n the oiling, the Freedlund Construotion & Supply Co. are low biduers, away below any other bidder. I don't know as I have any recommendation to make and woula rather council thresh it out. I have given the matter some thought and takked it over wits the engineer who is an authority on these matters, and I was afraid that ff we let the resurfaoing to -one -roan and the oiling to another we have --a aomp2ioation and can not hold any one man for the condition of a street but the engineer informs--ma_that he oan. and I am going to leave that open for oounoil to discuss, whether it is wise to separate the bids or bidders or to award the job as a whole. I don't much like the idea of separating the bids but there is a big differenoein the prioe. Mr. Homfh: I would like to ask the engineer and oommitteeman if it will be possible for the street department to do the resurfaoing at a cost not greater than the lowest bid and in that way replenish your R. & I Fund very materially, unless you are hard presses on repairs. mr. Wharton: I would like to state for the finance oommitteeman that so fax as urgent repair work we have on hana now, I don't think it amounts to very much but it is a question in my mina whether the city oan do the work as cheap as the contractors. We have not the equipment for hauling the rook and it just depends on what the city wants to do. - we are not equipped to screen the rock. i have not gone into the question and don't know what it will cost. If we have to equip the department to-•orush and screen the rook, I don't know but that we would lose money on the deal. Mr. Homfh: if the street departmen; oan do some of this construction it will mean in the end a reauotion in general taxes because if you put the streets in shape to begin with the maintenance will be very small. i simply •eked the question. Mr. Hefty: I think you are right mr. Romfh, but in this case we want -to get the streets in shape for the winter. Mr. Romfh: There is no time set on this work. Engi Klyoe: Tnere is a time limit but I didn't mention it for if the work is ..iv it would not be fair to have a time limit on the second man Contractor Freedluna: We oan do that work quicker than the oity or any oontraotor. We put in 240 days because the specifications require the oontraotor to go back over the work in six months, but if it is four months it will be reduced that much. We have the - equipment, the crushers and the soreene and oan give you the work just as speoiIiea. We never had any idea it was intended to separate the jobs, the resurfacing and the oil- ing. You had that kind of work before -eke and the results speak for themselves, One . of our competitors beat us on the rook but he made a mistake. if time Is what you want there is nothing to say we will not complete it ahead of 240 days. Another mar. eays $s*„ daysmewese but 1 don't understand that if specifications call for 4 months. We sUOmitl.we. have the lowest and best bid. 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J .5_i ... t �.ea .. .vr �,. v�/.._ �.. n 1, -.. f �.,. if, IS-74 Adjourned meeting of ooUnoii.November 9, 191b. hairman: Do I understand you apply the second oiling four monitho afterwards? ontraotor Freedluna: I have not a oopy of speoifioations with me. ngineer Klyce: There are three treatments, the second comes shortly after the first but th set Domes tour months after the street is completed. 0f 6ourse the street would be in usd. ±airman: How lob: would it take to make the street ready for traffio't ontraotor Freediund: We will live up to the epeoirioations of the engineer and make the ti squires, ontraotor Manley: The streets are soarafied and then the loose rook put on and tratfio to ver them for thirty days and then the first applioation of oil and in the course of 6 hours the street is opened for traffic and in three or four weeks the second applioation f oil and in four months the third applioation. 1 would like to ask if these items were otadvertised as one job. �ngr. Klyce: The specifications epeoirioally state that oounoil reserves the right to award he contrasts separately. ontraotor Fiokle: I am, of oourse, able to furnish the rook and soarify the roads. 1 have nly four teams now but oan get more and propose to have a new roller, soarafier and grader in the road in less than 20 days, if awarded the oontraot. r. Romfh: Mr. Fickle is the low man for the resurtaoing and rook and Freeolund for the Filing, and there is twenty to thirty days after you complete the street befpre younput the it on at all $1600 is quite a little difference and I don't see where the harm would dome in separating the contracts. ontraotor Freedlund: I know you reserve the right to separate them but I didn't think you ould unless there was some reason and I asked your engineer if it was his intention to operate them. It seems to me to be the same as advertising for the concrete base by one ontraotor and the asphalt surfaoe by another. representative of the Edwards Construotion Co. stated that he had made separate bide undo he specifications and would letI on the oil if the work was awarded to him without stopping rarf is at all.' 4r. Frealuna: As to stopping traffic, I am willing to live 4up to specifications, which say that traffic must be stopped. e f0T1ON AWARDING CONmACT hovea by E. C. Romrn, seconaed by H. G. Ralston, that oontraot for reeurfaoing and furnie±i the extra atone be awarded to Contractor R. B. Fiokle. 