July 23, 2014 at 2:10 p.m.
Dust mats offered
Jay County Commissioners
The Jay County Highway Department is offering residential dust mat service for stone roads in the county.
Highway department superintendent Ken Wellman informed the Jay County Commissioners that he will be advertising the dust control program, which will be partially subsidized by the county.
Property owners can pay for the county to spray a stretch of stone road at a rate of 35 cents per foot, with a minimum length requirement of 400 feet ($140 minimum). The county will pay 28 cents per foot of the cost for spraying.
In past years the county has split the cost 50-50 with property owners, but this year decided to shift some of the burden to the owners in order to pool money to spray some intersections in the county.
“We decided to jump them up five cents,” said Jay County highway department superintendent Ken Wellman this morning. “Whatever little extra we did save we were going to try to intersections and see if that would keep them from raveling … We thought we might try with some money we save.”
Wellman said interested owners need to contact the highway department by May 20 and flags need to be out to mark the road by May 23.
The magnesium chloride used for dust control helps to harden the roadway, reducing the amount of dust that’s kicked up as vehicles pass.
“It doesn’t eliminate the dust completely but it does help,” Wellman said.
In other business Monday, the commissioners:
•Made Jay County prosecutor Wes Schemenaur purchasing agent for up to $7,500 to buy equipment for his office expansion in the courthouse.
•Denied a request by courthouse superintendent Roger McBride to purchase blinds for the upstairs windows of the Purdue Cooperative Extension Office building.
Commissioner Milo Miller Jr. said the $800 McBride wanted to spend was not worth it since employees aren’t working in the upstairs offices full-time.
•Signed two emergency claims for the highway department: $18,900 to purchase a Bobcat skid loader and $5,500 to pay for labor to assemble a dump truck.
Both disbursements were approved by the Jay County Council last week.[[In-content Ad]]
Highway department superintendent Ken Wellman informed the Jay County Commissioners that he will be advertising the dust control program, which will be partially subsidized by the county.
Property owners can pay for the county to spray a stretch of stone road at a rate of 35 cents per foot, with a minimum length requirement of 400 feet ($140 minimum). The county will pay 28 cents per foot of the cost for spraying.
In past years the county has split the cost 50-50 with property owners, but this year decided to shift some of the burden to the owners in order to pool money to spray some intersections in the county.
“We decided to jump them up five cents,” said Jay County highway department superintendent Ken Wellman this morning. “Whatever little extra we did save we were going to try to intersections and see if that would keep them from raveling … We thought we might try with some money we save.”
Wellman said interested owners need to contact the highway department by May 20 and flags need to be out to mark the road by May 23.
The magnesium chloride used for dust control helps to harden the roadway, reducing the amount of dust that’s kicked up as vehicles pass.
“It doesn’t eliminate the dust completely but it does help,” Wellman said.
In other business Monday, the commissioners:
•Made Jay County prosecutor Wes Schemenaur purchasing agent for up to $7,500 to buy equipment for his office expansion in the courthouse.
•Denied a request by courthouse superintendent Roger McBride to purchase blinds for the upstairs windows of the Purdue Cooperative Extension Office building.
Commissioner Milo Miller Jr. said the $800 McBride wanted to spend was not worth it since employees aren’t working in the upstairs offices full-time.
•Signed two emergency claims for the highway department: $18,900 to purchase a Bobcat skid loader and $5,500 to pay for labor to assemble a dump truck.
Both disbursements were approved by the Jay County Council last week.[[In-content Ad]]
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