It's 404 on May the 21st.

This is the Indianapolis Public Transportation Corporation Board of Directors meetings.

And thank you all for attending.

And the first thing we're going to do is the call to order.

And that'll be done by our general counsel, Bob Freud.

Good afternoon.

Directors, please indicate your attendance when I call your name.

Yeah.

Directors.

Director Quick.

Present.

Director Wilson.

Director Gardner.

Present.

Director Hahn.

Present.

Our Mr.

Chair.

Okay.

Thank you, everyone.

Now we're going to uh suspend the agenda.

Yeah.

Did you want to do that or do you want to um did you want to let Jenny do that?

And regular agenda.

Thanks.

Do you want me to work?

All right.

We're going to start off with awards and accommodations.

This is Jennifer Pierce, President CEO.

And I will start off as I always do with our safe drivers.

So the operators listed here were recognized in April for their safe driving record and received a National Safety Council patch pin and certificate.

I'll draw attention to the first person on that list, Miss Lakeisha Carpenter.

She has been working with us for 17 years and has 15 years of safe driving.

So thank you to everyone on that list for their dedication and safe driving, and especially Ms.

Carpenter.

You may.

Next is our May Operations Employee of the Month.

We're proud to recognize dispatcher Tiana Dunlap as this month's employee of the month.

She's responsible for ensuring that buses are dispatched efficiently and on time.

Her nominator praised her clear, concise, and proactive communication, which supports team coordination and service reliability.

Congratulations to Tiana.

Next, I wanted to share that ACEC Indiana recently selected the Purple Line as a merit award recipient.

The award was announced during ACEC's Engineering Excellence Award luncheon in April.

Matt Duffy and Christian Cameron represented us at the awards ceremony alongside partners from our construction management consultant Butler Bearman and Seifert, who were kind enough to be the ones to nominate the project and several of their sub-consultants.

The Purple Line was recognized both for its engineering complexity and its long-term impact on the community.

As you all know, I'm sure the project transformed a 15-mile corridor connecting downtown Indianapolis to Lawrence into a modern bus rapid transit line that improves access to jobs, education, health care, and other essential services for tens of thousands of residents.

Judges highlighted the project's innovative construction management approach, including the coordination of 92 utility relocation plans, extensive ADA and pedestrian improvements, and the delivery of a large multi-jurisdictional infrastructure project while remaining on budget and on schedule.

The project also stood out for its sustainability and community benefits.

The purple line incorporates zero emission vehicles, modern accessible stations, and significant investments in sidewalks, multi-use paths, stormwater infrastructure, and neighborhood connectivity.

Ultimately, the award recognized not only the technical achievement of delivering a highly complex project, but also the collaboration between Indigo, our consultants, contractors, utility partners, and the surrounding communities to create a safer, more connected, and more accessible Indianapolis.

So thank you to ACEC Indiana for recognizing the award and congratulations to everybody that worked on it, which is a lot of people here.

All right.

Next I want to share.

Of timed and judged events designed to test precision driving, safety, technical knowledge, and vehicle maintenance skills under pressure.

Operators navigate a challenging obstacle course that simulates real world driving conditions, and maintenance competitors compete on hands-on diagnostic and technical exercises.

Every point matters, and the competition reflects the very highest standards in public transportation professionalism and safety.

There's so much preparation involved.

I talked to our operator this weekend.

She won our local event back in March.

From then on, she was practicing on her own time after work.

She'd come out here practiced three days a week.

And the last three weeks before the rodeo, she was out there every single day.

So our maintenance professionals, same thing.

I didn't catch exactly how many days, but they're out there working on their own time, practicing and training for this.

So it's really meaningful, countless hours, preparing, learning, which then of course helps them be even better at their jobs here.

Um just pointing out the extraordinary commitment, discipline, and pride in their craft that they all take.

They represented us with professionalism, teamwork, and excellence, and I'm really proud of how they carried themselves on the national stage.

It was a great pleasure to be able to witness the rodeo and then walk through all seven or eight um activities with the um maintenance professionals that did it.