0n roll °all all voted yes. Moved by E. C. Romfh, seoonaed by C. F. Filer, that the contract for oiling tAe streets he awarded to the Freealuna Construction and Supply Co. 0n roll call all votes yes. FURNISHING THE OIL dtr. Wharton: We have three bias on furnishing the oil. 0ur engineer ie not yet qualirsed t make a selection and I would like to suggest that the bids be held over for a few days unti he gets samples and makes the tests and deciaes on the oil. Mr. Wharton offered this as 4 motion and it was eecondea by C. F. Filer. On roll call all voted yes. rr. Baker, the low bidder on supplying the oil, stated that his bid meets all the equirements of the engineer ana that the city might have hie check which a000mpanied his 'did for its hospital fund if his oil did not oome up to specifications; that his bid is 41,000. lower than anyone else ana woula like to get the oontraot to night Engineer Klyce: We will not need the oil for about 30 days ana I would like to secure the analyees, which 1 oan eeoure in about one week. OASTINGS bar. Wharton: We have four bids on castings, the low biaeeris the Floriaa Machine Works, of eacksonville ana second is O. H. Lyne, of Miami, the difference ibs about $60. and 1 move that the contract for supplying the oas ings be awarded to C. H. Lyne. The motion was Seconaea by U. 14'. Filer. 0n roil.,call all votea yes. e he ed Ole OF J. B. SCALES AGAINST MAJOR SCHOFIELD, FOOD AND DAIRY INSPECTOR the City Attorney, A. J. Rose, states that J. B. Scales has brougnt suit against Major rahotie.Ld for $10,000. and that Mr. Schofield is of the opinion that the city attorney ghoul erend him ana that he is willing to do so for a fee. Mr,. Schofiela thinks the oity shot a_ Oay the fee. The suit grows out or the suoJeserul attempt of the Board of Health to nroroe its rules ana regulations through one of its employees, Mr. 3chof iela, who happens o be a veterinarian, in the performance of hie duty. r. Ralston: ,phis suit has been brou ht against a city employee, growing out of t errormance of his duty. The matter of defense id before the oounoll. +" II jr.. Romfh: It is a matter 1 hau rather think over. Has the oity the right to employ counsel foe a man in an inaivisual suit. 1qr. Raieton: no douot these things shou;d be lookea into. ir. Rose: I have to file some plea in the oase by the rule day in December and would like 4 little time before that li r. Ralston: The faots are that the city through the Board of Health, is paying a high lase proffessional man, Dr. Schofield, 4100. per month to do oertain things to prpteot he milk supply and no oity has ever had a more oompetent milk inspeotor that Dr. Schofield, e has been a wonder at the work. Now this professional man, receiving the munificent hala.r ialiGN, px month has been sued for $10,000. for doing what the opunoil has legislated th0 awl.s«,.w. t;7.1- ;. A210 Adjourned meeting of oounoil November 9, 1915. oontinued, Mr. Wharton: Would the damages dell on the city in case the suit was won by Sealed? I oertainly believe in upholding our off ioials. Chairman Hefty: Otherwise, I don't see how a than would accept a poeitt n of that kind. Mr. Erfert; I don't see how we oould go baok on anything of that kind, he oertainly did hie duty and the man got offended and brought this suit, but we know the Board of Health told him to do the things he did do. It will put the oounoil in a bad position to throw a man overboard beoause beoause he triee to enforoe the law. mr. Romfh: I think if he aoted within his duty or authority in enforoing the law we wi.ti oertainly stand baok of him, but it is the faots in the oase, whether he has gone out- side of the 1 wv in enforoing the ordinanoe and rules, whether it was a personal matter if he followed his line of duty I will stand by him but not if he went outside that, but I don't want to try a oase up here. Mr. Rose: The oomplainant in the oase neoesearily says he went outaide,of his ordinary course of employment and slandered him and Schofield says that he did nothing outside the soope of his employment which, of oouree, is a question to be determined by the courts, if it goes that far. I have not figured it out, but the fee will be a reasonable one. if Dr. Schofield will pay or seoure my fee that is all right. I have not given it consideration but will make it a reasonable one, satisf:otory to you gentlemen. A Chairman Hefty: It seems to me we should go on record as willing to retain the attroney i if it is proven that Schofield was within his rights. Mr. Ralston: I call this to your attention, that tais dairyman, Soales, was for two days here before the p lioe oourt, with experts on both sides, and Soales was fined 050. wholly on Sohofield's evidence on that dairy, and the Chief of Police says he has been fined in two oases right here. No action was taken. APPROVAL OF PLAT OF RAILROAD SHOPS COLORED ADDITION REALTY SECURITIES CORPORATION Councilman Wharton stated that this plat has reoeived his attention and the approval of himself and the engineer after some changes and offered the following resolution: RESOLUTION NO. 935 Be It Resolved by the City Council of the City of Miami, Florida: Seotion 1: That the map or plat of A Subdivision of the Southeast quarter of the Northwest quarter of Seotion 23, Tp 53 South, R 41 East, by Realty Securities Corporation of Miami, Florida, dated November 9, 1915, this day presented to the oity oounoil be, and the same is, hereby approved. Section 2: The president of the city oounoil and the oity clerk are hereby directed to endorse this approval under the seal of the city on said plat. Passed and adopted this 9th day of November, 1915. Caspar Ratty, President City Couno.l Attest: w. B. Moore, City Clerk. Moved by .C. F. Filer, seconded by E. C. Romfh, that Resolution No. 935 be adopted as real. On roll call all voted yes. RETURN OF CHECKS OF UNSUCCESSFUL BIDDERS Moved by E. C. Romfh, seconded by C. F. Filer, that the oheoks of all the unauooesaful bidders on the oontraote for street and sewer improvements awarded to night, be return el. Motion oarried. ,roved by H. G. Ralston, seconded by F. H. Wharton, that oounoil adjourn until 7 30 P.M. November 11, 1915. Motion oarried. Attest: t. ACM. *se Mom. grw M1+q��N4l+4wr.tr.lA"�'."�M•Nes YA'. City Clerk. 1 IMM emmw t MESE- s.g President City Council.