Evansville Water and Sewer Utility Board approves multiple contracts, work orders, amendments and bids

The City of Evansville Water and Sewer Utility Board approved a slate of contracts, bids, amendments and work orders at its March 4 meeting, including a consent agenda and several project-specific approvals.

Key approved items included:

- Consent agenda: minutes from the Feb. 18 meeting; payroll weeks ending Feb. 16 ($202,708.95) and Feb. 23 ($170,654.36); the accounts payable voucher register for March 4; pay request Appendix A; title changes (communication manager to public affairs manager; public information officer to public affairs officer); administrative settlement for property owned by Lloyd Commons LLC in the amount of $25,000; payment of $22,474 to Frank’s Engineering for water-plant annual maintenance; and approval of additional leased vehicles under the master lease with DC Leasing LLC (doing business as Sternberg Advanced Leasing). The board approved the consent agenda on a voice vote.

- Award: The board approved the award recommendation to BNB, Inc. for the Northwoods Avenue and Franklin Street water relocation project (city project U1259) for $63,109.50. Staff said the low bid was 7.7% below engineers’ estimate and that invitations complied with IC 36-1-12-4.7 process for quotes under the state code.

- INDOT storm-sewer agreement: The board approved a highway utility work-by-utility agreement with the Indiana Department of Transportation for installation of a storm sewer trunk line along portions of Pennsylvania Street and Ninth Avenue (part of the Lloyd Expressway work). Staff said the work will install about 800 linear feet of 30–36 inch stormpipe and that the utility is eligible for full reimbursement under INDOT’s contract R45152.

- Professional services and work orders: approval of a new professional-services agreement with American StructurePoint, Inc. for a desktop contaminant-source evaluation and hydrogeologic review (city project U1262) in an amount not to exceed $50,500; approval of Work Order No. 4 to Intera Incorporated under the master technical services agreement to expand groundwater modeling and conduct drilling/monitoring at two city sites (U1248) for $157,817; and approval of Amendment No. 1 to Lochmueller Group’s program-management services for 2024 (U1233), increasing the not-to-exceed total by $300,000 to $1,000,000 and adding preliminary engineering reporting and additional program-management scope.

- Construction and support amendments: approval of Change Order No. 7 to Bowen Engineering Inc. for the Waitsford Yard Lift Station 2019 project (S1315), increasing the contract by $15,910.35 and adding 115 calendar days to final completion (new final completion recorded as April 25); and approval of Amendment No. 1 to the on-call SCADA support agreement with Wessler Engineering (U1242) to allow task-order-based completion dates.

All items above were presented by staff, moved and seconded, and approved on voice votes; transcript records approvals but does not show individual roll-call vote tallies for each action.

The board also heard public comment on a separate easement/variance matter and set its next meeting for March 18 at 3 p.m. at the Sunrise Pump Station.