The Finance Committee of the Winston-Salem City Council met on June 9, 2026, at 4:00 PM to consider five general agenda items and approve the consent calendar. All items were unanimously recommended for approval by the full City Council at its June 15, 2026 meeting. The meeting was chaired by Council Member Robert C. Clark and adjourned at 5:10 PM.
You're watching WSTV Digital Media. The last one for this fiscal year. We're gonna start all over. I'd like to call to order the June Finance Committee meeting. Uh will the city clerk please call the roll. Chair Clark. Here. Vice Chair Adams. Here. Councilmember CBO. Present. Councilmember Taylor. President Thank everybody for being here today. We will start with a consent agenda. Three items. Is there any one? Are any of these anyone would like to pull? If not, can I get a motion to approve the balance? Move to approve the consent agenda. Is there a second? Okay, we have a motion second. All in favor say aye. Aye. Those likewise. Those are approved. We will now go to the general agenda. Item G1 resolution awarding a contract for security and company police services. Allied universal security services in the amount of three million two hundred thirty six thousand four hundred seventy-five dollars and fifty cents. Excellent. Good afternoon, Finance Chair Clark. Darren Redfield, the purchasing manager. The item before you here is to award a contract for security and company police officer services. One item note this contract combines the city contract with the transit contract. So those are together now. So it's a very robust uh contract. It uh includes entry screening, armed officers, authority to detain after hours security, uh a new component is roving security of various city facilities on a random schedule, and uh three dedicated vehicles. Uh the evaluation panel had uh property and facility management, um transportation uh risk management, and an assistant city manager. We received four proposals, which was great. Uh when we evaluated those, uh Allied Universal and North State came out as the highest scoring vendors. Um we offered a virtual interview with both of those vendors since they were the highest scoring, most qualified vendors, and we gave them a the same list of questions as well as some scenarios to run through, and that uh that interview is worth an extra 20 points. So in the exhibit, you'll notice that there's an interview panel extra score for those two vendors there. Um the final results in the indicated that Allied Universal was the highest scoring vendor, and so we're recommending award to Allied Universal. Um, this will be a vendor change, and there will be time for them to do this before August 31st before the North State contract uh terminates. Um we went through this six years ago when North State took over the contract from Allied. Um wanted to point out that there's um two things in here that we uh have asked the awarded vendor to retain current personnel, but we also reserving the right to, if there's any personnel that we're not in favor of continuing, that we have the right of refusal for that. Um my final comment is related to pricing. Uh that the contract is for three full years fixed price for the 3.2 million, um, and then it does have two one-year renewals for a total of five years. Um, if you noticed a cost difference in here, I had one sentence about that. Their bid of 3.8. What happened was we need to do a get within budget, particularly for the transit contract, its unit prices, and so staff reviews reduced the number of hours in order to get us down to that final 3.2 million figure.