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GIRARD —
There are some issues with 610th Street, and resident Jared Pile brought them to the attention of Crawford County Commissioners during their Tuesday meeting.
“There are 17 houses on this road, and over half of the families have children,” he said. “Fourteen of the houses were built when it was asphalt. To the best of my knowledge that was about eight years ago.”
He said that the road is used a lot, soft spots have developed and there are patches that have been overlaid several times.
“We’re sitting in dust 24/7,” Pile said.
Commissioner Linda Grilz, in whose district the road is, said she believed the county could get some dust control on the road very quickly.
“When the milling machine got here, we started milling up everything,” she said. “My intent was to mill the road, then fix it. Then we saw that because of the drought, we were getting cracking in existing roads, and some sinking, which is a safety issue.”
Commissioner Bob Kmiec added that the cracks started showing up around the third week of August, after the road had been milled.
Pile was also concerned that the road would sit the way it is through the winter, but commissioners told him that would be best.
“If you don’t let them winter over, you’ll have the same problem next spring,” Kmiec said.
Grilz added that the commission had considered milling the road last year and putting rock on it.
“We didn’t have the money to put as much rock as we needed,” she said.
“I never would have built the house I did on a rock road,” Pile said.
He also noted that Grilz, Second District commissioner, will not be on the commission in the new year, and wondered if that would change the outcome on the road.
“I’ll stick my neck out and say that you will have your road done,” commissioner Carl wood said.
Grilz said later that the road will probably be chip and sealed rather than have more asphalt put on it.
“The major reason is that asphalt is twice the cost of chip and seal,” she said.
In other business, commissioners signed an cooperative agreement between the Crawford County Health Department and the Kansas Department of Health and Environment for a grant in the amount of $32,733 for public health emergency preparedness.
“That’s not a lot of money, but we’ll take what we can get,” said Janis Goedeke, Crawford County health officer.
The Crawford County Health Department plans to put an electronic sign outside its offices, and Goedeke said that 10 or 12 bids have been received for that project from businesses in Pittsburg, Hutchinson, Kansas City and as far away as Sarasota, Fla.
Commissioners decided to have Goedeke, Rick Pfeiffer and anyone else they designated review the bids and come back to the commission with a recommendation.
There are some issues with 610th Street, and resident Jared Pile brought them to the attention of Crawford County Commissioners during their Tuesday meeting.
“There are 17 houses on this road, and over half of the families have children,” he said. “Fourteen of the houses were built when it was asphalt. To the best of my knowledge that was about eight years ago.”
He said that the road is used a lot, soft spots have developed and there are patches that have been overlaid several times.
“We’re sitting in dust 24/7,” Pile said.
Commissioner Linda Grilz, in whose district the road is, said she believed the county could get some dust control on the road very quickly.
“When the milling machine got here, we started milling up everything,” she said. “My intent was to mill the road, then fix it. Then we saw that because of the drought, we were getting cracking in existing roads, and some sinking, which is a safety issue.”
Commissioner Bob Kmiec added that the cracks started showing up around the third week of August, after the road had been milled.
Pile was also concerned that the road would sit the way it is through the winter, but commissioners told him that would be best.
“If you don’t let them winter over, you’ll have the same problem next spring,” Kmiec said.
Grilz added that the commission had considered milling the road last year and putting rock on it.
“We didn’t have the money to put as much rock as we needed,” she said.
“I never would have built the house I did on a rock road,” Pile said.
He also noted that Grilz, Second District commissioner, will not be on the commission in the new year, and wondered if that would change the outcome on the road.
“I’ll stick my neck out and say that you will have your road done,” commissioner Carl wood said.
Grilz said later that the road will probably be chip and sealed rather than have more asphalt put on it.
“The major reason is that asphalt is twice the cost of chip and seal,” she said.
In other business, commissioners signed an cooperative agreement between the Crawford County Health Department and the Kansas Department of Health and Environment for a grant in the amount of $32,733 for public health emergency preparedness.
“That’s not a lot of money, but we’ll take what we can get,” said Janis Goedeke, Crawford County health officer.
The Crawford County Health Department plans to put an electronic sign outside its offices, and Goedeke said that 10 or 12 bids have been received for that project from businesses in Pittsburg, Hutchinson, Kansas City and as far away as Sarasota, Fla.
Commissioners decided to have Goedeke, Rick Pfeiffer and anyone else they designated review the bids and come back to the commission with a recommendation.
