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Linn County commissioners approve $12,100 culvert patch and direct staff to draft signs resolution as road crews prep chip-and-seal season
Summary
Roads staff reported pothole and culvert repairs, asked for neighborhood safety signs and chip-and-seal planning; commissioners approved $12,100 to patch a culvert on 1077/900 and asked staff to return with a resolution to place four "children at play" signs and four school-bus warning signs.
Jesse Walton, operations director for the Linn County Road Department, told the Board of County Commissioners that crews opened the year with 89 service requests, 70 completed and 19 still open, and that crews were preparing for chip-and-seal season while responding to routine pothole and ditching work.
Walton described specific recent work: replacing a damaged entrance culvert on 1600 in Ingram, clearing crossroad culverts and placing ditch liner on 300 Road and Reed, and other routine maintenance. He also said the department received a citizen request to place a “children at play” sign on Gorman Road because of increased traffic near a house where small children live.
"When I was down there, I sat down there for about an hour," Walton…
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