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Road commission representative reviews 2025 work and outlines 2026 priorities
Summary
An Alger County Road Commission representative summarized 2025 paving, graveling and bridge repairs, said the commission maintains nearly 500 miles of local roads and 112 miles of state highway, and outlined federal‑aid and grant projects planned for 2026.
An Agency official representing the Road Commission summarized a year of road work and outlined priorities for 2026. The official said the commission maintains nearly 500 miles of local roads and 112 miles of state highway and described large paving packages in Munising Township funded by a five‑year, two‑mill millage that allowed bundling projects to avoid annual cost increases. "So Road commission in Elder Counties has nearly 500 miles of local roads and maintains a 112 miles of state highway," the official said.
The presentation listed a mix of pavement, graveling and drainage projects completed in 2025 — examples included chip seals, gravel lifts on Black Creek Road and Slapneck Road, underdrain repairs on US‑41 at the Whitefish Bridge, and a prefabricated steel bridge deck placed on Capitol Hill Road (north of M‑94). The presenter noted a US Fish and Wildlife grant funded H‑58 river‑bank structure work at no local match and described a planned federal‑aid paving project on Evan Trenary Road (two miles of crushing, shaping and paving north from Cipolla Road) as a top 2026 priority. The presenter also described typical unit costs discussed at the meeting: "A chip seal is about $25,000 per layer," and paving runs "around $220,000 a mile."
