Commissioners discuss county clean-up day success

Public Works Director Todd O’Brien provided the Adams County Commissioners with a general update on gravel road maintenance, statistics from the countywide clean up day, and updates on the renovations to the courthouse.

O’Brien informed the commissioners the county gravel road maintenance is going well with some final rock grading and washboard touchups.

Roxboro Road, just north of Lind and Warden, was closed until Wednesday, April 8, for a culvert to be inserted.

O’Brien shared the statistics from the county’s free dump day equaling out to 157,000 pounds of organic and/or mixed waste between the Ritzville and Othello stations.

With 310 customers between the two towns, roughly 75 tons of waste was brought in and 12 tons of the overall being metal waste.

Future endeavors for solid waste are general clean up and reconstructing a bent frame of a fifth wheel trailer.

O’Brien stated the trailer should be finished by Wednesday, April 8, or Thursday, April 9, if the weather allows for welding.

The floor, brake lines, lights and tires will finish the project.

O’Brien reported on vehicles sold at the Booker Auction, which brought in $12,364 after commission and expenses were paid. Among the items auctioned off were police cars, multiple trucks, small cars with some engine problems and a dump truck, which sold for $5,000.

Though no signatures were required, O’Brien informed commissioners of payments being made for the restroom and elevator projects in the courthouse.

The third floor restroom project requires a payment of $17,342.95 for current work done. The mirrors, panels, doors, handles and trim have been completed with only minor touch ups needed for some sheet rock.

By the end of the second week of April, the missing automatic door closer for one of the restrooms should be received and installed and minor touch ups completed bringing this project near end.

For the Elevator Modernization project, a payment of $1,234.74 will be paid.

Brandi Colyar spoke on the Marcellus Road project. Design for the reconstruction of the intersection is going well. Scoping of the Lee Road project, which received funding last year, has begun with plans to widen and flatten the steep shoulders and add guardrails.

McManamon Road project is currently on hold with high hopes to be completed between first to mid-June.