Colfax accepts low bid of $710,000 for Balsam and Oak Street projects
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By LeAnn R. Ralph
COLFAX — The low bidder for the Balsam Street and Oak Street projects in Colfax is Skid Steer Guy LLC out of Mondovi at $709,592.
Colfax has worked with Skid Steer Guy on street improvement projects in 2021, 2022 and 2023, and there is nothing about the previous projects indicating Skid Steer Guy is not qualified to do the job this year, said Mitch Nichols of Ayres Associates at the Colfax Village Board’s April 8 meeting.
The next highest bid was from Haas Sons Inc. at $730,087, followed by Albrightson Excavating at $759,988 and then A-1 Excavating at $800,723, according to the bid summarization provided to the village board.
The highest bidder was McCabe Construction at $830,156.
Gary Stene, village trustee, asked what would be done with the old blacktop on Balsam Street and Oak Street, whether it would be pulverized and put down again or taken somewhere else.
The old blacktop will be salvaged by the village and taken wherever the village wants to go with it, probably out by the wastewater treatment lagoons, Nichols said.
The base course also will be salvageable material that will go the village, he said.
Stene also asked if the Balsam Street project included the manhole in the street on Railroad Avenue.
The project does include the manhole, said Rand Bates, director of public works.
Grassland Dairy [which operates out of the former creamery building] will pay for the manhole, Nichols said.
And the project will include curb and gutter? Stene asked.
The project will include curb and gutter, Bates said.
Where the Balsam Street project comes out on Railroad Avenue, it will be a little wider on Railroad than it is now, which is part of the planning for a future Railroad Avenue project, Nichols said.
And the pavement will be new all the way across Railroad Avenue where it connects with Balsam Street? Stene asked.
“Yes,” Bates replied.
The Colfax Village Board unanimously approved the bid of $709,592 from Skid Steer Guy LLC for the Balsam Street and Oak Street projects.
Voting in favor of the motion were Village President Jeff Prince, and trustees Clint Best, Margaret Burcham, Carey Davis, Jen Rud and Gary Stene.
Trustee Anne Jenson was absent from the meeting.
The engineer’s estimate for the Balsam Street and Oak Street projects was $666,300 plus a contingency of $66,500 for a total of $732,800.
The bids were opened at 11 a.m. April 5 at the village hall.
Other business
In other business, the Colfax Village Board:
• Approved a temporary Class “B”/“Class B” retailer’s license for April 19, 2024, for the Son-Drifters sponsorship of The Concierge Home Decor & More Shop & Sip event.
• Approved a bartender operator’s license from April 8 to June 30, 2024, for Kendrah Beranek (The Outhouse).
• Approved the Colfax Rescue Squad holding a spaghetti dinner that will include the opportunity to meet local EMS crew members and the new Colfax Rescue Squad Director, Chrystal Smith, who has served as the interim director of the ambulance service. The date for the spaghetti dinner is tentatively set for May 5 from 1 p.m. to 6 p.m. The cost of the dinner will be by donation for equipment for the new ambulance that will be arriving this fall. To-go dinners also will be available.
• Approved Carey Davis as the authorized signer on the Village of Colfax’s accounts at Bremer Bank and at Dairy State Bank.
• Approved Clint Best as the volunteer from the village board to take the Board of Review training required by the state of Wisconsin for this year’s Board of Review.
