Last Thursday was our regular Libertyville Township Meeting. As a trustee we make decisions as to how we will spend the tax money we are given. Currently we are working on building a new food pantry.
The main part of this meeting this week was about picking a company to build our food pantry and be the construction manager. There were 4 companies that submitted bids and interviewed with Supervisor O'Connor and Trustee Mittelman. They told us about the interview process, who attended, what they said and then told us their recommendation. There was one of the 4 companies that was much lower than the other 3. I questioned why and if they offered to review and fix the quote b/c it seemed way off. They did build beautiful work but I was not comfortable with the bid being so low/off.
We ended up voting and 4 of the 5 of us voted for the 2nd lowest bid and the company that was recommended by Trustee Mittelman and Supervisor O'Connor. Trustee O'Connor was a Nay b/c she felt we should go for the lowest bid and that the work was good and we should be able to depend on that bid. Because of the large difference I did not feel comfortable with that choice, but I did understand Trustee O'Connor's point and felt this to be a hard decision.
You should know, I wanted to be be included int he interview process but was not able to because if there was 3 of us it would be a Quorum and therefore a meeting that has to be announced to the public and that is not what we intended.
Our next meeting is March 25th at 7pm.
Hope to see you there!
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