Estimates divulged for Sunflower Road
A cost estimate from engineer consultants for improvements to Sunflower Road was acknowledged May 31 by Marion County Commission.
Kirkham and Michael Engineers provided a cost estimate of $633,170. The county had received $450,000 from Kansas Department of Transportation, with $18,000 already used from those funds.
The commission will discuss options at future meetings.
In other business:
— Transport fuel bids were approved from Cardie Oil Company of Tampa for a total of $19,521 for 5,500 gallons of diesel and 2,500 gallons of unleaded fuel. The average cost of diesel fuel was 2.377 per gallon and unleaded fuel was $2.397 per gallon.
Cooperative Grain and Supply of Hillsboro also presented a bid of $19,596 for the same amount of fuel. The average cost of diesel was $2.384 and $2.415 per gallon for unleaded.
Cardie Oil Company also was awarded the low bid for area fuel bids. The total bid was $14,724 for 6,550 gallons of diesel at an average cost of $2.247.
Cooperative Grain and Supply also presented a bid of $15,032 for the same amount of fuel at an average cost of $2.296.
— A contract was approved for the design of two bridges. Cook, Flatt, and Strobel will receive a total of $46,600.
— Salary was approved for Mark Koehn as a rural patrolman in Lehigh Township. Also two summer helpers were hired by road and bridge department — Preston Williams and Jeremy Vondenkamp.
— Transfer station manager Rollin Schmidt requested and received a five-minute executive session to discuss personnel. When the meeting reconvened, the commission approved a $1 per hour pay increase for transfer station employee Dan Sleznick. He will receive an additional pay increase when he obtains a CDL.
