County staff reported plans to address four bridges, saying three are fracture-critical and provided preliminary cost estimates, and the board authorized three contract change proposals that staff said will be paid from an owner's contingency and "does not increase the GMP."

A staff speaker listed the bridges and locations and said three are fracture-critical, naming a bridge on Thirteenth Street, one on Thirteenth Road, and one at Cedar View. The speaker said a fourth bridge "to the county for 13, and Shimmer would be about a 180,000." The speaker said box culverts would run about $60,000 each and repeated that the estimated funding split is "80/20." The speaker also said crews were cleaning out a box culvert by the Platte River near a new development.

On separate construction procurement business, another staff speaker said, "Okay. These are the 3 change orders that, and they're called contract change proposals that the board authorized me to approve. And for further explanation, this does not increase the GMP (guaranteed maximum price) because that comes out of the owner's contingency of a little over a million dollars." The transcript does not record a roll-call vote or the mover/second for the authorization in the provided excerpts.

Why it matters: fracture-critical bridges and culverts pose safety and access risks; funding sources and contingency use determine whether repairs proceed without increasing the project's contracted maximum price.

Meeting record: the transcript shows staff reporting cost figures and that the board authorized the change proposals; the excerpts do not record detailed budget line numbers, a formal vote tally, nor which specific project(s) the owner's contingency covers beyond the staff statement.

Follow-up: the transcript did not list specific implementation dates or whether external funding approvals (state or federal) are required for the 80/20 split.