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In The Family
Village Council Hires Contracting Firm With Strong Shores Ties
According to Mayor Al Davis, Bob Stob lived in
the area for decades and was once very active in village
politics.
By Evan
Berkowitz
The Miami
Shores Village council unanimously authorized agreements with two
companies to design and build the village’s public works motor pool
facility, during a meeting Tuesday.
Both companies chosen to build the motor pool
facility at N.E. 103rd Street and 17th Avenue
have worked for the village of Miami Shores before. Village Clerk
Barbara A. Estep described the hiring of the design firm, DeRose
Consultants, and contractor Stobs Brothers Construction, in one step
as “more cost effective” since they guaranteed price for the
project. This is known as an “at risk” form of contract, she said.
Village Manager Tom Benton said that DeRose was the
council’s first choice for a design firm. The Pompano Beach-based
company will receive $109,200 for their services. Benton said they
had “done some work for us previously,” specifically some design
development on this exact project, which the village started
contacting firms for several years ago. “We believe we’ll be able to
use some of that in terms of applying towards this new project,” he
said. According to DeRose’s
own Web site, many South Florida cities, counties, airports, school
systems, universities and banks, along with large national
corporations and the U.S. Postal Service, have been past clients.
Stob
Bros. Construction has a long history in Miami Shores. According to
Mayor Al Davis, Bob Stob lived in the area for decades and was once
very active in village politics. His company built the Miami Shores
Aquatic Center located on Biscayne Boulevard, just north of the
Miami Shores Country Club which council members were impressed with.
Because Davis’s wife is a member of the Stobs family, the Mayor
recused himself from the second vote, although he told the
SunPost that state regulations did not require he do so.
The mayor
also told the SunPost that he had many complaints from
residents of his village regarding the newspaper littering the front
lawns of private houses where they are regularly tossed but unasked
for. He said that Miami Shores is a community that cares a great
deal about upkeep.
That very
evening, the council also awarded resident Colleen Clifton Wing the
house of the month award for February. After receiving the award,
Wing said that the village had a “fantastic public works
department.”
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