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County engineer recommends Asphalt Contractors low bid for $1.56 million County Road 23 rebuild; multiple county road projects updated
Summary
Chilton County engineer reported four bids for the County Road 23 reconstruction, recommended accepting the low bid from Asphalt Contractors for $1,563,660 (project also received $350,000 Rebuild Alabama grant), and provided status updates on several other road reconstruction and surfacing projects across the county.
County Engineer Heath (last name not stated) asked the Chilton County Commission to accept four bids for the County Road 23 improvement project and to approve the low bid from Asphalt Contractors at $1,563,660; he said the project also had $350,000 in Rebuild Alabama grant funds.
Heath said the County Road 23 project is a 4.4‑mile reconstruction that will reconstruct the road and then place a wearing surface. He read the four bids on the record: Dunn Construction — $1,902,426.75; Asphalt Contractors — $1,563,660; Wiregrass Construction — $1,646,940.75; and Children Contractors — $1,592,017.48. He recommended acceptance of Asphalt Contractors' low bid and noted Asphalt Contractors plans to subcontract full‑depth reclamation work to Children Contractors.
Heath also described the planned construction method: the contractor will mill the top eight inches of roadway into the base and add cement (about 40 pounds per square yard) to create a high‑strength base mixture for the reconstructed sections; he said there would not be standard asphalt milling to save aggregate but rather full‑depth reclamation integrated with cement stabilization.
Other road updates: Heath said he completed base reconstruction and a seal on County Road 633 and requested bids to resurface County Road 633, County Road 95 and County Road 7604; he also requested thermoplastic striping for County Road 23 to replace a temporary paint stripe. He reported progress on "Cabrio 49" (a widening and intersection‑paving effort) and said crews would return to finish lanes north of Highway 24 after weather permits. He noted work is weather‑dependent. Heath listed additional planned projects including County Road 30 and further work on County Road 16 (guardrail project funded by an LRSI grant).
Budget and hiring: Heath said the projects were budgeted and therefore no additional budget modification was needed for the resurfacing work. He also asked the commission to approve several personnel hires and a reclassification to foreman and asked that the commission approve effective dates and rates as included in the packet; commissioners asked clarifying questions about minor duplicated lines in the packet.
Formal action recorded at this meeting: Heath asked the commission to accept bids and approve the low bid; the transcript records the engineer's recommendation but does not record a formal vote or tally in the excerpt provided.
