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City Awards Roof Repair Contracts

The Sidney City Council Tuesday received an update on repair of city roofing resulting from hail storms in 2017.

Assistant City Manager Dawn Martin reported to council that several roofs belonging to various departments were damaged in the summer of 2017. She told council 21 of 22 roofs of city buildings were damaged by summer hail storms.

Martin reported a Request For Proposals (RFP) outlining the damage and required repair was posted on the City of Sidney website in October. Licensed roofers were also notified of the posted. Bids were opened and evaluated on October 31.

Broadstream Commercial, Hays Roofing & Siding of Kimball, Sidney Roofing, Twin City Roofing and Weathercraft of Ogallala submitted bids to the RFP. Martin’s report to the City Council says four of the five were selected. Total cost of the repairs is $251,256.11. Contractors awarded bids are Broadstream Commercial ($39,509.69), Sidney Roofing ($48,673.80), Twin City Roofing ($95,897) and Weathercraft of Ogallala ($67,175.62).

The work includes upgrades to three roofs. Cost of the upgrade above the insurance payout will be covered by the City.

Martin said different contractors were chosen according to the specialty and the variety of roofs needing repair.

In other business, the council received a report of changes in the city’s snow removal plan. According to a letter from Street Superintendent Hank Radtke, the city hosted an open house last year to solicit input on snow removal. Only person showed up with city officials concluding spring weather not leading people to think of snow removal. City staff reviewed the process and decided to make some changes.

“We decided to tweak the pickup process of the windrows on large storms and heavy snow amounts,” Radtke said in the letter to the city council.

He said in the past, street crews would pick up the windrows on the snow routes as soon as they were plowed to the center, before plowing driving lanes in the residential areas on large amounts of snow or if the nature of the snow required it.

“We decided to try a different method of both pick up of the snow routes and residential plowing when needed,” he said in the letter.

The emergency routes will remain to be plowed in their entirety and windrowed to the center as in the past. Residential routes will have one or two passes made to open the middle of the road for driving lanes.

“This is how we approached the last two storms that due to the nature of them required residential streets to be plowed,” Radtke said in the letter.

The council also approved bills from Sidney Regional Medical Center and an ordinance approving updating and revision of the Codified Ordinances of the City.

 

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