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Board approves multimillion-dollar payments and takes bids under advisement for Kokomo conference center project
Summary
At its Sept. 24 meeting, the Board of Public Works and Safety accepted bids for the Ferris/Conference Center project and approved invoices and pay application recommendations totaling more than $2.1 million after review by the Convention & Visitors Bureau and the owner's representative, Veritas Group.
KOKOMO, Ind. — The City of Kokomo’s Board of Public Works and Safety on Sept. 24 accepted construction bids for the Ferris (conference) center project and approved multiple invoices and a large pay application recommended by the project’s owner’s representative. The board took the bids under advisement and approved payment recommendations reviewed earlier by the Convention & Visitors Bureau (CVB).
The board received three bids for the Ferris Center project. The amounts recorded in the meeting transcript were: Solid Finished Construction for $2,275,020; Dyckman Excavating for $264,055; and Contracting Inc. for $249,500. Board members moved to take those bids under advisement; no award was recorded at the meeting.
The board approved a pay application and invoices linked to the conference center’s construction. Pay Application No. 12, dated Sept. 10, 2025, showed a gross request of $2,148,655.02, issued by contractor Hagerman. Veritas Group, the owner’s representative, recommended distributing $2,041,222.26 to the contractor and placing $107,432.75 into retainage. The CVB reviewed the construction materials at its Sept. 17 meeting and accepted Veritas Group’s payment recommendation.
Separately, the board approved Invoice No. 204676 from Veritas Group, dated Sept. 9, 2025, for $10,801.90 and an invoice from SMR for structural engineering services dated Sept. 5 for $6,288.75. Each payment recommendation was presented as reviewed by the CVB on Sept. 17 and was moved and adopted during the board meeting; board votes were recorded as “Aye. Motion carries.”
Discussion at the meeting was procedural: staff presented bid tallies and payment recommendations; no member of the public spoke on the project during the meeting. The board did not take a final contract-award action on the Ferris Center bids at this session, and staff did not specify a date for awarding the contract.
The actions taken were approvals of payment recommendations and the administrative step of receiving bids. The board’s approvals authorize the city to process the recommended payments and to keep the received bids on file for subsequent evaluation or award steps.
Details: Pay Application No. 12 (gross): $2,148,655.02; Veritas-recommended distribution to contractor: $2,041,222.26; retainage: $107,432.75; Veritas invoice: $10,801.90; SMR structural invoice: $6,288.75. All amounts were presented as specified in meeting documents reviewed by the CVB. No additional financing or award conditions were described on the record.
