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N_oveNber 26th. 1946. from Mr. YzI. H . George, 3rd, Acting City Manager of the City of Norfolk, Virginia, in response to your request that the City of Norfolk r e!ease the seven dwelling ~mits which would be provided by use ~ Building No. 21 in their veterans hous~ing Pro jeer VA 44355. The City of Norfolk, while ~_dicating t~}at ~e~ a~e not concSrned with m y oarticular building ~n the ForZsmouth project~ has not indicated that they will agree to a re- duction from 309 to 302 ~its in the contract now in effect with t hem, Znasmuch as we do not have ~aother '~il5ing of like design in the i~mediate ~ea for s~bstitutlon for ~aild~ag No. 21, ~d increased cost would b e involved to the Government in obtaining a building else~b_ere in t~e region, v~ ~e ~uable vo comply with your request that Building No. 21 be left ~n the site for use by the City. Sincerely youms, Jo~ P. proome, Director, Regmon IV.~ On motion ordered filed. 8th - ~'The following sm~ovu,~t of money is due George Pearte, 1123 Ho!laday St., as b~s mart of the pension mo~ey to be returned - ~10.83. Wilm you please make ~u ap- propriation of this maount? adopted. ~iotion of D~r. Howard to concur mn tlme Manager's re¢on~.u~endavmon, was Vth - "The attached %greement ~ith the Seaboard Air Line Railway is for the crossing over their line at Ford Street near Gibney, in order to give ingress smd egress to the Portsmouth Fou~dmy Company, o%~ed mad operated by ~. Grmhsz% Gather. I won_ld like your authority to execute the agreement on behalf of the City, subject to the City itto~-~ey~s %pproval." adopted. ~a~ager~ ~ ~ Eotion of [~Ir. Grimes vo concur in the s reconm, enmavmon, was 8th - "i would like to read you a letter from o~ e:agineers, Greeley and Hansen, concurred in by F.J. Be,_.geron, Czty ~ng~neer~ requesting awarding of bids on the Camden St. pumping Stationt o A.J. ~m:a~s~on & ~om. pan~w an~ to Yeoman ~rothers for e~uipment~ both subject to the approval of the Federal Works Agency and I am recommending the attached reso~.vmon be adopted.~ Attached letter ~On November !Sth we furnished you with a report on the bids received on November 12th, for the Cmaden Avenue Pmaping Station and equipment, W~ also recozr~aended that the low bid of the A.G. Pinkston & Compar~_y in the amozmt of ~107,443,00 mud that of Yeomans Brothers in the s~mou~ut of ~8,5~.00 be accepted. We wish to adam±se that we m~ade mu error in the total amo~t of the bid Pmm_m~s ~on & Co~om~.y for Division DE-A. of the A.G. ' ~ ~ ' ~em DE-A5: is a copyof their bid for ~ ' In this fi~s p~pposat, the following un~-,~ Bid Price item Description Unit Approx. Figure In Wr-,t_ng Total _~mou~t Q~.an ~zt zes DE-A5 Addition~. Rein- Lb. 2000 3.74 T~ee Dollars ~d forcing Steel Seventy-fo~ Cents ~ V&.80 ~n preparing a bid tabulation, we used .374 for the unit price, mak- ing the totsl amongst for the Item to be $V~8.00, which made Pinkston~s total bid for Divi- sion DE-A Further checking of t~ proposal showed that the Contractor ~d made ~u e~or in filli~ in the ~mit mrice for this Item, We are attaching hereto a letter from the Hall-Hodges Co~pmuy ~o the A~G. Pf~szon ~d Compmuy, dated November 8th, 1946, in w~ch a ~uotation of $3. V4 CvS. was given for this steel. ~lso att2ched is a ce~t~xzed, s~azem~nt ~ ~' ~ $0.03V~ per po~d~ I~ ms evmdent A.G. Pi~ston~ stating the ~it bid price for t~_~s _tern is tb~t ~_moever made out the proposal used the v~t price per ~J~ed weight instead of per po~d as called fop ~'~he propose; hevevem, the tot~ smov~t of $7~.80 is correct for the Item. We therefore ~sh to withdraw the recomuendation made November 18~ 1946 that Division DE-A be awarded to A.G. Pi~ston & Comply in the ~o~t ~107~443.00, ~-~-m~ke the followim~ r~cor~endation: Division DE-A- C~den Avenue Pumping Station b e a warded to the A.G.-Pinkston & Comply in the ~o~mut of ~106,V69.80. ~ivision DE-B- ~ping Equipment b~ awarded to the Brothers Com~muy in the tomcat of Both of the above aw~ds to b e subject to the approv~ of the Federal Works Agency. Very t~_ly yours, Greeley & Hansen, by G.E. Hire.~