# Transcript — Terre Haute Board of Public Works, 2026-08-24

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## Transcript

- **0:00:00** [t=0] **Speaker 0 (chair):** Board of Education, take the meeting to order. It is Monday, August 24th. Let the record reflect it. All board members are present. And Jesse is just now entering the room. Hi, Jesse. Good morning. First item of both business is to approve the minutes from the August 10th meeting.
- **0:00:17** [t=17] **Speaker 8:** We approve. Second. We have a motion and a second. Any further discussion, questions, comments, or actions? What was that? Just my email, probably.
- **0:00:30** [t=30] **Speaker 0 (chair):** any other old businesses coming for the board hearing that we want a new business first item is the request from tc west variety store to fill stop 14 from demming to oak and proper from 13th and a half to get word on august 29 is that this we can have? From 11am to 7pm. Is there anyone here to speak on that?
- **0:00:59** [t=59] **Speaker 15 (unclear — staff recommendation and chair-procedural content both attributed to this label):** We do have a favorable recommendation from engineering and from the street department.
- **0:01:13** [t=73] **Speaker 18:** we do have security you excuse me we do have security yes good okay
- **0:01:23** [t=83] **Speaker 8:** all right are you archie
- **0:01:34** [t=94] **Speaker 23:** tc west has been around for a while hasn't it yeah 1996.
- **0:01:39** [t=99] **Speaker 7:** all right any questions questions on this request we have a motion and a second all those in favor
- **0:01:53** [t=113] **Speaker 0 (chair):** signify by saying aye all right motion carries next we have a request from euthan page to close cherry street from fourth to ninth tip it can't come forth tonight fourth fifth sixth seventh and 8th from Sherry's Tipicamoo and 9th from Wabash with Tipicamoo on November 26th from 7 a.m. to 11 a.m. during the Tarahill Turkey Truck. First, I didn't know you were doing this anymore.
- **0:02:17** [t=137] **Ethan Page (resident — event organizer (Terre Haute Turkey Trot / Valley Food Pantry benefit)):** I thought you weren't doing this. I, so the company that I used to own, I sold, I put on all these events, but this is the one I held on to because they scrapped all the events that I used to run. So this benefits a lot of food paint, well not a lot, it goes to the Valley food pantry up north and i want to keep this around because it benefits a lot of people and helps run most of their uh most of their food pantry usually gives them the funds for about nine months anywhere from seven to nine months of their running capacity so that's the only one i do
- **0:02:47** [t=167] **Ethan Page (resident — event organizer (Terre Haute Turkey Trot / Valley Food Pantry benefit)):** but i keep this one in house nice i was gonna say you want to do another one i'm retired all right
- **0:02:56** [t=176] **Speaker 17:** that's what i thought i was confused all right we do have a favorable recommendation from engineering from the street department
- **0:03:05** [t=185] **Speaker 37:** um
- **0:03:15** [t=195] **Speaker 40:** um you know they bought they you know always been around but they've never been like on board as
- **0:03:30** [t=210] **Speaker 44:** a sponsor but they're on their one more diamond sponsors this year we're using naturally the home center board nice any questions for ethan
- **0:03:44** [t=224] **Speaker 15 (unclear — staff recommendation and chair-procedural content both attributed to this label):** we have emotions and second and a second all those in favor signify by saying aye emotion carries good luck
- **0:03:51** [t=231] **Speaker 0 (chair):** next we have a request from franklin rogo and actually to close out six from the on on september 24th from 2 30 pm to 4 pm during the annual tiger truck we went from turkey truck
- **0:04:13** [t=253] **Speaker 59:** to tiger truck
- **0:04:23** [t=263] **Speaker 66 (unclear — staff recommendation and board-member follow-up both attributed to this label):** and we have favorable recommendations engineering and street
- **0:04:29** [t=269] **Speaker 69:** we have a question and then a second all of the favor signify by saying aye
- **0:04:42** [t=282] **Speaker 0 (chair):** motion carries next we have a request to purchase one new chassis for the circle
