The Carson City Culture and Tourism Authority Board of Directors held a special meeting on Friday, March 20, 2026, at 11:30 AM in the Robert Bob Kroll Boardroom at the Carson City Community Center. The board unanimously approved a contract for the design, engineering, fabrication, illumination, transport, and installation of a 69-foot-tall sculpture railroad spike, titled "Driven," to be placed at the Railroad Museum.
Hey. Welcome to a special meeting of the Carson City Culture and Tourism Authority Board of Directors. Today is Friday, March 20th, 2026. It is eleven thirty AM, and we are at the Carson City Community Center. Robert Bob Kroll Boardroom. Can I get a roll call? Andrew Reno. Here. Matt Don. Garrett Leapier. Here. Here. We have a quorum. Okay, if everyone could please stand for the Pledge of Allegiance. Thank you. At this time, we will move on to item four, public comment. Hearing none, we will move on to item five. Possible action. Discussion regarding contract number CTA two six two seven-one for the design, engineering, fabric fabrication, illumination, transport, and installation of a sixty-nine foot tall sculpture railroad spike in the amount of one hundred and ninety-seven thousand six hundred and eighty-seven dollars from March tenth, twenty twenty-six to December thirty-first, twenty twenty-six. Uh to bring back for the special uh meeting today. And that's evidenced uh by Director Scalery's letter of commitment in her capacity as the Department of Tourism and Cultural Affairs Director in your pack. Surrounded the foundation and the engineering related costs for that installation. You'll note there's a range in there. Uh that was based on some informal conversations with two different engineers. Uh that range sits between 30 and 70,000. Uh, as far as the fiscal 27 budget build, we're gonna go with the high-end arrange, the 70k, just because we don't know what we don't know today. Uh we'll know more, obviously, as things progress, right? Uh, the last question, I believe, surrounded the final payment to Mr. Johnson. Uh, the contract does remain unchanged from last week's meeting. So if you look at uh section 3.3.4 on page four of the packet and three of the actual contract, that's where we address the final payment and the amount of 37,687 upon completion and installation of the work. So I if there are other questions, please um feel free uh to shoot them my way. I might have Eric if he's there. I think I saw him jump in perhaps. But um, I hope that addresses the concerns and some of the questions and asks from last uh week. Do we have any questions for David? Um no questions. I just like to make comment and and really thank staff for jumping through the hoops for going back and getting this final piece right and making making this happen and answering the questions that we had. I know that that's no fun. I know that that put us a little delay, but not much, a week. That's not too bad. Uh, so I would like to make a motion to approve contract number 262701 for the design, engineering, fabrication, illumination, transport, and installation of a 69 foot tall sculpture railroad spike to live at the railroad museum here in Carson City, um, at least for up to 10 years after completion. Second. All in favor of the motion. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Any opposed. Hearing none, the motion passes.