Get Full Government Meeting Transcripts, Videos, & Alerts Forever!
Get email alerts on the Maintenance topic
No spam. Unsubscribe anytime.
Residents and board discuss multiple ditch cleanouts and Cart Creek assessment; bids to be sought
Summary
Residents requested cleaning of Sims Franklin and Cart Creek ditches and the board discussed logistical challenges near a trailer court, need for bids from McCain's, and next steps including letters to landowners, surveying, and coordinating stockpiling of spoil.
Grant County residents and drainage board members discussed a series of maintenance requests, including cleaning the Sims Franklin ditch and addressing accumulated sediment through a trailer court and Meridian Street corridor.
Resident Mike Anel asked the board to clean both sides of Sims Franklin to preserve the assessment and avoid raising rates; staff agreed to draft letters to affected property owners and to seek bids. Board members discussed practical limits where private properties, trees and utilities constrain clearing and emphasized that work would proceed only after obtaining property permissions and formal bids.
The board also reviewed Cart Creek, where staff identified incomplete records for the open ditch north to the county line and agreed to continue a books search to establish legal descriptions before proposing an assessment. For a heavily encumbered reach near a trailer court, staff said McCain's would provide a cost estimate; preliminary numbers ranged from roughly $8,000 for open digging to $15,000 or more when hauling and working around trailers are factored in.
Board members agreed to request estimates, coordinate with property owners (including asking trailer-court managers to move items), and bring cost figures and legal descriptions back for approval. Several action items were set: staff will draft letters, solicit bids and report results at a future meeting.
