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Lucas County Engineer awards paving and painting contracts, joins townships for crack-sealing and presents $16 million 2024 work summary
Summary
The Board approved an Oglesby Construction contract for long-line road painting, a joint crop aggregation agreement for crack sealing with local townships, and accepted the Lucas County Engineer’s 2024 annual report detailing about $16 million in county construction projects and $6.6 million managed for townships.
The Lucas County Board of County Commissioners on May 5 approved multiple road and maintenance items from the County Engineer, including a contract award for long-line painting, a joint agreement for crack sealing with townships, and acceptance of the engineer's 2024 annual report.
County Engineer Mike Panuski told the board he was recommending award of the long-line painting contract to Oglesby Construction of Norwalk as the lowest of three bidders, for $267,873. "Item number 5 is award of contract to Oglesby Construction of Norwalk for the long line painting program... for $267,873 and they are the lowest of three bidders," Panuski said.
Panuski also recommended approval of a joint crop aggregation agreement with Monclova Township Trustees and Springfield and Heart of Township Trustees to share costs for the 2025 crack-sealing program. He described the agreement as a cost-sharing arrangement that lets the county and townships coordinate crack sealing to reduce unit costs.
Finally, Panuski presented the Lucas County Engineer's annual report required under state code. The report summarized 2024 work that included three bridge projects, one culvert repair, construction of two miles of two-stage ditch, five roadway improvement projects, four new roundabouts and about 16 miles of county road resurfacing—totaling roughly $16,000,000 in construction work. He also said the engineer's office managed about $6,600,000 in township projects under the Ohio Revised Code, acting as the township engineer.
Commissioner Gerken moved to approve the items; the clerk called the roll and recorded affirmative votes. The board accepted the annual report and authorized the contract and agreements to proceed to procurement and execution as appropriate.
Panuski described 2024 as one of the county's larger construction years and said the engineer's office maintains records and project metrics that inform planning and maintenance prioritization.
The contract award, township agreement and acceptance of the annual report were approved by roll call; the board did not discuss alternate bidders or engineer-estimated timelines for the new work at the May 5 meeting.
