STEUBENVILLE — A virtually $200,000 contract to restore a street slide was awarded at Thursday’s assembly of Jefferson County commissioners, the most recent in a sequence of slide repairs made potential by funding from the ARPA.
Commissioners gave engineer Jim Branagan the go-ahead a number of weeks in the past for the work, telling him he had about $1 million in US bailout funds he may use to restore the extra pressing.
Eventually week’s assembly, Branagan informed the commissioners how a lot he appreciated the inflow of cash.
“Over the previous 4 years, our division has been burdened with an unprecedented variety of street tasks (slides) requiring money and time,” he mentioned. “Roadslide tasks pose security dangers to the touring public, due to this fact requiring our highest precedence.
“I take this chance to specific the honest gratitude of (our workplace) on your monetary help by way of ARPA funds. It is going to be a aid to begin the 12 months 2023 with a traditional strategy to fulfilling all of our upkeep.
Branagan informed commissioners that street slips aren’t a brand new drawback in Jefferson County: He mentioned they fastened 161 slips from 1989 to 2017. Since 2018, they’ve already performed 100 extra.
The most recent contract was awarded to Ohio-West Virginia Excavating to restore landslides on County Roads 1-3.4 and 2-2.1.
The Powhatan-based firm submitted the bottom and greatest bid of $184,167. The engineer’s estimate was $197,861.
Tenders have additionally been opened for a restore of the County Street 14 slipway. Bidders for this undertaking had been Alan Stone, of Vincent, $465,571, and Ohio-West Virginia Excavating, $438,254.
In different instances, Commissioners:
– Amsterdam constructing proprietor John Rucki informed commissioners residents had been annoyed with their incapability to hook up with the brand new sewage system. He mentioned he had been making an attempt to get a contractor to come back to his home for a while “and it seems to be prefer it will not occur till spring.”
“Different residents have the identical drawback” he mentioned. “We need to be linked. There have been 13 drainage layers on the county-approved listing and now there are solely 4 or 5. “
Rucki mentioned they’d all hoped the brand new sewage system “would have a optimistic impact on our neighborhood.
“Now we’re in a little bit of the place of somebody who paid hundreds of thousands of {dollars} for a yacht solely to seek out we won’t find the keys,” he mentioned, including “It is important that we resolve this subject.”
— Signing of a street use and upkeep settlement with Ascent Sources-Utica, for a effectively website within the Township of Wells. County Street 19, in addition to Township Street 167 by way of the townships of Cross Creek, Steubenville and Wells might be used as transportation routes. Ascent will make street enhancements “as decided by testing and evaluation of the prevailing pavement”, we informed the commissioners
– Have been suggested that Brandon Andresen had resigned his appointment to the complete board of the Brooke-Hancock-Jefferson Metropolitan Planning Fee. Andresen, who had served for practically eight years, mentioned he accepted one other place and will not symbolize Jefferson County.
— Request for a quote to repaint and upholster the treasurer’s workplace. Treasurer Ray Agresta informed commissioners the prevailing carpet was in place earlier than he took workplace in 2005 and the partitions had been final painted over a decade in the past.
–Gave the Jefferson County Regional Airport Authority the go-ahead to public sale off an unserviceable bulldozer. The county engineer gave them the bulldozer “years in the past,” Gary Folden, secretary-treasurer of JCRAA, mentioned.
“The one worth is scrap steel and is estimated at $500”, he added.
– Authorized a $65,100 change order for the Norton Hill Water Reservoir undertaking, reflecting the extra work concerned in eradicating parts of the inside liner in addition to sustaining short-term water storage on website longer than initially deliberate.
With the change, Water and Sewer District Supervisor Mike Eroshevich mentioned the contract “stays $190,541 under the unique contract value.
– Signature of juvenile detention contracts with Perry and Franklin counties in Pennsylvania.
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