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Votes at a glance: Evansville Board of Public Safety actions, March 26, 2025
Summary
Summary of motions voted on and approved by the City of Evansville Board of Public Safety, including procurement authorizations, engineering approvals, event permits, consent items and a heavy-move truck permit.
At its March 26 meeting the City of Evansville Board of Public Safety approved multiple routine and substantive items. The board used voice votes; no roll-call tallies were recorded in the transcript. Key outcomes follow.
Police and procurement - Approved request to seek quotes for a 2025 police pursuit-rated truck (authorized for advertising; staff to return quotes at next meeting). - Approved request to seek quotes for a specialized 2025 pursuit SUV (staff identified Chevy Tahoe as target model). - Approved request to seek quotes for Getac V110 in-vehicle computers. - Opened RFQ 009 for two unmarked four-door sedans; accepted the single bidder (Depatric Honda) and later accepted the bid at the recorded price of $30,004.20 per vehicle. - Approved surplus of obsolete IT/equipment items listed in the police agenda.
City engineering and traffic items - Approved signage and pavement-marking updates on Petersburg Road at Greendale Drive. - Approved lane reconfiguration of North Bakke from four lanes to a three-lane section with a two-way left-turn lane from Virginia Street to Morgan Avenue. - Approved pedestrian crossings on North Green River Road at Theater Drive, Sugar Mill Creek and Spring Valley Road, including integrated pedestrian signals and a northbound left-turn arrow at Sugar Mill Creek; work tied to NDOT Community Crossings grant.
Special events, permits and consent - Approved a special-event permit to close Ninth Street between Locust and Walnut on Thursday, April 3, 2025 for the Evansville Vandenberg Commission on Homeless’ Homeless Connect event (06:45 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.). - Approved multiple road-closure and dumpster permits listed under consent (Market Street grand opening, property cleanouts and related addresses). Specific applicants included Toby Potter/Global Integrity Investments (Market Street grand opening), Crystal Hobgood, Leon Hatter, Danny Holder and Dino Bogibasic for various dumpster placements. - Approved a truck permit for Southern Transport LLC (applicant: David Wachter) to move an extraordinarily heavy piece of equipment (reported as 516,000 pounds) that required review of a bridge crossing; staff said the mover must have appropriate insurance and would be liable for any damage to county infrastructure; escorts were expected.
Administrative - Approved claims and minutes for the March 12, 2025 meeting.
Notes and clarifications - The transcript contains an apparent discrepancy in the initially-read bid amount for the sedans ($30,420 was read earlier) and the amount recorded when the board accepted the bid ($30,004.20 per vehicle). The acceptance motion recorded $30,004.20 per vehicle. - Several items were tied to planned mill-and-overlay resurfacing or to NDOT grant schedules; specific project budgets and construction dates were not provided in the meeting record.