- **0:04:46** [t=286] **Speaker 55 (Fire Department representative):** fire department is there anyone here to speak on this um so i thank you last year for the two other ambulances we're still going to be reboxing around um it saves a couple hundred thousand dollars so we have ambulances that we use as special detail ambulances that are they need love um so the box is still good and they take the box off and they put it on a brand new chassis they refurb the box and make it look like it's a brand new truck so we already got to approved last year and in that process we ended up buying our own chassis out of those and ended up
- **0:05:29** [t=329] **Speaker 55 (Fire Department representative):** saving about 30 to 40 thousand dollars so we're going to do the same thing right now it's just the chassis and i'll come back later for the box portion of it but we will buy the chassis outright
- **0:05:44** [t=344] **Speaker 80:** and then we'll come back to you for financing for the box
- **0:05:50** [t=350] **Speaker 15 (unclear — staff recommendation and chair-procedural content both attributed to this label):** so on the financing we'll just get that out
- **0:05:58** [t=358] **Speaker 55 (Fire Department representative):** uh we can sell them on go fields so we're going to take them back and then we can sell them on or refurb them for our own equipment
- **0:06:14** [t=374] **Speaker 94:** all right any further discussion questions comments we have a motion and a second all those in favor
- **0:06:24** [t=384] **Speaker 95:** signify by saying aye
- **0:06:41** [t=401] **Speaker 104:** exactly
- **0:06:44** [t=404] **Speaker 67 (chair):** all right next we have we have a motion a second all those in favor signify by saying aye motion carries next we have we have a motion and a second all those in favor signify by saying aye
- **0:07:19** [t=439] **Speaker 15 (unclear — staff recommendation and chair-procedural content both attributed to this label):** all right um thank you um so i'm back i'm back on board here and next we have an amendment to the
- **0:07:29** [t=449] **Speaker 0 (chair):** gmp for vigo county or the why renovation talk in so mark merrill yep uh thank you so uh this will
- **0:07:37** [t=457] **Mark Merrill (renovation-project representative (GMP presenter for the Vigo County/"Y" renovation)):** be gmp number three um currently there is no owner contingency allowance in the budget so our gmp2 is 11.517 the total budget for the project is 11.6 so it's taking those remaining funds and basically allocating them as an owner allowance for any unforeseen owner things that are outside of the project scope for instance like asbestos abatement is something that was carried by the owner we've come across some smaller portions of it that stuff is out of our scope so we need to
- **0:08:15** [t=495] **Speaker 121 (board member):** have somewhere to apply that to so i asked mark earlier um i was like do we already have we already
- **0:08:23** [t=503] **Speaker 66 (unclear — staff recommendation and board-member follow-up both attributed to this label):** gone through the contingency budget and mark shared that there wasn't one to get it so yes
- **0:08:29** [t=509] **Speaker 131:** yeah which this is outside the construction contingency so we still have all that yeah
- **0:08:41** [t=521] **Speaker 95:** any questions for mark does this make sense to everyone
- **0:08:44** [t=524] **Speaker 138:** when are you going to start what's that when you're going to start the project it started when did it start
- **0:08:59** [t=539] **Mark Merrill (renovation-project representative (GMP presenter for the Vigo County/"Y" renovation)):** three months three months ago i said i'm going to track my okay yep so the renovations uh we're already putting back you know uh the wall or frame that thing here up because they're ongoing we just heard foundations last week all the additions
- **0:09:21** [t=561] **Speaker 121 (board member):** jim um beth i don't know if it was bad but i was invited through that but i went on a tour a month and a half six weeks ago of the ongoing renovations i can try to coordinate one with this group
- **0:09:56** [t=596] **Speaker 15 (unclear — staff recommendation and chair-procedural content both attributed to this label):** we have a motion and a second any further discussion from the public from the board
- **0:10:01** [t=601] **Speaker 75 (chair):** Hearing none, all those in favor signify by saying aye. Aye. Motion carries. Any other new business on the board? Hearing none, I can entertain motion to adjourn.
- **0:10:17** [t=617] Second. All those in favor. Aye. I'll close or I'll take it. Okay.