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W.P. accepts bid for $4.1M water tower
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Lankmark Structures picked to replace 90-year-old village tank
BY R E B ECC A K L A R The Williston Park village board unanimously voted to accept a $4.1 million bid from Landmark Structures to replace the 90-year-old Syracuse Street water tower during a special meeting on Friday. The board also approved a $6.5 million bond over 20 years to fund the project. Village officials had to decide between two bids presented to them last Monday by Bill Merklin, senior vice president of Woodbury-based D&B Engineers and Architects. The engineering firm recommended the board pick Landmark, the less expensive of the two bids. The higher bidder, Caldwell Tanks, had more experience" than Landmark in building tanks of a similar style and size, according to Kevin Gallagher, Caldwell’s vice president, who was at Monday’s meeting. Caldwell’s bid exceeded Landmark’s by more than $700,000.
Landmark had built one less than the requested specifications of having built at least 10 similar style tanks in the last year, Merklin said. All nine were smaller than the planned 500,000-gallon tank for the village, he said. Mayor Paul Ehrbar said in an interview that the village has an obligation to choose the lowest bidder unless there are major concerns with the company. “We believed that was the best way to go,” Ehrbar said. Merklin also said Landmark has received “very good feedback” from references. Work is set to begin in September and the project is expected to be completed by next June. The project will also increase costs to the water fund, and water rates will be raised. A public hearing will be held in the near future to determine the increase, but a date has not yet been set. Continued on Page 98
PHOTO COURTESY OF CHAMINADE HIGH SCHOOL
Chaminade High School students have completed a week of service in rural West Virginia. See story on page 93.
Suspect released before murder and kidnapping BY A M E L I A C A M U R AT I A Connecticut man who was charged with strangling an exgirlfriend was released without bail by a Nassau County judge
two weeks before he is suspected of killing a North Shore University Hospital nurse and kidnapping a woman in Los Angeles. Danueal Drayton, 27, of New Haven, Connecticut, was arrested in Nassau County on
June 30 for allegedly choking his ex-girlfriend, who survived, and charged with felony second-degree strangulation and third-degree trespassing,"Nassau County court records show. Continued on Page 99
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