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Commissioners approve $9,695 post driver purchase for guardrail work, discuss purchase process under $50,000
Summary
The board approved a $9,695 purchase from Jacobi's for a post driver to set 500–650 guardrail posts and discussed whether purchases under $50,000 should follow a streamlined process or require future emergent meetings.
The Floyd County Board of Commissioners approved purchasing a post driver for $9,695 from Jacobi's to support a planned guardrail installation.
Road Department Superintendent Stan Heil said the department received three bids and the lowest was $9,695 from Jacobi's. Heil said the post driver is needed to set approximately 500–650 posts for the upcoming guardrail installation. Commissioners discussed whether requests under $50,000 should follow a different internal approval process; President Al Knable said he would need to hear pros and cons before changing the process and prefers holding emergent meetings only when strictly necessary. Jason Sharp moved to purchase the equipment; the motion was seconded by Frank Loop and passed unanimously.
No procurement policy change was adopted at the meeting; Al Knable said any process-change proposal should be discussed with public notice if pursued in the future.
