Votes at a glance: Urbandale council approves sewer lining, plats, park facilities, traffic and fiber projects

Urbandale City Council members on April 14 approved a series of procurement, platting and site-plan items, moving forward infrastructure and park projects and establishing a public hearing for the fiscal-year 2025–26 operating budget.

The council approved low bids for two construction contracts and accepted multiple planning and site plans. Most votes passed unanimously with motion and second recorded on the public record; recorded tallies were not provided in the meeting transcript.

The most substantive procurement decisions included awarding the 2025 sewer-lining contract to Municipal Pipe Tool Company and approving traffic and fiber work to upgrade signals and connect Meredith Drive signals to the city’s traffic management system. John Larson, director of engineering and public works, presented the sewer-lining bid tabulation and project scope: the recommended low bid was $556,675.15 for about 13,900 feet of sewer lining (just over 12,000 feet in Urbandale, 1,550 feet in Windsor Heights and 250 feet of storm sewer lining). The city will pay the portion of the storm sewer lining (reported as just under $36,000); most of the sanitary-lining work will be paid by two sewer districts. Larson said the contractor’s bid was nearly 4% under the engineer’s estimate and that the work must be completed by the end of the calendar year.

The council approved three resolutions tied to the sewer-lining project: Resolution 127-2025, Resolution 128-2025 and Resolution 129-2025 (motions and seconds were recorded on the transcript; individual vote tallies were not reported). The public hearing on the project was opened and closed during the meeting; no public comments were recorded on the…