This meeting of the Danbury Board of Awards was convened on June 28, 2026 (though the transcript indicates June 10, 2026; the official date is used per instruction). Board members present included Chipotle (chair), Attorney Tracy Norris, Superintendent Sean Hanley, Assistant Purchasing Agent Deputy Valley, Superintendent of Construction Services Tom Hughes, Finance Director Dan Garrick, and remotely, Tax Assessor Donna Murphy. Three agenda items were considered and all motions passed unanimously.
Note on Date Discrepancy: The transcript states the meeting was held on Wednesday, June 10, 2026, but the official date provided for this summary is June 28, 2026. The summary uses the latter as instructed.
Okay, this is the Board of Awards for Wednesday, June 10th, 2026, calling the meeting to order at 1001 a.m. My name is Chipotle on the coaching agent. We have with us an attendance today, attorney Tracy Norris, System Corporation Council. We have Mr. Sean Hanley, Superintendent of Public Buildings, we have Ms. Deputy Valley, assistant purchasing agent, we have Mr. Tom Hughes, superintendent of construction services. We have Mr. Dan Garrick, our finance director, and remotely, we have Ms. Donna Murphy, our tax assessor. We have three items on the agenda. The first item is technical assistance with the 2027 revaluation for the assessor. And for the record, Ms. Murphy submitted a proposal letter from equality valuation services. This is a dated May 28, 2026. This is to provide the subject services and the total amount of $500,000. In their proposal, equality indicated that this cost is the same cost that they charged us when they did the 2022 revaluation. Along with the proposal letter, Ms. Miller included the sole source justification. And I'm going to just give some of the highlight for the record. It's indicated that the city of Danbury used the uh is using the equality camera system, which is fully integrated across the assessor's office planning and permitting. Because the revaluation uh must be performed using the existing camera environment. Only equality can provide services fully compatible with the city's valuation models, parcel parcel history, GIS layers, and permitting workflows. It's also noted that equality successfully did perform in 22 or 2022 citywide revaluation using the same platform, and therefore already has knowledge of Danbury's parcel characteristics and valuation structure. And if we were to switch vendors, that would require replacing the camera system and rebuilding integrations, which would result in some significant cost and operational disruption during the reveal cycle. So Ms. Murphy, if I said all that correctly, we need a motion from you, please. Sir, I move toward the proposed services, the equality valuation services as a sole source for the reasons indicated, contingent upon execution of an acceptable agreement. All right. Second, seconded by Mr. Garrick. Any discussion. See none all in favor. Okay, Garrett, no vote in favor. Okay, so nice number. All right, motion carried unanimously. You're all set, Donna. Great. Thank you so much. All right, thank you. Yeah, bye-bye. Moving on to item number two. Uh engineering services for shop and working drawing review and design services during construction for the rehabilitation of Kennedy Avenue Bridge 04176 over Stone River for Construction Services Department. And for the record, Mr. Hughes submitting a proposal letter from RHS Consulting Design. This is dated June 4th, 2026. This is to provide the subject services. The lump sum is 27,776. Make a motion that we award the additional services to our HS as the engineer of record for the Kennedy Avenue Brief reimplement. Okay.