The Dixon County Planning Commission recommended that the county accept Brookhollow Court (also transcribed as Brookhala/Brookhollow) as a county-maintained road and place it on the Dixon County highway map at its July 10, 2025 meeting.

Planning staff said Brookhollow Subdivision’s road work has been completed to county standards and the developer, identified in the transcript as Mr. Cunningham, seeks to dedicate the road to the county. Staff explained that if the highway department accepts the road, a maintenance bond will be held for 12 months after acceptance to cover any defects; the county’s standard regulatory process reduces that bond to 25% of the original bond amount for the one-year maintenance period before release, per the highway department’s practice cited by staff. Commissioners moved to recommend county acceptance; the motion was seconded and approved by voice vote.

The transcript records discussion about the bond amount, but specific dollar figures were garbled and not consistently clear in the record. Planning staff and commissioners discussed that the highway department sets the original bond amount and that the commission’s role is to recommend acceptance; staff characterized the reduction to 25% during the one-year maintenance period as the usual approach. The commission’s action was a recommendation to the county commission and did not itself change county maintenance budgets.

The recommendation will be transmitted to the Dixon County Commission and the county highway department for final action and bonding determinations.