City Council - Special Meeting

Okay, I'm calling this special meeting of the Ellsworth City Council to order on October 6, 2026. The only item under agenda of substance is agenda item number two, council order number 100600, public hearing and action on request of the city manager to award the contract for the Merrill Lane Extension, parentheses, Hancock County Judicial Center project. I'll hand it over to our city manager

Just a little project. Thank you. Counselors, questions for staff regarding the Maryland Extension Project?

Any further questions for staff before we open the public hearing? Seeing none, this matter is a public hearing, so I'm going to open the public hearing. If anyone from the public would like to approach the DS, provide comments on this matter, please do so now and please provide your name and city of residence and we ask that you keep your comments to three minutes or less. Seeing none, I will close the public hearing. Public hearing is now closed and council How would you like to proceed with the Maryland Extension project? We have a proposed motion from staff regarding moving to enter to a,

I have a question for you. The requested motion up on the screen is slightly different than the one printed. Just the content is the same, the language, as recommended by staff, authorized. That one seems to be more thorough than what we've got here.

Did not mean to instill that. But I'm happy to make the motion.

Before we move, do we want to have any further discussion?

And time for discussion after the motion, of course.

Okay, if you'd like to make the motion. Council Haller?

I was going to say I'll make the motion and then go to the discussion, but I feel like we should have the motion here. I move to award the contract for the Merrill Lane extension to RF Jordan for a not to exceed amount of $1,633,545 as recommended by staff and authorize the city manager to execute the contract and related documents. Second. Is second further discussion on the motion council Smith thank you change is happening in Ellsworth and change is hard because first what we see is what we lose before we're able to see what we can gain this is a spectacular example of change can either hap

Any further councilor? Councilor Shea, no? Councilor M. Smith, no? Well I think a lot of what I'd like to say has been said but I'd look at the team here and just when I started three years ago you know it was you know this was not the team and it's incredible to see how far the city staff has come and its abilities and it's cape and just this project is really kind of a capstone on that This is a generational investment in our community. The last courthouse was built almost 100 years ago. This is a 100-year investment. And considering that, and it's also, as someone that works in the court sy

So this one's a keeper. I appreciate the context and the documentation, whether it's the PDF or rented. This is a historic document, I think.

Love us a good binder. Yes, we do. Move to adjourn. Second.