Finance committee approves CDBG contract, grant application, park restroom, resurfacing agreements and PO increase

Medina's finance committee approved a slate of routine contracts, grant applications and capital purchases at a meeting where members also held one interurban-building item for future discussion.

Key actions the committee approved:

- Award CDBG administrative contract to Kleinfelder for program year 2025 to support code enforcement and other eligible activities (item 25.68).
- Authorize application and acceptance if awarded of the 2025 state violent-crime reduction grant of $11,097 for SWAT equipment (item 25.70); staff said no local match is required.
- Approve purchase of a precast CXT vault restroom to replace an aging RomTech unit at Roscoe Ewing Park; staff said the unit is expected to last about 25 years and the procurement used the Sourcewell cooperative (item 25.72).
- Approve engineering/permitting agreement with Wheeling & Lake Erie Railroad for the US-42 resurfacing project to obtain review and a railroad permit; staff requested and the committee approved an emergency clause to meet the project bid timeline (item 25.73).
- Approve an LPA agreement with ODOT to allow the city to administer, bid and inspect the US-42 resurfacing and bump-out project; staff said grants totaling roughly $1.4 million ($902,000 and $500,000) will cover much of the project costs (item 25.74).
- Increase purchase order 25,004 to $35,000 for Right Traffic Control to continue on-site traffic-control services for ongoing rehabilitation work (item 25.75).

Item 25.69 (interurban building relocation and use) was held for further discussion at the next meeting. Most approvals included emergency clauses at staff's request to keep projects on schedule; votes were recorded as motions carried during the meeting.