Wednesday, October 12, 2011

Hangar Demolition: St Clair Regional Airport (K39), Missouri.

The aldermen had to approve a second bid to demolish a pair of dilapidated hangars at St. Clair Regional Airport because the original approved bidder backed out.

The city sought bids to remove the Atkinson and shade hangars after City Inspector Jeremy Crowe late last year deemed them dangerous and basically unsafe to use. Crowe had said that he found multiple problems with them, which initially led to a discussion on whether to repair or raze them.

After seeking and reviewing repair bids, the aldermen said repairing them would cost too much money, so they voted at that time to raze the structures. Federal Aviation Administration officials gave their approval earlier this year for their removal.

When the five bids were opened during a July board meeting, one of them - from PKT Paul Korman LLC in Rhineland - stated that the city would be paid for disassembling and removing the two hangars. Korman said in his bid that he would pay the city $512 to remove the hangars. As part of his bid, he would get to keep any usable scrap metal.

The other four bids charged the city anywhere from $2,000 to $29,850 to remove them.

Korman's was the original bid the aldermen approved. But during the Oct. 3 board meeting, Childers told city officials Korman had changed his mind.

"The gentleman with the lowest bid for hangar demolition at the airport has withdrawn his bid due to family reasons," Childers said. "We have contracted the next lowest bidder. ... This is the same contract as prepared for the original vendor with dollar amounts changed to reflect the bid amount. The current bid requires $2,000."

That bidder is Jerry Landing of Sullivan. His proposal unanimously was accepted.

Once the two hangars are removed, only two will remain at the facility. The blue-T hangar currently houses all planes stored at the airport and can store as many as 10. The other is the maintenance hangar that the city uses for storage.

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