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Grant funds to improve roads

T-L Photo/CARRI GRAHAM Harrison County Engineer Doug Bachman announces his office has secured $150,000 in grant funding to complete Phase 2 of the Long Line Pavement Marking Project at Wednesday’s county commission meeting. The funds will provide centerline striping of 135 miles of roads throughout the county.

CADIZ — A recently secured grant will help improve roadway quality for motorists throughout Harrison County.

Harrison County Engineer Doug Bachman announced that the engineer’s office secured a $150,000 grant through the County Engineers Association to complete the county’s Highway Safety Improvement Project at Wednesday’s Harrison County Board of Commissioners meeting. The project entails the centerline striping of 135.52 miles and edge line striping of 4.74 miles of roadways throughout the county.

Bachman met with commissioners so they could approve the second phase of the county’s Long Line Pavement Marking project.

“We actually had a grant in 2017 that we did a large portion of it; this is kind of the second phase that we’re doing the rest of it,” he said.

Commissioner Paul Coffland asked if the plans met the engineer’s approval; Bachman confirmed that they do. Commissioner Dale Norris inquired if the project included all roads in the county. Bachman said the majority of the county’s roadways will receive the line paving; however, there are a few roads that will not be completed.

“It’s a pretty significant list,” Coffland added.

The engineer said the line paving will cover more than half of the county’s road mileage.

“There will be a few roads that won’t get done, but I’d say over 90 percent of them, the county roads will get done,” he said following the meeting.

Villages and townships that will receive line paving include: Hopedale, Cadiz, Jewett, Harrisville, Scio, Deersville, Nottingham Township, Bowerston, Freeport and Adena.

According to Bachman’s estimates, the project is anticipated to cost $157,000 — that is $7,000 more than the grant amount.

“I’m hoping the estimate is a little high and it will be 100 percent covered by the grant,” he said.

If the estimate is accurate, the remaining cost will be covered by the engineer’s office oil and gas tax funds, he said.

Coffland made the motion to approve the project plans, and Commissioner Don Bethel seconded the motion. Norris agreed and the motion carried. Bethel congratulated Bachman on securing the loan to complete the project.

In other matters, commissioners signed a resolution authorizing Child Support Enforcement Agency Director Linda Porter to negotiate and sign inter-county adjustment agreements on behalf of the county up until March 31.

“Any overspent allocation within a county at the end of a fiscal year is deemed county responsibility. … A county family services agency must make such inter-county adjustment requests to the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services and include with such a request a resolution authorizing such from that county’s board of county commissioners,” Coffland read.

The resolution grants the Harrison County CSEA to accept an exchange of funds from the Stark County CSEA. The accepted amount is $160.90 from the Child Support Training fund.

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