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Volume 3 Issue 7 Mesa, AZ
August 30, 2020
East Valley to soon see an open movie house BY KEVIN REAGAN Tribune Staff Writer
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he Alamo Drafthouse Cinemas in Tempe, Chandler and Gilbert will soon start screening films again – six months after multiplexes were forced to close because of the COVID-19 pandemic. And Harkins announced its reopening of long-shuttered theaters as of last Friday. While AMC Theaters gave no indication on its corporate website, both Alamo and Harkins will begin special showings tomorrow, Aug. 31, of what was supposed to be this summer’s first big summer blockbuster – Christopher Nolan’s “Tenet.” Cinemark also is reopening. But if you’re planning to take in that flick – or any others – be prepared to wear a mask. Unless you’re eating popcorn or some other munchies, you’ll have to wear one. Otherwise, you’ll have to either wait until Maricopa County relaxes its mask mandate – something not likely any time soon – or just go back to Netflix. The Arizona Department of Health Services last week gave the green light to Alamo’s and Harkins’ safety plans for reopening as the state weighs reopening requests from hundreds of theaters, bars and gyms. “That was a big step,” said Craig Paschich, co-owner of Alamo’s three theaters in Arizona. The Chandler and Gilbert locations are expected to reopen in a week or two. Harkins and Alamo were among more than 102 venues, gyms and bars approved for reopening early last week. Out of the Public Notices ............... page 2 © Copyright, 2020 East Valley Tribune
800 businesses that initially applied for reopening, at least 202 have been turned down. With benchmarks showing fewer cases of COVID-19 in Maricopa County, gyms and fitness centers to reopen at 25 percent capacity. But they are required to provide the state Health Services Department with an attestation of compliance with its safety protocols and post that in a visible site on their premises. More information is at azhealth.gov. The department issued an announcement encouraging people to report violators to either the state or county health department or even local police. It’s trickier for bars. Only those that convert to “restaurant service’’ can reopen. That means customers must be escorted to tables, groups limited to no more than 10, no standing or mingling, and limited waiting areas. And forget dancing. Paschich said the application process with DHS was relatively straightforward and not too burdensome. Patrons can expect to see many changes at all three locations as Alamo Drafthouse adapts to protocols to protect staff and patrons from the coronavirus. Staff and customers will be required to wear masks inside the theaters, but can remove them while eating popcorn or other items. Stickers will be placed on the floors of the cinema’s bathrooms to instruct visitors how to navigate the common space without getting too close to others. (USPS 004-616) is published weekly
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The Alamo theatres are part of a national chain of cinemas known for their large screening rooms that allow for guests to order food and be served alcohol during the show. Arizona’s Alamo locations will initially offer a scaled-down version of their food and beverage menu, Paschich said, and customers will be given disposable paper menus. Alamo’s online ticketing system will automatically place a two-seat buffer between every group of customers in order to ensure guests are seated at least six feet from each other at all times. If a guest starts to feel ill during a screening and needs to leave, Alamo says it will refund the patron’s ticket. Similar protocols are being introduced by Harkins. “There is no question that this has been the most difficult time in my 50 plus years in the business. I am so excited and so appreciative of our incredible team and tremendously loyal guests that have continued to support us through this challenging time,” said Dan Harkins, owner of the theaters that bears his family’s name. Both Paschich and Harkins President/ CEO Mike Bowers said reopening is not only good news for them but for moviegoers numbed by the wave of pandemicrelated news in recent months. “In trying times, people have always looked to us to escape for just a few hours of solace and to immerse themselves in another world,” said Bowers. Harkins said its new protocols “will meet or exceed uniform guidance from Subscriptions are $26 for 2 years, $14 for one year. Periodicals postage paid at Phoenix, AZ 85026.
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the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, governmental health authorities and the National Association of Theatre Owners so that guests can sit back, relax, and get lost in the magic of the movies.” Harkins is adding enhanced cleaning and sanitizing, daily health checks for staff, social distance seating between every pair of seats and reduced audience capacity and showtimes. Harkins Loyalty Cups will be refilled with a new paper cup and all other refills on paper drink and popcorn containers will be discontinued until further notice. Along with hand sanitizers throughout its theaters, Harkins also has installed increased fresh air, hospital-grade MERV 13 air filters and HEPA filtered vacuums in all auditoriums The state has allowed the theaters to open at 25 percent of their normal capacity, Paschich said, and he hopes the business can gradually expand up to 50 percent in the following weeks. The benefit of running a movie house, Paschich added, is that owners get to set their own schedule and decide how many movies they want to screen – thus controlling the number of guests they have at any time.
