Joint drainage board accepts McCarty Custom low bid of $234,142.50 for ECD #61

At 9:30 a.m. on Sept. 1 the Emmet County Board entered a joint drainage district meeting with Clay and Dickinson counties to consider bids for the ECD #61 project.

John Hight, P.E. of Beck Engineering presented five bids: McCarty Custom — $234,142.50; Diamond Concrete — $540,050.82; Cory Juergens Construction — $721,866.50; Bainbridge Construction — $1,095,578.01; and Hulstein Excavating — $1,202,035.50. On a motion by Clark (Dickinson) and second by Jeff Quastad (Emmet), the joint board accepted McCarty Custom's low bid of $234,142.50. The minutes record that Emmet, Clay and Dickinson counties all voted aye.

The joint vote authorized proceeding with the awarded contractor; the board also approved a related joint drainage claim to The Daily Reporter for $34.20 as an administrative cost.