So thank you to everybody that coached them that supported them, that encouraged them all the way.

Thank you to a couple of the maintenance professional staff came or I'm sorry, spouses came and watched them, and then of course, congratulations to our competitors.

Um our rodeo participants on the maintenance side were Benjamin Yates, Jared Durham and Alex Walker, and our bus operator was Mikeia Hicks.

So congratulations to you all.

But so many of us work with him and consider him to be the heart of the organization.

Um he's the person who quietly makes sure our facilities are welcoming, our meeting spaces, including this one, are always ready for us.

He cares for our staff and makes sure everything runs the way it should every single day.

Um his work may often happen behind the scenes, but we all know that the impact he has on our organization is seen and felt every single day.

So, Tyrone, thank you for four decades of dedication, pride, and service to Indigo.

Thank you.

And then one last thing that I don't have a slide for, um, we received notice this morning that the House Appropriations Committee published their THUD Community Projects List, and Indigo was listed to receive an $850,000 earmark for paratransit vehicles.

So we're excited to know.

Mr.

Chairman, that is all I have.

Thank you for allowing me the time.

Thank you.

Great.

Thanks, Jennifer.

It was very, very nice recorded.

Glad to hear all the uh news on the people that we just honored.

This time we want to chairman.

I'd like to ask unanimous consent to suspend the regular order and call up action item A9, consideration and adoption of a resolution number 2026 04 for consideration.

Okay, a motion.

Okay, any objections?

Nope.

All right.

Oh, that's me.

Um, yes.

Let's see.

I don't mean you guys like probably at the end, so I'm just gonna wing it.

Um, but yes, so we are calling for um consideration and adoption of a resolution to appoint Justin Burkhope as our controller.

Um so as you know, Justin had oh, I'm so sorry, I didn't have the microphone on.

Um, we are um oh, thank you so much, Tamika.

Um, we are seeking um consideration for the board of directors to adopt resolution 2604, adopting Justin Burkope as IPT's controller with the title Chief Financial Officer Effective Immediately.

So, as you all know, um Justin has been serving as our interim chief financial officer for it's been a little over 60 days.

Um he brings many years of progressively responsible experience in the public finance sector um and has been uh just a tremendous executive team member, um tremendous partner in the running the finances of the organization, and I um strongly recommend him and um ask for your support for him in this role.

Okay, thank you.

Bob, what do we need to do?

It's gotta be a both.

Yes, that's what I thought is because of a resolution we have to do a roll call vote after you uh get a properly seconded motion.

I believe move the action item 89 consideration.

I'll second.

Okay, directors on the present motion.

Please indicate your vote when I call your name.

Uh Director Smith.

Aye.

Flash.

Director Quick.

Director Wilson.

Aye.

Director Gardner.

Aye.

Director Han?

Aye.

Uh the ayes carry the resolution is adopted.

Congratulations, John.

Okay.

Thanks.

Okay, here we go.

Um next is item number four, the regular agenda, and we'll begin with uh action item A1, consideration approval of the board minutes from April the 16th, 2026.

Are there any questions or comments from the board?

Okay.

Can I get a motion for consideration approval of the April 16th, 2026 board meeting?

Second.

Okay, there being a motion in a second.

All those in favor say aye.

Aye.

Any opposed, say nay, no nay.

So let the record shows you unanimous uh approval.

Next is action item a two consideration approval to enter into a contract with detail experts for bus detailing services and uh Devin Smith, director of fleet services will make the presentation.

Good afternoon everyone, this is Devin Smith, Director of Fleet Services.

Um, so it is recommended that the board of directors authorize the president and CEO to enter a three-year contract with two option years with detail experts LLC to provide bus detailing services for a total five-year contract value of 1,335,696.

So this project is to basically facilitate the detailing of our buses on a monthly basis.

Detail experts is currently the incumbent.

And what they do every month is they clean the interiors of our buses, they do a deep cleaning at the interior of the buses plus shine the wheels.

Um, this is an FTA requirement that we do each month.

Um so what this this allows us to do is have the um basically we make sure the buses have a very nice, clean, safe environment for our patrons every single month going forward.

