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Dunn County staff present $750,000 design request for new highway facility; borrowing plan aims to stabilize levy
Summary
County staff presented a plan for a 72,000-square-foot precast storage building and a remodel of the existing highway shop at a Capital Improvement Plan workshop, proposing roughly $757,000 for design work in the CIP and a multi-year borrowing strategy intended to avoid raising the debt levy.
At a Dunn County Board of Supervisors Capital Improvement Plan workshop, county staff outlined plans for a new highway facility that would add covered storage, a drive-through wash bay and a remodeled shop to accommodate modern plow trucks and equipment.
The proposal presented by county staff would add a roughly 72,000-square-foot precast concrete building for equipment storage, plus a later remodel of the existing 43,000-square-foot main shop (about 19,000 square feet used for parking and about 16,000 square feet for repair work). Staff said the CIP request for 2026–2030 would include about $757,000 for design work in the first year; construction and remodel estimates are preliminary and based on 2024 costs.
The county’s municipal advisers modeled borrowing over a 20-year repayment schedule and used a conservative 4.5% interest-rate assumption to estimate…
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