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Woodbury County supervisors direct staff to seek bids for major secondary-roads equipment purchase
Summary
After an extended presentation on an aging fleet and new 2027 emissions requirements, supervisors instructed staff to remove a local road project from the draft budget and to solicit bids for a proposed FY2027 equipment package totaling about $3.12 million; the board voted 5-0 to receive the proposal.
Woodbury County Secondary Roads director Laura Sievers urged the Board of Supervisors to accelerate replacement of aging trucks and heavy equipment, telling supervisors she was proposing a roughly $3,115,000 equipment line for fiscal 2027 that would fund a motor grader, a mechanic’s truck, an engineering pickup, a skid steer and trailer, a tool truck, mowers and six tandem trucks with trailers.
“I'd be asking for a motor grader, a mechanic's truck, a pickup for the engineer group, skid loader and trailer, a tool truck, 6 tandems,” Sievers said as she laid out maintenance problems, high repair costs and a push to avoid first-year 2027 emissions…
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