NEWPORT BEACH : City to Save on Cost of New Fire Station
The City Council on Monday awarded a construction contract for a new fire station on Balboa Island to a construction company that submitted a bid of significantly less than the city expected to pay.
The TLS Construction Inc. bid, lowest of 12 submitted, came in at $660,000, well below the $1.1 million city engineers had estimated the new fire station would cost.
“It is an unbelievable bid,” said City Manager Kevin J. Murphy, adding that city officials are comfortable with the bid because they have worked with TLS Construction before and because most of the bids from other construction companies were nearly as low.
The savings on the project could not have come at a better time for the city, which has had to raise $3 million in taxes and cut another $3 million in expenses and jobs in order to balance its 1993-94 budget.
A portion of the almost $500,000 saved on the fire station will be used to put a new roof on the Police Department headquarters and replace some of the building’s air-conditioning and heating ducts.
Construction of the two-story, 4,400-square-foot fire station at Marine and Park avenues is scheduled to begin in September and conclude next summer.
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