Finance committee advances Mohawk Harbor overlook bid; presenters say award is within budget

At a city council finance committee meeting, Metroplex staff recommended awarding a construction contract for a public waterfront overlook at Mohawk Harbor and said the recommended award was within the project budget.

Daniel Krupago, project manager at Metroplex, presented on behalf of Metroplex and said the overlook is designed to sit between the planned event center and the Hyatt Hotel parking area and will connect to the existing bike path. Krupago said the recommendation was to award the bid to Carver Construction; he described the award amount in several ways during the presentation (the packet and comments referenced figures that were not consistently read aloud). He told the committee the outlook project is within the approved budget and that the event center and hotel schedules remained on track.

Committee members asked questions about financing and procurement: a committee member asked whether the recommended bid was the lowest and whether the amount was already in the budget; a staff member clarified that one bidder had withdrawn after offering only the electrical portion of the work. No substantive amendments to the award recommendation were recorded. The committee moved the item and approved it by voice vote.

Clarifying details from the discussion include that one bidder withdrew after offering only an electrical sub-bid and that Metroplex will continue coordinating the overlook construction in biweekly meetings with project partners so the work fits alongside the event center and hotel schedules.

No formal roll-call vote or numeric award tally was recorded in the committee transcript provided; the packet should be consulted for the official contract amount and the formal procurement record.