The board opened bids for the Sportsplex parking-lot project and agreed to send the submissions to NICE Engineering for tabulation and a recommendation. A staff member read three bids: Milestone Contractors LP at $254,604, Reeth Riley Construction Co., Inc. at $231,965 and H3 Concrete Inc. at $115,330.

The bids were presented during the meeting’s procurement review. “We have bid openings for the Sportsplex parking lot project,” a staff member said while reading the amounts into the record. A second staff member asked that NICE Engineering review the bids, saying the firm had helped develop the plan to reconfigure the parking lot to improve access to the traffic signal.

“I recommend we send it to NICE Engineering for tabulation and recommendation,” a board member said; another board member concurred. The board’s direction was procedural: refer the bids to the engineering consultant for technical tabulation and a recommendation back to the board rather than awarding a contract at the meeting.

No formal award vote or contract was taken at the session. The board’s next step is contingent on NICE Engineering’s tabulation and recommendation, which will return to the board for consideration.