Bartlesville Approves $1.2M Downtown Landscaping Contract

Bartlesville City Council awarded a $1,249,553 contract to KSL Dirtworks on Monday for the third phase of downtown landscaping improvements along Johnstone, Dewey, Fourth and Keeler avenues. The council rejected a $597,059 add-on that would have extended work to Osage Avenue and an additional block of Fourth Street.

KSL Dirtworks will replace landscape beds with tree planters and concrete inlays, install two-foot brick borders along curbs, remove and replace trees with new planters and grates, replace irrigation systems, cap electrical connections and repair drainage systems.

The project required rebidding after the original March solicitation produced a bid $799,716 over the engineer's estimate. City staff reduced the scope and reissued bids in late May.

The 2020 half-cent Capital Improvement Project sales tax funds the work. The city allocated $800,000, added $300,000 from the Capital Reserve, and identified $149,553 in unallocated 2023 General Obligation Bond funds to cover the gap between available money and the accepted bid.