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“We can really make sure we don’t have a lot of guests there at one time to make sure we don’t have a lot of people in the common areas,” Paschich said. Alamo will disinfect each screening room every night with a special sanitation chemical and staff will be trained to regularly clean surfaces in between showtimes throughout the day. Alamo also is assigning one employee to a special position it calls “the lobby mayor,” who will be responsible for guiding guests around common areas and maintaining traffic flow. In a way, closing theaters made little difference for movie fans since blockbusters were already moved to late this year and even next. Hollywood started cancelling or delaying the release of many highly-anticipated films in mid-March and eventually resorted to releasing some movies through video-on-demand services. When the state shut down in March, Paschich said he expected the moratorium to maybe last only a couple months and theaters would be open again by summer. “We never thought it was going to be six months,” he said. “It’s been really rough.” Alamo managed to obtain some finan-
INSTRUCTIONS Subcontractors and suppliers are encouraged to read the entirety of these instructions. For questions about the process, project or proposal submission, please contact the Bid Manager directly. Supplement and sample documents are for information only. Standard industry procurement procedures and negotiations will proceed bid day. Thank you for the interest in StreetLights Residential! Date: August 24, 2020 Bid Deadline for Submittal: September 10, 2020, 12:00 PM Local Arizona Time Location: 1530 S. Higley Road, Gilbert, AZ 85296 (Project Construction Trailer Parking Lot , W Corner of Higley and Ray) Solicitation number: 409125-002 Project: Agritopia Epicenter Offsite Improvements Bid Manager: Courtney W. Dunlap SLR Construction Dept. cdunlap@streetlightsres.com Tel: (480) 407-2900 Contract Documents available at https://street-lightsres.box. com/s/hado9w9bbx0iehi8pypk3efykyw7o700 these files are available at no charge. Date and Location for Submittal of Sealed Bids: Sealed bids
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cial aid from the government’s COVID-19 relief funds and has spent the last few months renegotiating leases with its landlords. Yet the pandemic’s economic impacts were still severe enough to prompt Alamo to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protections a couple months ago. The business said back in May it was going to use the bankruptcy filing as a chance to reorganize its finances and plan ahead for the future. Meanwhile, AMC on Aug. 21 reopened more than 100 movie theaters in 17 states and the District of Columbia but Arizona is not among them. Only several months ago, reports said that the pandemic had crippled AMC worldwide. “AMC is carrying billions in debt and has been teetering on the edge of bankruptcy for months,” The Hollywood Reporter said two months ago of the nation’s largest movie chain. In the theaters it has opened, AMC has announced new safety equipment and protocols almost identical to those of Harkins. Information: drafthouse.com, harkins.com, amc.com.
will be received at StreetLights Residential’s Construction Trailer parking lot for Agritopia Epicenter located at 1530 S. Higley Road, Gilbert, AZ 85296 (NW corner of Higley and Ray) until 12:00 p.m. Thursday September 10, 2020, for the above project. Bids must be submitted in a sealed envelope clearly marked on the outside with the name of the Project and the solicitation number. Any bid received after the time specified will be returned unopened. It is the bidder’s responsibility to assure bids are received at the above location on or before the specified time. Bids will be opened at 2:00 p.m. in the parking lot of the Construction Trailer Offices, and publicly read aloud. In the case of extensive price listings, only the bidder’s names will be read aloud, and the determination of the highest bid will be made after further StreetLights Residential’s review. Pre-Bid Conference: A prebid conference will not be held. Right to Reject Bids: StreetLights Residential reserves the right to reject any or all bids, waive any informality in a bid or to withhold the Award for any reason StreetLights determines. Equal Opportunity: StreetLights Residential is an equal opportunity
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employer. Minority and women’s business enterprises are encouraged to submit bids on this solicitation. Project Description: Agritopia Epicenter is a mixeduse development in Gilbert, AZ. This solicitation is specific to the Offsite Improvements for the Street Light Pole relocation and added Traffic Signal identified in the Civil Offsite plans prepared by Landcore Consulting and Wright Engineering Corporation. StreetLights Residential is soliciting bids from trade contractors. The offsites improvements include but are not limited to the following: Traffic Control, Traffic Signal and Street Light Pole relocation. Estimated Start: Construction for the Offsite Improvements for the Street Light Pole Relocation and Traffic Signal is anticipated to start in the 4th Quarter of 2020. Published: East Valley Tribune, Aug 23, 30, 2020 / 32700
