The Clay County Commission approved two related actions to secure the Road & Bridge facility: a $25,000 transfer within the Road & Bridge fund to cover a 50% cost share and a $20,005.89 contract to replace a perimeter fence.
Tom Degenhardt, Road and Bridge director, said the county intends to flip the original schedule after a budget miscommunication: the fence will be installed this fiscal year and the fuel-island canopy will be requested next year. The contract uses an on-call general contractor, ZIP Code Contracting.
Degenhardt described the work as removal of the existing fence and construction of a new 455-foot linear, 8-foot-tall chain-link fence with barbed wire on top. "Our intent was to install the fuel island canopy this year and then ask for the fence next year. So we ask that those be flipped," Degenhardt said.
Commissioner Johnson moved to approve the two resolutions; the roll call vote was unanimous, 6-0.
The transfer (resolution 2025-205) covers the county’s 50% cost-share match to the project; the contract (resolution 2025-206) lists the contractor amount as $20,005.89. The commission’s action authorized staff to proceed under the on-call contract and to move forward with the fence installation this fiscal year.