It kind of just creates a welcoming environment.

Uh the funding for this project is budgeted and will come from the operating budget.

Um for DBE and XBA participation, uh the standard participation goals were included as part of the school solicitation.

However, no XBE participation was achieved under the awarded proposal under the prior contract for the same services.

No subcontractors were utilized.

The services to be provided are labor only.

All materials and supplies are provided by IPTC limiting subcontracting opportunities.

Um so kind of what that summarizes that we provide all of the fluids and everything that are used by these um people.

We they just provide the labor.

Are there any questions that I may answer in regarding to this?

No questions from the board.

Uh can I get a motion for consideration or approval of detail experts for bus detailing services?

So second.

Thank you.

There being a motion and second, all those in favor say aye.

Aye.

Any opposed?

Let the record show there is a unanimous vote in favor.

And put that to the record.

Thank you very much.

Thank you very much.

Next is action item 83, and that's consideration or approval of construction award for far east side bus stop improvements.

And it's phase one, I believe.

And uh make that presentation is our project manager, Rachel Wilson.

Welcome, Rachel.

Thank you.

Good afternoon, members of the board.

It is recommended that the board of directors authorize the president and CEO to enter into an agreement with Shuck Corporation to construct local bus stop improvements at 42 locations on the far east side of Indianapolis for 1,083,840.50 cents.

IPTC is continuously working toward improving our approximately 2,400 local bus stops throughout the city to ensure that they are accessible and comfortable for our riders.

There's a map on the following page showing the project location and where all the stops are located.

And the scope of work will include constructing front and rear bus pads, bench pads, curb ramps, sidewalk connections, and improving crosswalks at select locations.

A portion of the construction costs will be covered by an Indy neighborhood infrastructure partnership grant from DPW, where they will match dollar for dollar up to $350,000.

So an invitation to bid was released on April 1st.

We received one bid on bid day on April 29th from Shuck Corporation.

Their bid was found to be responsible and responsive and was under the project estimate.

Construction is expected to begin in June and be done at the end of November this year.

So this capital investment was included in our 2026 capital budget appropriation using local funding sources.

And for XBD declaration, Shuck's proposal included 15% commitment with participation from platinum level construction services who they are at WBE for seven and a half percent and B and B contracting at seven and a half percent.

Also a WBE.

Are there any questions?

Rachel, do you happen to know which bus stops in particular will have the replacements of the front and the rear bus pads?

Um I do.

I don't know off the top of my head, but it is we tried to put them everywhere we could.

We looked at each stop and put them where it was feasible and it would fit.

Okay.

If you can share that with me, it's not okay.

I appreciate that.

This includes anything on the red line or the purple line.

It does not okay all fixed, right?

Okay, I didn't think it did, but I didn't see anything in the uh in the report, okay.

So any other questions or comments?

Can I get a consideration for approval and approval of uh construction award for far east side bus stop improvements?

So I'm second.

The record show there's a motion to approve with a second, and uh all those uh in favor say aye.

Aye aye, all those opposed say nay.

The record shows a unanimous decision.

Thank you.

Thanks, Rachel.

Uh next is action item A4.

Consideration and approval of the federal compliance support Services.

Director of risk and safety, Brian Clem.

Ladies and gentlemen, good afternoon.

My name's Brian Clem, Director for risk safety.

I bring to you today the proposal for the consideration for federal compliance support.

It's my recommendation to the board of directors to authorize the president and CEO to execute a three-year contract with two option years with RLS and Associates Inc.

to provide federal compliance support services.

The total cost of the contract is not to exceed 116,000 for the initial three years, with a total not to exceed 203,000 for all five years if option years are executed.

Background.

It's a designated recipient to distribute funds to eligible sub-recipients, including Hamilton, Johnson, Hendricks, Counties, transit providers, um, and nonprofits.

As a designated recipient, IPC is responsible to ensuring compliance with the FTA regulations, both for itself and for the sub-reciprants.