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CRISMON ROAD, MESA, AZ PROJECT NO. CA240 ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that sealed bids will be received until September 10, 2020 at 1:00p.m. All bids will be received electronically. Bids shall be submitted to the following email: EngineeringBids@mesaaz.gov. Bids must be submitted as an unencrypted PDF attachment with a maximum file size of 20MB. Please ensure that your email is smaller than this before sending. Submitted bids that are unable to be opened by City staff will not be considered for award. Bidders may request a single opportunity to verify that a test email and attachment are received and can be opened by City staff. Test emails must to be sent to EngineeringBids@mesaaz. gov. Any bid received after the time specified will be returned without any consideration. A non-mandatory Pre-Bid Conference will be held via Telephone on Thursday, August 27, 2020 at 1:00p.m. The Conference Bridge call in is 866.429.7190 conference ID 174-6445 in order to join the call. There will not be a pre-bid review of the site. This contract shall be for furnishing all labor, materials, transportation and services for the construction and/or installation of the following work: Channel Improvements along Williams Field Road at the intersection of Crismon Road and Williams Field Road as outlined by the Offsite Improvement Plans for Williams Field Road Channel. Excludes rough grading (by others). The Engineer’s Estimate range is $700,000 – $800,000. For all technical, contract, bidrelated, or other questions, please contact Stephanie Gishey at stephanie.Gishey@mesaaz.gov. Contact with City Employees. All firms interested in this project (including the firm’s employees, representatives, agents, lobbyists, attorneys, and subconsultants) will refrain, under penalty of disqualification, from direct or indirect contact for the purpose of influencing the selection or creating bias in the selection process with any person who may play a part in the selection process. This policy is intended to cre-ate a level playing field for all potential firms, to assure that contract decisions are made in public, and to protect the integrity of the selection process. All contact on this selection process should be addressed to the authorized representative identified above. Contractors desiring to submit proposals may purchase sets of the Bid Documents from ARC Document Solutions, LLC, at https://order.e-arc.com/arcEOC/ PWELL_Main.asp?mem=29. Click on “Go” for the Public Planroom to access plans. NOTE: In order to be placed on the Plan Holders List and to receive notifications and updates regarding this bid (such as addenda) during the bidding period, an order must be placed. The cost of each Bid Set will be no more than $10.00_, which is non-refundable. Partial bid packages are not sold. You can view documents on-line (at no cost), order Bid Sets, and access the Plan Holders List on the website at the address listed above. Please verify print lead time prior to arriving for pick-up. For a list of locations nearest you, go to www.e-arc.com. Work shall be completed within sixty (60) consecutive calendar
days, beginning with the day following the starting date specified in the Notice to Proceed. Bids must be submitted on the Proposal and Schedule Form provided and be accompanied by a Bid Bond, certified check, or cashier’s check (PERSONAL OR INDIVIDUAL BID BONDS ARE NOT ACCEPTABLE) for ten percent (10%) of the total amount of the Bid, payable to Otago Development, Inc., as a guarantee that the contractor will enter into a contract to perform the proposal in accordance with the plans and specifications. The successful bidder will be required to execute the Otago Development, Inc. Contract and respective Addenda for construction within ten (10) days after formal Notice of Contact Award. Failure by bidder to properly execute the Contract and provide the required certification as specified shall be considered a breach of Contract by bidder. Otago Development, Inc. shall be free to terminate the Contract or, at op-tion, release the successful bidder. Payment and Performance Bonds will be required for this Work. The successful bidder, simultaneously with the execution of the Contract, shall be required to furnish a Payment Bond in the amount equal to one hundred percent (100%) of the Contract Price, and a Performance Bond in an amount equal to one hundred percent (100%) of the Contract Price. The successful bidder shall name Otago Development, Inc. as obligee on both the Payment and Performance Bonds and name the City of Mesa as an additional obligee on the Performance Bond using a Dual Obligee Rider form. An approved Dual Obligee Rider Form is included in Chapter 2. The right is hereby reserved to accept or reject any or all bids or parts thereto, to waive any informalities in any proposal and reject the bids of any persons who have been delinquent or unfaithful to any con-tract with Otago Development, Inc., the City of Mesa or Cadence Community Facilities District. BETH HUNING City Engineer ATTEST: Dee Ann Mickelsen City Clerk Published: East Valley Tribune, Aug. 23, 302020 / 32688
Projects throughout the City. The consultant will be responsible for identifying utility attributes such as size, material type, age, condition, owner-ship, and number of conduits while determining the accuracy of both the horizontal and vertical locations of the top and bottom of the utility while being referenced to an approved City of Mesa project survey datum. Collection of data will follow the guidelines outlined in CI/ ASCE 38-02 “Standard Guideline for the Collection and Depiction of Existing Subsurface Utility Data” or its updated version. Collected data will seek to obtain quality information which includes outside diameter, configuration of utilities, material composition, elevations, photos, paving thickness and type, and general soils conditions, and another pertinent information as is reasonably ascertainable from each test hole site. This data will be formatted and provided to the City and stamped by a registered professional