Evansville Board of Public Works approves lease, multiple contracts and right-of-way permits

The Evansville City Board of Public Works on Aug. 28 approved a series of routine leases, contracts and permits affecting city operations, public safety facilities, housing assistance and a planned cemetery storage building.

The board voted to approve a lease agreement with the Evansville Vandenberg County Building Authority for a building at 401 East Illinois Street to use as a storage facility for the Evansville Police Department; approve a $183,752 contract with Dye Brothers Lumber and Construction to renovate the bathroom and locker room at Fire Station 15 (1711 South Weinbach); and approve a $1,500 professional services contract with Form Function Integrity Engineering Solutions LLC (project 2025-001) to prepare a project scope and preliminary drawings for construction of a dirt barn with attached shop at Oak Hill Cemetery. The board also authorized advertising for bidders on the cemetery project, with advertisements scheduled for Sept. 5 and Sept. 12, 2025.

Board members approved an amendment to the city's pharmacy benefits manager (PBM) contract with Maxor that extends the agreement from Dec. 31, 2025, to Dec. 31, 2028, with the city's staff reporting lower rates that can be locked in effective July 1, 2025. Benefits staff member Miss Lindbergh told the board that Maxor is the city's PBM and that the amended rates would be reprocessed to capture refunds to the city where applicable.

The board granted the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency access to a downtown transfer-station property identified in an EPA notice as within the Jacobsville sampling area and authorized Jonathan Sebecuing, director of METS, to sign the access agreement. Sebecuing told the board the EPA letter described residential sampling and that the letter appeared to include the city's downtown terminal; he said it was "free to the city" for the EPA to collect samples and, if necessary, to fund soil replacement and removal.

The board approved an amendment extending a CDBG-funded down-payment assistance contract with Hope of Evansville Inc. (CDBG 02/2024) through Dec. 31, 2025, keeping the contract total at $150,000, and approved a slate of right-of-way permit applications (numbers 22292'02294, 2296'02299, 2301'02309) with no exceptions taken; application 2295 was noted as work that lies in the county and therefore exceptioned.

All motions reported at the meeting were approved by voice vote; the minutes, bills and payrolls for the previous period were also approved and the board adjourned at approximately 1:42 p.m.

Votes at a glance

- Approve minutes (08/21/2025): approved (voice vote). - Lease: Approve lease agreement with Evansville Vandenberg County Building Authority for 401 East Illinois Street (EPD storage facility): approved (voice vote). - Contract: Approve contract with Dye Brothers Lumber and Construction for Station 15 bathroom and locker-room renovation, $183,752: approved (voice vote). - Contract: Approve professional services contract with Form Function Integrity Engineering Solutions LLC for Oak Hill Cemetery project 2025-001, $1,500: approved (voice vote). - Procurement: Authorize advertisement for bids for project 2025-001OH (Oak Hill…