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Cowlitz County public works outlines funding shifts, change orders and recommended bid awards for road and fish-passage projects
Summary
County engineer presented multiple Public Works recommendations: two $5,000 reclassifications to preserve federal local-agency funding, a $11,770 change order for guardrail repairs, a tax-parcel sale to Longview for municipal use, and recommended bid awards to DeWitt Construction ($434,355) and Western United Group ($2,349,120) for culvert and fish-passage work.
Susan Eugene, Cowlitz County engineer, briefed the Board on multiple public-works items that staff plan to bring forward for formal approval. She described administrative funding adjustments, contract changes, and recommended awardees for two construction projects.
Local-agency-agreement supplements: Eugene said the county is shifting $5,000 on each of two South Cloverdale Road local-agency agreements from the contract line to the local agency line so the county can submit initial bills within the required six-month window and avoid the projects being declared inactive. She described the shift as accounting reallocation (no change to total project cost) to allow billing for advertisement and staff time.
Change order for unit-price guardrail repair contract: Eugene described Change Order No. 1 with…
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