City Halts Bids: Good job City Council and Mr. City Manager

As reported by Mikaela Rodriquez in today's Laredo Morning Times, the city manager, with city councils approval, has halted the bids for the Zacate Creek cleanup.

On Monday night at the city council meeting, Jerome Rosales of JR Landscaping claimed that the bidding process for the Zacate Creek cleanup project had been corrupted, and that he felt the bid was wrongly awarded to another firm.

City manager Carlos Villareal made the following comments:
“This formula that we have — and I’m sorry to say it’s under my watch — I need to take a look at this process again,” City Manager Carlos Villarreal said Monday when he recommended City Council table the item, referring to the point system used to award contracts. (From the Laredo Morning Times)

And when you read the article, you will see that the city has done it's job in looking into this complaint.

Now, all we await is the determination as to what will happen to the committee who was swayed into making the original bid recommendation in the first place.

Again, fast and open reaction to a complaint.  The way it should be, ALWAYS.