PORT ANGELES — A Puyallup company will replace the leaky roof covering the Civic Field grandstands in time for the arrival of the college-level Port Angeles Lefties baseball team.
The Port Angeles City Council awarded a $47,237 contract Tuesday to D&D Construction Inc., the low bidder among five companies that vied for the project, including Hoch Construction of Port Angeles, which proposed an $86,831 base bid.
Funding will be drawn from $150,000 in lodging tax funds awarded to the city Parks and Recreation Department as part of the 2017 budget.
The vote was 5-1, with Councilman Michael Merideth dissenting and Mayor Patrick Downie absent.
Downie was returning home from vacation, he said Wednesday.
D&D Construction owner Cindy Schrader, informed of the council’s decision Wednesday morning, said it will take up to 15 days to replace the roof after she receives official notice of the bid award, produces a payment performance bond within the following 10 days and receives a notice to proceed.
She was confident D&D, whose workers will be commuting to the project, will finish it in less than two weeks.
“Realistically, as soon as we get the notice to proceed, we have seven days to get on the project,” Schrader said.
The wooden-bat West Coast League Lefties begin their inaugural season in Port Angeles on June 1 against the Victoria HarbourCats.
A 20-year, three-tab roof installed on the grandstands in 1998 now leaks during heavy rains and snowfalls, Corey Delikat, Parks and Recreation Department director, told the city council in a memo.
He said the new roof will replace rotted sheeting, include new flashing around the perimeter and have a 30-year lifespan.
Merideth suggested that the three-tab shingle roof that will be installed, according to Delikat’s memo, is outdated.
“This is 2017, holy smokes,” Merideth said.
He did not return calls for comment Wednesday.
Schrader said laminate will be applied to the new roof.
“It’s a better product all the way around,” she said.
A metal roof was not a good alternative, Delikat told council members.
“Between fading and peeling, it’s not worth the value,” he said, using the metal roof on the city’s Vern Burton Community Center as an example.
Council members also discussed the roof’s color, which Schrader said likely would be a black tone.
“There’s a variety of colors to choose from,” she said.
Whetham, praising the contract Tuesday as “a great value for the city,” was concerned about how it would look.
“I just hope you guys choose the right color,” he said.
And Councilwoman Sissi Bruch said she would like a color with “a little more ‘oomph.’ ”
The lodging tax funds for Civic Field also have covered $66,471 for a new home run fence and an estimated $4,000 for improvements to the third-base dugout.
Non-lodging-tax-fund improvements announced in September by Lefties co-owner Matt Acker include 102 cushioned seats, corporate boxes with couches and a party deck with beer and wine available for purchase.
In other action Tuesday, city council members unanimously approved renaming the press box at Civic Field the Howard “Scooter” Chapman Press Box, Georgiana Park the Quinn Redlin Kitner Memorial Park and Francis Street Park the 9/11 Memorial Park.
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Senior Staff Writer Paul Gottlieb can be reached at 360-452-2345, ext. 55650, or at pgottlieb@peninsuladailynews.com.
Port Angeles Parks Department employee Justin Forsdick carries a bucket of tools at Port Angeles Civic Field on Wednesday. The city has awarded a bid for replacement of the grandstand roof to replace the current leaky covering. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)
