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Monday, October 19, 2020

Who is Doing the Recovery Work?


The county has engaged three firms to oversee the debris-removal portions of recovery from Hurricane Sally for which the Federal Government will ultimately reimburse Escambia County:

Roads Inc.

Ashbritt

Panhandle Paving and Grading

This weekend county staff reported on the subcontractors that have been engaged by each of these firms in this cleanup endeavor.  from the email

Zone 1 – Ashbritt

  1. Added Roads as a contractor for final disposal
  2. Interviewed a WBE for haul-out of mulch that turned down the work
  3. Plans on extending rates to Bonner Tree Service once they begin work in Zone 1 parks

Zone 2 – Panhandle

Panhandle is utilizing the following local sub-contractors:

  1. Creek Waste & Recycling – C&D Debris Hauling / Loading
  2. BKW, Inc. – Vegetation Debris Hauling / Loading / Tree Removal - Cutting
  3. Boyett’s Septic Tank and Portable Toilets
  4. Nations Rent – Pensacola
  5. Sunbelt Rental – Pensacola
  6. SGC, Inc. (Carpentry) – FEMA Towers
  7. TEC Equipment Rental – Pensacola
  8. Thompson Cat Rental – Pensacola
  9. Compu Graphics (Site Signage) – Pensacola
  10. Outpost Rentals, Inc. (Equipment Rental)
  11. Bay Area Blueprints – MAPS / Signage
  12. ACME Rentals (MOT) – Pensacola

Notes:  No significant reported changes.  Note from Panhandle – Panhandle has received and corresponded with several other local contractors within multiple districts of the County, however most of these did not come to fruition as certain companies were unable to provide proper insurance, registrations, etc. and were unable to meet contract requirements.  We have kept notes on this information.  Furthermore, we have advised several of our out of town subcontractors to take calls, pursue local contractors as well. 

Zone 3 – Roads

Roads is utilizing the following local sub-contractors:

  1. MO Construction
  2. The Wallace Company
  3. Cantonment Excavating
  4. BKW Inc.
  5. A & B Hauling
  6. J & M Dozer
  7. Gulf Atlantic Constructors
  8. Floyd Construction
  9. Dave Dunsford
  10. United Rentals
  11. Nova Engineering
  12. Boyett’s Portable services
  13. Sunbelt Rentals
  14. Action Rental
  15. Purifoy Construction, LLC
  16. Arnett Construction Services, LLC
  17. Charlie Heath, LLC


1 comment:

Mel Pino said...

Thank you as always for posting information that County Administration can't/won't, Commissioner Bergosh.

One big problem is that Administration seems to be putting out the word that the first pass has been accomplished. Not by a long shot on the West Side, it hasn't. Navy Point has big swaths of main drag streets that haven't even had a first pass on vegetative debris. But Pat Johnson is telling neighbors we have, probably because he is being told it has been accomplished.

This is not the fault of County staff, but the continued chaos of administrative mismanagement. We have spoken with many contractors who have been out on various things and they themselves agree it's chaos. Sure some of them are probably gaming the system, with haphazard oversight. The ones we have spoken with have expressed that it's a free for all. That's on Janice Gilley.

Worst still is the citizen-blaming...people are too impatient, lazy, they aren't separating debris properly. On our street which had massive piles of vegetative debris there was very little non-vegetative debris to even sort out. The piles were breeding mosquitos and smelled like sewer due to the ECUA overflows. We cleared our properties and across the street with many, many loads over to Lexington Terrace. There has not been a single pickup of a single pile on our street other than that. We were going to start clearing other people's piles when a truck showed up on an adjacent street, so we had hope it would continue around the corner. Nope. And we are on the main drag around the peninsula. I suppose we need to get it through our heads that we simply aren't going to get a vegetative pickup and start clearing our neighbors' piles as well, as they don't have the equipment and/or aren't physically capable.