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Senate File 2218

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  1  1    Section 1.  Section 384.96, Code 1999, is amended to read
  1  2 as follows:
  1  3    384.96  SEALED BIDS.
  1  4    When the estimated total cost to a city of a public
  1  5 improvement exceeds the sum of twenty-five fifty thousand
  1  6 dollars, the governing body shall advertise for sealed bids
  1  7 for the proposed improvement by publishing a notice to bidders
  1  8 as provided in section 362.3, except that the notice to
  1  9 bidders may be published more than twenty days but not more
  1 10 than forty-five days before the date for filing bids.
  1 11    Sec. 2.  Section 384.102, Code 1999, is amended to read as
  1 12 follows:
  1 13    384.102  WHEN HEARING NECESSARY.
  1 14    When the estimated total cost of a public improvement
  1 15 exceeds the sum of twenty-five fifty thousand dollars, the
  1 16 governing body shall not enter into a contract for the
  1 17 improvement until it has held a public hearing on the proposed
  1 18 plans, specifications, and form of contract, and estimated
  1 19 cost for the improvement.  Notice of the hearing must be
  1 20 published as provided in section 362.3.  At the hearing any
  1 21 interested person may appear and file objections to the
  1 22 proposed plans, specifications, contract, or estimated cost of
  1 23 the improvement.  After hearing objections, the governing body
  1 24 shall by resolution enter its decision on the plans,
  1 25 specifications, contract, and estimated cost.  
  1 26                           EXPLANATION
  1 27    This bill increases the estimated cost of a city public
  1 28 improvement requiring public bidding procedures from $25,000
  1 29 to $50,000.  By reference, this bill also increases the
  1 30 estimated cost of a rural water district improvement requiring
  1 31 public bidding procedures to $50,000.  
  1 32 LSB 6462SS 78
  1 33 tj/as/5.2
     

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