Consider Awarding the Bid to Install Submersible Pumps and Control Panel at Lake Texoma, as Identified in the Asset Management Plan, and Approved in the Fiscal Year 2021-2022 Budget, or Consider Authorizing Staff to Negotiate an Alternate Project, and Take Any Other Action Deemed Necessary (continue

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d) engineer, Biggs and Mathews, Inc. recommends rejecting the bid and negotiating with sub­ contractors and/or general contractors to obtain better pricing. This would mean that the Authority would act as their own general contractor and sub-contract out the various specialty types of work. Discussion was then held in regards to state agency bidding rules, and Mr. Whiteman stated that he would contact Ms. Sara Thornton, legal counsel with Lloyd Gosselink Rochelle & Townsend, P.C., to ensure that the Authority could act as their own general contractor, since no adequate bids were being received on the project. Mr. Ward made a motion to reject the bid from MH Civil Constructors, Inc. in the am

This motion is scored as EXPANDS_GOVERNMENT (Impact Weight: 4.5/10). Under the Bastiat Liberty Watchdog Index, measures that increase tax rates or fee schedules, issue new debt or Certificates of Obligation, expand regulatory/zoning restrictions on private land use, or authorize unbudgeted spending expansions reduce an official's Freedom Score when voted YES (and reward dissenting NO votes).