The Board of Public Works (BPW) held a regular meeting on May 21, 2026, to consider several contracts, bid openings, and routine approvals. All items on the agenda were approved, with one exception noted on a right-of-way permit.
To order. Could we begin with a motion for approval of the May 14th BPW minutes? So move. I will second that. All in favor? Aye. Aye. Moving on to new business. The City of Evansville Computer Services requests approval of a contract with a stowned business solutions LLC and the total contract amount of six hundred seventy-three thousand seven hundred and seventy-six dollars. This is a renewal of a stowned VPLS services for the extension of the existing service. Cost allocations are based on the government office at the location of the city and county. Monthly cost is $18,716 split based on office assignment between city and county. Spectrum and ATT also provide quotes, provided quotes, but a stown provided the best option for the government. Note that readiate holdings LP is the parent company of a stown business solutions LLC. And I see Vernon Lutz, Chief Information Officer. What else can you tell us? Good afternoon. Um you said it perfectly. This is just a renewal of existing services, but I would like to point out one thing that's uh beneficial to this contract. I did work with um uh this uh Spectrum and ATT. They could provide similar services, but the the pricing for our basic services was best through a stown. Okay. Uh there was a another thing that a stown added to the um quote that's really gonna improve our resiliency of our network, and that's a uh carrier diverse um fiber ring between our public safety units, so dispatch, jail, and a civic center. So that way if one of those sites go down, we can jump off onto that other carrier's uh fiber network and uh provide services. So it's a redundant connection for uh really for public safety for dispatch. We've had a lot of outages and we're trying to solve that problem within our network. So we've added um they they were able to add a career and I I specifically wanted a carrier verse. That way if a stown's fiber was cut, dug into um having two connections to a stown does us no good because they're fibers now. So now we have a stown and then a stown contracts with uh ATT to provide a second re uh diverse route. So that's a real win for the city and county public safety. Thank you for the further information. Are there any questions? No, can I get a motion for approval? So move. I'll second that. All in favor? I thank you. Thank you, Brian. Next up, the city of Evansville DMD requests approval of a contract and an agreement with Hope of Evansville Incorporated to receive funds to assist the trailer park residents at 701 Oak Hill Road with relocation expenses up to $1,000 per resident and the total contract amount of $15,000. Expenses such as utility deposits, rent deposits, and reasonable moving expenses will be considered. Grant funds will be dispersed upon execution. Any remaining grant funds will be returned to DMD upon completion of the agreement on December 31st, 2026. All documentation and return of funds are due no later than March 1st, 2027. This is 2026-22 grant. Lisa Foster, anything further? I don't have anything further. If you guys have any questions, any questions from the board? No, I appreciate you uh doing this for them. This was this came from the mayor's office, and so we're this was a request, so we're taking care of it. I'm happy to see us able to help.