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Altoona council approves consent agenda including major pay apps, easements and $350,000 HSIP funding agreement
Summary
The Altoona City Council unanimously approved a broad consent agenda on June 15 that included multiple pay applications and change orders for capital projects (notable items: $1.7M Hansen Group pay app; $980k DCI Group pay app), easements, tax abatements, and a $350,000 Iowa DOT HSIP funding agreement for Adventureland Drive.
At its June 15 meeting the Altoona City Council approved a comprehensive consent agenda by unanimous roll call, clearing a series of bills, change orders, pay applications, easements, permits and funding agreements.
Notable items in the consent agenda included: Change Order #004 for DCI Group, Inc. (Altoona Fire Station No. 26) for $27,761.22 and Pay Application #13 to DCI Group for $980,322.97; Change Order #3 for Opus Group at the Sam Wise Youth Complex for $10,848.00; Change Order #1 and Pay App #2 for Manatt’s, Inc. (42nd Street NW Reconstruction RISE) for $48,255.90 and $284,161.50 respectively; Pay App #13 to Hansen Group for the Altoona Public Works Facility for $1,705,888.34; Pay App #2 to All Star Concrete, LLC for the 33rd Street NW Extension RISE for $427,854.63; and a Pay App #2RT to Viking Painting, LLC for the Adventureland Drive Water Tank Project for $4,671.00.
The consent agenda also included acceptance of public improvements for the Prairie Heritage Civic Center Plaza Pond improvements, several permanent and temporary easements (including utility easements recorded for nominal amounts to Polk County and others), approval of a funding agreement with the Iowa DOT for Highway Safety Improvement Program funds for Adventureland Drive in the amount of $350,000, a resolution authorizing July 1, 2026 salaries, tax abatement requests, and several beer and liquor license approvals (Guadalajara, Pump & Pantry 76, Oasis). The council approved the full consent package by roll call vote 5-0.
The vote clears the listed construction payments and legal easements so staff can proceed with contracting, recordation and disbursement as indicated in the agenda materials.
