Board passes series of routine claims, contracts and infrastructure items including pathway award, rail agreement update and pump replacement solicitation

The La Porte Board of Public Works and Safety approved a package of routine financial, procurement and infrastructure items at its Sept. 3 meeting.

Key approvals included payroll and claims dockets for the city, authorization to immediately pay incoming WEX (fuel) invoices to avoid service interruption, and a motion to use the state Quantity Purchase Agreement (QPA) for liquid propane after the city’s current Ferrell Gas contract ends Dec. 31, 2025; the QPA is available through 10/22/2026 and suppliers on that QPA will provide tanks where tanks are not owned by the state agency, staff said.

The board also awarded the alternate bid for Slicer Pathway to Gary Up Construction for $288,700 (alternate: concrete pathway rather than a widened roadway and asphalt pathway). City staff described the alternate as a six‑foot concrete pathway separated from the roadway that fills a sidewalk gap between Kiwanis and the high school and connects the bus barn area.

A revised agreement with Norfolk Southern to complete the last section of the chassis…