Lorain County commissioners approve routine agenda, contracts and multiple grant authorizations

The Lorain County Board of Commissioners approved routine appropriations, transfers, multiple construction and professional service contracts and authorized county staff to execute state grant agreements at its April 22 meeting.

The board voted unanimously to approve the consent agenda items that included investments, appropriations, transfers, advances/repayments, requisitions, travel requests and bills. Commissioners also approved a series of specific contracts and grant-authority items, including waterline and sanitary sewer work, a traffic-signal project, highway safety and resurfacing applications to the Ohio Public Works Commission (OPWC), and county engineering professional services.

The actions included: a $289,297 contract award to R.A. Boros Excavating Inc. for the Rosewood Street waterline replacement (replace approx. 1,170 linear feet of 8-inch waterline), an amendment correcting accounting for a previously approved $923,757 contract with Hula Construction for the Lake Avenue sanitary extension…