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Council approves $20,500 guardrail repairs; members say city will seek reimbursement for DUI damage
Summary
The council voted to approve $20,500 in contractor guardrail repairs and discussed billing individuals charged in DUI incidents that damaged the guardrails. The motion passed by recorded affirmation after brief discussion of cost-recovery and including older repairs while the contractor is on site.
The City Council approved a contractor contract for highway guardrail repairs totaling $20,500 and discussed seeking reimbursement from individuals charged in DUI incidents tied to the damage. The motion was made by Council member Dudley and seconded by Council member Rosander; the roll-call vote recorded unanimous 'Aye' votes.
"So the first two, the Pine Butte Drive and Highway 39 and the Pine Butte Drive and Power Road repairs, there are DUIs that happened this summer," Council member Dudley said, explaining why the council sought an exact billable cost for repairs so the city can pursue reimbursement. "We can get reimbursed. We're not the Willow Avenue, that's been like that for a couple years, and so I thought I'd throw them in while we had them here to get that taken care of."
Dudley identified the two sites tied to recent DUI incidents and said police and city attorneys want the costs recovered from the charged individuals. The council also discussed adding a longstanding Willow Avenue repair to the contractor's scope while crews are on site; the transcript does not record a separate funding line for that work.
The motion to approve the contractor guardrail repair was introduced at the new-business portion of the meeting and recorded with the total figure of $20,500 for the combined projects. The clerk conducted a roll-call vote and the council recorded affirmative votes for Council members Rosander, Hanser, Kudser and Dudley.
No public testimony opposing the repair or the billing approach was recorded during the public-comment solicitation immediately before the vote. The council returned to other business after the motion carried.
At the meeting's close, the chair announced an upcoming agenda item to adopt the growth policy; no date for that adoption was specified in the transcript.
