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Supervisors approve awards and change orders for multiple county road projects
Summary
The Oktibbeha County Board of Supervisors accepted contractor bids, approved a change order to add Bluff Lake Road to an existing Blackjack Road contract and authorized awarding a District 2 construction contract, with board members saying the approvals keep projects within available funding and allow phasing of work across contractors.
Oktibbeha County supervisors voted to proceed with several road contracts, advertise bids for additional work and approve a change order to add Bluff Lake Road to the Blackjack Road contract.
The action followed discussion of a spreadsheet of roadway estimates and contractor bids. Supervisors approved setting a bid date for several smaller road segments and asked staff to prepare a change order to add Bluff Lake Road to the Blackjack contract; the board directed that the same contractor who is already under contract for Blackjack would handle the added work.
The board discussed an estimated change-order amount for adding Bluff Lake of $228,630.05 and staff said the county has funding available when accounting for annual road-plan allocations and upcoming receipts. Supervisor comments…
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