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Marshall County board reassigns excavation contracts, vacates portion of Hekerman tile
Summary
At its Nov. 17 meeting, the Marshall County board awarded or reassigned multiple excavation and ditch contracts after a contractor relinquished awards, approved a reroute and voted to vacate the Hekerman tile from manhole A to manhole C, and approved Oct. 20 minutes.
The Marshall County board on Nov. 17 awarded and reassigned several local excavation contracts and voted to vacate a stretch of county-maintained tile that serves a property where a building expansion required a reroute.
Board members moved and approved multiple contract awards after reviewing competing bids for ditch and excavation work. Speaker 2 presented the initial set of bids for the West Bunch Ditch and later additional bids for a separate project; the board awarded at least three jobs to Beaver Excavating and one to Langfeld Excavating following motions and seconds.
Why it matters: These actions commit county funds and staff time to drainage and excavation work that affect local roads and property drainage; the Hekerman tile vacation in particular changes the county’s ongoing maintenance responsibility for a run of tile from manhole A to manhole C.
What the board did: For the West Bunch Ditch and a later, related project the board recorded the following actions in meeting discussion and votes: Beaver Excavating was recorded as the low bidder in…
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