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ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS
Sealed bids will be received by the City of Moundville at the office of McGiffert and Associates, LLC, 2814 Stillman Boulevard, Tuscaloosa, AL 35401, on the 9th day of June, 2025 until 2:00 p.m., local time, and then publicly opened and read for the furnishing of all labor, material and equipment for performing the project according to the plans, details, specifications and Contract Documents. Award of the Contract will be made within forty-five (45) calendar days from the date of the bid opening.
- The Project shall be known as City of Moundville – 2025 Street Resurfacing Project and the general character of said project shall consist of street resurfacing (bituminous concrete). Total estimated construction cost for the project is $225,000.00.
- Plans and specifications and all related Contract Documents are open for public inspection at the office of McGiffert and Associates, LLC, located at Tuscaloosa, Alabama, and plans, specifications and other elements of the contract documents may be obtained from the office of the Engineer, McGiffert and Associates, LLC, designated as the office of the awarding authority for this purpose.
Plans, specifications and Contract Documents may be obtained at the above location upon the deposit of $50.00, which amount does not exceed twice the cost of printing, reproduction, handling and distribution of each set of such documents. Deposits by prime Contractor bidders are refundable in full upon return of all documents in reusable condition within ten (10) days of bid opening. Additional sets of bid documents for prime Contractor bidders, subcontractors, vendors or dealers may be obtained upon payment of the same deposit. Such deposits will not be refunded. - All bidders must be responsible, meeting the criteria and requirements set forth in the Instructions to Bidders and bid proposal. The attention of all bidders is called to the provisions of State law governing “general Contractors,” as set forth in AL. CODE 34-8-1, et seq. (1975), and rules and regulations promulgated pursuant thereto. The Owner may not enter into a contract with a non-resident corporation or entity which is not qualified under State law to do business in the State of Alabama. All bidders shall possess all other licenses and/or permits required by applicable law, rule or regulation of the performance of the work. All bidders must submit with their proposal, Contractor’s license number and a copy of the license. State law, AL CODE 34-8-8(b), requires all bids to be rejected which do not contain the General Contractor’s current license number.
- Each bidder must submit with its bid a cashier’s check drawn on an Alabama bank or a fully executed bid bond on the form that is contained in the Contract Documents executed by a surety company duly authorized and qualified to make bond in the State of Alabama. All bonds, sureties and/or cashier checks will be made payable to the Owner for an amount not less than 5 percent of the Owner’s or its Engineer’s estimated cost of the project or of the total bid in the proposal, but in no event more than $10,000.00.
- A PreBid Conference is not required for this project.
- All bidders are advised to carefully read the Instructions to Bidders contained in the Contract Documents, which provisions and requirements are adopted herein by reference.
CITY OF MOUNDVILLE
Tony Lester, Mayor
1tc/5-28-25
IN THE JUVENILE COURT OF HALE COUNTY, ALABAMA
IN RE: THE MATTER OF REED DAVIEON MARQUELL, (D.O.B: 07/01/2010) a minor child.
CASE NO.: JU-2019-20.02
NOTICE OF PETITON FOR TERMINATION OF
PATRENTAL RIGHTS
TO: Deborah Michelle Reed, mother of said child.
You are hereby given notice that a petition has been filed by the Hale County Department of Human Resources requesting your paternal rights be terminated to Davieon Marquell Reed, born July 1, 2010, in Montgomery, Alabama. You are hereby given notice that you are required to file an answer with the Clerk of the Juvenile Court and with the Petitioner’s attorney, Walter
A. Griess, Post Office Box 528, Eutaw, Alabama 35462, within fourteen (14) days of the date of the last publication of this notice or a default judgment can be entered against you. A final hearing on said petition can be held within ninety (90) days after the last day of this publication. You have been appointed an attorney in this matter. His name is John Ryan. His office address is 1004 Main Street, Greensboro, Alabama 36744. His office number is (334) 624-4001.
Catrinna Long
Perry CIRCUIT CLERK
4tc/5-21-25, 5-28-25, 6-4-25, 6-11-25
LEGAL NOTICE
Letters of Administration with the Will Annexed on the Estate of Patricia Jefferson Davis, deceased, having been granted to Lisa Davis Bowen, as Personal Representative on the 5th day of May, 2025. by the Probate Court of Hale County, Alabama, notice is hereby given that all persons having claims against said estate are hereby required to present the same within the time allowed by law or the same will be barred.
David L. Parker
Hale County Probate Judge
3tc/5-14-25, 5-21-25, 5-28-25
LEGAL NOTICE
Letters Testamentary on the Estate of Evelyn D. Edwards, deceased, having been granted to Katharine Davis Campbell, as Personal Representative on the 5th day of May, 2025, by the Probate Court of Hale County, Alabama, notice is hereby given that all persons having claims against said estate are hereby required to present the same within the time allowed by law or the same will be barred.
David L. Parker
Hale County Probate Judge
3tc/5-14-25, 5-21-25, 5-28-25