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Kokomo Board approves conference center payouts, $2.9M bus-facility contract and other routine items

Board of Public Works and Safety, Kokomo City · January 29, 2026
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Summary

The Kokomo Board of Public Works and Safety on Jan. 28 approved multiple procurement and payment items, including $829,279.81 to Hagerman Inc. for the Kokomo Conference Center, a $2,902,000 contract for a bus maintenance facility, a $48,906.25 vehicle purchase for the fire department, a small street pay estimate, and revised recycling center hours retroactive to Jan. 1.

The Kokomo Board of Public Works and Safety voted on a series of procurement and payment items during its Jan. 28 meeting, approving conference-center pay applications totaling hundreds of thousands of dollars and awarding a $2,902,000 construction contract for a bus maintenance facility.

The board approved a payment recommendation from the Convention & Visitors Bureau (CVB) that included a recommended payment of $829,279.81 to Hagerman Inc. for work on the Kokomo Conference Center, with $43,646.31 to be placed into retainage under the construction contract. The CVB recommendation also accepted payments of $137,834.28 to Envelope IQ and $8,979 to a firm identified in the transcript as Verdis Group (the transcript later also uses the spelling "Veritas Group").…

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