Page County’s engineer told the board the county is responding to road damage attributed to wind‑project construction traffic and provided regular maintenance updates, while a MidAmerican representative described turbine‑site activity and a planned operations and maintenance building in Shenandoah.

JD King, Page County engineer, said crews are cleaning stockpiles, mowing pavement shoulders, replacing pipe on M Avenue, inventorying culverts and finishing work at the Essex Bridge, and preparing tandems and other equipment for winter service. King reported that crews will “patching on J52” for potholes that developed “from wind turbine traffic,” adding, “it needs to be concrete because … our asphalt did not hold up.” He said striping on a road to Essex has not yet been applied and will be painted in the fall when the surface is less shiny so the paint will adhere.

King also said the county is continuing project development, surveying existing pipe locations to design replacements, and that a resolution from the regional planning agency (RPA) will be coming to sponsor trail work on the Wabash with Page County acting as the governmental sponsor for pass‑through funds.

John (MidAmerican) reported crane pads are mostly complete at western Page County turbine sites, some sites have begun offloading components and a few have completed offloads, and the first crane crossing was scheduled during the afternoon of the meeting. He said MidAmerican has coordinated notifications with county staff: “I know, JD was made aware of that, and I'm understanding that there's a good system that Page County has for getting that information out to who needs to hear it.”

The MidAmerican representative confirmed the company plans an operations and maintenance (O&M) office building across from a Pella facility in Shenandoah and described it as “more or less an office,” not a staging yard for blades or large equipment. He also reported that tower‑rescue training occurred and that county emergency‑management personnel were invited to participate.

Board members and staff discussed resident concerns about trees and brush along Summit Street; the engineer said maintenance responsibility is shared with a neighboring county or city depending on jurisdiction and suggested individuals contact the appropriate city or county officials. King said the Essex Bridge work is complete and the deck will be sealed soon to prepare for closeout, and that the last bridge grant the county applied for did not make the cut for funding.

The county is tracking crane movements to inform residents and will schedule concrete patching for J52, with paint striping deferred until surface conditions improve. No formal enforcement action regarding turbine traffic was recorded in the meeting transcript; county staff described ongoing maintenance and coordination with MidAmerican and contractors.