The Stoughton School Building Committee on Dec. 10 voted to recommend approval of a vendor invoice package totaling $630,365 for work on the new elementary school project. Joel Wolk moved the recommendation, saying the invoices were found "reasonable and in accordance with corresponding contract requirements," and listed the amounts: Vertex OPM 119-37 for $46,625; invoice #22 for $561,840; and W.T. Rich application #2 for $21,900, a combined total of $630,365.

The motion was seconded and passed on a roll call vote; the chair recorded it as a unanimous recommendation in the meeting record. Earlier in the agenda, the committee also approved the Nov. 12 meeting minutes (one member recused and one member said they would abstain during roll call).

Committee members said they had reviewed the invoices in a prior meeting and expected to discuss supporting documents later in the agenda. The motion to approve the vendor invoice package originated from a small review group that met with Vertex on Dec. 9; Wolk told the committee the package had been vetted and recommended for approval.

The financial action will be processed through the district’s usual accounts-payable workflow and recorded in the project’s cash-flow documents; the project team said it would deliver an updated cash-flow and schedule to the town accountant as they continue to coordinate the MSBA project-funding agreement. The committee did not change the total appropriation during the meeting.

What happens next: the project team will provide more detailed cost-estimate feedback at the next scheduled meeting after final reconciled estimates are returned in mid‑January.