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Votes at a glance: Needham PBBC approves change order, invoices, journal entries and PSS on March 10
Summary
The Permanent Public Building Committee approved a change order, more than a dozen vendor invoices and journal entries, and a professional-services supplement for ground-source wells during its March 10 meeting; all motions were passed by roll call.
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At its March 10 meeting the Permanent Public Building Committee took a series of formal actions by roll-call vote, approving a change order, multiple vendor invoices and journal entries, and a professional-services supplement (PSS) for ground-source heat-pump well work. All motions listed below passed on recorded roll-call votes.
Votes at a glance
- Change order: Approved M O'Connor Contracting Change Order No. 22, $3,989.25 (general-contractor budget). Motion made by Chair Richard Green; seconded by Michael. Roll-call: Stuart, Lynn, Bob, George, Michael, Anne and Chair Green — ayes (7–0).
- Invoices (Emery Grover): Approved requisition to M O'Connor Contracting, $41,840.91 (general-contractor budget); BH+A invoice for January 2025, $1,954.84 (architect budget); Etrack Incorporated key cabinet FF&E invoice, $7,949 (FF&E budget); EG Vanderweil Engineering commissioning invoice, $1,786 (FF&E budget). Motion language made by chair; each passed by roll-call.
- IT journal entries (to be charged to Emery Grover project): Approved CCS computer-hardware charges ($334 and $1,428) and Harvard Networks charges ($4,495 and $5,495) as journal entries to be paid from the project budget. Motion carried on roll-call (one abstention noted from Erwin who had just walked in during the vote).
- RTU / Broadmeadow invoices: Approved GCD Consulting Engineers invoice (January 2025) $4,000 (designer budget) and NV5 commissioning invoice (January 2025) $591.75 (miscellaneous budget). Motions carried on roll-call.
- Library invoices: Approved Util Incorporated invoice (January 2025) for $44,315 (architect budget) and Lyro Hill invoice (Dec 2024–Feb 2025) for $19,322.50 (miscellaneous budget). Motions carried on roll-call.
- DPW Complex PSS: Approved Weston & Sampson PSS No. 2 for ground-source heat-pump well work in the amount of $172,783.00 (designer budget). Motion carried on roll-call (ayes recorded).
- Miscellaneous project invoices: Approved two invoices to Hugh Schott for theater services — $2,146.25 (February 2025 services — Sack 2) and $8,000 (February 2025 services at Newman) from the designer budget; motion carried on roll-call.
All the above motions were recorded in the meeting minutes as carried by roll-call; where a motion’s mover or seconder was explicitly stated in the transcript, it is noted above. If a specific seconder or mover was not named in the transcript excerpt, the committee’s roll-call record was still entered as the formal approval.

