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Secondary-roads budget centers on maintenance, equipment and two bridge replacements
Summary
Staff outlined a FY27 secondary-roads budget funded primarily by road-use taxes (nearly 60%), with local option sales tax (24%) and property taxes (~15%). Major items include maintenance (74% of expenditures), proposed equipment purchases (grader, mechanic's truck, skid steer, tandem trucks) and replacement of two bridges (U‑155 and K‑20). The board received the budgetary materials.
Secondary-roads staff presented the preliminary FY27 budget emphasizing maintenance and capital equipment to support a large gravel‑road program and ongoing upkeep. Staff said nearly 60% of secondary-roads funding comes from road‑use taxes, 24% from local-option sales tax and about 15% from property taxes, with maintenance and equipment comprising roughly 74% of expenditures.
Staff listed planned equipment purchases — motor grader, mechanic's truck, skid steer and trailer, engineering truck, district tool truck, tandem trucks with trailers and mowers — and described two proposed bridge replacements: U‑155 (129 feet long, 20 feet wide) and K‑20 (66 feet long, 16 feet wide), each serving roughly 40–50 vehicles per day. The board discussed levy implications, the county tax-ask minimum for secondary roads cited in the meeting as $1,800,000, and asked staff to embed improvement-request numbers in the next budget iteration and verify CIP eligibility for vehicle purchases where appropriate.
Board members moved to receive the presentation and the materials were entered into the budget process for further review.
