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Meade County accepts gravel and magnesium-chloride bids, approves equipment rental rates
Summary
The county accepted multiple aggregate and magnesium chloride bids for 2025, approved equipment rental rates (including operator) with a state mileage addition, and opened bids for a gravel-crushing contract to be considered at a later meeting.
Meade County commissioners approved bid awards for aggregate and magnesium-chloride products used in road maintenance, approved updated equipment rental rates and opened gravel-crushing bids for later consideration.
Highway Superintendent Troy Eastman told commissioners the county will accept multiple pit bids for gravel aggregate and riprap to optimize haul distance and material type; the board voted to accept all submitted bids for listed pits. Eastman also recommended accepting all bids for magnesium-chloride (mag water) products and alternatives so the county and residents have multiple supplier options; that motion also passed.
The board approved a revised equipment-rental-rate schedule that includes operator costs in the per-hour rate and will add a state mileage rate. Commissioners asked staff to track mileage and consider a heavier-equipment mileage rate where appropriate; staff said the county follows state mileage guidance.
Bids to crush and stockpile gravel at a location east of New Underwood were opened in the meeting. Three bids were read: North Star Construction (stockpile 1-inch gravel at $7.91/ton), Western Construction ($5.75/ton) and Rogers Construction ($4.89/ton). The county accepted the submission packages and will return with a recommendation and award at a future meeting; the gravel-crushing bid was not awarded at this session.
Why it matters: those purchasing and applying aggregate and mag-water products are central to county road maintenance. The multiple-bid acceptance approach is intended to reduce delays in seasonal work by providing flexibility to the highway department and residents who pay for residential applications.
Ending: Commissioners said the multiple-vendor approach and updated rental rates should help preserve roads by improving responsiveness and by making county equipment available, with operator, for qualifying uses.
