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County engineer discusses partnering with Forest Service on road maintenance and emergency response
Summary
County Engineer Josh Thompson outlined opportunities to coordinate maintenance with the Forest Service using Good Neighbor Authority agreements, urged contractors to register in federal procurement systems and flagged bridge deterioration requiring DOT attention.
Josh Thompson, Okanagan County Engineer, briefed the commissioners on ongoing road maintenance and coordination efforts with the U.S. Forest Service. Thompson said the Forest Service’s Good Neighbor Authority could enable agreements that let the county perform additional maintenance work on shared routes as part of multi‑year projects—examples include pulverize, add base, and chip‑seal sequences on forest roads where the service’s contractor does major rehabilitation and the county could follow with a…
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