HomeMy WebLinkAboutMinutes City Council - 06/16/1965 - SpecialPRESENT:
Mayor McIver Furman
Commissioners:
Ken McDaniel
Ronnie Sizemore
Wm. H. Wallace
MINUTES
CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS
SPECIAL COUNCIL MEETING
June 16, 1965
8:00 a.m.
City Manager Herbert W. Whitney
City Attorney I. M. Singer
City Secretary T. Ray Kring
Mayor McIver Furman called the meeting to order and announced the purpose
of the special meeting for the opening of bids on Annual Supply Contracts for ap-
proximately forty-four items required by the various Divisions of the City, and such
other business as may properly come before the Council.
City Manager Whitney announced that five bids were received after the stipu-
lated time, two were handed in this morning and three were received by mail, post-
marked prior to the deadline, and recommended that these five bide be accepted,
waiving the time limit.
Motion by Wallace, seconded by McDaniel and passed that the five bids re-
ferred to by the City Manager be accepted for the purpose of the meeting.
Bids were opened and read on Radio Tubes.in.vakious sizes and quantities•
from the following: Electronic Equipment & Engineering Company; Modern Electronics
Company; Motorola Communications & Electronics, Inc.of Dallas; Wicks Radio Equip-
ment Company.
Bids were opened and read on Anodes from the following: Brance-Krachy Company,
Inc.; Cathodic Protection Service of Houston; Oilfield Corrosion Supply Company of
Houston; and Standard Magnesium Corporation of Tulsa, Oklahoma;
Bids were opened and read on Blueprint Service from the following: C. C.
Photo Print Company; Nixon Blue Print Company; Professional Supply & Reproduction;
and Ridgway's.
Bids were opened on Oxygen & Acetylene from the following: Ace Welding
Supply Company; Big Three Industrial Gas & Equipment Company; Crane Welding Supply
Company; and Welder's Equipment Company.
Bids were opened on 4 Lots of Janitorial Supply Items from the following:
Century Papers, Inc.; Certified Laboratories; DuBois Chemicals; Gulf Disinfectant
Company; Hillyard Sales Company; Kemtex Chemicals, Inc.; Nationwide Papers, Inc.; and
Welch's C.C. Janitor Supply.
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Bids were opened on 4 items of Custodial Service from the following:
Acme Window Cleaning, Inc.; Advance Window Cleaning Service; Armstrong Building
Maintenance; Building Servicing Company; Guardian Maintenance Company; Gulf Dis-
infectant Company; Certified:Maintenanct Service; and Magnus Corp.
Bids were opened and read on 5 Lots of Printing Papers & Stationery Store
Items from the following: Butler Paper Company of Houston; Century Papers, Inc.;
Gulf Envelope Company; Maverick -Clarke; Nationwide Papers, Inc.; and A. C. Ross &
Son Paper Company of San Antonio.
Bide were opened and read on 3 Lots of Lumber & Survey Stakes from the
following: Armstrong Lumber Company; C.C. Brick & Lumber Company; Kaffie Lumber
Division; The Prassel Lbr. Company of Jackson, Mississippi; Jack H. Scholl Lbr.
Company; West Side Lbr. Company, Inc.; and Zarsky Lbr. Company.
Bids were opened and read on Commercial Fertilizer from the following:
Campbell Fertilizer Company, Inc. of Houston; and B. L. Henderson & Sons;:. Inc. of
Houston.
Bids were opened and read on Bermuda Grass Seed from the following: Currie
Seed Company; Eastern Seed Company; and The Garden Center.
Prior to the opening of bids on Water Treating Chemicals, a representative
of McKesson & Robbins requested permission to withdraw the portion of this bid
relative to truck load delivery. The Council agreed to grant the request, and
this item of the McKesson & Robbins bid on Water Treating Chemicals was not read.
Bids were opened and read on 10 items of Water & Sewage Treating Chemicals
from the following: Austin White Lime Company of Austin; Baltimore Copperas Com-
pany (Baltimore, Md.); Dixie Chemical Service Company; Dow Chemical Company (Houston);
McKesson & Robbins; Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company; Round Rock White Lime Company
(Round. Rock); Henry Sundheimer Company (New York); Thompson -Hayward Chem. Co.
(San Antonio); Union Carbide Chemicals Co. (Houston); and United States Gypsum Co.
(Dallas).
Bids were opened on Lime Slurry from the following: Pittsburgh Plate Glass
Company.
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Bids were opened and read on Linen & Towel Service from the following: Corpus
Christi Linen Service; and South Texas Linen Service.
Bids were opened and read on 6 Lots of Fuel, Oil, Grease and Anti -Freeze
from the following: Continental Oil Company (Houston); Gulf Oil Corp.; Humble Oil &
Refining Company (Houston); McKesson & Robbins; Mobil Oil; Osage Oil Company; Petroleum
Trading & Trans. Company (Tulsa); and Texaco, Inc.
