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Highway superintendent objects to chip-and-seal on CR 500 W, cites $37,701 cost and lack of equipment
Summary
Highway Superintendent Jerry Ault told commissioners the department lacks chip-and-seal equipment and that the cost to chip-and-seal County Road 500 W is $37,701; he said the road is a dead-end serving one house and urged prioritizing more-traveled roads despite prior commissioners’ approval.
Jerry Ault, Jackson County’s Highway Superintendent, told the board there are four remaining roads to pave under the CCMG paving program and that the county council approved using ARPA funds to pay for paving those roads. Ault said he only recently learned of a prior commissioners’ approval to chip-and-seal County Road 500 W; he said the highway department no longer owns usable chip-and-seal equipment and that the quoted cost for chip-and-seal work on that road is $37,701.
Ault characterized CR 500 W as a low‑traffic, dead‑end road with a single house and said investing scarce funds to chip-and-seal that road may not be the best use of taxpayer money. The minutes show the commissioners took the matter under advisement for further consideration.
