VANDERBURGH COUNTY
DRAINAGE BOARD
APRIL 15, 2008
The Vanderburgh County Drainage Board met in session on this 15th day of April, 2008 at 5:00 p.m. in room 301 of the Civic Center Complex with President Troy Tornatta presiding.
Call to Order |
President Tornatta: Good afternoon. We’re going to take our meeting out of order real quick, and go to the Drainage Board meeting.
Approval of the April 1, 2008 Drainage Board Meeting Minutes |
President Tornatta: If we can quickly get approval of the Drainage Board minutes.
Commissioner Korb: Motion for approval of Drainage Board minutes.
Commissioner Nix: Second.
President Tornatta: So ordered.
Awarding of 2008 Annual Ditch Bids |
President Tornatta: Linda?
Linda Freeman: Yeah! Basically, I’ve given you all a spreadsheet of the ditches that, or the bids that we opened on April the 1st . There were only about –
Commissioner Korb: Is this the one that wouldn’t end? Is that the one we had?
Linda Freeman: Yeah.
Commissioner Korb: Okay.
Linda Freeman: When Ted and I sat and opened all the envelopes. Actually, I think Marissa started part of it, and then–
President Tornatta: Alright.
Linda Freeman: Basically, there’s 50 contracts that we would like to award to the lowest bidder in each case, We had like five contested bids, and that was it. I mean,
I did send notices to a lot of people. It actually got into a Construction News Digest magazine, but we just don’t get that much interest.
President Tornatta: Okay, and once you got these bids back, these are qualified recommendations?
Linda Freeman: Yeah, everything was included.
President Tornatta: Okay.
Linda Freeman: Yes, everything was in order. We had a couple of bids off a penny, but that was a penny.
President Tornatta: Okay. Motion to approve?
Commissioner Nix: Move approval.
Commissioner Korb: Second.
President Tornatta: So ordered.
Madelyn Grayson: Can I just have a recommendation that once she gets the contracts signed that I can have permission to stamp and initial the Commissioners names on the contracts?
Linda Freeman: On the contracts, there’s going to be 50 of them when I get them all back. But, I’ll send them out to the different bidders, they’ll send them back to me haphazardly, and eventually I’ll get them all back. I usually take them to Madelyn, and previously, I mean, it’s just what says, you know, how many feet–
President Tornatta: Okay, let’s get a motion to approve that Madelyn would sign that for us, if that’s okay?
Commissioner Nix: So moved.
Commissioner Korb: Second.
President Tornatta: So ordered. Is that it?
Linda Freeman: That’s all. Thank you so much.
Commissioner Korb: You’re welcome. Good night.
President Tornatta: Alright, motion to adjourn?
Commissioner Nix: I make that motion.
Commissioner Korb: Second.
President Tornatta: So ordered.
(The meeting was adjourned at 5:03 p.m.)
Those in Attendance:
Troy Tornatta Bill Nix Jeff Korb
Ted C. Ziemer, Jr. Linda Freeman Madelyn Grayson
Others Unidentified Members of Media
VANDERBURGH COUNTY
DRAINAGE BOARD
Troy Tornatta, President
Bill Nix, Vice President
Jeff Korb, Member
(Recorded by Madelyn Grayson. Transcribed by Nicole Grayson & Madelyn Grayson.)