RLS will assist IPTC with their responsibilities, including providing technical assistance, audit preparation, uh programs to support FTA triannual audits, preparation review of public transportation agency safety plan and drug and alcohol programs, and provide guidance on transit asset management plans uh with the national transit database reporting um key indicators that were required to uh have and maintain.

A little bit about discussion, IPCC engages RLS um since 2021, has provided federal compliance support services for us uh and has taken on the responsibility for oversight of the section 5307 sub-recipients in central Indiana with 38 years of experience assisting local and state transit transportation agencies with federal compliance.

RLS has the expertise to meet IPTC's needs and regulatory compliance and subrecipient guidance.

Therefore, IBTC would like to enter into this contract with RLS uh and continue for them to provide that service for us.

Fiscal impact, these services are funded through our operational budget, and for the DBE, uh there is no XPE participation because there's no sub-contracting opportunities right now.

That concludes my report, and I'll be more than happy to take any questions if you have any.

Thank you.

Brian, are there any questions from the board from the chairman?

I just have one, Brian, and this is more education for me.

Is RLS, are there other firms that do what RLS does that that could also support this, or or are they kind of just the the go-to experts in this in this realm?

Great question.

And you'll I think you almost answered the actually my answer, you almost answered that too.

There are some other firms out there that could probably do that.

However, RLS with their experience, Central Indiana, the state of Indiana, uh, they are the experts in this niche environment of public transit.

Um when I first started my career here about 18 years ago with Indigo, RLS was one of the firms that actually established the drug and alcohol program with the FTA to do educational programs for all over the country.

So they are a key valuable resource with that compliance uh part required by the FTA.

So they are the go-to, those are the people that that you want.

Okay, I just wanted to make sure I was clear on it.

Thanks very much.

Hey Brian, just building on that.

Can you would you be willing to share who actually makes a part of the team that'll be supporting us?

I was poking around on their website as well and checking out some of the players that I'm just kind of ate me intrigued on who's actually the key people that are supporting us with this work.

Absolutely, and that's disclosed in our uh the contract agreement that we've gotten or the proposal plan, and some are actually located here in central Indiana as well as uh over in Dayton.

We're the issues are.

Any other questions, comments?

Okay, uh, can I get a motion for consideration approval of federal compliance support services?

I mean, a motion, a second, all those in favor say aye.

Aye.

Any opposed?

But the record shows unanimous vote and uh thank you.

Put that who's in the record.

Okay, next action item A5, consideration of approval of Masabi fare media purchase.

Uh Justin Burkell.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

Good evening, members of the board.

Justin Burkope, CFO for Indigo.

And um here to present action item A5 consideration and approval of Masabi Fair Media Purchase.

Um action item A5 recommends that the board approve an amendment to our existing contract with Masabi LLC to support the purchase of additional fare media for the My Key Plus uh system launch.

This amendment adds up to 150,000 for additional physical fare media purchases, and this supplements the initial fair media purchase of approximately $97,000 that we made earlier this year, and the existing $2.165 million contract.

So the new total contract value with this amendment will be $2,412,088.

While my key plus will expand digital payment options, physical fare media remains important for riders who rely only on cash payments.

It will support reduced fare programs and institutional pass programs.

This purchase includes a variety of media, specifically smart cards, paper tickets, and limited use passes needed to support those customers when we launch.

While also structuring this purchase to take advantage of Masabi's tiered volume pricing discounts in order to maximize cost efficiency.

This action helps ensure we have sufficient inventory in place ahead of our July 1st go live and supports a smooth transition to the new fare collection system.

This is a procurement budgeted in the operating budget for 2026, and since it is an amendment to an existing contract, the uh supplier diversity goals were not updated with this amendment.

Um, and that concludes my presentation on this action item.

Any uh questions from the board.

If not, can I get a motion for consideration and approval of the Masabi Fair Media Purchase?

So moved.

There being a motion and a second, all those in favor say aye.

Aye.

Aye.

Any opposed?

There being no opposed, matters approved.

All right, next I adding item A6, consideration of approval of task score for WSP for design services on the blue line.

And this will be made by Mr.

Matt Duffy.

