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- z WOULD LIKE TO HAVE PERMISSION TO BUY A CONVEYANCE ON AN EMERGENCY BASIS AND GO TO DEALERS IN THE AREA AND FIND A PICK-UP THAT IS ON THE LOT. IT WAS NOTED THAT NO BOND WAS REQUIRED ON THIS BID. AFTER FURTHER DISCUSSION, MOTION WAS MADE BY COMMISSIONER SIEBERT, SECONDED BY COMMISSIONER DEESON TO ACCEPT THE ADMINISTRATOR'S RECOMMENDATION THAT A CONVEYANCE BE PURCHASED FOR THE LITTER OFFICER ON AN EMERGENCY BASIS AND TO AUTHORIZE THE ADMINISTRATOR TO LOOK INTO HAVING SOME SORT OF A PENALTY CLAUSE ON BIDS. COMMISSIONER LOY FELT THIS IS A TRUE EMERGENCY AND WE SHOULD JUMP INTO THE OPEN MARKET AS RECOMMENDED BY THE ADMINISTRATOR. ADMINISTRATOR JENNINGS STATED THAT HE HAS NOT HAD A SATISFACTORY EXPERIENCE WITH THIS PARTICULAR COMPANY IN TWELVE YEARS. CHAIRMAN VIODTKE SUGGESTED, IN VIEW OF RECENT PROBLEMS, POSSIBLY OUR BID LIST AND AREA SHOULD BE ENLARGED, THE CHAIRMAN CALLED FOR -THE (QUESTION. IT WAS VOTED ON AND CARRIED UNANIMOUSLY. ADMINISTRATOR JENNINGS RECOMMENDED THAT THE BOARD ACCEPT THE BID OF SUNRISE FORD TRACTOR CO., RECEIVED AT THE MAY 24TH MEETING. HE NOTED THAT THE TRACTOR IS ON HAND, CAN BE DELIVERED IMMEDIATELY, -AND THE BID IS CLOSE TO $1,000 UNDER THE NEAREST BID. ON MOTION BY COMMISSIONER DEESON, SECONDED BY COMMISSIONER Loy, THE BOARD UNANIMOUSLY ACCEPTED THE BID OF SUNRISE FORD TRACTOR CO. FOR A FORD TRACTOR MODEL 6600, AS BEING THE LOWEST AND BEST BID MEETING SPECIFICATIONS, IN THE AMOUNT OF $11,655.98. THE BOARD THEREUPON RECESSED AT 12:00 NOON FOR LUNCH AND RECONVENED AT 1:30 O'CLOCK P.M. WITH THE SAME MEMBERS PRESENT. ENGINEER JAMES BEINDORF CAME BEFORE THE BOARD AND NOTED THAT TWO MONTHS AGO THE BOARD INSTRUCTED THE CONSULTING ENGINEERS TO PROCEED LOOKING FOR WATER SOURCES IN THE.SOUTH COUNTY AND A POSSIBLE SITE FOR A TREATMENT PLANT AND, IN ESSENCE, CONSIDER GOING INTO THE WATER BUSINESS ON THE WEST SIDE OF THE RIVER AND SOUTH OF THE CITY LIMITS. MR. BEINDORF NOTED- THAT THIS WILL REQUIRE STEPPING 20 JUN 1978