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Council accepts FY2025 audit, approves wellfield contract and purchases temporary utility facilities
Summary
Council unanimously accepted the city's FY2025 comprehensive financial report with an unmodified audit opinion, approved a PBM construction contract for WTP No.1 wellfield work (low bid ~ $1.1M), and authorized purchase of temporary modular facilities for utilities operations (approved purchase budget $2.5M funded from utility capital transfers).
Palm Coast City Council unanimously accepted the city's FY2025 annual comprehensive financial report and federal/state single audits on March 17 after auditors from Malden & Jenkins issued an unmodified opinion and reported no current‑year findings. The auditor told the council the single‑audit testing of major federal and state programs also found no reportable findings.
Following the audit presentation, the council approved a construction contract for Water Treatment Plant No.1 wellfield expansion. Staff said the project outfits two recently drilled wells (pumps, pedestals and roughly 4,000 feet of piping) and that the low responsive bid was about $1.1 million, below the engineer’s estimate of roughly $1.3 million; the council awarded the contract to the lowest responsive bidder.
On a separate, longer agenda item, staff outlined structural and habitability problems at the city’s Utility Drive administration and warehouses and recommended temporary modular facilities while the long‑term master operations complex (the ‘‘mock’’) is constructed. After detailed council debate about leasing versus purchase and the potential for reuse or resale of modules, the council authorized a purchase approach so the city would own the modular locker/locker‑restroom unit and related office modules; the motion approved shifting capital previously committed to the mock to fund the $2.5 million purchase from utility capital. Council members asked staff to pursue reusability and resale options for the modular units if the city later no longer needs them.
Auditor Daniel Anderson told the council Malden & Jenkins issued an unmodified opinion and found no material weaknesses; "we have issued an unmodified opinion," he said, describing the ACFR and the single audit work. Utilities staff and councilors emphasized the wellfield and temporary facilities investments are part of the city’s multi‑year capital program to sustain water and wastewater service reliability.
All three items (audit acceptance, wellfield contract award, and temporary‑facility purchase funding) passed by recorded vote as part of the meeting’s consent and business agenda items.
