MEMORANDUM

TO: Pete Sprague, Assembly President

Members, Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly

THRU: Dale Bagley, Mayor

Mark Fowler, Purchasing & Contracting Officer

FROM: Gary Davis, Road Service Director

DATE: June 5, 2003

SUBJECT: Resolution 2003-071;

FY04 Summer & Winter Road Maintenance Contracts

Central Region Units 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 11 and East Region Unit 2

The Kenai Peninsula Borough will solicit and open proposals for the above-referenced projects on June 10, 2003. The request for proposals was advertised in the Peninsula Clarion on May 21^st, 22^nd, and 23^rd, and the Seward Phoenix Log and Homer News on May 22^nd.

The contracts consist of providing all labor, materials and equipment to perform summer and winter road maintenance.

Funding is available in the FY04 Road Service Area capital projects budget. Expenditures for the contracts will be charged to account number 236.33950.46910.

The attached resolution requests award of contracts for this work to the highest ranking proposer. As authorized in KPB 22.40.050(E), this resolution is submitted with blanks as the proposals will not be opened prior to packet closure, and prompt assembly action is needed as the current contracts expire at the end of the fiscal year. The highest ranking proposal information will be provided to the Assembly after the bid opening on June 10, 2003.