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Vol. 7, No. 49
Including Surrounding Communities
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December 4, 2009
THIS WEEK
CSD board split on landscaping Honored for
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by Ruth Roberts Staff Writer For the second time this year, the Discovery Bay CSD board has turned down a landscaping improvement proposal along Willow Lake Road. In a 2-1 vote at the regular CSD meeting on Nov. 18, the three-member board was unable to reach a unanimous agreement to proceed with the estimated $130,000 in upgrades. In October, the board had rejected the work when it was presented as two jobs, hoping the price would be lower if the two projects were combined. At the board’s request, Town General Manager Virgil Koehne then resubmitted the projects to the landscape companies, asking them to offer new bids based on the combining of the two jobs into one. As a two-phase project, the total cost of the lowest bids (which came from two different contractors) would have been $104,935,
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December diversions Photo by Richard Wisdom
The CSD board rejected plans to re-landscape the corner of Willow Lake Road and Discovery Bay Boulevard despite having approved the bidding process. Above, Discovery Bay residents Cindy Kelty and Daisy, left, and Karen Muccio with Carson and Missy cross DB Boulevard. with Phase One coming in at $39,535 and Phase Two at $65,400. The low bid on the single-contractor, combined job is $128,000, from Sansei Gardens in Fremont.
Vice President Mark Simon and Director David Piepho were in favor of the revised plan, but President Ray Tetreault voted against the upgrades. “I could have
gone for Phase One,” he told Simon and Piepho, “but you guys wanted to combine the projects, and I can’t get besee Landscaping page 22A
A spate of seasonal festivals, parades, films, shopping gigs and charitable events will keep you hopping this holiday.
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Parade of Lights a storybook spectacle Thousands of spectators and participants are expected to converge on Discovery Bay this weekend for the town’s biggest land-based celebration – the Parade of Lights – on Saturday beginning at 6 p.m. The town’s tree lighting, sponsored by the Discovery Bay Lions Club, and parade awards ceremony will immediately follow the parade at the Discovery Bay Shopping Center on Discovery Bay Boulevard. Hosted by the Discovery Bay Chamber of Commerce, the parade is expected to feature more than 40 floats designed and created by local businesses, schools and individual groups. The theme is Storybook and will be led by this year’s grand marshal, Sheriff Warren Rupf. “Anything that has to do with storybooks, anything you can imagine, you will see Parade page 22A
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Last year’s Discovery Bay’s Parade of Lights’ theme was Hollywood. This year’s Storybook parade will make its way through town on Saturday beginning at 6 p.m. and include more than 40 floats.
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