Public Works presents road-maintenance plan; board seeks full procurement plan before contracting
May 5, 2026
Public Works outlined a multi-pronged chip-seal, scrub-seal and slurry schedule and demonstrated a new maintenance-request portal; commissioners asked the director to return on May 19 with a procurement plan for spending previously approved pothole funds rather than proceeding immediately to outside contracting.
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Beau Gott, assistant public-works director, presented the road report and a live demonstration of the county's maintenance-request portal and GIS work-order system. Gott said crews have received 286 maintenance requests so far this year (96 complete, 31 denied, 159 unresolved) and described a chip-seal/scrub-seal program targeting roughly 60 miles for the year, with slurry projects subcontracted where county equipment is not available.
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