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Michigan City finance committee approves $39,153.93 in claims including work on Millennium Plaza and annex sanitary extension
Summary
The Michigan City Common Council Finance Committee unanimously approved a claims docket totaling $39,153.93 on March 3, 2026, including payments to Hisen Associates LLC for specifications on the Millennium Plaza Fountain demolition and sanitary extension work at the Michigan City Annex. Fund-balance figures read in the meeting were unclear in the transcript.
The Michigan City Common Council Finance Committee voted unanimously Wednesday to approve a claims docket totaling $39,153.93, the committee chair said at the meeting called to order at 6:06 p.m.
The claims approval included payments from the rainy-day fund to Hisen Associates LLC: $20,000 for drawings and technical specifications for the Millennium Plaza Fountain Demolition Project and $12,100 for the Michigan City Annex Sanitary Extension (the "212" project). The chair also reported a riverboat-fund payment to Leaport Chrysler Inc. for monthly city vehicle leases and noted $0 from the Boyd Development Fund; the transcript’s figure for the Leaport Chrysler payment was not clearly stated.
"What we're here to do is to review and approve claims since our last meeting," the chair said when opening the session. The chair announced the total claims docket as $39,153.93 and asked for questions; a committee member said they had none.
Dr. Kora moved to approve the claims, and Councilman Beatatri seconded the motion. The chair called for a vote, recorded no opposition and stated, "the motion was approved unanimously."
The chair then read the 2026 statement of cash position for the riverboat and rainy-day funds. The transcript of the meeting contains garbled numeric values for those balances; the specific fund-balance figures are not clearly specified in the record provided.
The committee conducted no public comment during the meeting and adjourned at 6:10 p.m., the chair said.
