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Votes at a glance: council approves consent items, airport design amendment, road contract and board appointments
Summary
At its meeting, the Abilene City Council approved a consent package of routine items, a design amendment for the airport project, a $1.7 million road reconstruction contract and several board appointments. Public comment and council questions accompanied the airport and road items.
The Abilene City Council approved a package of routine consent items, a task-order amendment for the airport design, a road reconstruction contract for an industrial route and several board appointments during its morning meeting.
The council approved consent agenda items 2, 3, 5, 6, 7 and 8 by voice vote after removing items 4 and 9 for separate consideration. Item 4 (public hearing) and item 9 (airport design task-order amendment) were later taken up individually and approved.
Separately, the council awarded the Great Lakes Drive reconstruction contract to Bonnke Brothers in the amount of $1,700,000 with a project allowance/contingency of $200,000; that project had three bids opened on April 8, and staff recommended Bonnke Brothers based on a best-value determination rather than lowest bid.
The council approved a task-order amendment for further airport design work that staff said was needed to cover an expanded scope developed during recent charrettes; council discussion clarified that the overall project budget remains tied to the roughly $70,000,000 figure presented to voters and that the amendment brings the design work up to the concept shown to voters. A public commenter noted that the city’s share of a large grant package would be about 5 percent, with most funding provided by external grants.
The council also approved two Parks and Recreation Board appointments: the reappointment of Jack Heard and the new appointment of Roston Calerman.
No votes or formal action were taken during the executive session the council recessed into; the mayor said no votes were taken in executive session when the meeting returned to open session.
Votes recorded on individually considered items matched the motion calls recorded at the meeting and were announced as carried by the mayor or acting chair at each roll call.
Ending: The meeting recessed to executive session at 9:09 a.m. under Open Meetings Act sections covering attorney consultation, real property, gifts, personnel, security devices and economic development; it reconvened at 9:41 a.m. with no executive-session action reported.