seal (surveyor or engineer) as an elec-tronic excel spreadsheet (Exhibit A of the RFQ) for incorporation into the maintained GIS database of potholing data, to be managed by the City of Mesa. The intent of this investigation is to reduce as much as possible the risks associated with unknown or mis-located utilities. The result of this design service and product, when done correctly, can significantly reduce construction cost, improve construction schedules, minimize utility services disruptions, and reduce contractor’s claims inherent to work around existing underground utilities. PLANNED ENGINEERING SERVICES The professional engineering services, Subsurface Utility Engineering (SUE) includes, but not limited to: • Performing “designating” services to locate and identify the horizontal position of subsurface utilities, dependent upon project needs; • Performing “locating” services to obtain utility’s precise vertical and horizontal position utilizing minimally intrusive excavation method, when possible; • Performing “data management” services to accurately manage and incorporate survey data and CADD mapping capabilities providing efficient, timely, cost controlled and quality as-sured product; • Providing a written report for each “locating” excavation test hole sealed by a professional registered civil engineer. The report will identify the horizontal and vertical surveyed locations, grade elevations relative to the project basis of elevation, stations and offsets relative to project survey control line, and the sizes, types, and a description of all the utility line encountered. • Providing deliverables format to clear and distinguish quality levels (ASCE 38-02); Providing all necessary permits and traffic protection provisions to enter public right-of-way and/or private property from the applicable jurisdiction; • Providing full job site permanent restoration to match existing surface per Mesa standard detail requirements; Accepting full responsibility for the job site during all phases of the SUE investigation services • Subsurface Utility Coordination; From this solicitation, the Engineering Department will establish a list of on-call consultants for Transportation Engineering
Public Notice CITY OF MESA, ARIZONA ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT REQUEST FOR QUALIFICATIONS (RFQ) NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the City of Mesa is seeking qualified Consultants for the following: ON-CALL CONSULTING SERVICES FOR TRANSPORTATION ENGINEERING SERVICES The City of Mesa is seeking qualified Consultants to provide design services and/or construction administration services on an on-call basis in the following area/category: Transportation Engineering Services. All qualified firms that are interested in providing these services are invited to submit their Statements of Qualifications (SOQ) in accordance with the requirements detailed in the Request for Qualifications (RFQ). Utility subsurface locating and potholing services to support ongoing design and construc-tion efforts for Capital Improvement
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Services. This category is further defined below: A Pre-Submittal Conference will not be held. Contact with City Employees. All firms interest-ed in this RFQ (including the firm’s employees, representatives, agents, lobbyists, attorneys, and subconsultants) will refrain, under penalty of disqualification, from direct or indirect con-tact for the purpose of influencing the selection or creating bias in the selection process with any person who may play a part in the selection process. This policy is intended to create a level playing field for all potential firms, assure that contract decisions are made in public and to protect the integrity of the selection process. All contact on this selection process should be addressed to the authorized representative identified below. RFQ Lists. This RFQ is available on the City’s website at http:// mesaaz.gov/business/engineer-ing/ architectural-engineering-designopportunities. The Statement of Qualifications shall include a one-page cover letter that contains current company/firm contact information including a valid phone number and email address, plus a maximum of 10 pages to address the SOQ evaluation criteria (excluding PPVF’s and resumes but including an organization chart with key personnel and their affiliation). Resumes for each team member shall be limited to a maximum length of two pages and should be attached as an appendix to the SOQ. Minimum font size shall be 10pt. Please provide one (1) electronic copy in an unencrypted PDF format to EngineeringRFQ@mesaaz.gov by 2:00PM on Thursday, September 17, 2020. Maximum file size shall not exceed 20MB. SOQ’s that are unable to be opened by City staff will not be considered for award. Submitters may request a single opportunity to verify that a test email and attachment are received and can be opened by City staff. Test emails must be sent to Engineering-RFQ@ mesaaz.gov. The City reserves the right to accept or reject any and all Statements of Qualifications. The City is an equal opportunity employer. Firms who wish to do business with the City of Mesa must be registered and activated in the City of Mesa Vendor Self Service (VSS) System (http://mesaaz.gov/ business/purchasing/vendor-selfservice). Questions. Questions pertaining to the Consultant selection process or contract issues should be directed to Michele Davila of the Engineering Department at Michele.Davila@mesaaz.gov BETH HUNING City Engineer ATTEST: DeeAnn Mickelsen City Clerk Published: East Valley Tribune, Aug. 30, Sept 6, 302020 / 32803
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