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Public Works outlines $454 million five-year roads and bridges CIP, highlights maintenance and partnerships
Summary
Sedgwick County Public Works presented a five-year roads-and-bridges capital program that emphasizes annual maintenance, bridge replacements, select road reconstructions and KDOT partnerships; staff asked commissioners for local consult input and flagged federal funding opportunities and tradeoffs on roundabouts versus signals.
Sedgwick County Public Works Deputy Director Daniel Schrantz told the Board of County Commissioners on Wednesday that the department’s tentative 2026–2030 roads-and-bridges capital improvement program focuses on maintenance, safety enhancements, limited expansion and pedestrian/bicycle "quality of place" projects.
“My name is Daniel Schrantz. I'm the deputy director of Sedgwick County Public Works, and I'm here to talk about our road and bridge CIP,” Schrantz said at the start of his presentation, which staff also provided as a handout.
Schrantz said the department manages roughly 600 road miles and 600 bridges and that the five-year package carries a total roads-and-bridges figure of about $454 million; he noted roughly $331 million of that total comes from non-county local sources or grant and partnership funds. Annual maintenance work (an R175 program) is budgeted at about $55 million over five years ($11 million per year), and the plan includes a mix of bridge replacements, road reconstructions and pavement upgrades for…
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