Crown Point City’s safety/utilities board on Jan. 7 approved a series of State Revolving Fund (SRF) disbursements and heard that a bore under Main Street encountered an old casing pipe that could affect the downtown interceptor schedule.

City staff told the board SRF disbursement number 5 is a payment to contractor Atlas for the sewer portion in the amount of $682,907.62, with a corresponding retainage payment of $35,942.51. Staff also asked the mayor to execute SRF disbursement number 18 for engineering invoices for December 2025 in the amount of $27,183 and SRF disbursement number 16 for engineering and RPR services in the amount of $344,388. "The invoice amount and the disbursement request form request is in the amount of $27,183," staff said during the meeting. "SRF disbursement number 5 to the contractor Atlas for the sewer portion of the work is in the amount of $682,907.62 with a corresponding payment to retainage in the amount of $35,942.51."

Board members moved and seconded the requests and approved the disbursements by voice votes. The meeting record shows no individual roll-call tallies for those votes; approvals were recorded as voice votes.

Separately, staff reported a drilling crew performing a bore from the treatment plant toward Lewis Street ran into an obstruction within about 100 feet of the planned endpoint. Staff said the obstruction appears to be an old casing pipe that contains two force mains from the White Hawk pump station and that the bore depth (about 20 feet) differs from the force-main depth (about 7 feet). "We've determined it was a casing pipe...we're having them excavate on the west side of the road to expose the mouth of the casing pipe so we can determine what it is and then identify a remedy," staff said. The city noted it has a $1,000,000 allowance in the contract for city-owned utility relocates and that work will be coordinated with the contractor to mitigate schedule impact.

City staff also said the Southeast Wastewater Treatment Plant design is out to bid with a Feb. 3 bid opening and that collection-system improvements (lift stations, force mains and the interceptor) are on track to go out to bid in 2026 once designs are finalized.

The board did not specify individual vote tallies in the minutes; motions passed by voice vote. The board authorized the mayor to execute the disbursement forms as requested.