H-1 - Resolution 2025-025 - Notice on Proposed Plans, Specifications, Form of Contract and Estimate

RESOLUTION NO. 2025-025 Resolution to provide for a notice of hearing on proposed plans, specifications, form of contract and estimate of cost for the Water Treatment Plant Upgrades Project, and the taking of bids therefor WHEREAS, it has been proposed that the City Council of the City of Tiffin, Iowa (the “City”), undertake the authorization of a public improvement to be constructed as described in the proposed plans and specifications and form of contract prepared by MSA Professional Services, Inc. (the “Project Engineers”), which may be hereafter referred to as the “Water Treatment Plant Upgrades Project” (and is sometimes hereinafter referred to as the “Project”), which proposed plans, specifications, notice of hearing and letting, and form of contract and estimate of cost (the “Contract Documents”) are on file with the City Clerk; and WHEREAS, it is necessary to fix a time and place of a public hearing on the Contract Documents and to advertise for sealed bids for the Project; NOW, THEREFORE, Be It Resolved by the City Council (the “Council”) of the City of Tiffin, Iowa, as follows: Section 1. The Contract Documents referred to in the preamble hereof are hereby approved in their preliminary form. Section 2. The Project is hereby determined to be necessary and desirable for the City, and, furthermore, it is hereby found to be in the best interests of the City to proceed toward the construction of the Project. Section 3. April 15, 2025, at 7:00 p.m., at City Hall, Tiffin, Iowa, is hereby fixed as the time and place of hearing on the Contract Documents. The foregoing date and time may be changed at the discretion of the City Clerk, and in compliance with the publication requirements pursuant to Iowa law. Section 4. The City Clerk is hereby authorized and directed to publish notice (the “Notice of Hearing”) of the hearing on the Contract Documents for the Project in a newspaper of general circulation in the City, which publication shall be made at least once, not less than four (4) and not more than twenty (20) days prior to the date of the said hearing. The Notice of Hearing shall be in substantially the following form, with such conforming changes as approved by the Mayor and/or the City Clerk: