City Seeking Bids For Fuel Prices For 2023
July 2, 2022 at 12:40 a.m.
City Seeking Bids For Fuel Prices For 2023
By David [email protected]
In July 2021, the Warsaw Board of Public Works and Safety approved a Lassus Brothers bid for 2022 to provide 87 octane unleaded gasoline and mid-grade diesel fuel for city vehicles. The fixed fuel price for 2022 was $2.576 per gallon for unleaded. Diesel fuel was to be purchased, as needed, at the pump price.
Local gas prices as of Friday had dropped a little to around $4.87 per gallon for unleaded after reaching to around $5 per gallon over the last few weeks.
On Friday, Warsaw Police Department Chief Scott Whitaker requested permission from the Board of Public Works and Safety to pursue sealed quotes for 2023 fuel. He said the quotes would just be for 80,000 gallons for the entire city of Warsaw’s fuel usage for 2023. The solicitation for bids has to be published in the local newspaper on two occasions.
The quotes must be received in the clerk-treasurer’s office by 10:30 a.m. July 15 or delivered in person at the Board of Works meeting at 10:30 a.m. The Board will open the sealed quotes at that meeting and make a decision.
“We talk a lot about this, we’ve done this in the past, it’s been very successful. I think it’s even more important now that we take a look at this, given where we’re at with fuel,” Mayor Joe Thallemer stated.
Whitaker said it’s very difficult to know when is the right time to pursue the fuel quotes. In the past, only Lassus Brothers has participated in the bidding, but the bidders will show up that morning “with their price in hand.”
The Board approved for Whitaker to pursue fuel pricing for 2023.
Street Department Superintendent Dustin Dillon requested permission to solicit updated bids for on-road diesel, off-road diesel and ethanol-free gasoline for the remainder of 2022.
“This also allows us, if we do get a bid, that we can extend the contract as well,” he said. “We’ve done this multiple times in the past.”
He said it would be for approximately 22,500 gallons of diesel fuel; 7,000 gallons of off-road diesel; and 1,400 gallons of ethanol-free gasoline.
The Board approved for Dillon to solicit bids for fuel.
In other business, the Board of Works approved:
• The contract with ESL-Spectrum for $390,364 to replace the 53 decorative downtown lights and five spares of each of the three variations of the lights, as requested by Dillon.
Dillon said the price is a substantial discount of over 25%. The funds will come from the American Rescue Plan Act funds.
The Warsaw Common Council approved the use of ARPA funds at its last meeting.
Some of the original lights were put in back in 1998 and others around 2004.
• The interlocal cooperation agreement between the city and the Tippecanoe and Chapman Regional Sewer District, as requested by Utility Superintendent Brian Davison.
The agreement allows the city to receive and treat the waste from the TCRSD.
“It’s very similar to the agreements we have with other contracted customers,” he said.
As the city of Warsaw is the recipient of the District’s effluent, Davison sits on the TCRSD Board of Directors.
As for a timeline, Davison said he thought they went out to bid this week and the District is hoping to do a notice to proceed around October and then there will be a 24-month completion for the sewer district.
“October of 2024 is the anticipated completion date,” Davison stated.
• The awarding of the reconstruction of Lindberg Drive in Hodges Addition, phase 2, to G & G Hauling & Excavating for $1,008,964, as requested by Dillon.
The two bids were opened June 17. The other bid was $1,200,159.84 from Phend & Brown.
The Board of Works will review and vote on the contract with G & G at its July 15 meeting.
A state Community Crossing grant will pay for $443,658 of the costs, with the other approximate 50% coming from the wheel tax, motor vehicle highway and cumulative capital development funds.
• Pay application No. 7 for $22,500 to HRP Construction Inc. for the McKinley storm sewer improvements.
“This was, basically, site restoration down there. This project is basically 100% complete. There’s going to be a final change order and a final payment, basically,” Davison said. “But other than that, this should be the next-to-last pay app for this project.”
The storm sewer improvement project is down by where the town of Winona Lake is going to start a roundabout project soon at the intersection of Argonne Road, Winona Avenue, Kings Highway and Park Avenue.
• Accepting a $3,900 grant for the Warsaw Parks and Recreation Department for its Summer Concert Series from the Indiana Arts Commission, as requested by Parks Superintendent Larry Plummer. The funding is for the 2022-23 grant cycle.
Plummer said it’s about $150 less than they received last year, but there’s more projects out there for the Indiana Arts Commission to award grants to so the Parks Department was happy to receive the $3,900 grant. It will cover the cost of two to three concerts of the Summer Concert Series.
With additional support from the Kosciusko County Community Foundation and the Parks Department’s budget, the Summer Concert Series includes nine Friday night concerts.
• The new hire/change in payroll report as provided by Human Resources Director Denny Harlan.
