November 22, 2007
Opening of Bids on Alamo Parks Project Moved to November 27

By Dave Maxwell

The Alamo Town Board reported at their regular meeting November 13 to delay the opening of sealed bids from contractors on the Alamo Parks until Tuesday, November 27. That also happens to be the same day as the BLM competitive bidding sale of land in Parcel B at the Alamo Industrial Park. But Board Secretary Wendy Rudder said the Industrial Park land sale will be in the morning and the Alamo Park bids will be opened in the late afternoon.

Mrs. Rudder reported that on November 2, several in-state and out-of-state contractors, including several Lincoln County people, participated in “a mandatory pre-bid walk through” of the property.

Moving back the date of the bid openings she said, is to give the contractors a little more time to prepare information to submit with their bids. Bids received by or before 4:00 pm that day will be opened in a public session at the Board meeting room in the Alamo Ambulance Barn. “We will just open and read aloud all the bids,” Wendy said.

“We’re really excited. These are going to be really good projects for the community, actually the entire County,” she said. “The Children’s Park is going to be a tremendous addition to this community, to give our kids a really nice place to play. And for families, a nice place to go and have family outings. Our rodeo grounds are going to be tremendously improved and our softball field will give us more ability to have tournaments.” With the addition of a second softball field in the Park complex and using the existing high school/Little League field, three games can be played at once.

The Board has set May 1, 2008 as the date the new rodeo arena must be completed. The reason for this Mrs. Rudder said, is that a National Wrangler Junior Rodeo is scheduled there for the first weekend in June. “Being done a month early,” she said, “will give us time to work out all the bugs, be sure everything is in place, so that the rodeo will be able to run smoothly.”

Both the Children’s Park and the rodeo grounds improvements, including the new softball field, are to be constructed simultaneously. “The builders will have 127 days to complete the work after they begin,” Wendy said. “We told them that the rodeo arena is the priority scheduling for the project. Get that going first and then schedule everything else around it, so that we can guarantee that it will be done,” she said.

The project is being funded by $2.5 million in grant of money Alamo received from the Southern Nevada Public Land Management Act.