Terminal contract OK’d

Published 5:27 pm Tuesday, December 10, 2013

Before and after a new mayor and members of the new City Council took their oaths of office, other city business took place Monday night.

Before Mayor Archie Jennings relinquished his seat to Mac Hodges, he presided over the council as it voted 4-0 to award an $899,905.50 contract to A.R. Chesson Construction Co. to build a new terminal building at Warren Field Airport. The building was destroyed by a gustnado July 1, 2012.

Funding for this project comes from three sources; $500,000 in N.C. Division of Aviation grant funds, $199,277 in Vision 100 airport funds, and $200,628.50 in insurance proceeds, according to Allen Lewis, the city’s public-works director.

The city has $549,277 in grant funds earmarked for the project and a forthcoming $150,000 grant it can use to construct the new terminal building, according to John. M. Massey with the city’s airport engineers, Talbert & Bright. Each of those grants requires a 10-percent match from the city.

The council also authorized the mayor to execute an agreement with Talbert & Bright for the firm to perform construction-administration work related to the project. Talbert & Bright submitted a proposal to do the work for $90,815.

The council also awarded a $206,888 contract to Utility Service Co. Inc. to remove the existing lead-based paint on the water tank next to Veterans Memorial Park on East Third Street and repaint the water tank. The city will pay $41,377.60 a year for five years to satisfy the contract. The company offered the city the option of spreading out the payments over five years, Lewis said.

Utility Service Co. Inc. was the low bidder among three companies that submitted bids on the project.

See Thursday’s edition of the Washington Daily News for an article about the mayoral transition involving outgoing Mayor Archie Jennings and incoming Mayor Mac Hodges.

 

About Mike Voss

Mike Voss is the contributing editor at the Washington Daily News. He has a daughter and four grandchildren. Except for nearly six years he worked at the Free Lance-Star in Fredericksburg, Va., in the early to mid-1990s, he has been at the Daily News since April 1986.
Journalism awards:
• Pulitzer Prize for Meritorious Public Service, 1990.
• Society of Professional Journalists: Sigma Delta Chi Award, Bronze Medallion.
• Associated Press Managing Editors’ Public Service Award.
• Investigative Reporters & Editors’ Award.
• North Carolina Press Association, First Place, Public Service Award, 1989.
• North Carolina Press Association, Second Place, Investigative Reporting, 1990.
All those were for the articles he and Betty Gray wrote about the city’s contaminated water system in 1989-1990.
• North Carolina Press Association, First Place, Investigative Reporting, 1991.
• North Carolina Press Association, Third Place, General News Reporting, 2005.
• North Carolina Press Association, Second Place, Lighter Columns, 2006.
Recently learned he will receive another award.
• North Carolina Press Association, First Place, Lighter Columns, 2010.
4. Lectured at or served on seminar panels at journalism schools at UNC-Chapel Hill, University of Maryland, Columbia University, Mary Washington University and Francis Marion University.

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