Good afternoon, Matt Duffy, director of capital projects at Indigo.

It's recommended that the board of directors authorize the president and CEO to execute a task order with WSP for an amount not to exceed $1,420,000 for design services during the construction phase of the blue line.

Back in 2018, uh the board approved WSP's contract as the designer record for the blue line, and uh it's a task order-based contract with each task order negotiated individually.

To date, there have been 21 task orders totaling a little over 21 million dollars, and that is a lot of money, and it sounds like a lot of money, uh, but keep in mind this is a 200 plus million dollar construction job.

So uh that's about 10% uh of the total construction, which is well within actually below what target design services costs are for a construction project.

Um but uh that being said, uh, they did underestimate the level of effort that would be required uh on this project during the construction phase.

So their responsibilities include uh reviewing shop drawings and RFIs requests for information.

Um they review field orders, construction changes of which we have had a significant amount on this project.

It's a constrained corridor and a lot of utilities underground.

We knew that would happen, and they get they use purple line to as a baseline to extrapolate for uh blue line, but did not take into account the level of complexity.

So this task order is uh a supplement to the prior task order that was to cover the entire uh duration.

And that is the intention with this task order.

Uh that's been my request to WSP is that this should cover uh through the remainder of 2029 for uh their services on the project.

Uh there may be additional task orders uh such as uh closeout documentation that will be required.

Um, but this is uh the last large task order that is expected on the project.

Uh WSP's uh DBE contract uh goal was 15%.

Uh although we're not tracking that right now on the contract.

Uh they've committed uh 3.6% of this task order, bringing their anticipated utilization to 16.3%.

I'm happy to answer any questions that you might have.

Okay, the total is 16%.

The anticipated utilization is 16%.

That's correct.

That would include the 21 million.

That's that's correct.

Okay, out of the 21 million, 16% is uh DBE.

Any other questions, comments on the board?

If not, can I get a motion for consideration or approval of task order or WSP design services on the blue line BRT project?

No more.

Can we get a second?

Okay.

There being a motion and a second.

All those in favor say aye.

Aye.

All those opposed say nay.

Showing no nays, emails, is approved.

Thanks, ma'am.

Next is action item 87.

Consideration and approval of talk desk telecommunications software.

And Chris Clay, manager of mobility services, will make this presentation.

Good afternoon, board members.

Chris Clay, manager of mobility services.

It is recommended that the board of directors authorize the president and chief executive officer to enter in a two-year contract with Talk Desk for essential software services to support the daily operations of Indigo's care center.

The extension carries a contract value of 210,190.

Talk desk is a cloud-based telecommunications software solution, which supports all fixed route and paratransit services.

The system routes calls to our customer care agents, provides data that drives Indigo's quality service team, and generates metrics used to track vendor performance and managing the call center.

The platform supports high call volumes, has demonstrated reliability by routing more than 600,000 inbound calls over the past previous 12 months.

The current agreement with Talk Desk is set to expire on July 30th, 2026.

Talk disk provides reporting capabilities that support performance monitoring and vendor compliance requirements.

It also allows for real-time call management, which is critical for responding to customer needs effectively.

Talk desk is currently fully integrated into Indigo's care center operations and workflows today.

Maintaining the current system will minimize operational risk.

Entering into this agreement will solidly support indigo's customer base in the future.

The platform is also the main method utilized for pair transit trip scheduling with 80% of any Go access customers arranging for rides by phone.

Fiscal impact, this is funded through the local operating budget.

DBE XBE declaration.

This software renewal was completed using local funds as a special procurement request.

Therefore, XBE participation is not available for this procurement.

I'd be happy to answer any questions you may have.

Thank you, Chris.

Any comments?

Okay.

Can I get a motion for second and approval of, I'm sorry, get a motion for consideration and approval of the top desk telecommunication software.

So move.

Okay.

Second.

Thank you.

There being a motion and second.

All those in favor say aye.

Aye.

Any opposed?

Let the record reflect there was unanimous vote.

No negative.

You're up again.

Action item A8.

Consideration approval of Echolane.

