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County to open bids for emergency road repairs; officials plan to auction surplus equipment
Summary
Officials said bids will be opened soon for emergency road projects tied to flood repairs and announced plans to auction surplus vehicles and equipment next month. Road-maintenance activity and public compliments were noted.
The chair reported several emergency road-agent projects (Wolf Creek, Pratt Branch and others) were run but omitted from the papers and will be re-posted for bids; opening of bids was scheduled for the next meeting. The chair framed these projects as work to address damage from recent flood events and said the bid process should restore progress on overdue repairs.
Separately, the meeting included a prepared list of surplus county equipment under consideration for auction: two dump trucks, a low boy, multiple pickups and an old Suburban among other items. The chair suggested scheduling a one-day auction next month to dispose of unneeded assets and relieve county storage demands.
In the road report, the chair said ditching and mowing operations are ongoing and received public compliments for improvements. No formal contract awards or specific dollar amounts for the emergency repairs were recorded in the transcript; next steps were to re-run the bids and open them at a future meeting.
