Trustee amendment clarifies board approval won’t endorse consultant assumptions

Before approving the bridge master plan, trustees debated whether the board’s vote would implicitly approve the consultants' assumptions used to build the plan. Trustee Trapper moved to amend the motion to add language that approval "would not constitute approval of any underlying assumption in the bridge plan or any report that went into producing the bridge plan." Trustee Qualls seconded the amendment.

Chair Townes put the amendment to a roll call and the board voted in favor. The original motion to approve the bridge plan was then approved as amended. The amendment was introduced and supported by trustees who asked for a clearer separation between adopting a planning framework and endorsing the consultant work that informed it.