The Webster County Board of Supervisors approved Resolution No. 2025-30 to enter into a 28E agreement to submit a bundled application to the Competitive Highway Bridge Program (CHBP).

A county staff member explained the strategy: bundling two Webster County bridges with an Iowa Department of Transportation bridge on Highway 169 northwest of Fort Dodge increases the package's competitiveness. "CHBP is the competitive highway bridge program, and they favor... bundled packages like this," the staff member said.

The staff member told the board that if the joint application succeeds, the DOT would handle payroll and administration: "Everything will run through the DOT, but we'll have three separate contracts, one for their bridge and one for each of our bridges. They'll payroll everything, and we'll... So it's still itemized between the projects, just not for the application of the grant."

The board approved the resolution in a roll call vote; the resolution passed unanimously.

The 28E agreement creates the legal framework for the joint application but does not commit the county to specific bridge work until awards and contracts are executed by the DOT and county.