Get Full Government Meeting Transcripts, Videos, & Alerts Forever!
County engineer seeks $8.53M secondary-roads budget and asks supervisors to allocate $200,000 from infrastructure fund for rock and paving
Summary
Chickasaw County engineer presented a proposed FY26 secondary-roads budget of $8,530,477 (about $7.93M net after anticipated bridge reimbursements), asked the Board to authorize $100,000 for rock and $100,000 for a paving project (Coleridge) from the infrastructure fund and reviewed equipment and personnel proposals.
The Chickasaw County engineer presented the proposed secondary-roads (secondary roads) fiscal year 2026 budget and an infrastructure-fund outlook at the Board meeting.
Why it matters: The roads budget and the county's infrastructure reserve determine how many miles can be rock-surfaced, spot-patched and resurfaced in a given year. The engineer asked supervisors to keep an infrastructure allocation available for road materials and a city-assisted paving project.
Budget totals and reimbursements: The proposed secondary-roads budget totals $8,530,477; the engineer said approximately $599,234 of that is expected to be reimbursable through the state highway-bridge program (local pay-to-start, then submit for DOT reimbursement). Net of those reimbursable bridge costs, the engineer summarized the county's program-level budget as about $7,931,243 (a 5.5% increase over the current year…
Already have an account? Log in
Subscribe to keep reading
Unlock the rest of this article — and every article on Citizen Portal.
- Unlimited articles
- AI-powered breakdowns of topics, speakers, decisions, and budgets
- Instant alerts when your location has a new meeting
- Follow topics and more locations
- 1,000 AI Insights / month, plus AI Chat