Bids were opened and read on 2 .Lots, of Sparkplugs, Oil & Fuel Filters from
the following: Arnold Oil Company; Corpus Christi Auto Electric Service Company, Inc.;
Frank Davis Auto Parts.Company; The Motor Parts Company; and Hollis Neese Auto Parts.
Bids were opened and read on 2 Lots of Tires, Tubes & Tire Recapping from
the following: Bay Tire Service; Lewis Boggus Motors, Inc.; Jim Brace Company;
Firestone Stores; B. F. Goodrich Store; and Goodyear Service Stores.
Bids were opened and read on 2 ,Lots: of Automotive & Flashlight Batteries
from the following: Alamo Iron Works; Goodyear Service Stores; Gulf Hdwe. & Supply
Company; Norvell-Wilder Supply Company; Southland Battery Whse.; and Tropical Supply,
Inc.
Bidswereopened and read on 3 LLots of Manila & Wire Rope, Chains, Clamps
& Hooks from the following: Alamo Iron Works; E. L. Bearden Company; Gulf Supply
Company, Inc.; Norvell-Wilder Supply Company.
Bids were opened and read on 4 Lots of Hand and Garden Tools from the follow-
ing: Alamo Iron Works; Builders Supply Company; Girard Machinery & Supply Company;
Gulf Hdwe. & Supply Company; Gulf Supply Company, Inc.; Norvell-Wilder Supply Co.;
and Wallace Co., Inc.
Bids were opened and read on Malleable Fittings, Black & Galvanized, from
the following: Ajax Supply Co.; Alamo Iron Works; Gulf Supply Co., Inc.; Mainten-
ance Engineering Corp.; Norvell-Wilder Supply Co.; and Wallace Company, Inc.
Bids were opened and read on Lubricated Plug Valves from the following:
Gulf Supply Company, Inc.; McAllen Pipe & Supply Co., Inc.; Norvell-Wilder Supply
Co.; Rockwell Manufacturing Co. (Houston); The Rohan Company, Inc. (Waco); and
Wallace Company, Inc.
Bids were opened and read on 2 Lots of Brass and Iron Service Fittings from
the following: Ajax Supply Co.; James Jones Company (El Monte, Calif.); McAllen
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Pipe & Supply Co., Inc.; A. Y. McDonald Mfg. Co. (Dallas); The Rohan Co., Inc. (Waco);
Trans -Tex Supply Co. (San Antonio); and Viking Supply Corp. (Houston).
Bids were opened and read on 7 Lots of Pipe Repair Clamps, Couplings &
Adapters from the following: R. H. Baker & Co., Inc. (Los Angeles); H. Y. Carson Co.
(Tarrant, Ala.); Dresser Mfg. Co. (Houston); James Jones Co. (El Monte, Calif.);
McAllen Pipe & Supply Co., Inc.; Mueller Company (San Antonio); Municipal Pipe &
Fabr< Co. (Houston); The Rohan Co. (Waco); M. B. Skinner Co. (So. Bend, Ind.);
Smith -Blair, Inc. (S. San Francisco); and Trans -Tex Supply Co. (San Antonio).
Motion by Wallace, seconded by Sizemore and passed that the bid of Southern
Plumbing Supply Company, received at 8:47 on June 16, 1965, on Mechanical Joint Gate
Valves, not be accepted or opened due to the lateness of the bid. The foregoing bid
is to be returned to the bidder unopened.
Bids were opened and read on 2 Lots of Mechanical Joint Gate Valves from the
following: Alamo Iron Works; Chapman Div. - Crane Co. (Houston); Iowa Valve Co. (Dallas);
Ludlow -Rensselaer Valve Co. (Troy, N.Y.); McAllen Pipe & Supply Co., Inc.; M & H
Valve & Fittings Co. (Anniston, Ala.); and Trans -Tex Supply Co. (San Antonio.
Bids were opened and read on 2 Lots of Cc2.•.Tapping -Sleeves and Valves from the
following: Iowa Valve Co. (Oskaloosa); McAllen Pipe & Supply Co. (McAllen); M&H
Valve & Fittings (Anniston, Ala.); Municipal Pipe & Fabricating (Houston); and Trans -
Tex Supply (San Antonio).
Bids were opened and read on 3 Lots and 2 Alternates of M.J. Cast Iron Fittings
from the following: American Cast Iron Pipe Co. (Houston); Trans -Tex Supply (San
Antonio); and Tyler Pipe & Foundry (Tyler).
Bids were opened and read on 5 Lots of C.I. Ductile Iron, and/or Asbestos
Cement Pipe from the following: American Cast Iron Pipe Co. (Houston); James B.
Glow & Sons, Inc. (Birmingham, Ala.); Johns -Manville (Houston); Lone Star Steel Co.
(Dallas); McAllen Pipe & Supply Co. (McAllen); Orangeburg;Mfg. Co.. (Otangeburg, N.Y.);
The; Rohan Co. (Waco); U.S. Pipe & Foundry Co. (Dallas); and Viking Supply (Houston).
