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Resident complaint over Birch Creek Road prompts county review; staff cites past maintenance and BST treatment
Summary
A resident, Tony Fizzi, complained about conditions on Birch Creek Road; staff presented maintenance records, said a certificate of occupancy was issued in 2025, and noted the county applied BST treatment and historically offered a cost-share option for owners to request further BST treatments.
County staff told commissioners on Jan. 13 that they received an email from a resident, identified in the record as Tony Fizzi, about road conditions on Birch Creek Road.
A staff member summarized maintenance records dating from 2024 and 2025 and said the resident purchased a lot in 2024 and received a certificate of occupancy in 2025. "Birch Creek Road is a gravel road, and it is maintained. We have records in county work on April, June, and September, and 2024, and 11/13/2024 ... We also have records on April 2025, 08/28/2025," the staff member said during the meeting.
Staff described past treatments, saying the county applied a BST (acronym used in the transcript; not defined in the record) up to the church farm and that the county had committed to perform about 2 miles of BST and in practice did almost 2.5 miles in that campaign. The staff member also said that, historically, property owners along some stretches could request and pay for a BST operation that the county would schedule.
Commissioners discussed notification procedures for owners about the BST option; staff said the resident likely would not have seen that option as part of the paperwork for a certificate of occupancy and agreed to forward the email and related documents to commissioners for follow-up. No formal remedy was approved at the Jan. 13 meeting.
Context and caveats: the transcript contains several place-name and agency references that are unclearly transcribed (for example, references to "Fargo County" in the record appear inconsistent with the meeting context); this article reports what staff said verbatim where possible and notes acronyms or unclear proper names when they appear in the record.
