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Commissioners discuss resurfacing priorities and $800,000 per-district funding; staff to provide road lists and unit costs
Summary
Commissioners spent an extended portion of the July 22 meeting on road resurfacing, striping and shoulder widening. A staff member said the county has "$800,000 a piece" to allocate; staff committed to provide a spreadsheet of past and planned resurfacing and per-mile cost estimates.
At the County Commission meeting on July 22, 2025, commissioners discussed resurfacing and resurfacing-related work across districts, including project selection, unit costs per mile and options for splitting funding across two years.
A county staff member said the commission had roughly $800,000 per district available for road work. Commissioners and staff discussed how pooling or alternating allocations across years could yield longer continuous projects and better unit pricing.
“Do we have a dollar figure for us to work with? Yeah a dollar figure for us to work with we got $800,000 a piece,” a staff member said.
Mr. Rawls, the engineering department representative, described the resurfacing schedule and the mechanics for bundling projects to get better unit pricing: “The more tons you got, the more the discount you get.” He said recent decreases in oil-indexed asphalt prices have improved unit costs and that resurfacing yields different outcomes than thin pavement-preservation treatments.
Rawls listed roads recently striped or inspected and said the county is tracking completed resurfacing and resurfacing candidates. He agreed to provide commissioners with an updated spreadsheet showing roads resurfaced in the prior year, lengths and planned projects.
A commissioner asked about using some funds for shoulder widening, and Rawls offered a planning-level cost: “I think if we can get about 35,000 to 40,000 a mile I think on widening like a foot a foot and a half … I wouldn't mind maybe throwing it into the plan this year too.”
Staff said some projects are funded with a combination of federal and local rebuild funds; Rawls said he would provide a run summary showing allocations to districts since the rebuild program began.
No formal reallocation of resurfacing funds or binding budgeting decisions were adopted at the meeting; commissioners asked staff to return with the requested lists, unit pricing per mile for resurfacing and a district-by-district allocation summary.
Rawls also said specific projects—Jacksontown and Hawkwood—are expected to begin in about three weeks and that a separate surface treatment used on a longer state project could be considered by bid for locally qualifying roads.
Commissioners asked staff to supply a printed list of last year’s paved and dirt roads and their lengths and to present resurfacing cost estimates at the next meeting.