Bids were opened and read on Fire Hydrants from the following: McAllen Pipe
& Supply Co. (McAllen); Municipal Pipe & Fabricating Co. (Houston); M & H Valve &
Fittings Co. (Anniston, Ala.); and Trans -Tex Supply Co. (San Antonio),
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Bids were opened and read on 5 Lots of Foundry & Cast Concrete Items from
the following: Brooks Products of Texas, Inc. (Houston); Gulf Star Foundries; and,Trans
Tex Supp1y;(San Antonio).
Bids were opened on Sewer Tile & Fittings from the following: Can Tex In-
dustries (Mineral Wells, Tex); and W. S. Dickey Clay Mfg. Co. (San Antonio).
Bids were opened and read on 20 items of Gas & Water Meters from the follow-
ing: American Meter Co. (Garland); Badger Meter Mfg. Co.(Milwaukee, Wis.); Calmet
Meter Div. (Ft. Worth), Neptune .Meter Co:. (Atlanta, Ga,); Rockwell Mfg. Co. (Houston);
Sprague Meter Co. (Bridgeport, Conn.); and Superior Meter Div. (Brooklyn, N.Y.).
Bids were opened on Gas Regulators from the following: American Meter Co.
(Garland, Tex.); Puffer-Sweiven, Inc.; Rockwell Manufacturing Co. (Dallas); Universal
Controls Corp. (Dallas); and Sprague Meter Co. (Bridgeport, Conn.).
Bids were opened on 9 items of Street Construction Materials from the follow-
ing; Asphalt Enterprises, Inc.; Asphalt & Emulsions, Inc.; Humble Oil & Refining
Co. (Houston); Shell Oil Co. (Houston); Texas Emulsions, Inc. (Austin); Three Rivers
Asphalt Co. (Houston); Uvalde Rock Asphalt Co. (San Antonio); Whites Mines.
(San Antonio); Heldenfels Brothers; and Southwestern Materials.
Bids were opened and read on Reinforced Concrete Pipe from the following:
Mission Concrete Pipe Co. (San Antonio); and Tex Crete Company.
Bide were opened and read on Ready -Mix Concrete from the following: Counts
Concrete Co.; Gulf Concrete Co., Inc.; Harris Concrete Co., Inc.; and South Texas
Materials Company.
Bids were opened and read on Bricks from the following: Alamo Clay Pro-
ducts Sales Co. (San Antonio); C. C. Brick & Lumber Co.; South Texas Materials Co.;
and Tex Crete Company.
Bids were opened and read on Bag Portland Cement from the following: Arms -
strong Lumber Co.; C.C. Brick & Lumber Co.; Gulf Concrete Co.; Harris Concrete Co.,
Inc.; Kaffie Lumber Div.; So. Texas Materials Co.; and Zarsky Lumber Company.
Bids were opened and read on Street Sign Blanks from the following: Atlantic
Alum. & Metal Distributors, Inc. (Springfield, Mass.); Interstate Highway Sign Mfg.
Co. (Denton, Tex.); Earle M. Jorgensen Co. (Houston); Kaiser Aluminum (Oakland,Calif.);
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Metal Goods Corp. (Houston); Sargent -Sowell, Inc. (Grand Prairie, Tex.); Traffic
Supplies, Inc. (Oklahoma City); U.S. Standard Sign Co., Inc. (Toledo, Ohio); and VePed
Traffic Controls, Inc. (Oklahoma City).
Bids were opened and read on Street Marking Materials from the following:
Ashmore Paint Co., Inc.; Cataphote Corp. (Jackson, Miss.); C. H. Dragert Co. (Dallas);
Prismo Safety Corp. (Huntingdon, Pa.);
Bids were opened and read on 2 Lots of Street Sweeper Broom Material from
the following: Jim Dulaney Machinery Co. (San Antonio); Girard Machinery & Supply
Co. (Dallas); A. Steiert & Son, Inc. (Hatfield, Pa.); Tuffibre Co. (East Orange
N.J.) ; and Lone Star Brush & Chemical Co. (Dallas).
Bids were opened and read on 4 Lots of Tabulating Machine Cards from the
following: Business Supplies Corp. of America (Skytop, Pa.); Mid -Continent Tab Card
Co. (Houston); and Southwest Globe Ticket Co. (Dallas).
Bids were opened and read on Policemen's Uniforms from the following: Best
Tailors, Inc.; Burke Manufacturing Co. (Houston); and Donovan Uniform Company, Inc.
(Dallas).
Bids were opened and read on Firemen's Uniforms from the following: Creigh-
ton Shirt Co., Inc. (Reidsville, N.C.); Donovan Uniform Company, Inc. (Dallas); and
Factory Sales Co. of Houston.
Bids were opened and read on Pipeline Primer, Enamel and Felt from the fol-
lowing: Pipe Line Service Corp.; and Rosson-Richards Co. of Texas, Inc.
All of the foregoing bids which were opened and read were tabled for forty-
eight hours as required by City Charter, and referred to the City Manager for tabu-
lation and recommendation.
There being no further business to come before the Council, the special
meeting was adjourned.