Board meeting
Terre Haute Board of Public WorksAug 24, 2026
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Highlights
- Unverified item. Flagged · Unverified
Board sets aside the YMCA expansion's last $83,000 as an owner contingency fund
Outcome: Approved on a voice vote; no per-member tally was recorded.
0:07:29 — open the recording, cued to 7 minutes 29 seconds - Money
Fire department buys new ambulance chassis outright instead of financing it
Outcome: Approved on a voice vote; no per-member tally was recorded.
0:04:42 — open the recording, cued to 4 minutes 42 seconds
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- Ethan Pageresident — event organizer (Terre Haute Turkey Trot / Valley Food Pantry benefit)Identification is probable
- Mark Merrillrenovation-project representative (GMP presenter for the Vigo County/"Y" renovation)Identification is probable
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- Meeting
- Terre Haute Board of Public Works · Aug 24, 2026
- Length
- 0:10:28
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0:00:00 — open the recording at 0 secondsSpeaker 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 — open the recording at 17 secondsSpeaker 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 — open the recording at 30 secondsSpeaker 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 — open the recording at 59 secondsSpeaker 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 — open the recording at 1 minute 13 secondsSpeaker 18 we do have security you excuse me we do have security yes good okay
0:01:23 — open the recording at 1 minute 23 secondsSpeaker 8 all right are you archie
0:01:34 — open the recording at 1 minute 34 secondsSpeaker 23 tc west has been around for a while hasn't it yeah 1996.
0:01:39 — open the recording at 1 minute 39 secondsSpeaker 7 all right any questions questions on this request we have a motion and a second all those in favor
0:01:53 — open the recording at 1 minute 53 secondsSpeaker 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 — open the recording at 2 minutes 17 secondsEthan 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 — open the recording at 2 minutes 47 secondsEthan 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 — open the recording at 2 minutes 56 secondsSpeaker 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 — open the recording at 3 minutes 5 secondsSpeaker 37 um
0:03:15 — open the recording at 3 minutes 15 secondsSpeaker 40 um you know they bought they you know always been around but they've never been like on board as
0:03:30 — open the recording at 3 minutes 30 secondsSpeaker 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 — open the recording at 3 minutes 44 secondsSpeaker 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 — open the recording at 3 minutes 51 secondsSpeaker 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 — open the recording at 4 minutes 13 secondsSpeaker 59 to tiger truck
0:04:23 — open the recording at 4 minutes 23 secondsSpeaker 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 — open the recording at 4 minutes 29 secondsSpeaker 69 we have a question and then a second all of the favor signify by saying aye
0:04:42 — open the recording at 4 minutes 42 secondsSpeaker 0 (chair) motion carries next we have a request to purchase one new chassis for the circle
0:04:46 — open the recording at 4 minutes 46 secondsSpeaker 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 — open the recording at 5 minutes 29 secondsSpeaker 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 — open the recording at 5 minutes 44 secondsSpeaker 80 and then we'll come back to you for financing for the box
0:05:50 — open the recording at 5 minutes 50 secondsSpeaker 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 — open the recording at 5 minutes 58 secondsSpeaker 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 — open the recording at 6 minutes 14 secondsSpeaker 94 all right any further discussion questions comments we have a motion and a second all those in favor
0:06:24 — open the recording at 6 minutes 24 secondsSpeaker 95 signify by saying aye
0:06:41 — open the recording at 6 minutes 41 secondsSpeaker 104 exactly
0:06:44 — open the recording at 6 minutes 44 secondsSpeaker 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 — open the recording at 7 minutes 19 secondsSpeaker 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 — open the recording at 7 minutes 29 secondsSpeaker 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 — open the recording at 7 minutes 37 secondsMark 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 — open the recording at 8 minutes 15 secondsSpeaker 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 — open the recording at 8 minutes 23 secondsSpeaker 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 — open the recording at 8 minutes 29 secondsSpeaker 131 yeah which this is outside the construction contingency so we still have all that yeah
0:08:41 — open the recording at 8 minutes 41 secondsSpeaker 95 any questions for mark does this make sense to everyone
0:08:44 — open the recording at 8 minutes 44 secondsSpeaker 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 — open the recording at 8 minutes 59 secondsMark 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 — open the recording at 9 minutes 21 secondsSpeaker 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 — open the recording at 9 minutes 56 secondsSpeaker 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 — open the recording at 10 minutes 1 secondSpeaker 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 — open the recording at 10 minutes 17 seconds Second. All those in favor. Aye. I'll close or I'll take it. Okay.
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