Hope I'm saying it right.

Transit technology for indigo access.

And again, Chris Clay, manager of mobility services, will make the presentation.

Thank you.

It is recommended that the board of directors authorize the president and chief executive officer to execute a one-year contract extension with Echolane Transit Technology in an amount not to exceed 168,075 for continued software licensing and operational support of Indigo Access.

The current contract value was 1,169,268.

And this will bring the new not to exceed contract total to 1,337,343.

Ecolane is the operating platform for Indigo Access Paratransit Services and is used daily by Indigo staff and our contracted service providers.

It supports trip scheduling, dispatching, data reporting, and service monitoring.

Ecolane enables Indigo Access to maintain compliance with ADA service requirements and is the benchmark for monitoring contract or performance standards.

The Board of Directors initially approved an ECOLANE contract in 2020 with a one-year extension authorized in 2025 to support continuity during multiple contractor transitions.

Since April of 2025, I'm happy to say Indigo Access has consistently exceeded service performance goals, which demonstrates operational stability.

The transition has been successful.

A one-year renewal will avoid operational disruption, staff retraining challenges, and potential service impacts associated with implementing a new system prematurely.

Last year's contract extension came in at a price of 212,908.

This year's contract extension did come in lower at 168,000.

So we're saving almost 45,000 this year with this extension.

Ecolane has also been working with us and been responsive in supporting and offering support towards system improvements such as reporting and efficiency.

The service is funded through the local operating budget.

The DBE XBE declaration, the software renewal was completed using local funds as a special procurement request.

Therefore, XBE participation is not available for this procurement.

Any questions from the board?

Necessarily a question specifically for Mr.

Clay, but at some point I would love to see just kind of a master list of all of our software contracts that we have by department and the years of their expiration.

I think it'll just start to help me get a better sense of you know how these are tracking.

So not necessarily for you, Mr.

Clay, but I just wanted to make that note on record.

I wish you'd have been in the meeting with Justin and I yesterday where we had this exact same conversation.

So it will be forthcoming, Mr.

Vice Chair.

All right.

Can I get a motion for consideration approval of Echolane Transit Technology for Indigo access?

So move.

Thank you.

All those in favor?

I all any names.

The record shows unanimous uh vote.

Thanks a lot, Chris.

Thank you.

All right.

Action item A9.

Consideration adoption.

Well, where are you?

Yeah.

I'm being a robot.

I'm just going to machine.

All right.

Let's see.

That'll push us over to information items.

Um item one is the finance report presented by not interim, but chief financial officer, Justin Burko.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

Good evening again, members of the board, Justin Burko, Chief Financial Officer for Indigo here to present the April 2026 highlights of the financial report.

For our operating revenue, we were over budget for the month by 5% or 542,375.

Passenger service revenue continues to perform really well for us uh over throughout the year so far.

Uh we're eighty-nine thousand dollars over budget for the month and over three hundred thousand dollars greater than this time uh last year.

So that's good news.

Um local taxes came in as expected for the month, and that includes local property uh and excise tax revenue as well as our local income tax on the operating expenses side of the report.

Total wages and benefits uh were over budget for the month by three hundred and ninety-five thousand dollars.

Uh there are two main reasons for this.

Um number one, as you know, over time continues to be something that we uh have been focusing on managing due to vacancies and some leave.

Uh, but that was over budget again for the month by 409,000.

Salary was uh salary expenses for the month were over budget by $33,000.

Uh and this is because we had five pay periods uh in the month of April.

Uh the budget is set up on a monthly basis.

So uh when we have pay periods that have five paid periods as opposed to four, um, that shows kind of a spike on a monthly basis.

Uh year to date, uh we continue to be under budget by about three point one million dollars.

Uh other services and charges were under budget uh by one point one million dollars for the month and four million for the year.

Um this is largely due to some of our uh encumbrances for service contracts that we rolled over from 2025 into 2026.

Uh so at this point in the year, um we're we're essentially spending down 2025 budget uh before we spend the 2026 budget.

Um so as the year moves on, we expect that to normalize a little bit, but that's the reason for the variance uh through April.

