Clinton Township delays bids for Jack Road project
CLINTON TWP — The township board of supervisors Monday, Feb. 26, elected to delay accepting any bids for a project to rehabilitate a section of Jack Road in the township.
The township received five bids from contractors to resurface and repave a 600-foot section of Jack Road. However, all of them came in higher than the township expected, with the lowest — from Wiest Asphalt & Paving — coming in at $95,857.
According to supervisor Kathy Allen, Clinton residents consider Jack Road to be one of the more dangerous roads in the township.
“This has been a township road that is probably considered a problem area because of the subsoils,” Allen said. “So what we’re doing is trying to correct that so that we can provide the safest travel possible for our residents.”
“They basically want to take the entire surface off of Jack Road and have it corrected with the proper underlayments,” said township director Ashley Kohley.
The township was hoping to cover the entire project with a $68,730 grant from the Butler County Conservation District’s Dirt and Gravel Road Maintenance Program. The lowest bid received was more than $27,000 above the grant amount.
“We’re trying to see how we want to pay for the rest,” Kohley said.
“We’re just trying to see how we can make up the difference, because it wasn’t part of our budgetary process when we approved it at the end of the last calendar year,” said Allen.
According to Title 62 of the Pennsylvania Code, a municipality must decide to either award a contract to the “lowest responsible” bidder or reject all bids within 60 days of unsealing the bids.
