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Marion County approves limited maintenance program for unaccepted local access roads
Summary
The Board of Commissioners approved an order allowing Public Works to establish an ongoing program to perform basic maintenance on 24 unaccepted local access roads, at an estimated annual cost of about $80,000.
The Marion County Board of Commissioners on Aug. 6 approved an order allowing the Public Works director to establish a continuing local access road limited-maintenance program to perform pothole repair, grading, placement of rock and millings, ditching, culvert flushing and other basic work on a subset of county-area roads not formally accepted for county maintenance.
The program, presented by Max Hepburn, Marion County Public Works land development engineering and permit supervisor, is intended to “prevent public safety hazards on local access roads” and to keep frequently used private-access roads in a safe, traversable condition, the county said. The Board voted to adopt the order after a motion and second; commissioners voiced support and the motion passed.
Under the program’s draft terms, “limited maintenance” includes pothole repair;…
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