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Pawnee County schedules follow-up on BUILD grant and preliminary engineering study

Pawnee County Board of Commissioners · February 9, 2026
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Summary

Commissioners discussed how much design to include in a BUILD grant application and scheduled a follow-up meeting for Feb. 16 with Hometown Grants and county road staff to refine the preliminary engineering scope.

Commissioner Rein told the board she had spoken with Katie Sawyer in Senator Roger Marshall’s office about a letter of support for a BUILD grant application and said county staff and consultants should refine how much preliminary engineering to include in the request.

At 10:30 a.m., Road/Bridge/Zoning Head Kurt Demel met with representatives from Kirkham Michael and Hometown Grants (Christy Crews and Vanessa Gallego via Zoom) to review project design options for the grant. The group discussed tradeoffs between submitting a grant with more complete design versus a smaller engineering scope; staff scheduled an additional Zoom meeting next week to continue the discussion and set a follow-up in-person meeting for Monday, Feb. 16 at 10:00 a.m. with consultant Josh Beckman and Road and Bridge leadership.

The meetings will help the county decide what level of preliminary engineering to include in the BUILD application and what work, if any, should be completed before grant submission. No final procurement or budget commitments were made at this session.

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