Mount Vernon City Council on Sept. 29 adopted Resolution 2025-100 authorizing the safety-service director to enter into a contract with Road to Finish LLC to continue construction-inspection services.

Engineering staff member Platt told the council Road to Finish is a consultant used by the city to provide on-site construction inspection and daily reporting when city in-house staff are at capacity. "They do construction inspection for us. They're able to be on the ground during construction projects," Platt said, noting the consultant provides daily reports and can scale up when multiple projects overlap.

Platt said Road to Finish is currently assigned to two major projects: the Mansfield Avenue shared-use path and inspection for the Liberty Crossing development (water, storm and sanitary sewer installations). "We need somebody on-site inspecting that, making sure it's done to the city standards," Platt said. He told council the city's existing contract limit of $75,000 had been reached and that additional authorization would allow the consultant to continue through approximately two more months of the construction season.

Council members asked whether bringing in a different inspection firm would slow progress because a new contractor would need to become familiar with the projects. Platt said keeping the current contractor avoids relearning work and provides continuity.

Council voted to suspend the rules and adopt the resolution by roll call. Staff said the contract extension is intended to ensure projects remain inspected to city standards during the remainder of the construction season and that the consultant's role is primarily to supplement in-house inspection capacity rather than replace it.