City Council Resolution 2023-61CITY OF MONTICELLO
WRIGHT COUNTY, MINNESOTA
RESOLUTION NO. 2023-61
APPROVING PLANS AND SPECIFICATIONS AND AUTHORIZING ADVERTISEMENT FOR
BIDS FOR THE 2023 BERTRAM CHAIN OF LAKES REGIONAL ATHLETIC PARK
PHASE II IMPROVEMENTS PROJECT
WHEREAS, pursuant to approval by the City Council on January 923, WSB prepared
plans and specifications for the Bertram Chain of Lakes which include the following
improvement:
• Northern gravel parking lot expansion to the east.
• Add southern gravel parking lot.
• Electrical services.
• Add gravel two-way road connecting the existing park drive around the western
side of the pond and connect to Wrights County's main entrance road to the
south.
• Gravel trail expansion.
• Add paved accessible parking stalls within north and south lots.
• Add a 20 x 40 open-air picnic shelter with picnic tables.
• Add a bench and drinking fountains.
• Add concrete pads for portable restrooms.
• Storm water culverts.
• Extend irrigation mainlines to provide expanded coverage with Kifco units.
• Restoration/landscape planting, naturalized seed mixtures/erosion blankets for
swales/steep slopes.
• Tree planting plan.
• Signage.
WHEREAS, the City Parks, Arts & Recreation Director presented such plans and
specifications to the Council for approval;
NOW THEREFORE, BE IT HEREBY RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
MONTICELLO:
1. Such plans and specifications, a copy of which is on file in the office of the
City Clerk, are hereby approved.
2. The designated authority shall prepare and cause to be inserted in the official
paper and in a recognized industry trade journal an advertisement for bid
upon the making of such improvement under such approved plans and
specifications. The advertisement shall be published no less than three weeks
before the last day for submission of bids, once in the City's legal publication
and at least once in either a newspaper published in a city of the first class or
a trade paper. To be eligible as a trade paper, a publication shall have all the
qualifications of a legal newspaper except that, instead of the requirement
that it shall contain general and local news, such trade paper shall contain
building and construction news of interest to contractors in this state, among
whom it shall have a general circulation. Any bidder whose responsibility is
questioned during consideration of the bid will be given an opportunity to
address the Council on the issue of responsibility. No bids will be considered
unless sealed and filed as set forth in the instructions to bidders in
compliance with the requirements of electronic bidding and bid security.
ADOPTED BYthe Monticello City Council this 10th day of July, 2023.
ATTEST:
Jen+nifeSch fiber, City Clerk
CITY OF MONTICELLO
Lloyd Hilgart, M or J