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Parish officials discuss road additions, bid discrepancies and redesign of annex after bids exceed funds
St. Martin Parish Council · August 20, 2025
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Summary
Council and staff reviewed added roadside work on local road projects, the redesign of the central office annex after bids exceeded available grant funds, and cited bid and contingency math that pushed a project over budget.
Parish staff told the council an additional roadside scope was omitted from some road project bids and that inserting a roughly $60,000 line item for edge work would not materially change the project's bottom line given an expected $200,000–$300,000 overage on the full road. "We are actually, without doing final budgets on this road itself, $200,000 to…
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