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Boone County Commissioners rescind $1.95 million fuel-station approval after staff analysis shows long payback

2522000 · March 5, 2025
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Commissioners voted to rescind a December 2024 approval of a $1,948,532 construction contract for a county fuel station after staff presented new bid data showing much smaller fuel-cost savings and a multi-decade payback.

Boone County Commissioners voted to rescind their prior approval of PCOR 81R — a $1,948,532 construction contract for a county fuel station — after staff presented new fuel-bid calculations showing expected savings far short of earlier assumptions.

A staff member who presented the analysis said the project’s original justification — an estimated $130,000 a year in fuel savings that would yield a roughly 15-year payback on the construction cost — no longer held when the county used the 2025 fuel-bid results. The presenter said the updated bidding produced an estimated savings of about $24,000 per year and that including…

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