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File #: 25-548   
Type: Resolution (Consent) Status: Passed
File created: 10/24/2025 In control: Office of Capital Improvements (OCI)
On agenda: 11/17/2025 Final action: 11/17/2025
Enactment date: 11/17/2025 Enactment #: 2025-375
Title: Commissioner Shehan - Office of Capital Improvements - To Award a Construction Contract to Dellinger Inc. in the Amount of $8,022,899.50 for the Dallas High Shoals Regional Sewer Improvements Project, To Appropriate $3,475,000.00 from the Solid Waste Fund Balance, and To Authorize the County Manager, or His Designee, to Execute Said Contract on Behalf of Gaston County
Sponsors: Scott Shehan
Attachments: 1. Adopted 2025-375, 2. RESOLUTION OF TENTATIVE AWARD - High Shoals Regional Sewer, 3. High Shoals Regional Sewer - Engineer's Recommendation to Award, 4. BCR
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Commissioner Shehan - Office of Capital Improvements - To Award a Construction Contract to Dellinger Inc. in the Amount of $8,022,899.50 for the Dallas High Shoals Regional Sewer Improvements Project, To Appropriate $3,475,000.00 from the Solid Waste Fund Balance, and To Authorize the County Manager, or His Designee, to Execute Said Contract on Behalf of Gaston County

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STAFF CONTACT
Ray Maxwell - Executive Director of Capital Improvements - 704-862-7551
Kim Eagle - ARPA Director Water/Sewer - 704-866-3102
BUDGET IMPACT
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Increase Fund Balance appropriation and expense in the Solid Waste Services Fund by $3,475,000.

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BACKGROUND

In September 2022, the NC Division of Water Infrastructure awarded Gaston County $5,478,000 in federal grant funds to meet urgent community needs in the wake of COVID-19. On September 27, 2022, Board Resolution 2022-294 approved and appropriated funds for the Dallas High Shoals Infrastructure Project (hereinafter, the "Project"). On March 28, 2023, Resolution 2023-114 appropriated an additional $2,375,000 of gap funding from the Division of Water Infrastructure to cover a funding shortfall in the Project.

The Dallas High Shoals Regional Sewer Improvements Project (Project # SRP-W-ARP-0074) was publicly advertised, and the bids were received and officially opened on October 23, 2025. A total of six (6) bidders submitted for the project with the results listed below. Dellinger, Inc. submitted the apparent low, responsible bid in the amount of $8,022,899.50.

Contractor
Location
Bid Amount
Timberline Construction Group, LLC
Pelham, AL
$8,998,960.30
Fuller & Co Construction
Crouse, NC
$8,339,111.00
Classic City Mechanical
Winterville, GA
$8,054,417.80
Sanders Utility Construction Co, INC
Charlotte, NC
$8,272,725.78
Elite Infrastructure Group, LLC
Monroe, NC
$9,445,357.90
Dellinger, Inc.
Monroe, NC
$8,022,899.50

Approval of this Board Action by the Gaston County Board of Commissioners accepts the bid received fo...

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