Supervisors approve county road mapping contract; vendor to deliver lidar, PCI and 911 street view

The Oktibbeha County Board of Supervisors approved a contract recommendation to map county roads using mobile lidar and panoramic imagery, a project the presenter said would yield pavement-condition indexes, street-view imagery integrateable with 911 dispatch, and extractable asset inventories such as signs and hydrants.

Presenter Toby demonstrated the Trimble MX50 mobile mapper and the county-facing website that delivers color-coded PCI scores and point-cloud data. He described three outputs: automated street view for 911, a GIS layer with PCI scores (a numeric rating for each road segment) and export formats for engineers, including CAD/DWG and Google Earth layers. Toby said the mapping baseline cost was $150 per mile and estimated a contract value presented to the board at about $112,423.

Board members asked about data ownership, extraction fees and the ability to update the dataset; the presenter said the county would own the data and could request additional extractions (quoted at $150 per hour for rating extractions). Supervisors discussed training for staff and whether small-gravel roads and adverse weather (dust, rain) would affect lidar results; the presenter advised planning operations for favorable conditions and noted some limits for gravel surfaces.

The board voted to accept the contract recommendation and to authorize the county attorney to negotiate final terms and ensure data deliverables meet county needs. The motion passed with the vote recorded in the public minutes as unanimous or 4–0 depending on the recorded item.