MARSHALL — This week, members of the Marshall City Council voted to continue working with a St. Paul firm for architectural and engineering services at the Marshall airport.

Council members voted to approve a professional services agreement with engineering firm TKDA for 2025 through 2030. The city has worked with TKDA at the airport since 1992, said Marshall Public Works Director Jason Anderson.

“We recently requested qualifications from consulting engineering firms for airport engineering and architectural services for the next five years,” Anderson said.

“The FAA requires this process to be done either on a five-year term, or per project. We’ve always elected to go on a five-year term so we can work with the same company for a long period of time and have some efficiencies there,” he said.

Anderson said the city had received submissions from TKDA and from engineering firm Bolton & Menk.

“Both were very good proposals,” he said. The Marshall airport commission sent the proposals to a review committee, and the committee in turn recommended TKDA’s proposal.

Council member Craig Schafer said the review committee valued the working the relationship the city had with TKDA for airport planning and projects. However, he said the city also had a good relationship with Bolton & Menk.

“The scoring was, I believe, probably very close,” Schafer said.

Council members voted to approve the agreement with TKDA. Council agenda materials said that while the agreement outlined the terms of services TKDA would provide, there were no specific dollar amounts associated with the overall agreement. The service agreement did include articles describing how TKDA would be paid for engineering and planning work.