COLTS NECK – The Township Committee has awarded a contract to Precise Construction, Freehold, to construct an all-purpose artificial turf field at Five Point Park, Five Points Road.
Members of the governing body took the action at their meeting on Nov. 29.
Municipal officials received bids from 13 companies seeking the contract. The winning bid submitted by Precise Construction was $812,925. The highest bid received proposed a construction cost of $1.4 million.
Officials said the field will accommodate baseball, soccer, football, field hockey and lacrosse.
According to the township, $274,272 of the construction costs will come from Colts Neck’s capital budget and $538,562 will come from the Duncan C. Thecker Trust.
In February, committee members passed a resolution regarding the new artificial turf field.
The resolution states that, “In order to express the township’s gratitude for Mr. Thecker’s lifetime of charitable work for the township and the New Jersey community at large, the committee agrees that the project will be perpetually named for Mr. Thecker and that the trust may design a monument or tribute to Mr. Thecker to be integrated with the project in a manner and location mutually agreeable to the township and the trust.”
If construction on the artificial turf field does not begin by Jan. 1, 2020, the donation will be returned to the trust or to any other organization designated by the trust, according to the resolution.
In other business, committee members rejected bids from companies that were seeking Colts Neck’s municipal recycling contract for 2018 and 2019.
Bids were received from Waste Management of New Jersey Inc., Ewing; Republic Services LLC, Tinton Falls; M&S Waste Services Inc., Middletown; and Sakoutis Brothers Disposal, Colts Neck.
The bids were split into base bids covering 2018 and 2019 and optional bids for 2020 and included every other week curbside single-stream recycling pickup for the time period.
According to officials:
• Waste Management of New Jersey presented a $446,401 base bid and a $230,100 optional bid, totaling $676,501.
• Republic Services presented a $219,283 base bid and a $114,307 optional bid, totaling $333,590.
• M&S Waste Services presented a $255,732 base bid and a $131,252 optional bid, totaling $386,975.
• Sakoutis Brothers presented a $195,550 base bid and a $97,775 optional bid, totaling $293,325.
In a resolution, officials said they were rejecting “all bids received and opened for recycling services for reasons of bid packets fatal flaws and/or high cost.”
Finally, the committee named residents Dr. Michael Rothberg and Linda Stagliano to the Colts Neck Board of Health.
