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Highway staff ask to restore machinery-replacement schedule, expand asset management and maintain chips-funded paving
Summary
Interim Highway Director Nick Ensign and team told the committee much of their fleet is 20–31 years old, asked to return machinery replacement funding to schedule, requested completion funding for OpenGov asset-management rollout and described steady capital requests for paving and bridge work funded by CHIPS.
Interim Highway Director Nick Ensign and the highway budget team told the Expanded Budget Committee on Sept. 11 that a number of county machines are aging and that capital funding is needed to keep the department on a replacement schedule. Ensign said county highways manage about 302 center lane miles, 109 bridges and more than 4,600 signs, and the department’s shop supports fleet maintenance across county vehicles. He presented a machinery-age chart showing many pieces at least 20 years old, with the oldest at about 31 years and the newest at eight years. The highway team described a capital plan that drives the annual…
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