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Board approves three-month loaned-employee contract with Burns & McDonnell for engineering staff augmentation, 6–1

5944359 · October 14, 2025
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Summary

The Fort Smith Board authorized a short-term staff-augmentation agreement with Burns & McDonnell to provide a loaned engineering employee for the streets, bridges and drainage CIP. The modified three-month agreement caps cost at $155,001.21 and 80¢ and passed 6–1.

The Board of Directors voted to approve a loan-to-personnel agreement with Burns & McDonnell Engineering to provide a loaned employee to the City’s engineering department for staff augmentation.

Staff introduced the item as a modified, three-month agreement intended to carry the City through the end of the calendar year rather than the originally proposed six-month term. The cost was presented as “not to exceed $155,001.21 and 80¢.”

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