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ROBERT E. Me DONALD HENRY J. BOWNIK DUANE T. MEYER WAYNE E. BROWN . ' [M)~ [ID@[ro5\[!,(9) ~ ti\~~@~~5\ll'~~L1 ~[ro~() GENERAL CONTRACTORS 211 NORTH PASCAL AVENUE . ST, PAUL, MINNESOTA 55104 PHONE, 645-4656 January 29, 1971 . Honorable Mayor and Village Council Village or Arden Hills 1450 West Highway 96 Arden Hills, Minnesota He: Concolidated Sanitary Sewer Imp. No. 12 & 13 Proj. No.1 Gentlemen: We are the contractor that has nearly completed the subject project. We have suffered a severe loss on this contract primarily because of our low bidding, however, our low unit prices based on 1969 labor rates were not mistakes but were based on the following facts':, 1. The nature of this job was ideal for winter construction be- cause of the easements and our fiI'lll needed winter work for four or five crews. 2. Conversation with the consulting engineers prior to bidding led uS to believe we could construct all the easene nt :'work in the winter months. 3. Original sewer alignment had a faster progress than some of the changed lines that were wet and rocky conditions 4. We did not anticipate that the CreWS that were 'working would be shut down occassionally with no place to go, sometimes moved off the project and other times Skipping around the project to keep working. Once the project was started we were in constant communication with the consultant engineers both through our men in the field and from our main offce begging for more easements. After having been patient for too long we finally wrote a letter direct to your village on February 25, 1970 asking for help. This was a little late but still action was very slow. On April 1, 1970 we were shut down by the labor strike and at this time had completed only 52% of the project. Taking into consideration the lost time of about three ,weeks for Christmas vacation and cold weather days and using the actual progress of the crews that did work, had we been able to keep fours crews working we would have completed all the easement work and would have completed 84% of the project by this same date. We cO!lllllenced working again on June 1, 1910 after the strike with a 23% labor increase. Because your village had ~ailed to obtain the required easements before March 31, 1970 we had to pay the labor increase on 32% of the project. The last easement was finally acquired on September 15, 1970. .