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Council approves multiple infrastructure, utilities and IT contracts and a year-end appropriation
Summary
During the Dec. 9 meeting the council approved a slate of construction, utilities, and technology contracts (totaling several million dollars) and passed a roughly $3.2 million appropriation to cover year-end budget adjustments.
The Fort Wayne Common Council on Dec. 9 approved a series of infrastructure, utilities and technology contracts and a year-end appropriation intended to cover remaining 2025 obligations.
Key items included multiple public-works construction contracts (sidewalk and street projects), stormwater and sewer contracts under City Utilities, and larger equipment or software purchases for water and city IT. Examples noted in committee and approved for passage included:
- Sunny Meadows Stormwater Improvements (S25-11-24), $522,573 (Kraft Water Solutions) funded through stormwater utility revenue. - Belmont Storm Improvements and Street Reconstruction (S25-11-25), $2,904,771.50 (Crosby Excavating) funded through stormwater utility revenue and public-works reimbursement for road work. - Maplewood Lift Station Rehab (S25-11-32), $198,540 (Jute Excavating) funded through sewer revenue. - WPCP Headworks rebuild service agreement (S25-11-36), $739,150 (Parkson/Parks Corporation) funded through sewer revenue. - High-service pump control valves at 3 Rivers Filtration Plant (S25-11-40), $753,052 (FAICO LLC) funded through water revenue. - Various IT and service purchases introduced for 2026 including a financial reporting system, fiber services, and phone/network equipment with combined not-to-exceed amounts in the low hundreds of thousands to mid-seven-hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Deputy Controller Valerie outlined A25-11-33, a request for roughly $3.2 million in additional appropriations in the General Fund to meet remaining 2025 obligations. Items in Valerie's breakdown included approximately $1.3 million for SAN storage equipment (previously approved), about $30,000 for legal fees in the city clerk's office, roughly $1.9 million for the city's portion of CCP operations (including approximately $500,000 for half the new phone system), and smaller infrastructure appropriations. Valerie said these additions were included in the 2026 budget analysis.
Council votes on these routine procurement and budget items were largely unanimous during committee and the regular session.
What's next: Staff will proceed with procurement and contracting steps for approved projects and implement the appropriations as described in the controller's presentation; some items were introduced for future public hearings where required.
