HomeMy WebLinkAboutRes 13-55 08/02/1955 RESOLUTION NO. j3-5
RESOLUTION authorizing acceptance
of alternate bid on Contract No. 2
Waterworks Improvements 1954 and
directing officers to execute
supplement contract.
WHEREAS. the Village of Mount Prospect on April 5,
1955, received bids for a portion of the Waterworks Improve -
ments - 1954, known as Contract No. 2, Pump Station and
Foundation Work, and
WHEREAS, on May 3, 1955, the Village of Mount
Prospect, acting through its President and Board of Trustees,
entered into a contract with salter Doofe and Vernon L. Walker
co- partners doing business as John Erskine Company, in the
amount of $144,696.00, and
WHEREAS, the contract price of said contract was
calculated upon the basis of constructing the foundations
for a 750,000 gallon elevated steel tank, and upon the basis
of deleting the well pump, the well pump motor, and the
gasoline engine, and
WHEREAS, it is now possible for the Village to
finance the additional cost of a 1,000,000 gallon elevated
tank and to finance the cost of the said well pump, well
pump rotor, and the gasoline engine, and
WHEREAS, the individual costs of the aforesaid
items were set forth in the proposal, now therefore
BE IT RESOLVED, by the president and Board of
Trustees of the Village of Mount prospect:
1. That the alternate proposal of John Erskine
Company for the construction of foundations
for a 1,000,000 gallon elevated tank be accep cu;
2. That the deleted items, being the well pump,
the well pump motor, and the gasoline engine,
be restored;
3. That the Total Contract Price for Contract
No. 2 be revised to equal the sum of $175,974.00,
in accordance with the Proposal; and
4. That contract Supplement No. 1 modifying the
original contract heretofore cited be entered
into, and that the President and Clerk be
authorized and directed to sign the same on
behalf of The Village.
PASSED: the 2nd day of August, 1955.
APPROVED: the 2nd day of August, 1955. _
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