Council member introduces MRB Group to craft facility needs assessment

A council member introduced Greg Koteling, a principal with MRB Group, to the town’s work session and asked the firm to prepare a concept for a facility needs assessment.

The council member said Greg Koteling joined the meeting by Teams and described MRB Group as “the secret sauce of all the projects I’ve worked on over the last 25 years,” adding that the firm is “very good at finding grant money” and is a “full service firm.” The member listed MRB Group’s experience on infrastructure projects including water transmission lines, water tanks, flood service lines and drainage work, and noted recent site visits that included the police station.

The request to MRB Group was procedural and exploratory: the council member asked Koteling to put together an "idea concept" for what a facility needs assessment would look like. The member said another representative, identified only as Mac, had toured local facilities with the member in recent weeks to inform the request.

Greg Koteling did not speak on the public record in the provided transcript; the council member characterized MRB Group’s capabilities and framed the firm as a potential partner to identify funding mechanisms and an action plan for facilities. No specific timetable, budget, contract terms or vote to hire MRB Group were recorded in the transcript.

After the exchange the council indicated a procedural motion to recess the work session and open the public meeting; that motion was stated on the record but no recorded second or vote appears in the transcript.

The council’s next procedural step and any formal authorization to engage MRB Group were not specified in the provided segment.