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County proposes policy changes to dust‑abatement process, seeks to shift billing to vendors
Summary
Public works staff proposed revisions to the county’s dust‑abatement policy to clarify responsibilities, remove county billing duties for private magnesium‑chloride applications, and require vendors to secure payment before scheduling work. Staff will return a draft resolution to the Board for approval at a future consent agenda.
Franklin County public works staff on Wednesday proposed revising the county’s dust‑abatement policy (internal RPP No. 4) to clarify roles and transfer administrative billing duties for privately requested magnesium‑chloride applications to the vendors that supply the product.
Craig Erdman, public works speaker during the workshop, said the county’s role has been to prepare and blade roads while private landowners arrange and pay contractors to apply dust‑abatement product. “Our role for dust abatement with the citizens is to prep the roadways,” he said, and public works wants to remove itself from third‑party billing and payment collection for private transactions.
What would change: Under the proposed…
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