The Commissioners Court met in regular session on Monday, July 25, where the main item on the agenda was reviewing bids for the new Denver City Community building.
Level 5 architect Justin Gilmore was present and presented each bid for the court to consider. The highest bid of $2,862,970 came from Butler Construction of Lubbock and the lowest bid was $2,030,000 and came from WR Construction, also of Lubbock. Other bids were for $2,387,980, $2,230,000, and $2,113,000.
L5 Construction, which submitted the second highest bid, and WR Construction, with the lowest bid, both had representatives present to answer questions from any of the Commissioners.
“I feel pretty comfortable with both L5 and WR Construction,” Gilmore said. “Some feedback on some of the others were questionable even though all of them would be good. The main thing on any project of this magnitude is a good construction manager and I feel like both L5 and WR would have good construction managers.”
Butler had a completion date of 355 days while L5 and WR Construction had completion dates of 360 and 300 days respectively.
After some more discussions a motion was made and seconded to table this item until next Monday to give the Commissioners an additional week to consider everything.’
It was one year ago almost to the day when Oxy Petroleum presented a check of $1 million to Precinct 3 Commissioner Ray Marion that will be used toward the construction of the new facility.
In other items County Treasurer Barbara Wright was present to give an amended May treasures report followed by her June report. According to Wright the opening county balance in May was $45,908,020.13 with an ending balance of $45,546,524.02. The beginning balance for June was $45,546,524,02 and an ending balance of $45,396,180.81. The Court unanimously approved both reports.
The Commissioners also acknowledged memorials for Lela Warren from Darryl and Pat McNabb, Tommy and Sarah Burris, and Walsh Petroleum.
The Court also acknowledged memorials for Patricia Monnett from Sarah Jane Field and Tommy and Sarah Burris.
The Commissioners also unanimously approved setting salaries for all county elected officials. These salaries will be published in the Denver City Press.
There was no request for the disposal of county equipment, two-line item transfers, and no Soil Conservation request.
Commissioner Woody Lindsey had no updates on the Senior Citizen building and Commissioner Ray Marion had no other updates on the Community Building other than the bids that had been submitted.
In auditing and settling all accounts against the County the Court approved to pay $30,664.57 from the General Fund, $2,868.78 from Precinct #1, $4,622.78 from Precinct #2, $2,755.74 from Precinct #3, $25,394.78 from Precinct #4, $977.56 to the Jury Account, $116.64 to the Plains Airport, and $511.64 to the Landfill for a grand total of $67,910.49.
In medically related items $68,880.93 was paid to the hospital fund, $4,891.44 to West Texas Medical Center, and $1,691.80 to the Plains Clinic for a grand total of hospital bills of $75,464.17.
Other medically related bills included $3,192.35 to Home Health, $13,635.27 to the Dialysis Center, and $31,000.00 to Dispro for an overall total of $123,291.79 of medically related bills.
Commissioners Woody Lindsey, Ray Marion, Ty Earl Powell, and Tim Addison along County Judge Jim Barron were all in attendance.
The next meeting will be held on Monday, August 1 at 10 am in the County Courthouse.
