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Highway engineer requests sign purchase; offers public slideshow of stone-arch bridge project
Summary
Pipestone County Highway Engineer Nick Bergman recommended awarding a low-bid sign order and described progress on a sign inventory; he said he could prepare a public slideshow documenting construction of a stone-arch bridge.
Pipestone County Highway Engineer Nick Bergman told the Board on Feb. 18 that the department received three quotes for a sign purchase, with the low bidder including shipping, and recommended awarding the order to the low bidder, Newman Sign.
Board members approved the purchase by voice vote. Bergman said the signs are a budgeted item and that the highway department typically places sign orders each year as inventory runs low. "No. We do; we usually do sign orders every year," Bergman said.
Bergman also described progress on a digital sign-inventory project that uses GPS-enabled tablets and software (the department has worked with a vendor referred to as Pro West). He said the inventory is partially complete and noted staff have logged several thousand signs. At one point Bergman estimated roughly "4,400 signs or whatever" in the county inventory.
Separately, Bergman offered to assemble a public slideshow documenting construction of the county's stone-arch bridge, saying an abbreviated set of slides could be used for the county's road-and-bridge meeting or by local historical groups. Commissioners suggested the slideshow could be shared on the county website or used at historical-society events.
No dollar amount for the sign order was read into the record during the meeting; the purchase was described as budgeted and supported by Bergman's recommendation.