Uh materials and supplies were under budget by one hundred and forty-five thousand dollars for the month.

Uh again, this is driven by our uh fuel pricing strategy that we locked in last year.

So we're saving money on fuel and lubricants and other materials and supplies uh within that category.

We budget for um several one time hardware and miscellaneous materials expenses, and those are some expenses we've just not yet realized yet in the year.

Uh so that's why we're a little under budget for the month and then 1.2 million under budget uh for the year.

Uh so overall for April we were $885,286 uh under budget.

Uh and year to date we are $8.5 million under budget.

Uh that concludes my report, and I'd be happy to answer any questions.

Thank you, Justin.

Any questions, Rick?

No.

I can put it on uh first off, congratulations, Justin.

Um, you deserve this.

Uh, you really really do.

Um, and Mr.

Chairman, we have a as you know, uh Justin and I meet ahead of the uh board meetings to to talk through some of this stuff, and one of the things that I asked Justin to do yesterday was exactly what Adarius would like us to do is do the is so we can have a look at, you know, what all the contracts are.

They have a Justin showed me a document where they have the contract numbers and what you know where they are in the process, and I think that document, if we just tweak that a little bit, we'll we'll will meet your concerns and and we'll get that to all the board members, right?

No, okay.

Okay.

And congratulations again.

Thank you.

Thanks a lot, Justin.

Item uh I two is the Indigo Foundation corridor report.

And I don't believe Emily is here.

I don't know if anyone.

I think these.

Pardon me.

I don't see anybody.

No.

I think she's virtual.

Yeah.

She should be online for us.

Emily, are you there?

Hello.

I am here, but we are presenting next month for June.

Right.

So this was just our regular uh department report that you're looking at right now.

But we'll do the whole PowerPoint in June.

Okay.

Thank you, Emily.

Okay.

That is fine.

I will report that to uh Emily, myself, and uh the consultants that they brought on board had a long meeting this last week for about two hours.

Uh going through a lot of issues.

So I think they would rather wait and make the full report because this was kind of a preliminary report.

It was very, very uh interesting.

Uh and I think they had a lot of very good points they brought up that uh we'll have to take a good look at.

Is this the endowment study or the car study?

This is the car study.

Yeah, okay.

Thank you.

All right.

Item I three is the blue line construction change order update.

And Michael.

Schneider will make that report.

Thanks, Michael.

Thank you, and good afternoon, everybody.

Um, Mike Schneider, project construction project manager for the blue line.

Um I have a change order update for all of you for package A.

As you recall, there are three separate construction packages on the blue line.

Package A consists of all of our roadway work.

Today we've executed three change orders.

Today I'll be discussing change order number three.

Package B is, of course, the station work.

The current contract amount for package B is just north of 35.4 million dollars, and we have executed three change orders to date on package B.

And package C, of course, is the East Side Mobility Hub.

Uh, to date that contract amount sits at just north of 6.4 million dollars, and we have executed two change orders on package C.

So back to package A, uh, change order number three.

This total amount is 193,543.66 cents, which increases our contract amount to 208 million, 215,059.

Now, this change order does include 36 different modifications, none of which I would consider critical to the scope of the blue line.

In fact, 19 of these changes are for sub-10,000 value items.

There are also nine total deductions included in this change order.

I did want to hit on a couple of the highlights though.

Um, you see six listed here below.

We added some curb ramps on the far east side of the project in segment five to close the gap between end dot and blue line work.

We created a new pay item for concrete joint repair and removed a pay item for partial def PCCP patching to date.

We've really only used full depth patching, especially between the zoo and white river, which you may have noticed.

Um, a sizable deduct of the contract using alternative construction methods.

Um we were able to reduce pipe casing length under an at grade CSX bridge just west of 1501.

We were also able to make a deduction by eliminating a street light relocation pay item.

That's not needed as part of our contract anymore.

We made the decision at Harding in Washington under the CSX overpass to go with full depth concrete payment.

Initially, the plans did call for HMA there.

