University Daily Kansan, September 14. 1982
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Bid $31,000 over budget B.A. Green wins ambulance station bid
By DAN PARELMAN Staff Reporter
The Douglas County Commission accepted the low bid yesterday morning for construction of the county's new ambulance station, although the project will cost more than was budgeted.
The $77,403 base bid of B.A. Green Construction Co. of Lawrence, plus $13,450 for optional building items, such as a vinyl wallcovering and concrete driveway, and payments for land, core samples and an architect's fee, will cost the county at $31,000 more than the $300,000 it had budgeted for the project. Beverly Bradley, commission chairman, said yesterday.
The county will pay for the extra
$1,000 with its contingency fund, she said. Bradley said the county would have to accept the extra cost.
"I don't want to scrap the project and start over," she said.
AN ADDITIONAL $3,119 for other optional building items will be paid for by Lawrence Memorial Hospital,
Bradley said.
Walter Hicks, owner of Walter J. Hicks & Associates, the architect and planner of the station, said he recommended that the commission award the project to B.A. Green primarily because it had the low bid.
"The money pretty well spoke for itself." Hicks said.
B. A. Green was also recommended because it was a local company and because it had a reputation of doing good work, said Ted McMarlane.
director of the Douglas County Ambulance Service.
The company built the Douglas County Law Enforcement Center, the Lawrence Public Library and remodeled the Douglas County Courthouse.
THE COMPANY'S most recent project was the renovation of Watson Library in 1981 and $2$, said Robert Green, president of B.A. Green. The company has built many other University buildings, such as Corbin Hall, Fraser Hall, Hoch Auditorium, Robyn Magnusiaum, Spencer Research Library and Helen Foresman Spencer Museum of Art.
B. A. Green could begin construction as early as Monday if it and the commission sign the contract today, Green said.
Groundbreaking ceremonies are scheduled for 8:30 a.m. tomorrow at the station site just north of Lawrence Memorial Hospital, 325 Maine.
B. A. GREEN'S bid stated it could finish the project in 298 calendar days, which would put completion in May. Green has said that his company needed the spring months to plant. However, McFarlane said Green told him that the ambulance service could possibly move into the building as early as the middle of February, before planting.
The addition of the ambulance station will give the county two stations, one of which is now at 1839 Massachusetts St. McMarle said in response to ambulances would be able to respond more quickly to emergencies.
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Senate forms panel
Student Senate Finance and Auditing Committee leaders formed $n$ 12-member subcommittee last night to investigate the disappearance of $11,943 worth of property belonging to Senate-funded student organizations.
Busby, holdover senator, said the new subcommittee would also debate whether groups who have large amount of money missing could quality for future funding.
The investigation was prompted by a inventory taken during the summer by Dan Cunningham, Senate interim executive secretary. According to a report prepared by Cunningham, missing items included filing cabinets, desks, calculators, a telephone answering system, books and two-way radios.
"I DON'T think we can underestimate the importance this committee has for our long-term finance committee co-chairman, said at a committee meeting last night.
Staci Feldman, Senate executive secretary, said recent inventory checks conducted by the Senate office discovered property not inventoried during the summer. She said it was possible that more property was missing.
CUNNINGHAM said at a Senate meeting last week that all state agencies, including student organizations, were required by state law to file inventories annually. The inventory statement must be completed even if the organization is no longer funded by the Senate, Cunningham said.
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