Among the changes was a promotion in rank for WPD officer Wayne Wilkie to lieutenant. His biweekly pay will be $3,298.70.
In July 2021, the Warsaw Board of Public Works and Safety approved a Lassus Brothers bid for 2022 to provide 87 octane unleaded gasoline and mid-grade diesel fuel for city vehicles. The fixed fuel price for 2022 was $2.576 per gallon for unleaded. Diesel fuel was to be purchased, as needed, at the pump price.
Local gas prices as of Friday had dropped a little to around $4.87 per gallon for unleaded after reaching to around $5 per gallon over the last few weeks.
On Friday, Warsaw Police Department Chief Scott Whitaker requested permission from the Board of Public Works and Safety to pursue sealed quotes for 2023 fuel. He said the quotes would just be for 80,000 gallons for the entire city of Warsaw’s fuel usage for 2023. The solicitation for bids has to be published in the local newspaper on two occasions.
The quotes must be received in the clerk-treasurer’s office by 10:30 a.m. July 15 or delivered in person at the Board of Works meeting at 10:30 a.m. The Board will open the sealed quotes at that meeting and make a decision.
“We talk a lot about this, we’ve done this in the past, it’s been very successful. I think it’s even more important now that we take a look at this, given where we’re at with fuel,” Mayor Joe Thallemer stated.
Whitaker said it’s very difficult to know when is the right time to pursue the fuel quotes. In the past, only Lassus Brothers has participated in the bidding, but the bidders will show up that morning “with their price in hand.”
The Board approved for Whitaker to pursue fuel pricing for 2023.
Street Department Superintendent Dustin Dillon requested permission to solicit updated bids for on-road diesel, off-road diesel and ethanol-free gasoline for the remainder of 2022.
“This also allows us, if we do get a bid, that we can extend the contract as well,” he said. “We’ve done this multiple times in the past.”
He said it would be for approximately 22,500 gallons of diesel fuel; 7,000 gallons of off-road diesel; and 1,400 gallons of ethanol-free gasoline.
The Board approved for Dillon to solicit bids for fuel.
In other business, the Board of Works approved:
• The contract with ESL-Spectrum for $390,364 to replace the 53 decorative downtown lights and five spares of each of the three variations of the lights, as requested by Dillon.
Dillon said the price is a substantial discount of over 25%. The funds will come from the American Rescue Plan Act funds.
The Warsaw Common Council approved the use of ARPA funds at its last meeting.
Some of the original lights were put in back in 1998 and others around 2004.
• The interlocal cooperation agreement between the city and the Tippecanoe and Chapman Regional Sewer District, as requested by Utility Superintendent Brian Davison.
The agreement allows the city to receive and treat the waste from the TCRSD.
“It’s very similar to the agreements we have with other contracted customers,” he said.
As the city of Warsaw is the recipient of the District’s effluent, Davison sits on the TCRSD Board of Directors.
As for a timeline, Davison said he thought they went out to bid this week and the District is hoping to do a notice to proceed around October and then there will be a 24-month completion for the sewer district.
“October of 2024 is the anticipated completion date,” Davison stated.
• The awarding of the reconstruction of Lindberg Drive in Hodges Addition, phase 2, to G & G Hauling & Excavating for $1,008,964, as requested by Dillon.
The two bids were opened June 17. The other bid was $1,200,159.84 from Phend & Brown.
The Board of Works will review and vote on the contract with G & G at its July 15 meeting.
A state Community Crossing grant will pay for $443,658 of the costs, with the other approximate 50% coming from the wheel tax, motor vehicle highway and cumulative capital development funds.
• Pay application No. 7 for $22,500 to HRP Construction Inc. for the McKinley storm sewer improvements.
“This was, basically, site restoration down there. This project is basically 100% complete. There’s going to be a final change order and a final payment, basically,” Davison said. “But other than that, this should be the next-to-last pay app for this project.”
The storm sewer improvement project is down by where the town of Winona Lake is going to start a roundabout project soon at the intersection of Argonne Road, Winona Avenue, Kings Highway and Park Avenue.
• Accepting a $3,900 grant for the Warsaw Parks and Recreation Department for its Summer Concert Series from the Indiana Arts Commission, as requested by Parks Superintendent Larry Plummer. The funding is for the 2022-23 grant cycle.
Plummer said it’s about $150 less than they received last year, but there’s more projects out there for the Indiana Arts Commission to award grants to so the Parks Department was happy to receive the $3,900 grant. It will cover the cost of two to three concerts of the Summer Concert Series.
With additional support from the Kosciusko County Community Foundation and the Parks Department’s budget, the Summer Concert Series includes nine Friday night concerts.
• The new hire/change in payroll report as provided by Human Resources Director Denny Harlan.
Among the changes was a promotion in rank for WPD officer Wayne Wilkie to lieutenant. His biweekly pay will be $3,298.70.
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