Um, it was actually favorable to the con the contract's schedule to use concrete instead, and you end up with a better product at the end.

Uh so we decided it was better for Indigo and its asset to add that to the contract.

And I've spoken on this in the past, an information item on the POGS run tunnel.

Um, we added that work as part of this change order as well.

As always, these modifications are essential to maintain our project integrity and ensure that the roadway improvements function as needed on revenue service state.

Incorporating these changes now will prevent future delays and cost escalation in the future.

The implementation of these changes have no significant impact on the schedule.

Happy to answer any questions you may have for me.

I think so long is anybody got any questions?

No man Michael sorry.

Mike just can you just remind me what you said about the elimination of the street light relocation.

We were going to have a submartel do that AES the care of the work instead though.

So it was a pay item that we actually accounted for it but it wouldn't be needed.

Okay.

Thank you.

Anything else?

Okay.

Thanks thanks a lot.

Thank you.

I was looking at you and thinking about man you're next.

Matt Duffy and he's going to bring us up to date on the WSB design service allowance on the blue line.

Yes thank you Director of Capital Projects Matt Duffy.

This is an update uh based on what was uh approved by the board back in May of 2025 there was a design allowance for WSB's contract the same contract that I discussed previously under an action item where there was an allowance approved up to three hundred and seventy five thousand dollars the reason we brought forth an allowance and not a specific task order is because there were multiple uh different items that were in progress and we were worried about slowing down the design services that were needed to keep construction on schedule that's why we opted for the allowance versus a specific task order.

Each task order uh under that allowance is listed in a table here for you.

So this is separate from the design services.

These are additional things that have popped up that did not fall under that task order.

So we have separate task orders to cover those services here.

The DBE uh goal is uh listed here uh same as previous uh that I discussed uh I'm happy to answer any questions that you might have Mr.

Chairman yeah hey man I need you know you know that NEPA is the bane of my existence because I just don't understand it can you explain to me on pass order 18 the NEPA reevaluation what does that mean yes so there were a couple different uh changes in the project that we wanted to make sure that we were still covered under the original NEPA approval uh so on the west side of the project at uh Eagle Creek there's an additional outfall that is being added to the project I brought forth an action item a few months ago it was a DPW project getting pulled into the blue line project um but we wanted to make sure that it was within uh previously approved uh environmental clearance on the project and so that's task order was to cover that investigation okay so anytime we run into something like that then we have to go back it's not going through the whole process it's just going through the part of the process that's affected by the change in the in whatever is we're doing so sometimes there's a change that might um they don't need to revisit the approvals for uh unless there's a significant change that happens in the project such that they wouldn't they would want to revisit the approval that was given um but usually it's a confirmation of the approval uh so if there's a change they look at it and then assess if uh it's still within the approvals that have been given but it's not a total reevaluation um okay from scratch that makes sense all right thanks i appreciate your screwing me on that yes no no problem any questions other questions from the board how does this affect the overall budget for this project i mean is it you this has been budgeted these overvision uh updates yeah so the the project has a contingency budget uh and so when there are overages that uh were not accounted for uh at uh previously uh we pull from the contingency budget uh and and that is for the entire project so maybe for professional services, or it might be for the change order that that mike just brought to the board.

Um, there's a uh set percentage that is set aside for these changes.

Okay.

Yeah.

It's the process question.

This will come back before us to vote on, or is this just an update?

This is an update.

So this was brought to the board back in May of 2025 with the approval to spend up to the $375 thousand dollars so this is a report of what was spent uh with that approval.

Yep.

Any other questions?

Comments?

All right.

Thanks, Matt.

Thank you.

Appreciate it.

That is the end of our agenda.

Uh on behalf of myself, the board, and our executive staff, uh, we all happy hope you have a great uh memorial weekend.

Be careful out there, especially around Indianapolis.

As they say, we have two of the world's fastest tracks in Indianapolis.

It's the Speedway and 465.

And uh, but also please remember this holiday is really about uh honoring all of our uh past and present military, and especially those that uh made all of it sacrifice for their lives and service of our country.

With that, we adjourn.